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It’s a description of the hair loss from hair or body, sometimes it tames to baldness. In some cases alopecia tends to be involuntary and unwelcome like androgenic alopecia.
Alopecia may also causes by a psychological compulsion to pull out one's own hair, or the unforeseen consequences of voluntary hairstyling routines like excessively tight ponytails, braids, or burns to the scalp from caustic and many more cause that tends to alopecia.


Cause

There are many thing cause alopecia, it is not contagious, and it occurs more frequently in people who have affected family members.
Alopecia is thought to be an autoimmune disorder in which the body attacks its own hair follicles and suppresses or stops hair growth.
Alopecia also is caused by Vitamin B5 deficiency, which is needed as cofactor for acyl transfers, and for fatty acid synthase.
It also trigger such as emotional stress or a pathogen in thought to combine with hereditary factors to cause the alopecia

Remedies/ Symptoms

PHOSPHORUS

• Round patches on the scalp completely deprived of hair.
• Falling off of the hair in large bunches on the forehead and on the sides above the ears.
• The roots of the hair seem to be dry; the denuded scalp looks clear, white and smooth.
• Dandruff copious, fall out in clouds.

• Hair becomes gray early.
• Hair fall off after abdominal diseases or after parturition, with burning, scalding, inching of the scalp, and especially on getting warm from exercise.

• Hair falls out, mostly from occiput and around the ears, with humid, foetid eruption on dandruff on the scalp.
• Hair pulls out without pain after the slightest effort.

• Hair falls out when combimg especially during confinement and lactation.
• Scales on scalp and enormous dandruff.

What are Pruritus and its Cause?

It is a sensation which seems unpleasant and creates a desire to scratch. It’s also known as itch, it leads to a scratch reflex.
Itching is associated with both dermatologic and systemic causes and it is important to determine whether there is an associated skin eruption. A characteristic rash usually establishes the diagnosis of a primary dermatological disorder.

Severe itching leads to vigorous scratching that causes secondary skin changes of excoriation, lichenification, dryness, eczematization and infection. Over-bathing and contact allergy to topical therapies may lead to dermatitis.

Remedies / symptoms

CALADIUM

Pruritus vulvae during pregnancy and after miscaeeiage, pruritus vaginae induce onanism, with mucous discharge and pimples around parts.
Violent itching on external genitals compelled her to scratch in spite of punishment, reduced her in mind and body, at night, from cold water.

HELONIAS

Excessive pruritus vulvae, which are puffed, hot, red and etching terribly.
Labia swollen and covered with a curdy, white deposit, like Aphthae.
Leucorrhoea of a bad odor, easily changing to flow of blood.

HEPHER SULPH

Itching of penis and at fraenum preputii.
Smarting itching of vulva, little pimples around ulcer, with leucorrhoea.
Unhealthy skin, slight injuries suppurate

PLATINA

Furious itching inside of uterus, pruritus vulvae, voluptuous tingling, with anxiety and palpitation of heat.
Itching, burning, with inculination to scratch on different parts of body.

It’s a one of the very common problem for both children and adults. It cause due to infection of otitis externa means the outer ear infection, and infection in the middle ear means otitis media infection.


The cause of Earache

Earache of outer ear can happen due to minor injure and trapped infection to the ear canal, and the earache in the middle ear causes by bacteria growing in the middle ear behind the eardrum. There are also some other cause of earache.

Otitis externa is the skin infection of the outer ear or ear canal which often occurs after swimming. Bacteria that cause the infection are able to grow and multiply easily in the warm moist environment.

Otitis media is the infection of the middle ear and eardrum which is very common in infants and children aged 6 months to 2 years. It may also affect older children and adults. Cold or upper respiratory tract infection is also a cause of earache in Otitis media.

Remedies/ symptoms

ACONITE

• Earache and inflammation of ear, at night.
• Acute severe pain, caused by exposure to cold wind, or sudden stoppage of a chronic discharge from ear.
• Roaring in ear, child restless, anxious.

• Otitis externa in diffusa, burning and itching, scratching, by heat.
• Tissues of meatus red, infiltrated, oozing clear, watery fluid.
• Otorrhoea with profuse, ichorous, foul discharge, with burning itching in canal.
• Hardness of hearing, cannot hear the human voice, by talking to others.

• Otitis externa scrofulous, thick crust on and behind ears.
• Buzzing and ringing in ears, reverberations, and swallowing, sneezing, walking fast.
• Very impressible to catch cold.

• Otalgia, sharp pains in and around ears.
• Acute otitis media.
• Shooting pain in the ear, with hardness of hearing.
• Roaring and humming in the ears.
• Inflammation of glands about the ears, tearing and stitching

• Otitis externa suppurative in scrofulous persons.
• Dermoid layer of membrane tympani destroyed by ulceration.
• Polypus of ear, humming, roaring, buzzing in ears.
• Pain in internal ears, extreme heat or cold, blowing nose or coughing

It is also known as stroke. It is an uncontrolled bleeding into the brain due to a cerebrovascular accident CVA, resulting in sudden loss of consciousness and paralysis of various parts of the body. When the blood vessel in the brain is blocked or broken, and the blood supply is reduced which carries oxygen and nutrients to the brain. Within a few minute the brains die without oxygen and nutrients.

