GOUT


Dewey gives the common homeopathy remedies for the treatment of Gout in an easy question-answer format. …


When is Colchicum indicated in gout?

Where the selling is red or pale, with extreme tenderness to touch and tendency to shift about from joint to joint; pains are worse in. the evening and from the slightest motion; metastasis of gout to heart, with cutting pains about heart and oppression.

Give indications for Ammonium phosphoricum in Gout.

Constitutional gout with nodes and concretions in. the joints chronic cases where these concretions of` Urate of Soda deform the joints.

What are the symptom calling for arnica in Gout?

Extreme soreness.

What of the use of Ledum?

Pains worse from the warmth of the bed; drawing pains in joints scanty effusion, which tends t harden into nodosities.

How does Bryonia compare?

Ledum produces a scanty effusion, which tends to harden into nodosities, while Bryonia tends to a copious effusion.

Give some other remedies having nodular swellings in the joints.

Calcarea carb., Benzoic acid, Lycopodium, Lithium carb and Antimonium crud.

Give symptoms of Guaiacum in Gout.

Concretions of the joins. ‘gouty inflammation of the knee with abscess. Contractions of muscles.

W.A. Dewey
Dewey, Willis A. (Willis Alonzo), 1858-1938.
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.