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Boils are a form of skin infection that starts in the hair follicles causing pus-filled lumps. First, redness of the skin occurs, leading to the development of a tender lump or nodule. Within a week’s time, it turns white as the pus cells collect under the skin. The pain keeps on growing until the boil ruptures and drains. The swollen area on the surface is caused by an accumulation of pus and dead tissue. Some people try to squeeze or prick boils, which should be strictly avoided.
Homeopathy offers magnificent treatment for cases of boils. A well-indicated homeopathic remedy can help minimise the progression of infection beside controlling the inflammation and relieving pain, redness, tenderness in the affected area and hastening pus discharge to aid prompt recovery. Homeopathy works to boost the immune system to fight with the infection and serve as a natural treatment option for boils. With homeopathic medicines, the dependency on antibiotic use can be reduced to a large extent. Opting for its timely use also helps to prevent surgical intervention in most of the cases.
Effective at all stages
Homeopathic medicine for boils can be used at any stage of the development of the boil. For example, homeopathic remedy Belladonna can help combat the pain and inflammation, while Silicea can reduce the pus. There are specific medications available to treat boils on different parts of the body as well.
Helpful for acute, chronic and recurrent cases
Not just acute cases, homeopathy works wonders in treating chronic, recurrent boils as well. It raises the immunity of the body to make it less susceptible to infection. As a result, the frequency and intensity of the problem gradually decreases. The set of medicines in homeopathy to treat acute and chronic, recurrent cases of boils are a little different and the potency and dosage varies from case to case.
Safe medicines with zero side effects
As homeopathic medicines are sourced from natural substances, they are 100% safe with zero side effects. These medicines are used in highly diluted doses that work gently to bring natural recovery. Persons of any age group may opt for its use.
Top 7 Homeopathic Medicines for Boils
The 7 top recommended homeopathic medicines for treating boils are Silicea, Myristica, Hepar Sulph, Sulphur, Calcarea Sulph, Belladonna and Arsenic Album.
1. Silicea – Top Grade Homeopathic Medicine For Boils
Silicea is one of the best homeopathic medicines to deal with cases of boils. It is indicated when there is pus discharge from boil that can be scanty or excessive. It is thin pus. The color may be a little brownish at times. It has a very foul smell. It also works well in cases where crops of boils form that do not heal quickly (and sting when touched).
When to use Silicea?
Silicea is the most prominently indicated medicine to treat boils with foul-smelling pus discharge.
How to use Silicea?
In most cases, Silicea is used in 6X potency that can be repeated 3 to 4 times a day as per case severity.
2. Myristica – To Hasten Pus Discharge
Myristica has strong antiseptic properties and it proves highly effective in treating several suppurative (pus forming) conditions including boils. This medicine shows wonderful action to hasten the suppuration process and cut short the recovery period. It is used extensively to avoid any surgical process to get rid of boils.
When to use Myristica?
This medicine is highly suggested to hasten recovery and prevent surgical intervention in cases of boils.
How to use Myristica?
It works well in both low and high potency. To start with, 30C potency is usually preferred that can be taken once or twice a day.
3. Hepar Sulph – For Boils That Are Painful And Tender
Hepar Sulph is a homeopathic medicine used to treat conditions when the skin is unhealthy and tends to form pus on the slightest injury. It is recommended in cases where boils are highly painful and sensitive to touch. Large boils with multiple openings with discharge that smells offensive may be present. When given in the early stages of pus formation, this medicine can stop the formation of pus.
When to use Hepar Sulph?
Hepar Sulph is a leading medicine to help cases of boils that are very painful and sensitive to touch.
How to use Hepar Sulph?
The potency of this medicine differs from case to case from low to high. Low potencies like 30C can be taken two to three times a day. Use of high potency like 200C is limited to once a day.
4. Belladonna – For Boils In The First Stage Of Development
Belladonna is an excellent homeopathic medicine that is prescribed in the first stage of the boils when there is no pus formation. Red and hot swelling of the affected part, sensitivity to touch, and sudden spreading of the boils are the main symptoms. The color of the skin may turn blue in the later stage.
