OTHER EMERGENCIES ENCOUNTERED

BITES, STINGS - If the person has been bitten by insect or animal and the wound is red, hot , swollen and the person tells you that the injury feels better with a cold application of something, give Apis Mel. If he tells you that there is shooting nerve pain with the bite, Hypericum may be used. Either as an external wash with diluted tincture or taken orally (Hypericum 30.) If the area of the bite is blue, puffy, and cold, and the patient tells you it feels better with cold application, treat with Ledum Pal. or Ledum Tincture diluted in water.

BLACK EYE(S) - With severe bruising, swelling, begin with Arnica 30, and then give a dose of Ledum Pal. 30 in pill form.

BLOOD BLISTERS - Give Arnica internally for blood blisters. May use Arnica Lotion or cream externally if there is no open wound near the site.

BLUE COMPLEXION, Skin bluish, patient deprived of oxygen - Carbo veg., Veratrum alb may also be called for.

BOILS - If you encounter numerous sore boils, Arnica may be given. If the boils are burning to the person,Arsenicum; if they are hot and throbbing, Belladonna 30

BONES, INJURY TO - Bones feel bruised to person, with sore aching pains. Feel better for warmth and rubbing. Ruta Grav.

BROKEN BONES - best soon after the injury, and before setting, Arnica. IF patient tells you he feels worse for the slightest movement, with stitching pains, may use Bryonia.

BURNS - If there are any burns on the body, Arnica 30, taken two tablets under the tongue, was your best first defense to assist the body with the shock involved. You may also want to treat the burns externally by removing clothing from them and applying clean, non sticking cloths over them,which have been soaked in Calendula diluted tincture or Hypericum diluted tincture. For first degree burns, with intense burning and itching, use Urtica Urens (may use internally and, with care, externally) If the person is very badly burned on much of the body, and skin is blistered, and hot, and patient will not listen to you, and is restless, and perhaps violent, use Canthartis. also Ars. can be used. See remedies descriptions for further information.

COLIC - If patient is better bending foreward, Belladonna may be used. If better bending double, Mag Phos may be administered. If he is better lying still,with knees up, then Bryonia may be used. With Fever and cramps, Nux Vomicamay be administered; Bloated below naval Carbo Veg may be used. Also, if it is in your kit, Colocyntihis may be used.

COUGH - From exposure to dry, cold wind, Aconite 30 is usually called for. Dry cough with chest pain and headache,Bryonia may be used.

CRAMPS - All types: Magnesium Phos 30, especially if person is better in warmth, worse in cold.

DIAHARREA - From food poisoning (only ) give Arsenicum Alb. Other remedies may be given ...but outside scope of this emergency setting.

EXHAUSTION - from physical over exertion.. Arnica 30

EYE INJURIES ( be very careful.) - For fear, give Aconite 30. For shock, give Arnica 30. For black eye, give Ledum 30. If you have Silicea in your kit, this is indicated for chards of glass, or sharp objects which have injured the eys.

FOOD POISONING especially after bad meat Ars Alb 30

HEADACHE - 
Neuralgic headache, shooting headache, relieved by warmth and rubbing, Mag Phos 30. 
From chill, Aconite 30, 
From shock/fear Aconite
With sudden onset, Aconite 
A after over exertion, Ars Alb. 
From too much sun, with throbbing: Belladonna. 
After over indulgence from food Nux Vom.

INJURIES - TYPES for most, for shock and to assist healing processes, Arnica 30.

Caution: DO NOT ADMINISTER ARNICA EXTERNALLY TO ANY WOUND ONLY USE ARNICA INTERNALLY ...OTHERWISE HARM MAY ENSUE.

to head: Arnica 30 taken as tablets 
to spine: Hypericum 30 
to bones: Ruta grav. 
to palms of hands and soles of feet: Ledum
to Nose: Arnica 30 
to deep tissues in the body, (from blow to abdomen,groin,breast,etc) Bellis Perrenis 30

SCALDS OR BURNS (See burns) - better for cold Cantharis. Should also remove clothing from the burned part as soon after the burn episode as possible. When the clothing is still easy to remove, to prevent material sticking to the burn and needing to be removed later. May wash with dilute tincture of Calendula or Hypericum and cover with cloth loosely.

SEPSIS : IF area is already septic, hot, and throbbing, Belladonna 
To prevent sepsis, Ledum and Hypericum internally and externally. Also Echinacea, internally and tincture helps prevent sepsis.

SHOCK :with fear: Aconitum.. following all accidents Arnica 30.

SORE THROAT. 
red, dry, burning. Aconite 
burning, stinging pains great swelling Apis Mel 
dry, red, hot, with painful desire to swallow Belladonna 
with swollen glands Belladonna 
dry throat and mouth, with thirst Bryonia

SPRAINS - As soon as possible after the injury,administer Arnica 30.(to reduce swelling and promote healing. May also give Arnica in 6x potency half hourly for as much as a few hours. Sprains (continued after the patient has been treated by a doctor) may give Rhus Tox 6x (after arnica has run its course and improvement is experienced) for three doses until symptoms better. If injury is near a bone and the bone covering is affected, may give then Ruta Graveolens 6x for 3 doses. If sprained area is cold and numb but patient responds better to cold applications than warm ones,may use instead Ledum Palustris 6x for 3 doses. (Arnica lotion or cream or dilute tincture of arnica)(or tablets crushed and put into water) can be also applied externally for pain and alleviation of bruising (if any). (important:*** do not use arnica externally in the case of any wound where the skin is broken.this can be harmful).***

SUNSTROKE with fever and headache. Belladonna. If symptoms are worse for moving. Bryonia.

TOOTHACHE - better with warmth and rubbing, Magnesium Phos

WHIPLASH - If there is shooting nerve pain, then Hypericum is the remedy of choice to alleviate this type of pain.