HOMEOPATHIC ROLE IN TREATMENT OF CHAPPED HANDS AND CRACK IN FINGER TIPS

HOMEOPATHIC ROLE IN TREATMENT OF CHAPPED HANDS AND CRACK IN FINGER TIPS

📌Petroleum:

Cracks at the ends of fingers and on the back of hands. Skin rough or ragged, bleeding, the tissues are hardened. Often much itching. Coldness in spots—stomach, back, abdomen etc.

📌Rhus Tox: Irritation of the skin with tingling and burning. Crawling sensation in the tips of fingers. Skin red and swollen. Worse in cold, wet and rainy weather.

📌Silicea: Delicate pale waxy skin. Cracks at the ends of fingers; pus offensive. Fingers feel dry. Eruptions itch only in day time and evening. The patient is cold, chilly, hugs the fire, hates draughts; hands and feet cold.

📌Sulphur: Rhagades, skin affections after local medication. Worse scratching and washing. Skin is dry, scaly and unhealthy, itches and burns. Hot sweaty hands. Sleep light; wakens easily.

📌Natrum Mur: Dryness and cracking about finger nails. Palms hot and perspiring. Liable to take cold. Great weakness and weariness. Irritable over trifles. Consolation aggravates. Greasy skin.

📌Alumina Silicate: Hands constantly chapped; coldness of hands : coldness of legs and feet; hands cold as ice and fingers blue. Nails brittle.