Influenzinum is a great homeopathic remedy used in the natural treatment of:

• colds
• flus
• influenza
• body aches
• fever
• sore throats
• laryngitis
• pharyngitis
• nasal congestion
• sinusitis
• sinus infections
• bronchitis
• ear pain during the flu
• headache during a cold or flu 

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Indications: Renal dysfunctions

Ilex aquifolium is a natural neurological remedy that can be used as an anti-epileptic. It is a diuretic and skin drainage remedy used in eczema with fissures and psoriasis. It is an intestinal antispasmodic that can be used for diarrhea, celiac disease, IBS, colitis and gastritis. It works well in cases of rectal fissures. 

Gemmotherapy remedies are very close to herbal, so there can be counter-indications. Please consult your health care practitioner before using any of the gemmotherapy remedies, or ask one of our skilled homeopaths for advice!

Iamara is a homeopathic remedy used in the natural treatment of:

• ticks
• grief
• bereavement
• depression
• anxiety

(St. Ignatius Bean) Produces a marked hyperesthesia of all the senses, and a tendency to clonic spasms. Mentally, THE EMOTIONAL ELEMENT IS UPPERMOST, AND CO-ORDINATION OF FUNCTION IS INTERFERED WITH. Hence, it is one of the chief remedies for hysteria. It is especially adapted to the nervous temperament-women of sensitive, easily excited nature, dark, mild disposition, quick to perceive, rapid in execution. Rapid change of mental and physical condition, opposite to each other. Great contradictions. Alert, nervous, apprehensive, rigid, trembling patients who suffer acutely in mind or body, at the same time made worse by drinking coffee. The SUPERFICIAL and ERRATIC CHARACTER of its symptoms is most characteristic. EFFECTS OF GRIEF and worry. Cannot bear tobacco. Pain is small, circumscribed spots. (OXAL. AC.) THE PLAGUE. Hiccough and hysterical vomiting.

Mind
Changeable mood; introspective; silently brooding. Melancholic, sad, tearful. Not communicative. SIGHING AND SOBBING. After shocks, grief, disappointment.

Head
Feels hollow, heavy; WORSE, STOOPING. Headache as if a nail were driven out through the side. Cramp-like pain over root of nose. Congestive headaches following anger or grief; WORSE, SMOKING OR SMELLING TOBACCO, inclines head forward.

Eyes
ASTHENOPIA, with spasms of lids and neuralgic pain about eyes. (NAT. M.) Flickering zigzags.

Face
TWITCHING OF MUSCLES of face and lips. Changes color when at rest.

Mouth
SOUR TASTE. Easily bites inside of cheeks. Constantly full of saliva. Toothache; worse after drinking coffee and smoking. Throat. Feeling of a lump in throat that cannot be swallowed. Tendency to choke, globus hystericus. Sore throat; stitches when not swallowing; better, eating something solid. Stitches between acts of swallowing. Stitches extend to ear. (HEP.) Tonsils inflamed, swollen, WITH SMALL ULCERS. FOLLICULAR TONSILLITUS.

Stomach
Sour eructation. All-gone feeling in stomach; MUCH FLATULENCE; hiccough. Cramps in stomach; worse slightest contact. Averse to ordinary diet; longs for great variety of indigestible articles. Craving for acid things. SINKING IN STOMACH, RELIEVED BY TAKING A DEEP BREATH.

Abdomen
Rumbling in bowels. Weak feeling in upper abdomen. Throbbing in abdomen. (ALOE; SANG.) Colicky, griping pains in one or both sides of abdomen.

Rectum
Itching and stitching up the rectum. PROLAPSE. Stools pass with difficulty; PAINFUL CONSTRICTION OF ANUS AFTER STOOL. Stitches in haemorrhoids during cough. Diarrhoea from fright. Stitches from anus deep into rectum. Haemorrhage and pain; worse when stool is loose. Pressure AS OF A SHARP INSTRUMENT FROM WITHIN OUTWARD. Urine. Profuse, watery. (PHOS. AC)

Respiratory
Dry, spasmodic cough in quick successive shocks. Spasm of glottis (CALC) Reflex coughs. Coughing increases the desire to cough. MUCH SIGHING. Hollow spasmodic cough, worse in the evening, little expectoration, leaving pain in trachea.

