Balsam Peru is one of the excellent remedies in homeopathy and has a traditional reputation as a remedy for the affection of the respiratory system, itch, cracks in the skin, and hectic fever.
It is a wonderful remedy from the vegetable kingdom.
The plant of Balsam Peru is found abundantly in Central and South America.
It is commonly known as Balsam of Peru or Myroxylon Pereirae and belongs to the family Leguminosae.
It is an invaluable remedy in the treatment of various ailments like rhinitis, common cold, and cough, cracked skin, hectic fevers.
The Mother Tincture of Balsam Peru is made from a balsam that flows from the stems of the plant.
Mother Tincture and trituration of the balsam that flows from the stems are prepared and subsequent potencies are made.
The process of dynamization arouses the latent curative powers and makes Balsam Peru an invaluable homeopathic medicine to serve a therapeutic purpose when given in dynamic doses.
It has attained an important position in therapeutic purposes as it is specifically used for diseases of the respiratory tract, common cold, cough, bronchitis, itch, hectic fever associated with weakness, and for leucorrhoea and bladder disorders.
Balsam Peru Constitution /Personality
Balsam Peru is a remedy, best suited for people with weak immune system and who suffers from frequent cold and cough.
It is suited to people who are thermally chilly, and who have complaints of frequent running nose, itching in the nose, and catarrhal condition of bronchi.
It is adapted to the person who is blonde leu-co-phlegmatic mostly pale and anemic.
Guiding symptoms of Balsam Peru
Balsam Peru is one of the best remedies for Characteristic reduction in inflammation of the mucous membranes and effectively cures the condition of runny nose and cold.
It is a wonderful remedy in the treatment of catarrhal phthisis or bronchial catarrh with much copious purulent expectoration.
It is useful in conditions like asthma, where the sputa are thick, creamy, and yellowish white; loud rales are heard, night sweats, and hectic fevers.
It is a great remedy for chronic rhinitis, there is purulent, fetid anterior or posterior nasal catarrh, with or without ulceration.
It is a wonderful remedy for stomach infections that progresses to indigestion with nausea and vomiting.
It is a wonderful remedy for treating stomach-related disorders like stomach infection, bloating due to inflammation of the intestines, and further resulting into vomiting.
It is a top-listed remedy for eruptions, and ulceration of the skin and is usually associated with chronic nasal infection, in form of cold, running nose, and fever.
It is a wonderful remedy for chronic inflammation of the lungs and it relieves obstruction in the chest with breathlessness.
It is a wonderful remedy for urinary disorders like bladder infection or cystitis where there is scanty urine.
It is a wonderful remedy for fever associated with cold and hay fever.
It is a wonderful remedy for treating menstrual disorders with abnormal discharge.
It is used as a wonderful remedy for external application for indolent ulcers, cracked nipples, cracks in fingers and palmer surfaces of hands, or fissured and chapped lips.
The Balsam Peru tincture is also used externally for the itch. All parts affected are gently rubbed with it at night and a bath is taken in the morning.
Balsam Peru Uses
This article will cover from head to toe all the complaints body. And wherever the symptoms are matched, this medicine can be used-
Mind symptoms
Balsam Peru patient often has an irritable mood as the patient frequently suffers from cough and cold.
It is a wonderful remedy for weakness of memory leading to depression of spirit.
It is a great remedy for hectic fevers causing loss of memory and attack after it is over.
Head symptoms
Balsam Peru is a great remedy for headaches but those accompanied by common cold and fever.
There is pain in the whole head with weakness body aches and sinusitis.
It is a wonderful remedy for headaches where there is dull, pressive pain in the vertex extending through the head usually associated with sinusitis.
Eyes symptoms
It is a great remedy for allergic eye conditions where there is redness and increased sensitivity of eyes with dryness of eyes.
There is soreness and inflammation of the eyes due to chronic nasal complaints of running nose, and sinusitis.
Ear symptoms
Balsam Peru is a great remedy for itching in the ears due to frequent coughs and colds the ear canal gets inflamed,
There is progressive deafness to whatever is being said as there spreading of infection from the nose to ears causing otitis.
It is a great remedy for tinnitus in the ears that comes after recurrent rhinitis and sinusitis, there is a sensation of fullness in the ears.
It is a wonderful remedy for buzzing in the ears due to chronic sinusitis and rhinitis.
It is a wonderful remedy for earache in kids with allergic rhinitis and bronchitis.
Nose symptom
Balsam Peru is a wonderful remedy when there is no disposition to bleeding from the right nostril without coryza, sneezing, or blowing nose, and it is repeated at 7 p.m. daily.
