Homoeopathy for rainy season


In India, most of the part rain starts from june to october. and the wind flows from west-south to north-east. (may be you get glimpse about some of our remedies)



Diseases occur in rainy season:
       Rain shadow off the heat of summer but not cast off with its entry, it brings many of illness and diseases due to both of heat and moistures.
       In India, rainy season is known as sickness season due to lack of cleanliness, lack of proper sanitation, lack of knowledge in people.

Common Diseases occur
1. FLU/INFLUENZA
Change of weather, Change of temperature, Changes in humidity brings some of viral infections, due to decreases in vitality, increases in sensitivity causes some of health issues like:
blocked/running nose, high temperature, cold sweats and shivers, headache, aching joints and limbs, fatigue, feeling exhausted.
now here these all are common symptoms of flu.
and our homoeopathic remedies aare working over peculiar and uncommon symptoms.

HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR FLU:
1. ACONITE:
- first stage of cold and coryza with much sneezing.
- after exposure to cold, dry wind.
- nasal mucus membrane is dry and hot.
- violent throbbing headache, better in open air.
- coryza may be hot or fluent with much sneezing, with sneezing patient has to hold chest or parts because his muscles of whole body feel sore.
- sudden onset of all complaints
- thirsty, chilly and restlessness

2. RHUS TOX:
- Ailments from getting wet in rainy weather, exposure of draft of damp cold air and dampness.
- influenza with severe aching in all bones, sneezing and coughing. the cough is aggravated in evening due to tickling behind upper part of sternum.
- extreme restlessness continuous change of position
- coryza watery with tip of nose is red and ulcerated
- onset is gradual and without a very high temprature but with violent aching in all body.
- no peace at all constantly move, restless because they feel stiff if they remain in one position for long time. so progressively they get exhausted and prostrated.
- tongue: red tip, dry and cracked.
- feels chilly
- patient tells us he has burning heat in inner but on touching feels cold body because of excessive sweating.

3. DULCAMARA:
- it is commonly uses in those person who takes cold easily when weather changes.
- it is used between summer ends and monsoon starts, late summer or autumn. hot days and cold nights.
- especially suited to those persons with phlegmatic constitution.
- coryza is dry with complete blockage of nose and feels stuffed up during COLD RAIN.
- discharge is thick and yellow with bloody crusts.
- constant sneezing and although nose runs. better with rest and indoors and worse with cold rain, getting wet.

4. PULSATILLA:
- never in acute, always in later stage of any disease.
- in flu, when fluid discharge changes to stopped nose.
- long continued coryza, with blowing of yellow green mucus which smells bad with loss of smell and taste.
- outer edge of nose ulcerated.
- fluid discharge seen in open air and nose stopped seen in closed room(warm room) and in evening in warm weather.
- thirstlessness, hot. CHILLINESS IN WARM ROOM IN EVENING

5. BRYONIA:
- violent coryza with paroxysmal sneezing and headache.
- skin feels chilly with bodyache
- back of throat feels swollen.
- mouth dryness with excessive thirst for large quantity and often.

6. ARSENIC ALBUM:
- thin watery excoriating discharge which is hot and excoriating with sneezing. RIPE cold.
- nose feels stopped and sneezing dose not give any relief.
- worse in open air and better during indoors.
- disease always presence with excessive weakness and prostration leads to exhausted situation.
- extreme restlessness
- thirst for small quantity and often.


2. JOINT PAIN
most commonly we can see in monsoon, joint disorders get worse. all the joint disorders like osteo-arthritis, rheumatism, spondylitis, etc. have increase in pain and suffering. humidity and cold dampness causes inflammation, redness, stiffness in joints and has marked increase in suffering during monsoon.

HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR JOINT PAIN:
1. RHUS TOX:
- pain increses in morning with waking up with joint stiffness which is decreases by movements and day advances.
- pain increases on rising from sitting position or in begging of motion and better by continued motion and increases again on long walk.
- tearing pain in joints, tendons and ligaments.
- pain aggravated by lifting weight.
- rheumatism from suppression of perspiration.
- fear of stiffness in joints leads to patient continue walk and make him restless and anxious.

2. RHODODENDRON:
- pain is worsen from rest, during and before thunderstrome. rheumatism worse in hot season and monsoon.
- pain is wandering, sometimes this joint sometimes that joints.
- tearing pain in all limbs mostly on right side.
- neck stiffness better by motion and worse by rest.

3. BRYONIA ALBA:
- pain and stiffness in joints, back, neck which is better by rest, pressure and warmth locally and worse by least motion.
- must hold part while motion.
- joints are hot, red, swollen, with stitches and tearing pain in it.
- pain gets ameliorated by lying on painful side.

4. CALCAREA CARB:
- swelling of joints on account of working in water, getting wet long.
- in monsoon pain aggravtes on account of bony growth of joint.
- pain is sharp and stitching as if wrenched.
- old sprain area gets painful during monsoon, tearing in muscles and tendons of old sprain.
- feet feels cold and dead at night with cramps in calves.
- pain ameliorated by lying on painful side and in dry air.


3. DENGUE FEVER:
Dengue fever is known as bone breaking fever. complaints starts after 3 to 14 days to infection. its mosquito borne infection.
     
symptoms:
- high fever with tearing joint pain,
- headache
- vomiting
- skin rash
- muscle and bone pain

In dengue fever must be confirmed with lab investigation and must observe platelet level. so we can think of prognosis of dengue, because wrong treatment leads to dengue shock syndrome or dengue hemorrhagic fever.

HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR DENGUE:
1. EUPATORIUM PERFORATUM:
- great pain in all bones
- no thirst during chill
- frontal headache
- heavily coated tongue, bitter taste.
- violent shivering

2. ACONITUM NAPPELUS:
- during first stage of fever
- simple fever during very cold damp weather
- high temprature.
- chilly when uncovered or touched
- restlessness is always present
- shinning, red, hot skin

3. FERRUM PHOS:
- in early stage of fever
- it stands after aconite
- face flushed
- no restlessness
- soft pulse

4. RHUS TOX:
- fever with weakness, restlessness and trembling.
- accumilation of dead skin on the lips.
- tip of tongue red.
- bony pain with beginning of motion
- pain increses in morning with waking up with joint stiffness which is decreases by movements and day advances.
- rashes over body with fever

5. PHOS:
- phos can be use in bright red hemorrhage occurs after 3to4days of fever from any orifice or any place.
- may be used in complication with pneumonia

6. GELSEMIUM:
- much muscular soreness,
- chills up and down the back
- pulse full, low and soft
- heat and sweat stage debiliating
- great frontal or occiputal headache
- wants to be held because he shake
- patient aversion to get disturbed
- dullness, dizziness, drowsiness

OTHER REMEDIES:
HAMMAMELIS - for stoppage of venous hemorrhage
CARICA PAPAYA, TNT - to increase platelet count during fever.

4. TYPHOID FEVER:
it is bacterial fever occurs by salmonella typhi, it occurs between 6 to 30 days of exposure to infection. person may affect with mild symptoms to very severe symptoms.
fever increases with several days to reach very temperature.
other symptoms:
- weakness
- abdominal pain
- constipation, in few cases we can find diarrhea and vomiting
- headache
- in severe cases we find red or pink spots over body and confusion and delirium

COMMON HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR TYPHOID:
1. BAPTISIA:
- baptisia is known as king in typhoid fever
- diarrhea and dysentery during typhoid
- stool very offensive with rumbling in abdomen
- all exhalations are fetid, like breath, stool, urine, perspiration,
- expression besotted with injected eye
- face dark red
- tongue coated, brown and dry particularly in center.
- in severe cases we find stupor, delirium, paralysis or debility.

