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RUTA Homeopathic & Complementary Medicine, New York, NY (2025)

05/06/2025

PAIN MANAGEMENT IN HOMEOPATHY

Dear friends of RUTA,

In today's newsletter, we will discuss the important subject of pain.
What is pain? Pain is a common health issue. Pain is an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that draws attention to problematic areas of the body. Pain is an important signal the body sends whenever it is in distress. Painful sensation helps to safeguard us from potential damage like touching a hot stove or a sharp object.
Pain can be acute, sporadic, and chronic. In terms of mechanisms of pain, it can be caused by tissue damage or inflammation (nociceptive pain), damage to nerves themselves (neuropathic pain), or may be unrelated to any obvious cause and arise as a result of the nervous system processing painful stimuli (nociplastic pain).
Trauma and inflammation are among the most common causes of pain, and this type of pain is always related to tissue damage and irritation of nerves. There are four signs of inflammation that are caused by trauma, insect bites, burns, sprains, stings, cuts, or blunt traumas: pain (Latin term - dolor), elevated temperature (calor), redness (rubor), and swelling (tumor). Most of these scenarios are examples of acute pain. Acute pain disappears when the body's healing processes succeed in repairing damages caused by initial trauma or acute inflammation.

Examples of intermittent, or sporadic pain are headaches, abdominal pain, low back pain, chest pain, cramps, and painful repetitive muscle jerkings. As a rule, sporadic painful episodes are caused by poorly regulated rhythmic processes in the organism. In comparison with acute pain, sporadic pain indicates bodily dis-regulation that existed for a relatively long time.

Chronic pain is characterized by prolonged duration beyond expected healing time, usually lasting for 3-6 months or longer. It can result from various causes, including chronic illnesses, cancer, musculoskeletal disorders, traumas, or surgery.

Pain is not always a bad thing since it signals that problematic areas of the body require attention and care. When pain becomes unbearable or debilitating, it may be mitigated by pain reducing medications (analgesics, or painkillers).
In conventional allopathic medicine, there are several ways to treat pain: medications, medical procedures, and surgery. Behavioral and physical therapy may be effective in treating pain as well.
Pain medications include: acetaminophen (Tylenol); NSAID, or non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (e.g. Advil, Motrin, Ibuprofen, Naproxen); opioids (codeine, hydrocodone, oxycodone); muscle relaxants (e.g. cyclobenzaprine, methocarbamol, metaxalone); and topical creams and gels for muscle and joint pain.
When pain medications are insufficiently effective, medical procedures and devices can be considered: TENS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) delivers weak electrical pulses through the skin to the nerves fibers for a short-term pain relief; peripheral nerve stimulation, in which electrodes are placed under the skin near peripheral nerves where a person senses pain; and spinal cord stimulation when electrodes are placed under the skin to send electrical pulses to the spinal cord.
Although analgesics and medical procedures are widely used for pain management, they may be insufficiently effective or have unintended, and sometimes significant, side effects.
For example, excessive use of Tylenol may cause liver damage or failure, NSAIDs can cause stomach ulcers, bleeding, fluid retention, elevated blood pressure, kidney and liver problems, headaches, dizziness, drowsiness, confusion, heart attack or stroke. Side effects of opioid pain medications include constipation, nausea, vomiting, drowsiness, clouded thinking, slowed breathing, and drug dependence.
As to medical procedures, they often provide only symptomatic and temporary pain relief. Peripheral nerve ablation actually means interruption and destruction of nerve tissue to reduce or eliminate pain. It is important to mention that nerve fibers not only facilitate nerve conduction but also provide nourishment to corresponding tissues in the nerve distribution. Disrupting this trophic function of nerves may lead to degenerative changes in the body.
While conventional medicine is able to provide good and effective choices for pain reduction, strong unintended side effects of such treatments can be detrimental to a person’s overall health and wellbeing. In many situations, painkillers and medical procedures are indispensable ways for pain management.
However, there are other, and often quite effective and harmless, ways to approach pain management: a good number of homeopathic and natural remedies can effectively and gently reduce pain.
Homeopathy could be utilized for many painful situations, for example:

- Arnica montana is indicated for muscle overexertion, traumas, bruising, sprains, or golfer’s elbow;
- Hypericum perforatum relieves shooting nerve pain;
- Gelsemium sempervirens can reduce congestive headaches at the base of the head, around the eye caused by stress;
- Colchicum relieves acute pain from gout;
- Kali bichromicum, cuprum metallicum can eliminate leg cramps, nerve pain, and restless legs syndrome;
- Glonoinum may relieve sudden headaches with fullness of head and sensation of heat;
- Aesculus hippocastanum and hamamelis will help with discomforts and pain caused by hemorrhoids;
- Belladonna, Chamomilla, and Coffea cruda are good for toothache and sensitive gums.

