SOME USEFUL RARE REMEDIES

By
DR. ASHOK KUMAR DANTKALE
BHMS, MD(Hom)
Assistant Professor,
Dept. of Physiology &Biochemistry,
Govt. Homoeopathic Medical College,
Basaveshwarnagar, Bangalore -79
Email: ashokdantkale@yahoo.com
Mob: 09844231936

 RARE REMEDIES
COMMON REMEDIES
POLYCREST REMEDIES
CONSTITUTIONAL REMEDIES

ROLE
A. SPHERE OF ACTION
B. UTILITY
a) PALLIATIVE
b) CURATIVE
c) MIASMATIC

HOW TO STUDY?
THEIR ACTION
THEIR COMMON FEATURES
PARTICULARS
MODALITIES

 SPHERE OF ACTION
MANIFESTATIONS

COMMON

UNCOMMON

1. ACALYPHA INDICA
A remedy having marked action on GIT &
Respiratory organs.
Incipient Phthisis, with hard
cough, bloody expectoration,
hemorrhage (Acon) but no febrile
disturbance. Haemoptysis.<morning.
Very weak in the morning, gains strength during
day.
All pathological hemorrhages having notably a
morning aggravation.

2. ARANIA DIADEMA
( PAPAL CROSS)

- Cedron like periodicity.

- Intolerance of cold & damp
- Relief from smoking be it
headache, toothache.
So say the wise man with a pipe
seldom quarrels with his wife

3. AGRAPHIS NUTANS
- Proneness to take cold on
exposure to cold winds
- Adenoids throat complaints
- Enlarged tonsils
- Mucous diarrhoea from cold
- Mutism of childhood unconnected
with deafness.

4. CURARE
(Arrow Poison)

- Muscular paralysis without impairing

sensation & consciousness.
- Paralysis of respiratory muscles.
Reflex action diminished. Debility of
aged & from loss of fluids.

5. CHLOROFORMUM
- General anesthetic & antispasmodic,
Complete muscular relaxation.
- Great weakness, esp on Rt. side.
- Limbs very tired from knees down.
(PHOSPHORUS- Is the remedy to be
given in Narcosis of Chloroform)

6. CHENOPODI GLAUCI APHIS

- Toothache> general warm sweat
( Cham.)
- Severe pain in region of lower inner
angle of left shoulder blade running
into chest (Fixed pain under inner
lower angle of right shoulder blade.
Chelidonium.)

7. CYPREPEDIUM
(Ladys Slipper)
- It has great repute as a Nervine
among eclectics& in domestic practice
It is suited to nervous disorders from
mental over excitement.
- It is indicated in the BrainHyperesthesia of children who wake
in the night lively & full of play.

8. EEL SERUM
- Albuminurea, Haemoglobinuria,
oliguria,& anuria.
- Hypertension, oliguria but no oedema
- Sudden deterioration in kidney
function due to exposure to cold or
infection or intoxication, will reestablish Diuresis.
- Renal dysfunction of cardiac origin.

9.FRAXINUS AMARICANAS

- Enlargement of uterus , patulous with

fibrous growths subinvolution &
prolapse.
- Uterine tumours with bearing down
sensation.
- Hot spot on top of head.
- Dr.Burnet regards it as Uterine tonic.
Calls it as Medicinal pessary

10. HELODERMA
- The eyeballs become more prominent
and the cornea shows opacities.The
exophtholmos is due to presence of
blood behind the eyeball.
- It is indicated in many forms of
diseases characterised by great
coldness-Arctic coldness.Internal
coldness as if frozen to death.

11. LECITHIN
- It has a favorable influence up on the
nutritive condition & Esp. upon the
blood hence its use in anemia
convalescence, neurasthenia and
insomnia.Increases RBC &Hb%.
- Excellent galectogogue renders milk
more nourishing& increases quantity.
- It decreases excretion of phosphates.

12. LAUROCERASUS
- Spasmodic tickling cough Esp. in
cardiac patients is often magically
influenced by this drug.
- Asphyxia neonatorum.
- Cyanosis & dyspnoea< sitting up.
- Toes & finger nails become knotty,
skin blue. Clubbing of fingers.

13. MYRISTICA SEBIFERA

- A remedy of great antiseptic powers.
- Inflammation of skin, cellular tissue
and periostium.
- Specific action on Panaritium. Pain in
the finger nails with swelling of
phalanges.
- Hastens suppuration & shortens its
duration.

14. NAPHTHALINE
- Coryza, hay fever, phthisis pulmonalis
also gonorrhea have been influenced
favourably by this drug.
- Marked affinity for eye. It produces
detachment of retina. Opacity of
cornea. Exudation in the retina
choroid & ciliary body.
- Black urine.
- Pinworm infestation.

15. OOPHORINUM
- Suffering following excision of the
ovaries, climacteric disturbances
generally esp. those characterised by
skin disorders such as acne, prurigo
etc.
- Ovarian cysts.

16. OENANTHA CROCATA

- Epileptiform convulsions, worse
during menstruation & pregnancy.
- Puerperal eclampsia, uraemic
convulsions.
- Convulsive facial twitching, trismus,
foaming at mouth. Ophisthotonus.
- Much yawning tendency to cry over
little things.

17. OXALIC ACID

- It influences spinal cord & produces
motor paralysis.
- Pains very violent in spots
< motion & thinking of them.
- Must urinate when thinking of it
- Heart symptoms alternate with
aphonic. Aortic insuficiency.
- Pains come suddenly.

18. PIX LIQUIDA

(PINE TAR)

- Tar & its constituents act on various

mucous membrane
- Its skin symptoms are most imp. with
scaly eruptions & much itching.
- A great cough medicine. Bronchial
irritation and influenza (Kali Bich)
- Pain at a spot about III left costal
cartilage it joins the rib.( Ran Bulb)

19. PHELLANDRINUM
- A very good remedy for the offensive,
fetid expectoration & cough in Phthisis,
bronchitis,& Emphysema (Affects
middle lobes).
- Everything tastes sweet.
- Pain in milk ducts, Stitching pain thro
Rt. Breast near sternum extending to
back near shoulder.
- Desire for acids.

20.QUERCUS GLANDIUM
SPIRITUS
- Antidotes

effects of alcohol.
- Takes away craving for alcohol.