Euphorbium Fever Symptoms


Allen gives the therapeutic indications of the remedy Euphorbium in different kinds of fevers like: Continued, Bilious, Intermittent, Malarial, Remittent, Pernicious, Typhoid, Typhus, Septic fever, etc…


Fever

Characteristic – In the terrible burning pain as if a live coal were on or in the parts, of cancer, carbuncle or erysipelas, when Arsenicum or Anthracinum fails to relieve.

Burning in caries and necrosis of bones.

Erysipelas bulbosa, vesicles as large as peas filled with yellow liquid.

In gangrene or blood boils of old persons.

Old, torpid, indolent ulcers, with biting, lancinating, lacerating pains, aggravated in morning, on becoming heated near the fire, lying down, changing position, beginning to move, from touch, ameliorated from motion and walking.

Aggravation: On becoming heated, lying, beginning to move, changing position.

Time: Usually a morning paroxysm.

Chill: Of the whole body in the morning, while walking in the open air, when beginning to eat (Belladonna – after eating, Kali carb., Nux). The body is cold with internal burning heat. Shivering, over the whole body, over the back, with glowing cheeks and cold hands.

Heat: Great, the whole day, all the clothes seemed burdensome, even his whole body was too heavy for him, as if he had carried a great load. Heat with aversion to dressing, clothing feels too heavy. Heat only on the head.

Sweat: In the morning in bed, extending from the feet over the whole body, some thirst. Morning – sweat, on the neck, thighs and legs, sometimes cold on the legs, only on the thighs.

H. C. Allen
Dr. Henry C. Allen, M. D. - Born in Middlesex county, Ont., Oct. 2, 1836. He was Professor of Materia Medica and the Institutes of Medicine and Dean of the faculty of Hahnemann Medical College. He served as editor and publisher of the Medical Advance. He also authored Keynotes of Leading Remedies, Materia Medica of the Nosodes, Therapeutics of Fevers and Therapeutics of Intermittent Fever.