Tuesday 27 December 2011

EOSINOPHILIA AND HOMOEOPATHY

EOSINOPHILIA AND HOMOEOPATHY
Dr. S. Sabarirajan., M.D. (Hom).

The term Eosinophilia refers to conditions in which abnormally high amounts of Eosinophils are found in either the blood (more than 600 cells per microliter (μ L))or in body tissues. Several causes are known, with the most common being some form of allergic reaction Eosinophil is a type of white blood cell. Eosinophils are produced in the bone marrow and are normally found in the bloodstream and the gut lining. They contain proteins that help the body to fight infection from parasitic organisms, such as worms. But in certain diseases these proteins can damage the body. Diagnosis is by complete blood count (CBC).
Aetiology
- The exact causative mechanisms of Eosinophilia remain largely unclear
- Very common Causes of Eosinophilia are Asthma, Hay fever, Drug allergies, Allergic skin diseases like Eczema, Sarcoptes scabiei, Scabies
- Common Causes of Eosinophilia are Connective tissue disease, Food allergy, Psoriasis, Systemic lupus erythematosus, Allergic rhinitis

Clinical Features
Sympioms includes
- Skin allergy,
- Cough
- Frequent cold attack
- Throat irritation
- Bone pain or tenderness
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Joint contractures
- Muscle weakness
- Tenderness and swelling of the arms and legs (occasionally including joints)
- Thickened skin with puckered appearance

Diagnosis
- Complete blood cell (CBC) count with differential to quantitate the percentage eosinophils and absolute number of eosinophils (AEC).However, in some cases, a more accurate absolute eosinophil count may be needed.
- Medical history is taken, with emphasis on travel, allergies and drug use.
- Patients with allergic symptoms should have a nasal smear for eosinophilia and Gram stain. Patients with asthma symptoms should have sputum examination for eosinophilia.
Prevention
- Avoid exposure to known allergens.
- Do not eat raw or undercooked snails, fish, frogs, slugs, freshwater prawns or other animals that may be contaminated with parasitic worms.
- Thoroughly wash all produce to ensure that they are not contaminated with parasitic worms.

TROPICAL EOSINOPHILIA
Syn: Weingarten syndrome, pulmonary eosinophiliosis.
This condition which is common in tropics is characterized by an absolute eosinophil count of 2000/cmm or more in peripheral blood and associated with respiratory symptoms. Current evidence suggests that eosinophilia is an allergic reaction to helminthic parasites particularly filarial worms.
It is a syndrome characterized by cough dyspnea a raised white cell count with persistent and absolute eosinophilia with systemic manifestations like fever loss of weight and lassitude. Chert X-ray shows ground glass appearance.

Homoeopathic Management for Eosinophilia
- Homeopathic medicines stimulate the immune power to act against the disease. So homeopathic medicines acts well in cases of Eosinophilia. Homoeo medicine controls the Eosinophils level in body and helps to reduce the symptoms with out producing any side effect
- Homoeopathy is highly effective in the treatment of allergies and fully capable of stimulating the organism to heal to the point of complete relief from all allergy symptoms.
- There is a special mention about allergic diseases in Homoeopathic literatures under the heading IDIOSYNCRASY. Dr Samuel Hahnemann, founder of Homoeopathic system of medicine defined idiosyncrasy 200 years ago in his famous book Organon of Medicine as “Idiosyncrasies by which are meant peculiar corporeal constitutions which although otherwise healthy, posses a disposition to be brought into a more or less morbid state by certain things which seem to produce no impression and no change in many other individuals”.
- Manifestations of allergic reactions and idiosyncracies are same. Both are hypersensitive reaction. An idiosyncratic individual is oversensitive to one or few things which doesn’t require treatment as the person in healthy, but allergic disorders are due to morbid susceptibility.
- Successful Homoeopathic prescribing demands a detailed case taking to find out the evolution of disease, relation with life situation, also to find out characteristic symptoms. According to Hahnemann it is the constitution of an individual that becomes sick first. The objective of treatment should be the improvement of the constitution, so that sensitivity, which has gone bad, is corrected or brought within normal range. It has been proved, verified and confirmed that if a proper indicated constitutional treatment is given to the child for sometime, it improves the constitution. In due course, the attacks become lesser in frequency and severity.
- By constitutional approach we can prevent the recurrence of the complaint by modifying the altered susceptibility.
Miasmatic remedy can help to remove any miasmatic block obtained from the familial background, past history of patient and also the presentation.
- Acute prescriptions are required during acute flare-ups.
Thus the concept of totality of symptoms and principle of individualization together enables the homoeopathic physician to perceive the disease in its whole content to make a suitable prescription
- Lachesis is a sure cure for tropical eosinophilia.
- Remedies like Aconite napellus, allium cepa, Anti.tart, Arsenicum album, Bryonia alba, Calc.Carb, Drosera, Phosphorus, Hepar sulph, Veratrum viride, Kali carb, Mercurius sol, Kali bich, Natrum sulph, Sulphur Sambucus nigra, Ipecac, Balsamum peruvianum, Asclepias tuberose, Naphthalinum, Sinapis nigra are very much useful in treating eosinophilia.


