-IBIS-1.5.0-
tx
eyes/ears/nose/throat
sinusitis
homeopathy

remedy differential

Arsenicum album: thin, watery, burning and excoriating discharge; sneezes without relief; burning thirst for sips of warm drinks; anxious and restless; chilly
Kali bichromicum: pressure and fullness sensation at the root of the nose; stitching pains, ulcerated septum; thick, foul ropey discharge which is difficult to get out; loss of smell, violent sneezing with no discharge; thirsty
Lycopodium: approximately kali-b.; crusty, sore, plugs up, grey discharge, obstruction < night; usually right-sided
Mercurius solubilis: swelling of nasal bones; caries with greenish ulceration, nosebleeds; nostrils are raw and ulcerated; easy and profuse sweat which does not relieve, thirsty
Natrum carbonicum: constant coryza which is foul smelling; patient hawks much mucus from the back of the throat; < slightest draught, < sun; oversensitive, especially to music
Natrum muriaticum: violent, fluid coryza which lasts from 1-3 days then nose stops up and breathing becomes difficult; discharge is like egg whites; loss of smell
Nux vomica: stuffed up, esp. at night; stuffiness on going outside or after exposure to cold; irritable, angry, easily chilled
Phosphorus: after presence of polyps; catarrh with blood; oversensitive to smell
Pulsatilla: pressing pain at root of nose, bland, yellow-green discharges; patient chilly, thirstless and desires to be outside; weepy > consolation; very sensitive
Sepia: thick greenish discharge, thick plugs of mucus; chronic catarrh, esp. post nasal which must be hawked through mouth, > motion < cold air
Silicea: itching at point of nose; frontal and maxillary pains; hard, dry crusts which bleed when loosened; nasal obstruction with loss of smell; very sensitive and chilly


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