Causes of Apoplexy:

It happens because of too much of blood within the brain called (Hemorrhagic Stroke).it happens when a blood vessel in the brain ruptures or leaks due to the onset of other diseases, such as high blood pressure.

Remedies/ Symptoms

ACONITE

Sudden attack of congestion in young and robust person, often apoplection.
Head hot; pulsation of carotids, pulse full, hard, strong especially after fright or vexation or in cold dry weather.
Dry hot skin, arterial tension, looks frightened.
If conscious, terror, anxiety, agonizing fears.
Great difficulty in swallowing.

ARNICA MONT

Chief remedy because of its great power to produce absorption of blood.
Due to fall or any mechanical injury.
Paralysis of limbs especially of left side.
Stupor with involuntary stool and urine.
Head and face hot, body cool, sore, as if bruised, restless because bed feels so hard.
Falls into a deep stupor while answering.
Say she is well when desperately ill.

ASTERIAS RUB

Sudden attack of vertigo like shocks in the head, heat of head, as if surrounding by hot air.
Cerebral congestion, with obstinate constipation, faces red, pulse hard, compressed, and frequent.
Pupils closed gradual loss of sight, great agitation and little sleep night before attack.

BELLADONNA:

Apoplexy; flushed, hot, bloated face, dilated pupils, a fixed, threatening look, difficulty in swallowing, throbbing carotids, attack being sudden.
Pulsation of cerebral arteries.
The pain worse leaning forward, better bending back.
Worse stooping, light, jar.
Pain comes suddenly, lasts indefinitely and ceases suddenly.
First stage of apoplexy, when extravasation causes inflammatory reaction.
Violent delirium with intense redness, burning.

GELSEMIUM

Treated or actually apoplexy with stupor, coma and nearly general paralysis.
Intense passive, congestion to head.
Headache with nausea, giddiness, staggering.
Brain tight, eyelids and limbs heavy.
Great weight and tiredness, body and limbs
Face purple, mottled.
Speech incoherent stupid forgetful.

What is laryngitis?

Larynx is an organ of voice, when some one speaks; two membranes in the larynx - the vocal cords - vibrate to make sound. Laryngitis is inflammation or irritation of the tissues of the larynx.

What causes laryngitis?

It’s a viral infection of the upper airways. It also causes by some kind of injury as an infection, smoking and other inhaled irritants, drinking of spirits, contact with caustic or acidic substances including the acid reflux from the stomach, vocal overuse, allergic reaction it may also cause due to direct trauma.



Remedies/ Symptoms:

ACONITE

• Laryngitis with inflammatory fever.
• Larynx sensitive to touch and to inspired air, as if denuded.
• Voice husky, can scarcely speak, wants to cough, gut cannot

• Frequent hemming and bringing up small, firm lumps of phlegm, without cough.
• Frequent ticking irritation in windpipe.
• Short breath in walking, has to stand still to get his breath.
• Laryngophthisis.

• Catarrhal laryngitis.
• Larynx feel dry and sore.
• Dry, short cough, by swallowing and deep breathing, hoarseness.
• Probably from hepatic troubles.

• Burning pain in larynx, increased by daytime deglutition.
• Short, dry, cough in rapid paroxysms, mostly in daytime, less at night in warm bed.
• Predicting ulcerations, after extensive ulceration has taken place as acrid, sero-purulent discharge comes from the ulcer.

• Acute laryngitis, vocal cords bright red.
• Feeling of fullness and soreness in dry larynx.
• Deglutition painful and difficult, swollen tonsils.
• Aversion to all drinks.
• Pain in larynx when talking

When we have abnormal voice change this is known as Hoarseness, if some one is having a problem of hoarseness as the voice will sound rough, raspy, breathy, strained.
The major cause of hoarseness may be vocal cord nodules, irritation of or injury to vocal cord environmental irritants such as tobacco or smoking, viral laryngitis, laryngeal papillomas, and gastroesophageal reflux-related laryngitis. Hoarseness can also be caused by bacterial infection, overuse of the voice such as from yelling or singing, inhalation of irritants smoking, etc.



Remedies/symptoms


ACONITE:

• After exposure to dry, cold, wind, anger, fright, indignation or emotion.
• Hoarse, croaking voice, like croup.
• Larynx sensitive to touch.

• Sudden complete aphonia.
• Hoarseness evening and night especially towards morning.
• Voice husking with a nasal twang.
• Rawness in larynx awaking.

• Loss of voice on becoming heated by exertion, the voice returns by resting.
• Much hawking and expectoration of phlegm and depressed vitality of the laryngeal mucus membrane.
• From heat of sun or from getting warm, after rest.

• Aphonia or dysphonia with sore throat in persons who speak in public and sing.
• Voice changeable, varying in tone from one moment to another
• Catarrh of the pharynx, trachea and bronchial tubes.

• Hoarseness with rough voice
• Talking is very difficult, has to speak in a piping voice.
• Larynx dry and sensitive to touch, sore throat.

Are you having the problem that when you go to sleep you are unable to sleep, are you having a problem for falling or staying a sleep, then it is a sigh of insomnia, or you also have a problem that you asleep easily but get up soon. The patient of insomnia will never feel refreshed when will wake up.