References

1. Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine
2. Wikipedia.com/eosinophilia
3. Quick Bedside Prescriber – J.N.SHINGHAL.
4. http://homeoall.com/eosinophilia-homeopathy-treatment/
5. http://www.homeopathyzone.com/blog/article/the-homeopathic-treatment-of-allergies
6. http://doctorprasanna.com/articles/naso-respiratory-allergies-and-homoeopathy/
7. Principles of Prescribing, Dr. K.N.Mathur.
8. LILIENTHAL S., Homoeopathic Therapeutics
9. DEWEY W. A., Practical Homeopathic Therapeutics






Dr. S. SABARIRAJAN., M.D. (Hom) (Gen.med) (Gold medalist)

Reader, Dept. of Practice of Medicine
Vinayaka Mission’s Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital,
Salem, Tamilnadu.

Monday 12 December 2011

ROTP Participated at Kulasekaram ,

HOMOEOPATHIC IMMUNIZATIONS - ALTERNATIVE TO VACCINATIONS

HOMOEOPATHIC IMMUNIZATIONS
- ALTERNATIVE TO VACCINATIONS
Dr. S. Sabarirajan., M.D. (Hom).
Dr. S. R. Ameerkhan Babu., M.D. (Hom).

Immunization is the process whereby a person is made immune or resistant to an infectious disease, typically by the administration of a vaccine. The preferred prophylactic method against infectious disease in modern medicine is vaccination but nowadays due to their adverse side effects it become highly controversial and makes the new generation to turn out to Homoeopathy for prevention of many diseases.
Homoeopathic Immunization Schedule
At birth – Sulphur 200 1 Globule in a spoon of water to prevent psoric manifestation
Second day after Birth – give Hypericum 200 - 1 Globule in a spoon of water to protect against Tetanus
At Birth to 2 weeks – give Tuberculinum 1M - 1 Globule in a spoon of water to protect against tuberculosis.
At Birth, 6,10,14 weeks, 15-18 months, 5 years – give Thuja 1M - 1 Globule in a spoon of water to protect against Polio
At Birth, 6 weeks, 6-9 months, 10 years – Give Carduus Marianus-1M - 1 Globule in a spoon of water to protect against Hepatitis B
At 6,10,14 weeks, 15-18 months, 5 years - Give Thuja CM - 1 Globule in a spoon of water to protect against diphtheria,whooping cough, tetanus in morning
At 6,10,14 weeks, 15-18 months, 5 years - Give Ledum Palustre CM - 1 Globule in a spoon of water to protect against diphtheria,whooping cough, tetanus in evening
At 9 months - Give Pulsatilla CM - 1 Globule in a spoon of water to protect against Measles
At 15-18 months - Give Pulsatilla CM - 1 Globule in a spoon of water to protect against Measles, mumps, rubella or German measles
At 10-16 years - Give Ledum Palustre CM - 1 Globule in a spoon of water to protect against tetanus
Vaccine Schedule Medicine Dose

Against tuberculosis Birth – 2 weeks Tuberculinum 1M 1 drop in a spoon of water.

