Homeopathic Therapeutics for Otitis Media

         Though there are many medicines used to treat otitis media, some important homeopathic medicines used in the treatment of otitis media are listed below with their indications.

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Belladonna:

        Otitis media or inflammation of the middle ear. Pains are digging, boring, and tearing in character. They come suddenly and are very violent. They seem to shoot into another ear or into the head with buzzing and roaring in the ears. Membrana tympani bulging outward with blood vessels very much injected.

<noise, touch, motion, draft of air

>rest, warm room.

Ferrum phosphoricum:

        The first stage of otitis, acute otitis when Belladonna fails, it prevents suppuration. Throbbing in ears, membrana tympani red and bulging. Noises in the ear.

<touch, jar, motion

>cold applications.

Chamomilla:

        The patient cannot bear the pain, is cross, irritable, and attended with red cheeks. Otalgia with soreness, swelling, and heat, driving the patient frantic.

<heat, open air

>being carried, warm wet weather.

Mercurius dulcis:

        Otitis media; closure of the eustachian tube; ear affections in scrofulous children. Tympanic membrane retracted, thickened, and immovable by inflation. Chronic inflammation of the middle ear with a deep-toned roaring.

Tellurium:

        Catarrh of the middle ear; discharge acrid, offensive, thin, smells like fish pickle. Itching, swelling, throbbing in meatus, and deafness.

<rest at night, cold weather, coughing, touch, lying on painful side.

Kalium muriaticum:

        Chronic catarrhal conditions of the middle ear. Glands around the ear are swollen. Snapping and noises in the ear. Retracted tympanic membrane. Slowly progressing deafness.

Capsicum annum:

        Otitis media with rupture of the tympanic membrane; great soreness of the mastoid portion of the temporal bone. Swelling and pain behind the ears.

        Chronic suppuration of the ear with bursting headache and chilliness. The ears are hot, the pain goes through the throat, the drum is perforated, and yellow purulent discharge.

<heat

>open air, uncovering

Mercurius solubilis:

        Otalgia, worse from the warmth of bed; at night. Thick yellow discharge from the ear which is fetid and bloody. Feeling of stoppage and of internal soreness as if raw and there is roaring in ears.

<night, wet damp weather, warm room, warm bed.

Silicea:

        Caries in mastoid with thin, ichorous offensive discharge containing little pieces of bone. Perforations of the tympanic membrane heal rapidly under its use. Itching, tingling in the locality of the eustachian tube.

        Shooting pains through the ear and profuse perspiration. Sudden snuffing, cracking sound like pistol retort. Roaring in the ears. Chronic otorrhea with oversensitiveness to sounds.

<washing, uncovering, damp weather, lying down

>warmth, summer, wrapping head.

Graphites:

        Pus is thick and forms crust easily, with itching and soreness. Membrana tympani opaque and thick. Eustachian tube dilatable, but hearing is not improved by inflation. Hearing improved in noise. Violent nocturnal roaring, ears feel stuffed at times.