Lumbago (Back Pain) and Homeopathic Remedy Indications

BOUKO LEVY M., Homeopathic and Drainage Repertory,
 The spine is like the Tree of Life, with the coccyx and the sacrum like the roots and distant branches extending from the lumbar, dorsal, and cervical vertebra.
 The lumbar region receives all the body's weight vertically, and the weight of all the abdominal organs horizontally. 

Symptoms in the lumbar region are related to various pathologies, in particular : digestive, urinary, and genital.
 Homeopathic remedies as well as acupuncture, chiropractic, and osteopathic manipulation, will often bring about a solution to this patient's pain.

 Acute lumbago 

 --  following overexertion or trauma :
 • alternate 3 granules every hour, as needed :
 ARNICA 5C, or RUTA 5C
 • one dose, every 6 hours, as needed :
 BRYONIA 15C
 --  without any effort :
 • 3 granules, every hour, as needed : AMMONIUM MURIATICUM 9C
 • one dose, every hour : KALIUM CARBONICUM 9C, then 12C, then 15C
 --  agg. from damp weather :
 • alternate 3 granules every hour : DULCAMARA 5C, or RHUS TOX 5C
 --  from a simple slight movement in the bed :
 • one dose, every hour : NUX VOMICA 9C, then 12C, then 15C
 --  from pelvic congestion, liver weakness with hemorrhoids :
 • 3 granules, every hour, as needed :  
 AESCULUS / BERBERIS / SEPIA / a.a. p. 6X
 • one dose, every hour :  AESCULUS 9C, then 12C, then 15C, then 30C
 --  extremely painful :
 • very restless; shouts, cries :
 20 to 40 drops, every hour : 
 CHAMOMILLA / COLOCYNTHIS / NEPENTHES / a.a. p. 3X
 • anti-inflammatory :
 20 to 50 drops, 1 to 3 times a day : HARPAGOPHYTUM M.T. 
 • important muscular spasms :
 alternate 3 granules, every hour :
 CIMICIFUGA 7C, or MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA 7C
 --  injectable homeopathics :
 (See :gallbladder) 
 Inject the substance into the local pain points with a thin needle, just under the epidermis, in several points according to the radiations (mix the ampouls) :
 • ARNICA 8X, and HYPERICUM 8X, and RUTA 8X, and NATRUM SULFURICUM 8X, and SYMPHYTUM 8X

 Lumbar arthritis 

 All the remedies described in the acute cases  can be used in chronic cases.
 The background treatment should be adapted to each individual clinical history.

 Phytogemmotherapy 

 • 20 to 50 drops, daily :
 morning : POPULUS NIGRA BUDS 1X
 evening : JUNIPERUS COMMUNIS YOUNG SHOOTS 1X
 Organotherapy
 • 20 to 40 drops, 1 to 3 times a day : 
 CARTILAGE / DISCI LUMBALES / LIGAMENT / MEDULOSS / a.a. p. 4C

 Trace elements 

 alternate one dose, daily  :
 • even days, morning : MANGANESE COBALT
 evening : SULFUR
 • odd days, morning : IODINE
 evening : FLUORINE

 Satellites 

 • alternate every other day, 3 granules  :
 KALIUM BICHROMICUM 5C, or RADIUM BROMATUM 5C

 Modalities amel. by movement 

 --  agg. by damp weather :
 3 granules, 1 to 3 times a day :
 • alternates with diarrhea : DULCAMARA 5C
 • agg. before thunderstorm : RHODODENDRON 5C
 • amel. lying on a hard bed, and by massage : RHUS TOX 5C
 • muscles, tendons, periosteum : RUTA 5C
 --  sciatica amel. by changing position, flexion of limb, agg. by rest and from anger:
 (See :neuralgia) 
 • 3 granules, 1 to 3 times a day : VALERIANA 4C
 --  sciatica with disorders of sensitivity, amel. by walking, heat, agg. morning, rest :
 • 3 granules, 1 to 3 times a day : MANDRAGORA 9C

 agg. by movement 

 --  bed feels too hard; refuses to be touched or even approached, sends the doctor away :
 • one dose, every hour : ARNICA 9C, then, 12C, then, 15C
 --  with, or alternating with digestive disorders :
 3 granules, as needed :
 • hemorrhoids; tonsillitis : AESCULUS 6X
 • constipation; headache, stone- like stomach, anger: BRYONIA 5C
 • colitis; cholecystitis; anger : COLOCYNTHIS 7C
 • hepatic disorders; headaches; anger : NUX VOMICA 7C

 amel. by rubbing 

 --  amel. by local heat, strong pressure; pains spasmodic and changing place :
 • 3 granules, as needed : MAGNESIA PHOSPHORICA 15C
 --  other remedies, one dose, as needed :
 • lumbar weakness : KALIUM CARBONICUM 9C
 • loves all contacts; amel. friction : PHOSPHORUS 9C
 • loves hot ointments; amel. by rubbing : RHUS TOX 9C

 Radiates to 

 --  down to the buttocks :
 one dose, as needed :
 • at 3 A.M.  :  KALIUM CARBONICUM 9C
 • and hips, thighs : BERBERIS 9C
 • and the extremities : IGNATIA 9C
 --  pubis, sacrum and thighs :
 • 3 granules, 1 to 3 times a day : SABINA 5C
 --  to back; bearing-down sensation of pubic area :
 • one dose, as needed : SEPIA 9C
 See : arthritis, colibacillosis, colitis, constipation, cystitis, diarrhea, fibroma, gallbladder, hemorrhoids, hepatic, hip, menses, nephretic colic, neuralgia, osteoarthritis, pains, prostate, rheumatisms, sensations, since, tonsillitis, trauma, urination.