Homeopathy has many advantages for pain management that include its safety, absence of side effects, cost-effectiveness, and holistic, deeper action. Homeopathic remedies for pain can be used either as an alternative or complement to conventional medicine. In homeopathy, the aim is to treat the underlying cause of pain by strengthening the body's innate ability to heal, not just to reduce symptoms.
Consider homeopathy for pain management when seeking alternatives to opioids, for chronic pain syndromes, for acute trauma, skin and soft-tissue injuries, for post-surgical or dental pain.
If you have any health concerns related to pain, please reach out.

09/09/2024

Dear friends of RUTA. In this post we will discuss main functions and disorders of skin.

Skin is the organ of the human body that serves as a barrier between the inner bodily realm and outside environment. Skin’s functions are numerous and diverse: tactile, temperature, and pain sensation, elimination of toxins, and temperature regulation.
In this newsletter, we will discuss elimination and temperature regulation as two important features of human skin.

Skin is permeated by numerous blood vessels that serve as capacitors of blood. In a warm environment the skin blood vessels dilate and give off warmth, therefore, the body cools down. In a cold environment, the opposite process takes place: blood vessels constrict; therefore, the body retains warmth. Sweat glands also take an active part in regulating body temperature: evaporation of water in sweat cools down the body.
In some people with slow metabolism and tendencies to excessive fluid retention, thermoregulatory processes of the body may not work efficiently enough, and in hot weather conditions skin irritation or eruptions such as eczema and flare ups are likely to manifest. In such individuals, inflammatory skin conditions reflect a tendency to inner inflammation. On the contrary, individuals with rapid metabolism and tendencies to sclerosis manifested as dry, cracked skin with fissures or oozing wounds are likely to have skin hardening and excessive dryness. We may observe that many skin disorders originate in the inner processes of the body and become visible on the surface. Therefore, long-lasting skin disturbances often reflect metabolic imbalances in the body; effective treatment of these disorders must address underlying deeper causes. Although treatment of the symptoms may bring temporary relief, any superficial treatment of chronic skin disorders will only cover up and suppress their deeper causes.

Skin works also as a secretory organ: it releases excess water, salts, and waste in sweat. Other organs of elimination are liver, kidneys, large intestine, and lungs. If these organs are unable to effectively remove toxic substances from the body, then the skin takes up this role. As a result, waste products that are normally metabolized and eliminated by the liver, kidneys, and lungs will try to escape through the skin which becomes overwhelmed by toxic overload: skin becomes unhealthy, and various rashes, irritations, and eruptions become manifest. Toxins accumulate in organs’ tissues, and in the body's detoxification processes waste products are transported in the bloodstream and eventually removed. In situations when skin displays signs of chronic irritation (weeping, poorly healing and inflamed areas of the skin) we should always investigate whether other organs of elimination work properly or not.

Skin can reflect a deeper inflammatory process in the body. Any inflammatory process results in excessive metabolism and breaking down of substances in bodily tissues: irritated and inflamed skin is literally the outcome of inner inflammation. Any attempts at superficial treatment (steroid pills or creams, topical gels or ointments, antibacterial creams) will not affect actual causes. These causes must be looked for in the general state of health of an affected person: only then a particular skin condition may reveal its true origin, and a most suitable, individually tailored remedial management can be administered.

Apart from chronic skin conditions there are many superficial, external, or traumatic disturbances of skin: insect bites or stings, sun burns, cuts and bruises, abrasions, and contact dermatitis. These simple skin conditions can be successfully managed with topical preparations and homeopathic remedies. Below are several examples of homeopathic management for skin disturbances.

Sunburns (rashes) with pink, swollen skin and itching – Natrum muriaticum, Apis mellifica;
Skin itching aggravated in wet, cold weather – Urtica urens, Histaminum;
Red, hot, and painful skin from sunburns – Belladonna; Hypericum perforatum;
Minor skin cuts and bruises – Arnica montana, Hypericum perforatum;
Fissured, cracked skin, especially caused by exposure to gasoline – Petroleum;
Warts located around the nails, fissures on dry skin with oozing and crust – Graphite;
Juvenile acne – Calcarea sulphurica;
Acne with suppuration (pus formation) – Hepar sulphuris calcareum, Sulphur iodatum.

