Lesson 28CCC - Homeopathy & scarlet fever
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Homeopathic medicine developed much of its popularity in the United
States and Europe because of its success in treating people with cholera,
scarlet fever, yellow fever and other infectious diseases that were
ravaging populations.
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Homeopathic Remedies & Homeopathy Treatment for
Scarlet Fever
#Belladonna. [Bell]
this remedy corresponds to the asthenic type, with a bright red
rosy hue to the skin,a bright red throat, pain in the epigastrium, the
strawberry tongue and the glandular swellings. Thus it is seem that it
corresponds to the smooth bright red,Sydenham variety of scarlet fever.
It has no correspondence with a miliary rash or with malignant symptoms.
There are usually present in a well-marked Belladonna case symptoms of
cerebral irritation, such as delirium, twitching of muscles, uneasy
sleep. Mercurius will be indicate in certain epidemics by its
characteristic throat symptoms, but Belladonna is more often called for.
Aconite may be needed at the onset if its symptoms be present, though
this remedy usually finds no place in the treatment of conditions due to
a poisoned state of the blood. Hahnemann's discovery that Belladonna is a
prophylactic in scarlet fever has been abundantly verified in practice.
Sulphur is also a most useful remedy to use in scarlet fever, but its
especial field is for the sequelae bursting forth upon a scrofulous
diathesis.
#Gelsemium. [Gels]
Here the patients are quiet and listless; they are prostrated and
stupid; the pulse is throbbing but compressible, and at the onset of the
disease it suits cases where neither Aconite nor Belladonna re indicated.
The asthenic form, with great prostration is more often met with in
poorly nourished children, and here Gelsemium is often the remedy. If the
case develops any special malignancy of symptoms other remedies will be
needed.
#Bryonia. [Bry]
Bryonia is a remedy often of great value. When we recall its
headache, white then brownish tongue, the characteristic thirst, the
sharp pains in the tardy development of the rashes, occurring perhaps sin
blotches and resembling that of measles, or a disappearing rash with
possibly delirium on waking, Bryonia will do good service.
#Ailanthus. [Ail]
This is a most potent antidote to malignant scarlet fever and
suits especially severe cases. The patient lies in a stupor, the rash is
imperfect, dark and purplish;swollen, livid throat and infiltration of
the cellular tissue about the neck; excoriating nasal discharge,
drowsiness and prostration, violent vomiting, severe headache and
dizziness, small quick pulse, the stools thin, bloody and offensives and
there is much foetor to all the discharges. It will save life oftentimes
in the most desperate cases. Arum triphyllum has excoriating discharges
from the nose,swollen tongue, sore throat; the child is restless and
irritable, he tosses about. The extreme soreness of the throat is
characteristic of Arum ;the lips and nose are irritated and the child
picks at them until they bleed.
#Rhus toxicodendron. [Rhus-t]
A most useful remedy in adynamic forms of scarlet fever. Here the
child is restless, drowsy, has a red and smooth tongue, oedematous
fauces, the parotids are especially apt to swell or suppurate, the
eruption does not come out well, and when it does come out is is miliary.
The great depression, weakness and bodily restlessness and the
supervening of rheumatic symptoms late in the disease will serve to
indicate Rhus. Apis mellifica must be carefully distinguished from Rhus.
This remedy has high fever, restlessness and nervous agitation; the mouth
and throat are red and the tongue blistered; there is early prostration
and scanty urine, drowsiness, miliary rash. It is a remedy ;only
occasionally useful in scarlet fever; it stands midway between Belladonna
and Rhus toxicodendron; there will generally be present an oedematous
condition of the skin and throat, and the skin will prick and sting. It
come in well, however, in albuminuria following scarlet fever.
#Lachesis. [Lach]
This remedy suits forms of the disease having a malignant
tendency; the child is drowsy and the rash comes out imperfectly and
slowly, is dark interspersed with a miliary rash; the throat is inflamed,
the cervical glands are swollen, the tongue is dirty yellow. It suits
cases core adynamic than those calling for Rhus. Hydrocyanic acid is also
sometimes indicated in scarlet fever o;f a malignant type, and Muriatic
acid suits malignant cases oftentimes better than either Rhus or
Lachesis. With this acid the rash comes out sparingly and is interspersed
with petechiae or bluish spots; the child is restless, throws off the
bedclothes; the skin takes on a purple hue and there is great weakness
and prostration, delirium, a rapid intermitting pulse, foul breath, acrid
nasal discharge and sore, bleeding ulcerations in the mouth. Under
Arsenicum the rash comes out imperfectly; the child is thrown into
convulsions and then relapses into a stupor.
#Ammonium carbonicum. [Am-c]
This is also a useful remedy in scarlet fever. The throat is
swollen internally and externally,the glands are enlarged, the tonsils
are swollen and bluish and the child is drowsy. The drowsiness, miliary
eruption and dark throat will distinguish from Belladonna.
#Zincum. [Zinc]
Zincum will be needed in certain enervated children who become
restless and delirious, or else are quit and unconscious and very weak,
too weak in fat to develop an eruption, and as a result of this
non-development of the eruption brain symptoms, such as meningitis with
sharp pains through the head, supervene. In these cases it will often
bring out the eruption and safe the child. Cuprum may be needed in
troubles from a suppressed rash and Calcarea carbonica must be thought of
for scrofulous children with an undeveloped or receding rash. Kali
sulphuricum is a remedy for the stage of desquamation.