# Gunpowder

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Herbal Remedy
- **Miasm:** Syphilitic Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
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. 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. Antidote 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 - Blood disorders. Blood poisoning. 
Causations - Bites. Blood poisoning. Vaccinations. Wounds. Gonorrhea. Herpes zoster. Worms. 
Glands - Swollen and inflamed. Swollen axillary glands. Abscessed glands.

## Symptoms by System

### Mouth
- Sores, boils.
- Gum abscesses.
- Pyorrhea.

### Urinary & Genital
- Gonorrhea and syphilis.

### Skin
- Boils, abscesses, carbuncles and bites.
- Fistula.
- 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 proving 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.