FEVER

Fever

Introduction:

When temperature of the body rises, it is called fever. Fever comes due to the inflammation in any portion of the body or by mixing poison in the blood. Fever that comes again after one time is called intermittent fever. The fever, which sustains all the time and temperature does not come down, is called remittent or continuous fever. The fever which rises again after coming down once is called half or sub-remittent fever. 

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:

• Excessive labour, at the time of menstrual excretion or loss of foetus, high temperature, bacteria and infection in the body due to virus or fungus are the causes of fever. Fever comes also because of several diseases as cancer, rheumatis (aamvat), increasing of hormones, and diseases of thyroid, sun strokes and injury.
• Symptoms of fever:
• Headache
• Sensation of weakness in the body
• Pain in the muscles
• Lumbago pain
• Feeling cold and stiffness
• Sensation of faintness or sometimes becoming unconsciousness
• Delirium
• Appearance of pimples on the skin
• Sweating
• What should be done and what not during fever:
• The patient of fever should avoid by doing mental or physical labour.
• Use liquid food stuffs to avoid from dehydration.
• The patient should take mixed heap (khichri) or pulse of lentil.
• The patient should not take carbonic drinks, cold juices and fruits as cucumber (kakri-khira), bananas, etc.
• Cotton piece should be kept on the forehead by immersing in water.
• Wrap the whole body in immersed cotton cloth piece if temperature of the body is high.
• The patient of fever should take light and nutrient food as vegetable juice or soup.  

There are five types of fever as-

Simple fever:

This fever comes due to cold, fear, stomach derangement, by wetting in the water for a long time, constipation, by walking in sun, by overeating and by doing hard labour for a long time.

Treatment of simple fever by different medicines:

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.

2. Ipecac: The patient of fever should take Ipecac 30 at the regular intervals of 3 hours. The patient gets a lot of relief by taking this medicine. Regular cases of fever also end by its use.

3. Aconite: Aconite 3-6 should be used for the treatment of simple fever. If the patient has such types of symptoms as rising temperature due to the sensation of chillness, sensation of thirst and dry heat and when the patient gets no relief by taking the medicine Camphor, he should take Aconite to get relief. Temperature comes down by its use if the cause of fever is fear or any other disease. The patient of fever should take Aconite if fever comes because of cold and he suffers from catarrh and cold. This medicine is useful only in the early stage of fever. This medicine can be used again and again.

4. Belladonna: If the patient suffers from such symptoms as red eyes, intense headache, excessive inflammation in the body and loss of thirst along with fever and fever all of sudden after chillness, he should take Belladonna 6-30. Its use provides a lot of relief.

5. Glonoine: If fever comes because of sunstrokes and the patient suffers from severe pain, he should take Glonoine 30.

6. Ferrum Phos: If the patient has no symptom of fever, this biochemical medicine should be given to the patient at the regular intervals of 2-3 hours. Take this medicine until fever subsides completely.

7. Rhus Tox: If a person becomes the victim of fever after wetting in water, the use of Rhus Tox 30 provides a lot of relief. The medicine Dulcamara also can be used for the treatment of fever. If the patient suffers from puzzling cough before many hour of sensation of cold and feels cold until fever remains present, the use of Rhus Tox proves beneficial.

8. Nux Vomica: If the cause of fever is constipation, the use of Nux Vomica 30 provides a lot of relief. This medicine is cold natured but it is used in that condition when the patient feels cold and heat alternately.

9. Lueticum: If a child suffers from fever continuously and it becomes clear that the mother of the child has become the victim of abortion 3-4 times; there is an ulcer in the neck of uterus; she suffers from hard discharge and fever in the evening from 4 pm to 8 pm, the use of Lueticum 1m or 10 m provides a lot of relief to the patient.

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.

Remittent fever or continuous fever:

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.

