Variolinum: It is an excellent remedy as curative as well as preventive.
A dose of this should be given at the commencement of the treatment.
The normal treatment with other remedies should be started 24 hours
after. For prevention of the disease the medicine should be given once
a week in 200 dilution. It is never to be below 200. It cures
disfigurement of the face left by small pox. Give one dose of 200
potency every week, three or four doses along with other indicated remedies. No other medicine to be given on the day Variolinum is
administered.
Bryonia: First stage remedy with high fever and great thirst. The
eruptions are slow to appear. All symptoms are worse by motion.
Antim Tart: It is said to have moderated the entire course of the
disease. Normally it is to be given in the second stage when the pustules
have formed.
Thuja. In eruptive stage with milky, flat, painful, offensive pustules
upon a dark inflamed area. Especially suitable in sycotic patient.
Sarracenia: It is an excellent remedy for small-pox. It can be given in
any stage. It not only cuts short the period of incubation, but also stops
pitting. It is said to have proved successful as curative as well as
preventive.
Veratrum Vir: Pulse full and rapid, headache worse on the back of
head, fever with perspiration with head hot and extremities cold.
Malandrinum: It is another preventive for small-pox. Ill- effects of
vaccination. Skin remains rough. unhealthy, dry after vaccination. If
given along with vaccination, the vaccination will not take.
Mercurius: Is to be given when the glands, especially the parotid
glands are involved. Profuse saliva and greenish mucus stools are the
ranking symptoms. This will also prevent pitting.
Cuprum Acet: Small pox with accelerated pulse; cramping spasms in
the chest; difficult breathing; prostration; loss of appetite; face red and
swollen; delirious; cramps in the calves; eruptions consisting of spots
of different sizes.
Belladonna: Throbbing headache, purplish face, dry throat, full
bounding pulse. Child wants the head to be held and tied very tightly
by cloth.
Phosphorus: When there is complication of pneumonia or with marked
haemorrhagic feature or both. Bright red blood from lungs which is so
severe as would induce fainting and exhaustion. Bleeding from small
points or individual pocks.
Hamamelis: Haemorrhagic variety of small pox with dark oozing,
bleeding from the gums, nose, rectum and genital organs.
Acid Nitric: Haemorrhage from bowels and violent bleeding from
nose. The blood is bright and hot.
Muriatic Acid: Last stage of the disease where the perspiration is
excessive and the patient is in a sunken, exhausted and collapsed
condition. Patient loses control of his functions as a result of
disorganization of the blood.
Lachesis:
Crotalus:
Best suited for putrid types of the disease with
general exhaustion, stupor and blood disorganization.
Hepar Sulph: This remedy is used to hasten the suppuration of
diseased glands or abscesses.
