Epistaxis

This may occur in the course of many diseases, and may benefit the patient. If not excessive, it should not be interfered with. When it occurs from no particular cause and lasts long or recurs, it should be treated.

General Treatment.-Raise the arm of the side from which the bleeding occurs perpendicularly above the head, or apply cold to the spine.

Medicines.-(These should be given every few minutes till the bleeding begins to cease, and then less often. For the tendency the same medicine may be given three times a day for a few weeks.)

Arnica. 3.-

When due to injury.

Pulsatilla. 3.-

In women of mild disposition, or who have scanty menstrual flow; when bleeding takes place during a cold, or when it occurs in the afternoon, evening, or before midnight.

Aconite.3.-

For plethoric individuals; bleeding from being over- heated; from drinking wine.

China 3.-

In debilitated persons.

Bryonia. 3.-

Especially when occurring in the early morning. Vicarious, when the menstrual flow has been suppressed from a chill.

Mercurius 3.-

Bleeding in the night, blood coagulating in the nostrils. Bleeding accompanied by fever in the night.

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica