Swine flu Homoeopathic approach

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Swine flu Homoeopathic approach
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• Swine flu can be considered as an acute epidemic
  disease

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• Disease to which man is liable are either rapid
  morbid processes of the abnormally deranged vital
  force, which have a tendency to finish their
  course more or less quickly, but always in a
  moderate time - these are termed acute diseases

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• Aphorism 73 --
• Or they are of such a kind as attack several
  persons at the same time, here and there
  (sporadically), by means of meteoric or telluric
  influences and injurious agents, the
  susceptibility for being morbidly affected by
  which is possessed by only a few persons at one
  time.

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• Allied to these are those diseases in which many
  persons are attacked with very similar sufferings
  from the same cause (epidemically) these
  diseases generally become infectious (contagious)
  when they prevail among thickly congregated
  masses of human beings.

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• Case taking in epidemic diseases
• Aphorism 100 -- In investigating the totality of
  the symptoms of epidemic and sporadic diseases it
  is quite immaterial whether or not something
  similar has ever appeared in the world before
  under the same name or any other name.

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• The novelty or peculiarity of a disease of that
  kind makes no difference either in the mode of
  examining or of treating it, as the physician
  must anyway regard the pure picture of every
  prevailing disease as if it were something new
  and unknown, and investigate it thoroughly for
  itself, if he desire to practise medicine in a
  real and radical manner, never substituting
  conjecture for actual observation, never taking
  for granted that the case of disease before him
  is already or partially known, but always
  carefully examining it in all its phases and
  this mode of procedure is all the more requisite
  in such cases, as a careful examination will show
  that every prevailing disease is in many respects
  a phenomenon of a unique character, differing
  vastly from all previous epidemics, to which
  certain names have been falsely applied - with
  the exception of those epidemics resulting from a
  contagious principle that always remains the
  same, such as smallpox, measles, c.

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• APHORISM 101
• It may easily happen that in the first case of an
  epidemic disease that presents itself to the
  physician's notice he does not at once obtain a
  knowledge off its complete picture, as it is only
  by a close observation of several cases of every
  such collective disease that he can become
  conversant with the totality of its signs and
  symptoms.

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• Aphorism 101
• The carefully observing physician can, however,
  from the examination of even the first and second
  patients, often arrive so nearly at a knowledge
  of the true state as to have in his mind a
  characteristic portrait of it, and even to
  succeed in finding a suitable, homoeopathically
  adapted remedy for it.

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• Aphorism 102
• In the course of writing down the symptoms of
  several cases of this kind the sketch of the
  disease picture becomes ever more and more
  complete, not more spun out and verbose, but more
  significant (more characteristic), and including
  more of the peculiarities of this collective
  disease on the one hand, the general symptoms
  (e.g., loss of appetite, sleeplessness,
  c.)becomes precisely defined as to their
  peculiarities and on the other, the more marked
  and special symptoms which are peculiar to but
  few diseases and of rarer occurrence, at least in
  the same combination, become prominent and
  constitute what is characteristic of this malady

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• All those affected with the disease prevailing at
  a given time have certainly contracted it from
  one and the same source and hence are suffering
  from the same disease but the whole extent of
  such an epidemic disease and the totality of its
  symptoms (the knowledge whereof, which is
  essential for enabling us to choose the most
  suitable homoeopathic remedy for this array of
  symptoms, is obtained by a complete survey of the
  morbid picture) cannot be learned from one single
  patient, but is only to be perfectly
  deduced(abstracted) and ascertained from the
  sufferings of several patients of different
  constitutions.

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• Footnote
• The physician who has already, in the first
  cases, been able to choose a remedy approximating
  to the homoeopathic specific, will, from the
  subsequent cases, be enabled either to verify the
  suitableness of the medicine chosen, or to
  discover a more appropriate, the most appropriate
  homoeopathic remedy.

