Travel Materia Medica L - P

Please note: No. 1 Remedy = Most frequently prescribed. to ensure your prescribing is as accurate as possible always match the symptoms as closely as possible to the medicine.

MANGANUM
Reputed to have prophylactic properties against typhoid. Deeply sad and anxious, better lying down though soreness in joints / bones may be worse (cf. Arnica, Eupatorium and Rhus Tox). Use if bruises remain sore and Arnica doesn"t help. Problems in the ears and eustachian tubes.Better: sad music; open air; hot food; warm drinks. Worse: cold, damp weather; touch; at night.

MERC VIV No 1 Remedy for mouth ulcers.
Suits human thermometers, incredibly sensitive to both heat and cold; better moderate temperatures. Very smelly discharges (which may be streaked with blood) andprofuse sweat.Prone to swollen glands and colds. Excessive saliva, esp at night, but are extremely thirsty. Important dysentery remedy, diarrhoea slimy, maybe bloody.Chilly after. Worse in bed at night.

NATRUM MUR No. 1 Remedy for cold sores on lips
(if no other strong symptoms). Very sensitive people who remember the smallest slights for a long time. Feeling everything so acutely they tend to protect themselves by shutting themselves off. They feel worse for consolation, except from a chosen few (or one).An important remedy for silent grief (stiff upper lip). The middle of the lower lip may be deeply cracked. Discharges like egg white. Crave salt. Worse for: heat, esp. sun.

NUX VOMICA No 1 Remedy for hang-overs.
Also useful after over-indulgence in rich food.People who need this remedy are very chilly. Emotionally tense, irritable and over-sensitive.They suffer from digestive complaints and although they feel much better for vomiting, they find it difficult to do so. They often work and play very hard, surviving on a "diet" of coffee, alcohol and tobacco, despite the effect it has on them.For best results take the remedy a few hours before going to bed. Worse: morning. Better: rest: warmth; hot drinks.

PODOPHYLLUM
Important acute remedy, most often used to treat diarrhoea, although this may alternate with constipation, liver complaints or headaches. Sensation of everything being too relaxed: abdomen, pelvis, rectum.Useful in gastro - enteritis (protozoa, gardia, spigelia) Stool is profuse, gushing and highly offensive. Better: lying on abdomen. Worse: summer; early morning; difficult teething in children.

PULSATILLA
With this remedy the symptoms and patients themselves are very changeable. Emotionally they are moody, tearful and crave company. Children are clingy and whine. Thirstless and are much worse for being in a stuffy room;, their mood improves dramatically when they go out in the fresh air. Discharges are thick, bland and yellow-green. Complaints may come on after getting wet, chilled feet. Worse: twilight.