Treatment

The indications for the homoeopathic remedies are:
Alnus rubra. - Enlargement of submaxillary glands, strumous enlargement of tonsils; obstinate impetigo and por-rigo, chronic diarrhoea; scrofulous disease of hip joint; disease of mucous membranes, which arise from or alter­nate with eruptions of the skin.

Arsen. iod. - Diseases of mucous membranes, characterized by a peculiar and persistently irritating corrosive character of the discharges; constant susceptibility to take cold; excoriated nostrils and lips; swollen and covered with scabs.

Arsen. met. - Great emaciation, clay-colored face, blue margin around the eyes; great weakness of all the limbs; want of disposition to do anything, and constant inclination to rest; lax muscles; swelling of the cervical glands; distended abdomen; diarrhoea; scurfy eruptions and ulcers; ophthalmia; carcinoma.

Asafoetida. - Glands hard, swollen, hot, and throbbing, with shooting jerking pains; soft enlargement of bones, with curvature; ulcers with high hard edges, sensitive to touch, easily bleeding, pus profuse, greenish, thin, offensive, even ichorous; psoitis when suppuration threatens; osteitis and caries; scrofulous ozaena; hardness of hearing with thin purulent discharge of offensive odor; scrofulous, bloated, clumsy children, with phlegmatic temperament.

Asclepias tub. - Strong tendency to tubercular development; sharp pains in different parts of the body, with muscular soreness, changing from one part to another; impaired strength, rather feeble, digestion and assimilation; glandular enlargement about neck; vesicles; pimples and pustules all over the body.

Aurwm met. - Scrofula, ruddy complexion, light haired, sanguine temperament; glands painfully swollen; ozaena, with caries of nasal bones; fetid otorrhoea from caries of mastoid process; caries of cheek bones; tearing, boring, burning stitches in zygoma; red and swollen tonsils; profound ulceration in throat.

Badiaga. - Dandruff or dry, tetter-like appearance of scalp, with slight itching; scrofulous ophthalmia, with hardening of the Miebomian glands; tonsils red and inflamed; indurated inguinal glands; glandular swellings on left side of face, throat, and neck, some hard, some suppurating; small hard lumps along tibia; flesh feels sore as if it had been beaten, and very sensitive to touch or fric­tion of clothes.


Baryta carb. - Physical and mental debility; atrophy, great weakness; face red and abdomen bloated, glands swollen, indurated; fatty or encysted tumors; coryza, nose, and upper lip swollen, scurfs under the nose; chronic in duration of tonsils; sensation as of a plug in throat, worse swallowing solids; crawling in rectum, expulsion of ascarides; cannot retain the urine; chronic cough, with swollen glands and enlarged tonsils; worse after slightest cold, with soreness in chest when coughing; chronic torticollis; pimples, ringworms, humid sores.

Bellad. - Hard, swollen, and ulcerated glands; muscular debility, with difficulty of learning to walk; photophobia, inflammation of eyes and eyelids; cough, with mucous rales; otorrhoea; emaciation and atrophy; ulcers; inflammatory swelling of nose and lips; frequent epistaxis; frequent sore throat, with swelling; distended and hard abdomen; enuresis day and night; premature development of mind; blue eyes and blonde hair.

Berberis aquifol. - This remedy is highly recommended by several physicians.

Bromium. - Swelling and induration of the glands; enlargement of thyroid, in children with light hair, blue eyes, and fair skin; pimples and pustules; boils on the arms and face; hard swelling of left parotid, edges of opening smooth, discharge watery and excoriating, swelling remaining hard and unyielding; tonsillitis; swallowing of fluids more diffi­cult than of solids; hard uneven tumor in right mammae, firmly adherent to its surroundings, with lancinating pains, worse at night; stiffness of neck.

Calcarea carb. - Malassimilation; tardy development of bony tissue; large head with open fontanels; curvature of the back and vertebrae or other rickitic affections; herpes, tinea, crusta lactea; hard or suppurating glandular swell ings; ulcers, exostosis, or caries; hard and enlarged abdomen, with swelling of mesenteric glands; emaciation and voracious appetite; thirst constant, even after drinking; profuse perspiration of head; thin and wrinkled face, with dim eyes; dry and flaccid skin; difficulty of learning to walk; difficult dentition; red swelling of nose; bronchocele; swelling of upper lip; frequent bleeding of nose; feet cold and damp; craves eggs.

Calcarea iod. - Tendency to alternate diarrhoea and constipation; no thirst; pustular eruption, sore and painful, with desire to rub and scratch it, though it makes it worse; abdomen enlarged, breath offensive; cold sticky perspiration, feet cold and damp; restless, fretful, and irritable; pus from abscesses thin and ichorous; granular inflammation of membrana tympani; scrofulous ophthalmia.