Female
Menses, BLACK, too early, too profuse, or scanty. During menses great languor, with spasmodic pains in stomach and abdomen. Feminine sexual frigidity. Suppression from grief.

Extremities
Jerking of limbs. Pain in tendo-Achilles and calf. Ulcerative pain in soles.

Sleep
Very light. Jerking of limbs on going to sleep. Insomnia from grief, cares, with itching of arms and violent yawning. Dreams continuing a long time; troubling him.

Fever
Chill, with thirst; not relieved by external heat. During fever, itching; nettle-rash all over body.

Skin
Itching, nettle-rash. Very sensitive to draught of air. Excoriation, especially around vagina and mouth.

Modalities
WORSE, in the morning, open air, after meals, COFFEE, smoking, liquids, external warmth. BETTER, while eating, change of position.

Relationship
Compare: ZINC.; KALI PHOS.; SEP.; CIMICIF. PANACEA ARVENSIS-Poor man's Mercury-(Sensitiveness over gastric region with hunger but an aversion to food). Complementary: NAT. MUR. Incompatible: COFFEA; NUX; TABAC. Antidotes: PULS.; CHAM.; COCC.

Dose
Sixth, to 200th potency.

 Hypericum perforatum is a homeopathic remedy used in the natural treatment of:

• nerve pain
• nerve injuries
• neuritis
• spinal injuries
• depression
• rheumatic pains
• injuries to finger tips
• sciatica
• pain after surgeries
• pain after C-sections
• C-section scars

 Hyoscyamus niger is a homeopathic remedy used to treat:

• twitching
• ticks
• muscular spasms
• paralysis
• epilepsy 
• convulsions
• incontinence
• urinary incontinence

From Boericke:

(Henbane) Disturbs the nervous system profoundly. It is as if some diabolical force took possession of the brain and prevented its functions. It causes a perfect picture of MANIA OF A QUARRELSOME AND TBSCENE CHARACTER. Inclined to be unseemly and immodest in acts, gestures and expressions. Very talkative, and persists in stripping herself, or uncovering genitals. Is jealous, afraid of being poisoned, etc. Its symptoms also point to weakness and TRERVOUS AGITATION; hence typhoid and other infections with COMA VIGIL. TREMULOUS WEAKNESS AND TWITCHING OF TENDONS. Subaultus tendinum. Muscular twitchings, spasmodic affections, generally with delirium. Non-inflammatory cerebral activity. TOXIC GASTRITIS.

Mind
VERY SUSPICIOUS. Talkative, obscene, lascivious mania, uncovers body; jealous, FOOLISH. Great hilarity; INCLINED TO LAUGH AT EVERYTHING. Delirium, with attempt to run away. Low, muttering speech; CONSTANT CARPHOLOGIA, DEEP STUPOR.

Head
Feels light and confused. Vertigo as if intoxicated. Brain feels loose, fluctuating. Inflammation of brain, with unconsciousness; head is shaken to and fro.

Eyes
Pupils dilated, sparkling, fixed. Eyes open, but does not pay attention; downcast and dull, fixed. Strabismus. Spasmodic closing of lids. Diplopia. Objects have colored borders.

Mouth
Tongue dry, red, cracked, stiff and immovable, protruded with difficulty; speech impaired. Foams at mouth. Teeth covered with sordes. Lower jaw drops. Throat. Stinging dryness. Constriction. Cannot swallow liquids. UVULA ELONGATED.

Stomach
Hiccough, eructations empty, bitter. Nausea, with vertigo. Vomiting, with convulsions; haematemesis; violent cramps, relieved by vomiting; burning in stomach; epigastrium tender. AFTER IRRITATING FOOD.

Abdomen
Colic, as if abdomen would burst. Distention. Colic, with vomiting, belching, hiccough screaming. Tympanites. Red spots on abdomen.

Stool
Diarrhoea, colicky, pains; INVOLUNTARY, aggravated by mental excitement or during sleep. Diarrhoea during the lying-in period. Involuntary defecation. Urine.INVOLUNTARY micturition. Bladder paralyzed. Has no will to urinate. (CAUST.)

Male
Impotence. Lascivious; exposes his person; plays with genitals during fever.

