# 26. Infectious Diseases (HMT Index)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Alternative Names:** Mirza Tahir Ahmad Disease Index
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
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

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Clinical reference formulas compiled from Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad's lecture compendiums.

## Symptoms by System