Category: Schuessler Combination Salt

Periodontitis, or pyorrhea, is an advanced stage of periodontal disease in which the bone supporting the teeth begins to erode as a result of the infection. Periodontitis causes halitosis, with bleeding and often painful gums. Poor nutrition, improper brushing, sugar consumption, chronic illness, glandular disorders, blood disease, smoking, drugs, and excessive alcohol consumption make an individual more susceptible to develop pyorrhea.

BC-18 combines three tissue salts to address symptoms such as gum boils, unnatural looseness of teeth, with or without pain, toothache, gums sensitive to cold, abscess at the root of teeth, spongy bleeding gums, pus in gums, and halitosis.

Calcarea fluorica 3X
This tissue salt is found in the surface of the bones and in the enamel of the teeth and, therefore, any deficiency of this biochemic salt in the body can result in dental problems.

• Enamel of teeth is rough and deficient causing rapid decay.
• Looseness of teeth in their sockets.
• Teeth are sensitive to the touch.

Calcarea sulphurica 3X
Calcarea sulphuricum has a direct relation to suppurations of the body. It cures purulent discharges from the mucous membranes and purulent exudations in serous sacs. It is very effective in all ailments in which the process of discharge continues too long and the suppuration is affecting the epithelial tissues.

• Toothache with swollen and sore gums.
• Gums bleed on brushing teeth.
• Ulceration of roots of teeth.
• Indicated when purulent matter discharges.

Silicea 6X
Silicea is the remedy for all ailments associated with pus formation. Wherever pus is created in an inflamed part of connective tissue or skin, Silicea may be used. This tissue salt ripens the abscess, as its main action is to promote suppuration.

• Toothache with deep-seated pain.
• Toothache with ulceration.

Complementary products to be considered:
R1, R35, R60

Haemorrhoids, or piles, are swollen veins around the anus and in the rectum that may protrude from the anus. They are very much like varicose veins; they enlarge and lose their elasticity, resulting in saclike protrusions into the anal canal. They can be caused, and aggravated, by sitting or standing for prolonged periods, lifting heavy objects, straining at bowel movements, as well as by pregnancy, obesity, lack of exercise, liver damage, food allergies, and insufficient consumption of dietary fibre.

Calcarea fluorica 3X
This tissue salt specifically tones relaxed conditions of the veins and muscular fibre. It is an essential constituent of the elastic fibres of the vessels of the connective tissue of the body. When the elastic fibres of the blood vessels suffer a disturbance of the molecules of Calcarea fluorica, such pathological enlargements of blood vessels take place, which make their appearance in such conditions as haemorrhoids, and varicose and enlarged veins.

• Internal and blind piles sometimes accompanied by pain in the back.
• Accompanied by constipation.
• Bleeding haemorrhoids with bright red blood.

Calcarea phosphorica 3X
This remedy is indicated for chronic cases of haemorrhoids in anaemic or weak patients.

Ferrum phosphoricum 3X

• For symptoms of inflammation and bleeding.
• Blood is bright red, with a tendency to coagulate.
• Constipation associated with prolapse, haemorrhoids and aversion to meat diet.
• Disposition to a prolapsed rectum.

Kali muriaticum 3X

• Bleeding haemorrhoids with dark, thick, fibrinous, and clotted blood.

Complementary products to be considered:
R13, R7, R30, R37, R42

BC-16 has brought together five tissue salts that address many of the symptoms experienced under the condition of nervous exhaustion, such as lassitude, depression, nervousness, irritability, hysteric behaviour, loss of or impaired memory, confusion, sleeplessness, and psychosomatic illnesses.

Calcarea phosphorica 3X
This tissue salt is needed to increase the nutritional tone of cells and tissues, and to improve the quality of the blood. It promotes assimilation of vital nutrients and contributes to the supply of nervous energy. In old age, Calcarea phosphorica is helpful when the regenerative function decreases in the nervous tissue.

• Languor, weariness, especially ascending.
• Indisposition to work.
• Great debility after weakening, acute diseases.

Ferrum phosphoricum 3X

• Malaise, weariness, great prostration.
• Restless at night.

Kali phosphoricum 3X

• Feeling as if nerves are “on edge”.
• Nervousness without any reasonable cause; patient sheds tears and makes “mountains out of molehills”.
• Hysteria, sudden attacks of emotion, feeling of a ball rising in the throat, nervous, restless, fidgety feeling.
• Trembling sensation.
• General debility with nervousness and irritability.
• Sleeplessness after worry or excitement from nervous causes.

Magnesia phosphorica 3X
Magnesium phosphoricum is indicated for the motor nerves and therefore aids to steady them. Provides nutrition to the nerve tissues.

