NAIL DISORDERS & HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES

NAILS
1. ANTIMONIUM 1. Arthritic pain in fingers. Nails brittle; grow out of shape.
CRUDUM

2. ANANTHERUM 2. Diseased and deformed nails.

MURICATUM

3. AMMONIUM 3. Irritable feeling under finger nails; relieved only by biting them.
BROMATUM

4. ALUMINA 4. Skin.--Chapped and dry tettery. Brittle nails

5. ALLIUM CEPA 5. Painful affections of fingers about nails neuralgia of stump.
6. BUTYRICUM 6. Crumbling away of finger-nails.
ACIDUM

7. BORAX VENETA 7. Eczema of toes and fingers with loss of nails.

8. Tearing in tips of fingers under nails (Berb)

8. BISMUTHUM
SUBNITRICUM
9. Neuralgia under finger-nails, with swelling of finger-joints. Sensation of cold on
9. BERBERIS outside of thighs.
VULGARIS

10. BENZOLUM
10. Burning taste in mouth. Blue lips, tongue, skin, nails and conjunctivæ.
11. CONIUM
MACULATUM
11. Yellow skin, with papular eruption; yellow fingernails. Glands
enlarged and indurated.
12. COLCHICUM
AUTUMNALE 12. Tingling in the finger nails. Knees strike together, can hardly walk.
OEdematous swelling and coldness of legs and feet.

13. DIOSCOREA 13. Nails brittle.

VILLOSA

14. EUGENIA 14. Skin recedes from the nails, forming pus.
JAMBOS
15. Pricking under the nails.
15. ELAPS
CORALLINUS

16. FLUORICUM 16. Nails grow rapidly. Inflammation of joints of fingers. Feeling as of a
ACIDUM splinter under nail. Nails crumble.
17. GRAPHITES 17Pain in nape of neck, shoulders and back and limbs.
Spinal pains. Pain in small of back with great weakness. Excoriation
between thighs. Left hand numb; arms feel asleep; finger-nails thick,
black, and rough, matrix inflamed (Psor; Fluor ac). OEdema of lower
limbs. Toe-nails crippled. Stiffness and contraction of toes. Nails
 brittle and crumbling. Nails deformed, painful, sore, thick, and
crippled. Cracks or fissures in ends of fingers. Offensive perspiration of
feet.

18. HYPERICUM 18. The great remedy for injuries to nerves, especially of fingers, toes and
PERFORATUM nails.

19. HELLEBORUS 19. Falling off of hair and nails.

NIGER
20. Toe and finger nails become knotty. Skin blue.
20. LAUROCERASUS -
21. Pain in the finger nails with swelling of the phalanges.
21. MYRISTICA
SEBIFERA
22. Fever.--Cold stage predominates. Paroxysms anticipate in morning.
22. NUX VOMICA
Excessive rigor, with blueness of finger-nails.

23. Sweating of palms, hands; cold, blue nails. Offensive sweat in axillæ
23. NITRICUM
at night.
ACIDUM
24. Swelling of axillary glands. Inflammation around root of nails. Burning
24. NATRIUM
SULPHURICUM in soles; oedema of feet; itching between toes. Gout.

25. NATRIUM 25. Dryness and cracking about finger-nails. Numbness and tingling in
MURIATICUM fingers and lower extremities.

26. NAPHTHALINUM 26. Skin.--Dermatitis; itching infiltration. Eruptions at corners of mouth

and pigmentation around nails.

27. PSORINUM 27. Pustules near finger-nails. Eruption around finger-nails.

28. RADIUM 28. Dermatitis of the fingers. Trophic changes in the finger nails.
BROMATUM

29. SULPHUR 29. Pimply eruption, pustules, rhagades, hang-nails. Sulphur--

(coccygodynia, ulceration of nails; pains in hands, in small spots, ankles,
heels, and tendo-Achilles)

30. Affections of finger nails, especially if white spots on nails.Crippled

30. SILICEA TERRA nails. Indurated tumors. Ingrowing toe-nails. Yellow hands and blue nails

31. Cutting sensation under nails (Petrol). Deep rhagades on fingers and
31. SARSAPARILLA
toes; burn under nails.
OFFICINALIS -

32. SABADILLA 32. Skin.--Dry, like parchment. Horny, deformed, thickened nails.
Extremities.--Cracking of skin under and beneath toe; inflammation
under toe-nails.

33. Nails crippled; brittle and soft. Eruptions only on covered parts;
33. THUJA
OCCIDENTALIS

34. TEUCRIUM 34. Suppurating grooves in the nails.Pain in toe-nails, as if they had
MARUM VERUM grown into flesh. Suppurating grooves in the nails.

35. UPAS TIEUT

 35. Skin.--Numb hands and feet. Hangnails inflamed; itching and
redness of roots of nails.
36. X-RAY
36. Warty growths. Nails thicken. Psoriasis. Erythema around roots of
nails.