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Hi, welcome to our session on mouth ulcers and cold sores, the top homeopathic remedies that you can use for home prescribing. Yes, there's these Remy's that you can use. You can buy them over the counter. You can buy them from a homeopathic pharmacy. But these are the Remy's you can use for mouth ulcers and cold sores. And I'm sure some of us have had this before, especially mouth ulcers, occasionally people get cold sores, but really uncomfortable, not nice to have. And instead of maybe using medications allopathically, you can use homeopathy to help. Well, listen, hopefully you're going to find this really useful. And I mean, honestly, I had this all the time with people mouthwash. These little things that we think are little actually are huge for people, especially, you know, when you're struggling and suffering and often it can be an indication that you run down. But the remedies are so good. They're so good. And this is how we encourage people to use homeopathy, because if they try and it works, then it is fantastic. You know, people then go, oh, what can homeopathy do for this or for that? okay, let's start mouth ulcers and cold sores. So let's get into this. So what are mouth ulcers? Well, mouth ulcers are common. As we said, often people have had mouth ulcers and normally they clear up within their own within a week or two. Okay. Very painful if you have them. I used to suffer from mouth ulcers. And if you've had a mouth ulcer that's last more than three weeks, go and see a healthcare professional, GP or dentist, just to check it out. mouth ulcers are rarely a sign of something serious, but you may be uncomfortable with live with. And when you have mouth ulcers on over you, you feel grumpy, feel irritable, the slightest little knock and it's, oh, painful. So it's not really a great state to be in. And they need time to heal. And there's no quick fix from them. But you do find with homeopathy, it will help and it helps the healing process. And as you know, avoid anything that irritates your mouth also, such as like spicy food or sometimes hot drinks or cold drinks can aggravate. But we'll see some of the remedies actually are better or worse for that. Some of the causes of mouth ulcers biting the inside of your cheek. How many of us have ever done that? Oh, you're chewing your food and you bite the inside of your cheek. Really painful. Then it can go into an ulcer. Badly fitting dentures or braces or rough fillings or sharp tooth of the toe broken off or, you know, being to the dentist that can often causes a mouth ulcer, cuts or burns while eating or drinking, hard food, hot drinks. Again, I'm sure we've all done that. All possible reasons for the mouth ulcer can also be a food intolerance or an allergy to something and people can come out in mouth ulcers. Damaging your gums, you know, can mean hitting the mouth or like I said, toothbrush, brushing your teeth too vigorously and it can cause a mouth ulcer or feeling stressed and tired and anxious. and again, we'll look at some of those remedies, which will cover that. But also you can be triggered by hormonal changes such as, you know, pregnancy, but also around your period, around menopause, it can happen or after birth, your genes, things that we've inherited. I come from a family where they have mouth ulcers, and so you can get them more often or some kind of vitamin deficiency, sort of B12 or some kind of iron deficiency. So this is all from what the NHS and the NHS website talk about. So if you guys haven't already, please subscribe to the YouTube channel, click on the subscription. We've got just under a thousand people now subscribed. So it'd be great to get up to the thousand. If we can do it this week, please share it. Share with your friends and your family. So the more that people know about homeopathy, the more they can use it in their lives. So let's look at some of the homeopathic remedies for mouth ulcers. First remedy, Arsenicum album. Now, if you've watched any of the other videos in the series of what we've been doing with these lives, we talk about Arsenicum a lot. Now, remember with these remedies they've got these keynotes and the keynotes for Arsenicum is burning. Okay, so they have mouth ulcers with dryness of the mouth and burning, burning heat. They can feel like the mouth's on fire sometimes or the ulcer can feel like it's on fire. They have a bitter taste, in the mouth after eating and drinking, there's this, oh, I can't get rid of this taste. They're trying to get rid of this taste. They might as well like a bitter taste. And they can also with the mouth also. And I've seen this a few times. People get a burning tongue. If tongue feels like it's on fire. Okay. It feels like it's on fire. And they can have swollen bleeding gums as well alongside it. But the ulcer pain is better with hot drinks. This is like a strange, rare, peculiar thing with arsenic. They're better for heat. so they have this burning pain, which is better for hot drinks. It gets relieved by it. Now you think that would be the opposite, it would be cold. No, it's hot drinks. Then you know you've got an arsenicum. So they can be worse for cold drinks, worse for cold food, worse for cold ices like ice cream or an ice lolly or anything ice, this is worse by. And as we know with arsenicum, it can be worse around midnight. And that can be between 11:00 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. Okay, so just don't think it's going to be on the 12 o'clock, the clock strikes 12 and all the symptoms appear. It can be leading up to midnight, and a couple of hours after