Have you ever taken any HOMEOPATHIC medicine/remedy like Graphites?

Question

My mom ordered some for my horrid menstrual late problems.

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Answer 1

I take homeopathics reguarly for allergies, headaches, menstrual cramps, water retention...my experience has been very positive. It's interesting to note that homeopathics are regulated by the FDA as are "regular" medicines, which is something that can't be said for herbal or nutrition therapy. (Not meaning any slight to herbal or nutrition therapy, it's just interesting to note that even government doctors recognize that homeopathics are medicinally potent). The effectiveness of the treatment is very individualized - you might find your symptoms responding very quickly to treatment, or you might need to repeat or up your dose to feel the effects. In any case, homeopathics are completely safe and will never interact with any other medicines you are taking. Check out www.boiron.com for some info - they're a reputable producer of homeopathic medicines. Good luck!

Answer 2

homeopathic Remedy Graphites:

The homeopathic remedy is made from plumbago or black lead, a mixture of carbon, iron and silica. At one time black lead was used to treat cold sores.

Constitutional indications Elderly women who are overweight, constipated, chilly and rather melancholy respond well to Graphites. So do coarse-featured, dark-haired individuals with earthy complexions. The Graphites type often does hard manual work in the open air or drives heavy goods vehicles.

Mental symptoms alleviated Indecisiveness, timidity, unresponsiveness to external events; poor short-term memory; awareness that mind is not fully alert and in control causes anxiety; occasional depression; easily startled; tendency to become maudlin and weepy when listening to music.

Physical symptoms alleviated Hair loss; numbness and cramps in hands and feet; intolerance of bright light; deafness which improves with background noise; weepy eczema behind ears; face which feels as if there is a cobweb over it; periodically feeling very hot and sweaty, usually followed by a nosebleed; swollen glands; rough, dry, cracked skin; keloids; cold sores; tendency for slightest cut or abrasion to turn septic; skin lesions which exude thick honey-coloured pus; hardening of old scars; duodenal ulcers, soothed by hot food and by lying down, or duodenal ulcers which alternate with skin complaints; aversion to sweets, fish and salty foods; in women, late periods accompanied by constipation, infrequent or scanty periods, enlarged ovaries or hardening of the breasts; constipation, with large, knotty stools passed with a lot of straining.

The above symptoms tend to wear off in the dark or after sleep, but are aggravated by cold, sweet foods, seafood and suppression of skin eruptions with steroids, etc. Discomfort is often worse during periods and usually located on the left side.

Complementary remedies Hepar sulph, Lycopodium.

Antidoting remedies Nux, Aconite, Arsenicum, China.

2. Graphites

A woman who is chilly, pale, and sluggish-with trouble concentrating, and a tendency toward weight gain during or after menopause-is likely to respond to this remedy. Hot flushing and sweats at night are often seen. A person who needs this remedy may also have a tendency toward skin problems with oozing cracked eruptions, and be very slow to become alert when waking in the morning.

Homeopathy Dosage Directions

Select the remedy that most closely matches the symptoms. In conditions where self-treatment is appropriate, unless otherwise directed by a physician, a lower potency (6X, 6C, 12X, 12C, 30X, or 30C) should be used. In addition, instructions for use are usually printed on the label.

Many homeopathic physicians suggest that remedies be used as follows: Take one dose and wait for a response. If improvement is seen, continue to wait and let the remedy work. If improvement lags significantly or has clearly stopped, another dose may be taken. The frequency of dosage varies with the condition and the individual. Sometimes a dose may be required several times an hour; other times a dose may be indicated several times a day; and in some situations, one dose per day (or less) can be sufficient.

If no response is seen within a reasonable amount of time, select a different remedy.

Answer 3

I've taken this test multiple times before, and i always contend that the answer for number 8 is 120 minutes (versus 60 minutes). the question should be how long do the pills themselves last, that way there isn't a misinterpretation about whether the question is referring to the physical object or the effect of a pill. Otherwise great "test." = )

Answer 4

I'm a big fan of proper nutrition/
quality food supplements/
vitamins/minerals/herbals/
even aromatherapy. But
homeopathics are questionable. Why? In their
original and educated form, they would probably work.
But--they are now subject to
whatever??? Much of what's
sold in this country comes from uneducated countries
trying to make big bucks off
Americans. Who's to know
what's in those pills OR where
they came from? I have a lot
of alternative therapy knowledge and I have NEVER
heard of graphites for healing.
Graphite is a metal.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

Homeopathic remedies are prescribed on individual patient symptoms, remember Homeopathy treats the patient not the disorder or disease. There are a lot of remedies for menstrual problems. If you can give your symptoms in detail, I can help you find the right remedy. I am giving the symptoms of GRAPHITES below please read carefully if you have the symptoms it will help cure your disorder otherwise you will have to find the remedy which is the most similar to your symptoms.

GRAPHITES
Black Lead-Plumbago

Like all the carbons, this remedy is an anti-psoric of great power, but especially active in patients who are rather stout, of fair complexion, with tendency to skin affections and constipation, fat, chilly, and costive, with delayed menstrual history, take cold easily. Children impudent, teasing, laugh at reprimands. Has a particular tendency to develop the skin phase of internal disorders. Eradicates tendency to erysipelas. Anæmia with redness of face. Tendency to obesity. Swollen genitals. Gushing leucorrhœa. Aids absorption of cicatricial tissue. Induration of tissue. Cancer of pylorus. Duodenal ulcer.