Here at RUTA, we offer assessment of various skin disorders and provide advice on homeopathic remedial management as part of our therapeutic consultation and evaluation. If you have concerns about your health, do not hesitate to reach out to us for help.

07/08/2024

Dear friends of RUTA,

We are going to discuss an important subject - nutrition.

1) The purpose of nutrition;

2) Substances and forces involved in digestion;

3) Therapeutic nutrition.

Why do we eat?

This seems to be a question with an obvious answer: the purpose of nutrition is to replenish energy and substances used in the process of living. Yet we may approach this question from another perspective: what happens in our bodies as we consume and assimilate foods? What forces are involved in the digestive process? What substances are produced in human organisms out of various foods?

Modern science presents digestion as a sequence of biochemical events occurring in the gastrointestinal tract: many complex coordinated processes take place in the gut during the digestive process. Foodstuff is taken in, ingested and assimilated, and many various enzymes, hormones, digestive acids and other substances are employed in the course of digestion. However, modern natural science regards nutrition, digestion, and elimination as purely chemical and automatic processes, and this science doesn't recognize the role and activity of subtle energetic bodies in a human being. The process of nutrition is complex and multifaceted: nutritive substances are taken in and profoundly transformed, many intricate events occur during digestion that point to the fact of innate intelligence of the body. This subtle energetic configuration of a human being is not yet well understood. Yet this understanding is urgently needed for a deeper perspective and insight into subtleties of life.

We are not going to discuss complexities of the digestive process in detail at this time: this subject is too complex and extensive for a newsletter. Instead, we will look into basic features of threefold organization of a human organism and outline significance of proteins, fats, minerals, and carbohydrates in metabolism.

First of all, let's consider the threefold human organization. Below is a schematic depiction of the threefold human organization presented as a constant dynamic interaction between the head-nervous systems, metabolic-digestive system, and rhythmic system of the chest. The brain and nerves need mineral substances and energy as the basis for their healthy function. From the point of view of its main role - thinking, the head organization displays affinity to mineral substances. For proper thinking, a clear and cool head is required. The metabolic-digestive system is diametrically juxtaposed to the head-nervous system since there we find very intense, fiery energies required for breaking down, transformation and assimilation of the nutritive substances in the course of digestion. Metabolic-limb system is also a center of action, movement, and will.

The rhythmic system of breathing and blood circulation that is located in the chest is a connecting link and mediator between the opposite centers of thinking and will. Here the heart and lungs weave and direct the flow of air and blood in a very delicate process of receiving and giving.

An analogy between a threefold plant organization and threefold human organization has been offered by several researchers. We do not have to take these statements on faith, yet we can examine and relate them to our own experience. Plants and human beings are juxtaposed from the point of view of their organization and major metabolic characteristics. Animals and humans breathe in the air rich in oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide. A plant absorbs carbon dioxide and emits oxygen. Plants are as dependent on humans as we humans depend on plants for our survival and well-being. In nature, all processes are reciprocal: receiving and giving occur simultaneously. There are no one-directional processes, everything is interconnected and mutually dependent. In this depiction, a human being is an upside-down plant: the root in a plant corresponds to the head organization in a human, the plant's stem and leaves - to the rhythmic system of the chest, and plant's flowers and fruits - to the metabolic pole. The root of a plant is embedded into the soil that is rich in minerals. The root is constituted in such a way that it absorbs and accumulates mineral substances. The head organization of a human being needs mineral substances. Therefore, root vegetables like carrots, beets, and radishes are good for proper function of the head organization.

The flower and fruit of a plant correspond to the reproductive and metabolic pole of a human body. Therefore, the human digestive organs receive their best nourishment from ripe fruits that are indispensable for healthy metabolism. Apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, plums, strawberries, watermelons, and other ripe fruits are excellent foods specifically for organs of digestion. The stems and leaves of a plant correspond to main organs of the chest - heart and lungs. Therefore, leafy vegetables, grains (wheat, rye, barley, brown rice), asparagus, broccoli, cabbage, celery, i.e., vegetables that display a strong stem/leaf process in their structure, are excellent foods for a healthy heart and lungs. Now, let's consider nutrients such as minerals, carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. We consume mineral substances such as table salt that we habitually add to our foods and other minerals that we receive with our drinking water and foods. We can think of minerals as essential nutrients that are virtually unaltered when they are taken up by the body. Mineral substances are required for maintaining proper homeostasis, cellular metabolism, and electrolyte balance. They are indispensable for proper working of the entire organism, especially for the nerve-sense system. Carbohydrates are polysaccharides produced by most green plants. Main role of carbohydrates is to provide energy via bodily metabolic processes leading to formation of sugars. As such, carbohydrates are not uniquely individual substances pertaining to each species of plants, they are universally present in nature.