midnight as well. And with arsenicum, there's an affinity to the right side. So they can have a right sided ulcers. So sometimes you're asking right, left, it can be both sides. They all point to different remedies. Often with arsenicum, it can be on the right side. But if it's on the left and it says how all these modalities and sensations and burning it, it still could be arsenicum. Okay, just don't do it on that one characteristic alone. So they can be often with arsenicum, as you know, they can be anxious, full of worries, and that can be everything from fear of getting ill that this could be something more. My goodness, what it is. And they're on Google trying to find out what they. It could be, oh, my God, I've got this disease. I've got. This is arsenicum. They just go into this whole spin of what it can be. Despair of recovery. They've actually got something worse. It's incurable. It means it's a whole disease. It could be just they brushing the teeth and they did it too vigorously and they damaged the cheek on the gum and it turned into an ulcer. But while arsenicum, it's very difficult to reassure our centums when they're anxious, but it also can be dealt with financial problems or issues or like a lot of people on the face. placing of the world at the moment, that there is financial worry. The big thing with arsenicum, it has fear of poverty. So the financial stress, when they're worrying about that, they're anxious and they're worried that they can have that alongside these mouth ulcers. And with arsenicum, there's exhaustion from this, okay? They feel exhausted and they also feel restless, so that they'll be tired but they'll be walking around, like they can't find any relief. And that points to the arsenicum picture. Okay, so remember you don't need all of this, you just need like three major, we call the three-legged stool, as you've heard me say, or the keynotes. If you played a song, you play three keynotes, you'd recognize that song. Next remedy, Merck Sol. So this is a very common remedy often used for mouth ulcers. And here the ulcers are very painful but often stinging, stinging pain with Merck Sol. And they can have a characteristic symptom is that they can have a metallic taste in their mouth. profuse saliva. So the metallic taste tastes like metal in the mouth, but they have profuse saliva. It's like drooling out of the mouth or in the pillow at night, it's drooling. The mouth is full of saliva. So those two keynotes are huge for mercury. Okay, for Merc Sol, huge. They also have a foul smelling breath and it really feels foul, as though something's like putrid and died. with great thirst for cold drinks. Okay, great thirst for they want cold drinks. Now remember with Arsenicum, it's more warm drinks. And ulcers are often on the gums or on the tongue. You know, that's Merc Sol. Ulcers on the gums and the tongue, but also with Merc Sol they can feel like their glands are up here as well. It feels a bit like the glands are raised. It can feel a bit like they've got a bit of a sore throat along with the mouth ulcer. Point towards merk sol. And often the pain is so painful, this lady here, it's so painful they can't even speak because it's so painful. Okay, they can't speak because of the pain. And the worse for touch, worse for eating food, again, worse at night. So two remedies there that are worse at night. Okay, so that's merk sol. Again, look at the keynotes of the remedy. And the next remedy is nitric acid, nitric acid as a homeopathic remedy. so you can see this face. People who have nitric acid, nitric acid ulcers, extremely irritable, can be very sort of angry as well. So they have sharp splinter-like pains from the ulcers, normally on the soft palate. That's where Nomi and nitric acid ulcer will go. They can bleed as well, and they can have pimples on the side of the tongue. But again, a foul putrid breath, another keynote of nitric acid. Again, excessive saliva in the mouth, but with NITAK it sort of burns the corners of the mouth here. It's like the saliva is very acidic and they can describe it like that. It's like it's burning the corners of my mouth. So again, we've seen some similarities in the Merczol here, but that scoric, that sort of acidic feeling is much more NITAK. Can be extremely angry, extremely irritable. Okay, much more than those other two remedies we talked about. This can be loss of sleep, whether it be nursing the sick or the loved ones, been up all night and this girl like going on for days, weeks, months, and then getting worn down by it. The lack of sleep. Remember, sleep is absolutely key to our health and well-being. We need to be able to sleep. It's absolutely key to health and vitality. Check out my insomnia video if you want to know more about how homeopathy can help with that. But you've got to get your sleep on track. Number one thing. And if you've ever suffered from issues with insomnia or talk about nursing the sick or just having kids, you know what lack of sleep can do. You know what that feeling is. It is the worst feeling. It's like within three days you'll be like just on a whole other planet with lack of sleep. You've got to get good sleep. It's important. So often they've been worn down by that. Like I said, nursing the sick or nursing the loved one or could be being a carer for a loved one or even your job where that's, you know, you're on night shifts all the time or also for acrimonious situations. like this could be a divorce, this could be a lawsuit, it could be a row with the neighbors. It's something that's going on and on and on and on. Now they become bitter with that. Again, it's quite acidic. As