SORE THROAT


Dewey gives the common homeopathy remedies for the treatment of Sore throat in an easy question-answer format. …


What are the throat symptoms of Ammonium causticum?

Aphonia, with burning rawness in the throat.

What are the indications fro Belladonna in Sore Throat?

Great dryness and bright redness of the throat, the fauces are inflamed, the tonsils are swollen and enlarged, worse on the right side; food and liquids are ejected through the nose on swallowing.

What are the indications or Capsicum in Sore Throat?

Sore throat of smokers and drinkers with burning and relaxed uvula, throat sore and contacted even when not swallowing.

What are the throat symptoms of cantharis?

Burning from the mouth to the stomach; throat highly inflamed and covered with plastic lymph; spasm of he throat and intense constriction about the throat.

When should Cistus Canadensis be thought so in throat troubles? The keynote is intense dryness, the patient has to get up at night to drink to ally this dryness. There is a sensation of sand is the throat, and submaxillary glands are swollen.

Give the throat symptoms of Ferrum phosphoricum.

Dry, red, inflamed and painful throat; sore throat of singers and speakers.

What are the throat symptoms of Gelsemium?

aphonia from paresis of the muscles, ore scraped throat accompanying nasal symptoms; pain extends into ears, worse sight side; postdiphtheritic paralysis.

What indications for Guaiacum in Sore throat.

Worse on right side; swollen tonsils; enlarged veins; must drink to assist deglutition, as throat is dry; singing pains in throat, worse in warm, moist air.

What are the throat symptoms of Hepar?

Sharp sphincter-like pains in the throat, or a sensation as if there were a lump in throat. Tonsillitis with tendency to suppression.

What other drugs have sticking pains in the throat?

Argentum nitricum and Nitricum acid.

What are the throat symptoms of Ignatia?

There is a lump in the throat and a sticking sensation, which is relieved by swallowing.

Give indications for Kali bichromicum in the throat.

There is a great swelling of the tonsils and ulcers which secrete a purulent discharge; there are diseased follicles which exude a caseous mate; the coating of the tongue is yellow at the base; the discharge is ropy, tenacious and stringy.

When is Kali muriaticum indeed in Sore throat?

Follicular pharyngitis with gray or white exudation: tonsils swollen and inflamed grayish spots, patches or ulcers in the throat; ulcerate sore throat; swelling of the glands about the throat. It has proved a very useful remedy in diphtheria.

Give the characteristic throat symptoms of Lachesis.

Sensation of lump in left side of the throat, which seems to go down when swallowing, but returns again; constriction of throat and difficulty breathing, worse on arousing from sleep or after sleep; empty swallowing is painful and fluids escape from the nose;throat sensitive externally.

What are the indications for Lycopodium in throat troubles?

Enlarged tonsils, w high are studied with small ulcers. It holds the same relation to the right side of t the throat that Lachesis does to the left; diphtheritic deposits on the right side of the throat; tonsils and tongue are both swollen.

Give the characteristics of Mercuries in Sore Throat.

Dryness and great soreness in the throat; the patient is obliged to swallow constantly, and there is great soreness and swelling of the glands externally.

What are the indications for Mercurius photo-iodide in throat affections?

Diphtheritic deposits beginning on the right side, with great swelling of the glands, and accumulation of thick tenacious mucus in the throat; the tongue is coated yellow at the base, the tip and sides being red.

Give indications fro Mercuries biniodide in throat affections.,

Sore throat, just like the Proto-iodide, except it is worse on the left side; there is more glandular selling and more fever than in the Proto-iodide, thus partaking more of the features of Iodine.

What are the throat symptoms of Mercurius corrosives?

The uvula is swollen, and there is intense burning, worse from pressure; constriction of the throat, swallowing causes spasm.

What condition of the throat calls for Natrum mur.?

A relaxed uvular with a feeling of a plug or great dryness on the throat.

What throat affections correspond to Nux?

Those of smokers, drinkers and preachers; there is a follicular rawness and scraping from overuse of the voice.

What are the throat symptoms of Nitric acid?

Sensation of a splinter, fishbone or piece of class in the throat, ulcers in. the throat, with offensive discharges and odor.

What are the throat symptoms of Phytolacca?

Dry, sore throat of dark red color; the tonsils are dark red; pain on swallowing. especially at the root of the tongue, accompanied by general in the back and limbs.

How is the appearance of the throat under Sulphuric acid?

There is a white membrane in. the throat, throat looks as if it was whitewashed.

Give symptoms of Alumina in Sore Throat.

Relaxed throat; clergyman’s sore throat; dark red throat with elongated uvula; sensation of a splinter in throat when swallowing.

What other drugs have this splinter-like sensation?

Hepar, Argentum nitr, m, Nitric acid and carbo veg.

What is a characteristic throat symptoms of all the potashes?

An accumulation of tough, tenacious mucus in the throat, l the patient hems and hawks to clear throat in the morning.

W.A. Dewey
Dewey, Willis A. (Willis Alonzo), 1858-1938.
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.