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Namah Vol. 25, Issue 4, 15th January 2018

Ferrum Phos or thrush in the mouth.
This salt is a constituent of the red blood
corpuscles, which act as the carrier of oxygen This salt will relieve rheumatic swellings and
to the different organs of the body. Whenever detoxify the lymph and glandular systems of
there is infection or inflammation in any the body. It is very useful in earaches with
part of the body (heat, redness and pain), congestion in the Eustachian tubes (so that
the temperature rises to fight the bacteria or hearing is affected).
virus and unless it rises beyond 102 degrees,
it should not be suppressed. This salt is most To be taken when the skin is dry with white
useful at this stage. It is the ‘rescue remedy’ scales and the eczema is dry. This salt is the
in all acute illnesses. biochemic ‘first-aid’ for burns and blisters.
It stops the wound from bleeding and heals
Thus, Ferrum Phos is used during the first it faster.
stage of fevers and at the onset of acute
respiratory illnesses (like coughs or colds), Here the digestion is very sluggish. Often
before any swellings or discharges have there is indigestion or diarrhoea from consuming
developed. The person will be listless and rich or fatty food.
there is redness of parts, but with no other
clear symptoms. Kali Phos
This is the mineral constituent of the grey
Lack of this salt causes the muscle fibres matter of nerve fibres, like the brain. It is used
to relax. Hence, there is dilation with the as a nerve tonic for people in the convalescent
accumulation of blood, and sometimes stage of any acute illness (especially after flu)
with haemorrhage. It is the first remedy where there is nervous exhaustion. Give it
for earaches and for nosebleeds after an freely to people who are under the pressure
injury. of mental work or studying (exams) or to
executives who are burning out from stress,
Kali Mur or to any person who shows the need for
This cell salt unites with albumen (protein) to warmth and rest.
form fibrin, which is found in all tissues of the
body except bone. When Kali Mur is deficient, This salt relieves the nervousness that arises
the fibrin becomes non-functional and causes from emotional stress. Hence, it is ideally
a thick, whitish discharge from the mucus suited to people who ‘fly off the handle for
membranes. The tongue is typically coated no good reason’; where there is hysteria,
white. depression or tantrums.

Kali Mur is most useful in treating the second This salt is also useful in septic conditions
stage of inflammations and congestions. It where there is a decay of the nerve fibres.
helps in all catarrhal conditions such as The fever is high (as in intestinal fever); the
coughs, stuffy head colds, chest colds or breath and body odour are foul (as in tooth
stuffed sinuses, etc. where there is swelling decay); the discharges are also foul smelling
or white discharge. There may be white ulcers and bloody (as in gangrene); and the tongue

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