2. PYROGEN:
- main point of this remedy is septic fever.
- coldness and chilliness during very high temperature, chill begins in back.
- temperature rises rapidly, great heat and sweating will not reduce temperature.
- Dr. Drysdale introduce pyrogen as a "Aconite of typhoid quality of pyrexia"
- i have so many doctors give this remedy to cut the course of typhoid.

3. ARSENIC ALB:
- fever worse during night causes extreme restlessness and anxiety
- great thirst but drink little at a time but often
- high temperature with cold sweats
- accumulation of dry dead skin scales on lips during fever
- constant sleepiness, numbness and stupid expression
- great emaciation, pink cheeks
- it can be use after rhus tox

4. MURIATIC ACID:
- stupid low typhoid fever
- its use is in the last stage of fever when intestinal puncture occurs and bleeding we can see from rectum
- deep stupid sleep
- unconsciousness while awake
- loud moaning
- tongue coated on edges, shrunken look, involuntary fetid stool while passing urine

5. PHOSPHORIC ACID:
- face: dark blue rings around eyes and mouth
- nosebleed
- tympanitis
- quiet delirium, disconnected talking
- limbs cold
- depressing all mental emotions
- uses after loss of animal fluids.
- no regard for surrounding and complete apathy

other remedies can we use in typhoid are echinacea to purify the blood, gelsemium to low down high fever.

5. MALARIA:
malaria is quite common disease during monsoon, it is caused by parasite. it has four common types of malaria.
1. P. FALCIPARUM
2. P. VIVAX
3. P. OVALE
4. P. MALARIAE

symptoms of malaria are:
- high grade fever with chills and rigors
- severe headache, backache or body ache
- as per three stages: chill, heat and sweat
- vomiting, abdominal heaviness
- tired feeling


we can see symptoms in severe infection like:
- pale skin
- coma
- dullness
- seizures, etc

HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR MALARIA:
1. CHINA/CINCHONA:
- fever may return every week
- periodicity is more marked
- chill generally in afternoon, thirst before chill, drinks little but often but during chill and during heat no thirst.
- easy perspiration
- symptoms worse every alternate day.
- epidemic and endemic form of chills and fever
- anxiety, with thirstless in fever
- during fever congestion of head, redness and heat of face, even though other parts of body be chilly.
- during chill patient sits near fire but does not get relief
- during sweat: profuse perspiration and thirst
- during apyrexia: debility, loss of appetite, anaemia, backache, scanty urine.

2. CHININUM SULPH:
- chills daily at 3pm
- painful swelling of veins during chill
- shivering even in a warm room or with a blanket on.
- great periodicity
- violent thirst during chill
- great weakness and prostration after sweat

3. NATRIUM MUR:
-  fever returns from 9am to 11am, chills comes from back and feet with great thirst with great pain in body.
- continued chill, moderate heat with headacheand no perspiration or excessive or debilitating which decreases headache
- in badly treated case it can give miracle like result with pyrogen
- complexion become pale, yellowish,
- spleen and live are enlarged
- sleepy during daytime and sleepless during night time during apyrexia stage

4. IPECA:
- epidemics when fever comes every second day.
- fever marked with gastric trouble like nausea with clean tongue
- loss of appetite
- chill predominating with thirstless
- heat is trifling
- sweat absent
- may be seen as short chill, long fever, no sweat
- during apyrexia: nausea, indigestion, vomiting, headache

5. ARSENIC ALB:
- long fever with burning heat, unquenchable thirst, anxiety and restlessness
- after fever : pallor and exhaustion

OTHER REMEDIES WE CAN USE:
1. EUPATORIUM
2. NUX VOMICA
3. MALARIA OFFICINALIS
4. FERRUM ARS
5. TUBERCULINUM
6. CORNUSin Rainy Season:
1. Flu/Influenza
2. Joint Pain
3. Dengue Fever
4. Typhoid Fever
5. Malarial Fever


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