TYPHOID FEVER


Dewey gives the common homeopathy remedies for the treatment of Typhoid Fever in an easy question-answer format. …


Give the indications of or ARsenicum in typhoid Fever.

Late in the disease when the patient is faint, weak and exhausted, with old sweat and delirium; the mouth and teeth are covered by sores, the mouth is full of ulcers,, there is Diarrhoea, stools dark and offensive, intense fever and thirst.

What are some of the characteristic indications of Baptisia in the disease?

Typhoid conditions. The patient mind warns; he is restless and disturbed; he cannot sleep, and he thinks he is double or scattered about and the must move to get his pieces together again;l there is great prostration;l the back and limbs ache, and the patient feels bruised and tired all over; he is weak and faint.

How does the face look?

It has a heavy besotted look, as if drunken;l the eyes are stupid and heavy.

What other symptoms would still further indicate Baptisia in Typhoid Fever? High temperature and pulse, tenderness in the ileocaecal region, yellow, offensive stools; patient may be in a stupor and fall sleep while answering questions brown, dark steak through the center of the tongue; all exhalations are offensive, sores on the teeth, fetid breath, offensive urine and sweat.

How would Gelsemium compare with Baptisia in Typhoid Fever?

1. Both have muscular soreness and prostration.

2. Both have drowsiness and nervous excitement.

3. Both have feeling of expansion’s if head and body were large.

4. Both have afternoon exacerbation of fever The difference is simply on of intensity, Gelsemium being milder.

How does Rhus tox. compare?

The restlessness in Rhus is to relieve pain, and the is irregular red tip of o the tongue, and the discharges are not so offensive as under Baptisia.

Give in brief the indications fro Bryonia in Typhoid FEver.

Soreness over the body;l tired feelings every exertion fatigues; he has a dread of all motion a splitting, agonizing, frontal headache, worse from motion;the face gets red towards of evening, nose-bleed in. the morning, preceded by a fullness in the head, the sleep is troubled and the patient dreams of business, and there is high fever; delirium; patient wants to go home.

What are the indications for Arnica in Typhoid FEver?

Indifference to everything; they do not know or care that they are sick; got to sleep in answering questions; hot head, cool body and a bruised feeling all over the body; complaints that the bed is too hard and tosses about to find a soft spot; involuntary stools and urine and petechiae all over the body; ecchymoses and bed sores petechiae all over the body; ecchymoses and bed sore;s later a condition of stupor in. which the lower jaw drops.

What of the use of Gelsemium in Typhoid FEvers?

Sore, bruised sensations all over the body; early-stages, dread of motion, drowsy, red face.

What are the indications for Muriatica acid on Typhoid Fever?

The tongue is dry and rattles in the mouth, there is a watery diarrhoea which is often involuntary while urination, the patient is so weak that the slides down towards the foot of the bed; the is dropping of the lower jaw and cold extremities, the heart is feeble, irregular and intermits every third heat, bedsores, etc.

When would Nitric acid be indicated in Typhoid Fever?

When the stools are green, offensive and slimy, with haemorrhage from the bowels; fainting from least movement; threatened paralysis of the lungs, rattling breathing and intermittent pulse.

When should we give Opium in Typhoid Fever?

When there is profound constitution resulting from cerebral paralysis, loud stertorus breathing, dropping of the lower jaw, hot swat-a bad omen-and high fever; sleepiness, with acute hearing, clocks striking and cocks crowing at a great distance keep patient awake.

What is brief are the symptoms that would indicate Rhus in Typhoid Fever?

Mild delirium, with desire to escape; great restlessness, with apparent relief from motion; answers questions slowly; frontal headache; dry, brown, cracked or red tongue, with triangular red tip yellowish, brown, cadaverous and sometimes involuntary diarrhoea; pains in the limbs and a tympanitic abdomen. Hydra on upper lip.

Give the typhoid symptoms of Kali phosphoricum.

There is a dry tongue, brown in color, foul and putrid Diarrhoea, great debility, low pulse, offensive breath, and sordes on the teeth; the is also great mental depression, delirium, etc.

Give symptoms indicting Carbo veg.

The vital forces seem exhausted;l the patient is almost pulseless; feet and legs below knees are cold; whether is present a dark brown, watery, horribly offensive stool.

Give symptoms calling for Lachesis.

Tongue trembles when protruded; catches on teeth; haemorrhages from any orifice of the body; dry and cracked lips; patient sensitive; dropping of lower jaw and involuntary discharges.

W.A. Dewey
Dewey, Willis A. (Willis Alonzo), 1858-1938.
Professor of Materia Medica in the University of Michigan Homeopathic Medical College. Member of American Institute of Homeopathy. In addition to his editoral work he authored or collaborated on: Boericke and Dewey's Twelve Tissue Remedies, Essentials of Homeopathic Materia Medica, Essentials of Homeopathic Therapeutics and Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics.