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Parotitis refers to inflammation of one or both the parotid glands. The parotid glands are the largest and one of the major pair salivary glands which function to produce saliva in the mouth. These are located on either side of the face inside each cheek over the jaw in front of each ear. The parotid gland is the most commonly affected among all the salivary glands by inflammation. Homeopathic remedies for parotitis help in reducing the inflammation and swelling of the parotid glands. 
Homeopathic Remedies for Parotitis
Homeopathy offers a natural and very effective treatment for cases of parotitis. The homeopathic medicines bring excellent recovery by focusing to treat the root cause behind inflamed parotid glands. These medicines are very beneficial for both acute (of recent origin) as well as chronic (present from long periods of time or recurring frequently from long time) cases of parotitis. With this they work magnificently to bring relief in its symptoms like facial pain, tenderness, difficulty in opening mouth and fever. These medicines are also indicated for cases where the parotid glands have become hard or where pus has collected (abscess formation) in the parotid glands. These medicines are safe to use among people of all age groups and don’t have any side effects as they are prepared from naturally occurring substances.
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Belladonna – Top Grade Medicine with Facial Swelling and Pain
Homeopathic medicine belladonna is prepared from plant Deadly Nightshade. This plant belongs to the family Solanaceae. It is a top grade medicine for treating cases of parotitis. The key symptoms to use this are swelling in the face in front of the ear with violent shooting or stitching pain. The side of the face also gets red and hot with swelling. The pain can worsen from touch or motion. The pain may sometimes extend to the throat, external ear or neck. The pain is recurrent and tends to appear everyday, sometimes peculiarly at the same hour. Dryness of mouth and lips is also present. Along with above symptoms, high fever with alternate heat and chills appears. Although it works well for treating parotitis of either side, it is commonly used to treat swelling of the right parotid.
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Merc Sol – For Swollen, Tender Parotid
It is the next effective medicine for treating parotitis cases. It is used when there is swelling of parotid gland along with tenderness and sensitiveness. The parotid gland is also hard. In these cases pain in parotid mostly throbbing or stinging type is also there. The pain is worse mainly at night. The pain can also worsen from empty swallowing (means of swallowing saliva down the throat) or in fresh air. Sometimes speaking also increases the pain. With above few general symptoms including excessive salivation, offensive odour in mouth, bad taste in mouth and excessive sweating can appear.
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Rhus Tox – For Inflamed Parotid with Difficulty Opening Mouth
This medicine is helpful for persons who have inflamed parotid gland and have extreme difficulty in opening their mouths. Swallowing causes pain and is difficult, at times nearly impossible. The parotid gland is also very much enlarged along with swelling and inflammation in it. They have fever accompanying the above complaints. For using this medicine mostly left sided parotid is involved. It is also useful for cases where abscess (lump having pus in it) has formed in the parotid gland.
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Hepar Sulph – For Parotitis with High Fever
Hepar Sulph is a helpful medicine for inflamed parotid gland with high fever. Marked chills are present with fever along with restlessness. Its use is indicated for cases of acute inflammation of parotid gland.
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Aurum Met – When Parotid is Swollen and Painful to Touch
Aurum Met is a prominent medicine when the parotid gland is swollen and painful to touch. The gland feels sore and bruised. There is also a pressing pain in the parotid gland.
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Crotalus Horridus – For Parotitis with Swollen, Puffy Face
This medicine is indicated when there is swelling and puffiness of face in case of inflamed parotid glands.
Specific Remedies For Left-sided Parotitis
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Kali Bichrome
This medicine is useful when the left parotid gland is inflamed, swollen and enlarged with pain in it. The pain is usually stitching in nature. The pain can radiate from the parotid gland to the ear or head.
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Bromium
The features guiding its use are swelling and hardness of the left parotid. With this warmth is felt over the parotid gland on the left side. Apart from this it is also indicated when there is pus formation in the parotid gland.
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Arum Triphyllum
This natural medicine is prepared from Indian Turnip belonging to the Araceae family. Use of this medicine is considered when the left parotid gland is swollen and is very sore to touch.
Specific Remedies For Right-sided Parotitis
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Baryta Carb
Baryta Carb is an excellent medicine for cases where the right parotid gland is swollen and painful. This gland is also tender to touch. Along with this the breath is very offensive.
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Bryonia
This medicine is prepared from root procured before flowering of a plant Bryonia alba commonly known as wild hops. This plant belongs to the family Cucurbitaceae. It is a wonderful medicine to treat cases where swelling and pain is present in the right parotid gland. There is marked swelling in the face before the ear. The parotid is also sensitive to even slightest touch.
