FEVER THERAPUTICS

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FEVERTHERAPUTICS

• Presented by
• Dr Reshmi N.E

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Aconite

• This remedy typifies asthenic fever, and
  corresponds to hyperaemia congestion and
  chill preceding inflammatory fever. Frequent
  chilliness is common in fevers calling for
  Aconite. There is redness of the face, great
  heat and oftentimes an outward pressing
  headache. A slight degree of delirium
  does not contra-indicate Aconite. The mental
  symptoms are all important there is
  anxiety, and restlessness from the violent
  circulatory storm there is dry skin,
  violent thirst, full bounding frequent
  pulse and sweating relieves.

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FIRST REMEDY IN INFLAMMATION INFLAMMATORY FEVERS

• Cause. - Dry, cold north or west winds hot
  days and cool nights, getting wet(Dulc.,
  Rhus), suppressed perspiration by uncovering
  or sitting in a draft, by fright rheumatic
  exposure.. The attack of fever often terminates
  with a critical sweat. Aggravation In the
  evening and night the pains are
  insupportable, in a warm room, when rising in
  bed, lying on affected side (Hep., Nux m.).
• Amelioration During the day, in the open air
  (Alum., Mag.c., Puls., Sab.), while at rest
  (except at night in bed), after perspiration,
  from wine.

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Ferrum phosphoricum

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  ALL CATARRHAL INFLAMMATORY
  FEVERSFIRST STAGE.In early stages of febrile
  conditions, it stands midway between sthenic
  activity of Aconite Belladona and the asthenic
  sluggish torpidity of gelsimium.superficial
  redness never assumes dusky hue of
  gelsemium.pulse is soft and flowing. Hughes
  praises this remedy in simple continued
  fevers, where he believes it is specific.
  Gastric fever, he claims, will never run into
  typhoid if treated with this remedy. Fever at
  any time with inflammation of organs joints for
  mucus membranes

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Influenzinum

• This generally prevents the spread of the trouble
  and clears up the"colds," whether they are of the
  influenza type or not. Influenzinum has the
  ability to develop old troubles and thus it takes
  a variety of forms in different persons. Influ.
  need not be expected to cure all cases unaided or
  indeed to be appropriate to every case.

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Bellodona

• Bell is associated with sudden and violent onset
  of fever, hot red skin, throbbing
  carotids,flushed face, dryness of mouth throat
  with no thirst with fever.The characteristic skin
  of Bell. is "Uniform, smooth, shining, scarlet
  redness, so hot that it imparts a burning
  sensation to the hand of one who feels
  it."burning ,pungent steaming heat. "Sweat on
  covered parts only" is also a marked symptom of
  Bell. A very general characteristic of Bell. is lt
  on lying down. It refers to headache and all
  kinds of inflammatory affections. Some
  characteristic symptoms are "Tenderness of
  abdomen, lt by least jar"Sleepy, but cannot sleep."

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Gelsemium

• This remedy suits dull, stupid, apathetic
  conditions. The patient is dizzy and drowsy,
  the chill is partial there is a full flowing
  pulse with an element of weakness in it.
  It corresponds especially to remittent
  types of fever and to fevers brought on by
  warm, relaxing weather. The fever is
  accompanied by languor, muscular weakness and
  a desire for absolute rest and is
  unaccompanied by thirst. It is indicated in
  the beginning, and esp. in fevers of
  non-malarial origin.

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• The symptoms indicating it are Partial chill,
  starts from the spine running up and down or in
  the hands or from the feet extending upwards,
  with tremor of the whole body it is sometimes
  associated with copious urination and bruised
  aching all over the body during it is-very
  characteristic. Wants to be held , because he
  shakes so.

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• Then comes the fever, with general heat, but
  most decided about the head and fauces, during
  the exacerbation of which, the patient is very
  nervous and restless, tossing about continually
  and he can bear neither noise nor light. The
  sweat is gradual and moderate or partial, but
  always gives relief. The accompaniments are
  
• Tongue, coated white or yellow. Thick speech.
  Bowels constipated, the stools yellow.