This disease takes birth due to several causes as changing of weather, wearing wet clothes, excessive mental or physical labour, excessive cold or heat, lack of cleanliness of the body, injury, constipation and night vigil.
The patient should take arrow root, sago, puffed paddy and cold water until fever subsides. Meals should be taken after 3-4 days after getting well.
Treatment of remittent fever with different medicines:

1. Pyrogen: If the medicine Cloromicitin does not provide relief, the patient should take Pyrogen 200.

2. Belladonna: If the patient of remittent fever suffers from such types of symptoms as inflammation on the forehead and in throat pipes, feeling slight cold, excessive inflammation in the body, no sweating or slight sweating on the covered organs, red eyes, insomnia, thirst, delirium, dry mouth and lips, the use of  Belladonna 3-30 is very beneficial. It is a very useful medicine to the fat persons.

3. Gelsimium: If the symptoms are as chorea in the hands, feet and tongue due to weakness, closing of the eyes, blurred eyesight, weakening of the nerve and scanty thirst or lack of thirst, the patient should take Gelsimium 1x to get relief.

4. Baptisia: The use of lower potencies of the medicine Baptisa proves very beneficial from the very beginning to the final stage of illness. There is no need to take another medicine in this case. The symptoms of the patient are as straining of the stomach; the patient answers in one or two words only and sleeps soon; he thinks that he is not one but two and his body organs are here and there and he tries to collect his body organs. Such patient should take mother tincture of Baptisia 12.

5. Bryonia: Typhoid fever shows its impact gradually. The patient suffers from such symptoms as constipation, excessive thirst, sensation of heavy head, and pain in the veins of throat, forehead, neck, hand and feet, aggravation in pain by the movement, difficulty in breathing, dry cough, itching in the anus, yellow tongue, pain in the liver, drinking excessive water and standing quietly. Such patients should take Bryonia 3, 6, 12, or 30. Its use provides a lot of relief. The patient suffers from home sickness and says to go to home.

6. Rhus-Tox: If the patient suffers from such symptoms in the early stage of disease as dilute loose motions, restlessness and getting relief by changing sides on the bed, the use of the medicine Rhus Tox provides a lot of relief.

7. Eupatorium Perf: If the patient suffers from these symptoms as headache, retching or vomiting of bile, vomiting after drinking water, vomiting after shivering and pain in the whole body, the use of Eupatorium Perf 3 is very beneficial.

8. Typhodinum: If someone is suspected that he is about to become the victim of typhoid, he should take typhodinum 200. The disease does not aggravate by taking this medicine.

9. Arnica: The patient says that he is healthy though he is serious; he lives in stupor and if he is called, he returns in the previous stage again after answering; he asks to the doctor why he has come here and orders to go; stinking breath; foul smell from the faeces; sensation of hard bed and the patient can lie on one side for a little moment; urination and evacuation of faeces involuntarily. Such patients should take Arnica 30 for treatment.

10. Arsenic: The patient suffers from such symptoms as loss of strength in the body, sensation of exhaustion, panting by a little movement, restlessness, moving of the body organs constantly, no relief in any condition, dry mouth and tongue, drinking water in several draughts and he thinks that there is no hope of life. Such patients should take Arsenic 30 to get relief.

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.

12. Phosphoric acid:Phosphoric Acid 1 is used for the treatment of typhoid. The patient suffers from these symptoms as loss of physical and mental power, increasing weakness in the body gradually and the patient lives in drowsiness but lack of sleeping and when he is called, he becomes alert. The use of the medicine phosphoric acid is very useful in such symptoms. Besides these the patient suffers from these symptoms as flatulence, lack of luster in the eyes, staring constantly and it seems that the patient is trying to understand the condition, dry and brown tongue, black lips and bleeding from the gums. The medicine Phosphoric Acid provides a lot of relief in these symptoms.

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.

16. Siena: If the reason of remittent fever is stomach worms, the medicine Siena 2x or 200 should be given to the patient.

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.