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Lycopodium
It is a natural medicine prepared from plant Lycopodium Clavatum having the common name club moss. This medicine belongs to the family Lycopodiaceae. The characteristic symptom for using it is stitching pain in the region of the right parotid gland.
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Baryta Mur
It is valuable medicine when the right sided parotid is swollen and hard.
For Swollen and Hard Parotid Gland
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Conium – For Swelling and Hardness of Parotid Gland
This medicine works well when the parotid gland is swollen and hard. It is also significant medicine when there is pus in the left sided parotid gland with profuse sweating and disturbed sleep.
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Carbo Animalis
Carbo Animalis is a very beneficial medicine when the parotid gland is hard, swollen and painful. The pain is most times shooting or lancinating type.
Causes and Risk Factors
Inflammation of parotitis can arise from various causes. These includes the following:
- Infection
Parotitis can arise from bacterial infection. The common bacteria involved in inflaming these glands are staphylococcus aureus, streptococcus pyogenes and Escherichia Coli (E.coli). Apart from these the infection of parotid glands can also arise from bacteria known as mycobacterium tuberculosis that is responsible to cause TB (tuberculosis).
The infection can also arise due to a viral infection. The most common virus that causes parotitis is mumps virus. This virus infection is rare nowadays because of the use of vaccination MMR (the vaccine that provides protection against three serious illnesses including measles, mumps and rubella). Before the introduction of this vaccine the mumps infection used to be very common in children.
- Blockage of parotid duct or any of its branches
This blockage obstructs the flow of saliva and favours the accumulation and growth of bacteria within the salivary glands. The blockage may arise from many reasons that includes – salivary duct stone, a mucus plug in a salivary duct, stricture which means narrowing of salivary duct from an injury / infection and a tumour which is mostly benign i.e. non – cancerous.
- Sjogren’s Syndrome
It is an autoimmune disease where immune cells due to a misdirected response start damaging the glands which are responsible to produce tears and saliva. It results in dry eyes and a dry mouth. Chronic inflammation of the parotid gland can arise in this syndrome. Women suffering from sjogren’s syndrome are at a high risk of parotid gland inflammation as compared to males having the same syndrome, in a ratio of 9:1 respectively.
Some of the factors that put a person at a high risk of parotitis includes poor oral hygiene, having diabetes, taking medicines that cause dryness of the mouth (like some antihistamines and antipsychotics), dehydration (it is mainly a cause of non – infectious cases of parotitis and can occur after surgery or in elderly people), excessive intake of alcohol, radiation therapy of head and neck done for cancer treatment and as a part of bulimia from self induced vomiting.
Signs and Symptoms
In this condition swelling of the face in front of ears below the jaw occurs. There may be redness over the face / upper neck on the affected side. With this facial or mouth pain occurs that is mostly felt while eating or opening mouth. There can also be decreased ability or difficulty to open the mouth. Foul taste in mouth, dryness of mouth and fever, chills attends above features. There can be complaints on either one or both sides and the intensity of symptoms also tend to vary from case to case. If not treated well in time then there are chances of collection of pus (abscess formation) in the parotid gland. In cases of recurrent parotitis intense swelling in the neck can cause destruction of the affected glands.
Kindly prescribe the dosage for conium and carbo animalis.It will very appreciative 🙏
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Hello,
I am suffering from acute pain on both side of my jaws in the parotid area, when I take any solid or semi -solid food. The pain sustains for around 5-8 seconds at the initial stage when I put any food in my mouth and starts chewing. There is no swelling on any side of the parotid gland area, but when I press with my finger it starts paining.Could you please help me with what kind of treatment is available in homeopathy for this symptoms.
Sir right side pertide glad mobile approx 2 to 2.5cm swelling. So pls advise any homeopathy treatment medicine.
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My husband has parotid tumour and surgery was suggested by allopathic doctor . But while giving general anaesthesia, my husband suffered stroke and couldn’t do the surgery for removing it. Can you suggest if homeopathic medication can treat this tumour. He has Warthins tumour. Please advice
Hello Dr
I was wodering what would be your suggestion for treating Sialosis. I have persistant Parotid swelling on both cheeks now for over two years and are causing me great distress. I have an under active thyroid and also suffer from high blood pressure.
Thank you
Hello Doctor,
I am having parotid gland swelling on the left side followed by which I had fever with chills. Now fever has subsided but slight swelling is there. I was put on antibiotics for 5 days. There is no pain just slight swelling & dryness of mouth.
