Homeopathic Treatment of Hepatitis

(remedies for acute and chronic Hepatitis A, B or C strains)

Use remedies in 30c or 200c potency and repeat the dose as symptoms require, stopping on improvement.

Rest in bed lessens damage to the liver. A light diet with no fats and no alcohol allows the liver to recover.

Natrum Sulph

• Main target for this remedy is the liver
• Liver area sore
• Acute or chronic hepatitis, jaundice
• Rumbling and gurgling in bowels
• Spluttering stools
• Diarrhoea and irritability soon after rising in morning
• Worse between 4am and 5am
• Worse for damp weather

Phosphorus

• Tendency to haemorrhage and nose bleeds
• Remedy supports the liver
• Acute hepatitis and jaundice
• Fearful and excitable
• Exhausting diarrhoea

Lycopodium (club moss)

• Great digestive and liver remedy
• Worse for eating oysters and flatulent food
• Eating just a little causes fullness
• Full of fears and anticipation
• Noisy flatulence, full of gas
• Worse between 4pm and 8pm
• Right-sided
• Chronic Hepatitis

Chelidonium (greater celandine)

• Use in 30c potency twice a week, or a 6x potency daily
• Also good as a tincture - take 5 drops twice a day in water
• Has a strong affinity for the liver
• Dull pain under right shoulder blade (liver)
• Urine turns to a dark straw colour
• Eyes dull or yellowish (jaundice)
• Clay-coloured stools
• Give remedy in 30c potency 3 times a week for 2 weeks

Nux Vomica

• Useful if there is indigestion and jaundice
• Acidity, irritability, impatience
• Bad effects of alcohol or drugs (recreational or orthodox)
• Constant retching or straining to vomit
• Straining to stool
• Useful remedy to alternate with Sulphur 6x or 6c potency, to clear the toxic effects of drugs which otherwise have to be processed by the liver (Nux Vomica acts best when given at bedtime; Sulphur in the morning)

Carduus Marianus

• Use as for Chelidonium
• Primarily a liver and spleen remedy
• Liver enlarged; jaundice
• Portal congestion; and congestion of the pelvic organs

Magnesium Muriaticum

• Affinity for liver and digestion
• Very tired on waking; almost toxic
• Tends towards depression
• Peacemakers
• Pain in liver extending to the back