Throat


Are you suffering from Throat? Dr. Tyler tells us the BEST homeopathic medicines for the treatment of Throat….


Aconite [Acon]

      Throat very red: tingling.

Uvula feels long: comes in contact with tongue.

“Acute inflammation of all that can be seen and called throat.:” ( Kent)

Burning, smarting, dryness, great redness.

“Sudden onset in the night after exposure to cold, raw wind.

Plethoric person, wakes at night with violent, burning, tearing sore throat.

Cannot swallow. High fever, with great

Thirst for cold water.

Anxiety and fever.”.

Gelsemium [Gels]

      A Gelsemium develops several days after exposure:

Aconite comes on in a few hours.

Gelsemium for colds and fevers of mild winter: Aconite for those of violent winters and great cold winds. (Bell)

Gelsemium catarrhs excited by warm, moist, relaxing weather.

Sore throat, tonsils red: difficulty in swallow wing, from weakness of muscles of deglutition.

( Bell, from spasm, not Weakness.)

Shuddering as if ice rubbed up the back.

Hot skin:” high temp with cold extremities.

Weight and tiredness of whole body.

Sore throat,. comes gradually: with muscular weakness, so that food and drink come back through nose. ( Belladonna from spasm)

Great remedy of diphtheritic paralysis ( Phyt).

Belladonna [Bell]

      Inflammation of throat. Tongue bright red or “strawberry:”: dry burning.

Fauces and tonsils inflamed and bright red.

Esp. right side; extends to left ( Lyc)

Rapid progress. Constriction on attempting to swallow: ejection of food and drink through nose and mouth. ( Gelsemium from paresis: Bell from spasm)

Dryness of fauces. Aversion to liquids.

Typical Bell has congested,. red, hot face and skin: bug pupils, heat and dryness marked.

Phytolacca [Phyt]

      Throat sore. Isthmus congested and dark red

Dark red inflammation of fauces: tonsils swollen.

Feeling of a lump when swallowing saliva, or when turning head to left.

Dryness, roughness, burning and smarting (fauces).

“As if a ball of red-hot iron had lodged in throat”

Throat so full, as if choked or

Pharynx dry, feels like a cavern.

Every attempt to swallow sends shooting pains through ears ( Nit. ac)

Unable to swallow even water.

Diphtheritic inflammation and ulceration of throat.

Diphtheria, with above symptoms. Here

Phyto. has made notable cures.

Tongue fiery-red: feels burnt: or pain at root of tongue and into ear on swallowing.

In less severe sore throats-ordinary ones- one sees, not the smooth red swelling of Belladonna” but a bluish-red inflammation ( Lach).

Nux vomica [Nux-v]

      Sore throat.

Colds settle in nose, throat, chest, ears.

Sensitive to least draught: sneezing from itching in nose, and to throat and trachea.

“Great heat: burning hot but cannot move or uncover in the least without feeling chilly.”

Nux is hypersensitive ( Hep) irritable.

Apis [Apis]

      Burning, stinging pains in throat, better for cold, worse for heat.

Oedematous condition; uvula and throat looks at if water would flow if pricked.

Pains like bee-stings, with the thrust, and the burning following.

Absence of thirst ( Gels)

Must be cool: worse for heat: wants cool

Things.

Especially worse from fire and radiated heat.

Much throat trouble-even to diphtheria- with above symptoms.

Hoarseness and loss of vice ( Phosphorus, Drosera)

Catches cold with every exposure to fresh air.

“Lump in throat, must be swallowed.”

Stitching pains when swallowing ( Apis)

Uvula long, and neck stiff.

Always taking cold, and it settles in throat.

Chilliness Perspires much. Worse: cold air, water, droughts: better warmth.

“Fish-bone sensation in throat” so soon as he catches, or becomes, cold ( Hepar, Mercurius, Nit. a., etc.)

Hawks and hems.

Hepar [Hep]

      “Seldom good in incipient colds and throats more for ripened cold”

Fish-bone or crumb sensation ( Mercurius, Alumina, Nit.a., Argentum, nit.)

Worse any exposure: worse cold dry wind.

Intensely sensitive, mind and body.

Easily angry, abusive.

Throat extremely sensitive to touch ( Lach)

Pain as if full of splinters: ( Nit. a.) pain on swallowing

The whole pharynx in a catarrhal state with copious discharge.

Larynx painful: painful as a bolus of food goes down behind the larynx

Putting hand out of bed will increase the pain in larynx and cough. Croup after exposure to cold, dry wind ( Aconite).

Dulcamara [Dulc]

      Sore throat from damp, cold weather.

Tendency to ulceration, which eats and spreads.

Catarrhal angina after catching cold.

Sore throat; fills with mucus; with yellow slime.

The tonsils inflamed, even quinsy ( Barytac).

Phosphorus [Phos]

      Larynx raw, sore, furry. “:Cotton” in throat.

Tonsils and uvula much swollen: uvula elongated: with dry, burning sensation

Worse passing from warm to cold air.