There are two types of insomnia. First is primary insomnia. It is a sleeping problem, and generally persists for least 1 month or longer. The second is called is secondary insomnia which occurs due to the side-effect of some other problem like pain, anxiety, and depression, medicines that delay or disrupt sleep as a side-effect, regular use of caffeine, tobacco, alcohol, and other substances that affect sleep, a poor sleep environment; or a change in sleep routine some extra illnesses, such as some heart and lung diseases.

Remedies / Symptoms

AMBRA

• Uneasy sleep, with vexatious, anxious dreams.
• In old people and children.
• In those debilitated with over work.
• In nervous persons, who are anemic, sleepless etc.
• In thin, spare person of very nervous temperament

• Great inclination to sleep.
• Wants to sleep, but cant.
• Starts as in a fright from sleep, or on just falling asleep in evening, the feet are jerked upward and the head forward.
• Waked constantly by fearful dreams and twitchings.
• Walking at night full of fear.
• Anxious and frightful dreams.

• Sleeplessness, from night watching, from business thoughts, from anxiety and restlessness.
• Sleep unrefreshing.

Coughs

Coughing is an important way to keep your throat and airways clear. However, excessive coughing may mean you have an underlying disease or disorder, .It’s forceful release of air from the lungs that can be heard.

Homeopathic treatment of coughs is frequently and often rapidly effective, but it needs very careful symptom observation.

If coughing is accompanied by high fever, chest pain, bloody sputum; or is especially severe.


Remedies /Symptoms

HEPAR SULPHUR:

• The cough is more moist, with rattling of mucus in the chest.
• The throat may be sensitive to touch, there being a splinter-like pain.
• The larynx may be painful, worse from cough and from swallowing food.
• An effective remedy for croupy coughs, worse after 4 a.m.
• This patient is also very irritable and extremely chilly.

• It corresponds to a dry cough with a sore chest and stitching pains when coughing and moving.
• Patients will usually hold the chest when coughing to splint it.
• Cough may also be worse after eating, drinking, on entering a warm room, and after a deep breath.
• Headaches from cough or motion may occur.
• The pains are better from pressure, the patient is often irritable, wanting to be alone, and thirsty.

• A dry, tight cough, often there is a pronounced sense of oppression of the chest.
• The cough is worse from laughing, talking, eating, lying on the left side; it is also prone to be worse from exposure to open air and to changes in air temperature, as when going from cool outside air to a warm room or vice versa.
• Sputum may taste salty or sweet, or appear rusty. There is usually a strong thirst for cold drinks.
• The patient is often chilly, anxious, and prefers company.

• It is often useful for coughs that linger.
• The cough is liable to be worse all night long., the patient wants air.
• There may be local sensations of heat, such as burning sensations in the chest, head, or face.
• The patient is often hungry and thirsty; he may put his feet out of the covers at night. Look for the telltale unusual redness of the lips.

• Head colds descend to the chest producing coughing which is typically dry and teasing.
• Exposure to dry, cold weather aggravates.
• The cough is often worse after eating and ameliorated by warm drinks.
• Almost always the patient is very chilly; chills result from motion and uncovering.
• The cough may cause headache.
• Expect the person to be extremely irritable, unappreciative of assistance, and averse to answering any questions if quite ill.

What is Gangrene?

It is a term that refers to the death of living tissue while it is still part of the body. It is usually due to insufficient oxygen supply. Tissue death caused by poor blood flow. It is usually black with color, often with a foul odor.

When the living tissue turns gangrenous, it happens due to a secondary infection, the most common cause of gangrene is an impairment of the blood supply to the affected part of the body.

• Gas gangrene
• Senile gangrene
• Dry gangrene
• Wet gangrene
• Cold gangrene
• Humid gangrene
• Fournier gangrene
• Emphysematous gangrene

ARSENICCUM

Hard, red, blue painful swellings by external warmth,

Hot, shining, burning red sports and blusih blisters.

Fetid diarrhoea, after mid-night, with restlessness and prostration

Intense thirst, drinking little and often

BROMINUM

Hospital gangrene

Death of edges of the wounds

Cancerous ulcer in face

Stony- hard swelling of glands, especially on lower jaw and throat,

Decayed teeth and gums, foul breath

CARBO VEG

Dry gangrene

Cachectic persons, where vital powers have become weakened

Great foulness of all the secretions

Great prostration; sepsis; indifferences, fainting after sleep, while yet in bed, morning.

CINCHONA:

Humid gangrene, parts turn balk.

After repeated hemorrhages, coldness of the extremities

Bedsores in people who are much debilitated from excessive discharges

LACHESIS

Impending gangrene

Gangrenous blisters, bluish or balk- looking, burning and itching

Tingling in the parts with heat and redness

Ichorous offensive discharge

Traumatic gangrene

Great tenderness of throat to pressure

Dry mouth, dry skin, constant fever and thirst

SECALE COR

Gangrene especially of old people.

The whole skin looks dingy and shriveled

Dry gangrene of extremities, the parts are dry, cold, hard and insensible, of uniform black color.

Numbness insensibility and coldness of limbs, from cold applications

What is Tonsillitis?