Calcarea phos. - Emaciation, dirty-white or brownish complexion; skull soft, thin, crepitating when pressed, especially in occiput; craves bacon, salt meat, and potatoes; swelling of the epiphyses, difficult teething, slow closing of the fontanels; curvature of spine to the left, lumbar vertebrae bent forward; abscesses near lumbar vertebrae; incipient mesenteric tabes, with much fetid diarrhoea. Tendency to tuberculosis.

Chimaphila. - Glandular enlargement, especially of lymphatics; enlargement of mesenteric glands; ulcers of an indolent and flabby character; tumors in mammae.

Cina. - Child feels uneasy and distressed, does not want to be touched, is not pleased or satisfied with anything leaves his head sideways all the time, rubs nose constantly; pale sickly-looking face; hunger and thirst soon after eating, with gnawing sensation in stomach; abdomen hard and distended; itching at anus; ulcers with scanty discharge; inability to retain urine.

Cistus  Can. - Glands  swollen,  inflamed,  indurated,   or ulcerated; drawing tearing pains in all joints; itching all over the body, without eruption; herpetic eruption of various parts - chronic scrofulous ophthalmia, feeling as if something was passing around in the eye, with stitches; watery, bad-smelling pus discharged from ears; tetters on and around ears; swelling of parotids; eczema of nose; caries of lower jaw, with suppurating glands in neck; cool feeling in stomach and abdomen; cool eructations; chronic diarrhoea; swelling and suppuration of glands of throat; scrofulous ulcers on back; desire for acids and acid fruit, but they cause pain and diarrhoea.

Conium. - Swelling of glands, with tingling and stitches; marasmus with frequent sour belching, worse during night; erratic itching of all parts of body; humid, burning, corroding, crusty herpes; blackish ulcers, with bloody, fetid, ichorous discharges, especially after contusions; ophthalmia with photophobia; blenorrhoea bronchialis; asthma; carcinoma.

Corydalis form. - Scrofulous cutaneous diseases, accompanied by feeble digestion and poverty of blood; scrofulous syphilitic diseases.

Cornus circin. - Scrofulous ophthalmia, herpes of eyelids; ulcerations of tongue, gums, and mouth.

Graphites. - Swelling and induration of glands; eczema capitis of entire scalp, forming massive dirty crusts, which mat the hair together; eczema beginning as a moisture behind left ear, and spreading over cheeks and neck; thick, yellowish, fetid discharge from nose; dry scabs in nose, with sore, cracked, and ulcerated nostrils; painful nodules on lower jaw; chronic catarrhs of stomach and bowels; glandular swelling in groins; fissures and rhagades; turbid urine; unpainful swollen glands on nape of neck.

Hecla lava. - Scrofulous ostitis or periostitis, resting on a syphilitic basis, and especially affecting the bones of face and of antrum highmori; difficult dentition; rachitis; hip disease; white swelling; induration and infiltration of cervical glands, studding the neck like a row of pearls; tooth­ache from swelling about the jaws; abscesses of gums from decayed teeth.

Hepar. - Glands inflame, swell, and suppurate; hard burning nodosities; unhealthy skin; slight injuries suppurate; stinging burning of edges of ulcers, discharging bloody pus; humid eruption of fetid odor, feeling sore, itching violently; nodosities on head, relieved by covering the head warmly and from sweat; discharge of fetid pus from ears; boils on face, lips, and chin; cancerous ulcers; disposition to phlegmonous sore throat, catarrh, or bron­chitis; atrophy.

Hydrastis. - Chronic catarrhs of mucous membranes wherever situated; cancerous cachexia; cancers hard, adherent; skin mottled; puckered, with lancinating cutting pains; atony of muscles.

Hypophosphite of Lime. - One of the best remedies we have for so-called scrofulous manifestations. It fully answers Hahnemann's indications for the use of Calc. carb. in scrofulous affections, especially when occurring in children, namely, the overgrowth, the large head and open fontanels, the distended abdomen, the tendency to swelling of lymphatic glands, the tendency to brain affections, to catarrhal discharges, abscesses, etc.

lodum. - Emaciation, in spite of the necessity of eating every few hours; swelling and induration of glands, the whole of the lymphatic system being involved; swelling of mesenteric glands, bronchocele; scrofulous women, with dwindling and falling away of the mammae.

Kaii bichr. - Scrofulous ulcers and skin diseases; discharges from mucous membranes tough, stringy, sticking to the parts; caries of the bones of the nose; strumous ophthalmia; pustular diseases of skin, secreting a watery fluid when broken or drying up into a yellow tough mass; fat, chubby children; fat, light-haired persons.

