chikungunya virus

[Fran Sheffield]

Hi Didi,

How much do you feel the nosode contiributes to treatment in contrast to using the straight genus epidemicus. I ask because while nosodes can be great preventatives, old masters have stated that they are not so good for treatment. Some others report they are likely to aggravate if given while an infection is in progress.

As I do not face these epidemic diseases and have had to rely on information left by those old masters who did, I am interested in your experiences.
Have your protocols have come out of experimentation with and without the nosode component? What else have you found and under what circumstances. Many thanks for the info you can share.

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Kind regards,

Fran Sheffield
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Ananda Rucira wrote:

[Tanya Marquette]

i find it interesting that your protocol is
similar to ramakrishnan's for cancer. you both
use a 2-tier system attacking the illness directly
and then using a more general or constitutional.
i wonder if anyone else has developed such a systematic
approach with homeopathy?
am interested in your answers to fran's questions.
tanya

[Didi Ananda Rucira]

Hi,

Fran writes

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Allow me attribute this humble protocol to the right person, Steve Smith who is the clinic manager of our affiliated Toru Health Centres. (no, this is another Steve Smith residing in Kenya, NOT the more well-known Steve Smith of littlemiracle.freeuk)
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We look upon these nosodes as "door openers" to treatment. I don't think we've seen much by way of aggravations. Let's say, it's a way to give a knock on the head of that little bug.
Somehow, yes... but unfortunately, neither Steve or I are academic enough to present cases. I'm sorry for our lack of scholarliness.
--- In the case of tropical/endemic diseases there's the factor of exciting/maintaining causes. Both personal - eg eating too much sugar - and addressing social health issues. So treatment goes hand in hand with health education. Eg educating about clean water, etc.
--- The other big factor here is the patients history of allopathic drugging. Of course that's the same obstacle homeopaths in industrialized countries are facing. I believe the difference here is that African populations are only into the first generation of allo interference, hence it is generally easier to identify and neutralize.

The case I posted last year about suppressed malaria is typical.

So I also focus a lot on detoxing with tautopathic (isopathic) remedies, eg china sulph for malaria drugs, acth, vaccinations, and whatever indivdual drugs the patient is taking eg AZT, ART, Septrin (for HIV), depo provera, etc.
In Him,
Ananda Rucira
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skype: anandarucira
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[Dale Moss]

While my experience has been more limited than Didi's, I did have a whooping cough case last summer that none of the usual whooping cough remedies touched. Pertussin was the only thing that cured. I wish I'd used it first instead of being swayed by the old masters' comments.
Peace,
Dale

[Sarvadaman Oberoi]

Anyone strategies to deal with this virus . Believe known SE Asia
and spreading.
Dear Jean,
I prefer Polyporus pinicola 6C in water once daily and Ferrum phos 6X once daily for the pains and lethargy over 10 to 15 days.
However an epidemic approach may well require a single dose protocol. See extracts below.
It is very useful to also consider the various remedies/ approaches to cure flu/ fever/ dengue in such type of epidemics as accurate diagnosis may be difficult and symptomatic approach would be much preferred.
Ref 1 Chikun gunya :

Dr. V. Krishnamurthy

(Specialist in Incurable diseases & Terminal Illness)
Saturday to Tuesday at Chennai

RAMAN HOUSE

Old No.21, Kuppiah Street,

West Mambalam,

Chennai (Madras) - 600 033

India

Phone : (044) 2489 0370

(044) 6539 3214
Wednesday to Friday at Bangalore

402/41, 38th `A' Cross

26th Main

(Opp. to SBM)

Jayanagar - 9th Block

Bangalore - 570 069

India

Phone: (080) 3292 2523
5 ml pills

POLYPORUS PINICOLA-200

(OR)

POLYPORUS OFFICINALIS-200

5 ml pills contains about 250 pills. Give two pills (chewable) for a

dose; just one dose (irrespective of age) any time, not necessarily

before/after food. This one dose completely cures fever and body

pain of Chikun gunya.
No need to take repeatedly. Just one dose! Fever subsides, so also

joint pains. Myself and my students have so far cured hundreds of

cases of Chikun gunya with just one single dose of Polyporus Pinicola-

200.
In rare cases (say one in 300), fever subsides but joint pain

continues. In that case only, just give one dose (2 pills for a dose

chewable, irrespective of age) of another homoeopathic medicine

called KALI MUR-l000.
5 ml pills

KALI MUR - 1000

[See Calvin B. Knerr's Repertory: Fever, sequelae: Kali-mur.]
Ref 2 Chikun gunya :

Shiv Shanker Asthana ssasthana@yahoo.com

It is found that homeopathic medicine EUPATORIUM PERF 200C if taken two times a day for three days and if repeated again for another two days after a week's gap can reduce the chances of this infection. Generally 4-5 pills make one dose.

For Dengue see extracts below.

EXTRACT DENGUE
BLACKWOOD Alexander L., A Manual of Materia Medica Therapeutics and Pharmacology (bwa3)

Eupatorium perfoliatum
Therapeutics

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This remedy is indicated in bilious and intermittent fevers, dengue and influenza, when there are severe pains in the back and legs, as though the bones were broken, with soreness of the eyeballs and yellowness of the conductive and face.

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It is of service in bilious fevers when there is an excruciating headache, with soreness of the scalp and eyeballs, redness of the face, nausea, bilious vomiting and prostration, soreness in the hepatic region, with constipation and high colored urine.

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It is useful in intermittent fever, when the chill appears from 7 to 9 A.M. one day and at noon the next.