I said, this remedy become very bitter emotionally and they can be quite revengeful. But in a way, if you think about mouth ulcers, if you look at the mind-body connection, it's altered rated. It's sort of what aren't you saying or what are you dwelling on? You know, look at them. Look at that connection. It's really important what's going on emotionally for us. can often the symptoms can be an external manifestation of that internal state. So we've got to be very, very aware of how we're feeling and how we're seeing the world because it can also manifest physically as well. Side effects of medications that can also be people get mouth ulcers, as I mentioned before. So again, nitric oxide is great for that, particularly with things like antibiotics or people with mercury fillings. If they have mercury fillings and they have mouth ulcers, the nitric oxide is a great remedy for that. But this is very similar to Merc Sol. So if Merc Sol doesn't work, look at Nitric as the next remedy for that. Okay, so there are the top three remedies I wanted to share. There's other remedies for it, but I just want to give you the top three I think you should know about. The other thing you can try as well is Hypercal, which is Hypericum Calendula. Do it as a mouthwash. And this is made from a natural, you know, herbal preparation of Calendula, which is Marigold combined with Hypericum St. John's Wort. And you can purchase this from health food stores or from pharmacies. and you take a few drops and just follow the directions on the bottle. But normally put a few drops of the tincture in a glass of previously boiled water and then you can use it as a mouthwash. You know, swill it around, you know, say a minute and then get rid of it and do that twice a day can be so, so healing and get rid of a lot of the pain because it's got the hypericum side as well as the healing with the calendula. And it promotes rapid healing. And plus it's an antidepressant as well, as we said, as well as being pain relieving. So you'll get the slides, the slides should be up on the session. So yeah, just download this, although those instructions. Let's look at coal sauce. Now again, not everybody has coal sauce, but when you do have them, I mean I personally never had a coal sauce, but my daughter just had one the other day. So it was good I was doing this live session so I can go through it. But what are coal sauce? So they're quite common, but they usually again clear up within their own within 10 days. But there's things that you can do to ease the pain. Check if it's a coal sauce because it normally starts with a tingling, an itching or a burning feeling. Then over the next 40 hours they start to heal but are contagious and irritating as well. So you've got to be careful. You've got to be careful with other people because they can be quite contagious and it can be quite painful when they're healing. Some people find things trigger a cold source such as an illness, the sunshine, the seashore I've seen with people as well as their menstrual periods around the hormonal time. So again we've got to look at the hormone and that can not just be around your period. It can be, I said I mentioned pregnancy, as well as childbirth and around the hormonal changes, even the menopause. Again, they are contagious. So from the first moment you feel the tingling or other signs of a cold sore or when it's coming on or coming on, then the cold sore is completely healed. So let's look at the first remedy, natrum muriaticum. So natrum muriaticum, big, big remedy. Okay, big, big remedy for cold sores. I'd say it's probably the number one often you think of. And this is cold sores around the mouth, around the lips with a dryness, and there's often cracking of the lips. Okay, so the lips are very dry and cracking. That's a general feeling with natamul. There's lack of water, there's a dryness, but it can ooze fluid. And often when you use the fluid that it uses, it will be clear. Okay, it's a clear fluid with natamul. But again, the corners of the mouth can be dry and cracked as well and tingling in the lips. Now, it hasn't got that it's not sort of cracks which are painful from the saliva like nitric acid we talked about. before, this is just the lips are so dry. They can even have a crack in the middle here. They can have a crack in the middle of the bottom lip. But they have the tingling in the lips as well. Now, with nature mule can often appear after some kind of emotional upset, a grief, a loss, or a disappointment. So if you've had one of those and all of a sudden the coleslaw appears, this is why. Okay, this is often the cause behind it. So again, this is an external manifestation of our internal state. so it can be worse at also this is for people that don't like to express themselves. So when that mere person tends to keep everything in, it's like they don't like to express how they feel. They keep it in and they internalize their emotions and they keep it in. It will come out. As I said, it will manifest itself if we don't express it. Worse at the seashore. This is for people that get coals at the seashore at the beach. They get in from sunlight. or the heat of the sun. This is nature and more. And as I mentioned, worse for suppressing their emotions. It's got to come out. Those emotions have got to come out. We've got to express them. If we don't, then it will come out often as symptoms. Why? Because the body's telling us there's a problem here. I always use that analogy of the car dashboard. Oil light flashes, it means there's something wrong in the engine. If we just press the symptoms, just take the bulb out, there's