Mind.--Great tendency to start. Timid. Unable to decide. Want of disposition to work. Fidgety while sitting at work. Music makes her weep. Apprehensive, despondency, indecision.

Head.--Rush of blood to head with flushed face also with nose bleed and distension and flatulence. Headache in morning on waking, mostly on one side, with inclination to vomit. Sensation of cobweb on forehead. Feels numb and pithy. Rheumatic pains on one side of head, extending to teeth and neck. Burning on vertex. Humid, itching eruption on hairy scalp, emitting a fetid odor. Cataleptic condition.

Eyes.--Ophthalmia, with intolerance of artificial light. Eyelids red and swollen. Blepharitis. Dryness of the lids. Eczema of lids; fissured.

Ears.--Dryness of inner ear. Cracking in ears when eating. Moisture and eruptions behind the ears. Hears better in noise. Hardness of hearing. Hissing in the ears. Detonation in ear like report of a gun. Thin, white, scaly membrane covering membrane tympani, like exfoliated epithelium. Fissures in and behind the ear.

Nose.--Sore on blowing it; is painful internally. Smell abnormally acute; cannot tolerate flowers. Scabs and fissures in nostrils.

Face.--Feels as if cobwebs were on it. Eczema of nose. Itching pimples. Moist eczema around mouth and chin. Erysipelas, burning and stinging.

Mouth.--Rotten odor from mouth. Breath smells like urine. Burning blisters on tongue, salivation. Sour eructations.

Stomach.--Aversion to meat. Sweets nauseate. Hot drinks disagree. Nausea and vomiting after each meal. Morning sickness during menstruation. Pressure in stomach. Burning in stomach, causing hunger. Eructation difficult. Constrictive pain in stomach. Recurrent gastralgia. Flatulence. Stomach pain is temporarily relieved by eating, hot drinks especially milk and lying down.

Abdomen.--Nauseous feeling in abdomen. Fullness and hardness in abdomen, as from incarcerated flatulence; must loosen clothing; presses painfully at abdominal ring. Croaking in abdomen. Inguinal region sensitive, swollen. Pain of gas opposite the side on which he lies. Chronic diarrhœa, stools brownish, liquid, undigested, offensive. Very fetid gas preceded by colic.

Stool.--Constipation; large, difficult, knotty stools united by mucus threads. Burning hæmorrhoids. Prolapse, diarrhœa; stools of brown fluid, mixed with undigested substance, very fetid, sour odor. Smarting, sore anus, itching. Lump stool, conjoined with threads of mucus. Varices of the rectum. Fissure of anus (Ratanhia; Paeonia).

Urine.--Turbid, with sediment. Sour smelling.

Female.--Menses too late, with constipation; pale and scanty, with tearing pain in epigastrium, and itching before. Hoarseness, coryza, cough, sweats and morning sickness during menstruation. Leucorrhœa, pale, thin, profuse, white, excoriating, with great weakness in back. Mammæ swollen and hard. Induration of ovaries and uterus and mammæ. Nipples sore, cracked, and blistered. Decided aversion to coitus.

Male.--Sexual debility, with increased desire; aversion to coition; too early or no ejaculation; herpetic eruption on organs.

Respiratory.--Constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, suffocative attacks wakes from sleep; must eat something. Pain in middle of chest, with cough, scraping and soreness. Chronic hoarseness with skin affections. Inability to control the vocal chords; hoarseness on beginning to sing and for breaking voice.

Extremities.--Pain in nape of neck, shoulders and back and limbs. Spinal pains. Pain in small of back with great weakness. Excoriation between thighs. Left hand numb; arms feel asleep; finger-nails thick, black, and rough, matrix inflamed (Psor; Fluor ac). Œdema of lower limbs. Toe-nails crippled. Stiffness and contraction of toes. Nails brittle and crumbling. Nails deformed, painful, sore, thick, and crippled. Cracks or fissures in ends of fingers. Offensive perspiration of feet.

Skin.--Rough, hard, persistent dryness of portions of skin unaffected by eczema. Early stage of keloid and fibroma. Pimples and acne. Eruptions, oozing out a sticky exudation. Rawness in bends of limbs, groins, neck, behind ears. Unhealthy skin; every little injury suppurates. Ulcers discharging a glutinous fluid, thin and sticky. Swelling and induration of glands. Gouty nodosities. Cracks in nipples, mouth, between toes, anus. Phlegmonous erysipelas of face; burning and stinging pain. Swelling of feet. Wens. Chronic Poison Oak.

Modalities.--Worse, warmth, at night, during and after menstruation. Better, in the dark, from wrapping up.

Relationship.--Complementary: Argent nit (follows well in gastric derangements); Caustic; Hep; Lycop; Ars; Tuberc.

Compare: Petrol; Sep; Sulph; Fluor ac. The associated constipation with mucus-covered stools and gastric flatulency should be taken into consideration and differentiate it from such remedies as Petrol and Lycop (Raue).

Antidote: Nux; Acon; Ars.

Dose.--Sixth to thirtieth potency. Locally as a cerate, in sore nipples.

(The above proving of GRAPHITES is taken from THE HOMŒOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA by Dr.William BOERICKE, M.D)

Take Care and God Bless.