Chapped Hands


Homeopathic remedies for the symptoms of Chapped Hands from A Dictionary of Domestic Medicine by John H.Clarke….


The best treatment for chapped hands is to rub them well every night with glycerine or glycerine jelly. More pleasant, but not always so effective, is “Lanoline Cold Cream.” Another very excellent preparation is Calendula cerate; rub in well before retiring at night. A very pleasant and effective skin application is Epp’s Emollient Skin Lotion.

Medicines.

Petrol. 3.–

Night and morning, if the chaps are very intractable.

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