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Arsenicum

• Septic fevers, hay fevers. Periodicity marked
  with adynimia. Thin , watery excoriating
  discharge from nose,feels stopped up. Intense
  heat, with anxious restlessness despite great
  debility, burning thirst esp. for hot
  drinks-cold drinks make him feel chilly, weak or
  thready pulse Lach., great prostration
  external heat relieves. The sweat is cold and
  clammy, sometimes it appears very tardily, and
  does not always relieve. The spleen is
  enlarged.

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• .It is often indicated in intermitting type
  of fever It often succeeds Cinchona in the
  treatment of chills and fever. It is called for
  when the paroxysms occur more or less
  periodically. Its chill is not well-defined, in
  fact irregular.

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Bryonia

• Slow insedious onset of fever.after taking cold
  in hot summer weather,exposure to draught of cold
  wind. fevers.the pt lies quietly lt motion. Dry
  white coating of tongue, with thirst for large
  quantites of cold water at long intervals. Chill
  with external coldness, dry hard cough,
  stitches.dryness of mucus memberane. Chill with
  hot head and red face, worse warm room Rheumatic
  fever and typhoid marked by gastro-hepatic
  complications. caused by after taking cold in
  summer, Painful continued.

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• Dry burning heat with worse of all the symptoms.
  Sweat, sour or oily after slight exertion. Easy,
  profuse perspiration. Blood seems hot.along with
  fever cough dry hard with stiching pain in
  chest. Pulse full, hard, tense and quick.
  Severe pain from broken bones,sore lame bruised
  feeling. Joints red, swollen, hot with stitches
  and tearing, worse on least movement.

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Rhustox

• Influenza fever, restless, stiff and sore.
  Triangular red tiped tongue,Chilly, as if cold
  water were poured over him, followed by heat and
  inclination to stretch the limbs Typhoid fever
  tongue dry and brown, sordes, bowels loose, great
  restlessness. chill.diarrhoea with the beginning
  of typhoid.fever blisters around mouth
  chin.lamnee,stiffness and pain,all over body.lt by
  rest.gt by motion.great thirst with dry tongue,
  mouth and thirst.
• Intermittent fever,before during chill with
  dry cough and restlessness. During heat,
  urticaria. Easily chilled worse least uncovering
  with pain in limbs. Chill in single parts. Heat
  with busy delirium. Sweat, worse during pain with
  sleepiness. Urticaria during fever. Wants to yawn
  and stretch during chill.

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Eupatorium Perfoliatum

• It is a popular remedy in the Malarial districts
  for chills and fever. The chill begins in the
  small of the back Nat. Mur. form 7 to 9 A.M.
  and is preceded by headache, insatiable thirst
  and bitter vomiting, which rarely continue
  into the fever, and is accompanied by aching
  in the limbs, as though every bone in the body
  were being broken in some cases, there is
  double periodicity-the chill comes in the
  morning of one day and in the evening of the
  next. Insatiable thirst before and during chill
  and fever,knows the chill is coming as he cannot
  drink enough.The chill is followed by high fever,
  with increase of the achingdrinking of water
  makes the patient chilly. The sweat is usually
  very slight or it may be profuse.

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• Natrum muriaticum
  
  In
  Intermittent Fever it shares the honour long
  accorded to Cinchona and Arsenicum and is almost
  similar to Apis. It is to be considered when
  The chill comes characteristically between 10
  and 11 A.M. and begins in the small of the back
  or in the feet blueness flushed face
  accompanied sometimes by thirst and by aching
  pains all
• over the body sometimes urticaria
  complicates the case.during the entire attack
  thirst for cold water.coldness not gt by heat or
  piling on clothing but by cold drinks. The fever
  is usually violent during the hot
  stage-thirst increases with the heat, throbbing
  headache, fingers scorched with the intense heat
  , and at times so severe that the patient
  becomes delirious or unconscious.

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• By and by sweat breaks out most copiously and it
  relieves the headache and all other symptoms.
  In malarial condition, intense chill, fever and
  sweat, anameia and emaciated people. It removes
  the tendency to intermittent susceptibility to
  colds, periodicity. Acute dropsies after scarlet
  fever. Urine with albumin casts. Dropsy after
  malaria.