It is an infection of the tonsils glands, which we have in the back of our mouth. It causes either by a virus or a bacterium usually the bacterium known as streptococcus. Tonsils are part of the infection-fighting immune system and can become infected themselves. When tonsils become infected, they become red, swollen and very painful. If they become infected repeatedly, a surgery to remove the tonsils, a tonsillectomy, may be necessary.

What causes Tonsillitis?

It causes by a virus or bacteria. The tonsils filter secretions that enter in the body and can become overwhelmed with bacteria or viruses, when it become infected it cause problems. It can only determine with the doctor whether the tonsillitis is bacterial or viral and how to treat it.

Remedies / Symptoms

APIS MELL

• Red and highly inflamed tonsil.
• Dryness in mouth and throat.
• Burning, stinging pain in throat when swallowing.
• Deep ulcer on tonsils and palate.
• Tenacious mucous in throat.
• Sensitive to touch, from hot and hot drinks, from cold and cold drinks.

BELLADONNA

• Tonsillitis right side, parts bright red, swallowing liquids.
• Tonsils swollen, inflamed and of a dark red color, ulcers soon forming.
• The throat feels as if a plug were in it.
• Constant inclination to swallow or hawk up something.
• Burning throbbing and shooting pains in throat when swallowing.

HEPAR SULPH

• Tonsillitis recurring regularly every 2 or 3 years.
• Difficulty deglutition.
• Severe pain, right tonsil particularly red and swollen.
• Sensation of lumps in throat.
• Sticking pain as from a fish bone in throat.
• Pain from cold air, cold food and cold applications, by any kind of warm applications or food.

MERCURIUS

• Tonsils swollen, inflamed and dark red or become ulcerated.
• Offensive odour from mouth.
• Violent pricking pains when swallowing, extending to ears or glands of throat.
• Profuse discharge of saliva.
• Much perspiration, which does not relieve at night.

Stomatitis

Stomatitis or Aphtha or ulcer in mouth, is an inflammation of the mucous lining of any of the structures in the mouth, it involves the gums, cheeks, lips, tongue, and the roof of the mouth. Stomatitis a inflammation of the mouth, it cause due to many conditions in the mouth itself , such as poorly fitted dentures, poor oral hygiene, from mouth burns from hot food or drinks, allergic reaction, infections , etc.
It is a painful condition associated with redness, swelling, and occasional bleeding from the affected area; the mouth may also have a bad breath problem. It can affect to any age group from a baby to elders.


Remedies / Symptoms

ARSENIC ALB

• Ulceration in mouth, edges of tongue ulcerated.
• Aphthae with violent burning pain, they become livid or bluish.
• Swollen and readily - bleeding gums, restlessness and great exhaustion.

• Stomatitis maternal; sore, ulcerated mouth.
• Chronic mercurial sore mouth; germs loose, flabby, dark – purplish and intolerable foetor.
• Fauces dark-red, studded with dark, putrid ulcers

• Mouth hot, tongue almost improvable salaiva bloody.
• Gums loose receding, ulcerated and bleeding.
• Oozing of blood, edges of gums yellow, indented, teeth loose and bad smell of ulcers.

• Rawness of fauces and ulcer in throat.
• Stomatitis after mercury, or chlorate of potash.
• Ulcers sins mouth of nursing women or weakly children.
• Peppery taste, tongue as if burnt or raw, with dark red appearances and raised papillae

My previous post was about Menstruation. Today I am giving my views about Vomiting and Nausea.


Vomiting and Nausea

Vomiting and nausea are a common complain that happens with many conditions and diseases. It can happen due to many causes like due to morning sickness, motion sickness, dehydration, pregnancy or due to any major sickness or cancer therapy also causes vomiting.
Vomiting is a very violent act in which the stomach contents are forcefully expelled through mouth. The stomach turn itself inside out - forcing itself into the lower portion of the esophagus during a vomiting.

Nausea can be defined as a unpleasant feeling in stomach or throat that may cause vomiting, nausea is the sensation that the stomach wants to empty itself.

There are several causes for nausea and vomiting,It can cause due to acute gastric or other illnesses in the stomach. Food poisoning may also cause vomiting and usually it happens due to bacterial toxin. Another cause of vomiting is use of alcohol or smoking. It may also cause due to Peptic ulcer disease which causes mild irritation of the stomach lining to the formation of a defect in the protective lining of the stomach called an ulcer.

Remedies/ Symptoms

NUX VOM:

• Vomiting from hot spiced food or seasoned food, irregular diets, over eating, mental over exertion, effects of night watching, smoking, alcohol etc.
• Bitter or sour tasted vomiting , profuse or scanty white glairy or tenacious mucous comes out, constant ineffectual urging for vomiting especially after eating, and in the morning but without too much of vomiting, vomiting gives a patient temporary relief so the patient wants to vomit by throwing finger inside the throat.
• Worst in the morning and after eating and better by immediately after vomiting for the time being.
• Nausea and vomiting every morning with depression of spirits.
  

• Vomiting may be from taking alcohol etc.
• Profuse vomiting may be associated with profuse diarrhoea, if once vomiting starts not easily stops.
• Every vomiting followed by excessive nausea and great prostration.
• Vomiting substances are bitter, foamy, white or yellowish green mucous, and offensive by drinking and from least motion.
• Due to frequent profuse vomiting vital force can sinks quickly and complete prostration with collapse may occur.
  