Kali hydroiod. - It distends all tissues by interstitial infiltration; enlarged glands; trophic exostosis; swelling of bones; necrosis; all worse at night; bronchial and sub-maxillary glands swollen, ulcerating, atrophied; goitre; papules on face, back; small boils on face, head, neck, back, and chest, leaving scars; pustules on cornea, without photophobia, redness, or pain.

Lithium, carb. - Skin rough as a grater, harsh, dry; dry itching eruption like ringworms; milk crust; whole body, bones, joints, muscles sore as if beaten.

Lycopodiuin. - Swelling and suppuration of glands; herpes and ulcers; humid suppurating eruptions, full of deep rhagades, breeding lice, itching violently; intertrigo; raw places, readily bleeding; boils which do not mature, but remain blue; scalp covered with scabs; chronic enlargement of tonsils.

Lapis albus. - Scrofulous affections, abscesses, and sores; enlargement and induration of glands, especially cervical; glandular tumors, where physiologically no glands are usually found; goitre; cretinism.

Mercurius. - Glandular swellings, with or without suppuration; cachectic affections; exostosis, curvature, caries, and other affections of bones; eruptions and corrosive herpes with crusts; tinea capitis; crusts in the face; sup­puration, especially if too profuse; ulceration of tonsils.

Mercurius biniod. - This is one of our best remedies. It is especially in the relief of those tardy engorgements and ulcerations which follow the discharge of the softened scrofulous matter. It may be given during the growth or swelling of the gland with the hope of dispersion, as we cannot always surely know whether the enlargement is attributable to the presence of scrofulous matter or to simple congestion and engorgement. Natrum carb. - Swelling and induration of glands; emaciation, with pale face, dilated pupils, dark urine; skin dry, rough, and chapped; suppurating herpes, with yellow rings; goitre; swollen cervical glands; humid herpetic erup­tions and ulcers on nose, lips, and around mouth; burn­ing fissures on lower lips.

Oleum jec. as. - Only indicated in patients of a slender and lean figure, thin, transparent skin, with a frequent pulse, great excitability of the nervous system, and high specific gravity of the urine - all signs of an accelerated metamorphosis.

Petroleum. - Swelling and induration of glands; unhealthy skin; small wounds ulcerate and spread; polypi; salt rheum on arms and hands, red, raw, burning, moist, or covered with thick crusts; herpes on knees and ankles.

Phytolacca. - Swollen tonsils; indurated glands; glands and bones inflamed and swollen.

Psorinum. - Pale, sickly, delicate children, whose body always has a filthy smell, even after a bath; deeply penetrating, ichorous ulcers; skin dirty, greasy-looking, with yellow blotches here and there, at times itching; scratch­ing gives temporary relief; hair dry, lustreless, tangles easily; pustules and boils on head; scalp looks dirty and emits an offensive odor; wants to have the head covered «ven in hot weather; purulent offensive otorrhoea; sub-maxillary and lingual glands swollen, sore to touch.

Rhus tax. - Swelling of glands; herpes in the face and other eruptions discharging pus or forming crusts; emaciation; hard and distended abdomen.

Sarsaparilla. - Great emaciation, skin shrivelled or lies in folds; herpetic circular ulcers, forming no crusts, red granulated bases, white borders; deep burning rhagades; milk-crust; ophthalmia after checked tetters; marasmus of children; neck emaciated.

Silicea. - Swelling and suppuration of glands; exostosis; curvature, and caries of bones; pale and bloated; disposition of skin to ulcerate; eczema, impetigo, herpes; tendency to boils, which leave indurations; carbuncles; malignant pustule; blepharitis; otorrhoea; canine hunger, with nervous irritable persons; desires only cold things; swelling and induration of cervical glands and parotitis; imperfect nutrition, not from want of food, hut from imperfect assimilation.


Spongia. - Swelling and induration of glands; skin and muscles lax; light hair; fevers; yellow scabby eruption; suppuration of external ear; insatiable appetite and thirst.

Sulphur. - Sciofulous and rickety complaints; emaciation of children, face has a very old look; dry flabby skin; glandular swellings, indurating and suppurating; ulcers, with raised swollen edges, bleeding easily, discharging fetid pus, surrounded with pimples; humid offensive eruptions, with thick pus, yellow crusts, itching, bleeding, and burn­ing; ophthalmia and blepharitis; purulent offensive otorrhoea; painful eruptions around chin; lips dry, rough, and cracked; curvature of spine from softening of vertebrae; hangnails; burning of soles, wants them uncovered; children dislike being bathed; especially suitable for lean stoop-shouldered persons.

Theridion. - Scrofula, rachitis, caries, necrosis, when other remedies fail to reach the root of the evil, and destroy cause; itching on scalp; itching behind ears, she would,like to scratch them off; chronic catarrh of nose, discharge offensive, thick yellow or yellowish-green; phthisis florida, in beginning.