In honor of Homeopathy Awareness Month, I am presenting a 5- part series on: Homeopathy for 1st Aid.
This week’s entry is about how to put your kit together — the ingredients you’ll need. In each of the following 4 weeks I will provide you with detailed notes on:
- Homeopathy for Burns, Reactive Rashes
- Homeopathy for Cuts, Abrasions, Bruises, Blunt Trauma
- Homeopathy for Bites and Stings
- Homeopathy for Sprains, Strains, Fractures
I have had various forms of 1st Aid kits throughout my many years of treating my family homeopathically.
I had a little kit that I threw into the backpack for all outdoor adventures when my children were young and someone was sure to hurt themselves, another kit that came with me when we travelled, one that stayed in the car for extreme emergencies, and a comprehensive one that I kept at home.
Every family should have some, if not all of these products available in their medicine chest, and in various forms of portability, depending on the level of activity and risk they are accustomed to.
How to Use this 5-part Series:
- Read through the “Basics of a Comprehensive Homeopathic 1st Aid Kit (below), and print this is as your “stocking the medicine chest” list.
- As the next 4 parts of this series are published, print out the remedy/symptom descriptions, and make note of the remedies, tinctures, creams that make most sense for your family’s probable 1st Aid needs.
- Keep these notes in an accessible place, preferably with the remedies for quick and easy reference in the case of an emergency.
The Basics of a Comprehensive Homeopathic 1st Aid Kit:
Below are the essential “ingredients” of your homeopathic 1st aid kit, with brief mention of its general use. Each of these remedies will be explained more comprehensively in the blogs-to-come.
Homeopathic Remedies (with suggested potencies):
Arnica 30, 200
- First remedy to be used in all first aid situations
- Reduces swelling, internal bleeding, bruising
- Can be used topically on bumps, bruises
Aconite 30
- Useful for extreme anxiety, panic attacks
- Use after arnica if you don’t know what else to do
- Take yourself if you are panic-y in an emergency situation
Apis 30
- For all bites, stings with red, puffy, warm swelling
Arsenicum 30
- Burning pains
- Chilly, anxious, restless
Belladonna 30
- Rapid, violent swelling and inflammation
Bellis Perennis 30
- Deep trauma, bruising
- Deep muscle or tissue injuries
Calendula 6
- Useful antiseptic for any wound, abrasion, sore
- Promotes rapid healing of wounds
Cantharis 30
- Second and third degree burns
- burns, sunburns, and scalds with feeling of painful rawness
Causticum 30
- deep burns
- third degree burns with blistering
- chemical burns
Hypericum 30
- For use after crushing injuries, bites, stings of fingertips and other nerve-rich areas to relieve severe, radiating pains that extend along nerve pathways
Ledum 30
- Puncture wounds, bites
- First remedy for insect stings
- Anti-tetanus, antiseptic properties
Phosphorus 30
- any hemorrhagic or profuse bleeding with bright red blood
Rhus Tox 30
- sprains with annoying, stiff, painful, restless feeling
- marked stiffness in joints, muscles
- poison ivy rash
Ruta 30
- sprains, especially of flexor tendons
Symphytum 30
- promotes new growth in fractures
Homeopathic Creams/Ointments
Apis
- Extremely useful for all bites, stings, minor burns, rashes
Arnica (see above)
Calendula (see above)
Urtica Urens
- minor, topical scalds
- itchy, prickly rashes
Tinctures
Hypericum (see above)
Ledum (see above)
Other
Rescue Remedy
- Use to calm anxious patient or parent/partner of patient in emergency situation
