Acute gastroenteritis/dysentery

Arsenicum album (Arsenic): Food poisoning. Diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting with severe abdominal
cramping, worse from midnight to 2AM. Worse from sour foods, fruit, and cold foods/drinks. Anxiety
and restlessness. Desire to sip water.
Podophyllum (May apple): Montezumas revenge. Exhausting, explosive diarrhea with abdominal
cramping and rumbling. Diarrhea drives her out of bed at 5AM.
Veratrum album(White hellebore): Violent vomiting and diarrhea followed by exhaustion and cold
sweat. Icy cold but desires ice, cold drinks, pickles, fruit.
Bladder Infections
Staphysagria (Stavesacre): Honeymoon cystitis (bladder infection after sexual activity). Desire to
urinate, but cannot, after sex with a new partner. Cystitis following suppressed anger, shame, insult.
Sarsaparilla (Wild licorice): Severe pain in urethra at the end of urination.
Cantharis (Spanish fly): Extreme symptoms with rapid onset. Bloody urine. Intolerable stinging,
cutting, and burning pain on urinating. Restlessness.
Conjunctivitis
Pulsatilla (Windflower): Profuse, thick, bland, yellow-green discharge. Eyelids stuck together on
waking. Weepy, clingy children who want to be held.
Apis mellifica (Honeybee): Swollen, red, puffy eyelids. Eyes are bright red and bloodshot. Eyes feel
better from cold cloth or ice packs.
Euphrasia (Eyebright): Profuse, hot, irritating, bland discharge from the eye. Eyes water all the time.
Belladonna (Deadly nightshade): Conjunctivitis that comes on suddenly and violently. Often rightsided. Severe throbbing pain. Hot, red, dry face.
Dental Abscesses
Hepar sulphuris: Abscess of roots of teeth with excruciating sensitivity. Irritability and extreme
sensitivity to cold.
Mercurius: Dental abscess with profuse salivation and offensive breath.
Silica: Dental abscess developing more gradually when the symptom picture does not fit Hepar or
Mercurius.
Ear Infections (Otitis media)

Pulsatilla (Windflower): Ears feel stopped up. Profuse, thick yellowish-green nasal discharge.
Weepy, clinging, thirstless child who wants to be held.
Belladonna (Deadly nightshade): Ear infections that come on suddenly with a high-fever and dry,
red face. Often right-sided. Pain is intense and throbbing. Eyes are glassy.
Chamomilla (Chamomile): Ear infections, often during teething, in fussy, irritable children who are
soothed from being rocked or carried. Inconsolable with pain and cannot bear to be touched.
Aconite (Monkshood): Sudden, very painful ear infection with a high fever after exposure to a cold,
dry wind. Useful within the first twenty-four hours of onset.
Flu
Oscillococcinum (Duck liver and heart): Take one dose at the first sign of the flu.
Gelsemium (Yellow jasmine)- The most common flu medicine. Dizzy, drowsy, droopy, dull. Wiped
out, chills, achy muscles, not very thirsty.
Bryonia (Hops): Achy joints better worse from any movement. Thirsty for cold drinks. Parched lips.
Dry cough.
Rhus-toxicodendron (Poison ivy): Stiff, painful, creaky joints. Worse sitting from prolonged periods
of time, better stretching, limbering up, hot baths or showers.
China (Peruvian bark): Extreme exhaustion. Periodic fevers, sweats, chills.
Sinusitis
Kali bichromicum (Potassium bichromate): Intense, pressing pain in the cheeks, forehead, and
bridge of nose. Thick, stringy yellow or green nasal discharge.
Pulsatilla (Windflower): Ripe cold with thick, bland mucus and stuffy nose. Feel better from fresh
air and worse from warm, stuffy rooms.
Mercurius (Mercury): Bad-smelling, yellow-green nasal discharge. Coated tongue. Metallic taste in
mouth. Bad-smelling breath, sweat, and body odor.
Skin Infections (Boils, Folliculitis):
Hepar sulphuris (Calcium sulfide): Excruciatingly painful eruptions. Thick, bad-smelling pus. Very
chilly, irritable.

 Silica (Flint): Bad-smelling pus. Infections from foreign bodies like splinters or ingrown nails.
Infections are slow to heal.
Lachesis (Bushmaster snake): Bluish-purple or black boil filled with pus. Often left-sided.
Mercurius (Mercury): Inflamed boils with bad-smelling pus. Offensive perspiration, mouth odor, and
discharges.
Throat Infections
Apis mellifica (Honeybee): Right-sided stinging sore throats with swelling as the main symptom.
Tonsils fiery red. Uvula swollen. Pain better from cold drinks.
Phytolacca (Pokeroot): Dark red or bluish sore, puffy throat. Throat pain extends to the ear on
swallowing. Pain is much worse from swallowing anything hot.
Lacheis (Bushmaster snake): Left-sided or moving from left to right. Sensation of lump in the throat.
Pain is much worse from swallowing. Worse on waking.
Lycopodium (Club moss): Pain on right side or moving from right to left. Better from warm drinks.
Hepar sulphuris (Calcium sulfide): Exquisitely tender throat with sensation of splinter or fish bone in
the throat. Extremely chilly, irritable.
Belladonna (Deadly nightshade): Right-sided, hot, red, burning pain. High fever. Bright red, hot, dry
face. Sudden onset of symptoms. Strep throat or tonsillitis.
Mercurius (Mercury): Throat pain with bad breath and excessive salivation and sweating. Metallic
taste in the mouth. Constant desire to swallow.
Upper/Lower Respiratory Infection
Antimonium tartaricum (Tartar emetic): Loose, rattling cough with little mucus coming up. Wants to
be left alone.
Bryonia (Hops): Dry cough worse from any motion. Holds the chest to keep from coughing. Dry,
chapped lips. Thirst for cold drinks. Irritable.
Coccus cacti (Cochineal): Cough with thick, stringy mucus that leads to choking.
Drosera (Sundew): Violent fits of hard coughing leading to gagging or vomiting.

Rumex (Yellow dock): Dry cough from a tickle in the pit of the throat. Worse on lying down.
Spongia (Toasted sponge): Dry, barking cough that sounds like a saw cutting through wood.
Suffocating cough. Better from eating or drinking.
Vaginitis (Acute)
Caladium (American arum): Severe vaginal itching, especially during pregnancy.
Kreosotum (Creosote): Terribly acrid, burning, yellow vaginal discharge causing rawness of the
labia.
Pulsatilla (Windflower): Thick, bland, yellow-green, or creamy discharge. Not thirsty. Wants fresh air
and feels worse in warm, stuffy rooms.
Sepia (Cuttlefish ink): Vagina is raw, burning, and itching. Hormonal imbalance. Worse during the
daytime. Vaginal dryness in menopause. Aversion to sex.
Homeopathic Care for Chronic Infections
The results of constitutional homeopathic care, in the case of longstanding, chronic infections can be
impressive, even dramatic. Although it is not possible to elaborate here, we can refer you to a
number of our previous Townsend Letter articles, over the years, illustrating the effectiveness of
homeopathy for such chronic infectious and inflammatory diseases such as colitis, hepatitis, Crohns
Disease, sinusitis, bronchitis, cystitis, vaginitis, arthritis, and chronic ear infections. There are many
other cases, in the homeopathic literature, of successful treatment of most infectious diseases,
including Lyme Disease, parasitic infections, tropical infectious diseases, etc. If you are looking for
an effective alternative to antibiotic treatment, we recommend that you seriously consider
homeopathy.