Nail Affections

(Brittle nails, in-growing nails, fungus in nails, deformed nails)
Remedies:
1) Graphites 12x, thrice a day for 2 or 3 days: Nails deformed, brittle, crumbling, crippled,
painful, sore, as if ulcerated, thick, rough, may be black. Among the remedies which follow
well, is Silicea.
2) Silicea 12x, 6 hourly: It is also good in the case of crippled nails on fingers and toes.
There may be white spots on in-growing nails.
3) Antim Crudum 12x, twice daily for some days: If nails are brittle and become out of
shape, it is the remedy.
4) Calcarea Phos 6x, thrice a day: It is good for “ulcerative pains in the roots of the finger
nails of the right hand.” (S. F. Shannon, M.D.)
5) Natrum Mur 12x, twice a day: Hang-nail, a bit of torn skin hanging at the side or base of
a fingernail, with skin of hands especially about nails dry and cracked.