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Some therapeutics info for measles................

Measles & Homeopathic Treatment

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measles is often nothing when treated with
homeopathy (also would use Vitamin A and C -
vitamin A has been found to greatly lessen the complications from measles)

I have compiled these sites - These are from a
variety of homeopathic websites to give you clues as to what remedy is needed.

These are to only be guidelines in the case of
acute illness or first aid. It helps shorten
your time in looking when you are in a hurry with
an ill child. It helps you narrow down a
little. Read thru the list - if you find a
remedy that sounds like it might fit, then go to
your book and read more about that remedy in the Internal Materia Medica.

ALWAYS best to repertorize as you have would
learn in my class (or from Castro's book which can be ordered from my webpage)
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/bookstor.htm#homeopathy
first one on the list
you can learn how to repertorize from the book
but I encourage you to take my class as I see
people have better luck doing it after a little help.

But these are helpful. Repertorizing enables you
to get more individual about the remedy. But
often with acute illness there is so much
similarity in children with the same condition,
that you can more easy use this information which
we call Therapeutics, in homeopathy..

Another book that is helpful is Everybody's Guide
to Homeopathic Medicine - also on my website
http://www.nccn.net/~wwithin/bookstor.htm#homeopathy
This is a therapeutics type book. You read
descriptions of remedies and see which one fits your child or yourself

NEVER to be used for chronic or recurring conditions.

Print out and save for quick reference!
Measles
http://www.uofmhealth.org/health-librar ... dy-options

Aconitum napellus: Sudden high fever with hot dry
skin, pain in the eyes, strong thirst, and a
fearful or panicky feeling are indications for
this remedy. Symptoms often start near midnight, and may wake the person up.

Belladonna: Fever that comes on rapidly, with a
red flushed face, hot skin, dilated eyes that are
sensitive to light, and a throbbing headache that
is worse from jarring are all indications for
this remedy. The rash is red and may be hot to
touch. Many children needing Belladonna have
nightmares during fever and talk or cry out when apparently asleep.

Bryonia: This remedy can be indicated when the
rash is slow to appear, and the chest is
congested with a painful cough. The person’s head
hurts when coughing, and everything feels worse
from motion, making the person want to stay
completely still. Chills and shivering often come
with fever, but warmth can make things worse. The
person’s mouth may be very dry, with a thirst for long cold drinks.

Euphrasia: When this remedy is indicated during
measles, the eyes are swollen, streaming, and
very sensitive to light. The tears can irritate
the face, and the person’s nose may run with a
bland and watery discharge. Headache may
intensify with fever. The person has chills,
feels worse from warmth, and prefers to stay in a darkened room.

Gelsemium: A drowsy, lethargic feeling with
fever, droopy eyes, and shaking chills running up
and down the spine are strong indications for
this remedy. The rash is itchy, hot, and dry. A
headache that begins in the back of the head and
neck is often seen when Gelsemium is needed.

Kali bichromicum: When this remedy is indicated
in measles, cold symptoms worsen over time.
Hoarseness, coughing up of stringy yellow mucus,
earache, and sticky eyes may be seen. Symptoms
can be worse in the morning, and the person feels
best from staying in bed and keeping warm.

Pulsatilla: This remedy is often indicated when
the rash is slow to develop and the symptoms of a
cold are prominent. A stuffy nose producing
yellowish mucus, a gagging cough (most often dry
at night and loose in the morning), and plugging
or inflammation in the ears are common. The
person does not feel very thirsty, is worse from
warmth and stuffy rooms, and improves in open
air. People who need this remedy often want a lot
of comforting and attention. (Pulsatilla is a very useful children’s remedy.)

Rhus toxicodendron: An extremely itchy rash that
feels better from applying heat may indicate a
need for this remedy. The person is very
restless, and may feel driven to get up and pace.
Stiffness may be felt in all the muscles of the
body, worse at night, from lying still in bed,
and on waking in the morning. The person may have
chills along with fever, and all symptoms are improved by warmth and motion.

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http://www.homeopathic.com/Articles/Usi ... asles.html
Homeopathic Educational Services
A Homeopathic Perspective on Measles
Writings by Dana Ullman, MPH © 1991

(Excepted from Homeopathic Medicine for Children and Infants, Tarcher/Putnam)
The information provided here is not only
applicable to children but to most people with diarrhea.

REMEDIES LISTED IN CAPITAL LETTERS REPRESENT MORE FREQUENTLY INDICATED REMEDIES

Homeopathic medicines are often effective in
treating measles, though medical attention should
also be sought due to the possibility of complications from this disease.

ACONITUM: Useful at the beginning stages of
measles, these children have a high fever, a dry
barking cough, and red conjunctiva ("pink eye").
Their skin burns and itches, and they feel
restless, anxious, and frightened. They toss and turn.

Apis: In these cases the rash begins but fails to
develop fully, and soon disappears, though the
child doesn't feel completely well. Their itching
is worse by warmth, and their face and eyelids are puffy.

