Gunpowder

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Gunpowder Reference Specimen Botanical Specimen and Materia Medica Identification
🧬 Remedy Miasm: Syphilitic Miasm The Syphilitic miasm leads to destruction on both physical and mental levels. It presents as ulceration, bone decay, severe depression, and self-destructive tendencies.
GENERAL
  • Gunpowder was first pub lished in the Homeopathic World, London in 1914 by Clarke.
  • A combination remedy of carbon, sulphur and potassium nitrate.
  • Useful for all kinds of blood poisoning, for septic wounds and ptomaine poisoning.
  • Strong history of use in wartime, particularly useful in World War I and II.
  • Gunshot wounds, surgical septicemia, boils.
  • Methane poisoning.
  • Wartime ailments.
  • Blood disorders.
  • Blood poisoning from pyorrhea alveolaris.
  • Septic suppurations.
  • Infected wounds that refuse to heal.
  • Abscessed bites, infections and wound s, antiseptic.
  • Swollen and abscessed glands.
  • Osteomyelitis.
  • Poisoning from bad food or water.
  • Poisoning from meats that have been unsuc cessfully tinned.
  • Acute infections, boils, abscesses, carbuncles, and bites.
  • AntidoteNeutralizing substance or remedyA remedy or substance that stops, counteracts, or neutralizes the action of a previously taken remedy. to ivy and primula rash.
  • Antidoting the ill effects of vaccinations.
  • Preventative for various kinds of inocula tions.
  • Gonorrhea and syphilis.
  • Shingles of the face and eyes.
  • In some country districts a decoction of gunpowder is given to children for worms with much success.
  • Blood poisoning.
  • Causations - Bites.
  • Vaccinations.
  • Wounds.
  • Gonorrhea.
  • Herpes zoster.
  • Worms.
  • Glands - Swollen and inflamed.
  • Swollen axillary glands.
  • Abscessed glands
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MOUTH
  • Sores, boils.
  • Gum abscesses.
  • Pyorrhea
GENITALS ETC
  • Gonorrhea and syphilis
SKIN
  • Boils, abscesses, carbuncles and bites.
  • FistulaAbnormal passage connecting two body partsAn abnormal or surgically made passage between a hollow or tubular organ and the body surface, or between two hollow organs..
  • Infected wounds.
  • Shingles.
  • COMMENTS - Dr.
  • Clarke referred to the old fashioned gunpowder that was in use before the era of high explosives and smokeless powder.
  • Black gunpowder is a m ixture and not a chemical compound.
  • It contains three remedies, two of them polycrests.
  • Gunpowder Nitre with sulphur and charcoal forms gunpowder.
  • A teaspoonful of this in hot water was a favorite remedy for gonorrhea among soldiers when black powder was used.
  • In the lower triturations, gunpowder has cured ascarides in adults.
  • The London Police Force also knew it as a boil remedy.
  • “Get six -penny worth of gunpowder from an oil store and take as much as would lie on a sixpence night and morning for four days and then leave it off for the same time and resume if necessary” is one such prescription.
  • Canon Roland Upcher noted that Norfolk shepherds rubbed gunpowder onto the sheep's wounds made during sheep-shearing, and took it to cure or prevent ill effects from handling sheep who suffered from “foot -rot.” Upcher published cases of skin eruption mistaken fo r scabies, actually caused by handling ivy.
  • Cured with Gunp.
  • 3x.
  • Clarke experimented with Gunp.
  • 2x and developed severe herpes facialis involving the right eyebrow and the right side of the nose.
  • Clarke confirmed the provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. by curing shingles.
  • He heard of a case of lumbrici cured with an infusion of Gunpowder by the patient.
  • A woman, who had a very sensitive skin, was bitten by a gnat on the foot, resulting in swelling inflammation and suppurationFormation or discharge of pusThe process of forming or discharging pus in an infected wound or tissue..
  • There was a ring of inflammation around the bite, constant ly spreading and detach ing the epidermis as it spread.
  • After the failure of several remedies, Gunpowder 3x rapidly cured.
  • A man had a bad cut with a knife on the left index finger.
  • The wound refused to heal.
  • An inflammatory ring stripped off the epidermis and spread more and more.
  • Lachesis and other remedies failed to make any impres- sion.
  • Gunp.
  • 3x rapidly cured.
  • Another woman was very severely poisoned by sewer-gas.
  • There followed swelling of the right arm and axillary glands of the right side.
  • Three mon ths after the accident the right arm was almost fixed at the elbow joint with swelling.
  • 11 threatened suppuration Gunpowder above and below.
  • The axillary glands were as large as a hen's egg.
  • Gunp.
  • 3x gradually resolved the trouble and, though the cure was interrupted by an attack of measles, the motility of the arm was fully restored.
  • Canon Upcher found that occasional doses of Hep highly increase its effects

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📚 Literature Citation & References:
This clinical profile is compiled from: Robin Murphy, MD — Lotus Materia Medica, 3rd Edition; Samuel Hahnemann — Materia Medica Pura; William Boericke — Pocket Manual of Homeopathic Materia Medica; and Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad — Homeopathy: Like Cures Like. Compiled in accordance with classical homeopathic provings and clinical practice.
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