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Kents approach

• Epidemic cases are dealt in the III lecture what
  the physician must perceive
• After visiting many patients symptoms are written
  in an schematic form arranging in different
  headings
• Essential features of case is obtained.ie
  symptoms found in majority cases
• Symptoms are classified in to pathognomonic
  peculiar symptoms

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• A group of remedies relating to epidemic is
  listed out

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• Miasm
• Epidemic diseases are due to psoric miasm

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• Totality of symptoms
• Chill fever
• Sore throat
• Muscular pains
• Nausea vomiting
• Diarrhea
• Running nose
• Cough
• Lethargy
• Headache

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• NOSE - CORYZA - fever, with
• THROAT - PAIN - sore
• STOMACH - NAUSEA - fever - during
• STOMACH - VOMITING
• COUGH - FEVER - during
• HEAD - PAIN - chill - during
• RECTUM - DIARRHEA
• GENERALS - WEAKNESS - fever - during
• EXTREMITIES - PAIN - fever, during
• BACK - PAIN - fever, during
• FEVER - CHILL, with

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• Arsenicum album 25/11
• Nux 24/9
• Bryonia 22/9
• Belladona 20/9
• Natrum muriaticum 21/10
• Rhustox 15/9
• Calcarea carb 20/9
• Phosphorus 17/9
• Eupatorium 16/9
• Sulphur 17/9

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• Nux vomica -- Cold stage predominates. Paroxysms
  anticipate in morning. Excessive rigor, with
  blueness of finger-nails. Aching
• in limbs and back, and gastric symptoms. Chilly
  must be covered in every stage of fever.
  Perspiration sour only one side of
  body.Chilliness on being uncovered, yet he does
  not allow being covered. Dry heat of the
  body.After drinking shivering chilliness
  immediately.Chillines on slightest movement.

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• Ars -- High temperature. Paroxysms incomplete,
  with marked exhaustion. Cold sweats. Complete
  exhaustion. Delirium worse after midnight. Great
  restlessness. Great heat about 3
  a.m.Chilliness.restlessness.anxiety. Fear of
  death.prostration.burning releived by heat.Red
  hot needle pain. Sensation of ice water running
  through veins.Thirst for sips of cold water

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• Bryonia -- Coryza with shooting and aching in the
  forehead. Pulse full, hard, tense, and quick.
  Chill with external coldness,
• dry cough, stitches. Internal heat. Sour sweat
  after slight exertion. Easy, profuse
  perspiration.Complaints with gastro-hepatic
  complications.White tongue.Thirst for much cold
  fluid.Dry heat with every movement noise.Wants
  to lie quite still let be alone.Headache
  pressure better pressure,worse movement.pain in
  head while coughing.

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• Belladona -- Throat feels constricted Difficult
  deglutition worse, liquids. Oesophagus dry
  feels contracted. Continual inclination to
  swallow. Scraping sensation. A high feverish
  state with comparative absence of toxaemia.
  Burning, pungent, steaming, heat. Feet icy
  cold.Superficial blood-vessels, distended.
  Perspiration dry only on
• head. No thirst with fever.

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• Rhustox -- Restless, trembling. Tongue dry and
  brown with triangular red tip. bowels loose
  great restlessness. chill, with dry cough and
  restlessness. Chilly, as if cold water were
  poured over him, followed by heat and inclination
  to stretch the limbs.Stiff ,lame bruised on
  first moving.Passes of with motion till he
  becomes weak must rest.Severe aching in
  bones.Fever with restlessness thirst.

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• Eupatorium -- Chilly. lt Uncovering, draft. PAIN
  IN THE BONES, 'AS IF BROKEN'. lt Motion, but pain
  is so severe that he can't keep still.CHILL
  BETWEEN 7-9 A.M., PRECEDED BY GREAT THIRST WITH
  GREAT SORENESS AND ACHING OF BONES. BONE PAINS
  WITH SORE MUSCLES.Bursting headache. Vomiting of
  bile.Eyeballs sore.bones as if dislocated would
  break.

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• Calcarea carb -- Chill at 2 p.m. begins
  internally in stomach region. Fever with sweat.
  Pulse full and frequent. Chilliness and heat.
  Partial sweats. Night sweats, especially on head,
  neck and chest. Sweat over head. Sharp sticking,
  as if parts were wrenched or sprained. Weakness
  of extremities.

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• Phosphorus -- Chilly every evening. Cold knees at
  night.lack of thirst, but unnatural
  hunger.viscid night-sweats. Stupid delirium.
  Profuse perspiration.

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• Sulphur -- Frequent flashes of heat. Dry skin and
  great thirst. Night sweat, on nape and occiput.
  Perspiration of single parts. Disgusting
  sweats.Heat in crown of head with cold
  feet.Drowsy by day. Restless nights .Soles burn
  at night,must be put out of bed.