BELLADONNA: This remedy is often useful at the
beginning stages of the measles when there is
sudden onset of a high fever, reddened face, and
throbbing headache. They tend to be drowsy, a
little delirious, and have some difficulty
falling or staying asleep. Despite the fever, they are not very thirsty.

Bryonia: In these cases the skin eruptions from
the measles are delayed. The children have a
hard, dry cough and no expectoration. Any motion
causes pain. They may experience some mild
delirium: the child "wants to go home" even though they are at home.

Euphrasia: These children have a fever and rash
as well as acrid tearing of the eyes and a bland
nasal discharge. They become sensitive to light.
They have a cough, but only during the day.

Gelsemium: For these children the onset of
symptoms is slow. They have a fever with great
weakness and a sense of heaviness, both of the
whole body and specifically the eyelids. They are without thirst.

Kali bic: These children have ropy, stringy
discharges from the nose and burning and tearing
of the eyes. Their salivary glands are noticeably
swollen, and they may experience stitching pains
from the ear into the head and neck.

PULSATILLA: These children experience a mild case
of the measles. Their fever is not high, and
their symptoms are not too painful. They will,
however, have profuse tearing from the eyes and a
nasal discharge. They also have a dry cough at
night which becomes loose in the daytime. They
may have ear inflammation. Although they have a
dry mouth, they are without thirst.

Sulphur: Children with the measles who need this
medicine have a purplish appearance. Their
itching is aggravated by scratching They have
reddened mucous membranes and a great thirst.
Their cough and diarrhea are at their worst in the morning.

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http://in.indbazaar.lycosasia.com/i-dak ... .asp?id=15
URL no longer works & haven't been able to find it elsewhere
Was a site in India
Aconite
It is the best remedy for the beginning of
Measles ­ with fever, restlessness, photophobia,
coryza and a hard croupy cough. Catarrh and high
fever, before rash. Redness of conjunctiva. Dry,
barking cough. Itching, burning skin, rash rough
and miliary. Restless, anxious, tossing:
frightened. In catarrhal conditions Aconite
ceases to be of use after exudation has taken
place, and so in measles; it would cease to be of
use after it modified the fever, and the eruption
appears and the disease is diagnosed as measles.

Ferrum phosphoricum
Ferrum phos, in many respects is similar to
Aconite, and takes its place where restlessness
and anxiety are not present. Ferrum phosphoricum
is the better remedy if there be chest
involvement together with the catarrhal symptoms.

Gelsemium
Gelsemium is a more useful remedy in commencing
measles than Aconite. There is much chilliness
with fever. Child is dull, apathetic, does not
want to be disturbed; there is watery coryza that
excoriates the upper lip and nose, and there is
harsh, barking, croupy cough, with chest soreness
and hoarseness. Gelsemium may be continued with
benefit after the eruption has appeared. It has
aching in the limbs. Gelsemium has pain at the
base of the brain, high fever and passive brain
symptoms. Severe, heavy headache: occipital pain.
Thirstlessness is marked. Drowsy and stupid. Face
dark-red, swollen, besotted look.

Belladonna
Belladonna may be indicated in measles when sore
throat is present and the cerebral excitement
indicating that remedy, together with moisture
and heat. Rash bright-red: skin hot and dry.

Euphrasia
When the catarrhal symptoms greatly predominate,
Euphrasia may be used. Acrid tears stream out of
the eyes, with a red and swollen conjunctiva. The
cough is dry and very hoarse, and there is an
intense throbbing headache, which is relieved on
the appearance of the eruption. The photophobia
of Euphrasia is worse in artificial light, and a
brightness of the eyes despite the catarrhal
condition is characteristic. Cases with great
catarrhal intensity. Copious acrid lachrymation,
with streaming, bland discharge from nose.

Pulsatilla
A little later in the disease Pulsatilla symptoms
may make their appearance. The fever has subsided
or entirely disappeared. There is coryza and
profuse lachrymation. The cough is still dry at
night, but loosens a little in the daytime. The
child sits up to cough. There is predisposition
to earache and sometimes sickness at the stomach.
Where there is catarrh of the digestive canal and
diarrhoea Pulsatilla will be found useful. The
eyes agglutinate and the discharge is purulent.
If much fever, Puls will not be the remedy.
Catarrhal symptoms with profuse lachrymation. Dry
mouth, but seldom thirsty. The cough is usually
dry at night and loose in the daytime;
the child sits up in bed to cough. The eruption
may come out to its extent or it may have a dusky
appearance. There may be earache, Otitis Media or
Diarrhoea, as its complication. It is invaluable
remedy in Ophthalmia, after Measles, with bland
yellow or yellowish-green mucous discharge. It
follows Acon and Gels and is followed by Kali Bich.