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There is thirst before and during the chill and fever; there are severe bone pains and bilious vomiting.

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It is to be studied in dengue, when the bone pains are severe; also in influenza when there is great soreness over the body, with pains as though the bones would break.

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There is hoarseness and a cough, with soreness of the larynx and chest; he must support the chest with his hands during coughing.

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The pulse is weak; there is coryza, thirst and bilious derangement.
CLARKE John H., Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica (c1)
Aconitum napellus
Description

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Common Aconite.

- Monkshood.

- Wolfsbane.

- (Moist pastures and waste places in mountainous districts, Central and Southern Europe, Russia, Scandinavia, and Central Asia.)

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N. O. Ranunculaceae.

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Tincture of whole plant with root when beginning to flower.
Clinical
- Dengue fever.
Characteristics
- Aconite in potencies above the 3rd is a perfectly safe medicine for any age.

- The rapidity of action of Aconite determines its appropriateness for conditions in which the symptoms set in with great intensity, such as Asiatic cholera, certain fevers, and acute inflammations.

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To this list may be added attacks of sudden blindness.

- When the symptoms correspond it will cure cases of great chronicity - for example, cases of indurated glands.

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Dr. Hughes has acutely remarked that the condition to which Aconite is homoeopathic is one of tension; and this word gives the best idea of the action and sphere of Aconite.

- Guernsey puts it in another way : "The pure and fully, developed blood globule, in its most perfect type, when diseased, has a great affinity for Acon..

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When the blood globules are disorganised it is seldom indicated.

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We think of Acon. in sudden inflammation, especially if caused by cold, dry air, suppressing exhalations of the body."

- Chill, fright, injury, or surgical operation - the effects of these will be met in large majority of cases by Acon., the timely administration of which ward off serious results.

- Some characteristics of Acon. are the following : Active haemorrhages in stout, plethoric people.

- Passes almost pure blood by stool.

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In haemoptysis the blood comes up with great ease by hemming and coughing, bright red in large quantities, from cold, dry winds, with great fear, anxiety, and palpitation.

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Every inspiration increases the cough.

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After the cough tingling sensation in chest.

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Unquenchable thirst : everything tastes bitter, except water (Chi. everything, including water).
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Clinical
- Dengue.

- The leading characteristic for its homoeopathic use is the distressing bone-pains it causes, such as are found in connection with malarial fevers and influenza.

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Soreness will be found running throughout the proving : headache with soreness internally, parietal protuberances sore; with pain and soreness in eyeballs; cough with extreme soreness down trachea, soreness of chest, aching in limbs throughout the body.
Gelsemium sempervirens
Clinical
- Dengue fever.
Rhus toxicodendron

[RHUS RADICANS (POISON IVY) - RHUS TOXICODENDRON (POISON OAK)]
Description

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Under the name Rhus Hahnemann published his proving of "R. radicans, also called Toxicodendron".

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Botanists agree in recognising no distinction other than that of habit between the two.

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Millspaugh (American Medicinal Plants) tells in his masterly account of the plant that he has seen the two varieties springing from the same root-stock.

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He advises that the tincture should be made from specimens of both.
Clinical
- Dengue fever.
GUPTA R. L., Directory of Diseases and Cures in Homoeopathy (gtr1)

Dengue
(Break bone fever) see also Ague and Malaria.
A viral disease transmitted to man principally by the mosquito. It is also called as break bone fever with symptoms like - chilliness, rheumatic pains i.e. , severe pains in the back bones, joints and muscles of the body with headache, sore throat, fever, running of the eyes and irritating skin rash. This fever affects many a people in the locality at a time-during summer or rainy season, lasts for few days - after which patient is debilitated, exhausted and , requires considerable convalescence (period of regaining health).
CURES - SYMPTOMATIC
1 .Aconite-30 in alternation with Ipecac-30 in dengue fever with vomiting, nausea, anxiety.
2. Arsenicum-30. Dengue fever with diarrhoea and thirst.
3. Belladonna-30. High fever, red hot face, red eyes, hot head and cold extremities, puffy eyes, no thirst, sore throat and red rash-over skin.
4. Bryonia-30. Dengue fever with frontal headache, pain in joints and muscles, constipation, great thirst for large quantity of water, and skin rash.
5. Gelsemium-30. Dengue with pains all over the body no thirst, headache frontal and occipital with great debility, backache, lachrymation.
6. Bapt, China, Colocynth, Eup-perf, Ipecac, Nux. v, Podophy, Rhus. t or Sulphure-30 also deserve your attention.
Dengue fever
Case no. 473
19.8.1985 Numerous cases were cured from August to September 1985, and some of them are given in the following pages:

A young man of 24 years had high viral fever with rheumatic pains all over the body i.e. , backache, joint pains, sore muscles, frontal headache, lachrymation and thirst. He had great chills just before its attack.
Bryonia-30,

Gelsemium-30 and, FP6X, KM3X, W6Y, NS6X, -4 grains dose. All the three medicines were repeated one after the other after every 1-2 hours.

On 20.8.1985: Patient had no fever.

Sulphure-30, only two dose, this morning and above said treatment after every 4 hours for 2 days more to avoid its recurring attack.
Dengue fever with throat infection
Case no. 474
15.7.1986 A boy of 17, had dengue fever and throat infection with great dryness, redness, irritation, scraping feeling and acute pain in throat. He had fever- 103o F with hot head, red hot face, red eyes, swollen eye-lids but cold feet. He had no thirst, but had to wet the throat with sip of water to avoid tickling cough in dry throat. He had backache and pains all over the body -with frontal headache and chills before its attack.
belladonna-30, in alternation with FP6X, KM3X, NM3X, NS3X -3 grains dose after every 2 hours.

