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.

Holly tree - shoots

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!

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 

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

•  nausea
• vomiting
• morning sickness
• nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
• hemorrhages
• nose bleeds
• safe remedy during pregnancy

From Boericke:

(Ipecac-root) The chief action is on the ramifications of the pneumogastric nerve, producing spasmodic irritation in chest and stomach. Morphia habit. The principal feature of Ipecacuanha is its PERSISTENT NAUSEA and vomiting, which form the chief guiding symptoms. Indicated after indigestible food, raisins, cakes, etc. Especially indicated in fat children and adults, who are feeble and catch cold in relaxing atmosphere; warm, moist weather. Spasmodic affections. Haemorrhages BRIGHT-REDand PROFUSE.

Mind
Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what they know not.

Head
Bones of skull feel crushed or bruised. Pain extends to teeth and root of tongue.

Eyes
Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of vision constantly changing. Spasm of accommodation from irritable weakness of the ciliary muscle. Nausea from looking on moving objects.

Face
Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia, with lachrymation, photophobia, and smarting eyelids. NOSE. Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea. Epistaxis.

Stomach
TONGUE USUALLY CLEAN. Mouth, moist; MUCH SALIVA. CONSTANT NAUSEA and vomiting, with pale, twitching of face. Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus. Stomach feels relaxed, as if hanging down. Hiccough.

Abdomen
Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; while straining pain so great that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching; WORSE, AROUND THE NAVEL. Body rigid; stretched out stiff. Stools Pitch-like, green as grass, LIKE FROTHY MOLASSES, with griping at navel. Dysenteric, slimy.

Female
Uterine haemorrhage, PROFUSE, BRIGHT, GUSHING, WITH NAUSEA. Vomiting during pregnancy PAIN FROM NAVEL TO UTERUS. Menses too early and too profuse.

Respiratory
Dyspnoea; constant CONSTRICTION IN CHEST. Asthma. Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; coryza; wheezing cough. COUGH INCESSANT AND VIOLENT, WITH EVERY BREATH. Chest seems full of phlegm, but does not yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. Suffocative cough; child becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with nosebleed, and from mouth. Bleeding from lungs, WITH NAUSEA; feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Haemoptysis from slightest exertion. (MILLEF.) HOARSENESS, especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.

Fever
Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine. SLIGHTEST CHILL with MUCH heat, NAUSEA, vomiting, and dyspnoea. Relapses from improper diet.

Sleep
With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep. (IGN.)

Extremities
Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.

Skin
Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Miliary rash.

Modalities
WORSE, periodically; from veal, moist warm wind, lying down.

Relationship
Compare: EMETINE-principal alkaloid of Ipecac. (A powerful amebicide, but is not a bactericide. Specific for amaebiasis; of remarkable value in treatment of amaebic dysentery; also as a remedy in pyorrhoea, 1/2 gr. daily for three days, then less. Emetin, 1/2 gr. hypodermically, in Psoriasis. Emetin hydroch. 2x, diarrhoea with colicky, abdominal pains and nausea. Emetin for endamoebid dysentery. In physiological doses must be carefully watched. May produce hepatization of lungs, rapid heart action, tendency for the head to fall forward and lobar pneumonia. In haemetemesis and other haemorrhages, compare: GELATIN (which has a marked effect on the coagulability of the blood. Hypodermically; or if by mouth, a 10 per cent, jelly, about 4 oz., three times a day). ARSENIC; CHAM.; PULS.; TART, EM.; SQUIU. CONVOLVULUS (colic and diarrhoea). TYPHA LATIFOTIA-Cat-tail flag (dysentery, diarrhoea) and summer complaint. EUPHORBIA HYPERICIFOLIA- Garden Spurge-(Very similar to Ipecac. Irritation of the respiratory and gastro-intestinal tracts and female organs). LIPPIA MEXICANA-(Persistent dry, hard, bronchial cough-asthma and chronic bronchitis). In Asthma, compare: BLAITA ORIENTALIS. Antidotes: ARSENIC; CHINA; TABAC. Complementary: CUPRUM; ARN.

Dose
Third to 200th potency.