Monday, March 16, 2009

Typhoid can be cured by homeopathy in fiew days

If there is any one disease which more than another cannot be prescribed for by name, it is typhoid. No disease is more varied in its symptoms during its inception, invasion, and course, and none more liable to spend its force in different localities in the subject.
Ø In one case the cerebral and nervous symptoms will greatly predominate so as to take the form of typhus cerebralis ;
Ø in another, in the abdomen (Typhus abdominalis),
Ø in still others, in the lungs and bronchi (Typhus pneumalis or Pneumo-typhus).
Not only this, but during the course of any single case the form may change so as to assume these different manifestations. So in writing of the therapeutics of typhus we cannot arbitrarily divide the remedies into classes, but give the indications for their use in one or all forms according to symptomatic indications.
Nevertheless there are certain remedies that are generally adapted to the first, second and third weeks, or stages, of the disease that it is well to recognize.
To simply give a list of symptomatic indications beginning with Aconite and ending with Zincum is liable to be very confusing .
CLINICAL CASES. From dr naish
Case. A boy 12 years of age (in a family in which one had already died of hæmorrhage of the bowels and another lay sick of the same disease in the abdominal form) was taken with typhoid fever and grew steadily worse until the third week, when the following symptoms were present :
Complete stupor ; entire unconsciousness ; pupils greatly dilated, with no reaction to light ; and hearing gone. All this interrupted by occasional piercing screams ; abdomen so sunken and empty that the vertebral column could be felt through its walls ; no stool for two weeks and for forty-eight hours at one time not a drop of urine. He would lie for a day or so in this stupor, then would involuntarily begin to jerk his head forward up from the pillow, and with a yell carry it around in a sort of semi-circle and drop it back again, continually trying to talk, which he could not do on account of the stiff or paralysed condition of the tongue ; then again would lapse into the stupor with screams. Apis mellifica alone did not control the whole condition, so I gave the Stramonium, when, with the jerking of the head, and loquacious delirium was on, and between the two remedies he began to improve the paroxysms becoming shorter and more mild, then ceasing entirely. The urine became abundant, and the boy began to notice his attendants. The first word he spoke ten days after he became conscious was "mam !" (Calling his mother), the next "pawidge" (porridge). His diet had been oat meal porridge all through the course.
Two other cases essentially the same, one a school teacher, the other the wife of the professor of mathematics in our State Normal School, were treated the same way and made perfect recoveries. The late lamented Dr. H. V. Miller, one of the best prescribers I ever knew, saw the last one in consultation with me and pronounced a decidedly unfavorable prognosis, but was surprised and delighted at the outcome. I have also prescribed it alone in cases which had the stupor with screaming without the alternate condition described above with equally good results. In almost all cases of the Apis kind look for an increase of urine before the other symptoms improve.
APIS AND SULPHUR.
One thing I wish to mention here, viz. that if in such a case Apis mellifica did not act promptly an intercurrent dose of Sulphur often seemed to help it. There must have been psora in such a case, and I know that the two remedies follow each other beautifully when indicated by the symptoms. Now, for fear that some one may accuse me of teaching alternation or rotation of remedies, as is the practice of too many in our school, let me say that the cases which call for even such alternation as was necessary here, are very rare, and you will distinctly remember that this was not the hourly or two hourly rotation practiced by such.
Such alternation and rotation is neither necessary nor scientific. No good prescriber will do it.
A CLINICAL CASE ILLUSTRATING THE USE OF HELLEBORUS NIGER.
Helleborus niger is another remedy which, though not often indicated in typhoid, is sometimes, and nothing can take its place. To illustrate its sphere I will give another case from practice.
This was another boy about twelve or fourteen years of age. After two weeks of a very severe run of the fever, the whole force of the disease seemed to concentrate in the brain. The loose stools stopped, and the urine, too, and he lay dead to all signs of consciousness ; the eyes remained wide open and still; shoving a bright lamp right up to them made no impression upon the widely dilated pupils. He looked idiotic, and the heart beat was weak and very slow, "only the brain seems to be the invaded part of the body."
Under the action of Helleborus niger 1000th (B. and T.) he began to pass more urine, until it became profuse, to move occasionally, and very slowly gain consciousness. The first sign that he gave of really comprehending anything was this. He was a boy that had always been particularly fond of money, especially silver money (free silver). While testing him with a lamp one evening to see if I could get his attention to anything, the father said ;
"Try him with a piece of money."
I then held a silver dollar in such a position that the lamp would reflect it strongly into his eyes, and for a second he fixed his sight upon it and laugh aloud - "Ha ! ha !".
We "ha ! ha !'d," too, but it was several days after that before he could see or know enough to indicate what he wanted, or that he wanted anything. He went on improving slowly until perfect recovery under the Helleborus. This illustrates the sphere of this remedy anywhere, either in acute meningitis or in typhus, where the affection centers in the head, and with these symptoms.

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