📖 26. Infectious Diseases (HMT Index) Introduction

26. Infectious Diseases Cholera Sulphur is the best preventative tr eatment during a cholera epidemic. Sulphur 200 every day for two days and then twice a week saves one from contracting cholera. As soon as the symptoms of cholera appear, Camphor in a low potency can cure cholera altogether. Once the symptoms have started, especially the silent type of cholera, associated with large exuberant watery stools, causing severe dehydration and weakness leading to coldness of the body, can best be treated with Camphor. The most pr ominent indication for Camphor is nausea and vomiting, more so than diarrhoea. Cuprum is also an extremely effec tive treatment of cholera especially the kind associated with severe abdominal colic and severe cramps in the hands and the feet, starting in the fingers and toes and then spreads upwards. This type of cholera is best treated with Cuprum. In the diarrhoea of Cuprum, the stools ar e scanty, frequent and associated with severe griping. The cholera associated with exuberant amounts of stools and severe cramps in the calves will respond best to Veratrum Album. The following remedies may also be of use: Aethusa Podophyllum Arsenicum Album Secale Cor Carbo Veg Abdominal Colic in Intestinal Infections This may be associated with the tendency of nausea and vomiting due to cholera or any other illness. It should be treated with the combination of Croton 30, Ipecac 30, Carbo Veg 30, Baptisia 30. Nausea and vomiting that get better with drinking cold water is indicative of Cuprum. Cuprum is al so effective in the treatment of mumps. Similarly, Cuprum is useful in the treatment of paralysis of a limb caused by typhoid fever. The other possible remedies are:- Antimonium Crudum Dioscorea Argentum Nitricum Iris Arsenicum Album Nux Vomica Colchicum Pulsatilla Colocynthis Sulphur Malaria Please refer to the detailed accounts of malaria under the chapters of the following remedies. The reader may be directed to some other related remedies and symptoms under the same chapters: Aconite Ipecacuanha Arnica Natrum Mur Arsenic Natrum Sulph Bryonia Nux Vomica Cedron Psorinum China Pulsatilla Chininum Ars Rhus Tox Eupatorium Tarentula Gelsemium Tuberculinum A careful study of these homoeopathic remedies will, God-willing, enable the reader to control malaria fairly well. Chicken Pox and Measles By the time chicken pox or measles become visible, they may have already done enough harm to the body. Silicea, Kali Phos and Ferrum Phos help manifest the symptoms onto the skin. Allium Cepa as well as Arsenic and Psorinum may al so be useful, depending upon the situation i.e. symptoms and signs of the sickness. Necessary reference has also been made under the following: Antimonium Crudum Malandrinum Antimonium Tart Merc Sol Apis Pulsatilla Calcarea Phos Sulphur Euphrasia Variolinum Kali Bichrom Whooping Cough In whooping cough, commonly used remedies are Drosera, Allium Cepa and Arnica. Other useful remedies are: Belladonna Ipecacuanha Coccus Cacti Kali Carb Cuprum Metallicum Senega Hydrocyanic Acid Tarentula Influenza Sulphur and Pyrogenium have been found very useful in the treatment of influenza fever. Besides them, Influenzinum, Bacillinum, Diphtherinum, Oscillo Coccinum, Kali Phos, Ferrum Phos, Kali Mur, Silicea and Calcarea Fluor should also be studied. Arsenicum Album Eupatorium Bryonia Gelsemium Carbo Veg Natrum Sulph Dulcamara Rhus Tox Dysentery Commonly used remedies are: Ipecac, Aconite, Kurchi, Dioscorea and Colocynthis. More has been mentioned under the following headings: Aloe Gelsemium Arnica Mag Carb Arsenic Album Merc Cor Bufo Merc Sol Cantharis Nux Vomica Capsicum Phosphorus Carbo Veg Rhus Tox Carbolic Acid Sulphur Colchicum Plague During an epidemic, when Mercury and Sulphur compounds are used, the disease will surface to the skin, sp aring the glands and thus curing the plague. The following may also be found useful: Arsenicum Album Naja Belladonna Phosphorus Crotalus Horridus Pyrogenium Hydrocyanic Acid Rhus Tox Ignatia Tarentula Hispania Lachesis AIDS In AIDS, Silicea CM, Psorinum, Syphilinum and Pyrogenium prove to be very beneficial. Meningitis In addition to Natrum Sulph, Ge lsemium, Silicea and Apis, the following should also be studied: Aconitum Glonoine Belladonna Helleborus Bryonia Hyoscyamus Calcarea Carb Mercurius Cicuta Virosa Nux Vomica Crotalus Horridus Opium Cuprum Metallicum Zincum