Homeopathy - First Aid

FIRST AID - Homeopathic Remedies

First aid homeopathic remedies are remedies you can use acutely at home or when travelling to treat common ailments such as cuts, bruises, bites, colds and nausea.

Using the right remedy can clear up symptoms relatively quickly and they work really well for children. Homeopathy is also safe to use in pregnancy, when breastfeeding and for the elderly.

Helios Homeopathic Pharmacy sell great first aid kits, for animals too! Definitely worth having a kit at home for all! Telephone : 01892 537254.

ARNICA - Mountain Flower

• First Remedy for Trauma, Injury, Medical Trauma, Emotional or Mental Shock
• First Remedy for Heart Attack and Stroke
• Reducing Brusing, Swelling and Bleeding
• Deep Trauma Remedy - From the Past too
• Bright Red Hemorrhage / Nose Bleeds
• Sepsis/Blood Poisoning - Medical Emergency!
• General Fatigue / Jet Lag / Gout / Hair Loss / Arthritis / Before and After Surgery
• “I’m Okay”

ACONITE - Wolfsbane/Monkshood

• A Dramatic remedy - Comes and Goes Quickly!
• Panic Attacks / Acute Fear / Terror / After an Accident
• Sudden Inflammation / Early Pneumonia / Heart Attack
• Covid when Fever is high quickly, redness and bleeding (nose bleed or any other bleeding).
• Dry Cough / Sharp Neurologic pains / Angina Attacks
• Early Stages of a chill
• Fever : if you catch in time will stop fever immediately!
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder / Shaking / Stuck in an elevator
• Headaches from the sun / One Cheek Red and One Cheek White

APIS - The Honey Bee

Treats symptoms similar to those of a bee sting; swelling, burning, prickling, stinging and redness.

From a bite, a sting, allergic reaction or joint inflammation and are relieved by cold applications and worsened by warmth or pressure.

The sufferer is often thirstless, restless and possibly awkward or clumsy.

ARSCENICUM ALBUM - Arsenic

• Anxiety, particularly about health or the health of those you love
• Food Poisoning
• General fears and worries
• Colds and Flu
• Digestion problems with burning pains in the stomach
• Diarrhea and sickness - burning discharges
• After 12 am!

BELLADONNA - Deadly Nightshade - Pretty Lady

• INFLUENZA REMEDY
• Rapid Onset with Restlessness
• High Temperature - Possible Hallucinations
• Flushed Face and Dilated Pupils
• Dizziness with Nausea and Vomiting
• Oversensitive to Light and Noise
• Hands and Feet will be Cold but the Rest of the Body is Hot to Touch
• Craves Lemonade and Fresh Air

CALENDULA - Pot Marigold

Quick healer of Open Wounds and Cuts and Grazes. Powerful post surgical healer! Promotes healing of minor burns and scalds too.

Homeopathic Antiseptic - draws out any dirt that is deeply embedded in a wound. Germs cannot thrive with Calendula!

Seals wounds (make sure there is no pus in wound,take hepar sulph to remove pus first if there is).

Can be applied topcally as a tincture, cream or lotion as well as internally as a homeopathic remedy.

CHAMOMILLA - Corn Feverfew

• Babies : Teething/ Dribbling/ Colic
• Intolerable pain then numbness / Everything is sensitive
• Irritability / Sounds too Loud / Mood changes quickly
• Greenish Yellow Diarrhea
• Violent Retching
• Vomiting after morphine
• Indigestion / IBS

CARBO VEG - Charcoal

Blood cells are not carrying enough oxygen which can lead to collapse or breathlessness or turning blue. Drop in Blood Pressure

• Slightly Comotose / Drowsy / To Remove Toxins
• Losing Blood / Icy Cold / Shock
• Give to people who have collapsed
• Food Poisoning

BELLIS PERENNIS - The Common Daisy

When swelling remains after taking Arnica use Bellis Perennis. This is a deep acting abdominal remedy. It’s the first remedy to think of with appendicitis or indigestion after eating ice-cream on a hot day!

• C-section / Breast Injuries / Uterine Tumour / Intense soreness
• Injury to Coccyx /Lower back ‘stuff’/Back Strain(falling off a horse for example - you would take hypericum and then Bellis Perennis).
• Uterine Complications during pregnancy.

HYPERICUM - St John’s Wort

A great remedy for injuries to nerves, especially of fingers, toes and nails

• Crushed fingers, especially tips.
• Prevents lockjaw / Puncture wounds
• Relieves pain after operations
• Toothache
• Spinal injuries - pains from nerves shooting upwards
• Excessive painfulness

LEDUM - Wild Rosemary

• Puncture wounds from stings, bites, nails or thorn penetration
• Pain in eyeball which is relieved by cold compress
• After eye surgery
• Where bone is near to the skin, such as the shin or the cheek
• Phantom pains
• Prevents cataracts
• Eye problems - such as a black eye - bone bruised and damaged

SULPHUR - Encrusted Crystal from a Volcano

• Skin Disorders; eczema, psoriasis, dry flaky itchy skin or scalp
• Digestive Disorders
• Great at Throwing out Toxins
• Heartburn and Digestive Issues
• Asthma
• Sleep Disturbances

STAPHYSAGRIA - Stavesagria

• Emergency remedy but also heals past trauma
• Post operative / Knife wounds
• Pains in a scar
• First remedy for assault
• Indigestion
• Mental Feeling of being invaded or couldn’t protect oneself

RHUS TOX

• Dislocations and Sprains
• Muscle pain that is better with movement
• Gardening - general aches and pains after working in the garden
• Complaints from getting wet and changes in weather
• Restlessness in bed at night
• Inflammatory conditions in the joints - arthritis
• Allergy based skin problems