Abscess

Clinic

• As the white blood cells attack the bacteria, some nearby tissue dies, creating a hole which then fills with pus to form an abscess.
• The pus contains a mixture of dead tissue, white blood cells and bacteria
• Abscess may become urgent condition which needs First Aid Remedies

Miasms

• MTB
• LMB

First class remedies

Hep

• First remedy for cellulitis that has not yet turned into an abscess (Here give Sil first and then Hep) (Hep ₳ Sil)
• First remedy for Recurrent / chronic abscess (Ars) (Ars ₳ Hep)
• First remedy of abscess with bloody secretions (Asaf) (Asaf ₳ Hep)
• Abscesses with fetid secretions (Asaf, Carb-v, Kreos)
• Abscess with sour-smelling secretions (Merc) (Hep ₳ Merc)
• Abscess with yellow secretions (Calc-s)
• For very painful abscess that are not treated with hep, give Cham

Lach

• Hot, Aggressive, Painful, Hemorrhagic abscess
• Leakage of dark colored secretions
• First and best remedy for gangrenous abscess
• Number one remedy for pus absorption (Sil and Calc-s are second remedies)
• Number one remedy of internal organ abscess

Merc

• Abscess accompanied by Body coldness
• King remedy of suppuration (Abscess with green Pus/ Discharge)
• Abscess with sour-smelling secretions (Hep)
• Good remedy for cold abscess, when the infection progresses slowly (Calc, Carb-v)
• Green pus (Asaf, Aur, Puls)

Sil

• Cold, Slow, Non-Painful , Non-Hemorrhagic abscess
• Abscess with Gelatinous
• Gray secretions (Ambr, Ars, Caust)
• First remedy of abscess due to foreign body. Sil facilitates its exit (Hep is second remedy and should be prescribed after Sil)
• Cellulitis that has not yet turned into an abscess (Here give Sil first and then Hep)

Other remedies

Calc-s

• Deep abscesses
• Yellow secretions (Hep, Calc, Bry, Rhus-t) (Calc-s ₳ Hep)

Ars

• Good choice for abscesses with Acidic / Burning secretions (Caust) (Ars ₳ Caust)
• Second remedy for abscesses with watery secretions (Asaf is first) (Ars ₳ Asaf)
• Recurrent / Chronic abscess / Gangrenous abscess (Asaf, Carb-v, Chin, Lach, Anthracin)

Asaf

• Number one remedy for abscesses with watery secretions (Ars is second)
• Second remedy for abscess with bloody secretions (Hep is first) (Asaf ₳ Hep)
• Second remedy for abscess with foul secretions (Hep is first) (Kreos, Carb-v)

Carb-v

• In watery, bloody, yellow-brown discharges of abscess, that may progress to gangrene
• Offensive secreting abscess

Points

• Hep, Sil, Merc are good remedies for Accelerating abscess formation
• Canth, Lach and Pyrog are good internal organ Abscess remedies
• Carb-an is useful in Bone / Around bones abscess
• Led has Painful, Bloody secretion abscess which amel with cold washing