Homeopathic Prevention/Treatment of Cholera

[Sheri Nakken]

Homeopathic Prevention/Treatment of Cholera

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1830
Beginning of cholera epidemic in Germany.
Hahnemann publishes four pamphlets for gratuitous
distribution detailing the use of Camphor,
Cuprum, and Veratrum for treatment of the
epidemic, with recommendations for sanitation and hygiene.

The remarkable result of the use of Camphor for
prevention, treatment and disinfection, and the
successful use of Cuprum and Veratrum for
established cases, assured the grateful
recognition of Homeopathy throughout Europe.

Hahnemann ascribes the cause of the cholera to
"infinitely small, invisible living organisms."
1830's
In the 1830s the practice of homeopathy became
illegal in Austria. Despite being illegal, many
people used homeopathy during the cholera epidemic of 1831.

Statistics show that those with cholera who tried
homeopathy had a mortality rate between 2.4 to
21.1%; whereas more than 50% of those with
cholera died under conventional medical treatment.
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http://nationalcenterforhomeopathy.org/articles/view,40
n 1830 as the cholera epidemic was reported
coming from the east, Hahnemann was able to
identify the stages of the illness, and predict
what remedies would be needed for which stages.
When Cholera finally struck Europe in 1831 the
mortality rate (under conventional treatment) was
between 40% (Imperial Council of Russia) to 80%
(Osler's Practice of Medicine). Out of five
people who contracted Cholera, two to four of
them died under regular treatment. Dr. Quin, in
London, reported the mortality in the ten
homeopathic hospitals in 1831-32 as 9%; Dr. Roth,
physician to the king of Bavaria, reported that
under homeopathic care the mortality was 7%;
Admiral Mordoinow of the Imperial Russian Council
reported 10% mortality under homeopathy; and Dr.
Wild, Allopathic editor of Dublin Quarterly
Journal, reported in Austria, the Allopathic
mortality was 66% and the homeopathic mortality
was 33% "and on account of this extraordinary
result, the law interdicting the practice of
Homeopathy in Austria was repealed."

Homeopathy continued to be effective in the
treatment of Epidemic Cholera. In 1854 a Cholera
Epidemic struck London. This was a historically
important epidemic in that it was the first time
the medical community was able to trace the
outbreak to a source (a public water pump), and
when the pump was closed, the epidemic soon ceased.

The House of Commons asked for a report about the
various methods of treating the epidemic. When
the report was issued, the homeopathic figures
were not included. The House of Lords asked for
an explanation, and it was admitted that if the
homeopathic figures were to be included in the
report, it would "skew the results." The
suppressed report revealed that under allopathic
care the mortality was 59.2% while under
homeopathic care the mortality was only 9%. It is
hard today to comprehend what kind of scourge
such an epidemic was. As was seen in the later
Flu Epidemic of 1918, one could be healthy in the
morning and be dead by evening-- it moved that
rapidly. Many books were written about the
Homeopathic treatment of Cholera during these
times, among them: Cholera and its Homeopathic
treatment, F. Humphreys (1849); Homeopathic
Treatment of Cholera, B. F. Joslin (1854);
Homeopathic Domestic Treatment of Cholera,
Biegler (1858); Epidemic Cholera, B. F. Joslin
(1885); Asiatic Cholera, Jabez Dake (1886).
The success of homeopathic treatment continued
with the later cholera epidemics. In the Hamburg
epidemic of 1892, allopathic mortality was 42%,
homeopathic mortality was 15.5%
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Reminder we are treating according to the symptom
picture, not the disease name, bu the below are
common in the condition of cholera with the symptoms described below
Sheri

CHOLERA
Cholera is the illness caused by a bacterium
called Vibria cholerae. It infects people's
intestines, causing diarrhea, vomiting and leg cramps.

Cholera can be mild or even without symptoms, but
a severe case can lead to death without immediate
treatment. The diarrhea and vomiting brought on
by the infection quickly leaves the body without
enough fluid. The following dehydration and shock
can kill a person within hours.

Cholera - Treatment & Homeopathic Medicines

#Veratrum album [Verat]
This remedy should be given early in the true
cholera. It has profuse watery stools with a
cold, blue surface and cold sweat on forehead and
great prostration. Its characteristics may be summed as follows:

1. Pain in the abdomen preceding stool. 2.
Profuseness of the stool and forcible evacuation.
3. Great prostration following stool. 4. The
sense of inner burning. 5. The cold sweat. 6. Cold surface of the body.