It is a wonderful remedy for profuse thick discharge from the nose, whether chronic or acute in cases of bronchitis or asthma.
It is a wonderful remedy for Ozaena with ulceration of the nasal septum.
Face symptom
Balsam Peru is indicated in cases where there is flapping of nostrils with breathlessness causing a pale sickly appearance of the face.
The look on his face is dull as if exhausted and weakness is exceedingly weak with a pale face due to a hectic fever.
Throat symptom
Balsam Peru is an excellent remedy for sore throat where there is the continued scraping of fauces, the throat is red and inflamed.
It is indicated in, cases of bronchitis with a sticky cough the cough settles in the throat the patient feels as if scraping in the throat.
Heart symptoms
Balsam Peru is a wonderful remedy for the irregular pulsation of the heart, and false pain in the chest as a sequel of chronic cough, bronchitis, and sinusitis.
Chest symptoms
Balsam Peru is a wonderful remedy for Respiratory Complaints like laryngitis where there is Scraping in the larynx in the forenoon and a dry cough.
It is indicated in cases where the patient constantly regurgitates the thick mucus that is accumulated in the region of the chest.
It is a wonderful remedy for Cough, mucous and purulent expectoration.
It is a wonderful remedy for Bronchitis, and phthisis, with mucopurulent, thick, creamy expectoration.
It is a wonderful remedy for complaints of asthma with Loud rales in the chest similar to Kali sulphuricum and; Antimonium tartaricum.
It is a great remedy when asthma is associated with breathlessness.
It is indicated when there is a very loose cough.
It is a great remedy for Hectic fever and night sweats, with irritating, short cough and very scanty expectoration.
It is a wonderful remedy for the Phthisis of mucous type, the mucus that accumulates in the lungs.
Stomach symptoms
Balsam Peru is a great remedy for stomach disorders where there is vomiting of food and mucus and catarrh of the stomach.
It is a wonderful remedy for Mucous diarrhea associated with vomiting food and mucus.
Abdomen and Rectum symptoms
Balsam Peru is a wonderful remedy for uneasiness in the abdomen, nausea, and vomiting of food.
It is a great remedy for diarrhea that is like Copious liquid stool, usually painless.
It is a great remedy for conditions when there is a Passage of blood with normal stool even when the patient does not have piles.
Urinary symptoms
Balsam Peru has got wonderful action on the Urinary system, it is a wonderful remedy for urethritis where there is Sticking and cutting in the urethra.
It is a wonderful remedy for cystitis when there is urination that is more frequent and copious.
It is a wonderful remedy for the catarrh of the bladder where there are mucus sediments in the urine similar to the remedy Chimaphila.
It is a wonderful remedy for scanty and infrequent urination, with mucous sediment and catarrh of the bladder.
Male symptoms
Balsam Peru has got wonderful action on Male sexual organs there is frequent gonorrhea with the discharge of mucus before urination and painless but copious urination.
Female symptoms
Balsam Peru has got wonderful action on Female genitals where there are irregular menses.
It is a wonderful remedy for leucorrhoea along with weakness and exhaustion.
It is a wonderful remedy for treating menstrual disorders with abnormal discharge
Hand and Leg symptoms
Balsam Peru is a wonderful remedy for bone pains and aches in individuals who suffer from frequent colds and coughs followed by a painful condition of arms and forearms.
It is a great remedy for pain in the bones of hands, and elbows but especially, where there is Oppressive pain in the right wrist.
It is a great remedy for the painful condition of Lower Limbs mostly feet and legs where there is severe pain in the left tibia.
It is a wonderful remedy for conditions where there is boring pain in the right tibia.
is a wonderful remedy for general debility that comes after hectic fevers; associated with rhagades of fingers.
There is severe weakness and exhaustion that is after a hectic fever, all the above conditions are associated with cough and cold, running nose, and sinusitis.
Back symptoms
Balsam Peru is indicated to treat conditions of backache where there is pain beneath the point of the middle back usually associated with stiffness.
There is slight dull pain all over the backbone that exhausts the patient making him weak and exhausted.
Fever symptoms
Balsam Peru is a wonderful remedy for hectic fever, and throat with a feeling as if scraping in it.
It is a wonderful remedy for fever associated with cold and hay fever.
It is a wonderful remedy for mild forms of fevers where there is profuse thick discharge from the nose, whether in chronic or in acute cases of bronchitis or asthma in kids.
There is a nose infection associated with a fever, the nasal discharge of thick yellow mucus with ulceration in the nasal passage.
