Tonsillitis and Homeopathy

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What Is Tonsillitis?
Tonsillitis is the swelling or inflammation of the tonsils. The tonsils are the two round shaped glands in the back part of the throat. They are the first defense system of the body to keep viruses or bacteria entering the body at  the throat. The tonsils help top bacteria or virus from entering the respiratory system or the digestive system. When the tonsils themselves become infected, the condition is called tonsillitis and the tonsils swell and to feel painful.

Symptoms Of Tonsillitis

• A redness and swelling of the tonsils that are painful.
• Excess salivation and dribbling of saliva.
• Head turning may be painful from inflammation.
• Fever may be present.
• Pain extends into the ears; ear ache.
• Pain on swallowing - both from solids or liquids. Even swallowing saliva may cause pain.
• Painful or painless lymph node enlargement below the angle of lower jaw
• Fever with chill and tiredness.
• Recurrent or repeated attack of cold and cough.
• Ear ache.
• Bad breath (halitosis).

Main Homeopathic Remedies for Tonsillitis

• Arsenic album
  Tonsillitis with restlessness and increased thirst. Enlarged tonsils. One of the best homeopathic medicines for tonsillitis. The tonsils get inflamed due to exposure to cold or after taking cold drinks or cold food. Hot drinks or hot food relieves the pain. Fever may be present along with tonsillitis.

• Baryta carbonica
  For acute tonsillitis that recurs on exposure to cold. Swelling of the glands. Mild cases, who have an attack from any exposure. Useful in cases where a cold settles in the tonsils. Stitching and smarting pain, worse for empty swallowing. Can swallow only liquids. Tonsils inflamed with swollen veins. Helpful for children who have a chronic enlargement of the glands and tonsils. Tendency to tonsillitis in delayed and bashful children. Baryta carb has an affinity for the right side.

• Belladonna
  Tonsillitis with great redness with heat and burning. Used early and acute in the case of tonsillitis. Redness and swelling. The neck is swollen and stiff externally. Ulcers form rapidly and the right side is worse. Tonsils swell and enlarge. Swallowing is difficult and it is even more difficult to swallow liquids. The face becomes hot, red and flushed. The mouth and throat are dry but there is no desire to drink water. High grade fever may be present. ‘Strawberry’  tongue, right side is worse.

• Hepar sulphur
  One of the best remedies for tonsillitis with pus formation in the tonsils. Intense pain and sensitivity. Slightest cold air or water makes pain worse. Pain in the throat as if a splinter is there on swallowing. Pain may extend to the ears while swallowing. Chilliness. Splinter-like and throbbing pains. Abscess  on tonsils. Extremely sensitive to touch. Pain shoots into ears.

• Mercurius solubilis
  Tonsillitis with increased perspiration. Great swelling. Dark red swelling in the tonsils. Back of the throat is deep red. Tonsils darker than any other part. Constant desire to swallow. Chilliness. Change of weather aggravates the tonsils.  Pain is increased at night. Increased salivation in the mouth that is thick.  Breath is foul. Used in more advanced stages of tonsillitis after pus has formed. Ulcers may form. Stinging pains and difficult breathing from the swelling. Profuse sweating without relief. Profuse salivation, breath offensive. Tongue large flabby with imprint of teeth. Moist tongue with thirst. Worse at night, damp, cold rainy weather.

Other Homeopathic Remedies for Tonsillitis

• Amygdala Persica 
  Dark injection of the arched opening at the back of the mouth leading to the pharynx. Sharp pains and difficulty swallowing.

• Apis mellifica
  Swelling of the tonsils. Throat is swollen both inside and outside. Swelling is pinkish in appearance. Involves the mucous surface.

• Arsenicum iodium
  Tonsils swollen, burning, Persistently irritating, corrosive  discharges, Breath fetid and glandular involvement.

• Bromium
  Red swollen tonsils covered with a network of capillaries.

• Calcarea phosphorica
  Chronic enlargement of the tonsils. Flabby, pale tonsils with inflammation and impaired hearing. Used in adenoid hypertrophy.

• Calcarea iodata
  Enlargement of the tonsils similar to Baryta. They are hard, red and nodular.

