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tx
eyes/ears/nose/throat
tonsillitis
homeopathy

remedy differential

acute: use 6C potency
Aconitum napellus: chills, fever, anxiety, restlessness; pain, soreness
Ammonium muriaticum: throbbing and swelling, can scarcely swallow; sore spot behind uvula, relieved by eating; internal and external swelling of throat with viscous phlegm; stricture of esophagus
Belladonna: inflamed because of exposure; red and enlarged; throbbing pain extends to the ear
Guaiacum: throat dry, burns, swollen, stitches toward ear; weak throat muscles
Ignatia: pain esp. swallowing liquids without food
Mercurius iodatus flavus: right side, red, swollen., burning pain, ulceration, swollen glands; < night, 1 am, warmth; possible evolution to left side; dirty yellow coating at base of the tongue, tip and sides red; nausea from looking at food
Mercurius iodatus ruber: esp. on left side with possible evolution to right side; from change of temp (esp. to cold damp), < empty swallowing; toxicemia and septicemia
Phytolacca: pain shoots to ears; eruption of vesicles on mucous membranes, esp. in larynx; > cold drinks but hot drinks impossible to swallow; dark, red, dusky blue throat; dry cough and hoarseness; neck swollen and tender
Silicea: prickling pain as of a pin in tonsil

chronic: use 200C potency
Baryta carbonicum: chronic enlargement, in children who are slow in development and backward mentally; postnasal catarrh with frequent bleeding from nose; suppuration of tonsils on catching cold; > open air, dry weather
Baryta muriaticum: scrofulous patients with pain on swallowing; have feeling of a plug in throat
Calcarea carbonica: 1M and tub. 1M alternating weeks have cured chronic tonsillitis; in children with tendency to grow fat, eat pica; profuse sweating; (try 200C for couple of months before 1M used; if it fails, alternate bar-c. 200C with thuja 200C every week with tub. once a month
Calcarea iodata: when course of bar-c. and thuja fails and is also enlargement of thyroid
Calcarea phosphorica: when is pale enlargement of tonsil
Hepar sulphur: with much inflammation and yellow exudate; soreness is better from warm drinks; stitches in throat extending to ears when swallowing > warmth
Iodium: loss of weight with great appetite; urgent hunger with great thirst; debility with slight exertion and perspiration; enlargement of tonsils with thyroid gland;
> warmth, wet weather; deafness due to obstruction of eustachian tubes
Lachesis: marked dislike of anything around throat, causing a sense of constriction
< left side, swallowing liquids, saliva; purplish tonsils; left to right; warm drinks
Lycopodium: sense of constriction and < 4-8 p.m.; ulceration and suppuration; starts on right side to left side; < cold drinks > hot drinks
Nitricum acidum: much exudate and prickling sensations; white patches; sharp points as from splinters on swallowing
Sulphur: tonsils remain large between attacks, almost touching in the midline; for children who are warm
Thuja occidentalis: give once/week in alteration with bar-c. for chronic enlargement
Tuberculinum: as an intercurrent given once/month (do not use thuja or bar-c. that week)

after tonsillectomy:
Calcarea carbonica: for symptoms appearing after removal of tonsils such as postnasal catarrh or bronchitis (use 200C every week)
Sulphur: heat and burning with craving for sweets, no appetite during the day and then great appetite for supper < change of weather and before storms
Streptococcinum: for all ailments after removal of tonsils; pharynx is pale, darkness below the eyes; no appetite, listless (give 1M every month for a long time)


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