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HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES IN ‘FIRST AID’ APPLICATIONSshort booklet of how to respond in an emergency situation to comfort suffering and offer assistance until the doctor is available. - Alice Magooey |
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PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS You encounter someone who has just had an accident. You can know for sure that they are in shock. Your desire would be just to make them comfortable until medical help comes, and make sure they are out of harms way. The first aid books give basic proceedures. I remember two basics. #1. call 911 immediately OUTLINE OF STEPS ...HOW YOU MIGHT ASSESS AN EMERGENCY SITUATION What to look for as you assess, and question. #1. Is the person breathing? Is it laboured? Take steps to clear
air passages. Get the patient to a place where you can have them free of surrounding dangers (without causing them further injury or discomfort by moving them unnecessarily). Use great care and caution if you need to move the person. Have them on their back, with head raised slighly, feet raised slightly, and knees bent, feet flat on ground, ideally speaking. This keeps their abdominal muscles realxed. Cover them to keep them warm. Continually reassure the person, whether they appear to be conscious or not. Red cross courses instruct that it is important, once the patient is out of harms way, to make sure the person is breathing. Listen, put head on chest ...is their movement? If not, then you will need to clear the air passages and throat. Tilt the head back by lifting the chin with one hand and pressing down on the forehaed with the other. This opens the air passages. If the victim does not breathe, turn head to the side, put finger in mouth and remove foreign matter, if any. Listen for breathing. Perform mouth to mouth resusitation, if necessary. Pinch nose shut with your finger and thumb. Deliver two quick breaths. Check for breathing. Continue giving one breath every five seconds. You may need to give CPR. Your Red Cross course will have tought you how. Generally, it is not advisable to give liquids to a person. Be cautious in doing this as it may not be the correct thing to do. Probably best to avoid this. Leave it to the medical professionals. If they say they are very thirsty, this may be a key to what homeopathic remedy may be required. *** Acting using homeopathy *** Ii think that once the person is comfortable, and you have somewhat calmed him/her, it would be safe to administer one or two tablets of a homeopathic medicine ...under the tongue. The first thing you would want to help is the patients mental state. Two remedies which may be most applicable for the most basic mental conditions of shock, fright, fear would be either Arnica 30, or Aconite 30 ...which you would have in your first aid kit. Arnica has been said to be the most widely used remedy for shock and distress of all types. It assists mentally and physically. It is especially recommended if you see that the patient has been wounded or injured as Arnica has a special influence to assist the body’s resources in dealing with injuries of all types. From what I understand, one dose of the 30x Arnica may be given under the tongue (unless there is bleeding in the mouth from wounds mouth, in which case i think it would not be given). Wait 10 minutes, then give another remedy, if required, such as Aconite or Ledum, or a remedy for deep tissue wounds, or to assist the body to deal with other symptoms you may encounter. Repeat Arnica if nothing else given, after 15 minutes from the first dose. Aconite is a remedy for mental shock and terror. It is indicated for ailments for fright and shock, such as natural disasters, violence done to loved ones or friends, terrorist events, etc. An Aconite mental state is frantic and fearing for their life ...Also for delusions that someone may kill them. Also ailments from cold winds. Sudden onset of symptoms. If there are external wounds which you are able to attend to, care may be used to wash them gently with a diluted solution of tincture of Calendula which you may have in your first aid kit. This assists in stopping the bleeding, and promotes healing. If you wish to further prevent sepsis, you may use a dilute tincture of Ledum. If you see bruising and swelling, you will know that you have done the best possible thing in having administered Arnica 30,(two tablets under the tongue) in that this medicine assists the body's healing activities to actively assist the body to absorb and allay internal and external bleeding more effectively. If there are any puncture wounds, a dose of Ledum 30 may be given, especially if tetanus is a threat. Externally applied Ledum tincture may also be applied to puncture wounds. If the person complains of shooting pains from wounds, a dose of Hypericum 30 or externally applied hypericum tincture may be administered. |
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