Indian turnip is a homeopathic remedy used to treat colds, coughs, and sore throats. It acts primarily on the mucous membranes of the mouth, throat, and lungs, causing inflammation and destruction of tissues. Symptoms include a runny nose with raw, sore nostrils; constant nose-picking that causes bleeding; and aphonia or loss of voice after exposure to wind. The remedy is characterized by acrid discharges that burn and excoriate surfaces, and a tendency of the patient to pick or bore into raw, bleeding areas.
3. INTRODUCTION
- It is one of the sovereign remedies for an acute cold
- It should not be given in low potency or repeated.
4. Indication in some clinical condition
Aphonia
Coryza
Diphtheria
Headache
Scarlatina
5. Sphere of action
-It prominently affects left side.
-It has marked action on mucous
membrane of moth, throat, larynx.
-It also acts on kidneys, brain, blood and
skin.
-It causes inflammation of the mucous
surface and destruction of the tissue.
6. GUIDING SYMPTOMS
1) Constant picking at the nose until it bleeds,
boring with the finger into the sides of the nose
2) Pick lips until they bleed, corners of mouth
cracked and bleeding.
3) Acrid, ichorous discharge, excoriating mucous
surfaces.
4) Pain fully sore, raw and burning of parts.
5) Nose bleeds stopped, inspite of the watery
discharge.
6) Aphonia complet, after exposure to northwest
winds and from singing
7) Fluent coryza with nostril raw.
8) Children refuse food and drink on account of
soreness of mouth and throat.
9) Toung and buccal cavity raw and bleeding with
profuse acrid salivation.
7. Mind: - Children excessively cross &
stubborn. They are nervous, restless &
irritable. Persistently boring into nose or
pricking at lips, finger at one spot until
sore or bleed.
Aliments from: - Exposure to
northwest wind, getting cold,
overuse of voice
8. Coryza; acrid, fluent; nostril raw.
Nose feels stopped up inspite of the watery discharge
Patient must breath through mouth
Sneezing worse at night
“Constant picking at nose until it bleeds” boring with the finger
into the side of nose.
9. Aphonia: complete, after exposure to north-west
winds from singing
Throat is raw, sore, painful on clearing or
coughing.
Patient can not swallow.
It is medicine for CLERGYMAN’S sore throat.
10. FACE
Patient pick bore into the raw
bleeding surfaces through very
painful; screma with pain but keep
up the boring
“Pick lips until they bleed”
corners of mouth sore, creaked,
bleeding (with malignant
tendency) ; bites nail until fingers
bleed.
The sore mouth and nose are
guiding in malignant scarlatina
and diphtheria.
11. Saliva profuse acrid, corodes the mucous
membrane; tongue and buccal cavity raw and bleeding
Typhoid scarlatina, with apathy, scanty or
suppressed urine; threatened uremia.
Desquamation in large flakes; a second or third
time, in scarlatina.
