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Am wondering how one could start to treat this E-coli infection and the resultant organ failure particularly the kidneys.
Is there a genus epidemicus.
I seems to me an area where Homeopathy could be a resource, Jean

Hi Jean,
I searched Dr. Ardavan Shahrdar's Repertorium Virosum looking for Escherichia col, but it did not come up as a miasm name. I believe, the problem is Escherichia col is the cause of probably a number of different medical pathologies. It is not the name of an infectious disease. So I should not expect to find it.
Best,
Ellen

It's also an organism that is *normal* part of the intestinal flora; it is (if I remember right) only certain mutated strain(s) that cause the trouble.

The Repertorium Virosum gives very helpful advice on Viral illnesses. This as Shannon says is a bacteria that has mutated.
I often use E.coli nosode in E coli urinary tracy infections which even with well indicated remedy can be difficult to clear. But as this is mutated probably not relevant here. Irene might say the organ system failure due to Cytogenic shock and there must be much fluid loss, ??china.
I imagine Ars Album would be the remedy to use in the beginning. ??Apis to help renal inflammation. The picture probably changes very rapidly.
With the increasing manipulation of all our food sources the danger of mutant organisms is increasing and it is maybe a field in which Homeopathy could be life saving. Anyhow thinking about it keeps my mind busy, Thanks Jean

No they the RV also covers bacterial diseases. He is working on fugi now. But it is not in the software.
Blessings,
Ellen

Strep and Staph are also part of our bacterial environment.

Thats great. Will be very helpful with the abundancabandone of resistant organisms, Thank you, Jean

I am alittle behind in thinking about this. You would give the e-coli remedy to encourage the body to make more e-coli. Staph or Strep remedies would alert the body to put up a greater defense? Both are nosodes but given for opposite purposes. Apparently the body understands the signals?

Well, we could think about this situation in comparison with e.g. giving someone calc. Generally speaking a well-chosen homeopathic is *normalizing*, rather than being necessarily either increasing or decreasing. So e.g. for a Calc patient, the remedy may cause the body to hold more calcium in some areas, less of it in others, and to simply use the same amount more appropriately in yet others.

In the case of a nosode I would think same could be the case -- although that would depend on the depth and breadth and type of correspondence between the "remedy picture" and the patient.

I guess the short version of this would have been, "It depends..."


Shannon

There are a number of remedies being used in Europe now. You’ve mentioned Arsenicum, always a good one. Serious pathologies have benefited from Crotalus horridus and Terebinthina. If there is intense ‘coldness’, think of Bismuth and Camphora.
Kristy