• Insomnia from nervousness and emotions.
• Sleeplessness after exhaustion or lack of brain nutrition.
• Languid, tired, exhausted, unable to sit up.

Natrum muriaticum 3X

• Depression with tendency to dwell on disagreeable and depressing subjects.
• Weak memory.
• Weakness and tiredness.
• Hysterical debility, worse in the morning.
• Sleeplessness with great nervous irritability, associated with coldness of legs.

Complementary products to be considered:
R1, R14, R22, R47, R184, V-C15, V-C15F, V-R250.

Menstruation is a normal function within a woman’s body that consists of a periodic discharge of blood and mucous from the uterus. Menstruation occurs normally about every 28 days, varying slightly at longer or shorter intervals, along with a variation of the duration of the flow and the amount of blood lost. The menstrual problems that are addressed by the tissue salts in this combination include such conditions as menorrhagia, abnormally heavy or long menstrual periods; amenorrhea, absence of menses; and dysmenorrhea, painful menstruation.

Calcarea phosphorica 3X
This tissue salt is particularly effective for weakness and distress in the uterine region.
Calcarea phosphorica is indicated in anemic females and girls at puberty who have scanty flow.

• Menses is too early in young girls and too late in adults.
• Menstruation during lactation
• Insatiable sexual desire before menses; nymphomania worse before
• Great weakness and sinking sensation after menses
• Patient wants to sit constantly; hates to get up and move about
• Menses accompanied by rheumatic pains
• Amenorrhea
• Menstruation accompanied by acrid leukorrhoea; cold extremities; flushed face; labour-like pains; pains in back
• Menstruation is too frequent

Ferrum phosphoricum 3X

• Pain with flushed face and quick pulse, with vomiting of undigested food, sometimes with an acid taste
• Excessive congestion at monthly periods, with bright red blood
• Menses every three weeks with pressure in the abdomen and small of the back, and pain on top of head
• Bearing down sensation
• Constant dull ovarian pains
• Menses heavy with too profuse loss of blood

Kali phosphoricum 3X

• Menses premature and profuse in nervous patients
• Menses is irregular, scanty; blood is deep red or almost black with offensive odour
• Colic in nervous, sensitive patients
• Delayed flow or amenorrhea with depression, lassitude and nervous debility
• Blood is thin and not coagulating
• Flow is too scanty and irregular
• Patient has a yellow-coated tongue
• Menses accompanied by dull headache; very tired, backaches, and intense sexual desire after menstruation
• Menstruation accompanied by hysteria

Kali sulphuricum 3X

• Menses is too late and too scanty, with a feeling of weight and fullness in the abdomen; and headache
• Yellow tongue
• Metorrhagia, bearing down in pelvis

Magnesia phosphorica 3X

• Painful menstruation with colic
• Pain preceding flow; vaginismus
• External parts swollen
• Bearing down sensation
• Spasmodic pains
• Menses is too early; flow is dark, fibrinous, and stringy
• Menstrual troubles around menopause
• Flashes of heat with dizziness

Complementary products to be considered:
R1, R10, R20, R28, R75

Measles, or rubella, is a viral infection that attacks the respiratory tract, eyes, and skin. Although it is typically a childhood disease, adults are also susceptible. Measles are very contagious and is easily spread by coughing and sneezing. Illness usually sets in between seven and fourteen days after exposure to the virus. The first symptoms include fever, cough, sneezing, runny nose, and red eyes that may be sensitive to light. In four or five days Koplik’s spots (tiny red spots with white centers) appear, beginning on the face and neck, gradually running together and extending down the body.

Ferrum phosphoricum 3X
This is the first remedy indicated for any fever or inflammation. This tissue salt is specifically indicated for symptoms of inflammatory affection of the chest, eyes, nose, or ears.

Kali muriaticum 3X

• Hoarse cough.
• Glandular swellings.
• Furry tongue, with white or grey deposit.
• After-effects of measles.
• Diarrhoea; whitish or light colored, loose stools.
• Deafness from swelling in throat.

Kali sulphuricum 3X

• Rash; peeling of skin.
• Suppressed rash; rash suddenly recedes with harsh and dry stool.
• Returning rash.

Complementary products to be considered:
R1, R62, BIO 88, R193

Leucorrhoea is a thick, whitish vaginal discharge. It is often a symptom of vaginal infection, such as that caused by the one-celled microorganism Trichomonas vaginalis, chlamydia, or monilla (yeast, or Candida albicans). This condition can also be caused by excessive douching, a vitamin B deficiency, the use of antibiotics or oral contraceptives, and intestinal worms.

Calcarea phosphorica 3X
This tissue salt has been used as a uterine tonic for the female organs and therefore is ideal for this condition. It is also prominent in young girls with menses that are too early and adults in which it is too late, especially in rheumatic patients.