On 16.7.1986. Fever-99°F in the morning and had little pain in throat,

Sulphure-30 one dose in the morning, with above said treatment and patient was cured before 17-7-1986.
Dengue fever and diarrhoea
Case no. 475
19.9.1985 A lady aged 28 years had dengue fever with diarrhoea -2-3 loose stools during chill - shivering and fever stage. That is, she had paroxysm of chill in the morning with rise of temperature - 102°F, and 2-3 loose stools per day during fever. She had great thirst due to dryness of mouth. She drank frequently but little water at a time. She had great weakness, debility, prostration, restlessness, anxiety and fear of death. Profuse sweating of body due to weakness, every part of the body was sore and painful, bed felt too hard to lie on it.
Arsenicum-30,

Baptisia-30 and, FP6X, KM6X, NWY, NS6X-2 grains dose. All the three remedies were repeated one after the other after every two hours on first day, and patient was cured miraculously on second day. Same treatment was repeated after every 4 hours for 2 days to avoid its recurring attack.
Dengue-intermittent
Case no. 476

See cases under fever-intermittent malaria.
Dengue fever suppressed
Case no. 477
A Young girl aged 18 years, who was thin, slim, delicate and had fair Complexion, was suffering from Dengue fever - for the last 10 days. This fever as actually suppressed or spoiled with over doses of quinine. But now she was turned so weak that she could not walk and speak easily. She also reported that chill started in the morning along the back from coccyx to occiput, then she had rise in the temperature upto 100.5°F, with great drowsiness, heavy legs and sore bruised feeling ad over the body. No thirst and appetite during hot stage -until night.
Gelsemium-30 in alternation with, FP6X, KM3X, NM3X, NS3X-4 grains dose, after every 2-4 hours cured the patient within two days. Lastly

sulphure = 30, one dose was given on third day and

China = 30, after meals for 7 days to cure her extreme weakness.
Fever (pyrexia)
Causes of fever :
5. Mosquito bite causes fever like malaria, dengue fever.
TYPES OF FEVER :
G. Fever dandy : It is a dengue fever.
H. Fever dengue : It is a break-bone fever.

JK. Yellow fever : It is a viral fever caused by an arbovirus (a virus transmitted from animals to man by insects and causing a disease like encephalitis or dengue. It affects the liver and kidneys. It includes symptoms like chilliness, headache, pain in the back, joints and limbs, vomiting, constipation, scanty urine, albuminuria, and jaundice. See jaundice with fever.
Curative medicines for fever : Throughout my practice of 25 years, the medicines like
Acon, Ars, Bapt, Bell, Bry, Gels, Hep s, Puls, Rhus t and Sul
were found more curative and efficacious than other remedies in homoeopathy. Moreover biochemic salts in combination were also used to have quick cure, but in alternation with any one of the above-said medicines.
Arsenicum album 30
In hay-fever, ague and dengue fever; hectic, intermittent, enteric, gastric, typhoid, relapsing and typhus fever.
In measles at the time when the fever is over or low with catarrhal symptoms and diarrhoea during receding eruption (i.e. , measles eruption is disappearing). Arsenicum is used in fevers with symptoms like great weakness, debility, loose stools, pain in bowels, frequent thirst, but drinks little water at a time, coldness and chilliness, dejection, depression or sadness. In typhoid fever, Arsenicum alb 30 works well when it is alternated with Baptisia 30. In intermittent or malarial fever with chill alternating heat, better by external warmth, with symptoms like extreme prostration, weakness, foetid diarrhoea, great desire to lie down, nausea from drinking cold water. Abuse of quinine. It should not be given too early in typhoid or unless it is indicated with symptoms like anxiety, heaviness of head, ringing in ears, vertigo, lachrymation, parched lips, weak voice; face sunken, sickly or deathly cold, puffy, bloated, with redness of cheeks, burning in stomach and pustular, crusted eruption around mouth during long- lasting typhoid fever. There is scanty, burning or involuntary urination. It follows well after the failure of Rhus tox 30, when there is aggravation in the evening or night. In scarlet fever when rash fails to appear fully on the skin and child goes into convulsion, stupor with loss of strength, with constant changing of position in the bed. In hectic fever with emaciation, debility, prostration, palpitation, night sweats, hot dry skin during the day, irritable or sad mood, weak digestion and loss of appetite.
HEMPEL Charles Julius., A New and Comprehensive System of Materia Medica Vol 1 and Vol 2 (hpc2)

Volume 1

Lecture XIII
Aconitum napellus
Exanthematous group
The action of Aconite upon the skin, and its therapeutic virtues in acute eruptive diseases, are very characteristic. In measles, purple and scarlet-rash, rubeola, acute eczema and impetigo, acute zona, and in any other eruptive disease which sets in with synochal fever, Aconite may always be resorted to for the purpose of moderating the fever and facilitating the appearance and full development of the eruption. The various kinds of acute rash, nettle-rash, purple and scarlet rash, measles, eczema and other eruptions, very frequently disappear with the fever under the use of Aconite. In all the uncomplicated cases of these eruptions I advise you to give a dose of Aconite every now and then until the eruptions has fairly run its course.
Aconite may help us in
Dengue may perhaps be properly classed among the eruptive fevers. We find this disease fully described in Professor Dickson's Practice of Medicine. According to this author the name dengue is a corruption of the English dandy, the disease being named dandy-fever by the English negroes of the island of St. Thomas on account of the stiff and affected gait of the persons who were labouring under it.
The disease was ushered in with febrile symptoms of an inflammatory character, accompanied by pain in the joints and muscles.

