Erysipelas - St Anthony's fire :
-JAHR Georg Heinrich Gottlieb
Diseases & Homeopathy Therapeutics of Skin
Description of disease:
A superficial shining redness, and inflammation of the skin, which disappears under pressure of the finger, but returns as soon as the pressure is removed. There is generally fever, and a burning heat and tingling rather than acute pain. It frequently follows injuries; blisters often form on the inflamed surface (vesicular erysipelas), and it sometimes assumes a severe and dangerous form.
The more common exciting causes of erysipelas are debility and loss of resisting power from disease, abuse of stimulants, violent emotions of the mind, undue exposure to cold, disordered stomach, wounds, etc.
Simple erysipelas:
Medicinal treatment:
Aconitum napellus
If there is considerable fever, with hot dry skin.
Dose. -One drop in a dessertspoonful of water every two hours, or alternately with Belladonna with the same interval between the doses. -A teaspoonful may be given to a child.
Belladonna
Is the specific remedy in this form of erysipelas.
Dose. -As Aconitum.
Veratrum viride
In simple or vesicular erysipelas.
Dose. -As Aconitum.
Accessory treatment
Flour, starch, or plain hair-powder may be dusted over the part; a lotion of Veratrum Viride (half a teaspoonful in a tumblerful of water) may be applied on lint; all other outward applications should be avoided, and great care must be taken to prevent catching cold. The diet should at first be simple and unstimulating, chiefly consisting of farinaceous or vegetable food, with barley-water or toast-water, and in some cases a little beef, mutton, or chicken broth.
Vesicular erysipelas
Medicinal treatment :
Belladonna
If there is much fever, or before the use of Apis or Rhus.
Dose. -Two drops in a dessertspoonful of water every two to four hours.
Rhus toxicodendron
Is a specific remedy in this form of erysipelas.
Dose. -As Belladonna, or take in alternation with it.
Apis mellifica
Should puffy swelling (oedema) become prominent, or should small watery pustules (phlyctenae) form in abundance and the skin be purplish.
Dose. -As Belladonna, or in alternation with it.
Arsenicum album
In dangerous cases, where there is a tendency to gangrene.
Dose. -Two drops in a dessertspoonful of water every three or four hours.
Veratrum viride
See under Simple Erysipelas.
Accessory treatment
See under Simple Erysipelas.
Diseases & Homeopathy Therapeutics of Skin
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A superficial shining redness, and inflammation of the skin, which disappears under pressure of the finger, but returns as soon as the pressure is removed. There is generally fever, and a burning heat and tingling rather than acute pain. It frequently follows injuries; blisters often form on the inflamed surface (vesicular erysipelas), and it sometimes assumes a severe and dangerous form.
The more common exciting causes of erysipelas are debility and loss of resisting power from disease, abuse of stimulants, violent emotions of the mind, undue exposure to cold, disordered stomach, wounds, etc.
Simple erysipelas:
Medicinal treatment:
Aconitum napellus
If there is considerable fever, with hot dry skin.
Dose. -One drop in a dessertspoonful of water every two hours, or alternately with Belladonna with the same interval between the doses. -A teaspoonful may be given to a child.
Belladonna
Is the specific remedy in this form of erysipelas.
Dose. -As Aconitum.
Veratrum viride
In simple or vesicular erysipelas.
Dose. -As Aconitum.
Flour, starch, or plain hair-powder may be dusted over the part; a lotion of Veratrum Viride (half a teaspoonful in a tumblerful of water) may be applied on lint; all other outward applications should be avoided, and great care must be taken to prevent catching cold. The diet should at first be simple and unstimulating, chiefly consisting of farinaceous or vegetable food, with barley-water or toast-water, and in some cases a little beef, mutton, or chicken broth.
Vesicular erysipelas
Medicinal treatment :
Belladonna
If there is much fever, or before the use of Apis or Rhus.
Dose. -Two drops in a dessertspoonful of water every two to four hours.
Rhus toxicodendron
Is a specific remedy in this form of erysipelas.
Dose. -As Belladonna, or take in alternation with it.
Apis mellifica
Should puffy swelling (oedema) become prominent, or should small watery pustules (phlyctenae) form in abundance and the skin be purplish.
Dose. -As Belladonna, or in alternation with it.
Arsenicum album
In dangerous cases, where there is a tendency to gangrene.
Dose. -Two drops in a dessertspoonful of water every three or four hours.
Veratrum viride
See under Simple Erysipelas.
Accessory treatment
See under Simple Erysipelas.
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