Naturopathy :: Methods for cure in Naturopathy
The methods applied for cure in Naturopathy are the following: –
The methods applied for cure in Naturopathy are the following: –
Indicated in fat, fair persons of indolent disposition, subject to moist eruptions. ?The graphites obesity is more particularly seen in older people, that of Calcarea in children? (T. F. Allen). In eczema of the scalp, ear, face, scrotum and elsewhere; in nasal catarrh; glandular swellings; herpes of prepuce, etc.
Indicated chiefly in neurasthenia, hypochondriasis, neurotic conditions. Marked impairment of memory, disturbed mental condition, and special expressions of the neurotic state elsewhere, as in the digestion, with sensory disturbances, call for its use.
Indicated in affections of the mucous membrane in any part of the body, as: eyes, nose, throat, yellowish discharge; also in conditions tending toward malignancy; in stomatitis, aphthous sore mouth; gastro-duodenal catarrh; chronic constipation, in old people; in many diseases of women, with tenacious, yellow leucorrhoea, inflammation, hardening, ulceration, chiefly of the cervix, fungoid growths, prolapsus uteri; gonorrhoea. Hard, nodular tumors in the breast, with lancinating pain.
Indicated in the ailments of scrofulous children, physically and mentally backward, with enlarged tonsils and other expressions of scrofulous tendency. Useful in diseases of men of advanced years, timid, easily tired, giving evidence of commencing physical deterioration. The latter frequently suffer from hypertrophy or induration of the prostate or testicles.
Indicated in low fevers, septic states, and in all conditions characterized by utter prostration and blood deterioration. In diphtheria, purpura, low fevers, malignant scarlet fever. Has the reputation of great usefulness in all climacteric troubles, in the treatment of diseases arising from suppressed discharges. Chronic sore throat, with tenacious mucus sticking to the throat.
Indicated in indigestion, with bilious derangements; constipation; headache with vertigo and gastric disorders; diarrhoea, particularly during hot weather; bronchitis, pneumonia, coughs; fevers tending towards a typhoid state; rheumatic affections; inflammation of serous and synovial membranes. Suited to persons of dark complexion, vigorous constitution, lean, of firm fibre, of rather irritable disposition.
Indicated in deep-seated, chronic diseases, especially of persons who are weak muscularly, but have a keen, active brain; who are subject to digestive disturbances with much flatulency; catarrhal conditions; hepatic involvements, with tenderness and stitches in the liver, swallow complexion, yellowish sports on the abdomen; dropsy dependent upon disease of the liver; uric acid diathesis; tonsilitis; diphtheria; chronic pneumonia, especially of old people; indigestion, with flatulency and colic, of babies.
Indicated in the treatment of almost every disease resting upon a constitutional basis expressed in the leucophlegmatic temperament and the ailments to which it predisposes. Among these may be named: derangements of nutrition, glandular affections; catarrhal disorders; indigestion; diarrhoea; constipation; menstrual derangements; coughs and many serious diseases of the respiratory organs; gall-stone colic; affections of the nervous system, including the psychoses tumors, polypi, and a long list of other phases of morbid action, all characterized by symptoms peculiar to this remedy.
Indicated chiefly in anaemic and chlorotic states and in chronic manifestations of malarial poisoning. In muscular affections of the eyes. Anaemic headaches of young girls at school.