Know Your Remedies: Aloe socotrina (Aloe.)

Aloe suits symptoms associated with irritable bowel syndrome, ulcerative colitis, and portal congestion. It's not surprising that the person needing this remedy will also be irritable.

Know Your Remedies: Apis Mellifica (Apis.)

Apis treats symptoms similar to those of a bee sting – swelling, burning, prickling, stinging, and redness. These may arise from a bite, sting, allergic reaction, or even joint inflammation.

Know Your Remedies: Symphytum Officinale (Symph.)

Along with its extensive use for fractures, homeopathic Symphytum helps with injuries to cartilage, blows to the eye, phantom pain, and types of back pain.

Know Your Remedies: Belladonna (Bell.)

During a Belladonna fever the throat and mouth is dry, hands and feet cold, and the rest of the body hot to the touch. Hallucinations may also be present.

Know Your Remedies: Aurum Metallicum (Aur.)

Indications for Aurum include an exaggerated sense of duty combined with feelings of guilt and anxiety. Unrelieved, these feelings can descend into severe depression.

Know Your Remedies: Cactus grandiflorus (Cact.)

Severe constricting, contracting or congestive pains, especially of the heart, bladder, rectum, vagina, or uterus, respond to this remedy.

Know Your Remedies: Nux Vomica (Nux.)

Do you work hard, play hard and overindulge with food or drink? Are you competitive, driven, impatient and irritable? Nux-v eases these and other limiting traits.

Pulsatilla Pratensis (Puls.)

This remedy suits sensitive and gentle people who feel worse in warm, stuffy rooms, and better in open air. Familiar? It's also great for types of colds, coughs, hay fever, and more.

Know Your Remedies: Passiflora Incarnata (Passi.)

Clinically, this remedy is used for types of insomnia, whooping cough, puerperal fever, and withdrawal from morphine or alcohol.