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Cutaneous Burns
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Homeopathic treatment is constitutional but the remedies listed below are recommended for use in emergencies. Choose the remedy which most closely match your illness. It is not necessary to have every symptom listed in order to bring about a cure. Take remedies of the 6c potency three times a day until certain improvement, then stop taking the remedy. If symptoms continue despite the repetition of the remedy, then try an other remedy or consult a homeopath. Take remedies in a clean mouth, 30 minutes before or one hour after food or drink, try not to touch and allow it to dissolve under the tongue. Remember not to use mint : toothpaste, chewing gum, chocolate, cough drops, etc.
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| Remedy | Burns degree | Lesion |
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| BELLADONNA | 1st degree | Two particular types
of cutaneous lesions: fine, scarlet eruptions, like scarlatina, occuring
on dull, dry skin OR red, shiny, inflammatory erythemato-edematous eruptions radiating heat over a certain distance. Both: throbbing pains < by touch. Alternate redness-paleness of the skin. Indurations after inflammations. |
| APIS | 1st degree | Remedy for burning, stinging, erythemato-edematous
eruptions feeling as if thousands of red-hot needles were being stuck into
the skin. Skin pinkish-red, rather dull (or not shiny), with as an "orange peel" look at times. Pain is > by cold compresses. |
| URTICA URENS | 1st degree |
Minor burns without blistering |
| CANTHARIS | 2nd degree | Large blisters containing a clear liquid when they are just beginning to form, with underlying edema. |
| CALENDULA | 1st degree | For redness without blistering, it is the number one remedy |
| 2nd degree | Blisters without skin loss, once the blisters have broken leaving an open sore. | |
| ARSENICUM | 3rd degree | Necrosis of living tissue generally
caused by prolonged contact with a red-hot metallic object or an open flame. Burning pains, recuring at night > local heat. Excoriating, purulent, serous discharge which is sometimes foul smelling. |
| CAUSTICUM | 3rd degree | The full thickness of the skin has
been lost. Old burns that do not get well, and ill effects from burns. Pains of burns. |