Homeopathy For Small Pox

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What Is Small Pox?
Small pox is an acute, highly contagious and frequently fatal, viral illness caused by “variola virus”. Smallpox is also known by the Latin names Variola or Variola vera. It is a highly contagious disease unique to humans. It is caused by two virus variants called "Variola major" and "Variola minor". Variola major is the more deadly form, with a typical mortality of 20 - 40 percent of those infected. The other type, Variola minor only kills 1% of its victims. Many survivors are left blind in one or both eyes from corneal ulceration, and persistent skin scarring – pockmarks – is nearly universal.

What Causes Small Pox?

• Small pox is spread by the variola virus.

• Previously infected person can spread this infectious disease.

• Small pox spreads by droplet infection like face to face contact, cough, sneeze, talk, etc.

• Small pox also spreads using previously contaminated things like clothes, floors or utensils.

Spread and Incubation Period For Small Pox

• Small pox spreads by respiratory route or contact of lesion.

• Highly infectious (therefore asserted to have the potential to be used as “bio weapon")

• Incubation period is 7 to 17 days.

After Two days Small Pox Symptoms Develop As:

• A rash on the skin then develops such as macule, papule, vesicle, pustule or molluscum contagiosum.

• The whole eruptive phase of the illness usually begins on the mouth, face and arms, spreads to other body parts to the back and the chest

• Unlike chicken pox lesions which crop up in in one area and are at the same stage of development, with small pox there is no cropping.

Symptoms Of Small Pox

• Body ache and fatigue

• Chills

• Headache

• High-grade fever

• Influenza like symptoms at the early state

• Backache

• Pea like pustules

• Rash that starts as red spot from tongue to all-over body

• Prostration and fatigue

• Scabs

• Vomiting

Complications Of Small Pox

• Intravascular coagulation

• Toxemia

• Septic shock

Protection From Infection In A Small Pox Environment

• All contaminated instruments, surfaces, clothing, beddings should be properly decontaminated.

• Anyone entering must wear adequate droplet protection.

• Avoid contact with infected person

• Avoid touching rashes and blisters

• Complete isolation of infected person

• Do not use contaminated items.

• Protection with ventilation and engineering requirements since it is air borne.

• Monitored negative pressure room, that allows 6 to 7 air changes per hour.

• Room door must be closed except entering and exiting.

• Skin lesions must be kept clean and dry.

Homeopathic Remedies Used Historically For Smallpox

Homeopathy selection of remedy is based upon the theory of individualization and symptoms similarity by using a holistic approach. The aim of homeopathic care is to address small pox eruptions and address the underlying cause and the individual's susceptibility. The best matching remedy should be selected to address the symptoms.

• Aconite
  Sudden rise of temperature with high fever, hot face, hands and feet plus thirst and restlessness are the chief indications.

• Apis
  Much itching and swelling

• Anacardium
  Often becomes useful in loss of memory as a sequel of smallpox.

• Antimonium tartaricum
  This a nearer simillimum to smallpox than any other remedy. With this remedy vesication and pustulation are marked. The mucous membranes are involved and bronchitis or broncho-pnuemonia are apt to be present, with the characteristic cough and expectoration symptoms. There are excruciating pains in the loins. It is especially adaptable to cases characterized by gastric irritation. It cover the full variolous process and frequently covers the case from first to last.

• Arsenicum ablum
  Used where there is  weakness, a burning heat, restlessness and irregularly developed eruption, the pustules become flat, livid, dusky and hemorrhagic. Diarrhea is an attendant symptom.

• Baptisia
  Septic conditions. Treats Typhoid fever. Fetid breath. Stool offensive, thin, dark, bloody. Extreme tiredness. High fever with extreme bad odor of all discharges and secretions.

• Belladonna
  For the congestion, with the severe headache, backache and purplish face, a type often seen in young children. Belladonna is considered to be more homeopathic to the initial fever than Aconite.

• Bryonia
  is also a first stage remedy; it has nausea, vomiting, severe headache, high temperature. The eruption is slow in coming to the surface and all the symptoms are worse by motion.

