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Health queries

Dry eyes

While reading for sometime or while watching TV, my eyes get red, painful and itchy with a sand like sensation in the eyes. I have been prescribed some artificial eyedrops, which I need to use three to four times a day. Can homoeopathy help? - Venkataraman.

Bryonia, Sulphur and Natrum Mur are a few remedies which help reduce the dry eyes and the need for artificial tears can be brought down to a certain extent. Consult a homoeopath.

Itchy ears

I have itching inside the ears compelling me to use earbuds and I can feel the dryness in the ear canal. Can homoeopathy help? - Abhishek.

The dryness of the earlobes can be reduced transiently by emollients like paraffin while appropriate homoeopathic medicines like Petroleum, Sarsaparilla and Sulphur help provide relief.

Fistula

There is intermittent pain and oozing from the buttocks area.

An abscess was cleared three years ago and ever since there is this oozing of pus. Can homoepathy help? -Abc.

Tendency for formation of abscess is what you are troubled with and if the infection in the area has not cleared completely there is intermittent oozing.

Homoeopathic medicine has good remedies to clear the pus and over a period of time, medication can help prevent recurrence.

Hepatitis B

Is there any cure for Hepatitis B in homoeopathy? - abc.

The aim of any system of medicine as of now, is to keep the virus silent or the disease in remission or an inactive phase.

f the liver function tests are abnormal then homeopathic medicine can be used in trying to attain the inactive phase. Consult a homoeopath with all details. I am sure homoeopathic medicine would be of help to you.

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