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Quest Health Library - Test Your Knowledge

HOMOEOPATHY - 4

For information, please refer to the 'Homoeopathy' section of the Quest Health Library.

Q1: Match the homoeopathic remedy with the 'symptom' picture for colds and 'flu: (5 marks)

1: Aconite
Dry cough, breathing painful, often with headache
Sudden onset, rapidly developing shivers, high fever
Head cold with or without sore throat, backache, very shivery and irritable
Gradual, low-grade fever, aching of head and neck, mentally dulled
Infected catarrh, chesty cough, bad breath, coated tonsils, green phlegm

2: Gelsemium
Dry cough, breathing painful, often with headache
Sudden onset, rapidly developing shivers, high fever
Head cold with or without sore throat, backache, very shivery and irritable
Gradual, low-grade fever, aching of head and neck, mentally dulled
Infected catarrh, chesty cough, bad breath, coated tonsils, green phlegm

3: Bryonia
Dry cough, breathing painful, often with headache
Sudden onset, rapidly developing shivers, high fever
Head cold with or without sore throat, backache, very shivery and irritable
Gradual, low-grade fever, aching of head and neck, mentally dulled
Infected catarrh, chesty cough, bad breath, coated tonsils, green phlegm

4: Merc sol
Dry cough, breathing painful, often with headache
Sudden onset, rapidly developing shivers, high fever
Head cold with or without sore throat, backache, very shivery and irritable
Gradual, low-grade fever, aching of head and neck, mentally dulled
Infected catarrh, chesty cough, bad breath, coated tonsils, green phlegm

5: Nux vom
Dry cough, breathing painful, often with headache
Sudden onset, rapidly developing shivers, high fever
Head cold with or without sore throat, backache, very shivery and irritable
Gradual, low-grade fever, aching of head and neck, mentally dulled
Infected catarrh, chesty cough, bad breath, coated tonsils, green phlegm

 
Q2: The following may be suitable for coughs: (3 marks)
A homoeopathic remedy for a person with obvious wheezing and uses an inhaler several times in a short space of time True False
Drosera for a dry, racking cough which is especially bad from the moment the sufferer goes to bed True False
Pulsatilla for a chesty cough spasms with a marked tendency to vomit during or after coughing True False
 
Q3: Which of these symptom pictures match Belladonna? (3 marks)
a) Bright red, hot, throbbing, angry True False
b) Severe grief or emotional upset True False
c) 'Workaholics' with burn out True False
 
Q4: Which remedy would match these skin-related symptom pictures. (5 marks)

1: Hepar sulph
a) Poor complexion in a fair skinned person
b) Area afflicted by a pronounced burning sensation in a chilly patient
c) Extremely tender, infected and inflamed spots
d) Red spots that develop very quickly and feel hot
e) Itchy skin with boils that keep coming back

2: Arsen alb
a) Poor complexion in a fair skinned person
b) Area afflicted by a pronounced burning sensation in a chilly patient
c) Extremely tender, infected and inflamed spots
d) Red spots that develop very quickly and feel hot
e) Itchy skin with boils that keep coming back

3: Sulphur
a) Poor complexion in a fair skinned person
b) Area afflicted by a pronounced burning sensation in a chilly patient
c) Extremely tender, infected and inflamed spots
d) Red spots that develop very quickly and feel hot
e) Itchy skin with boils that keep coming back

4: Pulsaltilla
a) Poor complexion in a fair skinned person
b) Area afflicted by a pronounced burning sensation in a chilly patient
c) Extremely tender, infected and inflamed spots
d) Red spots that develop very quickly and feel hot
e) Itchy skin with boils that keep coming back

5: Belladonna
a) Poor complexion in a fair skinned person
b) Area afflicted by a pronounced burning sensation in a chilly patient
c) Extremely tender, infected and inflamed spots
d) Red spots that develop very quickly and feel hot
e) Itchy skin with boils that keep coming back

 
Q5: A person's foot has a bunion that hurts. The joint is stiff and swollen. A chair may be offered to enable rest while the complaint is discussed. Wincing is experienced on first moving, but movement seems easier once the joint is moving again. Choose true or false from the following advice. (5 marks)
a) Suggest the doctor is consulted True False
b) A Guide to Homoeopathy may be shown True False
c) A discussion between a member of staff and the sufferer helps decide the remedy most suited to the symptom picture True False
d) Rhus tox would seem to match the symptom picture True False
e) It is suggested that the sufferer goes home and keeps the foot as cool as possible True False
 
Q6: Some general remedy pictures: (3 marks)

1: Euphrasia
a) Foul smelling, stringy discharge from the nose
b) A remedy for a person with lots of sneezes and sore, watering eyes
c) A sore throat through too much smoking

2: Nux vom
a) Foul smelling, stringy discharge from the nose
b) A remedy for a person with lots of sneezes and sore, watering eyes
c) A sore throat through too much smoking

3: Kali bich
a) Foul smelling, stringy discharge from the nose
b) A remedy for a person with lots of sneezes and sore, watering eyes
c) A sore throat through too much smoking