Meningitis meningococcal (LONG)

[Dave Hartley]

Hello Syahmie

The proximate cause (aside from susceptibility) -bacteria are spread through
the exchange of respiratory and throat secretions (i.e., coughing, kissing).
Fortunately, none of the bacteria that cause meningitis are as contagious as
things like the common cold or the flu, and they are not spread by casual
contact or by simply breathing the air where a person with meningitis has
been.

However, sometimes the bacteria that cause meningitis have spread to other
people who have had close or prolonged contact with a patient with
meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitidis (also called meningococcal
meningitis) or Hib. People in the same household or day-care center, or
anyone with direct contact with a patient's oral secretions (such as a
boyfriend or girlfriend) would be considered at increased risk of acquiring
the infection.

High fever, headache, and stiff neck are common symptoms of meningitis in
anyone over the age of 2 years. These symptoms can develop over several
hours, or they may take 1 to 2 days. Other symptoms may include nausea,
vomiting, discomfort looking into bright lights, confusion, and sleepiness.
In newborns and small infants, the classic symptoms of fever, headache, and
neck stiffness may be absent or difficult to detect, and the infant may only
appear slow or inactive, or be irritable, have vomiting, or be feeding
poorly. As the disease progresses, patients of any age may have seizures
If septicaemia (blood poisoning) is also present a rash may develop that
starts off looking like tiny red pinpricks. Later, the rash changes to
purplish red blotches (petechiae). If you press on the rash with a glass
tumbler, the spots will not fade. Babies may develop a tense or bulging
fontanelle (the soft spot on the top of the baby's head), blotchy or pale
skin, rapid breathing, a floppy body or stiffness with jerky movements.
Older children and adults with septicaemia may complain of cold hands and
feet, aching muscles and joints, and stomach pain (sometimes with
diarrhoea).

Here is a list of some remedies which have been found useful, together with
some differential keynotes

It would probably be an excellent learning experience for you to read each
of these remedies in at least one Materia Medica. If you don't own a
reasonably detailed MM, you can find Clarke's "Dictionary of Practical
Materia Medica online here
http://www.homeoint.org/clarke/index.htm
and other books online here (English, French, and a few in Spanish)
http://www.homeoint.org

These were taken from Encyclopedia Homeopathica
http://www.wholehealthnow.com/homeopath ... re/eh.html

Aethusa cynapium
Vertigo, a disposition to coma; obstinate vomiting present from the onset;
tearing, lancinating, stinging and beating pains all over the head and in
occiput; eyes staring, pupils dilated and insensible; face pale and
collapsed; weight in occiput; tearing, beating, drawing in nape of neck;
epileptiform convulsions.

Agaricus muscarius
Great weight in head, especially in forehead and temples, with delirium and
coma; drawing pains in occiput; painful sensitiveness of the scalp;
stiffness of the nape of the neck and back; violent pains all along the
spine, with stiffness and soreness; convulsive attack.

Ammonium carbonicum
Complete prostration from the very start or during second stage, stupor,
surface of body cyanotic and cold; pulse weak; aversion to water.

Apis mellifica
Stupor from effusion (Op from congestion); oedema of face; pupils dilated,
cold surface and cold extremities; screaming and crying out with a piercing
shriek; no thirst for water, but craves milk, which agrees; scanty urine
with frequent desire to pass it; tongue red, dry, cracked; brain feels tired
as if gone to sleep, burning and throbbing in head, aggr. by touch, motion
and stooping, amel. by pressing head firmly with hands; stiffness in back of
neck; chest oppressed; sense of suffocation as if he could not breathe
again; stabbing pain in occiput, and obscuration of sight; apathy and
indifference; prostration. (Abstain from hot bath or pack.)