Now, with regard to individual qualities, proteins are very different from minerals and carbohydrates because they may not be taken in by the body as unaltered or minimally digested substances. Our digestive system must break down food's proteins completely and make our own proteins. If this doesn't happen, proteins are subjected to decay in the GI tract, and they become poisonous. Animal-derived proteins (pork, beef, eggs, poultry) consumed in large quantities for a long time may lead to deposits in blood vessels, i.e., atherosclerosis. The body becomes overloaded with products of animal protein metabolism and becomes sluggish. On the contrary, the plant-derived protein is far more beneficial as a source of protein for a human body, for it stimulates the body's inner forces and makes it more vigorous and resilient.

Similarly, when it comes to digestion of fats and oils, we have to produce our own fat from our foods. Fats have to be completely broken down and rebuild anew, otherwise they will pass as an undigested mass right through our gastrointestinal tract.

Now, let's consider what we often see on the labels applied to the food packaging. Among other types of information, we see the caloric value of a product. Nowadays, it is expected that foods' value needs to be assessed in physical and chemical terms only. Yet we, modern people, forget that the real value of foods is measured by the amount of subtle forces, or etheric forces, present in it. Food has to be alive in order for us to receive its goodness and benefit from it. The vitality of our food depends on healthy, robust soil which gives its nourishing forces to plants that grow in it. Industrial agricultural methods exploit and abuse soil. Modern materialistic thinking disregards soil as a living substance; science sees soil as a lifeless mineral-chemical compound. As long as we fail to perceive the subtle aspects of living nature, we will be blind and deaf to the important dimension of life.

Nutrition, when it is understood and organized intelligently, can become a potent force in maintaining and improving health. Deeper and more thorough understanding of the processes and forces involved in digestive process and metabolism is required to gain benefits of therapeutic nutrition.

Here at RUTA, we offer advice on right nutrition as part of our therapeutic consultation and evaluation. If you have concerns about your health, do not hesitate to reach out to us for help and advice.

07/04/2024

Dear friends of RUTA,

In this post, we are going to address mood disorders such as anxiety, depression; we will also comment on lack of sleep, low energy, and chronic fatigue.
As rejuvenating forces of nature awaken after a long winter and vividly manifest during this season of spring, let us rejoice in the presence of natural abundance. The beauty of blooming flowers, budding trees, sprouting seeds, and joyful chirping of birds evoke uplifting feelings in our souls and revitalize our souls and bodies.
Yet not everyone is able to experience joy immediately and directly. Joyfulness is not automatic. Many people - children, adolescents and adults - are not able to rejoice spontaneously or share someone else’s happiness; for them, the world appears as a dark and somber place full of insurmountable obstacles and dangers. Sad people often feel lonely and misunderstood, they think that people and life are unfair to them and validate their reasoning by focusing attention on bed news, events, and experiences.
There are two basic ways to deal with anxiety and depression: conventional medical treatment such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), counseling, and prescription medications; and active and sustained work with attention leading to intentional transformation of energies supported by natural remedies and supplements.
Modern evidence-based science attributes mood disorders such as anxiety and depression to an imbalance of brain chemicals: serotonin, dopamine, and endorphins. While precise scientific facts are helpful, modern medical practice sets the stage for unequal relationships between patients and medical providers: the provider plays an active role, while the patient is given a rather passive, consumer-like part in this relationship.
If we assume that negative states of anxiety or depression are caused by imbalance of neurotransmitters only, then the goal of therapy would be restoring this imbalance and administering corresponding chemicals. The aim of CBT and counseling is to correct negative psychological states in a patient by way of reasoning: it is believed that negative behavioral patterns can be turned into positive ones as a result of careful cognitive behavioral analysis.
While the validity of evidence-based medical science cannot be completely dismissed, modern materialistic approach offers a rather limited, mechanical image of a human being. In accordance with the existing scientific paradigm, humans are no better than intricate biological machines that can be altered whenever they are broken or malfunctioning. In this limited physical view of a human being, there is no place for the inner reality of a human soul.
There is another, more promising and complex view of a human being that includes body, soul, and spirit. In this approach, good health - both physical and psychological - is a result of harmonious interconnectedness between these three domains in a human being: mind, emotions, and will.
Very frequently, depression is caused by lack of energy, and this lack of energy is a result of the incessant internal dialogue, persistent self-doubt, disorganized emotions and recurrent intrusive thought patterns that always hinge on self-importance. These unproductive states serve as perpetual “unplugged” energy drains; the result of energetic losses is always low mood and suboptimal state of health.
Anxiety is a chaotic condition of inner instability and disorganization, when a person cannot settle down into a stable, calm, and collected state of equilibrium. In persons with mood disorders, chronic fatigue and low energy are often companions of anxious or depressive states. Lack of sleep and unhealthy sleep patterns often result from disorganized rhythms of daily life in persons with mood disorders.
There is a good way to oppose various mood disorders by setting up a regular, sustained work with one’s attention in order to bring clarity, harmony, and order into unproductive chaotic states of anxiety and depression. This work takes time and effort, and the process requires active interest and participation on the part of a person. Homeopathic remedies and natural supplements may also play an important role in the healing process. So, there is hope for improvement.