Against Polio Birth, 6,10,14 weeks,15-18 months, 5 years Thuja 1M 1 drop in a spoon of water.

Against Hepatitis B Birth, 6 weeks, 6-9 months, 10 years CARDUUS MARIANUS-1M 1 drop in a spoon of water.

Against diphtheria,whooping cough, tetanus 6,10,14 weeks, 15-18 months, 5 years Thuja CM 1 drop in a spoon of water in the morning.

LEDUM PALUSTRE CM 1 drop in a spoon of water in the evening.

Measles 9 months plus PULSATILLA CM 1 drop in a spoon of water.

Against measles, mumps, rubella or German measles 15-18 months PULSATILLA CM 1 drop in a spoon of water.

Against diphtheria and tetanus 5 years Thuja CM 1 drop in a spoon of water in the morning.

LEDUM PALUSTRE CM 1 drop in a spoon of water in the evening.

Against tetanus 10-16 years LEDUM PALUSTRE CM 1 drop in a spoon of water in the evening.

Homoeopathic Immunization
Homeopathic immunizations have been used successfully for over 200 years. Our master Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, used homeopathic immunization routinely in his practice. In 1799, he used the homeopathic remedy Belladonna successfully to prevent Scarlet Fever. Following Hahnemann’s example, another eleven medical doctors prescribed Belladonna during the same epidemic. They reported that of 1,646 children exposed to scarlet fever after being given Belladonna, only 123 (7.4%) developed symptoms of infection. In contrast, the infection rate in those who did not receive the prophylactic was as high as 90%. In 1838 the Prussian Government ordered the use of Belladonna during all scarlet fever epidemics after a report from their chief of physicians, Hufeland, showed it to be an effective prophylactic.
In 1831 Samuel Hahnemann prevented and treated cholera during the 1831 Asiatic cholera epidemic with the remedies Camphor, Cuprum metallicum and Veratrum album. In 1849 Dr Clemens von Boenninghausen treated and prevented untold numbers of cholera infections during the 1849 European epidemic with the above remedies recommended by Hahnemann. While a death rate of 54-90% occurred with conventional treatment, Boenninghausen’s patients had a mortality rate of only 5-16%. In the 1800s Clemens von Boenninghausen used Thuja for both the treatment and prevention of smallpox during an epidemic. In 1902 Dr. Eaton reported that during a smallpox epidemic in Iowa, 2806 patients were treated prophylactically with homeopathic Variolinum. Of the 547 patients definitely exposed, only 14 developed the disease. The protection rate on these numbers was 97%.
In 1850 during an epidemic of poliomyelitis, Dr Taylor Smith of Johannesburg, South Africa protected 82 people with homoeopathic Lathyrus sativus. Of the 82 so immunised, 12 came into direct contact with disease. None were infected. Dr Grimmer of Chicago prophylactically treated 5,000 young children with Lathyrus sativus. None developed polio.
In 1957 a severe poliomyelitis epidemic occurred in Buenos Aires. The majority of homoeopathic doctors prescribed Lathyrus sativus as a preventative. Drug stores distributed thousands of doses to the public. None of those who used the prophylactic registered a case of contagion (Eizayaga). In 1975 during another poliomyelitis epidemic in Buenos Aires, 40,000 were given the homeopathic prophylactic Lathyrus sativus. None developed poliomyelitis (Eizayaga).
In 1996 Dengueinum 30 was administered to at least 39,200 people in the Delhi area during an epidemic of Dengue haemorrhagic fever. Follow-up of 23,520 people 10 days later showed only 5 people (0.125%) had developed mild symptoms, with the rest showing no signs or symptoms of the disease (CCRH). (During epidemics of dengue, attack rates among susceptible are often 40-50 %, but may reach 80-90 %, World Health Organization.)