Treatment of intermittent or malaria fever by different medicines:

1. Chininum Sulph: This medicine is also known by the name of Quinine. The father of homeopathy proved this medicine on himself.  Quinine is prepared by the medicine Cinchona. Malaria symptoms appeared on the body by taking this medicine. This is the reason of the origin of Homeopathy. Malarial symptoms appear on the healthy body by using the medicine Quinine so it can cure malaria too. In this way, allopath accepted Quinine on the base of homeopathy. It is a main drug in homeopathy too. If the patient suffers from these symptoms as sensation of cold, warm body, sweating, the patient should take the medicine Chininum Sulph 1x to 3x.  Allopath uses it but its higher potencies which can be harmful to the patient. The patient can suffer from otorrhoea by its higher potencies whereas lower potencies are used in Homeopathy.

2. China: If the patient of this disease suffers from these symptoms as warm body along with the sensation of cold, thirst before the sensation of cold, no thirst while feeling cold and rising temperature, great desire for thirst while sweating, sensation of weakness after sweating, the use of the medicine China 30 to 200 provides a lot of relief. Fever does not come at night. Fever can occur on the 7th and 14th day.

3. Arsenic: The condition of cold and temperature does not reach at the climax or the patient suffers from these symptoms as either increasing cold or temperature or reducing one condition of both, no thirst while feeling cold, drinking water in several draughts during temperature, great desire to drink water while sweating, rising of the temperature at night from 12.00-1.00 o’ clock and restlessness. In all these symptoms of malaria or any fever, the patient should take Arsenic 30 to get relief.

4. Ipecac: If the patient of fever has no special symptom, he should take Ipecac 30 in this condition. For the treatment of malaria, the patient should take the medicine named Ipecac first of all. This medicine can be taken if the patient suffers retching while feeling cold or heat.

5. Sidrun: If fever comes on definite time regularly, the patient should take Sidrun 3.

6. Natrum Muriaticum: If fever comes on 10 to 11 am and the patient suffers from these symptoms as watery blisters on the lips, the patient should take Natrum Muriaticum 200. This medicine can be taken for the treatment of old malaria. This medicine should be taken if the malaria fever has been suppressed and the patient suffers from several symptoms. It can be happen that suppressed fever may return but it will not come again by taking this medicine or it will end fully after coming.

7. Lycopidium: If malaria or other fever comes at 4 to 8 o clock in the evening, the patient should take Lycopidium 30 to 200. He gets a lot of relief by taking this medicine.

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.

9. Sulphur: If the patient of fever gets no relief by the use of several medicines, he should take Sulphur 30 or 200 to get relief. It is useful for the treatment of chronic and new malaria.

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.

11. Eupatorium Perf: The patient should take Eupatorium Perf if he suffers from intense pain in the body.

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.

Treatment of puerperal fever by different medicines:

1. Sulphur: If the patient of puerperal fever suffers from these symptoms as inflammation in the feet, sensation of emptiness in the stomach at 11 o clock, sensation of hunger, feeling excessive trouble at night, hot streams from the body and alternate waves of heat, the patient gets a lot of relief by taking Sulphur 30 because it is the best medicine for the treatment of puerperal septic fever. If the woman suffers from puerperal fever after operation and warm waves from the body, the use of this medicine provides a lot of relief.

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.

3. Lycopidium: If the patient of puerperal fever suffers from these symptoms as hot sweating from the body, trembling due to feeling cold and other symptoms of puerperal fever, Lycopidium 30 should be given to the woman for relief.  Medicines as Pyrogen, Lycopidium and Sulphur can be given to the patient for the treatment of this fever.

4. Ferrum met: If the patient of puerperal fever suffers from these symptoms as blue and red face, sensation of thirst while feeling cold and no thirst on the very next moment, flushed face while feeling cold and sweating in the whole body, Ferrum Met 1x, 2x or 6 should be taken. The patient who suffers from these symptoms should not take other medicines.  If the woman is very weak, she should take lower potencies of this medicine.

5. Pulstilla: If the patient of puerperal fever suffers from these symptoms as one portion of the body hot and other cold, weeping all of sudden, constant flow of the tears from the eyes, weakness in the nervous system and restlessness along with the excitement, she should take Pulstilla 30. Such patient suffers from excessive sweating from one side and no sweating from the other and one side hot and another cold.