Argentum nitricum
Violent headache, vertigo, photophobia, cloud before eyes, double vision;
eyeballs floating in mucus; deafness or fulness and ringing in ears; pale
and emaciated face; lips and nails blue; white-coated tongue or dry, hard
and black; sordes on teeth; cannot talk; wants to drink sweet things; stools
and urine pass unconsciously; oppressed breathing; wants to be covered and
yet wants the windows open for fresh air; cannot move himself. Sopor with
constant murmuring, can only be raised with difficulty, and when partially
roused the half-opened eyes shut again; the whole left side is weak;
emaciation; constant trembling of hands, jerking of single muscles;
epileptiform convulsions.

Arnica montana
Coma somnolentum with delirium and carphologia; cringes when touched
anywhere, even during unconsciousness; great soreness all over; sensation
like a heavy weight shooting and pressing in both temples; weakness of
cervical muscles, do not support the head steadily; cervical vertebrae very
sensitive to touch and pressure; formication in extremities; excessive
diuresis; ecchymosis; exhaustion.

Arsenicum album
Vertigo and great weight in head, with humming in ears; sensation as if
brain were loose and dashed against skull when moving; scalp sensitive and
painful; photophobia or amblyopia; roaring in ears; spasmodic grinding of
teeth; face pale and ashy; tongue dry, trembling; thirst for little water
often; anxious breathing; diarrhoea; tensive stiffness of neck as if
bruised, with contortions of the muscles and swelling; great uneasiness and
restless anguish; coma; tetanic spasms.

Baptisia tinctoria
Bruised and painful feeling at the base of the brain and upper part of
spinal cord; rolling of head from one side to the other; constant biting on
the fingers and constant motion of the feet, unconsciously done by the
patient; wandering pains in all the limbs, with dizziness; feels stiff and
sore all over; pit of the stomach sensitive to pressure; constipation;
paresis of extremities; livid spots all over the body.

Belladonna
Stupefying stunning headache, from the neck into the head, with heat and
pulsation in it; head inclined to bend backward, even before spasmodic
retraction occurs, as it relieves the pain; convulsive shaking and bending
of the head backward; spasmodic distortion of face and lips; grinding of
teeth; inclination to bite; retention of urine, or involuntary micturition;
heat of the upper part of the body and coldness of extremities; general
hyperaesthesia of all the senses; renewal of the spasm by touch or light;
violent delirium alternating with coma.

Bryonia alba
Bursting headache; stiffness of neck; great pain in joints and limbs, not
allowing motion; sudden prostration.

Cactus grandiflorus
Anguish at the heart, and lacerating pains in the nape of the neck; dimness
of sight; pulsation and buzzing in ears; faint spells; rigidity of limbs.

Camphora officinalis
Constrictive pain at the base of brain, the head bearing to one or the
other side; throbbing in cerebellum synchronous with pulsations; deathly
paleness; lockjaw; oppression of chest; violent cramps in stomach and limbs;
chills severe; cold, clammy sweats; pulse small, weak and slow; tetanic
spasms; the limbs rigidly extended; teeth clenched; head inclined sideways
or retracted.

Cannabis indica
Vertigo on rising with stunning pain in back part of head; fixed gaze;
dilated pupils; sensitive to sounds; cold face with drowsy and stupid look;
anguish in chest, with great oppression; pain across shoulders and spine;
paralysis of lower extremities and right arm; convulsions; emprosthotonus;
with loss of consciousness; stupor, collapse; pale, clammy and insensible
skin; feeble, irregular pulse.

Cantharis vesicatoria
Second stage, with great restlessness and activity of mind; amorous frenzy,
priapism; violent lancinating pains deep in brain, especially occiput; eyes
dull, sunken; pale, wretched face, with expression of terror, pain and
despair; tearing in left cervical muscles, tearing from neck towards vertex;
tearing in limb; squeezing and contraction in front of chest, impeding
breathing, amel. on lying down; whole body feels as if crushed to pieces;
spasmodic constriction of throat and sphincters; dysuria, retention or
suppression of urine; universal tetanic spasm, trembling, fainting, coma,
general coldness and collapse.

