The Homœopathic Companion 2000
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Travelling Homœopaths Collective
Examples of Acute Materia Medica
Travelling Homœopaths Collective
Created in the summer of 1990 to provide a Mobile Homoeopathic Clinic and to promote Homoeopathy at festivals, fayres and other outdoor events. The Collective is made up of Qualified, Registered and Insured Homoeopaths who agree to follow a code of practice.
All our practitioners work on a voluntary basis and the Collective, as a whole, is a non-profit making organisation. All donations received go towards maintenance, travel expenses, and the further promotion of Homoeopathy.
We offer a Homoeopathic Clinic treating Acute conditions, such as hay fever, sun stroke, sunburn, digestive upsets, coughs, colds, etc. (which are all common occurrences at such events), as well as offering advice and support for people who have chronic or more long term disorders/dis-eases. We want to broaden the general understanding of Homoeopathy, and to show people that there are alternatives to mainstream medicine.
We treat thousands of people every year at many festivals, including Glastonbury (where 20 practitioners work in shifts over an eighteen hour day), Phoenix, Cambridge Folk Festival, Earth Spirit Camps, and The Big Green Gathering.
Homœopathy is a form of medicine that has existed in its present form for over two hundred years but which has its roots in more ancient ideas.
It respects the efforts that the body makes to counter disease and instead of fighting these efforts it offers support and encouragement. It does this by matching the remedy's effect to the actions that the body is already taking through the symptoms of the disease.
Homœopaths have available several thousand remedies whose actions have been observed through clinical practice and through provings, in which healthy volunteers take the remedies and carefully observe their effect.
It is important that the picture of the patient's illness and the known picture of the remedy match as closely as possible. It is therefore recommended that you see a well trained homœopath who has a solid understanding of remedies and of how illness is expressed in patients.
It is also important that the homœopath has the opportunity to follow the course of your treatment and adjust it as circumstances change.
There are a number of remedies that work very well in acute situations. The best known of these is probably Arnica which can treat the bruising and shock of an injury with remarkable speed and efficiency. Remedy kits are available and books such as "The Complete Homeopathy Handbook" by Miranda Castro mean that it is quite possible to treat minor ailments and accidents yourself very quickly and effectively.
Animals, like children, react very well to homoeopathic remedies. Only vets are allowed to treat animals in this country and unfortunately there are very few homœopathic vets around. However, with a little research and advice it is often possible to find a remedy that will help all sorts of conditions.
As well as offering treatment for specific ailments your homœopath will often be able to give you information and advice on general health matters, such as diet and vaccinations.
Examples of Acute Materia Medica
Homœopathy always treats the person rather than the disease. However, in many acute situations the disease is overpowering and may even become the most important thing about the person at the time. In these situations "specific" remedies, especially if they resonate with the underlying nature of the patient, can be very effective. The following are some of the remedies that the Collective has frequently used to great effect.
Hayfever
A common complaint, particularly affects people in the early summer; runny nose, sore eyes, sneezing, sore throat, general malaise.
Euphrasia: very sore eyes, runny nose with no pain.
Gelsemium: droopy – eyes, lack of energy, thirstless, better from urinating.
Nat Mur: worse heat and light of sun, clear discharge, sneezes on going outside.
Pulsatilla: symptoms improve when outside, runny nose – discharge creamy, thirstless.
Silica: sneezing in the morning, worse dust, thirsty, sweaty.
Stomach Pain
Arsenicum: food poisoning, burning, cramping pains, thirsty, restless, worse after midnight.
Colocynth: grinding pain, better bending forward and hard pressure, brought on by anger, averse eating/drinking.
Lycopodium: bloated, flatulent, better passing wind, worse 4-8pm, constipation when away from home.
Nux Vomica: irritable, chilly, brought on by overindulgence of stimulants, worse in the morning, better vomiting.
Cough and Throat
Bryonia: dryness all over, very thirsty, worse any movement, better pressure, irritable.
Drosera: spasmodic, barking couqh, brought on when lying down, worse warmth, better open air.
Ignatia: sensation of lump in throat, better swallowing, worse cigarette smoke, sighs a lot.
Phosphorus: desires and is better for ice cold drinks, better being rubbed, hoarseness, tickly cough, rusty coloured phlegm, sensitive to the environment.
Cystitis
Cannabis Sativa: spilt stream of urine, walks with legs apart, pain when first urinating, worse dark.
Cantharis: intolerable urging and or constant desire to urinate, urine scalds, worse drinking cold water/coffee but extremely thirsty.
Staphisagria: worse sex, sensation as if a drop of urine were continually rolling along the channel, sensation that bladder is full even when emptied, burning pain when not urinating.
Sepia: bearing down sensation 'as if everything would fall out', better dancing/exercise.
Burns
Cantharis: superficial burn, with blisters.
Urtica: itchy, red but no blisters.
Causticum: damage to underlying tissues as a result of being burned.
Injuries
Apis: bee/wasp stings, red, hot puffy swelling better cold applications.
Arnica: bruises, shock, trauma, over exertion.
Ledum: puncture wounds (e.g. nails) better for cold application, mosquito bites.
Rhus Tox: sprains/strains, worse on first motion, worse cold damp.
Ruta: injuries to tendons, bruising around bones, repetitive strain injury, eye strain.
Travelling Homœopaths Collective
10 Wordsworth Road, Salisbury, SP1 3BH
01722 340792/0181 3741892
info@thc.org.uk
www.thc.org.uk
The Society of Homœopaths
4a Artizan Road, Northhampton, NN1 4HU
01604 621400
info@homeopathy-soh.org
The Alliance of Registered Homœopaths
26 Sunningdale Avenue, Leigh-on-Sea, SS9 1JZ
08700 736339
info@a-r-h.org
www.a-r-h.org
The United Kingdom Homœopathic Medical Association
6 Livingstone Road, Gravesend, Kent, DA12 5DZ
01474 560336
info@the-hma.org
The Institute of Homœopathy
23 Berkeley Road, Bishopston, Bristol, BS7 8HF
0117 944 5147
institute@hominf.org
Helios Homœopathic Pharmacy
97 Camden Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN1 2QR
01892 537254
pharmacy@helios.co.uk
www.helios.co.uk
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