Pain

USE THIS REMEDY IF:

you get a pain anywhere in your body. This remedy is the Paper Doctor's answer to aspirin.

The remedy is included in order to provide temporary relief from pain due to accident or injury, or from any other cause.

NEVER use this or any Paper Doctor remedy to keep a recurring pain bearable without seeking medical help to determine its cause.

There's nothing worse that the feeling of panic that arises when an unexpected pain appears. You know something is wrong, but what is it? What should you do? You imagine that you may have a serious problem.

Unexpected pain can be even more frightening when you are traveling. Strange land, strange doctor - situation in which you will be completely deprived of your normal health care support system.

If your pain is a headache: Before you use this remedy, try the most appropriate headache remedy among those available in this book. See Remedy Table Of Contents, page 1.

If your pain is a toothache: Try the TOOTHACHE, page 293, before you use PAIN. Be sure to call your dentist right away. If you are traveling, use TOOTACHE or PAIN to keep the pain down while you search for a dentist.

If your pain is due to serious accident or injury, call for medical help first, then use FIRST AID, page 141. Less severe injuries call for wound cleaning and bandaging, in addition to FIRST AID, page 141.

If your pain is abdominal, it could occur from many causes. Consider NAUSEA AND VOMITING, page 193, or FOOD POISONING, page 149, but use one of them only if its description fits your complaint. Otherwise, have your abdominal pain checked by a physician.

If your pain appears suddenly or gradually as your only complaint, seek medical help. Some part of your body is in distress. Use this remedy until your appointment time arrives.

HOW TO USE THIS REMEDY:

Make and drink this remedy twice in succession, then once every 15 minutes until your panic subsides. Often two or three glasses will be all you need.

You can repeat this procedure each time the pain reappears, so long as you have called for professional help, and expect it to arrive soon. Stop using this remedy as soon as your pain has eased, or when medical help arrives.

If you experience no improvement after 3 glasses of this remedy, switch to the most appropriate among the alternative remedies listed below, or use the RESISTANCE, page 229.

ALTERNATIVE REMEDIES TO CONSIDER:

First Aid, page 141
Physical Injury, page 205
Moodiness, page 185
(for teeth) Toothache, page 293
(for headaches) one of the headache remedies (see Remedy Table Of Contents, page 1)
Backache, page 85
Ache, page 73
Tension Release, page 273

MEDICAL ALERT:

This remedy does not cure the cause of your pain. Do not substitute it for qualified medical treatment. Use it only while waiting for help to arrive, or until you can get to your doctor's appointment.

The Well Adult: discusses pain by body parts, as follows:

 
    abdominal, lower 366, 369 
    abdominal, upper 358 
    arm 284 
    back 319 
    chest (angina) 267 
    chest (bronchial) 304 
    chest (heart attack) 284 
    ear 221 
    eye infections 230 
    eye injuries 478 
    face 226 
    head 238 
    neck 310 
    skin 203 
    throat 219 
    on urination 397 
    vaginal 398. 

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