Ingredients
| Ingredient | Potency |
|---|---|
| Ferrum phosphoricum | D12 |
| Lithium carbonicum | D12 |
| Natrium sulfuricum | D30 |
| Nux vomica | D30 |
| Rhododendron | D6 |
| Spiraea Ulmaria | D12 |
Excipients: Ethanol, Aqua pur
Indications
In rheumatism and gout of forearms and hands, with swelling of articulations. In acute cases, benumbedness and swelling of articulations, characteristics in arthritis with deformation.
Frequently such pains grow worse with change of weather (humidity). This remedy may also be used in other rheumatic aches (growing worse in damp weather) such as: sciatica, rheumatism in the knees, shoulders, pains in the sacral region, inflammation of articulations of the haunches, intercostal neuralgia, rheumatism of the occiput.
Mode of Action
The present remedy may also be used in feverish infections growing worse or caused by humidity.
- Ferrum phosphoricum: Against inflammations. Influences secondary anaemia frequently occurring in rheumatism and arthritis with deformation.
- Lithium carbonicum: Specific effect in rheumatism and gout, in arthritis with deformation and rheumatic-gouty illnesses.
- Natrium sulfuricum: Aggravation by humidity in rheumatism and asthma.
- Nux vomica: Worse on getting up, low spirits in the morning.
- Rhododendron: Chronic rheumatism, pains in limbs and mainly in bones of forearms and hands.
- Spiraea Ulmaria: Fluttering pains, localized in the articulations of the elbows.
Dosage
Will be adapted according to the acuteness of the pains. In general 2-3 times daily 10-15 drops in a little water before meals for a longer period of time (eventually to be alternated with other complementary remedies). 1 In acute cases take 10 drops every 1/2-1 hours. After improvement take 10-15 drops every 2-3 hours (also the other complementary remedies – eventually in the morning, at noon and at night).
Remarks
Complementary remedies:
R 1 in pains arising from the tonsils or articular inflammations following angina.
R 6 in feverish infections or influenza after drenching.
R 11 in case of general rheumatic constitution.
R 16 in migraine and neuralgia (coming from the sacral region radiating up to the nose).
R 24 with intercostal neuralgia.
R 50 in sacroiliac complaints of women, eventually with pains along the vertebral column.
It is advisable to use only R 46 in the beginning (especially when the pains are localized in the articulations of the hands), before making any combinations with two or three complementary remedies.