Hectic fever (habitual or pthisis):

The patients of tuberculosis suffer from hectic fever.

Treatment of hectic fever by different medicines:

1. Phosphorus: The patient of this disease feels weakness and emptiness in the chest and the mind of the patient grows more quickly than body. The patient of tuberculosis should take Phosphorus 30 for the treatment of tuberclosis. This medicine is useful only in the early stage of this disease. When this disease aggravates, neither lower nor higher potencies should be taken. Both potencies may be harmful for the patient. Such patient should take only Phosphorus 30 to 200 neither lower nor higher potencies. Besides it, the dose of this medicine should not be repeated.

2. Silishia: Silishia 30 should be taken in the chronic stage of tuberculosis. This medicine controls the origin of pus in the lungs and the disease does not aggravate. There is no other medicine except Silishia for the treatment of this disease. But the patient should possess such symptoms. The patient of tuberculosis feels unhappy in cold and humid air. He gets slight relief in dry air.

3. Pulstilla: The patient of tuberculosis throws thick phlegm in yellow and green colour and he suffers from such symptoms as fever in the evening, no thirst, sweating in the armpit, sore and pressure in the chest, anemia and sour spit.  The patient seems healthy but his body is yellow. The use of Pulstilla 30 provides a lot of relief in these symptoms.

4. Sepia: If the patient of tuberculosis suffers from such symptoms as emptiness in the stomach and pain in the left side lung, the patient should take Sepia 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:

The patient of catarrhal fever suffers from such symptoms as secretion like phlegm from the eyes and nose, pain along with torsion in the body, sensation of dripping along with headache, watery eyes, sneezing, heaviness in the head, vomiting, retching, constipation, yawning, sensation of heavy eyes and mouth, red eyes, hoarseness, coughing and pain in the chest. Becoming wet with water is the cause of this fever. The patietn should avoid from such kinds of symptoms as hot stomach, stopping of sweat from the body suddenly, going from hot to cold place all of sudden and eating such things which create phlegm as curd and sour.

Oil should be massaged if the patient suffers from these symptoms as sensation of no cold, covering the body all the time and choked nose. The patient should take puffed rice, vegetables and barley and other light things.

Treatment of catarrhal fever by different medicines:

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.

1. Aconite: If the patient suffers from these symptoms as sneezing, rising of the temperature, watery eyes and nose, restlessness and sensation of thirst, the patient should take Aconite 3x or 6. The disease disappears by its use.
2. Alium Sipa: If the symptoms are as watery eyes and nose, hoarseness, titillation in the throat, excessive urination again and again, pain in the hands and feet and aggravation of disease in hot room, the patient should take Alium Sipa 3x to get relief.
3. Nux Vomica: If the patient suffers from constipation and blocked nose, the patient should take Nux Vomica 6 or 30.
4. Ipecac: If the patient suffers from vomiting or retching, he can take Ipecac 3x.
5. Arsenic: If the water which creates inflammation flows from the nose of the patient, he should take Arsenic 6.
6. Belladonna: If the patient of cold Catarrhal fever suffers from these symptoms as red eyes, insomnia, headache and other symptoms, he should take the medicine Belladonna 6.
7. Bryonia: If the patient suffers from these symptoms as pain in the chest, heaviness in the head, backache and constipation, the patient should take Bryonia 6.
8. Pulsatilla: The patient should take Pulstilla after getting well from the disease named catarrhal fever. The disease ends by root by taking this medicine. In this disease, the medicines Nux Vomica 3 and Rhus Tox 6 are beneficial.
Malta fever: This disease is found in India, Philippines and near about the districts of Mediterranean Sea. But it prevails mostly in Malta Island. So, it is called Malta fever. This disease originates by the virus named Micrococcus Melitensis. Its viruses enter into the body by drinking the milk of goat and this disease develops.

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.

Treatment of Malta fever by different medicines:

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.