In the course of this fever gastric symptoms appeared, and on the sixth day minute red papulae, slightly elevated and distributed in irregular patches, broke out upon the skin, first upon the face and trunk and gradually invading the extremities. The full development of the eruption was accompanied by severe arthritic and muscular pains; the eruption itself terminated in a few days in desquamation of the cuticle.
A disease of this kind would undoubtedly require
Aconite; which might be alternated with, or succeeded by,

Bryonia.
HERING Constantine., Guiding Symptoms of our Materia Medica (hr1)

Materia medica
Eupatorium perfoliatum

Boneset; thoroughwort. compositae.
It was recommended by Dioscorides for ill-conditioned ulcers, dysentery, and the stings of reptiles; chronic fevers, obstructions of liver.

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Fever
- Bilious fever; remittent fever; dengue ; typhoid.
HUGHES Richard., A Manual of Pharmacodynamics (hs2)
Materia medica
Eupatorium perfoliatum
- The original proving of Eupatorium, also, is in the Materia Medica of American Provings.

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Cases of cure with it are there given; and a full account of its virtues is to be found in Dr. Hale's New Remedies.

- Eupatorium has long been highly esteemed on the American continent as a remedy against intermittent fever; hence its popular name among the Indians, " ague-weed."

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Its other appellation, " bone-set," is obtained from the remarkable power it showed in relieving the bone-pains of dengue in an epidemic of this disease.

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The pains were so severe that the malady was spoken of as the " break-bone fever. "

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The provings of Homoeopathy have enabled us to define the precise sphere of Eupatorium in the treatment of these maladies.

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In intermittents the setting in of thirst before the chill, which usually occurs in the morning, bilious vomiting during the paroxysm,, and scanty perspiration at its close, are characteristic symptoms calling for its use.

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If, also, the peculiar bone-pains are present, the medicine is doubly indicated : you may read a case of this kind by Dr. Bayes in the first volume of the Annals of the British Homoeopathic Society.

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I have no experience of Eupatorium in intermittents or dengue; but can bear my testimony to its extreme value in relieving the bone-pains of influenza.

- Dr. Dunham points out as elements of distinction between these two-first, that the perspiration is free with Bryonia, deficient with Eupatorium; second, that Rupatorium pains make the patient restless, those of Bryonia make him keep very still.
Rhus toxicodendron
- I speak of the " scarlatina rheumatica " of this country; but I should think the remedy equally applicable to the epidemic - disease which sometimes bears this name-the " dengue " of America and the Indies.

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I would suggest the
Rhus venenata here,
on account of the implication of the mucous membrane of the mouth and throat, which is seen most prominently in the pathogenesis of this variety.

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On this account I gave it once, and with much success, in a relapse of Ceylon fever in a patient lately returned from that island.
HUGHES Richard., The Principles and Practice of Homoeopathy (hs3)
General diseases

The acute infections disorders
Dengue
I conclude my remarks on the treatment of the exanthemata with a mention of two affections not ordinarily so accounted, " dengue" and "miliaria."
Dengue is classed in our official nomenclature among the pestilences, with typhus, plague and influenza. The definition given of it in Quain's Dictionary, "an eruptive fever, considered by many to be infectious," places it rather in our present category. It seems to be a sort of relapsing febricula, made up of two short paroxysms separated by an interval. The first paroxysm consists of high continuous fever, with severe pain in head, limbs and joints, and swelling of the latter; with which occurs a scarlatinoid rash. The second has a less intense fever, with a rubeoloid or urticarious exanthem, often with itching and implication of the mucous membrane of the nose, mouth and throat.
Judging from these symptoms, I think there can be no doubt of the suitableness of aconite in the first paroxysm as the fundamental remedy. Remembering, however, that when dengue invaded America in 1827 it was known as the "break-bone fever," and that the cupatorium perfoliatum was found most beneficial in relieving the pains indicated by this title, we may wisely give it in alternation with the anti-pyretic. In the second paroxysm, gelsemium would take the place of aconite; and the symptoms of skin and mucous membrane would call for rhus preferably, I think, in the "venenata" variety.

Thus, in substance, I wrote in my "Therapeutics" of 1877. In January, 1898, Dr. Bliem, of San Antonio, Texas, gives an account of a severe epidemic. "The remedies," he writes, "narrowed themselves down to gelsemium, bryonia and eupatorium, with now and then a call for belladonna. Nothing seemed to beat down the temperature until it had run its course." I would venture to suggest that this was for lack of aconite in the first paroxysm.
Sir Joseph Fayrer, in Quain's Dictionary, commends belladonna as often conferring great relief.
The continued fevers
Relapsing fever
I have next to mention

Relapsing Fever, which needs no definition on my part. We have a special interest in it, as Medicine owes its differentiation to our own Henderson. Of its homoeopathic treatment we have three special sources of information. The first is an account given by Hahnemann himself of the fever he treated in Leipsic in 1814, which I must agree with Dr. Russell in considering to be of this variety. His main remedies were
bryonia and rhus, each in the twelfth dilution;
one or other being given according as the pains were relieved by rest or by motion. He treated 183 cases without a single death, while the mortality under the ordinary heroic treatment was considerable. * The second is Dr. Kidd's experience in the fever which desolated Ireland in the year 1847. †

