Homeopathic Remedies for Chikungunya and Dengue

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Homeopathic Remedies for Chikungunya and Dengue
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• Chikungunya and dengue are viral diseases spread
  by mosquito bites. While chikungunya and dengue
  are transmitted from the aedes aegypti mosquito,
  recent report from the Pasteur Institute in Paris
  claims the mosquito mutated and now can also be
  transmitted by aedes albopictus (Asian tiger
  mosquito). The name chikungunya is derivative of
  the Makonde word meaning that which bends up
  with reference to the stooped posture developed
  resulting from the severe arthritic symptoms of
  the disease.
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• Symptoms of Chikungunya
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• Sudden onset of flu-like symptoms including
  severe headache, chills, fever higher than 40C
  or 104F, joint pain, backache, nausea, vomiting,
  petechial or maculopapular rash usually involving
  the limbs and trunks. Joints of the extremities
  in particular become swollen and painful to the
  touch. Conjunctival infection and slight
  photophobia, redness of eyes may be the first
  symptom with perhaps a difficulty in looking
  upward.
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• Symptoms of Dengue
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• Sudden chills with high fever, intense headache,
  muscle and joint pains which make one immobile.
  Retro-orbital pain and photophobia develops
  within 24 hrs of the onset of preliminary
  symptoms. Other symptoms include extreme
  weakness, anorexia, constipation, colicky pain
  and abdominal tenderness. Some cases fever is
  typically followed by a remission for 2 hrs to 2
  days. The rash may be diffuse flushing, mottling,
  or fleeting pinpoint eruptions on face, neck and
  chest during the first half of the infection and
  a conspicuous rash that may be maculopapular or
  scarlatiniform on 3rd or 4th day. Fever may last
  for about 5 days.

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• Homeopathic Treatment
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• Pertinent individual treatment is the heart of
  homeopathy. Rather than administering medicines
  geared toward the disease, homeopathic treatment
  targets the disease based on symptoms which vary
  from person to person and also to the degree they
  are present. That is one reason why it is near
  impossible to develop any random controlled
  trails in homeopathy. But, over the years,
  experience has taught the homeopaths that in
  cases of acute epidemics the symptoms are
  essentially same and so can be treated with one
  remedy or few key remedies.
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• The best prophylactic remedy is to find the
  Genus Epidemicus of the area of the outbreak.
  And a homeopathic remedy such as this is not an
  individual constitutional remedy, but a general
  one that fits the highest number of symptoms of
  the affected group. Though the remedy is not
  individual specific it is still different from
  the conventional allopathic medicine as the cure
  is from the inside out addresses the cause,
  rather than outside in suppressing the
  symptoms.
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• Calcarea carbonica as a genus epidemicus is an
  effective remedy which can be used to treat
  chikungunya and one of the best prophylactic
  remedy to treat it is bryonia alba. Tabacum is a
  prominent remedy identified to treat dengue by
  studying several atypical symptoms of dengue
  vertigo when opening the eyes, incessant nausea,
  anxious conscience, desire for constant fanning,
  body coldness etc.
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• When the availability of treatment during viral
  epidemics is meager, costly or not known,
  homeopathic medicines as genus epidemicus can be
  used as prophylactic remedies or remedies to
  treat the incidence of chikungunya and dengue.
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