Kali bichromicum
Kali bichromicum has pustules developing on the
cornea. The throat is swollen and there is
catarrhal deafness. It comes in very well after
Pulsatilla when the patient develops more intense
symptoms. Measles associated with ear symptoms
and swollen glands especially call for Kali
bichromicum, and it is one of our best remedies
for laryngeal affections, with a hoarse, dry,
croupy cough. Is like Puls, only worse. Follows
Puls. Measles with purulent discharge from eyes
and ears. Salivary glands swollen: catarrhal
deafness. Kali bi has stringy, ropy discharges.
Diarrhoea, with slight tenesmus.

Sulphur
It is useful where the skin is dusky and the rash
does not come out, or is purplish when it does
appear. Measles with a purplish appearance.
Convalescence slow and the patient is weak and
prostrate. Tardy or Suppressed Eruption: Brain Affected.

Arsenicum
In measles, which do not run a favorable course,
in malignant type or black or haemorrhagic
measles we have two or three important remedies.
The first of these is Arsenicum. There will be
sinking of strength, diarrhoea, delirium,
restlessness and debility, petechiae and general
typhoid symptoms. The stools are particularly
offensive and exhausting. It is prophylactic and
curative, and one of the best remedies to remove
all sequel of the disease. It corresponds to the
insidious phenomena of severe epidemics of measles.

Crotalus may also be indicated in the form known
as black measles. Also Baptisia, with its fetor
and prostration, may prove useful.

Lachesis is the fourth remedy for these
conditions. The individual symptom of each remedy
will differentiate them, but all four should be
studied carefully in these low conditions of measles.

Stramonium
When the eruption does not come out properly or
when it disappears suddenly and grave symptoms
appear, there are a few remedies that play an
important role. Child is hot, restless and on
falling asleep cries out as if frightened; there
are convulsive movements and the face is red.
Rash not out properly. Tosses, cries as if
frightened in sleep. Convulsive movements. There
is hyperpyrexia, with marked coldness of the extremities.

Cuprum metallicum
This is indicated in convulsion due to recession
of the eruption. It has the same terror on
awakening, but its symptoms are move violent than
those of Stramonium and the face instead of being
red is more apt to be bluish. Starts up from
sleep. Spasms, cramps, convulsions. Cramps of
fingers and toes. It is characterized by the
violence of its symptoms. The symptoms indicating
it are: Crying out in a frightened manner, as
soon as the child falls asleep; violent delirium;
loquacious, on awaking from sleep; on
becoming conscious it appears to be frightened.
Violent convulsive symptoms of flexor muscles;
abnormal movements, decidedly angular; with
blueness of the face and lips, rotating
eye-balls, frothing at the mouth, grinding of the
teeth; followed by deep sleep. Aggravation of symptoms on arousing from sleep.

Zincum metallicum
Zincum has the same awakening from sleep as if
terrified, but with Zincum there is much
weakness, the child seems too weak to develop the
eruption. Rash comes out sparingly. Body rather
cool. Lies in stupor gritting teeth. Dilated
pupils: squinting and rolling eyes. Fidgety feet.

Bryonia alba
Bryonia is useful when chest symptoms appear upon
a recession of the eruption. Too slow development
of the eruption with chest symptoms calls for it.
The cough is dry and painful, there is soreness
of the limbs and body, stitches in the chest,
etc. Spasms from suppressed measles when the
child is seized with great lassitude and
debility, twitching of muscles or of single limbs
or if the spasms are preceded by deep and violent
coughing and oppressed respiration. Little or no
expectoration. Any motion causes child to scream
with pain. Mild delirium, wants to go home, when
at home. Or, instead of rash, bronchitis or
pneumonia, with Bryonia symptoms. It is also
indicated when the eruption suddenly disappear,
and cerebral symptoms with drowsiness appear. The
child symptoms, some inflammatory disease of the
chest, such as Bronchitis, or, even pneumonia intervenes.

Antimonium tartaricum
This is another remedy for retarded or repelled
eruption. There is great difficulty in breathing,
rattling of mucus, bluish or purplish face,
drowsiness and twitching. The head is confused,
with warmth of the forehead, a confused feeling
and drowsiness. Aggravation in the forenoon; amelioration by bathing.

Sticta, if there be present an incessant dry and
spasmodic cough, worse when lying down and a
night; it is a teasing, titillating cough.
Phosphorus with its dry, exhausting cough with
oppressed breathing. Rumex with its short
tickling bronchial cough worse from cold air.
Drosera with its whooping-like cough. All these
may be indicated in measles. Sabadilla is the
remedy when among the catarrhal symptoms there is
violent sneezing attended with a frontal
headache. It will correspond to some epidemics and should not be overlooked.

Morbillinum
Prophylactic for contacts.

Apis
Rash goes in and brain symptoms appear. Stupor
with stinging pains, extorting cries (Crie
cerebrale). Thirstless: worse from heat, hot
room, hot fire. Better cool air. Urine scanty. A
great remedy for oedema and effusions.

Helleborus Niger
When entire sensorial life is suspended, and child lies in profound stupor.

Kali Carb
It is particularly useful for Broncho-Pneumonia
or pneumonia supervening after Measles

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