# Pyrogenium (HMT)

## Remedy Classification
- **Type:** Remedy
- **Miasm:** Tubercular Miasm
- **Temperament:** Neutral
- **Aggravation Time:** Neutral/Anytime

## Keynote Indications
Pyrogenium is prepared from the putrid matter obtained from
decomposed meat, which  is deadly poisonous.  On ingesting
decomposed meat,  either a person catches high fever, becomes
disorientated and then dies, or keeps suffering from its ill effects for a
long time.

Pyrogenium has been so frequently referred to in this book that the
reader may think that he has alr eady read about it.   Here, it is
described briefly.

In a Pyrogenium patient, the disc harges are extremely foul and
poisonous, producing high fever, even death.  It is a very powerful
panacea for puerperal sepsis i.e. the fever developing after childbirth
due to the infection and putrefaction of the retained placental contents
in the uterus.  It is extremely effective in curing this dreadful and
potentially fatal condition.  If Sulphur 200 is used in combination with
Pyrogenium 200, it works even better.

Like Arsenic, it can also be of use in the treatment of influenza
complicated by severe weakness and restlessness .  Arsenic and
Pyrogenium given together work much better in invigorating the
weakness.  The same prescr iption stands high in the treatment of
diarrhoea and dysentery asso ciated with foul smell .  All sorts of
catarrhal fevers associated with chills, putrefaction and restlessness
can be satisfactorily treated with Pyrogenium, Bacillinum and Natrum
Mur.  In Pyrogenium, like Phosphorus, there is intense thirst for cold
water.  The cold water soon beco mes warm inside the stomach and
induces vomiting.  The Pyrogenium pa tient is very cold deep down to
the bones, yet likes to drink cold water.  In this condition, Pyrogenium
should be mixed with Phosphorus.

Pyrogenium is also useful in combating bad breath .  If the patient
also feels very cold, then Psorinum should be added to Pyrogenium.

I have found the combination of Pyrogenium 200 and Typhoidinum
200 very useful in the treatment of all typhoid patients.  My late
father also used Pyrogenium in  the treatment of typhoid.  Most
probably it is he who invented this particular combination.  In addition
to Pyrogenium and Typhoidinum, Kali Phos 6X and Ferrum Phos 6X
should be given seven to eight times a day.  If a patient passes odorous
stools, then Baptisia 30 should also be included, seven to eight times a
day.

Pyrogenium is also effective against malaria, which is untreatable
with common remedies.  The patient feels severe chills and is restless
like Arsenic and the discharges are extremely foul smelling.

In cattle also, Pyrogenium 200 and Sulphur 200 are equally effective
in the treatment of puerperal fever following retention of the placenta
and its infection.

Pyrogenium is also useful in the treatment of inflammation of the
kidneys (nephritis).   Once it becomes known that the patient had
previously suffered from puerperal fever, causing damage to the
kidneys, Pyrogenium will be found very effective.

Another symptom of Pyrogenium is th at in spite of the high fever, the
pulse rate  is relatively slow.  This conf licting type of heart rate is
typical of Pyrogenium.

If the symptoms of Pyrogenium al ready mentioned are present, then
Pyrogenium may be useful in the treatment of all kinds of skin
diseases of the patient.  Pyrogenium being basically related to the
venous blood, the patient may develop piles, which can become
infected and then putrefied.  Pyr ogenium is also useful in the
treatment of a resistant type of offensive vomiting.  If the
constitutional symptoms of Pyr ogenium are present, then broncho-
pneumonia and other infec tions of the lungs can also be satisfactorily
treated with it.

Adjuvants: Bryonia, Sulphur, Arsenic, Typhoidinum, etc.
Potency:  30 to CM

## Symptoms by System