There are sharp, cutting pains in the abdomen and
great weakness, almost fainting with stool, at
the same time there is vomiting and
purging,cramps and rice water discharges. There
must be pain for Veratrum to be well indicated.
Stools are worse at night and the patient
emaciates rapidly. It is our first remedy in
cholera infantum with greenish stools,sometimes
containing flakes like spinach. Jatropha.
Cholera, vomiting of ropy, albuminous matters,
great prostration ,vomiting and purging and rice
water stools. Cramps and coldness. It pictures cholera perfectly.

#Camphora [Camph]
With this remedy the system seems overwhelmed by
the violence of the poisoning even before the
vomiting and diarrhoea appear; there is at once
intense prostration,bluish, icy cold face, cold
body, weak,squeaky voice, stiffness of muscles,
coldness and collapse, burning in stomach and
oesophagus. Coldness, dryness and blueness
express its characteristics. The discharges are
scanty, if present at all, the tongue is actually
cold. It is an almost infallible remedy at the
onset of cholera,and was so considered by
Hahnemann. It corresponds to a dry cholera, where
the patient is taken simply with coldness, has
not the vitality to vomit and purge. It suits
especially, therefore, the period of invasion.
Relief by warmth is a characteristic Hydrocyanic
acid. Marked collapse with sudden cessation of
all discharges. Last stage of cholera with
fainting spells and tetanic spasms. Dr. Sircar,
of Calcutta, has good results in cases that seem
past help by using this remedy. Sulphur. There
are many symptoms of this drug that resemble
cholera in its incipiency, and it has been
recommended to put flowers of Sulphur in the stockings as a prophylactic.

#Cuprum
Intense spasms and cramps mark this remedy; there
is coldness of the surface of the body, dryness
of the mouth, thirst, blueness of the skin,
cramps of the muscles of the calves, violent
pains in the epigastrium and ineffectual efforts
to vomit. It has vomiting and purging nearly as
great as Veratrum, but not the cold sweat. Cramps
are more prominent under Cuprum than any other
remedy. It has also spasmodic twitchings, and has
been used as a prophylactic. Probably the acetate
is the better preparation of the use. Hale
recommends Cuprum arsenicosum. The evacuations of
Cuprum are choleric; they irritate more than they
inflame, thus coming nearer to cholera than
Arsenicum. Everything is spasmodic, and it is
indicated only when vomiting and purging have set
in. In the chest the cramps produce dyspnoea;
there are cramps in extremities, even in fingers and thumbs.

#Arsenicum [Ars]
Arsenicum poisoning has been mistaken for
cholera. There is intense vomiting and purging,
brownish yellow, profuse, offensive yellow or
green stools with thirst, cold body, and burning
internally. It has more restlessness and less
sweat than Veratrum. In cholera infantum with
undigested stools, restlessness, and rapid
emaciation. Diarrhoea when the child begins to
eat and drink. Ptomaine poisoning calls for the
remedy. It is distinguished from Veratrum by the
scantiness of the discharges. Lachesis. Vomiting renewed by the least exertion.

#Carbo vegetabilis [Carb.v]
The remedy where reaction seems extinct; the
prostration is so great that the patient lies
quite, too weak to move, cold body, pulse rapid
and thread-like and breath cold;when vomiting,
diarrhoea and spasm or pain have ceased.
Prostration from drain on the system, lips
bluish, breathing weak, is an excellent indication group for Carbo vegetabilis.

#Secale [Sele]
Suits the stage of collapse with desire to keep
cool; cholera infantum with profuse undigested
stools, watery and offensive, followed by
prostration; the movements are copious and come
in spurts; the skin is wrinkled , dry and cold;
patient is almost pulseless, cold, but averse to
being covered, spasmodic twitching of muscles,
spreads finger apart, eyes sunken, features
pinched,are important indicating symptoms of Secale.

