Neuralgia



**pulsatilla is one of the best remedies for acute facial neuralgias of rheumatic origin.

**Allium cepa. Neuralgias of stumps after amputation, also Hypericum.

**Prunus is frequently promptly curative in severe ciliary neuralgias with agonizing lightning-like pains, worse right side.

Calcarea carbonica [Calc]

      Is especially adapted to neuralgias in those of a leuco- phlegmatic temperament. It has pain from right mental foramen along jaw to ear, attended with frequent urination, and relieved by warm applications. Scrofulous constitution, disposition to grow fat, flabby muscles, aversion to cold air, the least cold air goes through fat, flabby muscles, aversion to cold air, the least cold air goes through and through, feet are always damp and cold. These are valuable symptoms.

To treat neuralgias successfully one should not rely alone on the symptoms, but take into consideration the neuralgic temperament and the soil that produces such, whether of psoric, sycotic or some other toxaemic basis.

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.