# Streptococcum

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

## Keynote Indications
Strept. should be con sidered in chronic disease where there is a history of acute 
streptococcal infection, including severe infection in the mother during pregnancy. Especially when the strep -
tococcal infection immediately precedes chronic illness or when it is an outstanding event in the history of the 
patient. 
Rapid action, especially in its effect on temperature. Anti -febrile action. Chilliness. Oversensitive. Intolerance 
to the least current of air caused by the moving of a person. Intolerance to noise, light. 
Chronic sore throats and streptococcal infections. Severe or repeated tonsillitis or quinsy. Susceptible to 
catching colds and sore throats. Acute sinusitis. Severe influenza, pneumonia, bronchitis, pleurisy. 
Debility after streptococcal infections. Septic symptoms in infectious diseases. Puerperal sepsis. Epileptiform 
attacks. Chorea-like movements. Acute rheumatism. Retarded growth in delicate children.  
Erysipelas. Otitis media. Meningitis. Den tal caries. Acute pare nchymatous nephritis. Peritonitis and 
cholecystitis. Intestinal toxemia, sometimes with amebic dysentery or other intestinal infection. 
Scarlet fever has its own nosode, but Stept. is often effective when Scarl. fails.
COMMENTS - When there has been a number of severe acute illnesses, Dr. Gordon, of Edinburgh, maintained 
that the best results can be obtained by antidoting the most recent infection first by its appropri ate nosode, 
proceeding backwards and thus “curing in layers.” 
Another view is that, other things being equal, the first lapse from health is of greatest importance and that this 
should be antidoted first to undermine the superstructure and then deal with the case according to the 
remaining symptoms. 
Ghose wrote, “I have used Streptococcin with very remarkable results in acute Bacil lary dysentery with 
excessive hemorrhage and high rise of temperature with toxemia. The more the blood the more it is indicated 
like Mercurius, but there is no tenesmus or urinary complications of Mercurius in Streptococcin. 
“In very bad cases of bacillary dysentery, very bad complications will follow and take a very long time to cure 
if it cannot be checked in the very beginning. In chronic cases of Dysentery where blood with muc opurulent 
discharge does not respond to indicated rem edies or recurs and prolongs unduly. I have seen it to stop the 
bloody and mucopurulent discharge within a very short time with a dose of Streptococcin 200c.”

## Modalities (Aggravations / Ameliorations)
Better from movement, in open air. Worse by consolation.  Worse by humid weather, wet 
weather. Worse on beginning to move, better from subsequent movement.

## Symptoms by System

### Mind
- Depressed.
- Weeping without reason.
- Streptococcinum weeps on being given sympathy.
- Despair of recovery.
- Oversensitive.
- Highly strung, 
emotional, apprehensive.
- Exaggerated obsequiousness.
- Tormenting thoughts and anxiety.
- Obsessions.
- Thinks that he will become fnad.
- Auditory hallucinations, hears cry for help.
- Depressed.
- Weeping without reason.
- Streptococcinum weeps on being given sympathy.
- Despair of recovery.
- Oversensitive.
- Highly strung, 
emotional, apprehensive.
- Exaggerated obsequiousness.
- Tormenting thoughts and anxiety.
- Obsessions.
- Thinks that he will become fnad.
- Auditory hallucinations, hears cry for help.

### Vertigo
- Vertigo while rising and while lying down.

### Head
- Tenacious migraine with vomiting of bile.
- Pain of the whole head as if it is going to burst.
- Tenacious migraine with vomiting of bile.
- Pain of the whole head as if it is going to burst.

### Eyes
- Troubles of visi on with ocular hypertension.
- Eye fatigue with the need of wearing glasses.
- Visual 
hallucination, sees the room full of flies.

### Ears
- Otitis and mastoiditis.
- Otalgia specially if the person is lying down on the left.
- Intermittent puffs of wind 
in the ear.
- Auditory hallucinations, hears cry for help.

### Mouth
- Feeling of having salty lips.
- White tongue with the tip red, without papilla in the front and in the back 
part.
- Gums painful when chewing.
- Nose - Serous nasal discharge, mucopurulent with nasal crusts.
- Sinusitis with headache.

### Throat
- Persistent pain and redness of the throat.
- Acute and chronic laryngitis.
- Red angina.
- Adenopathy of 
the neck.
- Big, infected, purulent tonsils.

### Chest
- Sensation of weakness of the heart.
- Pain of the point of the heart.
- Cramping pain in the precordial 
region.

### Stomach & Abdomen
- Sudden pains in the esophagus after meals.
- Dull, deep pain in the epi gastric region.
- Nausea with 
 
 
vertigo and vomiting of bile.
- While lying down cannot bear the weight of hand on the abdomen.
- Pain in the appendix.

### Extremities
- Muscular pain.
- Rheumatism of small articulations of the wrist, of the hand, with local redness, 
sometimes with hydro-arthrosis.
- Parethesiaof lower limbs.
- Cold feet.

### Neck & Back
- Pain of the backbone.
- Acute pain on the clavicles.
- Sensation of vibrations in the vertebral column and 
in the limbs.
- Causations - Streptococcal infections.
- Ailments after tonsillectomy.

### Skin
- Vesicular and pustulous eruptions.
- Cellulitis.
- Exanthema.
- Erysipeltoid patches of the limbs.
- Fibri nous 
dermatitis, edema of the face.
- Scarlatina.
- Recurrent suppuration.
- Abortive pus formation.
- Loss of hair.

### Sleep
- Agitated sleep.
- Dreams of violence, scuffles.