• Vomiting and nausea from pregnancy, irritation of mucous membrane of stomach, placing hand in warm water etc.
• As soon as cold water becomes warn in stomach, vomiting starts. Regurgitation of ingesta in mouthful.
• Something vomiting of bright red blood.
• During pregnancy, slight of water causing vomiting, in the evening, midnight, lie on left side, and from lie on right side.
• A weak empty all gone sensation in head, chest, stomach, or may be in entire abdomen.
  

• Vomiting of blood, bright-red blood, with tendency to form a gelatinous mass.
• Vomiting of the food with sour fluid, the food returning, undigested, sooner or later, after taking it.

• Vomiting of sour, fluid curdy masses with yellow, creamy coating of tongue.

• Vomiting in morning with chillness.

My previous post was about Diarrhoea which is also a major cause of child malnutrition. Today I ma giving my views about Menstruation

Menstruation

Menstruation is being known with many names like period, monthly cycle. It is a vaginal bleeding occurs approximately every 28 days in adolescent girls and pre-menopausal women. In this time female sex hormones prepare the uterus to support a pregnancy. If pregnancy takes place, menstruation usually does not return until after childbirth. Menstrual blood and tissues leave the body through the vagina and it usually lasts from three to seven days. Menstrual disorders occur when certain factors interrupt a woman’s menstrual cycle.

Menstrual disorders include missed periods (amenorrhea), as well as periods that are unusually heavy or long (menorrhagia), unusually light (hypomenorrhea), unusually frequent (polymenorrhea), unusually infrequent (oligomenorrhea) and unusually painful (dysmenorrhea).


Remedies/ Symptoms

ACONIT

• Menses profuse long lasting esp. in plethoric women who lead a sedentary life, or too late, diminished or protracted.
• Menses profuse with nose bleed.
• Menses suppressed by fright vexation.
• Dysmenorrhea from thickening of the peritoneum over ovaries, labor-like pressing in womb has to bend double relieved is no position.

• Delayed first menstruation.
• Menses suppressed from getting the feet wet.
• Too late, scanty, slimy, painful, irregular, intermittent flow, with evening chillness.
• Dysmenorrhoea with great restlessness and tossing in every possible direction.
• Flows more during day and while walking about, very little at night.
• Before menses weeping sadness , migraine, thick white leucorrhoea when lying down during menses fainting, nausea and vomiting after menses milky thick whit mucus or burning acrid leucorrhoea with swelling of labia and soreness of pudendum.
• Irregular menses in consequence of constipation. The patient is thirstlessness , mild gentle, weep easily.

• Irregular menses of nearly every form for example early, late, scanty, profuse, amenorrhea or menorrhagia.
• Following in the morning great weakness in the morning.Regular but scanty , lasting only one day dark.
• Before menses sadness acrid leucorrhoea, with violent colic shuddering.
  

In my previous post I described my views about Mumps, why its causes, remedies/ symptoms. In this post I will describe Diarrhoea causes of it, types, remedies/ symptoms.

Diarrhoea:

Diarrhoea causes dehydration. Children are more likely than adults to die from diarrhoea because they become dehydrated more quickly. Diarrhoea is also a major cause of child malnutrition. Diarrhea commonly results from gastroenteritis caused by viral infections. In sanitary living conditions where there is simple food and use of clean water, an otherwise healthy patient usually recovers from viral infections in a few days, but if you have diarrhoea for long periods of time, it is very troubling and you may feel very weak and tired.

Types of Diarrhoea

• Secretory Diarrhoea
• Osmotic Diarrhoea
• Motility-related Diarrhoea
• Inflammatory Diarrhoea

• Stools white, like chopped spinach slimy, bloody with tenesmus.
• Before or after diarrhoea, nausea and perspiration.
• Sudden attack after exposure to violent cold after being chilled
• Vertigo or fainting on rising up.

• Has to hurry to stool immediately after eating and drinking.
• Want to confidence in sphincter ani urging to stool continuously
• Profuse watery diarrhoea accompanied by wind, containing lumps pf jelly- like mucous, looking like frog-spawn.
• Before stool, a feeling a feeling of weight and fullness in pelvis, during stools, very early in the morning
• Excruciating cutting, griping colicky pain in right lower portion of abdomen.

• Stool profuse watery, with meal like sediment, green foetid, gushing out chalk like undigested.
• Prolapse of rectum before or with stool
• Long standing early in the morning continuous though forenoon flowed by natural stool in evening.
• Painless diarrhoea or colic before and during stool.
• Before stool, loud gurgling in bowels as of water.
• Headache alternatives with diarrhoea.
• During teething, after eating, while being bathed or washed of dirty water soaking napkin through with gagging
• Stool larger than expected from food taken.

In my previous section I described my views about Appendicitis . This article mentions what is Mumps causes, remedies and symptoms.



What is Mumps?

Mumps is a short-term viral infection, relatively mild of the salivary gland that usually occurs during childhood. It is characterized by a painful swelling of both cheek areas, although the person could have swelling on one side or no perceivable swelling at all.
It is also known Parotid Glands; therefore, mumps is sometimes referred to as an inflammation of the parotid glands.


