Caries

Calcarea Phos

An excellent remedy for non-union of fractured bones and for caries of bones when they become soft or are wasted away. Curvature of bones.

Angustura Vera

Caries of long bones, cracking of joints. Pain penetrates to the marrow.

Calcarea Carb

Pott's disease. Caries of the spinal cord. Non-development of bones and non-appearance of teeth.

Calcarea Fluor

Enlargement of bones with or without cause. This remedy may be given in alternation with Calcarea Phos. for symptoms similar to those given in Calcarea Phos.

Acid Fluor

Caries with suppuration of long bones getting better or worse periodically. Pains worse at night, with great prostration. Offensive discharge from the ears and nose due to necrosis of the bones.

Platinum

Caries specially of the tarsus.

Silicea

Curvature of bones, rickets and diseases of the hip joint. Offensive sweat may also be present. Fistulous openings, discharge offensive and parts around it hard and swollen.

Aurum Met

In syphilitic patients after abuse of mercury. Caries of the cervical bones and bones of the palate. There is offensive smell and discharge of small pieces of bones.

Asafoetida

Caries of bones with offensive discharge, soreness intolerable, soreness around the ulcers so much so that even the dressing is not tolerated. Pains dull, drawing and burning; worse from rest.

Hecla Lava

In bone diseases including osteo sarcoma, scrofulous and syphilitic osteoitis and exostoses.

Colchicum

Caries of bones, especially when growing ends are affected.

Phosphorus

Head remedy for caries of the bones. May be tried when Silicea fails to cure completely or when progress is arrested.

Staphisagria

Shifting pain in long bones; in neuralgia; in caries.