Homeopathy Remedies for Bleeding


Anshutz gives a useful therapeutic differential diagnosis of the condition Bleeding, with the most useful homeopathic remedies. Therapeutic byways by E.P. Anshutz, published in 1900….


Calendula [Calen]

      In bleeding via mouth or rectum, 10 drops of Calendula succus, or tincture, in a tumbler of water, teaspoonful doses, has given relief, in tuberculosis, cancer, bowel or other diseases. So the men of old time said.

Acalypha Indica [Acal]

      This drug, on the testimony of Drs. Tounere, S.A. Jones, Henry Thomas and Peter Cooper, is very effective in haemorrhage, or bleeding, from the lungs, or coughing bloody sputum. It is usually effective in the 6th potency. Every half hour during the bleeding. May be beneficial in cases of tuberculosis, where blood shows in what is coughed up.

Geranium maculatum [Ger]

      in doses of 5 to 10 drops of the tincture has been reported to do excellent work in haemorrhage of tuberculosis, uterine haemorrhage, and in other forms of pathological bleeding or coughing of blood.

Hamamelis [Ham]

      Witch Hazel, to be found in almost every house, is a fine haemostatic. Snuffed up the nose it will at once stop bleeding. It should not be taken too freely, and often, internally, else it will cause bleeding. We once knew a man who complained every now and then of passing blood freely with stool. The frequency was increasing. Found he was taking several spoonfuls of Witch Hazel every day for his stomach. When he stopped taking it the discharge of blood stopped.

Thalapsi bursa pastoris [Thalapsi]

      This is an old Rademacherian remedy for any sort of internal bleeding. Give from 1 to 5 drops of the tincture in water, though the dose often used runs up to 30 drops, but if the smaller dose stops the haemorrhage why give more, especially as the tincture is ill smelling, though it is but the ordinary shepherd’s purse of our fields and not poisonous. It is claimed by some physicians that the 1x dilution 1-10 is better than the tincture, as the tincture may produce unpleasant symptoms. Good also for urine tinged with blood and containing bricks dust, gravel, uric acid, etc.

E.P. Anshutz
Edward Pollock Anshutz – 1846-1918. Editor - Homeopathic Recorder and author of New Old and Forgotten Remedies. Held an Hon. Doctor of Medicine from Hering Medical College.