Infectious Diseases

Cholera

Sulphur is the best preventative treatment during a cholera epidemic.  Sulphur 200 every day for two days and then twice a week saves one from contracting cholera. As soon as the symptoms of cholera appear, Camphor in a low potency can cure cholera altogether. Once the symptoms have started, especially the silent type of cholera, associated with large exuberant watery stools, causing severe dehydration and weakness leading to coldness of the body, can best be treated with Camphor. The most prominent indication for Camphor is nausea and vomiting, more so than diarrhoea.

Cuprum is also an extremely effective treatment of cholera especially the kind associated with severe abdominal colic and severe cramps in the hands and the feet, starting in the fingers and toes and then spreads
upwards. This type of cholera is best treated with Cuprum. In the diarrhoea of Cuprum, the stools are scanty, frequent and associated with severe griping. The cholera associated with exuberant amounts of stools and severe cramps in the calves will respond best to Veratrum Album. The following remedies may also be of use:

Aethusa                      Podophyllum
Arsenicum Album      Secale Cor
Carbo Veg


Abdominal Colic in Intestinal Infections

This may be associated with the tendency of nausea and vomiting due to cholera or any other illness. It should be treated with the combination of Croton 30, Ipecac 30, Carbo Veg 30, Baptisia 30. Nausea and vomiting that get better with drinking cold water is indicative of Cuprum. Cuprum is also effective in the treatment of mumps. Similarly, Cuprum is useful in the treatment of paralysis of a limb caused by typhoid fever. The other possible remedies are:-

Antimonium Crudum                Dioscorea
Argentum Nitricum                   Iris
Arsenicum Album                     Nux Vomica
Colchicum                                 Pulsatilla
Colocynthis                               Sulphur

Malaria

Please refer to the detailed accounts of malaria under the chapters of
the following remedies. The reader may be directed to some other
related remedies and symptoms under the same chapters:

Aconite                                          Ipecacuanha
Arnica                                            Natrum Mur
Arsenic                                          Natrum Sulph
Bryonia                                         Nux Vomica
Cedron                                          Psorinum
China                                             Pulsatilla
Chininum Ars                                 Rhus Tox
Eupatorium                                    Tarentula
Gelsemium                                     Tuberculinum

A careful study of these homoeopathic remedies will, God-willing, enable the reader to control malaria fairly well.

Chicken Pox and Measles

By the time chicken pox or measles become visible, they may have already done enough harm to the body. Silicea, Kali Phos and Ferrum Phos help manifest the symptoms onto the skin. Allium Cepa as well as Arsenic and Psorinum may also be useful, depending upon the situation i.e. symptoms and signs of the sickness. Necessary reference has also been made under the following:

Antimonium Crudum                   Malandrinum
Antimonium Tart                            Merc Sol
Apis                                                 Pulsatilla
Calcarea Phos                                  Sulphur
Euphrasia                                        Variolinum
Kali Bichrom

Whooping Cough
In whooping cough, commonly used remedies are Drosera, Allium Cepa and Arnica. Other useful remedies are:

Belladonna                               Ipecacuanha
Coccus Cacti                           Kali Carb
Cuprum Metallicum                 Senega
Hydrocyanic Acid                    Tarentula

Influenza
Sulphur and Pyrogenium have been found very useful in the treatment of influenza fever. Besides them, Influenzinum, Bacillinum, Diphtherinum, Oscillo Coccinum, Kali Phos, Ferrum Phos, Kali Mur, Silicea and Calcarea Fluor should also be studied.

Arsenicum Album                         Eupatorium
Bryonia                                          Gelsemium
Carbo Veg                                    Natrum Sulph
Dulcamara                                   Rhus Tox

Dysentery
Commonly used remedies are: Ipecac, Aconite, Kurchi, Dioscorea and Colocynthis. More has been mentioned under the following headings:

Aloe                                                Gelsemium
Arnica                                             Mag Carb
Arsenic Album                              Merc Cor
Bufo                                               Merc Sol
Cantharis                                      Nux Vomica
Capsicum                                      Phosphorus
Carbo Veg                                     Rhus Tox
Carbolic Acid                                 Sulphur
Colchicum
 
Plague
During an epidemic, when Mercury and Sulphur compounds are used, the disease will surface to the skin, sparing the glands and thus curing the plague. The following may also be found useful:

Arsenicum Album                                  Naja
Belladonna                                           Phosphorus
Crotalus Horridus                                Pyrogenium
Hydrocyanic Acid                                 Rhus Tox
Ignatia                                            Tarentula Hispania
Lachesis

AIDS

In AIDS, Silicea CM, Psorinum, Syphilinum and Pyrogenium prove to be very beneficial.

Meningitis
In addition to Natrum Sulph, Gelsemium, Silicea and Apis, the following should also be studied:

Aconitum                               Glonoine
Belladonna                            Helleborus
Bryonia                                  Hyoscyamus
Calcarea Carb                          Mercurius
Cicuta Virosa                          Nux Vomica
Crotalus Horridus                         Opium
Cuprum Metallicum                       Zincum