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Altitude sickness -Coca, arsenicum album or Cactus grandiflorus may be suitable alternatives.
Anxiety Gelsemium – with weakness
Bruising Arnica – worse for damp cold
Ledum– better for cold
Burns Cantharis
Chilblains Calc carb– worse for cold Pulsatilla– worse for warmth
Colic Colocynthis
Constipation Lycopodium
Cough Ipecac – productive cough
Bryonia – dry cough
Cuts and grazes Calendula and Hypericum tincture
Diarrhoea Arsenicum album – from food poisoning Nux vomica – from overeating, also infant diarrhoea .
Veratrum alb – profuse diarrhoea with exhaustion.
Exhaustion Arnica– from physical effort Lachesis – from heat
Fear and apprehension Argentum nitricum
Flying – problems with Pulsatilla – acute ear pain on descent
Food poisoning Arsenicum album
Frostbite Secale
Headache Belladonna – throbbing, worse from light and noise
Nat mur- throbbing, from eye strain, stress or travel
Heat/sun stroke Glonoine
Indigestion and overindulgence Nux vomica
Influenza Anas barb (200C – 1 dose every 4 hours)
Jet lag Arnica- physical tiredness with aching limbs
Gelsemium- physical tiredness with heaviness of limbs
Menstrual cramping Colocynthis- better for bending the knees up to the chest
Muscle cramping Mag phos – better for warmth Cuprum metallicum – calves and soles
Muscle sprains and strains Arnica or Ruta
Shellfish poisoning Urtica urens
Shock Aconite
Stings and bites Ledum – mosquitoes, animal bites
Rhus tox – plant stings (nettles, etc.)
Travel sickness Cocculus – with dizziness Tabacum – better for cool air
Vomiting- cause unknown Ipecac
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