#Podophyllum [Podo]
This remedy pictures cholera morbus; there is a
painless watery stool coming out with a gush and
a loathing of food; undigested diarrhoea worse
mornings may also be present. Iris versicolor.
Watery, yellowish-green stools, worse in the
morning at 2 or 3a.m. There is a vomiting of
food, sour and bilious matters. Elaterium.
Cholera infantum; olive-green watery stools,
coming with a gush, indicate Elaterium. Croton
tiglium has profuse yellow or watery stool
provoked by eating or drinking. Ipecacuanha.
Vomiting is a predominating symptom with this
remedy, and comes on alternately with a watery,
yellowish diarrhoea accompanied by colic.

#Calcarea carbonica [Calc-c]
Cholera infantum, craving for eggs; vomiting of
milk in curds, diarrhoea, worse in the evening,
of greenish, undigested, watery and sour stools
are characteristic of this remedy. Aconite. This
remedy has greenish or chopped spinach stools and
inflammatory symptoms Hempel recommended Aconite
tincture in cholera where there is a rapid
collapse unattended with copious evacuations. A
quiet,subdued, passive condition contraindicates
Aconite. Aconite is one of the most important
remedies in the active stage of cholera infantum.
Argentum nitricum. Cholera infantum in thin,
dried up, mummified children; slimy, noisy
stools, stools like finely chopped spinach,
especially in children who have eaten too much
sugar. Aconite. Stools are like large choppings
of grass and discharged with a blast of wind and
water. Calcarea phosphoricum. Great emaciation,
pale face, craving for bacon and ham are
characteristics. Ferrum phosphoricum has proved
most useful in summer diarrhoea which is
undigested; a regular cholera infantum. Psorinum.
Patient is nervous, restless; profuse watery
stools, worse at night, of offensive putrid odor,
clinging to clothing, are keynotes of this remedy.

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Cholera
cured with Phosphorus by Adolph Lippe, MD

It was in 1851, on one of those unsurpassably hot
mornings that prevail here in August, that I was
summoned to see a case of cholera at a great
distance. A Redemptorist Father had been with him
during the night, and finding his apparently
homeopathic treatment not as successful as he
desired wished further advice. The patient was an
emaciated, sharp-faced German, a tailor, about 50
years old. He had indulged on the previous day
for his supper in blood pudding and cucumber salad.

He was taken about 11 P.M. with Asiatic Cholera;
he still continued to vomit and to be purged,
with violent cramp at short intervals. All of
these cramps and rice-water discharges ceased
during that day, the principal remedy had been
Arsenicum; but from that evening till the next
evening he continued to vomit, and apparently was sinking from exhaustion.

Thirst was very great; he had to drink large
quantities of cold water, and felt better
afterwards, till the water became warm in his
stomach in from fifteen to twenty minutes, and
then he had to vomit it up again, to be relieved
of this exhausting painful vomiting and thirst by
drinking another large quantity of water.

A number of remedies administered produced not
the slightest relief. The symptom found by the
clinical experiment in this case-cold water drunk
is vomited up as soon as it becomes warm in the
stomach-was not to be found in our Materia
Medica. But there was found, after a long search,
under Phosphorus, in the fifth volume of
Hahnemann's Chronic Diseases, Symptom 745: "In
the most terrible agonies he vainly tried to
vomit; only the drinking of cold water relieved.".

Nothing could be found in a search for a similar
remedy but this symptom, and now we gave this
suffering man one dose of Phosphorus 19m about 9
P.M., with the order to repeat it every two hours
until he was relieved. On the next morning we
found that he had been given no more than this
solitary dose, and that he was rapidly improving.
He recovered without needing any more medicine.

COMMENTS
The case here briefly stated might be claimed to
belong to the "Causes célèbres". Ever since this
case was cured and published everybody has
admitted into our Materia Medica this so
frequently confirmed Phosphorus symptom-"vomiting
of what has been drunk as soon as it becomes warm in the stomach".

Everybody knows it, and the knowing ones have and
will continue to cure this not infrequently
recurring symptom with Phosphorus. The case
illustrates the manner in which our Materia
Medica has been developed; how symptoms observed
by provers only similar to the symptoms observed
on the sick as the result of disease may be cured
by a given drug, and that the confirmation of
such cures entitle this symptoms - the result of
the clinical experiment - to as much importance
as if it had been observed on a dozen of provers.
Upon reflection, the men who persistently insist
in the sifting of our Materia Medica may think the better of it.
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