While searching for info on abscesses I notice that Hypericum is absent
from all but one rubric: GENERALS - ABSCESSES - accompanied by –
swelling - hyper.

The only places that I can find reference to its use for abscesses are
in M Tyler’s Drug Pictures and Kent’s Lectures. Could anyone tell me
whether this remedy has been left out of rubrics such as ‘Generals –
abscesses’, Extremities – abscesses’ etc, because it is a remedy that is
so rarely of use in this respect? As it is a good remedy for nerve
rich areas, would it be a good remedy for abscesses in the area of the
teeth? Has anyone had success in using it for abscesses on the
extremities or in the dental region?

Many thanks
Kerry.


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Subject: [H] Question on Hypericum


> While searching for info on abscesses I notice that Hypericum is absent
> from all but one rubric: GENERALS - ABSCESSES - accompanied by –
> swelling - hyper.
>
> The only places that I can find reference to its use for abscesses are
> in M Tyler’s Drug Pictures and Kent’s Lectures. Could anyone tell me
> whether this remedy has been left out of rubrics such as ‘Generals –
> abscesses’, Extremities – abscesses’ etc, because it is a remedy that is
> so rarely of use in this respect? As it is a good remedy for nerve
> rich areas, would it be a good remedy for abscesses in the area of the
> teeth? Has anyone had success in using it for abscesses on the
> extremities or in the dental region?
>
> Many thanks
> Kerry.

Hello Kerry,
I don't know if someone has already replied to your post, but the only
reference I could find for the use of Hypericum in abscesses in M. Tyler's
'Homoeopathic Drug Pictures' was a clinical example from War times (1940's),
after a doctor incised a very tense and painful abscess on a woman's hand.
There was no pus and the patient was referred for further operations.
At the next consultation the following morning, a Hypericum compress instead
was placed on the injury and the patient was also given Hypericum
internally. Tyler wrote: "When seen in the afternoon the pain was gone, the
tension was gone, and it was pouring with pus. It rapidly healed."

The use of a compress in this way is more of a herbal treatment, as
Culpepper stated, St John's Wort "... opens obstructions, and dissolves
swellings". Homoeopathically, Hypericum always comes into consideration
when an injury/trauma/laceration to a nerve has taken on inflammatory action
*with shooting, neuraligic pains extending from the seat of injury*. The
pain extends along the course of the nerve and can leave the limb aching and
feeling lame. So, the Tyler reference in the Repertory is most likely a
clinical indication taken from this Wartime example, although we can't be
sure from the scant details whether the compress, or the remedy in potency,
brought the cure. I've prescribed Hypericum after dental surgery where the
shooting pains experienced by the patient corrollated to these indications
and there was an infection. But for any tooth or gum abscess, the individual
symptoms will always dictate the relief and cure, e.g. the throbbing pains
of Belladonna with red, flushed face; the overwhelming sensitivity to touch
or cold of Hepar Sulph; or the tearful exasperation of Pulsatilla or Silicea
when suppuration is slow etc.

I've used Hypericum following surgery for ingrown toenails when after the
analgesics wore off, the pain was excruciating. There was absolutely NO
benefit from Hypericum even though the remedy is traditionally earmarked for
[surgical] wounds in areas rich in sentient nerves. In that case the pains
were all-consuming but not of a neuralgic *shooting* character, and this is
the all-important point. The stitches had been left in longer than necessary
and there was signs of infection. When the time came for the stitches to be
cut out the patient was frantic with fear. The remedy which brought relief
there was Hepar sulph, followed later by Sulphur.
Hope useful,
Chris.

>
> Hello Kerry,
> I don't know if someone has already replied to your post, but the only
> reference I could find for the use of Hypericum in abscesses in M.
Tyler's
> 'Homoeopathic Drug Pictures' was a clinical example from War times
(1940's),
> after a doctor incised a very tense and painful abscess on a woman's
hand.
> There was no pus and the patient was referred for further operations.
> At the next consultation the following morning, a Hypericum compress
> instead
> was placed on the injury and the patient was also given Hypericum
> internally. Tyler wrote: "When seen in the afternoon the pain was
gone, the
> tension was gone, and it was pouring with pus. It rapidly healed."
>
> The use of a compress in this way is more of a herbal treatment, as
> Culpepper stated, St John's Wort "... opens obstructions, and
dissolves
> swellings". Homoeopathically, Hypericum always comes into
consideration
> when an injury/trauma/laceration to a nerve has taken on inflammatory
> action
> *with shooting, neuraligic pains extending from the seat of injury*.
The
> pain extends along the course of the nerve and can leave the limb
aching
> and
> feeling lame. So, the Tyler reference in the Repertory is most likely
a
> clinical indication taken from this Wartime example, although we can't
be
> sure from the scant details whether the compress, or the remedy in
potency,
> brought the cure. I've prescribed Hypericum after dental surgery
where the
> shooting pains experienced by the patient corrollated to these
indications
> and there was an infection. But for any tooth or gum abscess, the
individual
> symptoms will always dictate the relief and cure, e.g. the throbbing
pains
> of Belladonna with red, flushed face; the overwhelming sensitivity to
touch
> or cold of Hepar Sulph; or the tearful exasperation of Pulsatilla or
Silicea
> when suppuration is slow etc.
>
> I've used Hypericum following surgery for ingrown toenails when after
the
> analgesics wore off, the pain was excruciating. There was absolutely
NO
> benefit from Hypericum even though the remedy is traditionally
earmarked
> for
> [surgical] wounds in areas rich in sentient nerves. In that case the
pains
> were all-consuming but not of a neuralgic *shooting* character, and
this is
> the all-important point. The stitches had been left in longer than
necessary
> and there was signs of infection. When the time came for the stitches
to be
> cut out the patient was frantic with fear. The remedy which brought
relief
> there was Hepar sulph, followed later by Sulphur.
> Hope useful,
> Chris.
>

Dear Chris

Many thanks for your response. I became interested in Hypericum for
abscesses after having a goat go down with an abscess in the toe. I had
tried everything that seemed applicable going off symptoms but obviously
not having as wide a symptom picture as I would in a human. The only
thing that worked was the Hypericum, tried in desperation after reading
about it in Tyler's Drug Pictures. Prior to the Hypericum the abscess
had opened up but was just oozing a thin foul pus; all the remedies that
seemed applicable just didn't touch it. Two doses of Hypericum 1M over
a twelve hour period and the thin fouled pus stopped and the abscess
opened up and drained properly. With it being so effective, I couldn't
understand why it wasn't covered in any of the abscess rubrics and the
only references that I could find were the ones in Tyler's drug pictures
and also Kent mentions it for an abscess near the coccyx..

Kerry


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