HOMEOPATHIC APPROACH TO HYPERHIDROSIS

Hyperhidrosis is the name given to excessive and uncontrollable sweating. Sweat isa weak salt solution produced by sweat glands. These are distributed over the entire body but are most numerous on the palms and soles.

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Baryta carbonica

Fetid foot sweat, with callosities on the soles which are painful on walking. Soles feel bruised at night, keeping one awake rising and walking.

Belladonna

Sweat on covered part. Sweat during sleep. Suddenly occurring and suddenly disappearing.

Bovista

Profuse perspiration, especially in armpit. Onion-like smell offensive odour.

Bryonia alba

Sweat on short spell; only on single part; oppressive drawing in head as sweat subsides.

Butyric acid

Preparation on slight exertion; profuse; offensive sweat of feet; crumbling away of fingernails.

Calcarea carbonica

Profuse perspiration, especially on the scalp even while sleeping; leaving the pillow extremely wet. Foot sweat which makes feet sore; feet feel cold and damp, as if she had wet stockings. Burning in the soles. Chilly patient. Catches cold very easily. Craving for eggs and indigestible things like, dirt, chalk, lime, pencil. Suited to fat, fair, and flabby persons.

Carbo vegetabilis

Foot-sweat excoriating toes; toes red, swollen; stinging, as if frosted; tip of toes ulcerated.

Chamomilla

Excessive sweating in women after confinement.

Cinchona officinalis

Exhausting night sweat; partial cold sweat on the face; all over body with thirst.

Conium maculatum

Sweat as soon as one sleeps; or even when closing eyes; night and morning sweat; with offensive odour and smarting in skin.

Crataegus

Excessive sweating; skin eruption.

Graphites

Profuse foot sweat, the most moderate walking causes soreness between toes. Spreading blisters on the toes. Thick and crippled toe-nails.

Ferrum metallicum

Profuse long-lasting sweat. Clammy debilitating sweat especially in anaemic persons.

Hepar sulphuris calcareum

Profuse sweat day and night without relief. Sweat on every mental and physical exertion. Sour, offensive sweat.

Iodum

Acrid, corrosive foot-sweat; oedematous swelling of the feet.

Jaborandi

Copious perspiration. Profuse salivation. Increases secretion of all glandular parts of body.

Kali carbonica

Profuse fetid foot-sweat. Swelling and redness of the soles. Chilblains. Stitches in the painful and sensitive corns. Sweat on upper part of the body, especially after eating.

Lactic acid

Profuse inoffensive sweating of feet.

Lycopodium clavatum

Profuse and fetid foot-sweat, with burning in the soles. One foot hot, the other cold, or both cold and sweaty. Swelling of the soles. They pain when walking. Fissures on the heel.

Magnesia muriatica

Great tendency of head to sweat.

Mercurius solubilis

Profuse perspiration with all complaints; doesn’t get relief. Worse at night.  Breath and body smells foul. Weakness along with sweating. Profuse salivation. Increase thirst.

Petroleum

Feet tender and bathed in a foul moisture. Feet swollen and cold. Hot swelling of the soles, with burning. Heel painfully swollen and red. Chilblain. Tendency of skin to fester and ulcerate.

Phosphorus

Exhausting perspiration all over. Perspiration after walking. Perspiration smelling like garlic.

Polyporus officinalis

Excessive sweating of consumptives.

Psorinum

Profuse perspiration after acute diseases, with relief of all suffering.  Offensive sweat. Cannot tolerate cold air even in hot weather.

Pulsatilla nigricans

Left side sweat; only on feet and head.

Rheum

Copious sweat, especially of scalp. Constant whether sleep, wake, motion, rest. Hairs always wet.

Sambucus nigra

Profuse sweat over entire body during waking hours; on going to sleep, dry heat returns.

Selenium

Profuse sweating on armpit, genitals, on anterior part of body; stains linen yellow and stiffen

Sepia

Profuse foot-sweat or very fetid, causing soreness of toes; burning, or heat of the feet at night; crippled nails.

Silicea

Profuse sweating of feet, hands, and armpits. Extremely offensive, sometimes sour or putrid odour. Nervous, irritable, and obstinate persons. Profuse sweating on hands, because of this difficulty in writing and grasping objects. Profuse offensive sweat in armpit.

Sulphuric caid

Excessive sweating, better after drinking wine.

Sulphur

Profuse sweating. Excessive heat in palms, soles and head with increased sweating. Highly offensive odour.

Thuja occidentalis

Fetid sweat on toes, with redness and swelling of the tips; nets of veins, as if marbled, on the soles of the feet; suppressed foot-sweats, nails crippled, brittle or soft. Sweat on uncovered part. 

Veratrum album

Cold clammy sweat staining linen yellow. Worse on the forehead.

Zincum metallicum

The feet are sweaty and sore about toes; also, fetid. Chilblains from scratching and friction. The suppression of sweat causes paralysis of the feet. Cannot tolerate covering during sweat.

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