Obesity


Homeopathic remedies for the symptoms of Obesity from A Dictionary of Domestic Medicine by John H.Clarke….


With some persons the increase of fatty tissue becomes so great as to amount to positive disease. This may be combated in various ways.

General Treatment.-Open-air exercise should be taken regularly. The freest ventilation should be secured in the house. Meals should be taken regularly, three times a day, and foods rich in fat, starch, or sugar should be avoided or taken sparingly. An exclusive raw-fruit diet will rapidly decrease weight. For example-Breakfast; oranges and bananas. Lunch: apples and tomatoes. Tea: oranges. Dinner: apples, bananas, melons. Almonds may be added. No drink of any kind to be taken.

Medicines.-The medicine most commonly useful in this condition is

Phosphorus 3.

After a course of this, Calcarea carb. 6 should be tried. After this Arsen. 3.

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