First Aid and Acute Ailments
In homeopathy, the only area of specifics – giving a remedy for a complaint or incidents, not for the whole person – is first aid. Most people respond in the same way in accidents and emergencies. In all other situations, the homeopath considers a case and prescribes on the individual’s unique reaction to the cause of a condition or disease.
Some Info On Injuries
Acute Ailments
This section is about homeopathic remedies useful for short-term illnesses that arise quickly from obvious outside causes – called acute illnesses. There are, however, two types of situation where there appears to be an acute illness, and only one where the illness is truly acute. These two situations need separating.
The most commonly understood acute is when you have ‘caught’ something: flu, a cold, a virus, a sore throat, a fever, a cough, food poisoning, a hangover, an allergic reaction, etc. In these cases there is a strong outside source of the problem.
However, there are many apparent acute illnesses which are not acutes at all, but outbreaks of an underlying condition. For example, some headaches, some allergic reactions, herpes, asthma attacks, epilepsy, diarrhoea without cause and recurring fever all have an inner cause. While the outbreak of these acute illnesses from an inner cause may be serious and need some form of immediate first aid (an asthma attack for example), the acute treatment and long-term cure needs professional homeopathic help.