CAUSES

The virus that causes mumps lives in a person's saliva. It is spread by coughing, sneezing, or other direct contact between people. . It spreads easily in densely populated areas, such as schools. Most children developed the disease between the ages of four and seven. Mumps epidemics reappeared in two- to five-year cycles.



Remedies /symptoms


ACONITE

• Mumps may be from sudden checked of perspiration; exposure to dry cold air dry north or west wind etc.
• Sudden and violent swelling over the parotid region.
• Fever with restlessness and anxiety.
• Intense thirst for cold water in the evening and night.

• I inflammation of rights parotid with bright redness and violent shooting pains.
• Glowing redness of face.
• Sensitive to cold.
• Sudden disappearance of swelling with throbbing headache and delirium.
• Sleepiness but cannot sleep from slightest touch, motion, cold air, at night when, uncovering; during rest, by warm application.

• Mumps, it act very quickly and also relieves the pain.
• It has also a reputation for the metastases in which mumps excels weather to testes or mammae, when the swelling suddenly subside as the result of a chill and worst troubles supervene.
• Pilocarpus also acts as a prophylactic.

• Lingering fever, or metastases.
• If in mumps the patient get a cold.
• Vertigo on rising from siting posture , with chilliness.
• Thickly – coated tongue, with bad taste in morning.

In my previous section I described my views about asthma .This article mentions what is appendicitis, causes, remedies and symptoms.

What is Appendicitis?
Appendicitis results from inflammation of the appendix. It is like a small worm as a pouch attached to the right side of the large intestine. It can happen at any age but most cases are between 8 and 25 years of age. It is rarely seen in children aged less than two years. It is most commonly seen in boys than in girls, and more common in teenagers than in younger children.

Cause of Appendicitis:
The specific reason for the inflammation is still not known in most of the cases but it is sometimes caused by small pieces of hardened stool that get stuck in the appendix.

Remedies/ symptoms

BELLADONNA:

• Sudden and violent pain in the right ileo-caecal region .
• Troubling or cutting or burring sensation of the affected region .
• Cannot bear the least touch, not even the pressure of the cover and above all, the least jar
• Is constrained to lie motionless on back.
  

COLCHICUM:

• Ileo-caecal region I extremely sensitive to touch and pressure.
• Distension of abdominal with griping, tearing, cutting, stitching pains.
• Motion excites vomiting and pain.
• Cold feeling in abdominal .
• Aversion to food loathing even the sight or still more the smell of it.
  

What Is Asthma?

• Coughing
• Wheezing
• Shortness of breath
• Chest tightness

Causes of Asthma

Environmental Factors:

In wealthy, hygienic places, most babies are not exposed to bacterial infections that "kick start" the immune system in early life and may be important in directing the immune system away from allergic responses. They also grow up in warm, well-furnished, carpeted homes that don't allow much airflow. This encourages the rapid breeding of large numbers of house dust mites in bedding, carpets and furnishings. Many children, instead of playing outside in fresh air, spend most of their time indoors. This further increases dust mite sensitization. Exposure to tobacco smoke whether during the mother's pregnancy or in early childhood, predisposes children to developing asthma. It also makes their symptoms more severe. Children can also become sensitized to animals, pollens moulds and dust in the environment .

Dietary Changes:

changes in diet in such as a high proportion of processed foods, a higher salt intake, a lower antioxidant intake and a lack of fresh oily fish, lower intake of omega-3 fatty acids may contribute to the development of asthma.

Genetic Factors:

Asthma tends to run in families, and many people with asthma also have other allergic conditions such as rhinitis which is known as inflammation of the nose lining. "Allergy" is a hypersensitivity to some proteins foreign to the body; a small dose of the "Allergen" will produce a violent reaction in the person concerned.

Occupational Exposure:

In adults, asthma can develop in response to irritants in the workplace- chemicals, dusts, gases, moulds and pollens. These can be found in industries such as baking, spray painting of cars, woodworking, chemical production, and farming etc. .

Lack of Exercise:

When some one spends more time inside in front of the television or computes means that children get far less exercise. Reduced exercise may mean less stretching of the airways, and a greater tendency for the muscle in the airway walls to contract abnormally when exposed to minor irritants.



Prevention of Asthma

The best way to prevent an allergy is to recognize that you have one. Often people confuse an allergy with a cold or flu. Remember colds are short-lived and passed from person to person, whereas allergies are immune system reactions to normally harmless substances.
If you are dust-sensitive, especially if you have allergies and/or asthma, you can reduce some of your misery by creating a "dust-free" bedroom. Dust may contain molds, fibers, and dander from dogs, cats, and other animals, as well as tiny dust mites. These mites, which live in bedding, upholstered furniture, and carpets, thrive in the summer and die in the winter. They will, however, continue to thrive in the winter if the house is warm and humid. The particles seen floating in a shaft of sunlight include dead mites and their waste products, The waste products actually provoke the allergic reaction.

Food Allergies

Our consumption of food nearly triples during the holiday season. With the scrumptious variety of foods available during the holidays, a food allergy can easily present itself.

Symptoms of a food allergy can be as simple as skin problems (itchiness, rashes or hives) or intestinal troubles (abdominal pain, diarrhea or vomiting), or as dangerous as swelling of the respiratory passages, shortness of breath, fainting or anaphylactic shock.