May Faith, Hope, and Love always be with you!

01/27/2024

Dear friends of RUTA,

In this post, we would like to address attention deficit disorders in children and adolescents.
It is a well known fact that the global prevalence of attention deficits in children and adults is increasing. In the United States in 2023, more than 6 million children, or about 10% of children, have been diagnosed with ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). This makes ADHD one of the most common neurodevelopmental disorders in children, we are told.
Let's look closer at this problem. Children are expected to perform at school in accordance with rigid standards of a school curriculum. At present, many children are overwhelmed by the amount of information they must process, memorize, and manage. Moreover, children are systematically exposed to artificial stimuli that work as perceptual distractors of attention which create energetic disturbances in the subtle organs of a child. The flow and speed of natural impressions greatly differ from those of artificial impressions. Natural impressions support and nurture healthy development of a child; artificial impressions work as strong stimulants designed to exploit the forces of a child's attention.
Young children learn by imitation, they strive to become comfortable and capable in their bodies. Children need physical contact and bodily experience to learn the most important facts about this world. They want to feel connected, at home. That is why children have a strong need to stand, walk, speak, and play. Children learn through living experience and interaction.
These basic experiences become confused when interactions take place in the realm of abstraction. So, instead of running around and digging in the sand a child stays immobile for hours glued to the iPad actively absorbing rapidly moving random pictures on the screen. From the point of view of a child's development this indiscriminate exposure to artificial stimuli leads to a profound deprivation of living experience and interaction and passivity of the will.
Another aspect of the problem is the tendency of medical practice to concentrate on designing complex descriptive criteria instead of carefully observing a child. These criteria provide a helpful template, but the criteria seem to describe conditions and expectations that exist outside the child; inner being of a child is not taken into account as something substantial. Therefore, we end up viewing a child as a set of descriptive labels, and these labels do not represent his/her inner dynamics. In order to gain deeper understanding, we need to reassess our priorities and place the child in the focus of our attention. We need to develop innate interest in a child's being and not to be trapped into the multitude of diagnostic criteria only. For this, an enlivened process of observation is required.
In a child, problematic behavior may arise as compensation for an inner imbalance. For example, a child may display aggressive behavior as a result of being too sensitive to the outside world - this child becomes easily overwhelmed and wants to push away the pain of overstimulation or excess of interaction. Harsh criticism and scolding a sensitive child in the moment of overwhelm will not be helpful at all. Instead, a supportive and understanding attitude will give comfort and protective shielding to a child.
A child with vivid and lively imagination may not be able to concentrate on a specific task in the classroom, and such behavior may be described as "attention deficit disorder." This misunderstanding of a child's constitution and natural inclinations will only misdirect and hinder a therapeutic process: in such a child, forces of attention need to be strengthened by flowing into artistic activities that would engage intentional movement of the child's body and limbs.
In a hyperactive child, persistent need to move and strong repetitive movements may indicate attempts to engage the body and spend the surplus of physical energy. These children experience the world and themselves predominantly though active movement, and this is their constitutional feature. "Restless" movement may be an attempt of a child to feel more grounded, connected. Naturally, these children have great difficulty sitting down at the desk in a classroom or at home. Interestingly, many hyperactive children learn much better while they are engaged in movements, when homework material is being read to them in unison with their rhythmical movements.
There are many other possible causes for what has been coined as attention deficit disorders, and not always these behavioral peculiarities constitute problems that require medical attention or treatment with drugs. Many behavioral tendencies in children may be managed and corrected if educators, parents, and medical professionals begin to recognize children as unique individual beings with constitutional differences that seek to experience and engage with the world.