In 1999 the Department of Indian Medicine and Homoeopathy started distribution of homoeopathic immunizations for Japanese Encephalitis in a systematic way throughout the Andhra Pradesh with BCT (Belladonna, Calcarea Carb and Tuberculinum). JE mortality rates had touched a high of 638 deaths from 2038 cases in 1986, but fell to four from 33 cases in 2001, following the implementation of the homeopathic immunization program. Even the World Health Organization and the Medical and Health Department acknowledge that homeopathic immunizations have been a vital factor in the sharp decline of Japanese Encephalitis cases in Andhra Pradesh.
Homoeopathic Prophylaxis
Prophylaxis against Diphtheria - Apis mellifica 30, Diphthirinum 30
Prophylaxis against epilepsy - Kali bromium, Gloninine
Prophylaxis against Influenza – Arsenicum album.
Prophylaxis against Jaundice – Cincona off
Prophylaxis against measles – Aconite nap, Pulsatilla nig., Arsenicum album or Morbillinum.
Prophylaxis against Cholera - Camphor, Cuprum metallicum, Veratrum album
Prophylaxis against Mumps – Trifole-rep, Parotidinum.
Prophylaxis against Tetenus – Ledum pal or thuja or Arnica or Tetanotoxin.
Prophylaxis against Whooping cough – Drosera, Vaccininum, Pertussin.
Prophylaxis against Plague – Buboninum 12 – 13 potency, Ignatia amara., Naja triputans.
Prophylaxis against Chicken pox – Antimonium Tart and Rhus tox
Prophylaxis against Meningitis – Cicuta virosa
Prophylaxis against poliomyelitis - Lathyrus sativus 1M or Carbolic acidum or Plumbum or Physostigma
Prophylaxis against Dengue fever – Eupatorium perf
Prophylaxis against Common cold – Nux vomica
Prophylaxis against Snake poison - Golondrina
Prophylaxis against Typhoid – Baptisia
References
1. Birch, Kate. Vaccine Free Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Contagious Disease with Homeopathy: A Manual for Practitioners and Consumers.Trafford Publishing, 2007
2. Central Council of Research in Homoeopathy. CCRH News 1996-1997.
Currim, A.M. Ed. 1996. The Collected Works of Arthur Grimmer, M.D. Norwalk and Greifenberg, Hahnemann International Institute for Homeopathic Documentation.
3. Dudgeon R. E. 1853. Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Homeopathy, p.541,2. Republished by B. Jain Publishers, 2002, New Dehli.
Eaton, Dr. C. W., Variolinum. (a paper read before the American Institute of Homeopathy), 1907.
4. Eisfelder, HW, “Poliomyelitis Immunization: A Final Report.” Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy. V. 54, Nov-Dec 1961, pp. 166-167.
Eizayaga, Dr. F. X., Treatise on Homeopathic Medicine. (E. Marecel, Buenos Aires, pp. 282-286).
5. Golden, Dr. Isaac, Vaccination & Homeoprophylaxis? A Review of Risks and Alternatives. 6th ed., Isaac Golden Publications, 2007.
6. Hahnemann, Dr. Samuel. “Cause and Prevention of the Asiatic Cholera.”Archiv. f. hom. Helik., vol. xi, 1831.
7. Hahnemann, Dr. Samuel, “Cure and Prevention of Scarlet Fever.” Lesser Writings. Jain, 1801, p. 369-384.
8. Hufeland. “Prophylactic Power of Belladonna in Scarlet Fever,” Hufeland’s Journal, 1828.
9. Staff Reporter. “Japanese Encephalitis on the Decline in State,” The Hindu, April 1, 2003.
10. Taylor-Smith, A. “Poliomyelitis and prophylaxis.” Br Homeopath J, 1950 Apr;40(2):65-77.
11.Von Boenninghausen, C. Baron. “Vide Concerning the Curative Effects of Thuja in Smallpox.” Lesser Writings, Jain, 1908.
12.http://www.homoeopathynow.com/homoeo-articles/69-homoeopathic-immunization
13. Quick Bedside Prescriber – J.N.SHINGHAL.
14. Pocket manual of Homoeopathic Materia Medica & Repertory by William Boericke.
15. Principles of Prescribing, Dr. K.N.Mathur.

Dr. S. Sabarirajan., M.D. (Hom) (Gen.med) (Gold medalist)
Dr. S. R. Ameerkhan Babu., M.D. (Hom) (Gen.med)
Reader, Dept. of Practice of Medicine
Vinayaka Mission’s Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital,
Salem, Tamilnadu.

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