• Carbolic acid
  Carbolic acid is a powerful antiseptic. The pains of carbolic acid come suddenly. They are burning are pricking, sticking. The urine is very dark, black or blackish olive-green, grass or olive-green. There is numbness and twitching. Putrid discharges are a marked indication. The skin is inflamed, and other symptoms appear, with burning, tingling, itching, and numbness.

• Cimicifuga
  For the intense backache and rheumatic pains. The body feels sore, the bed feels hard, the muscles feeling as though they had been pounded.

• Crotalus
  Indicated in skin affections like boils, carbuncles, pustular eruptions and post vaccination eruptions. Blood boils and eruptions are surrounded by purplish mottled skin and swelling. The blood is dark, fluid, decomposed and does not coagulate. Photophobia. There is a low state of vitality with tremendous weakness with red or purple skin eruptions and hemorrhage. The skin is yellow and the sweat stains linen red, due to the presence of blood in sweat.

• Gelsemium
  Used in the initial stage. Used for their aching in the back and limbs and the tight band headache of the disease are found under Gelsemium, and if dullness and apathy be present it is all the more indicated. The aching in the back and limbs and the tight band headache of the disease are found under Gelsemium, and if dullness and apathy are present it is all the more indicated.

• Hamamelis
  Found useful in the hemorrhagic variety of small pox.

• Hepar Sulphur
  Used for symptoms in small pox and used to treat colds, ear infections, sore throat, tonsillitis, cough, asthma and skin complaints with pus discharges.

• Hydrastis
  Hydrastis is also considered to be specific remedy for small pox.

• Lachesis
  Septic states. Purple discoloration to skin or eruptions. Prostration is profound in advanced stages of disease. Sensation of tension in various parts. Cannot bear anything tight anywhere especially the neck and abdomen. Better appearance of discharges, warm applications. Worse after sleep.

• Mercurius solubilis
  Used in the suppurative stage of small-pox. Flow of pus, and particularly bloody pus, from any orifice. Pus forms in cavities in abscesses, which burn and sting. Discharges are yellow-green in color.

• Rhus Tox
  Restlessness, headache, and it is a useful remedy at the beginning of vesicles forming, when the vesicles are small, and also when the pustules turn black from effusion. Diarrhea and dark bloody stools.

• Sarracenia purpurea
  This herb that is a homeopathic remedy that is also used in smallpox. In the 1800s, when smallpox still posed a serious threat, the Micmac native Americans of Nova Scotia treated the disease using a botanical infusion derived from the insectivorous plant Sarracenia purpurea is a species of pitcher plant. In vitro experiments with the herbal extract  found that it inhibits replication of the variola virus, the causative agent behind smallpox.

• Sulphur
  Sulphur is used as a preventive and curative. It belongs not only to the suppurative stage, but also to metastatic brain symptoms.

• Thuja
  This remedy is believed it to be one of the best curative and preventive agent in smallpox. It suits  the eruptive stage, with milky, flat, painful pustules upon a dark inflamed area. The pustulation is offensive. It quickly removes all dangerous symptoms, dries up the vesicles and prevents all scars.

• Vaccinum
  Has been extensively used and with much benefit for those with symptoms of small pox.

• Variolinum Nosode
  This nosode is made from small pox and can be both used for Homeoprophylaxis as well as the treatment of small pox.

• Veratrum viride
  may be called for in cases where the head is hot, and the extremities are cool and cyanotic; backache, fever and perspiration.

Cell Salts For Small Pox

• Calcarea sulph  - Pustules discharging matter.

• Ferrum phos - If the fever be high, alternately with Kali mur.

• Kali mur - This is the main cell salts because it works on the formation of pustules. Kali mur. is also considered to be prophylactic of the disease.

• Kali phos   - Putrid conditions, heavy odor, exhaustion and stupor.  Symptoms indicating blood-decomposition.

• Kali sulph - To promote the formation of healthy skin and the falling off of the crusts.

• Natrum mur - Salivary flow, confluence of pustules and drowsiness.

• Natrum phos - When the pustules become purulent.

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