Indications:
A homeopathic remedy to aid in the various symptoms associated with mastitis, inflammation, pain, engorgement and general discomfort in both breasts and nipples.
Ingredients:
| Remedy | Symptoms covered by specific remedy |
|---|---|
| Belladonna 6c | Patient runs a fever, hot, red faced, red chest & breasts with throbbing mastitis - throbbing pain with red streaks radiating from nipples-mammae as if heavy, movement causing pain – feel need to stabilize chest/breasts with snug fitting garments. Inflammation of breasts, especially from weaning. |
| Bryonia 6c | Milk fever – breasts hot and painful. Tensive burning and tearing in mammae (esp.at menses) – pale and hard – feel heavy. |
| Conium 6c | Needle like stitches in nipples (often inverted). Mammae lax and shrunken...hard, painful to the touch..nodes in mammae – too much milk. Afterpains, excited by infant nursing – pain extends L to R…constant discharge – thin watery milk induration of R mammary gland in lactation. |
| Graphites 6c | Swollen hard mammae with induration. Nipples; sore, cracked and blistered from nursing (cancer of mammae from old cicatrices (scars), from mammary abscesses. |
| Hepar Sulph 30c | Abscesses, suppuration, inflammation and cracking of skin/nipples, breast infection. Dry mouth,thirsty and irritable |
| Lachesis 6c | Mammae inflamed and sore; bluish black streaks. Extreme sensitivity of nipples – swollen and erect, painful to touch |
| Phytolacca (Phyt.) 6c | Mastitis; mammae hard and very sensitive – hard nodes of breasts with enlarged axillary glands – shooting lancinating pains, worse after sleeping with great exhaustion. Specific to blocked milk ducts – lumpy hard knots/nodules. Mammary abscesses – cracked & small ulcers about the nipples, (tender swollen breasts), neither heal nor suppurate but purple hue and hard. Bloody watery discharge from mammae. Mastitis, during pregnancy and from ‘taking cold’. |
| Silica30c (Sil) | Nipples very sore – ulcerate easily. Clogged ducts,fissures, cracks orlinear scars of mammae(fistulousulcersofbreasts). Mammae swollen and hard – pain as if gathering near nipple. Cracked bleeding nipples. Sharp darting burning pains in left nipple. |
IMPORTANT NOTE:
As a general rule, if a positive response has not been seen within 24-48 hours, please consult with your homeopathic practitioner or your General Practitioner.
Directions:
Suck 3-5 pillules on a clean mouth every 1-2 hours while symptoms are acute,reducing to 4 hourly until resolved.
Notes:
Topical application of warm ‘poultices’ may also be beneficial.