Belladonna: When the boils are red during the stage of
inflammation. There is throbbing pain without formation of pus
Blood boils.
Calcarea Carb: When the boils are not red but are pale and
painful. Give 200 dilution every four hours- three or four doses
may suffice.
Ars. Alb: Chief remedy for carbuncle s with burning, as if coals
of fire were put on affected part. Cutting and burning pain
worse after midnight. Indicated when Anthrax, fails.
Hepar Sulph: In early stages of pus formation. Excessive
sensitiveness of the parts with sharp stinging pains. Give in 6th
dilution every half hour. It will stop formation of pus or will
abort pus in a few hours. After the pus starts coming out, it will
be indicated when the pus is thick, yellow and the patient is
sensitive to touch. Patient is chilly but unlike Silicea he is better
in wet weather. It is a great pain killer in b oils. Suppuration
around the root of the nails and the ends of fingers.
Silicea: When there is low healing power. The pus is thin and
watery in indolent ulcers which refuse to heal. Give in high
dilution 200 or 1000 to be repeated weekly or monthly
respectively. The patient is chilly; better in dry and warm
weather and w or se in wet and cold weather.
Merc. Iod. It is a good remedy in inflammatory stage of boils
when there is no pus formation. In glandular abscesses. When
pus is formed, it is green, thin and watery. Intense shining
redness with throbbing and stinging pain.
Arnica Mont: Tendency to small painful boils one after
another which are extremely sore. Small boils in crops.
Sulphur: mall boils in crops, if Arnica Mont. fails.
Anthraxinum: In carbuncles it is an excellent remedy. It has
burning and high fever. Give in 1000 potency every fortnight.
One dose will cure or greatly improve the condition.
Calcarea Sul: Abscesses slow to heal after rupture, with a
continuous discharge of yellow pus. Patient desires open air
but sensitive to drafts. Tendency to the formation of abscesses.
Lachesis: Boils of bluish colour exuding acrid pus which is
offensive. Burning pains. Sensitive to touch.
Tarentula C: Abscesses, boils, carbuncles, felons, malignant
ulcers and gangrene. Hard, tender, inflamed hair follicle.
Specific for boils at any stage. Specific for abscesses under the
armpit.
Gunpowder: Boils, shingles, ascariasis and for blood
poisoning.
Myristica S: Suppuration of joints. It hastens suppuration and
shortens its duration. Abscesses on ends of finger and
phalanges. Give in 3X dilution.
Carbolic Acid: Carbuncles on lumbar region with diabetes.
Pus discharge with a very foul odour from several openings.
Patient suffers from nausea and offensive vomiting. Give in
200 dilution.
Stramonium: Abscesses with excruciating pains,
inflammation, chronic carbuncles, boils, abscesses in the joints,
especially left hip joint. Vicious septic state and formation of
pus.
Ledum Pal: Boils or felons caused by needle pricks.
Picric Acid: Boils in the external ear.
Morbillinum: Recurrent boils in the external auditory meatus
with terrible pains with a history of ancient measles.
Secale Cor: Boils small, painful with green contents; mature
slowly.