• Albuminous mucous; leucorrhoea looks like egg white.
• Discharge is worse after menses, after stool, and after urination.
• Parts pulsate.
• Patient is cold easily.
• Acid leucorrhoea.

Calcarea sulphurica 3X

• Leucorrhoea accompanied by thick, yellow, bloody discharge.

Kali phosphoricum 3X

• Scalding, blistering and acrid discharge.
• Leucorrhoea is yellowish, orange.
• Leucorrhoea of nervous origin.

Kali sulphuricum 3X

• Yellow-greenish in color.
• Consistency of discharge is watery and slimy.

Natrum muriaticum 3X

• Watery, irritating, excoriating, scalding discharge.
• Leucorrhoea between or after periods, with dull heavy headaches and itching of the vulva.
• Greenish in color.
• Acrid pain during leucorrhoea, with yellowness to the face.
• Onset after walking, and in the morning.
• Leucorrhoea with headache.
• Colicky symptoms.
• Bearing down pressure.
• Slimy and corroding leucorrhoea.

Complementary products to be considered:
R1, R20, BIO 82

Common causes of headaches include: stress; tension; anxiety; allergies; constipation; coffee consumption; eyestrain; hunger; sinus pressure; muscle tension; hormonal imbalances; temporomandibular joint (TMJ) syndrome; trauma to the head; nutritional deficiencies; the use of alcohol, drugs or tobacco; fever; and exposure to irritants such as pollution, perfume, or after-shave lotion. The brain itself is insensitive to pain. Most probably, the pain of headaches is due to dilatation of the arteries or to pressure of some sort. The dilatation may be in response to nervous stimuli, or the pain may arise from the neck muscles, or scalp, or from other nearby organs.

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Ferrum phosphoricum 3X
This biochemic salt is useful as a first-aid for congested, throbbing headaches associated with the dilatation of arteries. It is the chief remedy in headaches of children.

• Inflammatory headaches from cold and from heat of the sun with a bruising, pressing, stitching, or throbbing pain in temples or over eyes.
• Congestive headache at menses.
• Soreness of the scalp.
• Pain is worse with motion or noise, and worse stooping or shaking head.
• Headache with vomiting of undigested food.
• Headache is better pressing a cold object to the spot.
• Tongue is furry.
• Headache is worse on the right side, from vertex to supraorbital region.
• Headache with red face and eyes.
• Rush of blood to the head.
• Headache following injury to the head.

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Kali phosphoricum 3X

• Nervous headaches.
• Patient is sensitive to noise.
• There is irritability and confusion.
• Pain is relieved by gentle motion.
• Headaches in students due to fatigue.
• Tongue is brownish yellow with foul breath.
• There is a pain and weight at the back of the eyes and head.
• Patient is better eating.
• There is a loss of strength, sleeplessness, despondency, weariness, yawning, stretching, prostration.
• Hysterical headaches.
• Headaches before bilious vomiting.
• Neuralgic headaches; humming in ears.
• Patient hears noises in their head before falling asleep.
• Menstrual headaches with hunger.
• Severe pain in the left mastoid.
• Headache is worse with motion and open air.

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Magnesia phosphorica 3X
This remedy has specific action on the muscular tissue itself and ameliorates any pains, which are darting, spasmodic in character, boring, lightning-like, and accompanied by a constrictive feeling. All of these descriptive words appropriately apply to many kinds of headache pain.

• Pain of headache is excruciating.
• Spasmodic symptoms.
• Neuralgic and rheumatic headaches.
• Shooting or stinging pains.
• Shifting pain.
• Headaches caused by occipital problems.
• Nervous headaches.
• Pain is worse in the occipital region and after mental labour.
• Headache is better with warm application.

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Natrum muriaticum 3X
This tissue salt is primarily directed to those headaches, which are mainly in the forehead and temples, of the congestive type.

• Patient experiences dull, heavy headaches, with drowsiness.
• Sleep is not refreshing.
• Headaches with constipation.
• Frontal sinus inflammation.
• Headaches with vomiting of clear phlegm or water; stringy mucous.
• Headaches which occur before, during, and after menses.
• Headaches start in the morning after waking, lasting until noon.
• Catarrhal headaches.
• Migraines.
• Hammering headaches, generally worse in the morning.

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Complementary products to be considered:
R6, R10, R16, R20, R77, R81, BIO 86, R187
V-C15, V-C15F

A fever is an elevation in body temperature. It is a common symptom of disease but should be treated as secondary to the disordered state with which it is associated. Normal body temperature ranges from 98°F to 99°F. One should not have undue concern unless body temperature rises above 102°F in adults or 103°F in children. In fact, running a temperature is often helpful to the body. This defence mechanism of the body acts to destroy harmful microbes.