At RUTA, we offer simple yet effective ways of managing attention and behavioral issues in children and adolescents. One important part of the healing process is discovering constitutional tendencies through careful observation of a child and review of his or her biography. Another part of an assessment includes analysis of nutritional needs and daily rhythms in a child's life. Therapeutic measures will be directed at correction of existing imbalances by means of setting a healthy rhythm, nutritional advice, and recommending homeopathic remedies.

12/16/2023

Dear friends of RUTA,

As the cold season approaches, let's prepare for discomforts and ailments that frosty weather may bring. In this post, we will discuss simple yet effective ways for keeping ourselves healthy and resilient.

Colds
Symptoms: nasal congestion, frontal headache, sore throat, red or inflamed eyes, fever. If you feel the symptoms of a cold coming on, keep warm and put on additional layers of clothes and socks (keep your feet warm!).
Fluids: drink hot lemon tea with honey, linden flower or elderflower tea. Add powdered cayenne to these drinks to relieve a stuffy nose.
Nutrition: consume healthy nourishing foods, reduce proteins.
Remedies: use Ferrum Phosphoricum for a slight fever of about 38 - 38.5 degrees C accompanied by nasal congestion, a dry cough with tickling in the larynx and trachea or earache. Use Kali Sulphuricum for profuse mucous nasal discharge; Kali Muriaticum -- for thick, not very profuse and not very irritant nose discharge. For watery and copious nasal discharge use Allium Cepa or Kali Iodatum. A compress on the chest with thyme oil may be used for reducing chest congestion. A mustard foot bath before bedtime may be very helpful especially at the onset of a cold.

Bronchitis
Symptoms: cough that is perceived mostly in the chest, it may be either dry cough or with moderate amount of sputum, feeling unwell and fatigued. If the cough continues for more than a week and is accompanied by shortness of breath and fever, consult with your physician about suspected pneumonia.
Fluids: drink lots of fluids and herbal teas. Warm lemon-honey water and ginger tea are beneficial and soothing.
Nutrition: reduce or avoid dairy products and proteins. Use ginger, thinly sliced garlic in olive oil on bread and onions in food.
Remedies: use Aconitum Napellus with intense fever and sudden onset after a sudden chill; use Belladonna for fluctuating fever and dry, spasmodic cough; Ferrum Phosphoricum -- for dry spasmodic cough with burning sensation in the chest. For adults, use daily chest compress with ground mustard whenever mucus is thick and difficult to cough up. For children, a warm onion compress over the chest is beneficial.

Cough
Symptoms: chest congestion, hoarseness, and cough. Depending on the presence of phlegm, the cough may be "dry or wet." If the cough is accompanied by mucus, notice its consistency and color. If shortness of breath, rusty colored sputum, fatigue, pain, fever, or headache are present, consult with your primary care physician, for these may be manifestations of pneumonia.
Fluids: drink plenty of fluids, linden tea, warm honey-lemon water, ginger and chamomile tea.
General care: keep feet and chest warm, wear warm clothing and socks, use a hot water bottle to warm up the feet. When the feet feel cold, massage them with a warming oil.
Nutrition: reduce or avoid dairy products, reduce animal proteins in the diet. Eat soups, vegetables such as onions, radishes, cabbages, broccoli, and horseradishes.
Remedies: use Spongia tosta, Bryonia, Ipecacuanha, Drosera to relieve cough; Belladonna and Ferrum Phosporicum for fever and dry cough with chest discomfort.

Earache
Symptoms: pain in and around the ears, possible yellowish or greenish discharge from the ears, fever, general discomfort and pulling at the ears. In children, middle ear infections occur frequently and often accompany upper respiratory infection. Not all of earaches need to be treated with antibiotics.
General care: keep the head and ears warm, keep the feet warm, continue supportive care and treatment with remedies for up to seven days.
Remedies: use Ferrum Phosforicum in cases with low-grade fever, Chamomilla for earaches with pain and irritability, and Aconitum napellus after exposure to very cold weather.

If you have any questions or would like to schedule an appointment, please reach out to us.

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