When to use Belladonna?
It is a well indicated medicine for managing boils in initial stages with marked redness, heat and swelling.
How to use Belladonna?
Its use is preferred in 30C power that can be taken twice or thrice a day as per intensity of the problem.
5. Sulphur – Homeopathic Medicine For Recurrent Boils
Boils that develop recurrently and periodically (chronic tendency) are treated well with Sulphur. Its use is suggested for cases where there is a slow maturation of boils that usually come in crops and occur on various parts of the body, developing in quick succession one after the other.
When to use Sulphur?
Sulphur is a great choice of medicine to treat cases having recurrent tendency to get boils.
How to use Sulphur?
It is available in different potencies from low to high potency, initially it is advised to take it in 30C potency once or twice in a week.
6. Arsenic Album – Homeopathic Medicine For Boils With Excessive Burning
Arsenic album is a specific remedy for boils with burning pain. The boils tend to occur in different parts of the body. There is low-grade fever with the occurrence of boils. A thin discharge from the boils is present, and there can be multiple boils.
When to use Arsenic Album?
This medicine is opted to manage boils attended with burning type of pains.
How to use Arsenic Album?
To begin with one may use its 30C potency once a day.
7. Calcarea Sulph – Homeopathic Medicine for Boils with Thick Yellow Discharge
Calcarea Sulph is a homeopathic remedy used to treat boils having a characteristic thick, lumpy, and yellow pus discharge. Crops of boils tend to appear recurrently. One boil is preceded by the occurrence of another, even when the older one hasn’t healed.
When to use Calcarea Sulph?
This medicine is prescribed when the boils have thick, yellow pus discharge.
How to use Calcarea Sulph?
Most of the time its 6X potency is considered that can be used two to three times a day.
Causes of Boils
Boils are mainly caused by infection with bacteria – Staphylococcus Aureus. It is a bacterium which is most commonly found on our skin and inside the nose. It can enter the skin from cuts or wounds and travel down to infect and inflame one or more hair follicles, resulting in boils.
Infection
The presence of any foreign particle under the skin (that has made its way from cuts, wounds or insect bites) can lead to an infection, which causes inflammation under the skin and leads to the development of a boil.
An infection in the sweat glands can clog the glands and cause the development of a boil.
Ingrown Hair
Sometimes, boils can be caused by an ingrown hair under the skin. This can cause localized inflammation. Ingrown hair grow out of the skin, but then curl back and re-enter the skin. The hair follicle can also be clogged with dead skin cells, which forces the hair to grow inwards.
Certain factors increase the risk of boils. These may include diabetes mellitus, obesity, malnutrition, chemicals that irritate the skin, cuts or wounds that don’t heal readily or are not kept clean and covered, any other skin condition that causes excessive itching resulting in damage to the skin’s protective barrier like acne, eczema etc which can predispose an individual to get boils, use of medicines that weaken the immune system including cortisone medications or immune-suppressants, close contact with someone having staphylococcus infection and a family history.
Sites Affected
Boils can appear almost anywhere on the body. They most commonly occur in the areas where there is a production of sweat, or where there is friction. Such sites usually involve the:
Face
Neck and Shoulders
Armpits (Axilla)
Chest and Back
Arms and Legs
Buttocks and Thighs
Anus
On gums (Where they are called Gumboil)
Boils: Signs and Symptoms
Stages of Boils
First Stage: The infection begins, leading to the inflammation of the affected. It usually occurs suddenly.
Second Stage: A bumpy, red, hard growth appear on the skin.
Third Stage: Localized formation of pus under the skin around the hair follicle.
Fourth Stage: The development of boil progresses to a yellow or white centered elevated lump filled with pus. This is visible when the boil is ready to drain and discharge the pus.
Size of the Boils
The size of a boil can range from being pea-sized to the size of a golf-ball.
