Colostrum


Colostrum signs and symptoms of the homeopathy medicine from the Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by J.H. Clarke. Find out for which conditions and symptoms Colostrum is used…


      The milk first secreted after childbirth. Solution.

Clinical

Diarrhoea.

Characteristics

The symptoms of *Colost. are purely clinical. Its use in diarrhoea was probably suggested by the purgative effect of *Colostrum on the infant. Bell gives the indications as follows: ***STOOLS: *Green; watery; yellow; watery; mucous, bilious, profuse, sour-smelling, excoriating. ***AGGRAVATED: *In nursing infants; during dentition. ***DURING STOOL: Colicky pains in hypogastrium. *Accompaniments: Great nervous irritability, or listlessness. Pale face. Tongue coated white or yellow. Vomiting of sour or bitter substances. Loss of appetite. *The whole body smells sour. Fever. Emaciation.

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