He treated at Bantry III cases, of which he considers 24 to have been instances of typhus, and 87 of relapsing fever. He lost two cases only, which were presumably among the sufferers from typhus; so that his mortality also was nil. His chief remedy was
bryonia;
and, taking up the subject again in 1865, he is satisfied that no medicine can be recommended with so much confidence. Our third authority is Dr. Dyce Brown, who treated 50 cases in an epidemic occurring in Aberdeen in 1871. ‡

He gave nearly all his patients
baptisia I;
and found it, by comparison with the natural history of the disease, materially to expedite the crisis. He also lost no case.
It appears, therefore, that relapsing fever need never prove fatal under homoeopathic treatment; and that
bryonia, rhus, and baptisia (the last being preferred when gastric symptoms predominate)
are its chief remedies. I should have thought, from the height and synochal character of the fever, that
aconite
would have been serviceable; but Dr. Brown says that it was not of the slightest use. I do not think that we can prevent the relapse by homoeopathic remedies; § but we ought to relieve the pains which are such a characteristic feature of this fever.
Bryonia or rhus,
given according to Hahnemann's indication, and after his manner i.e. , a single dose of the 12th dilution in the morning, without repetition may do this; but if not, I should suggest the trial of
eupatorium perfoliatum,
as in the very similar pains of dengue and (as we shall see) of influenza.
We have now finished the British types of fever; but there are four closely allied, though specifically distinct varieties which are encountered in other countries. These are yellow fever, cerebro-spinal fever, Mediterranean fever, and plague.
Influenza
I have last to speak of Influenza. In my Therapeutics I discussed this malady among those of the respiratory organs, assuming that it was present when a severe fluent coryza was accompanied by headache, pains in the limbs and great prostration, and advised arsenicum and eupatorium perfoliatum in its treatment. I expressed my suspicion, however, that such a condition was to true epidemic influenza what English is to Asiatic cholera, and advised consultation of the older homoeopathic writers for their experience in the visitations of the thirties and forties.
My suspicion was well-founded, and I do not now speak as one to whom epidemic influenza is unknown. The waves of it which since 1890 have passed over the world with almost unvarying annual persistency have made all practitioners familiar with its features, and have taught us much as to its nature and various manifestations. It is evidently an essential fever, as much so as typhoid and dengue, to which last it presents many points of resemblance, especially in its characteristic pains of head and limbs. Catarrh, nasal and bronchial, is (contrary to our former notions) a secondary and incidental occurrence only. When it does set in, however, it is very apt to run down the air-tubes into the cells, and to set up a low diffuse bronchopneumonia, which in aged persons and broken constitutions readily proves fatal.
As regards treatment, homoeopathy has nothing to blush for. While our old-school friends were deafening their patients with quinine or overpowering their vitality with antipyrin, and yet the effect on the death rate was (as in former epidemics) greater than that of cholera, our mortality has been very small. At the British Congress of 1891 Mr. Harris produced statistical returns from 82 of our practitioners, which showed a total of some 15,000 cases with 73 deaths, i.e. hardly five in the thousand. You will wish to know (as the malady is still with us) how such success has been obtained.
The influenzal pyrexia is, as I have said, a primary one, as essential as that of measles and typhoid. It is not symptomatic of a local inflammation; nor is it a mere disturbance of heat-formation and heat-loss such as a chill can produce. It may unquestionably be communicated from person to person (though I doubt whether this is its invariable, or even its ordinary mode of propagation); and, with whatever individual difference, it "breeds true," producing its like and nothing else. It must thus be no longer classed among the diseases of the respiratory organs, but must take rank as a specific infections fever. And this is no matter of nosology only. The kind of remedies we employ for the latter group of maladies differs from those suitable for the former; we shall think less readily of aconite and arsenicum, and more so of gelsemium, belladonna and baptisia. According to the form the fever assumes we should administer one or other of our well tried antipyretics
aconite, gelsemium, belladonna or baptisia.
Aconitum napellus
is, as I have said, less suitable in such a fever than in one resulting from cold; nevertheless, when it is indicated by the symptoms it will do good service, as it does, for instance, in measles. The sthenic character of the pyrexia, the fulness with quickness of the pulse, and the presence of thirst, restlessness and distress, are the well-known indications for it, and may be trustfully followed. This only must be said, that it is not to be expected of aconite that it shall act here as it does in a fever from a chill, breaking it up in a few hours. We have a blood affection to deal with, which will have a certain course; and as in measles, we must give the remedy persistently for two or three days, awaiting the resolution of the pyrexia, which, however, it is all the while moderating and soothing.
Gelsemium sempervirens
takes the place of aconite when the fever is less sthenic and chills mingle frequently with the heat; when the pulse, though it may be full, is less tense and rapid; when there is little thirst; and when the patient's general condition is one rather of torpor and apathy.
Belladonna
standing at the head of our remedies for the infectious fevers, plays its part well here when the symptoms demand it. These include a pulse smaller but even more rapid than that of aconite, and a dry hot skin; but they are chiefly to be found in the head and tongue. Dryness of the latter, heat and pain (with flushed face) of the former, call unmistakably for it; and when they are present we need hardly look farther for our remedy.
Baptisia tinctoria
coming here crowned with its laurels in the "gastric" type of continued fever, just fills the vacant niche when such symptoms characterise the influenzal pyrexia. A gastro-intestinal form of the disorder was noted by the earlier observers, and has recurred in the present epidemic, as may be seen in the article upon influenza in the new edition of Quain's Dictionary of Medicine. When the tongue is thickly coated; when there is nausea and vomiting; and when the stools tend to be diarrhoeic especially if also foetid, baptisia, already suited to the pyrexia, becomes so to the whole condition, and will change it for the better more rapidly than any other medicine.
The homoeopathicity of the above indications I have thought it unnecessary to argue; it is pretty obvious. They are given, however, from experience, and I can vouch for them practically. It has seemed to me that when they led me to
gelsemium, belladonna or baptisia,
the response to the remedy was more prompt and decided than when
aconite
was called for. That is the only reservation I would make about their efficacy as a whole. I have always, I should say, given these drugs in the lowest (1x and 2x) dilutions.
In the steady use of the suitable antipyretic, with proper nursing and dieting, the treatment of influenza mainly consists. I must say something, however, as regards its local manifestations, occasional complications, and sequelæ.
1. More or less pain of rheumatoid character, in head, back, and limbs, nearly always accompanies the influenzal fever. When