Pain in the Boils
The pain (if any) in a boil can range from mild to moderate but can become severe in case of complications. The frequency and intensity of the pain can vary from patient to patient. The pain can be sharp, stitching, throbbing or burning in character.
Warm Sensation in the Boils
The area affected can be warm to the touch. In fact, the sensation of warmth can be felt by anyone examining the affected part.
Mild Fever due to Boils
In some cases, the person may have a mild fever that develops with the appearance of boils.
Tenderness
Boils can be extremely painful to touch, but the intensity and character of pain are different in each case.
Number of Boils
Boils can be singular or appear in the form of clusters. The connected area of infection under the skin usually results in the formation of a group of boils known as a carbuncle. Carbuncles generally cause severe infections and adverse effects, leaving scars behind. Areas like the neck, shoulder, and thighs are more commonly affected.
hello doc..,
i am writing dis coz i am in a pain..i have a neck abscess and dis is not d first tym .. i had several minor surgies lyk first was when i am only 3 and second was when i am 12
….third was when iam 18 and now …i am 24 ryt now…sumone suggested me that only homeopathy has its permanent solution …i am taking homeopathy ryt now but my pain is unbearable…dere is a continuous pain in my left syd of neck ..ear and head….i cant eat nything i cant drink nythng…i am in a pain ryt now…plzzz tell me the ryt medicine and treatment for dis..as i dont wnt ny more surgeries now…?
i have an absess on my foot and it is sore to touch and red but the swelling has gone down tremendisly in the last few days it has been 6 days now. is the salve good to put on bacteriL infection of absess and where does the bacteria go to when drawn out? Thank You and God Bless please cll me 813-479-8073
Hi
Dr. Vikas
I am from Delhi, age45
last 5-8 year facing problem
Boil, abscess pus only on face,
i have done all type treatment but no relax
evenly 3 homeopathy Dr. changing but no positive result found
So i request to you pl suggest to me what can i do
Sir I have small boil about 1 inch away from anus and also having tags growth of skin on anus pl advice treat ment I am in bhopal
Sir
My son is 6 years old.Since February 2017 he had itching and redness in his eyes.In April he got 3-4 Boils on the lid of his left eye.In May again he has again developed a boil in upper lid of left eye.
Is there a good homeopathic medicine you suggest.
i have boils or bumps on my virgina and its also causing pain on my left inner thighs nda joints of my left leg…i have been to a doctor thrice they told me its ingrowing hair but am afraid its not. i cant evn rub my thighs the left one hurts pliz help
I am suffering from heat boil deep in my body. It’s very horrible can’t do anything. Please tell me how to get rid of them.
I have a swelling on the side of my left testicle. It started like a little swelling like a hair forlicle. Its now bigger and harder. Theres no sign of puss inside yet. Its painful.
What can it be and how can i treat it fast
Ingrown hair(s) in upper inner thigh became infected (folliculitis). Went to urgent care Monday and was prescribed 160 mg Bactrim twice daily, but over next few days it got worse (grew). Went back to urgent care on Thursday and was told it is now cutaneous abscess.
They wanted to open, drain, and pack but I declined (was having panic attack) and asked for any alternative. Was given anti-bacterial injection (lidocaine?) And prescribed Keflex 500 mg four times daily (in addition to the Bactrim). Was also told to apply warm moist compresses four times daily for 15 minutes to see if abscess will drain on its own.
Today (Friday) it appears to be a little smaller and not as firm, plus the small whitehead on the top of the boil appears to be a little bigger. I am trying to avoid at all costs a trip to the ER and want to fully explore non invasive treatments.
I know thay antibiotics alone will not typically resolve this and in general, abscesses must open and drained to improve. But I also know that sometimes an abscess will open and drain on its own, and I really want to do all that I can to be in the “sometimes” group.
I have an extreme phobia of doctors, needles, surgical procedures, and physically tremble and shake in fear at just talking about it. Unfortunately I don’t think I’d be a very cooperative patient if invasive procedures are pursued.
