Intermittent Diseases
- It is important to look at diseases that come and go (Intermittent) as well as when one disease alternates with another (Alternate).
- The alternating diseases are chronic diseases produced by psora, or less often, a complicated syphilitic miasm, and should be treated miasmatically.
- Intermittent diseases, febrile and nonfebrile, return at fairly definite intervals.
- The apparently nonfebrile intermittent diseases are always chronic and purely psoric, but may also need to be treated with Cinchona to extinguish the periodicity.
- Intermittent fevers often have two or three opposite alternating states; hot, cold, and sweat, which should be treated as homoeopathically as possible and the chief guide to the remedy is the symptoms when the patient is free from fever.
- 236 The remedy should be administered immediately or, very soon after the attack, when the patient has un to recover. Giving the remedy immediately before attack can have serious effects.
- If the interval between attacks is very short, or distorted by traces of the previous attack, the remedy must be given when the sweating begins to abate.
- Frequently a single dose will not cure and it will be necessary to repeat the remedy, which may need to be succussed; also the effect of the environment must be taken into consideration if the disease recurs.
- Almost every medicine produces a fever, therefore a homeopathic remedy can be found for all the different types of fever occurring naturally.
- If the fever resists treatment, a psoric miasm is in the background and must be treated accordingly.
- Each individual epidemic has its own consistent nature that guides us to a single remedy for all, unless they are chronic sufferers from psora.
- If the fever is not treated effectively, any underlying psoric miasm may take on the appearance of the intermittent fever and need to be treated with Sulph. or Hepar Sulph. in high potency.
- In very serious fevers an acute remedy will not suffice and an anti-psoric remedy must be administered.
- One or two doses of highly potentised Cinchona can act as a prophylactic for people with a healthy lifestyle exposed to marshy regions, however, if this is not successful they must be treated anti-psorically or leave the marsh lands.
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