Boil

Inflammation of the skin and tissues under the skin, forming hard, painful swelling and suppuration, ending in the expulsion of a “core,” which is really a piece of dead tissue. Some people have a constitutional tendency to boils; they often follow acute illnesses and are generally due to the presence of micro-organisms in the blood.

General Treatment.-Attention to the general health, avoidance of alcoholic drinks, abstemiousness in eating, open-air exercise. During the maturing period, if there is much pain, hot linseed poultices or hot Calendula compresses may be applied; afterwards, Calendula lotion and compresses.

Medicines.-(Every two hours.)

Belladonna 3.-

When just beginning to form.

Hepar 6.-

When suppuration is too slow and scanty.

Mercurius 6.-

If the suppuration is profuse and the swelling remains.

Arnica 3.-

To prevent the recurrence. (Three times a day for several weeks.)

Sulph. 6.-

A few doses after the boil is healed. A course of Sulphur should be given when they recur frequently.

John Henry Clarke

John Henry Clarke MD (1853 – November 24, 1931 was a prominent English classical homeopath. Dr. Clarke was a busy practitioner. As a physician he not only had his own clinic in Piccadilly, London, but he also was a consultant at the London Homeopathic Hospital and researched into new remedies — nosodes. For many years, he was the editor of The Homeopathic World. He wrote many books, his best known were Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica and Repertory of Materia Medica