Introduction:
Fever indicates that there is any type of infection in the body. Normal
temperature of the body is 98.6 F or 36 degree centigrade. The
temperature of the body can be measured by putting thermometer in
mouth or armpit. But there is a difference of one degree F between the
temperature of both portions viz mouth and armpit.
Causes:
Simple fever:
1. Camphor: If fever comes along with chillness and the patient suffers
from these symptoms in the early stage of fever as sensation of fever
or coryza, watery nose and aggravation of the symptoms of fever by
doing a little labour, the patient should take one drop Mother Tincture
of the medicine Camphor thrice a day.
10. Lyco: If the woman suffers from fever in the evening from 4 to 8 ‘o’
clock, the medicine Lyco can be given to her.
11. Bryonia: If fever comes again and again after disappearing once,
the patient should take Bryonia 30 for relief. This medicine is also
useful in typhoid too.
This fever rises and subsides like typhoid and the patient does not get
well soon. He feels slight cold but fever comes with shivering. The
patient of remittent fever suffers from such symptoms as sensation of
heat in the body, dry skin, restlessness, thirst, dry and white tongue,
quick pulse, panting, red and scanty urine, pain in the waist and back,
sometimes constipation and sometimes watery loose motions,
headache, no desire to food and the patient sometimes feels cold and
sometimes hot.
11. Carbo Veg: If the patient suffers from such symptoms as loss of
vitality, cold body, cold sweating, excessive weakness in the body,
panting, desire for fanning, congestion of blood in the veins of the
body, blue body and yellow face, the patient should take Carb Veg 30.
13. Aconite: If the patient suffers from such symptoms as quick pulse,
hot and dry body, now hot and now cold, sneezing again and again,
feeling restlessness, severe headache, quick breathing, aggravation of
the symptoms at the night, light delirium, throbbing of throat veins,
excessive thirst and the patient thinks that he will die soon. The patient
should take Aconite 3x. Its use cures the disease. Its use should be
stopped as the body of the patient starts perspiration.
14. Veratrum Viride: In the symptoms as heavy, hard and quick pulse,
yellow tongue with red line at the center, fast shivering, vertigo,
headache, excessive body weakness and retching. The patient should
take Veratrum Viride 1x to get relief.
15. Ferrum Phos: If the patient suffers from weak pulsation along with
cough but he has not been suffering from high fever, he should take
Ferrum Phos 3 x, 6x or 12x.
17. Intermittent fever: This fever is treated like malaria and it comes
again on 2nd, 3rd or 7th day. It is called malaria because there is gap
in this fever so it is called intermittent fever. The patient suffers from
these symptoms in this fever as sensation of cold, hot body, sweating
from the body and sensation of thirst.
8. Carbo Veg: For the treatment of old malaria the patient should take
Carbo Veg 30. If the body of the patient becomes cold like ice, he can
take this medicine to get relief.
10. Nux Vomica: In these conditions as warm body along with the
sensation of cold and sweating; the patient has to cover a blanket
because of cold; he does not want to cover the blanket but he has to
cover it, trembling as the blanket is uncovered, sensation of
inflammation in the body like burning fire but the patient can not
remove the blanket because he shivers as blanket is uncovered, the
use of Nux Vomica 30 provides a lot of relief.
Puerperal fever:
This fever comes because of the lack of cleanliness after delivery. This
fever does not occur because of the suppression the dirty water but it
occurs because of the filling of milk in the breast. In this condition,
Aconite and other temporary medicines can be taken to get relief. If
puerperal fever comes because of septic fever, the patient will have to
take such medicines as Sulphur, Lycopidium, Ferrum Met and Pulstilla
for a long time.
2. Pyrogen: When puerperal fever changes into septic fever and the
patient suffers from shivering in the whole body along with the
sensation of cold and both symptoms appear again and again, no ratio
between the pulse of nerve and body temperature, the patient should
take Pyrogen 200.
5. Cali Carb: For the treatment of tuberculosis, the patient should take
Cali Carb 30. This medicine is very beneficial especially for the
patients who have been suffering from tuberculosis after pleurisy and
the sensation of pinching pain in the chest. This medicine is useful for
those persons who suffer from ulcer in the lungs. Such patients may
become healthy hardly without using this medicine. The spit of such
patient is in round shaped and he suffers from such symptoms as
aggravation of the disease at 3 am, sensation of great trouble if soles
are touched, hoarseness, swelling on the eyelids especially on the
upper side and weakening of the chest. The use of the medicine Cali
Carb is very beneficial in these symptoms.
6. Aesetic Acid: If the patient suffers from sweating from the whole
body at night, the patient should take Aesetic 3 to 30 to get relief. The
disease disappears by taking this medicine
Catarrhal fever:
In the early stage of this disease when the patient suffers from such
symptoms as slight hot body and watery eyes and nose, he should
take a little Camphor with water. Its use provides a lot of relief.
Symptoms:
The viruses of this fever hide in the internal portions of the body till one
week and after that they appear in the form of remittent fever which
lasts till 2-3 weeks. Fever stays till 2-4 days and the patient gets well.
After that, fever comes again and stays for 5-7 months in the form of
remittent fever. The patient of this disease suffers from such symptoms
as constipation, pain in the ligament and bones, pain in the joints of the
bones. Sometimes, this disease does not disappear for several years.
The patient of this disease should keep always separate. The faeces
and urine should be removed carefully. The patient should take bath
with lukewarm water. If temperature rises to 105 degree, the body of
the patient should mop with cold water. Goat milk should not be given
to the patient to drink.
1. Bryonia: In the first stage of Malta fever, the patient should take
Bryonia 3x or 30.
2. Baptisia: The patient of Malta fever should take Baptisia 3x or 6 for
getting relief.
3. Arsenic:
The patient can take Arsenic 3x or 6 to get relief.
Several medicines can be used for the treatment of Malta fever. Such
medicines are as Ferrum Phos 3x, Siyonathus1x, Natrum Muriaticum
30, Merc 30, Ars Iod 3x, Phosphorus 3, Sepia 30, Lyco 6-30,
Cimicifuga 3x and Rhus Tox 3 or 30.