POLYCHRESTS - 12 WELL KNOWN HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES

Polychrest is a term used in homeopathy to mean a remedy that has many uses.
Below are 12 well known polychrests.

Polychrests are the best known and most often used remedies, especially in constitutional prescribing.

They correlate with personality archetypes .e.g. Nux-vomica is known as the businessman's remedy and Pulsatilla as the whingy child's remedy, but this is only a tiny part of their picture.

They're among the earliest remedies to have been discovered and therefore the remedies that have been tried and tested for the longest, with the greatest depth of study and understanding

You will notice that a few of them are also in the basic remedies section. Like other remedies polychrests can be used for both acute and constitutional prescribing.

The list of polychrests is always growing.
New remedies reach the rank of polychrest when recently discovered remedies come into everyday practice and are found to be the most relevant to the predominant ailments of our time, although the oldest and best known polychrests still remain the foundation stones of the homeopathic materia medica

HERE'S A BIGGER LIST OF POLYCHRESTS