Female
Before menses, hysterical spasms. Excited sexual desire. During menses, convulsive movements, urinary flux and sweat. Lochia suppressed. Spasms of pregnant women. Puerperal mania.

Chest
Suffocating fits. Spasm, forcing bending forward. DRY, SPASMODIC COUGH AT NIGHT(WORSE LYING DOWN; better sitting up), from itching in the throat, as if uvula were too long. Haemoptysis.

Extremities
PICKING AT BED-CLOTHES; plays with hands; reaches out for things. Epileptic attacks ending in deep sleep. Spasms and convulsions. Cramps in calves and toes. Child sobs and cries without waking.

Sleep
Intense sleeplessness. Sopor, with convulsions. STARTS UP FRIGHTENED. Coma vigil. Nerves. Great restlessness; EVERY MUSCLE TWITCHES. Will not be covered.

Modalities
WORSE, at night, during menses, after eating;, when lying down. BETTER, stooping. Relationship. Antidotes: BELL.; CAMPH. Compare: BELLAD.; STRAM.; AGARIC.; GELS.; HYOSC. HYDROBROM. SCOPOLAMINE HYDROBROMIDE. (Paralysis agitans; TREMORS OF DISSEMINATED SCLEROSIS. Sleeplessness and nervous agitation. Dry cough in phthisis. Similar in its effects to alcohol, both recent and remote. Corresponds to the effects of strong poisons introduced into or generated within the body. Symptoms of uraemia and acute nervous exhaustion. A remedy for shock. Third and fourth dec. trituration. In physiological dosage (1-200 gr.) mania and chorea; insomnia. SCOPOLA (Japanese Belladonna)-chemically identical with Hyoscine. (Joyous delirium, licking of lips and smacking of mouth; sleepless; tries to get out of bed; sees cats, picks imaginary hairs, warms hands before imaginary fire, etc.)

Hydrastis is a great homeopathic remedy used in the natural treatment of:

• cold and flus where there is thick, yellow, burning, ropy discharge
• infections
• sinusitis
• sinus infections
• eye infections
• cough with yellow, thick phlegm
• chest infections
• skin infections

From Boericke:

 (Golden Seal) Acts especially on mucous membranes, relaxing them and producing a THICK, YELLOWISH, ROPY secretion. The catarrh may be anywhere,-throat, stomach, uterus, urethra,-it is always characterized by this peculiar mucous discharge. Hydrastis is especially active in old, easily-tired people, cachectic individuals, with great debility. Cerebral effects prominent, feels his wits sharpened, head cleared, facile expression. Weak muscular power, poor digestion and obstinate constipation. Lumbago. Emaciation and prostration. Its action on the liver is marked. Cancer and cancerous state, before ulceration, when pain is principal symptom. GOITRE of puberty and pregnancy. SMALLPOX internally and locally. The power of Hydrastis over smallpox seen in modifying the disease, abolishing its distressing symptoms, shortening its course, lessening its danger and greatly mitigating its consequences. (J. J. Garth Wilkinson.)

Mind
Depressed; sure of death, and desires it.

Head
Dull, pressing frontal pain, especially connected with constipation. Myalgic pain in scalp and muscles of neck. (CIMICIF.) Eczema on forehead along line of hair. SINUSITIS, after coryza.

Ears
Roaring. Muco-purulent discharge. Deafness. EUSTACHIAN CATARRH, with high-pitched voice.

Nose
THICK, TENACIOUS SECRETION FROM POSTERIOR NARES to throat. Watery, EXCORIATING discharge. Ozaena, with ulceration of septum. Tends to blow nose all the time.

Mouth
Peppery taste. Tongue white, swollen, large, flabby, slimy; SHOWS IMPRINT OF TEETH (MERC.); as if scalded; stomatitis. Ulceration of tongue, fissures toward the edges. Throat. Follicular pharyngitis. Raw, smarting, excoriating sensation. Hawking of yellow, tenacious mucus. (KALI BICH.) Child is aroused suddenly from sleep by this tenacious postnasal dropping. Goitre of puberty and pregnancy.

Stomach
Sore feeling in stomach more or less constant. Weak digestion. BITTER TASTE. Pain as from a hard-cornered substance. Gone feeling. Pulsation in epigastrium. Cannot eat bread or vegetables. Atonic dyspepsia. Ulcers and cancer. Gastritis.