belladonna
is indicated for the latter, it is sufficient for the headache, and when
gelsemium or baptisia
is given they are so suitable for the general pains that it is hardly necessary to think of any other medicine. In
aconite cases,
however, and where the local distress is unusually severe, I have found
bryonia
very helpful to the head * and
cupatorium perfoliatum to the back and limbs.
2. The catarrh of influenza is sometimes sufficiently severe to demand an intercurrent remedy. When it is a simple coryza,
euphrasia if the discharge is bland,
arsenicum if it is acrid, have served me well in the first, fluent stage; and
pulsatilla after it has become thick and opaque.
When the catarrh is laryngo-tracheal, and shown mainly by a cough,
spongia I have found the most trustworthy drug.
Rumex and sticta have hardly sustained their previous credit in my estimation when the cough which seemed to indicate them was of influenzal origin; and when this lingers on after the fever is over, and the patient otherwise convalescent, it needs careful individualisation to find its effective remedy. Sometimes this is found in
senega, sometimes in nitric acid, sometimes in coccus cacti.
In one case I could do nothing for the cough, which was hard and dry, until I had softened it with
aconite (3x), belladonna having been the antipyretic.
It then speedily subsided.
3. The bronchitis and pneumonia of the present malady are the latter especially more serious matters. Bronchitis has not been frequent in the cases I have had to treat; when it has appeared,
kali bichromicum in the first stage, and
antimonium tartaricum in that of profuse and thick secretion which soon follows,
have done good service in my hands. The pneumonia I have often seen, and have good cause to dread it. In old and broken constitutions, as I have said, it threatens life; and in more favourable subjects it is apt to drag on a tedious course, little influenced by remedies. It is, I think, a just remark of the writer of the article "Influenza" in Quain's Dictionary, that its pneumonia, "though lobar in distribution, is probably always catarrhal in type"; and this is an important indication for treatment. In the acute and menacing form,
bryonia and iodine have little place, while phosphorus stands supreme. If any medicine can subdue the inflammation of the pulmonary tissue, it is this. It should only be replaced by
antimonium tartaricum when pain, dulness on percussion and bronchial breathing have subsided; when pulse, respiration and temperature have fallen; but when yet the chest is full of moist sounds and the patient is oppressed and distressed.
In the sub-acute form, the physical condition suggests the term oedema of the lung rather than inflammation. There is little fever or pain, and but slight evidence (if any) of consolidation; and though crepitation is pronounced, the sputum is not rust-coloured. I wish I could speak decidedly of remedial results obtained here; but truth compels me to say that though the patients have got well, I cannot claim that it is owing to anything I have given them. I have not tried the
iodide of arsenic so warmly commended by some of our colleagues. *
4. The debility remaining behind after the acute attack is over demands medicinal, as well as hygienic and dietetic, help. The great "tonic" for it I find to be
phosphorus. * The nervous system is its main seat; and there has not been such a drain of fluid as should call for
china, nor is there evidence of the destruction of red corpuscles which needs
arsenicum.
A further indication for the remedy is that which is mentioned in the article from which I have already quoted: "The morbid changes found after death, and due to influenza itself, are of a character due to all forms of acute infective disease namely, parenchymatous degeneration of the liver, kidneys, and spleen, of the muscular substance of the heart, and of the minute blood-vessels." A minor degree of such degeneration may fairly be conceived as present in the often extreme debility of convalescents from the disease.
Phosphorus is the chief poison whose post-mortem appearances belong to this category:
the law of similars therefore guides us to it as the chief medicine to aid in repairing the destruction which has been wrought. In so speaking, I have confined myself to my own personal experience, which has been fairly extensive. I find, however, similar remedies in use at the hands of those who have written on the subject both at home and abroad. Dr. Grundal, of Stockholm, prefers
rhus as the constitutional remedy, deeming it as specific as
mercury in syphilis. He gives the 2x dilution. †
MATHUR K. N., Systematic Materia Medica of Homoeopathic Remedies (mta1)
Materia medica
Arum triphyllum
Causes & diseases

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Typhoid fever, Diphtheria, Scarlet fever, Dengue fever.
Baptisia tinctoria
Causes & diseases

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Influenza, Dengue, Diphtheria, Puerperal fever.
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Indications

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It is a SPECIFIC remedy for the following conditions:

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1. Dengue fever.
Causes & diseases

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Dengue fever.
Gelsemium sempervirens
Causes & diseases

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Dengue Fever.
Rhus toxicodendron

- Snowrose, poison Oak.
Indications

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- It is a SPECIFIC remedy for the following conditions:

