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Quest Health Library - Test Your Knowledge

HOMOEOPATHY - 3

For information, please refer to the 'Homoeopathy' section of the Quest Health Library.

Match the correct homoeopathic medicine with the 'remedy picture' as closely as possible to the 'symptom picture'.

Q1: For pain associated with various other symptoms. (5 marks)

1: Arnica
Where painful stiffness made worse by slightest movement, is eased by rest.
Burning pain in a "hot" person. Could be a cramp or an earache.
Pain caused by bruising after a fall.
Pain eases with movement, returns if the person 'does too much'.
For developing immature tender abscess with some pus.

2: Hepar sulph
Where painful stiffness made worse by slightest movement, is eased by rest.
Burning pain in a "hot" person. Could be a cramp or an earache.
Pain caused by bruising after a fall.
Pain eases with movement, returns if the person 'does too much'.
For developing immature tender abscess with some pus.

3: Bryonia
Where painful stiffness made worse by slightest movement, is eased by rest.
Burning pain in a "hot" person. Could be a cramp or an earache.
Pain caused by bruising after a fall.
Pain eases with movement, returns if the person 'does too much'.
For developing immature tender abscess with some pus.

4: Rhus tox
Where painful stiffness made worse by slightest movement, is eased by rest.
Burning pain in a "hot" person. Could be a cramp or an earache.
Pain caused by bruising after a fall.
Pain eases with movement, returns if the person 'does too much'.
For developing immature tender abscess with some pus.

5: Sulphur
Where painful stiffness made worse by slightest movement, is eased by rest.
Burning pain in a "hot" person. Could be a cramp or an earache.
Pain caused by bruising after a fall.
Pain eases with movement, returns if the person 'does too much'.
For developing immature tender abscess with some pus.

 
Q2: The following are true or false about homoeopathic treatment of nervous disorders: (5 marks)
It is always safe to advise homoeopathic treatment for the treatment of depression True False
Aconite is useful for panic attacks True False
Silica can be recommended for anxiety in a person who gets easily overheated. True False
A teenager with exam nerves may benefit from Gelsemium. True False
A customer asks for a remedy to be recommended for anxiety. None of the symptom pictures in the homoeopathic guide fit her symptoms. You can recommend a remedy that does not match but where "anxiety" is mentioned just in case it works True False
 
Q3: Where a person is suffering with digestive complaints. (5 marks)

1: Nux vom
For food poisoning and simultaneous vomiting and diarrhoea
Person is doubled up with pain with particularly bad colic
Constipation with hard, large stools; difficult to pass; seem to slip back in again
When travel sick with saliva collecting in the mouth
Indigestion, bloated heavy feeling in stomach, hung-over feeling

2: Ipecacuanhua
For food poisoning and simultaneous vomiting and diarrhoea
Person is doubled up with pain with particularly bad colic
Constipation with hard, large stools; difficult to pass; seem to slip back in again
When travel sick with saliva collecting in the mouth
Indigestion, bloated heavy feeling in stomach, hung-over feeling

3: Arsen alb
For food poisoning and simultaneous vomiting and diarrhoea
Person is doubled up with pain with particularly bad colic
Constipation with hard, large stools; difficult to pass; seem to slip back in again
When travel sick with saliva collecting in the mouth
Indigestion, bloated heavy feeling in stomach, hung-over feeling

4: Colocynthis
For food poisoning and simultaneous vomiting and diarrhoea
Person is doubled up with pain with particularly bad colic
Constipation with hard, large stools; difficult to pass; seem to slip back in again
When travel sick with saliva collecting in the mouth
Indigestion, bloated heavy feeling in stomach, hung-over feeling

5: Silica
For food poisoning and simultaneous vomiting and diarrhoea
Person is doubled up with pain with particularly bad colic
Constipation with hard, large stools; difficult to pass; seem to slip back in again
When travel sick with saliva collecting in the mouth
Indigestion, bloated heavy feeling in stomach, hung-over feeling

 
Q4: Which homoeopathic medicines would match these symptom pictures most closely?

1: Bryonia
Nightmares. Hot, jerking limbs as going off to sleep.
Severe grief. Crying uncontrollably. Severe emotional upset.
An anxious person who is irritable, restless and hates to be alone.
For those who need 'something to help them cope', workaholics.
Wakes up in the early hours and worries over money, bills, and everything.

2: Arsen alb
Nightmares. Hot, jerking limbs as going off to sleep.
Severe grief. Crying uncontrollably. Severe emotional upset.
An anxious person who is irritable, restless and hates to be alone.
For those who need 'something to help them cope', workaholics.
Wakes up in the early hours and worries over money, bills, and everything.

3: Nux vom
Nightmares. Hot, jerking limbs as going off to sleep.
Severe grief. Crying uncontrollably. Severe emotional upset.
An anxious person who is irritable, restless and hates to be alone.
For those who need 'something to help them cope', workaholics.
Wakes up in the early hours and worries over money, bills, and everything.

4: Ignatia
Nightmares. Hot, jerking limbs as going off to sleep.
Severe grief. Crying uncontrollably. Severe emotional upset.
An anxious person who is irritable, restless and hates to be alone.
For those who need 'something to help them cope', workaholics.
Wakes up in the early hours and worries over money, bills, and everything.

5: Belladonna
Nightmares. Hot, jerking limbs as going off to sleep.
Severe grief. Crying uncontrollably. Severe emotional upset.
An anxious person who is irritable, restless and hates to be alone.
For those who need 'something to help them cope', workaholics.
Wakes up in the early hours and worries over money, bills, and everything.