Mumps

Choose a remedy: No one has all the mumps symptoms for a particular remedy so choose based on the most prominent ones. If symptoms change, take a remedy that matches your new symptoms.

Dosage: At onset of symptoms, take 6C, 12X, 12C, or 30C every two hours during intense stages, tapering down to every six hours as symptoms subside or in minor cases* or see the Dosage Chart.

• When symptoms improve, stop taking the remedy. 
• Repeat if symptoms return, matching the remedy to the symptoms
• If no improvement after 2 days, try a different remedy that more closely matches symptoms

Notes:

• Seek professional help if your child’s mumps progress to neck stiffness, severe headache, marked weakness, seizures, difficult hearing, abdominal pain, vomiting or swelling in breasts, ovaries or testicles.
• If a self-selected remedy – however well indicated – doesn’t help and symptoms are more serious than you expect for mumps, you need to seek medical expertise.  A doctor will provide a diagnosis and/or a professional homeopath can evaluate your child’s symptoms in the context of his/her whole person.  

Symptoms	Remedy
Prophylactic Adult exposed to mumps who has not had it View Remedy	Rhus toxicodendron* Take 1 dose daily for up to 10 days
At the onset of a fever Child very restless, anxious View Remedy	Aconitum napellus
Red face Profuse salivation but mouth feels dry Followed by great thirst Saliva thick and stringy/sticky Profuse perspiration followed by excess dryness Weakness Painful glands May radiate to breasts, ovaries, testicles View Remedy	Pilocarpus (Jaborandi**) 30C recommended
Left side gland swollen Cannot tolerate slightest touch Sore throat View Remedy	Lachesis
Hard glands Glands swollen and painful Perspiration increased and smells Foul smelling breath Increased salivation Tongue may have tooth indentations along sides Worse: blowing the nose night right side View Remedy	Mercurius solubilis or Mercurius vivus
Hard, swollen glands (hard as stones) may be right sided Glands painful pain extends to ear or other glands breasts, ovaries, testes Throat pain when sticking out tongue Ear may hurt when swallowing Increased salivation Sore throat Skin is paler compared to Belladonna’s bright red Worse: heat of bed night View Remedy	Phytolacca
Sudden onset Red, hot face and glands glands sensitive to touch Eyes wide and staring Headache Sore throat Child radiates heat Restless Worse: right side View Remedy	Belladonna
Glandular swelling is red, soft and puffy Tender in areas of swelling Lack of thirst View Remedy	Apis mellifica
Mumps afflicting children reaching puberty Mumps in adults Pain may radiate to breasts, ovaries, testicles Very little or no thirst dry mouth Tongue may have thick coating Craves open air Weepy, craves sympathy and affection Worse: warmth View Remedy	Pulsatilla
Hard, tender  swollen glands Cannot tolerate the slightest motion of the head Irritable, wants to be left alone Thirsty for gulps of fluids Dry, cracked lips When swelling suddenly disappears but alarming head symptoms occur View Remedy	Bryonia
Swelling moves from right to left side Sore throat View Remedy	Lycopodium
Mumps arising after a cold or skin eruption Runny nose which suddenly stops and swelling starts Pain goes to breasts, testes after being chilled Shooting pain in ears rattling cough Pain in throat with much hoarseness Symptoms go to stomach when mumps start Exhaustion Cold with cold sweat Worse: warmth View Remedy	Carbo vegetabilis
Hard, swollen glands Pain on swallowing Left side may be more affected Tongue may be coated white with red along borders Thirsty, desires cold milk Restless, needs to keep changing positions Worse: night cold Better: heat View Remedy	Rhus toxicodendron

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Hering, Constantine.  The Homeopathic Domestic Physician. Caxton Press, PA. 1858: p. 125-26.

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*Lockie, Andrew, The Family Guide to Homeopathy, Fireside, 1st Ed., New York, NY (1993), pp. 375.

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