Cicuta virosa
Vertigo, with reeling as if things were moving to and fro like a pendulum,
moaning and howling; disposition to be frightened; grinding of teeth;
diplopia; dilated or contracted pupils; dumbness, deafness; dyspnoea,
dysphagia; ashy paleness, or bluish puffed face; cramp in cervical muscles,
with inability to move the head after it has been turned in any direction;
stiffness of neck not permitting the head to be turned; tension and soreness
of the muscles, with retracted head; tonic spasms of cervical muscles;
trembling of limbs; convulsions with cries; pressing together of the jaws;
numbness and distortion of the limbs; opisthotonos; violent sudden jerks
through the head, arms and legs, after fits of insensibility and immobility;
gastralgia with vomiting, painful distention of abdomen, and spasm of
pectoral muscles; perfect deafness; loss of speech.

Cimicifuga racemosa
Pain in every part of the head, especially in vertex and occiput, extending
to shoulders and down the spine, with delirium similar to mania a potu; eyes
dull and sensitive to pressure, with visions; conjunctiva red, with
lachrymation; pupils dilated; foul breath, swollen tongue, fuligo, dryness
of throat, with constant desire to swallow; general malaise, with nausea and
vomiting; urine pale and copious; colicky pains, muscular twitchings,
frequently changing location; profuse cold sweat all over the body, with
very quick pulse; excessive muscular soreness, great sensitiveness to touch
and motion, aggr. from any motion.

Cocculus indicus
Violent headache, with vomiting, vertigo and semi-consciousness; headache
as if the eyes would be torn out, and violent pains in the forehead; intense
occipital headache in lower part of occiput, in nape of neck, aggr. by
turning head back; sensation as if back of head were alternately opening and
shutting; convulsive trembling of head; face pale and sallow, but puffy and
bloated; spasmodic oppression of chest, respiration heavy and laborious,
painful stiffness of the cervical muscles; weakness of the cervical muscles;
he has to lean his head against something; miliary eruptions; fainting fits,
epileptiform and hysterical convulsions; paralysis, thick, heavy speech.

Crotalus horridus
Pains in all extremities; terrible headache, pain as from a blow on the
occiput; paleness of face as in faintness; unquenchable burning thirst;
vomiting preceded by faintness; painfulness in pit of stomach; dyspnoea,
with anxiety, thirst, nausea, diarrhoea; heartbeat feeble; painful paralytic
sensation in extremities.

Cuprum aceticum
Affects specifically the spinal cord; congestion of brain, with convulsive
motions of extremities; cannot hold the head up; eyes dim, lustreless,
sunken, with blue rings around; sad, depressed features; dry mouth, great
thirst for cooling drinks; nausea, vomiting, and torpid stool; nervous
trembling, with very great acuteness and sensitiveness of the senses; clonic
spasms, beginning at the periphery; sleep or coma; paralysis of all the
muscles of the back up to the neck.

Digitalis purpurea
Heart's action irregular and labored; delirium like mania a potu; great
pressure and weight in head; violent lancinating pains, especially in vertex
and occiput; when sitting or walking the head falls backward, as if anterior
cervical muscles were paralyzed; convulsive efforts to vomit; vomiting, with
coldness, prostration and fainting; stiffness in the nape and side of neck;
tearing sharp stitches, aching and cutting pains in nape of neck;
convulsions, with retraction of the head, syncope, and collapse of vital
powers.

Gelsemium sempervirens
At the very onset of the disease, severe chill followed by congestion of
the brain and spinal cord, livid cheeks, dilated pupils, tittle or no
thirst. Perfect loss of strength and great exhaustion, staggering gait,
dulness of speech, icy coldness of hands and feet, pulse very weak or hardly
perceptible; laborious and weak respiration, nausea, vomiting; eyelids close
involuntarily in spite of all he can do; itching of head, face and neck;
sweating relieves Mental faculties retain their activity, though their power
over the muscles is lessened or impaired; he cannot direct the movements of
the limbs with precision; coma.

