| Indications |
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In rheumatism and gout
of fore-arms and hands, with swelling of
articulations. In acute cases, benumbedness
and swelling of articulations, characteristics
in arthritis with deformation. Frequently
such pains grow worse with change of weather
(humidity).
This remedy may also be used in other rheumatic
aches (growing worse in damp weather) such
as: sciatica, rheumatism in the knees, shoulders,
pains in the sacral region, inflammation
of articulations of the haunches, intercostal
neuralgia, rheumatism of the occiput.
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| Mode
of action of main Ingredients: |
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The present
remedy may also be used in feverish infections
growing worse or caused by humidity.
Ferrum phosphoricum: Against inflammations.
Influences secondary anaemia frequently
occuring in rheumatism and arthritis with
deformation.
Lithium carbonicum: Specific effect
in rheumatism and gout, in arthritis with
deformation and rheumatic-gouty illnesses
Natrium sulfuricum: Aggravation by humidity
in rheumatism and asthma.
Nux vomica: Worse
on getting up, low spirits in the morning.
Rhododendron: Chronic
rheumatism, pains in limbs and mainly in
bones of fore-arms and hands.
Spiraea ulmaria:
Fluttering pains, localized in the articulations
of the elbows.
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| Dosage |
- Will be adapted according to the acuteness
of the pains. In general 2-3 times daily
10-15 drops in a little water before meals
for a longer period of time (eventually
to be alternated with other complementary
remedies). In acute cases take 10 drops
every ½-1 hours.
- After improvement take 10-15 drops every
2-3 hours (also the other complementary
remedies - eventually in the morning,
at noon and at night).
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| Remarks |
- Complementary remedies:
- R1 in pains arising from the tonsils
or articular inflammations following angina.
- R6 in feverish infections or influenza
after drenching.
- R11 in case of general rheumatic constitution.
- R16 in migraine and neuralgia (coming
from the sacral region radiating up to
the nose).
- R24 with intercostal neuralgia.
- R50 in sacroiliac complaints of women,
eventually with pains along the vertebral
column.
- It is advisable to use only R46 in
the beginning (especially when the pains
are localized in the articulations of
the hands), before making any combinations
with two or three complementary remedies.
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