Travel Materia Medica A - B

Please note: No. 1 Remedy = Most frequently prescribed. to ensure your prescribing is as accurate as possible always match the symptoms as closely as possible to the medicine.

ACONITE No.1 Remedy for nipping colds in the bud.
Useful in early stages of colds, fevers, inflammations. Suits healthy people whose complaints come on suddenly. Possible causes: cold / dry wind; fright / shock. Dry, hot skin. Thirsty for cold drinks. Everything tastes bitter, except water. Extreme restlessness and fear. May specifically have an unfounded fear of death. Worse: evening / around midnight.

ALOE Important Remedy for digestive complaints especially diarrhoea and dysentry.
Burning pains in lower abdomen and rectum with gurgling, bloating, and flatulence (see also Arg. Nit, Arsenicum, Podophyllum) Worse: Early Hours, hot weather, beer, oysters, eating drinking. Better: Cold water/weather,open air.

APIS No. 1 Remedy for bites and stings
Symptoms should fit the following picture: Odoematous swellings. Redness. Pains burning and stinging. Restlessness. Thirstlessness. Better: cold applications. Worse: Heat;4-6pm.

ARG NIT No 1Remedy for fear of flying.
Useful for anticipatory anxiety and gastro-intestinal problems (belching / flatulence). Warm-blooded people. Tendency to feel hurried; impulsive. Fear of failure when performing in public. Justified: often rush through things and get into a mess.(cf Gelsemium). Pains splinter-like. Better: open air;walking fast. Worse: crowds, sweets (gets diarrhoea).

ARNICA No. 1 Remedy for accidents / shock / exhaustion. 
First choice after most accidents and injuries. Given early it will reduce swelling and bruising. Fear of being touched, because of pain. May want to be left alone or claim to be alright, although clearly are not. Memory may also be poor. Classic response of someone in shock. Upper body hot, lower is cold. May say bed is too hard. Useful in typhoid or paratyphoid if symptoms fit.

ARSENICUM No. 1 Remedy for for ptomaine / food poisoning.
Reputed prophylactic properties against yellow fever. Characterised by great physical prostration with mental restlessness. Does not want to be left alone. Fears death. Pains / discharges burning, yet the patient feels chilly and all symptoms, except headache, are better for heat. Thirsty for frequent sips of (usually hot) drinks. Diarrhoea from bad food especially meat, with much vomiting and purging. Worse: midnight - 3am.