It is a wonderful remedy for fevers associated with urinary disorders like cystitis, and urethritis with copious mucus discharge in the urine.
Skin symptoms
It is a great remedy for It is used as a wonderful remedy for external application for indolent ulcers, for cracked nipples, cracks in fingers and palmer surfaces of hands, or fissured and chapped lips.
It is a wonderful remedy for itching when there are cracks in the skin surface, most of the fingers and palms.
It is used for external application on fissured and cracked lips due to dehydration causing dryness.
The Balsam Peru tincture is also used externally for the itch. All parts affected are gently rubbed with it at night and a bath is taken in the morning.
It is a top-listed remedy for eruptions, and ulceration of the skin and is usually associated with chronic nasal infection, in form of cold, running nose, and fever.
Modalities
Modalities are the factors that, increase or decrease the complaints in a patient.
They are categorized as aggravating factors and amelioration factors.
Aggravating factors make the condition of the illness worse, while the amelioration factor improves the condition of the disease.
It can be time, any part of the day, season, position, or any applications, etc.
Aggravated By
The condition of Balsam Peru gets aggravated when in the open air and exposed to cold wind.
Amelioration By
The skin conditions of Balsam Peru are by rubbing the itchy surface, and washing or bathing.
Relationship with Other Medicine
Complementary Medicines
This remedy completes the process of cure that is started by the first medicine given.
The remedies complementary to Balsam Peru are Balsamum Tolutanum and balsam of Myroxylon toluifera in conditions of chronic bronchitis with profuse expectoration.
It is complementary to Oleum caryophyllum in cases of profuse septic expectoration-3 to 5 drops in milk or the form of capsules.
Similar Medicines
These remedies have many similarities in action but are different in origin, which means the source from which the medicine is prepared is another.
Remedies similar to Balsam Peru in urinary catarrh is Chemaphila.
In Ashama and bronchitis, in general, it is similar to kali sulphuric, Animonium Tartericum.
Antidoted by
The bad effects of Balsam Peru are antidoted by Camphor.
Balsam Peru Uses, Dosage & Potencies
The dosage and potency of the medicine depend on the individual case.
Balsam Peru 30 Uses
Lower potency is given when very few symptoms of the patient match with the medicine and help the doctor only to diagnose the disease condition.
It is of great value in the treatment of rhinitis, and stiffness of joints.
This potency requires frequent repetition, 3-4 times a day, till the expected result is seen.
Balsam Peru 200 Uses
This is considered as higher potency; they are given when the majority of mental symptoms and physical symptoms of Balsam Peru match.
Higher potencies are advisable to be not repeated very often; they act for a long duration of days, so the second dose is repeated every 7 days or every 15 days once.
Balsam Peru 1M Uses
This is very high potency. One should give it only after careful case analysis, where all medicinal symptoms of the Balsam Peru and that given by the patient match perfectly.
One should not repeat 1 M potencies. It is given 30 days once and waiting for symptoms to disappear.
Balsam Peru Q (Mother Tincture) Uses
The mother tincture of Balsam Peru is used by many homeopaths to relieve the symptoms associated with itchy and cracked skin. External homeopathic uses are, it can be applied locally to raw surfaces of skin in indolent ulcers, scabies, cracked nipples, rhagades, and itch.
It is used as an external application to promote granulation tissue in wounds and it helps to, removes fetors.
A one percent solution in alcohol or ether may be used with the atomizer or in steam water in respiratory affections.
It can be given internally, as an expectorant, in chronic bronchitis.
It is mainly used to relieve symptoms of rhinitis and itchy skin as well as cracked skin, and should only be given when all the symptoms of Balsam Peru are matched with the patient’s symptoms.
Take 10 drops of mother tincture in half a cup of water three times a day till the improvement occurs in cases of chronic bronchitis.
Balsam Peru 3X/6X Uses
This lower potency of Balsam Peru works well to treat the conditions like epistaxis, and purulent expectoration and has a therapeutic effect on patients suffering from such conditions.
Take 2-3 drops of dilution directly on the tongue thrice a day for 3 months.
Clinical Indication of Cyclamen
- Bronchitis
- Catarrh
- Cracks
- Epistaxis
- Hectic
- Itch
- bronchial catarrh
- purulent expectoration
- Debility
- hectic fever
Balsam Peru Side Effects
Homeopathic medicines are prepared by potentization where the dynamic curative power of the medication is aroused, so homeopathic medicines produce negligible side effects.
If any side effects of Balsam Peru are seen mostly vomiting or skin rash, then it can be antidoted by Camphor.