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1. Fevers : Typhoid, Dengue, fever, Erysipelas, Influenza, pleurisy, Measles, Pneumonia, Septicaemia, Scarlet fever, Rheumatic fever, Typhus fever with restlessness, soreness stiffness, lameness; must change position obtain relief from soreness or pain; fever blisters around mouth; tongue dry, sore, red at the tip, takes imprint of teeth; low muttering delirium, great apprehension at night; fears he will die of being poisoned; thirst for water; dry teasing cough worse from exposure to cold and wet weather; lying quietly; better from warmth, wrapping up warmly; cough during chill.
MOHANTY Niranjan., Text Book of Homeopathic Materia Medica (mhn1)

Materia medica
Eupatorium perfoliatum

Boneset compositae
Therapeutics
Bilious fever, Bone pains, Cough, Dengue , Influenza, Intermittent fever, Soreness, Headache, Rheumatism etc.
Potencies
(a) Tincture 3rd attenuation.
(b) The range of recorded use has been from the 3rd dilution to the mother tincture.
Gelsemium sempervirens

Yellow jasmine loganiacae
Therapeutics
Brain affection, cerebrospinal meningitis, cold, cough, constipation, convulsion, epilepsy, dengue , fever, diarrhoea, diphtherea, eye affections, fevers, headache, heart affection, hysteria, locomotor ataxia, menstrual disorders, myalgia, neuralgia, paralysis, rheumatism, sleep disorders, tremor, Urinary affection, Vertigo, Writer's cramp etc.
MURPHY Robin., Homeopathic Remedy Guide (mp4)
Aconitum napellus

(monkshood)
Pharmacy
Acon. Aconitum napellus. Monkshood. Wolfsbane. Common Aconite.N. O. Ranunculacee. Tincture of whole plant with root when beginning to flower. Aconite is a very poisonous herb, use homeopathic potencies only. Vinegar in large doses is antidotal to the toxic effects.
Historical dose:

All potencies. Esp. the 30c or 200c in acute diseases.
Clinical
Amaurosis. Anger. Asthma. Blindness. Breast-feeding, disorders. Bronchitis. Catalepsy. Catheter fever. Chicken-pox. Chills. Cholera. Cholera infantum. Colds. Convulsions. Cough. Croup. Cystitis. Dengue fever. Dentition.
Eupatorium perfoliatum

(bone-set)
Pharmacy
Eup-per. Eupatorium perfoliatum. Bone-set. Thoroughwort. N. O. Composite. Tincture of whole plant.
Historical dose:

Tincture and all potencies, third potency.
Homeopathic
Eupatorium acts principally upon the gastro-hepatic organs and bronchial mucous membrane. The leading characteristic for its homeopathic use is the distressing bone-pains it causes, such as are found in connection with malarial fevers and influenza. Cachexia from old chronic, bilious intermittents.
All conditions where there is a great deal of bone pain. The leading characteristic is violent aching, bone breaking pains.

Influenza with great soreness of muscles and bones. Muscles of chest, back and limbs feel bruised, sore aching
Sluggishness of all organs and functions. It affects the liver producing bilious effects. Patient is restless, chilly and nauseated. Bone-pains, general soreness and fevers. Dengue fever.
Eup-per. has a marked periodicity. (Ars., China, Cedron.) There may be a changing periodicity: Chill morning one day, evening the next. Colds. Sluggishness of all organs and functions. Useful in old broken down constitutions of inebriate.Weakness.
Clinical
Anus, herpes. Back, pain. Bilious fever. Bones, pains. Cough. Dengue fever. Diarrhea. Fractures. Fever. Gout. Hiccough. Hoarseness. Indigestion. Influenza. Intermittent fever. Jaundice. Liver, pain. Measles. Mouth, cracks. Ophthalmia. Relapsing fever. Remittent fever. Rheumatism. Ringworm. Spotted fever. Syphilitic pains. Thirst. Wounds.
Gelsemium sempervirens

(yellow jasmine)
Pharmacy

Gels. Yellow Jasmine. Gelsemium sempervirens. Gelsemium lucidum. Yellow Jessamine. G. Nitidum. Bignonia sempervirens. N. O. Loganiacee. Tincture of the bark of the root.
Historical dose:
All potencies, first to thirtieth potency.
Clinical
Amaurosis. Anterior crural neuralgia. Anxiety. Aphonia. Astigmatism. Bilious fever. Brain disorders. Cerebrospinal meningitis. Chills. Choroiditis. Chronic fatigue. Colds. Constipation. Convulsions, Deafness. Dengue fever.
Rhus toxicodendron

(poison oak)
Pharmacy
Rhus-t. Rhus toxicodendron. Poison oak. Rhus radicans. Tincture of fresh leaves gathered at sunset just before flowering time.
Historical dose:

All potencies, sixth to thirtieth potency. The 200c and higher antidote to poisoning from the plant.
Clinical
Abortion. Acne rosacea. After-pains. Allergies. Amenorrhea. Ankle injuries. Anus, fissure. Appendicitis. Appetite, lost. Arthritis. Beriberi. Back injuries. Bones, pain. Cecum inflammation. Chilblains. Circulation, poor. Cyanosis. Dengue fever.
NARASIMHAMURTI K. L., Handbook of Materia Medica and Therapeutics of Homeopathy (nsk1)
Materia medica
Eupatorium perfoliatum 200
The tincture is prepared from a plant, found in the United States and Canada which is called Thoroughward, Bone-set or Ague weed. The first proving was made in Philadelphia by Hanes and was reported by Dr. W. Williamson in the American Institute of Homoeopathy in 1847.
General analysis: Cowperthwaite writes, "Acts upon the gastro-hepatic system, the fibrous tissues, and the bronchial mucous membranes, its most characteristic condition being a bilious derangement partaking of a malarial character".
Iii. respiratory organs
Eupatorium has hoarseness in the morning, like
Causticum. Causticum has more burning and rawness; Eupatorium has more soreness in the chest. When either of them fails to cure hoarseness,
Sulphur will often complement them.
Cough: Chronic, loose; chest sore, must support it with hands. Hacking cough. Aggravated at night, following measles or suppressed intermittents.

