Homeopathy for Insects, Bites and Stings

Homeopathic remedies will treat a person with painful insect bites and stings rapidly.
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Homeopathic Remedies for Insect Bites and Stings

• Acetic Acid
  Used for for swelling from bites and stings.

• Aconitum napellus
  Used if the person feels fearful or panicked after being stung.  Shock and nervousness. Cutting, stabbing or burning pain. Swelling, tingling, or numbness. Use immediately, while symptoms are intense, and followed by another remedy as indicated.

• Apis mellifica
  Rapid swelling, looks red and angry, with stinging and burning pain. Bite or bee stings causes puffy, tender swelling that is pink or red and hot to the touch. For red, inflamed insect bites with burning or stinging pain.  Pain that is worse by heat or warm applications and relieved by cold or cool applications. 

• Androctonus
  This is the first choice for scorpion bites; otherwise, use Ledum.

• Arnica
  Shock after stings or bites, swelling especially with ecchymosis. Used for insects, bees and wasps.

• Belladonna
  Used for anaphylactic shock.  Also used for stings of insects especially in the mouth.

• Caladium
  Used for mosquitoes, fleas and gnat bites. Burning and itching pains.

• Calendula
  Insect bites, scorpion stings.  Locally applied in tincture or gel or lotion to relieve pain and help the skin to heal.

• Cantharis
  Violent burning and smarting pains overshadow all other symptoms. For a bite or sting results in intensely burning, scalding pain. The area effected is inflamed, red and blisters may develop.

• Carbolicum acidum (Phenol)
  For prevention of anaphylactic shock. Used for allergic reactions after bites and stings. This remedy is for anaphylactic reactions or collapse after bee or wasp stings, including hives all over the body and dangerous swelling of the face, tongue, and throat. Indicated in first-aid situations, while medical help is being sought. Person feels sick and weak and may have trouble breathing. Dark or reddish face that looks pale around the mouth.

• Cedron
  Used for any symptoms of bites or stings with marker periodicity.

• Crotolus Horridus
  Used for spider bites that create necrosis  blue discoloration of the skin, fever and inflammation.

• Echinacea
  Used for bites that have blueness or for gangrene after bites and any type. Used for septic conditions.

• Hypericum
  Used when bites are extremely painful. Sharp or shooting pains from a bite or sting, soothing effect on injuries to nerve-rich body areas. Use after puncture wounds, including bites and stings. Shooting pains or pains have numbness and tingling.

• Lachesis
  Used when a sting or bite causes a blue or purplish discoloration to the skin. Used for swelling form venomous bites including spider bites.

• Lactrodectus Mactans
  Used for poisonous stings and bites, especially spider bites.  There is pain in the effective part and heart palpitations.

• Ledum palustre
  Watery swellings which may look red and inflamed. For itching bites or stings from mosquitoes, bees, wasps, spiders and rats. The itching is relieved by cold applications and is very sensitive to touch. Swelling extends beyond from the bite, often with a bluish tinge. The feeling of cold and numbness and aching pain. Swollen part seems cold to touch, but  ice or cold water brings relief.

• Plantago
  Used topically similar to Calendula to help sooth the skin from bee and wasp stings.

• Pyrogenium|
  Used is the wound from a poisonous insect bite or sting or a spider bite that  becomes septic or develops red stripes extending from the wound site.  This is administered for a spider bite if there is no improvements seen with Lachesis.

• Staphysagria
  Large bites which may itch violently with smarting, stinging pains which are worse for cold, better for warmth. When mosquito or other insect bites itch excessively or become large welts, this medicine should be given. Also used for lice and to help prevent lice.

• Tarentula Cubensis
  Used for burning pains from bites and stings and septic conditions.  There is a great restlessness.

• Urtica urens
  Itchy blotchy skin reactions, looks like nettle rash. Reddish blotches that burn and itch intensely, like a nettle sting after insect bites. For hives that sting and itch.

• Vespa Crabro
  Used for stings from bees and wasps with a cutting sensation or the sensation of being pulled by a hook.

Cell Salts For Insect Bites

• Ferrum phos 6X and Kali mur 6X.  Dose 5 pills dry of each, every 1- 2 hours, until there is improvement.  Read more about cell salts here.

Recommended For Topical Use

• SsstingStop® Topical Gel by Boericke & Tafel - a homeopathic combination topical remedy that is excellent for mosquito bites.

Natural Herbal Bug Spray to Make At Home

Combine these oils together in the water and spray area or arms/legs. Remember to not spray into face. Reapply as needed during exposure.

• 2 drop Ginger
• 8 drops Vetiver
• 6 drops Lavender
• 4 drops Lemon
• 3 drops Wormwood oil

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