The more common food allergens are:

• Egg
• Milk
• Peanuts
• Soy
• Shellfish
• Wheat

These foods are often hidden as ingredients in casseroles or desserts. You should be aware of what you are eating, but don't limit your diet to only a few foods since a well balanced diet is best.

Preventive Strategies

• If you have had severe reactions to a food, talk to your doctor about carrying an epinephrine injector
• If you experience symptoms, avoid any further contact with that food item, rinse your mouth and meet a doctor.
• Read food labels carefully.
• If you are dining out, ask about the ingredients used in preparing the dish before tasting the food.
• Beware of foods that cause you symptoms.
  

Cockroaches

Cockroaches are one of the most common and allergenic of indoor pests.Recent studies have found a strong association between the presence of cockroaches and increases in the severity of asthma symptoms in individuals who are sensitive to cockroach allergens.
These pests are common even in the cleanest of crowded urban areas and older dwellings. They are found in all types of neighborhoods.The proteins found in cockroach saliva are particularly allergenic but the body and droppings of cockroaches also contain allergenic proteins.

Preventive Strategies

• Avoid the outdoors between 5-10 am. Save outside activities for late afternoon or after a heavy rain, when pollen levels are lower.
• Be aware that pollen can also be transported indoors on people and pets.
• Dry your clothes in an automatic dryer rather than hanging them outside. Otherwise pollen can collect on clothing and be carried indoors.
• Keep windows in your home and car closed to lower exposure to pollen. To keep cool, use air conditioners and avoid using window and attic fans.
• If you buy trees for your yard, look for species that do not aggravate allergies such as catalpa, crape myrtle, dogwood, fig, fir, palm, pear, plum, redbud and redwood trees

House Dust

House dust is a component of who you are. House dust is not just dirt but a mixture of otentially allergenic materials, such as:

• Dust mites
• Plant & insect parts
• Fibers
• Hair, animal fur & feathers
• Dried saliva & urine from pets
• Food particles
• Mold spores
• Pollens
• Flakes of human & animal skin

The more time you spend indoors, particularly in the fall and winter, the greater your exposure to house dust allergens.

Preventive Strategies

• Wear protective gloves and a dust mask while cleaning to reduce exposure to dust and cleaning irritants.
• Dust rooms thoroughly with a damp cloth at least once a week.
• Use electric and hot water radiant heaters to provide a cleaner source of heat than "blown air" systems.
• Reduce the number of stuffed animals, wicker baskets, dried flowers and other dust collectors around the house.
• Replace carpets with washable scatter rugs or bare floors (wood, tile or linoleum).

Replace heavy drapes and blinds with washable curtains or shades.


Grass

As with tree pollen, grass pollen is regional as well as seasonal. In addition, grass pollen levels can be affected by temperature, time of day and rain.Of the 1,200 species of grass that grow in North America, only a small percentage of these cause allergies. The most common grasses that can cause allergies are:

• Bermuda grass
• Johnson grass
• Kentucky bluegrass
• Orchard grass
• Sweet vernal grass
• Timothy grass

Animal Allergens

Many people think animal allergies are caused by the fur or feathers of their pet. In fact, allergies are actually aggravated by:

• Proteins in saliva (which stick to fur when animals lick themselves).
• Proteins secreted by oil glands and shed as dander.
• Aerosolized urine from rodents and guinea pigs.
  

Keep in mind that you can sneeze with and without your pet being present. Although an animal may be out of sight, their allergens are not. This is because pet allergens are carried on very small particles. As a result pet allergens can remain circulating in the air and remain on carpets and furniture for weeks and months after a pet is gone.

Preventive Strategies

• If pet removal is not possible, keep them out of bedrooms and confined to areas without carpets or upholstered furniture.
• After playing with your pet, wash your hands and clean your clothes to remove pet allergens.
• Remove pets from your home if possible.
• Wear a dust mask and gloves when near rodents.
• Avoid contact with soiled litter cages.
  

Remedies /Symptoms

ARSENIC ALB.

• Complain are due to alcoholism ptomaine poisoning, dissecting wound, effect from decayed food'
• Asthma worst in mid night.
• Burning in chest unable to lie down.
• Expectoration is scanty forthish.
• Wheezing respiration.
• Aliments” in wet weather, after mid night from cold drink and food and from heat taking warm drink.

IPECAC

Alopecia (Hair Fall)

One of the commonest forms of hair loss in women and men is a condition called TELOGEN effluvium, in which there is a diffuse shedding of hairs around the scalp and elsewhere on the body. This is a fairly common symptom of lupus. The hair loss is usually patchy. This is usually a reaction to intense stress on the body's physical or hormonal systems, or as a reaction to medication.
The condition, which can occur at any age, generally begins fairly suddenly and gets better on its own within about six months, although for a few people it can become a chronic problem. About 90 percent of hair on the scalp grows continually. The other 10 percent of scalp hair is in a resting phase that lasts two to three months. At the end of the resting stage, this hair is shed. Shedding 50 to 100 hairs a day is normal.

