, , , Pointers to some Hayfever remedies by Dr. Margaret Lucy Tyler | HOMEOTODAY

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Allium Cepa
Begins sneezing, with increasing frequency. Watery discharge drips from nose; excoriates lip and wings of nose. (Ars., Arum trip.) Rawness in nose; copious lachrymation. Fluid from nose excoriating: from eyes bland. (Reverse of Euphrasia). Generally begins left side and goes to right. Every year in August (Naja) morning coryza with violent sneezing: very sensitive to odor of flowers and skin of peaches. Spring coryza: Hayfever in August every year on rising from bed, and handling peaches.

Arsenicum
Discharge burns a red streak over upper lip and about wings of nose, with sneezing and profuse, watery nasal discharge The typical Ars. patient is anxious, restless, often asthmatic, when his worst hour is soon alter midnight. Sneezing a prominent symptom, but sneezing no joke. Starts from tickling in one spot nose; after sneezing tickling as bad as before. Hay asthma.

Arsenicum Iodatum
Hay fever with fetid, corrosive discharge. Discharges excoriating, thick and yellow, resembling honey.
(Graph.)

Arum Triphyllum
A prickling sensation that cannot be left alone. Pinches and pricks, and bores into the nostrils, however sore. A dreadful catarrh. Nose stopped, worse left side. Sneezing worse during the night. Fluent acrid coryza, with lachrymation usually bland. (Comp. Allium Cepa.) Fluid from nose, produces rawness, smarting, burning: leaves red streaks as it flows over skin'. (Ars.) - KENT.

Arundo Mauritanica
KENT gives this drug in black type in the Repertory for Hay Fever. Hay fever begins with burning and itching of palate and conjunctiva. Coryza with snuffling. First water runs from the nose, later green mucus.With sneezing, pieces of indurated greenish mucus. Itching, burning, dryness of Schneiderian membrane. Curious symptoms, when sneezing, stitches in loins.

Bromium
Fluent coryza with frequent violent sneezing. Corrosive soreness under and margins of nose. Right
nostril more affected. Aversion to smoking: to drinking cold water.

Carbo Vegetabilis
Frequent sneezing, with constant violent crawling and tickling in nose; lachrymation and biting pain in and above nose. Ineffectual desire to sneeze, with crawling in left nostril. Watery discharge, and sneezes day and night. Suffers from heat: is chilled by cold: sweats in a hot room. No comfortable place.

Dulcamara
Nostrils stopped up, cannot breathe through nose. (Lach) Constant sneezing, profuse watery discharge from nose and eyes. Worse open air: better in closed room: worse near newly cut grass: better at Seaside. (Nat.mur.) Eyes swelled and full and most affected, then nose, then again eyes. Dulc. cannot stand cold and wet: worse from chill when hot.

Euphrasia
Profuse acrid lachrymation, with profuse bland coryza (reverse of Allium Cepa). Short-acting remedy: very useful in catarrhal affections without fever. Sneezing; fluent bland coryza with acrid tears Eyes worse open air, and wind.

Gelsemium
Sneezing: hot face: feeling of great weight and tiredness in whole body and limbs. Violent morning
paroxysms of sneezing: tingling in nose. Watery, excoriating discharge. Curious symptom, a feeling from throat up to left nostril, like a stream of scalding water.

Kali Iodatum
Violent sneezing, acrid, watery discharge. Worse cool air, worse open air: but patient feels better in open air: i.e.: finds no quarters for relief. Frontal sinuses involved with the coryza; much pain in forehead, eyes, cheekbones.

Kali Phosphoricum
Hay fever, said to be prophylactic. Itching in posterior nares. Sneezing ; at 2 a.m. Eyes burn, sting, swim in tears. Tongue coated like stale brownish liquid mustard.

Lachesis
Paroxysms of sneezing worse after sleep even in the day time. Headache extending into nose, with
frequent and violent paroxysms of sneezing. Mucous membrane or nose thickened: dry stuffed sensation through head: face red, puffed: eyes seem almost pressed out. Red, sore nostrils and lips. Lach. is purple: sleeps into aggravation; throat sensitive to touch or pressure.

Naja
Much sneezing: water runs from nose: cannot lie down at night; dryness of air passages of nose. Hay
fever. Suffocative attacks in August. (All. Cepa.). Like Lach. wakes suffocating gasping, choking. Rawness of trachea and larynx, as if excoriated.

Natrum Muriaticum
Squirming as from a small worm. Watery discharge from eyes and nose. Severe coryza, had to lay a
towel under nose. Woke with headache; after rising nasal discharge with violent and frequent sneezing. Loss of taste and smell: cough from tickling in throat pit. Lachrymation acrid; canthi red and sore. Characteristics: Worse in sun; desire for salt in hay fever, better at seaside. Recorded case, cured by a swim in the sea.

Nux Vomica
Distressing prolonged paroxysms of sneezing. Excessive irritation in nose, eyes. face; - Heat as if a hot iron plate were near it. Itching extends to larynx and trachea. Nux is very irritable: very sensitive to cold.

Psorinum
A sort of continuous hay fever, runs all the year and ripens up in the Fall. Catarrhal state of eyes and
nose. Nose dries up part of the time and runs part of the time: must continually use handkerchief. "Hay fever a difficult condition to fit a remedy to; constitution must be built up before hay fever will cease" - KENT. Must wrap up in hottest summer. Wants head covered. Skin greasy, oily, looks unwashed.

Ranunculus
Eyes smart; lips burn and are sore. Nose stuffed, especially evenings, with pressure root of nose and
tingling and crawling inside. May attack posterior nares: hawks and swallow in effort to scratch affected part. (Comp. Wyeth.) Hoarseness: stitching pains chest: muscles sore.

Sabadilla
Spasmodic sneezing: fluent coryza. Nostrils stuffed up: inspirations through nose laboured: snoring.
Itching in nose; bleeding from nose. (Zinc.)Violent sneezing; with copious watery discharge. Severe frontal pains and redness eyelids. Very sensitive to smell of garlic.

Sanguinaria
Rose colds in June. Sensitive to flowers and odors. Hay fever with burning in nose, throat - dry: as if
mucous membranes would crack open. Dry burning in larynx with hoarseness of chest with asthma. Palms dry, burning, wrinkled. Burning palms and soles: puts them out of bed. (Sulph., Puls., Cham., Med.)

Silica
begins with itching and tingling in nose. Violent sneezing and excoriating discharge. Itching in posterior nares, or orifice of Eustachian tubes. (Ars., Sil., Wyeth.)

Sinapis Nigra
Mucous membrane of nose dry and hot: worse afternoon and evening: one nostril affected, or alternate nostrils. Nose swollen, stuffed: discharges a thin acrid mucus. (Ailanthus.) Eyes suffused, itch, smart .

Sticta Pulmonaria
Constant need to blow nose, but no discharge results on account of dryness. Nose is stuffed up; secretion drying so rapidly it cannot be discharged. Almost constant sneezing; tingling right side nose. Fullness right side forehead to root nose. Excessive dryness of soft palate. Tickling high up in pharynx.

Wyethia
Peculiar itching in roof of mouth (Arund.), for relief patient must draw tongue back and forth over soft palate; with this coryza, sneezing, etc.

Zincum
Frequent sneezing starts with cutting-crawling in nose, without coryza; or fluent coryza; sensitive
nostrils; crawling in nose; frequent sneezing. Itching in left nostril: in right: followed by frequent sneezingMuch burning in eyes. Itching. Photophobia. Overworked; over-excitable; extremely over-sensitive. (Nux.)
Characteristic: Burning whole length of spine: fidgety feet; relief with menstruation.

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