Are there any additional, natural homeopathic measures I can take in the interim this weekend? I have a follow-up with my primary care physician on Monday who specializes in alternative medicine, but I’d like to at least make it there before anything worsening.
Need help in grtting rid on cysk on
left side of neck what should I use on it?
I have had surgery for an abscess on my tailbone and was cut for centimeters and while healing for six weeks now I have developed another abscess in an old area that I had an abscess down near the crease of the inside of my thigh period it is very painful and I just don’t know what to do for it please give me some ideas of things that I can use for these areas in the buttock and down by the crotch area. Thank you
Sir my mother 45 yrs old she has a boil on her buttock containing pus with severe pain..so plzz suggest me remedy to reduce pain and expel the pus
hey
my name is time harden and am from Africa.
I’m ill from a sickness which I don’t really know the name
DESCREPTION OF ILLNESS
ITCHY
RASH
SWELLON
I have been having this problem for close to six months now.
my butt itchiest me a lot and when ever I do indeed to scratch my butt, it get swollen up.
please I need help
dono betiyon k hath peron me watering chhoti choti funsiyan ho rahi hen or palm and toes men pasina bana rahta he please koi medicine ho to batayen dono ki age 17 and 15 years he
I have had painful and uncomfortable boils in my armpits for the last 5-7 yrs. tried antibiotics, natural remedies, event consulted a general surgeon to take them out.
About 6 months ago I started homeopathy and it seems like it’s gone worse. There is a full throttle on these boils right before my monthly cycle.
Any suggestions on what can be done?
Dear sir,
I have had boils in my head more frequently, and occasionally some little ones joined together in between my anus,lately l have been experiencing some also under my armpit. Can share with a kind of medicine that will help me overcome this illness.
I am waiting anxiously to hear from you. Many thanks in advance. God bless you
Yours faithfully,
Emmanuel Kojo Mensah
Cape Coast, Ghana, West Africa.
Good evening Dr. Sahab. I suffered from chikungunia in October and November 2016. It caused great pain in both knees along with other joint pains. Even now the pain in knees revives . I am a mother of 2 and can not afford to sit with pains. Sometimes feel swelling on the inner sides below the knees. Can it be pus? Kindly help with homeopathic treatment. Thank you.
Good evening Dr. Sahab. I suffered from chikungunia in October and November 2016. It caused great pain in both knees along with other joint pains. Even now the pain in knees revives . I am a mother of 2 and can not afford to sit with pains. Sometimes feel swelling on the inner sides below the knees. Can it be pus? Kindly help with homeopathic treatment. Thank you.
Hi doctor i m taking homeopathic medicine from last 2 months for boils on my face and body … but i feel after taking medicine the quantity of the boils have increased … does homeopatic works in this way that it will increase the boils and will kill it from roots ?
Respected Dr.Sharma ,
I am Harish .J from Rajamundry aged 36 years , and my wife aged 35 years is suffering from boils (obesity ,thyroid ) under the belly and under both sides of arms from last 5 years , we have tried different types of treatment in allopathy , homepathy.
We did Pus culture test, some bacterial infection is dectected , but no symptons of TB( which she was have earlier ,now its cleared after taking AKT-4,3 course previously 2 years back)
Now we have Started Treatment in Dr.Mano Homeopathy, from Oct-2016, the boils were less previously , but now its become brownish and painful.
I just want to know whether the treatment is good , and how much time will it take to get rid of the boils in various parts of the body, though the related doctor are not assuring the time of recovery.Please help me in this situation .
Hai Sir.
I am James from Kollam Kerala.
My wife is suffering from boils for the last 4 years .
we consulted a homoeopathic Dr. And treated with Sil 1 M,hep 200 And 1M ,Tub 1M ,Streptococc 200 .Now she had several small very painful boils with pus inside appeared on legs ,Naval area and viginal lip. She also a DM patient since 14 years . Now her sugar level is under control with the medication ( Insulin 2 times and metformin s r 500mg 3 times )
Kindly advice us a good medication.