Homeopathic Medicine for Sciatica

Aesculus hip. (Four times a day): Sciatica with backache. Walking or stooping or rising from a seat is very painful.

Ammonium mur. (Four times a day): Feels shortness of the left hip. Limps while walking. Pain worse while sitting but better on lying down.

Arsenicum alb. (Four times a day): Sciatica on account of certain fevers and after. Pains are burning and better by hot applications.

Belladonna (Four times a day): Pains start and go suddenly and are worse by the least movement. Better by hanging legs down.

Carboneum sulph. (Four times a day): Sciatica, flying pains, returning regularly for a long time. Chronic sciatica.

Causticum (Four times a day): Left sided sciatica with numbness. Constant desire to move the foot.

Chamomilla (Four times a day): Sciatica in very sensitive patients, who feel the pain much more than what it actually is. Numb feeling. Pain worse by motion and at night.

Colocynthis 200 (Twice a day): Remedy of first choice for left sciatic pain. Dull pain shoots down from hip to feet through thighs. Pain relieved by heat and hard pressure but worse on movements. Pain in right thigh with numbness.

Eupatorium perf. 200 (Twice a day): Shooting pain along the course of the left sciatic nerve. Pain in hip bones with a tired feeling.

Ginseng 6 (Thrice a day): It is considered as a specific for sciatica when there is a frequent desire for urinating. Sensation of contraction and stiffness in the affected parts.

Gnaphalium (Thrice a day): Sciatic pains worse by rest. Numbness alternates with pain. It is especially useful when the pain is associated with numbness. Its peculiar symptom is that pain is worse lying and walking but is better by sitting.

Guaiacum off. Q (Thrice a day) 10 drops in ½ cup of water: Gouty, tearing, lancinating pains; feeling of contraction in the affected limb. Pain is worse by pressure, motion, heat, cold wet weather and from 6 pm to 4 am.

Iodium 200 (One dose only): Sciatica. Pain from middle of the thigh to the knee. Boring pain in the knee joint better walking, worse every meal.

Kalium brom. (Thrice a day): Left sided sciatica better by motion.

Kalmia lat. (Thrice a day): Suddenly coming and suddenly going pains on movements. Pain shoots downwards with numbness of the leg, specially right.

Lachesis 200 (Twice a day): Sciatica; right side better lying down; worse in the morning on rising from bed.

Lycopodium 1M (One dose only): Sciatica worse right side. Cannot bear to lie on the painful side.

Macrotinum 2x (Thrice a day): A good remedy for sciatic pains. It should be tried first when no definite remedy can be chosen.

Magnesium phos. (Four times a day): Right sided sciatica better by warmth. Pains come and go rapidly.

Medorrhinum 200 (One dose only): When other remedies fail, patient feels better in knee-chest position.

Phytolacca dec. 200 (One dose only): Pains run down the outer side of the limb, especially on right side like electric shocks.

Ranunculus bulb. Q (Thrice a day) 15 drops in ½ cup of water: Chronic sciatica. Apply tincture to the heel of the affected leg also.

Rhus tox. (Thrice a day): Pain worse right side, cold weather and at night. Sciatica brought about by an exposure to moist weather. Pain better by warmth. More indicated when there is backache also.

Syphilinum 1000 (One dose only): Sciatica worse night. Gradually better from sunrise to sunset, and the pain gradually increases at night.