Glonoinum
Violent congestion of head, with sense of expansion; pains ascend from
chest and neck to occiput; blindness, with faintness and nausea, pale face,
pain in whole length of spine; congestion of chest, with labored action of
heart.

Helleborus niger
Patient too stupid to be roused, staring and unconscious, but still
screaming out; neck rigid and head held far back; pupils dilated and
insensible to light; vacant countenance and eyes wide open; forehead
wrinkled; constant grinding of teeth; retention of urine; emaciation; moves
one arm and one foot unconsciously; great prostration. After Apis.

Hydrocyanicum acidum
Sudden and desperate cases; insensibility with protruded half-open eyes;
dilated immovable pupils, with blindness; roaring and deafness in ears;
distorted, bloated and bluish face; tongue paralyzed and protruded; loss of
speech; retention of or involuntary urine and stool; rattling slow
respiration; irregular feeble pulse and beating of heart; general coldness,
with heat in head.

Hyoscyamus niger
Heaviness of head and violent pains, alternating with pains in nape of
neck; constricting stupefying headache; undulating sensation in brain, as if
from throbbing in the arteries; pressure in vertex and drawing in nape of
neck, when turning the head; sensation as if the brain were shaken and
loose; dimness of eyes, fearful grinding of teeth, lockjaw; palsy of tongue,
vomiting; involuntary stool and urine, or retention; spasms of chest, with
arrest of breathing; stiffness of cervical muscles, with tension as if too
short, on bending back; twisting of neck to one side; stiffness of arms and
legs, jerking of hands and feet; epileptiform spasms, hyperaesthesia of
skin; brown spots, large pustules; gangrenous vesicles on body; pulse small,
intermitting, quick.

Hypericum perforatum
Traumatic cerebro-spinal meningitis; effects of nervous shock, concussion
of spine; cervical vertebrae very sensitive to touch, great dread of motion;
desire for warm drinks; numbness in limbs; nervous disorders arising from
falls or hurts.

Ignatia amara
Hysterical complications or rapid alternation of symptoms.

Lycopodium clavatum
Dread of solitude; active, irritable and melancholy mind; stupefying
headache, extending down the neck, with great weakness; acute hearing, with
roaring in ears; acute smell; tongue swollen; bloating of abdomen, with
tension as of a hoop, same in chest; much flatus, urine loaded with
lithates; burning pains between shoulders; numbness and twitching through
body and limbs. Impending cerebral paralysis; somnolence, staring eyes,
dropped jaw.

Natrium sulphuricum
Pain in back of neck like the gnawing of a dog, or screaming with the pain
in occiput and neck; tearing pains in limbs; vomiting of bile; mental
irritability and delirium; pain at the base of brain as if crushed by a
vise; tetanus of left side; retarded stools; prostration (Kent considers it
a grand remedy in this disease).

Nux vomica
Shocks, starting suddenly from one portion of brain, with numbness and
paralytic drawing in the limbs; sensation as from a bruise in back part of
head; scalp sensitive to touch; strong reverberation of sounds in ear;
oversensitive to odors; neck stiff, with heaviness; stitches through the
body in jerks, feels sore all over; opisthotonos, with consciousness;
convulsions renewed by the least touch; fear of sleep; frightful dreams,
irritable humor and hypochondriasis.

Opium
Stupefaction, with or without pain, delirium, mania, heaviness, with great
congestion to head, occiput feels as heavy as lead, the head falling back
constantly; eyes fixed and half closed, pupils contracted or dilated,
insensible to light, staring and glassy look; face bloated, muscles relaxed,
with twitching of lips and flapping of cheeks; lockjaw; strangulation;
intense thirst; vomiting, with colic and convulsions; abdomen hard and
bloated; constipation or diarrhoea, urine scanty; snoring, rattling, slow
respiration; suffocative attacks; dyspnoea, opisthotonos followed finally by
painless paralysis; spasmodic jerkings and numbness of limbs, pulse
variable; heat with sweat, sleep with sweat, worse while perspiring (Gels.,
better).