still a problem in the engine and the car's going to break down two or three miles down the road. So what we want to do is get to the cause and Natmule will help with that if there is a grief. Again, I did a video on grief. Check out the top remedies I did for grief. Naturemules up there is one of the number one remedies for grief, especially where people hold on to grief and can be quite resentful. So again, you could maybe upset somebody who needs this remedy and they won't react. They'll be very stoic, but they feel it, but they won't express it and then they'll get a cold sore. which is an expression of it. Can desire salt, big keynote for Nature Immure or salty food and often thirsty for large quantities of water. They need to drink. There's a whole thing around fluid and water with Nature Immure. Very, very dry, but they're thirsty for large quantities of water. Next big remedy for coalsaws is coalsaws which are yellow and blistering. Okay, so they come up and they're all blistering and they're all yellow. around the mouth, around the lips. And they get like a neuralgia, like that shingle like pain as well, and itching, some intense itching and burning with the coalsaw. Again, this is a keynote of Rustox. They're worse and sensitive to cold air. They'll say that really aggravates it, the coalsaw. And generally, you know, the aggravated bit. They're also worse for damp weather or worse for being chilled. so if they're being warm and they suddenly get chilled, it can bring it on. Better for warm, dry environment. It can really help the cold sore and help them generally. And they will be quite restless as well. There's a key note for wrist talks. They'll be quite restless. And this is more of a physical restlessness rather than arsenic, which we mentioned before about with mouth ulcers. But this is much more physical. They need to move. Well, arsenic and what's driving them to move is their anxiety, it's a mental. rather than that physical. So, Russotox likes to keep moving and feels better for that and feels better for motion. Another big remedy there for coleslaw. Last one, sepia. So this is, I want to include this because often this is not often thought about as a remedy for coleslaw, but I've used this a lot with people. And this is for people who have coleslaw around the lips, mouth and the nose, but is exhausted. They're exhausted. And this is a remedy. There's affinity. to the female hormonal system. And with the sepia is indicated when it comes again around the menstrual period, before during pregnancy, after childbirth or around the menopause. We talked about this earlier on. This can be a trigger. Sepia is your remedy in that situation. They have no energy, they're very irritable and want to be left alone. They're just like, just exhausted. they're exhausted. So it could be, you know, they met with the kids or exhausted ever since childbirth, they're just exhausted. They just want to be left alone. But they're better if they exercise. So they feel better for moving and exercising, just moving around it, like it gets the whole system going and it can rejuvenate them. So they'll say, I insist that about going to their exercise class or going to the gym because that's when they feel the best, because they're moving. Also better for hot applications, especially on the cold source. Okay, they can feel bad if there's some kind of warm application. Worse on the left side with the colesaws. Worse during pregnancy. We said this childbirth around the period or around the menopause, anything around the hormonal system. So if you yourself or somebody you know always gets colesaws around the period or after childbirth or after anything hormonal, think of sepia. Great, great remedy. And homeopathic prescribing, as I always say, use the 60C 30C of the homeopathic remedy we've talked about. you get these over the counter at health food stores or from homeopathic pharmacies and often in homeopathic remedy kits. And if you've got a cold sore, I mean, I would probably do three or four doses of that. So just do three or four and you'll see the shift. Remember, keys to a lock, you give the indicated remedy, it will start to move it. You know, just see how you feel when you take it, but just do it for three or four doses or until the symptoms improve. Again, I repeat this. It's so important. look for the keynotes of the remedy. Now I've given you three remedies for mouth ulcers, three remedies for cold sores. So what you need to do is just look at those three for each of those and say does it fit? And if you just down to two then just give one of them and then you know where to go to next. But those remedies I've talked about will cover most of those conditions. But if the symptoms persist seek a qualified practitioner. Maybe something historic that's gone on for you, maybe over these for many many years, there may be something else that is triggering it. That's often when we need to go and see a qualified practitioner. Okay, but for the purpose of this video, what we're talking about today is really about things you can do in the home to go to first without necessarily having allopathic medication. So that's pretty much it. So thank you, everybody, for that. I hope you enjoyed it and hope you will use these. Again, I talk about these remedies. Please use these remedies. they can be so effective. And if you look at all the other videos that on the YouTube channel, you see all the different things that we cover and yeah, great. Just please prescribe as much as you can when the opportunity arises and that's how you learn homeopathy.

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