- Gunpowder was first pub lished in the Homeopathic World, London in 1914 by Clarke.
- A combination remedy of carbon, sulphur🌿 SulphurMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. and potassium🌿 PotassiumMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. 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 that refuse to heal.
- Abscessed bites, infections and wound s, antiseptic.
- Swollen and abscessed glands.
- Osteomyelitis🩺 OsteomyelitisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Poisoning from bad food or water🌿 WaterMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines..
- Poisoning from meats that have been unsuc cessfully tinned.
- Acute infections, boils, abscesses, carbuncles, and bites.
- AntidoteNeutralizing substance or remedyA remedy or substance that stops, counteracts, or neutralizes the action of a previously taken remedy. to ivy and primula rash.
- Antidoting the ill effects of vaccinations.
- Preventative for various kinds of inocula tions.
- Gonorrhea🩺 GonorrheaClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. and syphilis🩺 SyphilisClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options..
- Shingles🩺 ShinglesClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options. of the face and eyes.
- In some country districts a decoction of gunpowder is given to children for worms with much success.
- Blood poisoning.
- Causations-Bites.
- Vaccinations.
- Wounds.
- Gonorrhea.
- Herpes zoster.
- Worms.
- Glands-Swollen and inflamed.
- Swollen axillary glands.
- Abscessed glands.
- COMMENTS-Dr. Clarke referred to the old fashioned gunpowder that was in use before the era of high explosives and smokeless powder.
- Black🌿 BlackMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. 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🩺 ScabiesClinical Disease Treatment Profile: Read homeopathic remedies, dietary recommendations, and natural therapeutic options., actually caused by handling ivy.🌿 Ivy.Materia Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines.
- 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 provingTesting a remedy on healthy volunteersThe systematic method of administering a substance to healthy subjects to observe and record the symptoms it produces. 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🌿 LachesisMateria Medica Clinical Profile: Click to explore Boericke keynotes, symptoms, modalities, and dosage guidelines. 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