Phosphorus
Extensive petechiae or haemorrhages at an early stage; congestion to head;
burning stinging pains and pulsations commencing in occiput; contracted
pupils; difficult hearing; pneumonic complications; dyspnoea, with inability
to exert himself; back pains as if broken; formication and tearing in limbs;
frequent fainting.

Plumbum metallicum
Paralytic symptoms at an early stage; heaviness of head, especially in
cerebellum; the palsied parts soon fall away in flesh, the limbs become
painfully contracted; frequent spells of colic, with retraction of abdomen;
somnolency.

Rhus toxicodendron
Anxiety, restlessness, stupefaction, vertigo, fulness and bruised pain in
head extending to ears, bleeding of ears and nose; dry cough, with perhaps
bloody sputa; pain in back, as if sprained; tearing tensive pains, with
stiffness of muscles and joints; vivid dreams, various eruptions.

Dulcamara
Delirious raving, rage, imbecility; horrible headache, as if the head would
split, with heavy, staggering, uncertain gait, slow pulse, contracted pupils
and weakness in lower limbs; bruised feeling in back and limbs; neck feels
stiff and sore, as if bruised; stiffness and convulsions, excited by the
least touch; tetanic rigidity of whole body; tremor; violent subsultus
tendinum; convulsions with moaning and coma.

Tarentula hispanica
Severe headache, aggravated by touch, with sensation as if cold water were
poured upon head, with great noise internally; deep intense headache, with
restlessness, anguish and malaise, the pain flies to forehead and occiput,
with photophobia; pain in occiput as if striking it with a hammer, extending
to temples; burning, scorching heat in occiput, extending all over posterior
part of head; great pricking and itching over whole body; convulsive
trembling of body; convulsions, paralysis, complete retention of urine and
faeces.

Antimonium tartaricum
Great drowsiness, stupefying headache, nausea, cold sweat, blindness,
convulsive twitchings, pain, with sweat, cough, with suffocative attacks,
pulse full, hard, quick and trembling.

Veratrum album
Violent headache, with delirium or unconsciousness; copious vomiting, pale,
cold and cadaverous face; stiffness of neck, choking in throat, feeling as
if head would burst; rolling head violently from side to side, with short
screams, bores head in pillows; convulsive shocks and vomiting as soon as
head is raised; clonic and tonic spasms, with loss of sense and motion;
cramps in limbs; tingling and coldness in limbs; choleraic collapse
simultaneously with intense congestion.

Veratrum viride
Vertigo and headache, with loss of sight, dilated pupils and vomiting;
trismus, opisthotonos, constant severe pain in neck and shoulders, so that
he cannot keep his head erect; distortion of muscles, especially of face,
neck, fingers and toes; convulsive twitchings, as from electric shocks;
sudden spasms, with nausea, vomiting; trembling as if the child were
frightened and on the verge of spasms. The pains begin in forehead and run
back to occiput and spine.

Zincum metallicum
Convalescence retarded; weak memory, with stinging pains in head;
blindness, itching, biting, watery eyes; soreness and constriction in
throat, ravenous hunger, flatulent colic, constipation; dysuria, priapism,
amorous frenzy (Canth., in first stage), spasms and pain in chest, numbness,
trembling, twitching in hands and feet, flushes of heat in head and face;
coldness of body; profuse and easy sweat; exhaustion of nerve-force.
Protracted recovery hints to Calc. carb., Carb. v., Psor., Sil., Sulph.,
Zinc.

regards,

Dave Hartley
www.localcomputermart.com/dave
Santa Cruz, CA (831)423-4284

[syahmie01]

hi dave
thanx so much 4 the information.
i've forwarded yr message to a few groups here
in my country.

god bless you!
syahmie

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