Abscesses & Boils (including Carbuncles etc.)

Abscesses & Boils (including Carbuncles etc.)
1st Stage:(Inflammatory stage to suppurative stage)
Symptoms/Problems	Remedy	Frequency(Doses)
In acute abscesses;blood boils,when pus develop with lightening rapidity(mammary, hepatic or grandular abscesses)	Belladonna 30	2 hourly
Favours rapid formation of pus, useful for grandular abscesses with throbbing pain;worse from warmth of bed	Mercurius sol.30 and Belladonna 30	3 hourly(alternatively)
In the begining of suppuration;corroding,putrid,bloody pus formation with chill and sharp stitching pain;pus smells like old cheese.Though the patient is chilly but feels better in wet weather	Hepar sulph. 30	4 hourly
In the begining when the part is red with shining.Stitching pain;worst by slightest motion	Bryonia 30	4 hourly
Swelling very red with shining and burning;fever with dry hot skin;worse in worm room,evening and night	Aconite 6 or 30	2 hourly
When Hepar sulph fails and the pain is unbearable	Chamomilla 30 or 200	3 hourly
To cut short the duration of suppuration.It often does the work of a knife.Abscesses on the end of fingers and phallenges	Myristica seb.1X or 3X	2 hourly
Small painful/sore boils in crops(summer boils)	Arnica 30 or 200	4 hourly
To hasten suppuration	Hepar sulph 2X or 3X	2 hourly
To check suppuration	Hepar sulph.1M or 10M	10 mins(3)

2nd Stage:(When the suppuration has taken place)
Symptoms/Problems	Remedy	Frequency(Doses)
When the suppuration continues and boil does not heal.To bring the suppuration process to maturity;chilly patient;better in dry and warm weather	Silicea 6X or 6	3 hourly
To form healthy granulation after Silicea	Fluoric acid.30	4 hourly
When Silicea fails and the suppuration continues;better in open weather and worse in change of weather	Calcarea sulph.6X or 30	3 hourly
Copious,bloody,yellowish or greenish pus;worse after taking rich food,and warmth;better in open and cold air	Pulsatilla 30	4 hourly
Abscesses beneath skin; worse warm applications and warmth	Lycopodium 30 or 200	4 hourly(6)
Abscesses in patient of tubercular diathesis	Calcarea carb.200	4 hourly(6)
When pus is thick and yellow without inflammation	Calendula 30	3 hourly
Useful for suppurating glands.Pus may be copious,corroding,thin and watery	Rhus tox.6 or 30	4 hourly
Pus thin and sticky.Eruptions in bends of limbs,groins,neck and behind ears	Graphites 30 or 200	4 hourly
For recurring abscess conditions,fever etc,.To clean the system and to prevent a recurrence.	Pyrogenium 200 or 1M	weekly(3)
For unhelthy offensive pus with a low condition and hepatic fever. Extreme burning sensation and restlessness	Arsenic alb.30 or 200	4 hourly
Carbuncles/boils with intense burning and high fever	Anthracinum 200 or 1M	10 min(3)
In low conditions of abscess;boils of bluish colour when the pus is thin,dark and offensive in character.Burning pains;sensitive to touch.	Lachesis 30 or 200	10 min(3)
Painful and inflammed abscesses with tendency to gangrene; the neighbouring glands are swollen,hard and painful.Specific the abscesses under the armpit.	Tarentula c.200 or 1M	weekly(3)
For bloody and greenish yellow pus;intense pain.	Nitric acid.200 or 1M	10 min(3)
Boils or felons caused by needle pricks.	Ledum pal.200 or 1M	10 min(3)
To purify blood; when low fever persists due to infection.	Echinacea 1X or 30	4 hourly
Bad effects of burns.Pus may be bloody,greenish,greyish or yellowish;corroding,thin and watery.	Causticum 30 or 200	4 hourly
Ulcer which mature slowly.Burning pains;pus thin,watery and offensive may be bloody,brownish or yellowish.Tendency to gangrene.Better fanning	Carbo veg 30 or 200	3 hourly
Abscesses with excruciating pains;inflammation,chronic carbuncles,boils;abscesses in the joints especially in the left hip joint.Septic pus.	Stramonium 200 or 1M	10 min(3)
Carbuncle on lumber region with diabetes.Foul discharge of pus from several openings.Nausea and vomiting.	Carbolic acid 200	10 min(3)
For boils,herpes zoster,ascariasis and blood poisoning;stools constipated.	Gun powder 3X or 30	4 hourly
When the pus is thin,blackish and watery,putrid and offensive.	Kali phos 6X or 30	3 hourly
For syphilitic and tubercular patients.Boils in axilla; glands swollen	Kali iod 200 or 1M	weekly(3)
For syphilitic and tubercular patients.For abscesses about the bones	Carbo ani.30 or 200	4 hourly(6)
Recurrent boils in external ear with past history of measles.	Phosphorous 200 or 1M	3 hourly(6)
Boils in the external ears;worse in summer	Morbillinum 200	10 min(3)
Small,painful boils;pus greenish which mature slowly.	Picric acid 30,secale cor.30 or 200	4 hourly(6)
In chronic cases when the discharge of pus is profuse with emaciation and hepatic fever.(Intercurrent remedy)	Sulphur 200	One dose

Abscesses & Boils (including Carbuncles etc.)
Location
Symptoms/Problems	Remedy
Anus,of the	Alumina phosphorica
Anus,of the,painless	Calcarea sulphurica
Anus,near or about the	Calcarea phosphorica,Silicea,Mercurious sol.
Axilla,of the	Calcarea sulphurica,Calcarea silicate,Phosphoric acid,Kali silicatum
Axillary glands and patroids of the	Rhus tox
Back,specially back of neck and between shoulder	Tarentula hisp.
Bones,affecting the	Calc-hypo. & Augustura
Breast,mammary glands	Phosphorus,silicea
Breast,surrounded by lumps or nodules	Conium mac
Breast,of the,threatened abscess	Silicea
Ear,about and below	Capsicum
Ear,small boils and pustules in external auditory canal	Picric acid
Gums,and face about,better by warmth	Silicea
Gums,and about caries,mastoid abscess	Capsicum
Gums and teeth about	Fluoric acid,Lachesis
Gums,of the,frequently recurring	Causticum
Hip joints,of the	Carbo veg,Stramonium
Liver,of the	Lachesis
Lungs,in the	Carbo veg,Lachesis
Muscle,deep of the,neck,thigh,abdomen etc.	Calcarea carb.
Skin,below the,	Lycopodium
Spine,of the	Carbo veg,Stramonium
Vulva,about in women	Mercurius sol,Silicea
Vulva,about in women,worse walking,appears few days before period and subsides automatically after period	Mercurius sol

For External Use:

   # For dressing Calendula ext.Q and Echinacea ext.Q(lotion or oinment) is very useful.
   # To relieve unbearable pain Arnica mont.Q and Cassia soph.Q as a paint are useful.
   # To burst boils Pulsatilla.Q and Dioscorea.Q or Bryonia.Q as a paint are useful.
   # To suppress boils Calcarea 1X is very useful.