plantmedicine

Tinea unguium is a common type of fungal infection. It is also called onychomycosis. The fungus infects the fingernails and, more commonly, the toenails. It is more common in men, older adults, and people who have diabetes, psoriasis, peripheral vascular disease, or another health problem that weakens the immune system. Tinea unguium is increasingly prevalent with increased age and spreads from tinea pedis or less often, tinea manuum. It may affect one or more toenails and/or fingernails and most often involves the great toenail or the little toenail. It is often confused with non-infected nail dystrophy due to skin disease, particularly psoriasis, also dermatitis, lichen planus, viral warts, ageing process. Causes Tinea unguium is most often due to Trichophyton rubrum and T. interdigitale. It should be distinguished from other causes of onychomycosis: ·        Candida species, which often cause paronychia. ·        Moulds incl...

INTIAL STAGE (MILD CASES) ACONITUM NAPELLUS Sudden onset.   Anxiety, restlessness, excitement with dryness of mouth and thirst. Skin is dry and hot. Fear of death. Dry cough. Left side chest pain, worse lying on left side. Profuse sweat, wants to uncover. Fever with thirst. BAPTISIA TINCTORIA Sudden onset of high fever. Pains and soreness all over the body. Profound prostration. Chilly with soreness of body. Diarrhea with fever. BELLADONNA High temperature.   Dry heat, externally hot. Burning, pungent, steaming heat. Delirium.   Forehead hot, feet cold, Sweat on affected part. No thirst with fever. BRYONIA ALB Fever. Dry cough, stitching pain in chest. Great thirst, thirst for large quantities of water. Joint pains. Irritable, wants to lie quiet. Vertigo. Easy, profuse perspiration. Sweat sour or oily after slight exertion. EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM Fever with severe bone pains.   Great soreness and aching of bones. Thirst before chill; chills with t...

CINNABARIS CHEMICAL NAME: Mercuric sulphide. DESCRIPTION Brilliant scarlet red, heavy powder or lumps, tasteless and odorless, very soft to touch, blackens on exposure to light particularly in presence of water or alkali hydroxides. Insoluble in water and alcohol. Dissolves in aqua regia, but does not dissolve in hydrocgloric acid or nitric acid. On heating strongly, turns dark and then volatilizes. HOMOEOPATHY USES One of the best remedies to be considered in BLACK FUNGUS DISEASE (MUCORMYCOSIS). EYE: Pains from lachrymal duct around eye to temple, from inner canthus across brows to ear. Severe shooting pain bones of orbit, especially running from inner to outer canthus in the bone. Redness of whole eye. Lids granulated. Canthi and lids red. NOSE &MOUTH: Pressive pain about root of nose, extending into the bones on each side. Fiery-looking ulcers in mouth and throat. SKIN: Red eruptions. Very fiery-red looking ulcers. Violent itching and pricking. POTENCY: 3x and higher. ...

ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS BOTANICAL NAME: Rosmarinus officinalis Linn. FAMILY: Labiatae COMMON NAMES: English: Rosemary. Herb of Memory. DESCRIPTION: A bushy, low, much branched, perennial sub-shrub. Leaves aromatic, evergreen, sessile, opposite, linear lanceolate, coriaceous, glandular punctate, showing prominent mid-rib. Inflorescence verticillaster, flowers pale blue. DISTRIBUTION: Throughout the world. PART USED: Whole plant. HOMOEOPATHY USES MEMORY: Memory weak, anxiety. Dullness. BALDNESS, DANDRUFF, LICE. MENSES: Early menses, menses four days too early. ABORTION: Violent pain followed by uterine hemorrhage and miscarriage, succeeded by faintness, spasm of chest, cold hands and feet, small, rapid, irregular pulse. POTENCY: Mother tincture and higher.