Skin Health

Indication

Below is a quick reference guide for low potency (1x – 30C) homoeopathic remedies safe for home prescribing. Make an appointment for a professional consultation and prescription for more information.

Argentum Nitricum:
When the skin is blotchy. Dry sensitive skin.

Arnica montana:
For bruising of the skin that results from falls, injury or trauma. Arnica is used to remove the shock effect of burns and can be taken with other remedies for burns (Cantharis, Causticum, Hepar Sulph, Kali bichromicum, Urtica urens)

Arnica montana can be given every two to three minutes to help ease the pain and take away shock. As symptoms ease spread the treatment to every two hours. Arnica will bring the bruising out and the skin will be discoloured, but the deep trauma will be released and the pain diminished.

Belladonna:
First stages of an outbreak of acne, boils or eruptions when the area or individual spot is red, swollen sensitive and hot. There may be pustules. Acne Rosacea. Sunburn – when the skin is red, hot and throbbing, and where the patient has no apparent thirst.

Abscesses – when irritation is accompanied by redness and throbbing pain.

Acne – for people with red faces.

Calcarea carbonica:
When the skin feels better when scratched. Dry and sensitive skin.

Calcarea sulphurica:
When the area won't heal and continues to suppurate long after it should have healed.

Cantharis vesicatoria:
To be taken every two minutes for the relief of burns. Catharsis can stop blistering if taken in time. Sunburn – after a day in the sun when the patient has been highly exposed to the sun's rays.

Causticum:
For painful scars and to help them to heal. Burns.

Blisters – use morning and evening to reduce the intake as symptoms decrease. Do not burst blisters as this may cause infection.

Cuprum metallicum:
For use with sunburn/burns if sweating and cramping occur.

Graphites:
For oozing crusty types of skin irritation. When the skin is cracked and there is weeping eczema. Skin, thick, dry and unhealthy especially bends of limbs, creases, face, scalp and fingertips. Skin cracks, itches bleeds and oozes sticky honey-like discharge. Thick, dry, sensitive skin.

Hepar sulphuricum:
Boils, abscesses, acne and suppurating sores. Red, painful pustules which may b slow to come to a head. Indicated when infection occurs easily from little cause. Unhealthy skin, which is very painful and sensitive to touch. For burns that have not been kept clean and have become infected.

Abscesses – when there is pus and the skin is sensitive to touch.

Acne – where many pustules are present.

Hypericum perforatum:
For bruising to toes, fingers and nerve endings.

Abscesses -When the skin is tense and painful.

Kali bichromicum:
For complementary treatment of serious second-degree burns.

Natrum muriaticum:
Dry flaky skin and dry hair which falls out easily. Eczema along the hairline and in the bends of joints.

Mercurius solubilis**:
When the skin itches and is worse when hot. Dry and sensitive skin. Eczema.

Abscesses -For mouth abscesses.

Mezerium**:
For painful small bumpy eczema that is not found on the face.

Petroleum:
Cracked skin – dry, red, rough and split. Corners of the mouth, hands and feet. Eczema.

Pulsatilla:
Acne – for people with fair complexions.

Rhus toxicondendron:
Vesicles and blisters. Restless and very itchy. Prickly heat, shingles and chicken pox.

Ruta graveolens:
For bruised feelings after injuring – bruised skin. General bruised feeling to the bones and tendons.

Silica:
Cracks on fingertips, worse in cold weather. Unhealthy skin with poor healing. Helps resolution after a boil, pimple, splinter or suppurating wound has discharged.

Abscesses – after discharge of pus, use three times a day for three days as a cleanser.

Acne – When the skin becomes scarred from pustules.

Sulphur:
Unhealthy looking skin. For when the skin itches and begins to burn. Skin is irritated with cracked skin. Excellent for nappy rash when the child is hot and irritable. Dry and sensitive skin.Eczema.

Skin dry, red and itching. Unhealthy skin which breaks out festers and won't heal. Worse from heat, hot water and warmth of the bed. Prickly heat and nappy rash.

Cradle cap: – for a scruffy, oily skin and scalp. The child is hot-tempered and hot skinned.

Acne – in cases that resist conventional treatment of any kind.

Thuja occidentalis:
Nappy Rash: – this remedy is better suited to quiet, calm children who suffer from skin irritations.

Cradle Cap: – for skin infections in a cooler calmer child.

Urtica urens:
For the stinging pain of burns.