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Respected Dr. Sharma
My daughter aged 14 developed pleomorphic adenoma on left side in 2019. The size was 19mm × 14mm. Now, it is 18mm × 18mm. The FNAC test was negative. She is under homeopathic treatment since September 2019. What should I do? Can you suggest any medicine?
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Jyotiskhar Bhattacharyya
Dr Good Morning,
My name is kiran and iam suffering with two side parotid swollen glands (face looking too broad) with hypothyroid.
Kindly give a treatment to end face swelling with thyroid also.
Doctor,
Kindly let me know that medicine like Baryta Mur will help in pain and swelling reduction only or it will dissolve the right parotid gland forever ?
Further, kindly let me as towhat be the power and dose of medicine.
Dr my daughter, 30 yrs, has right parotid gland with light swelling and no pain.
Will Baryta Mur be good medicine for this ? What should be the power and dose?
Whether this medicine help in reducing / dissolving the parotid gland permanently ?
Dr sharma
Good evening
Hope u r fine
I am from Saudi Arabia
Age 44
From last 8 years I have a tumor inside my mouth and neck
It is plemorphic adenomoa bignin
Now it’s growing
It’s size 7*7*7cm
Now it’s difficulty to eat, breath
Any homeo medicine to remove this tumor
Please answer and give remedies
Hi
I am 34 male, I have a 2 cm wide cyst on my right parotid gland just next to my ear.
No pain and no swelling.
It is been there from almost 8 years but now it is increasing in size I think
is there any medicine for removing it
thank you for your reply
I m 30 years old.mje 7 sal sy parotid gland ki swalling ha kbi km hoti hakbi ziada swalling ab to left side pr miner gilti b ha ma bht tens hu sb test krwa lie kuch ni ata reports me.plz help me
I am patient of pleomorphic adenoma,a benign tumour on left parotid
Dear Dr Sharma , Good Afternoon,
Hope you are doing fine .
My Wife has a swelling on the leaf ear area and the lower jaw , which is supposed to be pertid gland .
This has been since many years and now the swelling has increased . I ahve heard that Homeopathy has got a very good treatment for this . She does not have any pain and no such problem on there is a swelling.
I would like to request you to advise wahat is the best remedu=y for this .
I will be very gratefull if you could help us . her age is 60 years .
awaiting your reply .
with lots of thanks,
Ali Ahmed
I have been told by an ENT that I have Parotid gland swelling and a biopsy showed it to be benign. He, of course wants to perform surgery and I’m not very willing to have the side of my face cut and many different nerve endings perhaps damaged, plus having a drain put in for a day or two. I would GREATLY appreciate and homeopathy treatment you could recommend. I just started going to a chiropractor in hopes that perhaps he can adjust and help to drain it.
Look forward to hearing back from you.
Thank you.
Hello Dr,
My mother is suffering from left side parotid gland swelling and is recurring again and again for the last 5 years. Temporary relief we get from allopathic medicine. Now there is swelling and pain and no saliva is made. Please help and suggest some good medicine. We do not want to get operated 🙏🙏
I have swelling on my left jaw, in front of the ear going all the way down to my left side of chin, but there is no pain, I am also suffering from diabetes, my age is 48. Kindly suggest me a medicine.
Thanks
Harmeet Gulati
Doctor I am 68 years. I have been dictated with T2 hyperintense lesion 1.9×1.8 cm sperficial and deep lobes of left parotid gland. Also i am postoperated astrocytoma patient having pain all over body severe pain especially in left hand and shoulder with burning pain and stiffness. Also weak especially both the leg. Kindly perspective medicine.
Hi doctor, I am 42 year old man. Healthy, normal weight, a little bit of high cholesterol but no other problems and unfortunately have been diagnosed with parotid gland tumor on my right side. It is benign. Its about 2.5 cm in diameter and I have an appointed with my surgeon to remove it by surgery.
Do you think homeostatic medication can help me.?
Your comment would be appreciated.
Hello Dr
I am suffering from mouth dryness, less flow of saliva urine is watery. And having massive hair loss.
I recovered from covid 19. My weight reduction though I am taking good diet and multi vitamins
Hello ma’am i am 30 year old ihave hard swalling below chin gland which medicne required ???
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My ब्रदर aged 40 yrs diagnosed parotid tumar Residence side. इस there any homeopathic remedies
Good evening my dog has swollen salivary glands on the right side of his face it is very Hard and swollen. Vet told me to do a surgery but I prefer to try homeopathy. I love in Greece and is not easy to find someone to help me about this. Can you give me your advice? Thank you very much!
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