Pyrogen

COMMON NAME:

      SEPSIN.

Symptoms

      This remedy is employed in typhoid and septic conditions when the well-selected remedy fails to relieve (B.)

Diseases originating in ptomaine or sewer gas infection (N.).

Septic conditions following abortions and confinements, when the lochia is thin, acrid, and very foetid, or suppressed (BI)

Chronic complaints that date back to septic conditions (Br.)

Puerperal peritonitis (Apis., Belladonna) (Br.).

RAPID DECUBITUS (Arsenicum, Carb-Ac., Lachesis, Secale) (A.).

Post-operative cases, with overwhelming sepsis (Br.)

Great restlessness; must move constantly (Arsenicum, Phosphorus) (A.).

The bed feels hard, parts lain on sore and bruised, must move to relieve the soreness (Arnica, Baptisia) (N.).,

Skin pale, cold, of an ashy hue (Secale) (A.)

BONE PAINS (Eup-P., Ipec,) (B.)

Loquacious (Belladonna, Hyoscyamus, Lachesis, Stramonium) (B.)

Excited (Belladonna, Stramonium) (B.)

Sense of duality (Anacardium, Petroleum) (B.)

Hallucination (Hyos) (B.).

Vomits water, when it becomes warm in the stomach (Chlf., Phosphorus) (Br.).

Full of anxiety and insane notions (Br.)

Thinks he is very wealthy (Belladonna, Cannabis indica, Sulphur, Veratrum) (Br.).

Tongue; Large, flabby, clean, smooth as if varnished; fiery red, cracked; difficult articulation (N.),

Taste: Sweetish, terribly foetid, pus-like (A.).

Breath horribly offensive (Baptisia, Mercurius, Sulph,.) (A.).

ALL THE DISCHARGES ARE HORRIBLY OFFENSIVE (Baptisia, Carb-Ac., Nit- Ac., Psorinum, Sulphur) (Br.)

Vomiting; Persistent, brownish, coffee-ground like, offensive, stercoraceous (N.).

Vomiting with impacted or obstructed bowels (Opium, Plb.) (A.).

Constipation with complete inertia (Bryonia, Opium, Sanicula, Silicea) (A.)

STOOL: LARGE, BLACK, CARRION-LIKE; SMALL BLACK BALLS, LIKE OLIVES (A.).

Diarrhoea: Horribly offensive, brown of black (Arsenicum, Kali-P., Lachesis) painless, involuntary (Kali-P., Podophyllum, Sulphur) (N.).

Fever each menstrual period consequent upon that pelvic inflammation (Br.).

Puls abnormally rapid, out of all proportion to temperature (Lil- T.) (A.).

Coldness and numbness of hands and feet, of arms and legs (A.).

DISTINCT CONSCIOUSNESS OF A HEART; IT FEELS TIRED, AS IF ENLARGED; PURRING, THROBBING, PULSATING, CONSTANT IN EARS, PREVENTING SLEEP (N.)

Chronic malaria (Arsenicum, Ipecac., Natrum muriaticum) (Br.)

Aching in the limbs, or over the entire body as from a severe cold (A.)

Chill begins in the back between the scapulae (Caps., Eup-P., Polyp.) (A.)

Frequent urging to urinate as soon as fever came on; urine profuse and clear as spring water; could tell when fever was coming on from frequent calls to urinate (A.).

Chilly as soon as he touches the cold sheets (Aranea) (A.)

Circumscribed redness of the cheeks during the hot stage (A.)

Quickly oscillating temperature (B.)

Cold sweat over the entire body (Camph.) (A.)

Sweat without relief (Belladonna, Mercurius) (B.)

Menses; Horribly offensive. carrion-like, a rotten odour; last but a day; then a bloody leucorrhoea of the same horrible odour (A.)

Seems to be in semi-sleep; dreams all night (Br.)

Suppression of lochia, followed by chills, fever and profuse, foetid perspiration (Secale) (A.)

Sapraemia or septicaemia (Arnica, Bryonia, China, Hyoscyamus, Kali-P., Lachesis, Lycopodium, Opium, Phosphorus, Rhus toxicodendron) (A.)

After effects of miscarriage (China, Secale) (Br.)

Foetus or secundines retained, decomposed; dead for days; black, horribly offensive discharge (A.)

Cardiac asthenia from septic conditions (Arsenicum, Kali-P., Lachesis, Phosphorus, Secale) (A.)

Threatening heat failure in zymotic and septic fevers (Br.).

Obstinate, varicose, offensive ulcers of old persons (Psorinum, Secale) (A.).

Dissecting wounds (Arsenicum) (Br.)

AGGRAVATION:

      From cold; from passing flatus; and at night.

AMELIORATION:

      From motion; from heat; and from pressure.

RELATIONSHIP:

      Compare; Arnica, Arsenicum, Baptisia, Carb-Ac., Carbo vegetabilis, Echin., Lachesis, Opium, Rhus toxicodendron, Psorinum, Secale, Sulphur, and Veratrum

Follows: Bryonia, Lachesis and Rhus toxicodendron, well.

Adolph Lippe

Adolph Lippe (born near Goerlitz, Prussia, 11 May 1812; died in Philadelphia, 23 January 1888) was a homeopathic physician who worked in the United States. Adolph got a legal education at Berlin. After completing his legal studies, Lippe became interested in homeopathy, and emigrated to the United States in 1837 to further his study. In 1838, he enrolled in the North American Academy of Homeopathy at Allentown, Pennsylvania, from where he graduated in 1841. He settled in Philadelphia, where from 1863 until 1868 he was professor of materia medica in the Homeopathic College of Pennsylvania. Besides some essays and treatises from the French, German, and Italian which became standards, Lippe was the author of:
Comparative Materia Medica (Philadelphia, 1854)
Text-Book of Materia Medica (1866)