Dr Vishpala Parthasarathy
A tribute to the boxing champions of the
world, Ledum-palustre – the veritable homoeopathic remedy
– can enhance their glorious victory by removing all their swelling and pain.
Invaluable for bleeding around the eyeball, due to injury, popularly called "Black
eye of the Boxer"; it absorbs the extra – vasations of blood and
hematoma where Arnica proves insufficient.
Say on a Sunday, your child in a holiday
mood, with no school bus to catch, no coaxing to wake up, brush, bathe or get ready for
school. He lazes, potters around and even looks at the Sunday cartoon pages. But no, this
state is short-lived. But then aping his father he decides to fix a nail on the wall.
After all, what is the use of having carpentry classes in school? Armed with nails and
hammer, he climbs the stool. Thuck-thuck-thuck, the monotony of the sound is pierced with
a woeful wail as the nail, unwittingly, goes through his nail. Spurts of blood with
excruciating pain, you run hither and thither, cursing yourself for letting him to do
this. Confusion all around! No panic, please! Collect your wits; give Ledum 30
– 4 pills every half an hour, till the bleeding and pain subsides, thereafter-daily 4
doses will heal the wound.
Even if the nail is rusty, Ledum has
the power to prevent tetanus if taken in time.
Green lawns of the garden make a lovely
place to play and to run around. But if red ants crawling amidst grass prefer to join the
musical chorus, what else than Ledum can extinguish the red wrath of their
itch-burn stings? For stings of insects whether mosquitoes or wasps, the remedy can give
relief quicker than anything else you may have ever used. Even for the sequelae like
urticaria (raised patches due to allergy) with itching over the whole body. Ledum
stands true if the itching finds relief in cold application.
In a household with plenty of children, Ledum
must have a place. The little ones runs hither and thither, climb up and down with no
brakes on, and hurt their limbs. The sweet pills of Ledum dry their tears and
brighten their angelic faces.
Hence a household remedy for housewives and
their maids, for cobblers as well for carpenters, tailors or mechanics, surgeons and also
the warriors on the battlefield-for all emergencies of blood-shed!
To summarize : A remedy for stabs
and punctured wounds of soft tissues, from sharp instruments like awls and nails
– rusty or not, lancets and scalpels, not forgetting whitlows caused by needle pricks
or splinters under nails as well as animal – bites.
So this second remedy of your "Homeopathic
First Aid Kit" in 30 potency – 4 pills to be repeated every 1-2-3-4
hours until the bleeding stops, pain subsides and swelling goes away, later 4 times a day
till the wound heals completely. | Homoeopathy : An Introduction | Arnica - The first alphabet of Homeopathy |
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