Painful soreness in eye balls.
Eupatorium Perf is also used in dengue fever. When dengue fever invaded America in 1827, it was known as the "breakbone fever" and Eupatorium Perf was found most beneficial in relieving the pains indicated by this title.
Dengue fever is an eruptive fever, considered by many to be infectious. It has two short paroxysms separated by an interval. There is fever, bone pains and an eruption.
The first paroxysm consists of high continuous fever, with severe pain in head, limbs and joints and swelling on the joints-with it there is scarlet rash. (Aconite)
The second paroxysm has a less intense fever with urticaria with itching and implication of the mucous membrane of the nose, mouth and throat.
(Gelsemium, Rhus Tox. Bryonia or Bell.)
PHATAK S. R., Materia Medica of Homeopathic Medicines (ptk2)

Materia medica
Eupatorium perfoliatum
Generalities

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The leading characteristic is VIOLENT ACHING, BONE BREAKING PAINS.

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Muscles of chest, back and limbs feel bruised, sore aching.

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It affects the liver producing bilious effects.

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Patient is restless, chilly and nauseated.

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Colds.

- Influenza.

- Dengue .

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Sluggishness of all organs and functions.

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Useful in broken down constitutions of inebriate;.

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Weakness.
ROYAL G., Textbook of Homeopathic Materia Medica (ry1)

Materia medica
Colocynthis
Blood
"Soreness in bones; aching of bones, with soreness of the flesh; bruised feeling in every bone preventing lying in bed and causing despair, moaning and crying out."
These "bone pains" are the characteristics of this ancient domestic remedy and are found in intermittent, relapsing and bilious fevers; dengue; also rheumatic and syphilitic pains.
SUDARSHAN S. R., Homoeopathic Treatment of non-malarial fevers (sds1)
Materia medica
Baptisia tinctoria
CLINICAL:

Influenza; typhoid; dengue; puerperal fever; diphtheria, infectious fevers (with trembling of tongue and hands).

POTENCY:

Drop doses of mother tincture to 200. The lower potencies 3x, 6x, 3 and 6 are recommended as prophylactic for typhoid.
RELATIONSHIP:

Compare with Arn., Bry., Gels., in early stage of fever with malaise, nervousness, flushed face, drowsiness and muscular soreness.
Is followed well by Pyr.
It antidotes the improper use of Ars. In typhoid.
Eupatorium perfoliatum
CLINICAL:

Catarrhal fever; influenza; dengue fever; rheumatic fever; bilious fever; remittent fever; typhoid; fevers with gastric derangement.
POTENCY:

It has cured in all potencies from the the tincture to the cm.
RELATIONSHIP:
Compare: Bry. (In Eup-per. The pains make the the patient restless); Chel. And Podo.
Gelsemium sempervirens
CLINICAL:

sluggish fever; bilious remittent fever (with stupor, dizziness, faintness; thirstless, prostrated); influenza; measles; cerebro-spinal fever; dengue fever; poliomyelitis; tendency to typhoid.
POTENCY:

All potencies are said to be effective. The 3rd potency seems to act better.
RELATIONSHIP:

Is followed well by Bapt., Ipec.
Rhus toxicodendron
CLINICAL:

Typhoid; dengue fever; influenza; pleurisy; measles; pneumonia; septicaemia; scarlet fever, rheumatic fever; typhus; continued fever; cerebro-spinal meningitis.

Vertigo; delirium, epileptiform convulsions (Hyos.).

During chill, heat in head and face; during the hot stage, cold feet and legs; during sweat, cannot bear to be uncovered.

During fever, in children, they cry out in sleep, start suddenly, twitch and jerk; eyes half-open; pupils dilated; urine suppressed. HERING: Fever, with profuse sweat, which does not relieve. Gastric fevers, with jerking of arms and fingers.

Stool and urine suppressed.

CLINICAL:

Basilar meningitis (from suppressed ear discharge). Typhoid; meningitis; yellow fever; gastric fevers; continued fever.

POTENCY:

6th to 200th potency.
RELATIONSHIP:
Is followed well by : Acon., Bry., Nux-v., Pyrog.

Follows well after : Bell., Cupr., Hyos.

Incompatible : Coffee.

Antidoted by : Bell., Hyos., Nux-v.
TYLER Margaret L., Pointers to the Common Remedies (tl2)
Influenza
Eupatorium perfoliatum

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Intense aching limbs and back, as if bones were broken.

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Dare not move for pain. (Reverse of Pyrogen.).

-Aching in all bones, with soreness of flesh.

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Bones feel broken, dislocated, as if would break.

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Bursting Headache.

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Shivering; chills in back. (Gels., Pyrogen.).

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Chill begin 7 to 9 a.m.

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Eyeballs sore. (Bry., Gels.).

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There may be vomiting of bile.

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Like "break-bone fever", (Dengue ).

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