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APIS

• It is suited to old or maltreated cases .Chill
  occurs in the afternoon, characteristically at
  3 P.M. and is accompanied by thirst (not
  before), and an oppression of the chest,
  with smothering, lt in warmth. Even if there is
  shivering ,the patient cannot tolerate covering.
  It is followed by burning heat all over
  (particularly felt in the abdomen) or heat
  in some places, coolness in others, with
  increased oppressive feeling in the chest,
  drowsiness, fluttering pulse, nose cold, the skin
  hot and dry or alternately dry and moist and
  the hands and arms blue, usually no thirst,
  and there is the general appearance of
  collapse Lach..

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• The warmth of the room during heat becomes
  intolerable. Then comes the sweat, which
  may however, be imperfect, breaking out only
  in spells, soon drying off or it may be absent
  there is never any thirst during the
  sweat-characteristic. The tongue is rd and
  covered on tip and borders with vesicles.
  Urticaria. Inflammation of middle ear with or
  after scarlet fever.Scarlet fever when urine
  loaded with albumin.

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Mercurius vivus

• Catarrhal, gastric, bilious fevers. Patient very
  sensitive to cold. Measles.Profuse perspiration
  without relief during sleep with pains.
  Sweat,oily, foul, sour or with strong sweetish
  penetrating odor, on head, on chest,stains
  indelibly yellow. Heat and shuddering
  alternately. Easily chilled or over heated.
  Creeping chilliness, worse in the evening and
  into. Debility and weakness. Cold, clammy sweat
  on legs at night. Furrow in upper surface of
  tongue lengthwise. Tongue heavy, thick,Moist
  coating, yellow, flabby, teeth-indented, feels as
  if burnt with ulcers.

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Ipecacuanha

• It is useful, when the type has been spoilt by
  Quinine. It is one of the best drugs to give when
  the case is mixed up and there is no
  clearly-defined picture of the case and
  everything is confused. it is particularly
  indicated, when there is short chill, followed
  by long-lasting
• fever-the characteristic symptom during the
  paroxysm, usually with gastric symptoms, with a
  preponderance of nausea.HAEMMORRHAGE BRIGHT
  RED.tongue clean.vomitting of white glairy
  mucus.bone pains.

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Cuprum

• Icy-coldness of the whole body. Severe cramps
  in extremities, with cold sweat, blue surface
  also collapse. Great prostration. Weak or
  thready pulse.

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Nux Vomica

• Takes cold easily from least provocation,perspires
  easily , causes headache , coryza, stuffed up
  nose.grippe with fever bone pains.Coryzalt warm
  room, before the fever comes on, but during
  fever wants to be covered in all stages of fever.
  Chill begins in hands extremities. Thirst not
  marked.. Tendency to jaundice in all febrile
  states. Abdominal complaints.It is used in
  Intermittent type of fevers, when The chill
  is preceded or accompanied by blueness of the
  finger-nails and well-marked gaping and yawning
  during the chill always aching in the limbs and
  in the back the chill is not usually relieved
  from covering up or from the heat of the stove,
  and is followed by
• fever, and that by sweat.

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pulsatilla

• . Chicken pox, measles and mumps. Childhood
  fevers.. Erratic temperature in fevers.Chilly,
  yet averse to heat in warm stuffy rooms with
  pain, on lying down at night. Chilliness without
  thirst. Chilly with pains in spots,worse evening.
  Chill about 4 p.m. Intolerable burning heat at
  night with distended veins, heat in parts of
  body, coldness in other. One-sided sweat,pains
  during sweat. One sided coldness with numbness.
  External heat is intolerable, veins are
  distended.

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• During apyrexia, headache, diarrhea,
• loss of appetite, nausea.. Partial sweat. It may
  be used in Intermittent Fever after the abuse of
  Quinine, when thirst appears at 2 or 3 o'clock
  in the afternoon then comes the chill
  without thirst, with anxiety and oppression of
  the chest-the patient is sleepy, yet he cannot
  sleep. There may be moaning or lachrymation
  during the hot stage sometimes one hand is
  hot and the other cold. General or partial sweat
  at the end of fever

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Psorinum

• Patient so hot,hand under the covers feels as
  though in a steam bath. Sensation of heat causes
  one to draw it back. He is covered with a
  boiling sweat in fever.in intermittents with
  difficult breathing. Chill is not so marked, but
  the heat is intense and sweat copious.

