Know Your Remedies: Iris Versicolor (Iris.)

The symptoms of Iris versicolor (Iris.) occur mostly in the gastrointestinal tract and the nervous system. Right-sided headaches and migraines with nausea and vomiting are common.

Know Your Remedies: Antimonium Tartaricum (Ant-t.)

Antimonium tartaricum (Ant-t.) is a remedy for respiratory congestion with weakness. The cough will be weak and feeble with the person unable to clear rattling mucus from their chest.

Know Your Remedies: Hamamelis Virginiana (Ham.)

Hamamelis virginiana is a useful remedy for fragile veins, venous congestion, and bleeding. Veins are enlarged and feel bruised or sore, especially when touched or pressed.

Know Your Remedies: Spongia Tosta (Spong.)

Spongia tosta (Spong.) is a remedy for dry mucous membranes (mouth, nose, throat, and larynx), coughs, swollen glands, and types of respiratory and cardiac (heart) symptoms.

Know Your Remedies: Kalium Phosphoricum (Kali-p.)

Kali phosphoricum (Kali-p.) is a remedy for mental and physical exhaustion with heightened sensitivity. Weakness, fatigue and irritability are hallmark symptoms.

Know Your Remedies: Baryta Carbonica (Bar-c.)

Symptoms arising from a Bar-c state include anxiety, swollen tonsils or glands, slow development, senility, smallness of body parts such as genitals, and more.

Know Your Remedies: Nitricum Acidum (Nit-ac.)

“Nit-ac pains are stitching or splinter-like. They worsen with cold air, jarring or when touched. The person needing this remedy holds grudges and is dissatisfied, sensitive and chilly."

Know Your Remedies: Veratrum Album (Verat.)

This remedy, historically used for cholera, covers severe simultaneous vomiting and diarrhoea, cramps, spasms, cold sweats, weakness and collapse. But what about the megalomania?

Know Your Remedies: Spigelia Anthelmia (Spig.)

Spigelia pains are stitching, sharp, and piercing in nature and sometimes described as 'hot needles'. Symptoms worsen with motion, touch, jarring, smoke, and during the daytime.