• Capsicum
  Tonsillitis, burning and smarting sensation, not better by heat.Constriction of throat. Intense soreness. Inflamed, dark red, swollen.

• Echinacea
  Tonsils purple or black, grey exudation extending to postnares and air passages.

• Eucalyptus
  Tonsils enlarged, ulcerated and throat inflamed

• Ferrum phosphoricum
  Chronic enlarged hyperaemic tonsils; smooth swelling. Right sided. Person is nervous, sensitive, anemic with easy flushing. Prostration marked. Worse Night, 4 - 6pm. Worse touch, jarring, motion. Better for cold applications.

• Gelsemium
  Painful spot deep in tonsil, hurting out of proportion on swallowing, Red, inflamed throat. Pain streaking to ear, rapid progress.

• Ignatia
  For ollicular tonsillitis. Small yellowish white ulcers. Sensation of a plug in throat. Worse when not swallowing.

• Iodium
  Enlarged lymphatic glands. Great emaciation, ravernous appetite. Acute exacerbation of c/c inflammation. Hot person. Worse Warm room. Better walking in open air.

• Guaiacum
  Violent burning, headache, throat hot, chill and aching in back and limbs. Abscesses form quickly.

• Kali muriaticum
  For follicular tonsillitis with great swelling. Throat has a gray look spotted, with white. It is a valuable remedy in acute or chronic tonsillitis with much swelling. The 6x trituration is a reliable preparation.

• Kali iodatum
  Pale, delicate person with glandular swellings. Extreme sensitiveness of parts affected. Nocturnal aggravation. Discharges are corrosive and green.

• Lac Canium
  Begins on left side, changing from side to side every few hours or days. Sensitive to touch externally. Constant inclination to swallow, painful almost impossible. Pain extends to ears.  Sore throat and cough may begin and end with menses. Probably no remedy presents a more valuable pathogenesis in symptoms of the throat.

• Lachesis
  Dark or purplish tonsils. Peritonsillar abscess. Great swelling and extremely sore. Left tonsil worse with tendency to go to right. Pains shoot to ear on attempting to swallow. Worse from hot drinks. Sense of constriction, as if something was swollen which must be swallowed. External throat extremely sensitive to touch. Severe rheumatic pain following tonsillitis. Pus is thin and offensive.  Left tonsils affected, tendency to go to right.

• Lycopodium
  Chronic enlargement of the tonsils, which are covered with small ulcers. Affects right side or right to left. Children are weak, emaciated, with well developed head. Worse 4-8 pm, cold drinks. Better for warm drinks.

• Mercurius iodatus flavus
  Right  sided. Throat affections with greatly swollen glands. Tongue  coated thickly yellow at the base. Constant inclination to swallow. Better for cold drinks.

• Mercurius iodatus ruber
  Left sided with  marked glandular swelling. Parenchymatous tonsillitis. Will often abort peritonsillitis if given frequently.

• Nat mur
  Great emaciation, losing flesh while eating well. Great liability to take cold. Craving for salt, aversion to bread. Consolation aggravates. Worse in heat of sun, by sea shore. Better in open air, cold bathing

• Nitric acid
  Catches cold easily. Sensation of splinter in throat, worse from touch. Extreme fetidity and corrosiveness of all discharges. Chilly, loves salt and fat. Depressed and anxious. Worse, evening and night, cold climate. Better riding in car.

• Nux vomica
  Irritable and oversensitive to external impression. Coryza dry at night, fluent by day, worse warm room, better cold air. Easily chilled, avoids open air. Frequent ineffectual urging for stool. Worse morning, cold air, damp wet weather.

• Phytolacca
  Whitish spots on the tonsils. Pain at the root of the tongue or extending to the ears when swallowing. The parts are dark blue; the tonsils are large and blue. Intense dryness, smarting and burning and in the throat.

• Silicea
  When the abscess has broken and does not to heal. Fistulous cases.

• Thuja
  Swelling of tonsils and throat. Accumulation of a large quantity of tenacious mucus in mouth. Throat feels raw, dry, as from a plug, or as if it were constricted  when swallowing. Ill effects of vaccination. Sweat only on uncovered  parts or all over except head, stops when he wakes. Profuse sour smelling fetid at night. Worse in cold damp air, at night. Worse 3am and 3pm.

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