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• Sepia
• It is to be thought of, in cases-spoiled by
  Quinine or by bungling administration of
  Homoeopathic remedies. In it, during the fever
  both the upper and lower limbs remain cold and
  the face looks yellow.
  
  

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Thuja

• Shaking chill with yawning, worse urinating not
  better by heat. Chill,beginning in thighs. Heat
  rises into chest with icy told hands, nosebleed
  or
• cough. Orgasm of blood in the evening with
  throbbing in the blood vessels.
• Sweats only on uncovered parts or all over except
  head, when sleeping, profuse, sour, smelling like
  honey. Sweat profuse on genitals,
• gushing, worse company. Sweat is foul, oily,
  pungent, sweetish, sometimes garlicky, staining
  yellow.

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Sulphur

• Frequent flashes of heat.Violent ebullitions of
  heat throughout the entire body.Dry skin with
  great thirst. Night sweat on nape occiput.In
  septic states,even when there is a number of
  bryonia like symptoms ,sulphur should be given as
  it take hold of the case simplifies it.

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Tuberculinum

• Dry hacking cough before the evening chill,lasts
  sometimes during the chill and he knows that the
  chill is coming by the cough, vomiting during
  fever.When the intermittent fever returns ,from
  slightest exposure at the end of 3,4 or 5
  weeks.In intermittent fevers drawing in the limbs
  before fever.Must be covered up during all
  stages.Periodicity and sensitive to weather
  changes..

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• Profuse sweat. Sweat, easy,cold, clammy, on upper
  parts, on hands, worse coughing, stains
  yellow.General chilliness. Chilly, at beginning
  of sleep yet wants fresh air. Heat on cheek of
  affected side in spots. Flushes of heat worse
  eating. Burning in genitals. Wants covers on in
  all stages of fever.

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Nux Vomica

• Takes cold easily from least provocation,perspires
  easily , causes headache , coryza, stuffed up
  nose.grippe with fever bone pains.Coryzalt warm
  room, before the fever comes on, but during
  fever wants to be covered in all stages of fever.
  Chill begins in hands extremities. Thirst not
  marked.. Tendency to jaundice in all febrile
  states. Abdominal complaints.It is used in
  Intermittent type of fevers, when The chill
  is preceded or accompanied by blueness of the
  finger-nails and well-marked gaping and yawning
  during the chill always aching in the limbs and
  in the back the chill is not usually relieved
  from covering up or from the heat of the stove,
  and is followed by fever, and that by sweat.

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Veratrum Album

• It is indicated when the chill is associated with
  thirst, and (if internal) runs downward, not
  upward face, mouth and tongue cold breathing
  oppressed and labored heart weak weak, thready
  pulse skin blue, cold, inelastic hands blue
  heat has no palliative effect great
  prostration. Cold, clammy sweat, worse on
  forehead. Congestive chill with extreme coldness
  and thirst. General coldness,icy, on vertex, nose
  tongue, mouth, limbs, sweat. Internal heat with
  cold surface, when drinking. Fevers showing
  external coldness only.

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Veratrum Viride

• Congestion esp to base of brain , chest,spine,
  stomach .Red streak down the centre of the
  tongue. Hyperpyrexia or rapidly oscillating
  temperature with sweat. Cold clammy or hot
  sweat. Cerebrospinal, suppurative acute
  rheumatic, fever with high temperature, full hard
  rapid pulse, severe pains in muscles and joints.
  Pulse suddenly increases and gradually decreases
  below normal soft,slow,weak irregular
  intermittent. Fever high in the evening, below
  normal in the morning. Suppurative fevers with
  great variation of temperature.

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Psorinum

• Patient so hot,hand under the covers feels as
  though in a steam bath. Sensation of heat causes
  one to draw it back. He is covered with a
  boiling sweat in fever.in intermittents with
  difficult breathing. Chill is not so marked, but
  the heat is intense and sweat copious.