Worse talking and coughing.

Hoarseness and aphonia, worse evening.

Arum triph [Arum-t]

      Sore throats of speakers and singers.

“Clergyman’s sore throat” from straining voice, or a cold

Arum triph. has marked effect on larynx

Hoarseness: lack of control over vocal cords.

If raises voice, it goes up with a squeak.

Graph,. also for :uncertainty of voice: cannot control vocal cords; voice cracks”.

And Carbo veg. has ‘deep voice, fails when the attempts to raise it”.

But Phyto. also with real bad sore throats.

Corners of mouth and tongue cracked.

Excoriating saliva.

Tingling and prickling, lips, tongue, throat, nose: “in spite of soreness they pinch and scratch, and pick and bore into sore parts”.

Stinging pain in throat, which is ulcerated, raw and bleeding.

Alumina [Alum]

      Like “Clergymen’s sore throat:”( Arum triph).

Throat dry on waking, with husky weak voice.

It is dark red: uvula long.

Better hot drinks.

Splinter sensation, swallowing ( Hepar, Nit.a., etc.).

Ignatia [Ign]

      A plug in throat”, worse when not swallowing.

Tonsils studded with small, superficial ulcers.

Constriction about throat, with nervousness and insomnia. (Aphthous sore throat.)

Constriction also of larynx: “a feather there”.

The more he coughs the worse the tickling.

Capsicum [Caps]

      Throat feels “constricted, spasmodically closed”.

Worse when not swallowing ( Ign).

The pain is smarting, as from cayenne pepper.

Chill or shuddering after every drink.

Odour from mouth like carrion.

“Caps. is loose, flabby, red, fat and cold.”

“Throat looks as if it would bleed, so red. It is puffed, discoloured, purple, mottled.”

Throat remains sore a long time after a cold, or sore throat. ( Sulph) Does not get very bad, but gets no better.

Nose and cheeks red, and cold.

Aesculus [Aesc]

      Useful in coryza and sore throat.

Coryza, thin, watery, burning: with rawness.

Sensitive to inhaled cold air. ( Phosphorus, Rumex.)

Violent burning in throat, with raw feeling.

Fauces dark, congested.

“After the sore throat, engorged veins left.”

Hot, Dry, Stiff, Rough, Full feeling internally, throat and anus.

Chronic sore throat with haemorrhoids.

Pulsatilla [Puls]

      Catarrh of throat. Veins distended: throat bluish-red.

Redness and varicose condition of tonsils.

Stinging pains ( Apis) worse swallowing saliva.

Better cold, fresh, open air (opp to Phos)

Worse warm air, room; worse getting feet wet.

(A Pulsatilla patient: weepy: wants fuss and help.).

Sulphur [Sulph]

      Sore throat with great burning and dryness.

Chronic sore throat. Tonsil enlarged, with

Purplish aspect lasting for weeks and months: a sore and painfully sensitive throat.

Inflammation purplish, venous….

In a sulphur patient: “the ragged philosopher”: argumentative and speculative. Intolerant of heat. Loves fat. Intolerant of clothing: kicks covers off, and thrusts feet out.

Baryta mur [Bar-m]

      “Less greasy than Mercurius” Warm, damp skin.

Saliva sticking round tonsils.

Tonsils very large, look like bit plums.

“A lump in throat: pain.

Pains shoot to neck ( Phytolacca to ears).

Baryta carb [Bar-c]

      Every little exposure to damp or cold awakens a new inflammation of tonsils-throat- fauces ( Dulc)

Granulations, throat: worse every cold spell.

A very sore throat that comes slowly after days of exposure.

Children with big tonsils; intellectually and physically dwarfish: slow to develop.

Even the sore throat is of very slow development.

Sepia [Sep]

      Left side inflamed: much swelling but little redness.

Sensation of lump in throat ( Ign)

Woke with sensation as if had swallowed something which has stuck in throat.

Contraction of throat when swallowing.

Sepia is chilly; indifferent; intolerant alike of cold and of close places.

Cinnabaris. [Cinnb]

      Throat swollen: tonsils enlarged and red.

“Sensation of something pressing on nose, like a heavy pair of spectacles.”

Throat very dry, awakening from sleep.

Natrum ars [Nat-ar]

      Throat dark-red, swollen, covered with yellow gelatinous mucus which gags the patient when he attempts to hawk it out.

Sneezing from draught, or breathing cold air.

Mercurius [Merc]

      Smarting, raw, sore throat.

Sore throat with every cold.

Tongue: thick, yellow, moist covering.

Profuse sweating without relief.

Thirst with salivation.

Bad smell from mouth.

Discharge (nose) yellow-green, thick, muco- purulent.

Worse at night: worse in bed.

(“Rarely give Mercurius if tongue is dry.”).

Nitric acid [Nit-ac]

      One of the :”fish-bone in throat: remedies.

Ulcers in. throat, irregular in outline.

“A morsel stuck in pharynx”, “as if pharynx constricted”.

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.