Aconite N: Should be thought of at the onset of the disease. Anxiety, restlessness and soreness are the leading symptoms.
Belladonna: This remedy is indicated when the tonsils become inflamed as a result of exposure. They look red and engorged. Throbbing pain which extends to ears.
Silicea: Severe tonsillitis; pricking pains. Is indicated when the abscess is broken and does not heal.
Merc. Iod: Is an excellent remedy for tonsilitis especially when there is pain on the left side.
Streptococcin: Give as an intercurrent remedy in inflammation of tonsils with high fever.
Phytolacca: When the pain shoots into the ears. There is eruption of vesicles on mucus membranes and upon larynx. Cold drinks agree whereas hot drinks impossible to swallow. Inflammation of the throat which is dark red or almost blue. Hoarseness and dry cough.
Hepar Sulph: When suppuration is inevitable. Ulcers in the throat, sensation of splinters or fish bones in the throat, pain extending to ears. Better by warm drinks.
Apis Mel: Swelling of throat with stinging and burning pains, better by cold. Tongue and vulva swollen and puffed. Vulva hangs down and causes suffocation with consequent danger of death.
Baryta Carb: Head remedy for chronic enlargement of tonsils. Children are slow in development with a backward mentality. Post-nasal catarrh with frequent bleeding from the nose. Suppuration of tonsils on catching cold. Better open air; dry weather. Use 200 dilution in chronic trouble and 6 dilution in acute cases.
Laurocerasus: Spasmodic contraction of throat and oesophagus; drink rolls audibly down the oesophagus and through the intestines.
Opium: When drinking the fluid does not go down but passes out through the nose; paresis of oesophagus. Fluids go round the wrong way.
Bromine: Spasmodic constriction of glottis.
Ignatia: Pain and suffering in throat is relieved by swallowing or is worse between the acts of deglutition.
Baptisia: Can swallow liquids only; the least solid gags.
Tuberculinum: This is an intercurrent remedy and should be given in 200 dilution every month.
Thuja: This remedy should be given in alternation with Baryta Carb. 200 every week in chronic enlargement of tonsils. These remedies are not to be given in the week when Tuberculinum is due.
Iodum: Loss of weight with great appetite. Urgent hunger with great thirst. Debility on slightest effort with perspiration. Enlargement of tonsils and thyroid gland. Worse in warm and wet weather. Better in open air and eating. Deafness due to obstruction of eustachian tube.
Merc. Proto Iod: Hypertrophied tonsils combined with chronic post-nasal catarrh.
Lycopodium: When the infection goes from right to left and is better by hot drinks.
Lachesis: When the infection goes from left to right and is worse by hot drinks. Long strings of saliva. Specific for dark angry-looking parts.
Gunpowder: In septic tonsils.
Rhus Tox: Rheumatism of the throat affecting tonsils. Oedematous swelling of the· throat with choking sensation on swallowing liquids.
Mercurius: Tonsillitis starting on right side but better by cold drinks. Tongue thickly coated, with most penetrating offensive smell. Constipation.
Mercurius Biniod: Quinsy. Toxemia caused by the septic condition of the throat. Infection travels from left to right.
Calcarea Iod: Should be thought of when the course of Baryta Carb and Tuberculinum fails and when there enlargement of thyroid gland also.
Baryta Mur: Is also useful when there is pain on swallowing with feeling of plug in the throat.
Calcarea Phos: When there is a pale large swelling of the tonsils.
Calcarea Carb: IM and Tuberculinum IM. In alternation every fortnight have cured chronic tonsils in children with tendency to grow fat and with tendency to eat earth, plaster, paper etc. The same remedies in 200 potency should be tried for a couple of months before IM potency is used. If this
fails, alternate Baryta Carb. 200 and Thuja 200 every week along with Tuberculinum 200 which should be given every month.
Alumen: When the tonsils keep on growing and indurating as a result of tendency to cold which settles in the throat.
