Homeopathy II - First Aids - Hypericum

Question 1

Hypericum, Names

Answer 1

Hypericum perforatum, St John’s wort.

Question 2

Use:

Answer 2

Nerve damage.

Question 3

Mental picture:

Answer 3

• Nervous system complaints after injury or shock.
• Sadness and melancholy after injury.

Question 4

General picture:

Answer 4

• The ‘arnica of the nerves’.
• For injuries to nerve-rich areas especially where accompanied by shooting, darting pain.
• Have a desire for warm drinks.

Question 5

Indications (if they fit the symptom picture):

Answer 5

• Any nerve injury ―accident, surgery, infection.
• Bells palsy from exposure to cold air. Hypericum 200C every 4 hours for 1 day. Follow with gelsemium 200C, 1 dose daily for 3 days.
• Phantom limb pain (amputation), 15C taken 2 x daily until pain subsides / changes.
• Shooting pains along a nerve e.g., sciatica. Pains appear suddenly and disappear gradually.
• Neuralgia― < change of weather.

Question 6

Case example 1:

Answer 6

• Male 23 years old fell off a ladder and injured his back.
• He was in shock from the fall and had suffered bruising accompanied by a stabbing pain in his mid to lower back.
• The client was prescribed:
• Aconite 200C―1 dose (mental shock).
• Arnica 200C― one dose daily for 5 days (bruising / physical shock).
• Hypericum 30C― taken 2 x daily for 2–3 weeks or until shooting pain subsides (nerve pain).

Question 7

Case example 2:

Answer 7

• A 53-year-old man developed Guillain-Barre Syndrome, an autoimmune condition associated with ascending nerve paralysis.
• He was treated with corticosteroids in hospital, but was left with partial paralysis of the feet and severe neuralgia.

Prescribed:
* Hypericum200C once daily for 5 days. Paralysis improved.
* This was followed by gelsemium30C 2 x daily for 2 months. The neuralgia slowly began improving in the 2nd month and gradually lessened until completely resolved 4 months after starting homeopathic treatment.