BOILS AND ABSCESSES

SULPHUR.

In a warm and hungry patient.

LACHESIS.

For suppuration, with BLUENESS of part.

HEPAR. In the choleric patient; even to violence.

Oversensitive mentally and physically:-to a word; to contact; to pressure of dressings.

SILICA.

Faint-hearted: anxious.

Confusion and want of self-confidence.

Sweats; 6 a.m., 3-5 p.m., 11 p.m.

Head sweets at night. (Calcarea) Boils leave indurations-to promote suppuration, and so heal. (Calcarea Sulph.)

CALCAREA.

In a chilly, sweating patient. (CALC.SULPH.) Running or recurrent abscesses. Won’t heal.

PYROGEN.

Great restlessness: feels bruised, sore. (Arnica) Fiery-red, smooth tongue.

Very septic conditions. Pulse-rate high.

TARENTULA CUB.

“Lachesis-only worse.” Parts bluish; burnings like Arsenicum but without the Arsenicum relief from heat.

Doses.

Four to six-hourly till relief.

Externally, compress of Hypericum, two drops to the oz.

Margaret Lucy Tyler

Margaret Lucy Tyler, 1875 – 1943, was an English homeopath who was a student of James Tyler Kent. She qualified in medicine in 1903 at the age of 44 and served on the staff of the London Homeopathic Hospital until her death forty years later. Margaret Tyler became one of the most influential homeopaths of all time. Margaret Tyler wrote - How Not to Practice Homeopathy, Homeopathic Drug Pictures, Repertorising with Sir John Weir, Pointers to some Hayfever remedies, Pointers to Common Remedies.