Abdomen
Gastro-duodenal catarrh. Liver torpid, tender. Jaundice. Gallstones. Dull dragging in right groin with cutting sensation into right testicle.

Back
Dull, heavy, dragging pain and stiffness, particularly ACROSS LUMBAR REGION, MUST USE ARMS IN RAISING HIMSELF FROM SEAT.

Rectum
Prolapsed; anus fissured. CONSTIPATION, with sinking feeling in stomach, and dull headache. During stool, smarting pain in rectum. After stool, long-lasting pain. (NIT. AC.) Haemorrhoids; even a light flow exhausts. Contraction and spasm. Urine. GLEETY DISCHARGE. Urine smells decomposed.

Male
Gonorrhoea, second stage; discharge thick and yellow.

Female
Erosion and excoriation of cervix. Leucorrhoea, worse after menses (BOV.; CALC. C.); acrid and corroding, shreddy, tenacious. Menorrhagia. Pruritus vulvae, with profuse leucorrhoea. (CALC. C; KREOS.; SEP.) Sexual excitement. Tumor of breast; nipple retracted.

Respiratory
Chest raw, sore, burning. Dry, harsh cough. Bronchial catarrh, later stages. Bronchitis in old, exhausted persons, WITH THICK, YELLOW, TENACIOUS EXPECTORATION. Frequent dainty spells, with cold sweat all over. Feels suffocating when lying on left side. Pain from chest to left shoulder.

Skin
Eruption like variola. Lupus; ULCERS, cancerous formations. General tendency to profuse perspiration and unhealthy skin. (HEPAR.)

Relationship
Antidote: SULPH. Useful after too much Chlorate of Potash for sore throat. Compare: XANTHORRHIZA APIFOLIA; KALI BICH.; CONIUM: ARS. IOD.; PHYTOL.; GALIUM(cancer-nodulated tumor of the tongue); ASTERIAS; STANN.; PULS. Also MANZANITA(diarrhoea, gonorrhoea, gleet, leucorrhoea, catarrhal conditions). HYDRASTINUM MURIATICUM-Muriate of Hydrastia. (Locally, in aphthous sore mouth, ulcers, ulcerated sore throat, ozaena, etc. Internally, third dec. trit. Is a uterine haemostatic and vasoconstrictor; metrorrhagia, especially from fibroid tumors; haemorrhages; IN DILATATION OF THE STOMACH, and chronic digestive disorders). HYDRASTIN SULPHlx (haemorrhage of bowels in typhoid). MARRVMUM-Hoarhound-(a stimulant to mucous membranes, especially laryngeal and bronchial; chronic bronchitis, dyspepsia, and hepatic disorders; colds and coughs).

Dose
Tincture, to thirtieth attenuation. Locally colorless Hydrastis, mother tincture, or fluid extract.

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Professional Constitutional Kit #2 – All remedies are in 200CH                                                                 

Contains: Aceticum Acidum, Agaricus Muscarius, Agnus Castus, Aloe Socotrina, Ammonium Carbonicum, Aurum Muriaticum Natronatum, Baptisia Tinctoria, Baryta Muriatica, Bellis Perennis, Borax, Bovista Gigantea, Bryonia Alba, Camphora, Cantharis, Capsicum Annuum, Carbo Animalis, Chelidonium Majus, Cicuta Virosa, Cina, Coffea Cruda, Colchicum Autumnale, Crataegus Oxyacantha, Crocus Sativus, Cyclamen Europium, Dulcamara, Ferrum Metallicum, Ferrum Phosphoricum, Flouricum Acidum, Helleborus Niger, Hepar Sulphuris Calcareum, Hyoscyamus Niger, Hypericum Perfoliatum, Kali Arsenicosinum, Ledum Palustre, Lilium Tigrinum, Magnesium Muriaticum, Mercurius Corrosivus, Natrum Carbonicum, Natrum Phosphoricum, Natrum Sulphuricum, Palladium Metallicum, Phosphoricum Acidum, Phytolacca Decandra, Plumbum Metallicum, Psorinum, Sanguinaria Canadensis, Stannum Metallicum, Sulphuricum Acidum, Veratrum Album, Zincum Metallicum