Gunpowder
Black powder (potassium nitrate/charcoal/sulfur mixture) · Human-made/chemical
Gunpowder is primarily indicated for septic and blood-poisoned states rather than a specific constitutional type. The remedy is used for any condition involving infection, suppuration, or blood-poisoning, including boils, abscesses, carbuncles, and antidoting vaccinosis. Its combination of Carbon, Sulphur, and Kali Nitricum accounts for its broad anti-infective action.
Key symptoms
- Septic conditions, blood poisoning, and infected wounds
- Boils, abscesses, carbuncles, and suppuration
- Antidotes vaccinosis effectively
- Prevention and cure of infection generally
- Acne and skin infections
- Septic tonsillitis and osteo-myelitis
- Bites and poisoned cuts
Black Gunpowder. Carbon-Sulphur-Kali-Nitricum.
Clinical
Abscesses. Acne. Bites. Blood-poisoning. Boils. Carbuncles. Cuts, poisoned. Ivy (Hedera) poisoning. Osteo-myelitis. Tonsillitis, septic. Vaccinosis. Worms.
Characteristics
Black Gunpowder is a mixture and not a chemical compound. But for all that, it is a unit, and can be used as such in medicine. As it contains three potent remedies, two of them polychrests, there is little wonder at its medicinal powers. A fourth substance may have some share in its working, as a correspondent of The Homœopathic World writes that Graphites is used in its manufacture to give a coating to the grains. In its crude form it is an old-established remedy among the rank and file in the Army for gonorrhœa, syphilis, and blood disorders in general, especially boils. The London Police Force also know it as a boil remedy. "Get six-pennyworth 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 …
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