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Lachesis

• It is useful in Intermittent Fever, which recurs
  in the Spring-time, The chill up the back
  Lyc., comes on at 1 or 2 in afternoon, with
  glistening eyes and icy-coldness of the body
  during the chill the patient feels that he must
  have clothing piled on him, not so much to keep
  him warm, as to keep him still and he wants to
  be held down firmly (a characteristic
  symptom) to relieve the shaking and the pains in
  the chest and head. The fever is
  characterized by burning pungency. During the
  hot stage-thirstlessness and oppressed
  breathing Carbo Veg. oppression of the chest,
  with cold feet, which when becomes warmer
  lessen the oppression oppression of the
  heart drowsiness loquacity, when he often makes
  speeches delirium and convulsions Hyos.
  weak, thready pulse great prostration.
  Copious sweat.It is also indicated in irregular
  cases, with cold nose, etc., livid skin, great
  weakness.

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Lycopodium

• It follows Lachesis and is needed when the
  patient becomes drowsy and stupid. The chill
  begins in the back at 3 or 4 o'clock every or
  every other afternoon and is worse from 4 to 8
  P.M. or at 9 P.M. during the chill the hands
  and feet are numb and icy-cold
• and the chill is followed by sour eructations or
  sour vomiting, particularly the latter, with
  or without heat and then passes into the
  sweating stage or the chill is followed by sweat
  without intervening heat. Thirst, mostly after
  sweat, and the patient
• desires hot drinks only.

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Cinchona

• It is a valuable remedy in the treatment of
  Intermittent Fever. It is indicated in Ague from
  living in damp places and is useful in fevers of
  either tertian or of the quartan type. The
  symptoms indicating it are Chill, not relieved
  by any kind of warmth with thirst before or
  after, but not during the chill a dry, teasing
  cough during the chill Bry., Rhus Tox.,
  Sabad., and Sul.. Long-lasting heat, usually
  without thirst-the patient desires to uncover
  with fiery-red face and often delirium. The
  sweat which follows is profuse and
  debilitating, with intense thirst. Swollen
  spleen. Neuralgia, occurring mostly in the face
  and recurring quite periodically Ars., Chin.
  Sulph. and Sul.. worse,slight touch,after
  eating ,hard pressure and bending double
  relives.Periodical return of the symptoms

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Cina

• It is not often used, but sometimes indicated by
  Thirst during the chill and occasionally
  during the heat also. Pale face even during the
  hot stage. Also, vomiting, canine hunger and
  clean tongue.

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Carbo Veg

• The intermittent type of fever in which it may be
  employed is of a low grade. It is remedy for
  severe and long-standing cases, and is esp. of
  service after the abuse of Quinine, and where
  there is lack of reaction, when the following
  symptoms are present. The chill with thirst
  (not before), often accompanied by cold breath
  and coldness of the body, esp. the feet
  are icy-cold upto the knees-a very
  characteristic symptom of Carbo Veg. one-sided
  chills-of left side generally. Heat comes in
  burning flashed, with loquacity Lach., but
  without any thirst. The sweat is either sour or
  else exceedingly offensive. Flatulency. Collapse.
  Annual return of the paroxysms Lach.. The
  patient is very weak form protracted disease
  and abuse of Quinine.

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cedron

• It is used in Ague contracted mainly in hot
  climates, in which it has won favor or in low,
  marshy lands Aran., with congestion of the
  head, flying heat in the face alternating with
  chill, and dry heat, with full quick pulse.
  Neuralgia, returning precisely at
• the same hour each day.

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Chininum Sulph

• It is indicated in Ague from living in damp
  places Cinch. and has the same symptoms as
  under Cinchona, with these in addition The
  chills recur with clock-like regularity Aran.,
  usually at 3 A.M., with blue nails and pain in
  the the dorsal vertebrae.
• Periodical attacks of neuralgia, relieved by hard
  pressure.
  

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crotalus

• Malignant fevers of a hemorrhagic or putrescent
  character. High
• fever. Yellow fever, cerebrospinal meningitis.
  The plague. Black water fever.
• Low bilious remittents. Bloody sweat. Cold
  sweats.