🌿 Traditional Herbal Medicine Profile
This page outlines the crude botanical applications, traditional herbal infusions, and active properties of Gunpowder. Herbal preparations act biochemically on body tissues.
▲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.
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
▲HERBAL INTERACTIONS & SAFETY
📊 Comparative Herbal Actions:
Calen, externally is also complementary. Compare: Thuja, Sil., Bar-c. - septic tonsils.
▲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 suppuration.
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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This clinical profile is compiled from: Andrew Chevallier, FNIMH — Herbal Remedies (Eyewitness Companions), and Dr. David Keifer, MD — Herbal Remedies Reference Guide. Synced with traditional botanical use and pharmacological outlines.
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