Every hair follicle has life cycle of between two and six years, which ends with the hair falling and a new one replacing it. 90% of the hair is at the growing stage ANAGEN; at this stage the hair grows about 0.3 mm everyday and it last three years. The next stage is resting KATAGEN; at this stage the hair does not grow and stay static for three weeks. The last stage takes place when the hair falls TELOGEN; it can take up to three months to the hair to fall. Normally, at this stage new hair is growing.The average person loses between 50 to 100 hairs daily. The hair grows about one CM a month. Blond people have more hairs, about 140,000, in compare to darker hair people who have 90,000. Old people tend to lose more hairs then growing them back. About 90 percent of hair on the scalp grows continually. The other 10 percent of scalp hair is in a resting phase that lasts two to three months. At the end of the resting stage, this hair is shed.
Hair loss is usually diagnostic when large areas of the scalp are left with only thin hair. Usually people notice hair loss when they comb, or at the shower. The hair loss results from the pressure on the hairs during these activities, and not necessarily indicates that you have hair loss problem. One way to test if we are losing our hair is to pull your hair if you end up with more than 4-5 hairs in your hand you might have a problem. Another test is counting the hairs on your pillow in the morning. More than 8 hairs are indication to serious hair loss.


What causes hair loss?

Hair loss is believed to be primarily caused by a combination of the following:

• Change in hormones
• Aging
• Illness
• Family history of baldness
• Burns
• Trauma

However, Hair loss is not caused by the following:

• Poor circulation to the scalp
• Vitamin deficiencies
• Dandruff
• Excessive hat, helmet -wearing
• A gene passed on from an individual's maternal grandfather

Remedies/ Symptoms



PHOSPHORUS

• Round patches on scalp completely deprived of hair.
• Falling of hair in large bunches on the forehead and on the side above the ears.
• The root of the hair seems to be dry; denuded scalp looks clear white and smooth.
• Dandruff copious, fall out in clouds.
  

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Arthritis: what is it?

What is Migraine?

In now days every one gets headache , but the migraine is a worst than a regular headache. It troubles one or both side of the head. Most migraine last for 15 - 30 minuets or for 3-6 hours but some can last for a day or 2.Its a type of Headache which may occur with symptoms as vomiting, nausea, or sensetive to light in many people.

Why Migraine Causes?

Lots of people get migraine; about 15 out of 100 .Migraine affects girls 2 - 3 times more often then boys.
Migraine occurs by abnormal brain activity by stress or environmental factor or certain food or something else, but the real cause of migraine still remains unclear.
People with migraine react with a Varity of factors called as triggers & these triggers vary from person to person.

Some Common Triggers;

• Physical or emotional stress.
• Alcohol, Smoking or exposure to smoke.
• Allergic Reactions,physical or emotional stress.
• Bright lights, loud noises.
• Certain odors or perfumes.
• Changes in hormone levels (which can occur during a woman's menstrual cycle or with the use of birth control pills)
• Changes in sleep patterns, Exercise.
• Missed meals.
• Any processed, fermented, pickled, or marinated foods baked goods.
• Dairy products.
• Meats containing nitrates (bacon, hot dogs, salami, cured meats).

True migraine headaches are not a result of brain tumor or other serious medical problem, only an experienced health care provider (Doctor) ,determines whether your symptoms are due to a migraine or another condition.

Remedies / Symptoms

ARGENTUM NIT ;
· Morning headache when awaking.
· Hemi crania; feeling of expansion , as if head were enormously enlarged.

IGNATIA ;
· Pressing frontal headache over glabellas, must bend the head forward, following by inclination to vomiting
· Due to mental labor or by any work that is irk-some or more severe than usual.
· After eating (marinated or fermented food).

LAC CAN;
· Migraine which seems to commence at nape of neck, darting and shoot into the fore head, now here, now there
· By noise and talking.
· Confused felling in head with icy coldness of body.

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What is Headache ?

In the term of medical science a headache is a common pain in head, the upper back, or in the neck. One of the Most Common Symptoms experienced by humans. Common headache usually harmless, but occasionally it is a pointer to a serious disease such as brain tumor or stroke. There is no single cause of headaches, number of causes have been identified.
There are some common cause of headache like-
stress,fagitue, poor posture, eye strain, tobacco, alcohal use. In women, hormonal changes occurring befor and after a menstrual period.
Homeopathy is safe and free of side effects and for these reasons can easily be used by every one so here are some remedies and symptoms.
Remedies/ Symptoms
Aconite:
· Congestive headache ,vision obscured, pressing and contracting pains In the upper
part of head.
· Sunstroke from sleeping in the sun rays.
· By lying quietly in the dark room, by nosebleed or by copious urination.
Anacardium:
· Headache occurs from a misstep or from loud noise and strong odors
· Headache by strong pressure and lying down and falling asleep, also by eating.
· Nervous headache from mental overwork and fatigue tearing pain in forehead and
upper part of head.

Belladonna:
· Rush of blood to head.
· Jerking headache walking going upstairs busting as if brain would be pressed out.
· Caused by explore to cold air or draft of cold are.
· From hair cut or from heat of the sun from washing the head.

Natrum Mur:
· One f the best remedies for chronic headache.
· After washing head with cold water when face was sweating. Irritable thirsty dry lips and
mouth.
· Bursting or splitting or heavy crushing headache.
· Dullness confusion, dizziness, loss of consciousness.