Ferrum phosphoricum 3X
The body normally maintains an even temperature by controlling the balance between heat gained and lost. Heat is gained by oxidation of the tissues, the primary function of Ferrum phosphoricum, which takes place during the process of nutrition. In the feverish state, balance of heat gained and lost is no longer maintained, more heat is being lost than gained.

• Catarrhal fever with quickened pulse.
• Inflammatory fevers.
• Chill develops at 1 pm everyday.
• Dry heat of the palms, face, throat, and chest.

Kali muriaticum 3X

• Fever with constipation.
• Tongue has a thick, white, furry coating.
• Catarrhal fever.
• Great chilliness; patient is better when covered in bed.

Kali sulphuricum 3X
This tissue salt assists in controlling temperature balance and in promoting perspiration, therefore it is an ideal remedy for any febrile symptoms.

• Fevers from blood poisoning, gastric, enteric, and typhoid fevers, scarlet fever, stage of desquamation, cold sweat.

Natrum muriaticum 3X
Natrum muriaticum is a chilly remedy, therefore is a key consideration for any body part in feverish condition.

• Chilly and thirsty occurring concurrently.
• Scarlet fever with drowsiness, twitching or vomiting of watery fluids.
• Profuse perspiration; night sweats.
• Hay fever with watery discharge from eyes and nose.
• Intense itching, heat, headache, thirst, sour sweat, backache, great languor, emaciation, sallow complexion, fever-blisters on lips.

Natrum sulphuricum 3X

• Intermittent fever; sweat without thirst.
• Bilious vomiting.
• Internal coldness; hot feeling on top of the head.

Complementary products to be considered:
R1, R6, R95, R193

Tonsillitis is an acute or chronic inflammation of the tonsils, typically caused by bacteria, usually Streptococcus, but may also be caused by viral infection. The onset is sudden with pain on swallowing, chilliness and fever. The tonsils become enlarged and exude a whitish, purulent substance and the glands of the throat may become tender and swollen.

Calcarea phosphorica 3X

• Chronic swelling and inflammation
• Pain on opening the mouth
• Deafness and difficulty swallowing
• Husky voice

Ferrum phosphoricum 3X
This tissue salt is a necessity in such febrile disturbances and inflammations at their onset, especially before exudation commences.

• Tonsils are red and inflamed
• Pain on swallowing

Kali muriaticum 3X
A deficiency of this tissue salt causes fibrin to become non-functional, and to be expectorated in the form of thick, white discharges. Along with Ferrum phosphoricum, Kali muriaticum is frequently needed in the treatment of inflammatory diseases, particularly those affecting respiration: coughs, colds, sore throats, tonsillitis, etc.

• Swelling of the throat
• Throat is spotted white or grey
• Indicated in chronic or acute tonsillitis

Complementary products to be considered:
R1, R87, R88

Ulcerative colitis is a chronic inflammation of the mucous lining of the intestine, especially of the colon. Severe diarrhoea, frequent bleeding and bloody stools, abdominal pain, tenesmus, and a development of ulcers characterize this condition.
Crohn’s disease is also a chronic inflammatory bowel disease, usually affecting the ileum and the colon. It is characterized by frequent attacks of diarrhoea, severe abdominal pain, nausea, fever, chills, weakness, anorexia, and weight loss.

Ferrum phosphoricum 3X
This salt is the primary remedy to be used in cases of inflammation and increased temperature. It is advantageous to use Ferrum phosphoricum in the early stage of most acute disorders, and it should be administered at frequent intervals until the inflammatory symptoms subside.

• Symptoms that begin with a violent fever.
• Pain is prevalent when inflammation is constant and is increased by pressure.

Kali muriaticum 3X
This tissue salt is frequently needed, along with Ferrum phosphoricum, in the treatment of inflammatory diseases.

• Intense abdominal pain, sensation as if being cut by knives.
• Tenesmus.
• Slimy, bloody stools.

Kali phosphoricum 3X

• Stool consists of blood.
• Swollen abdomen, and putrid, offensive stools.
• Tongue is dry.
• Prolapsed rectum.
• Tenesmus after stool.

Magnesia phosphorica 3X
This tissue salt has specific influence over muscle tissue and therefore corresponds to all kinds of pains, such as cramping, darting, spasmodic, boring, lightning-like, accompanied by a constrictive feeling. It is primarily an anti-spasmodic, and hence is curative in cramps and spasms indicative of dysentery.

• Cramping pains, worse bending double.
• Patient is better with warmth, friction, or pressure.
• Tenesmus.
• Constant desire to stool.
• Pains in rectum with every stool.

Complementary products to be considered:
R1, R4, R37, R52