Hey, JJay and others who saw the note about calcarea sulphurica:
I just re-read that blurb on calcarea sulphurica, and I noticed I made a mis-type. The write-up she quoted from Dr. Clark's was on sulphuricum acidum, not calcarea sulhpurica. Sorry...just realized my mistake!
I'll post it again, putting the remedies in bold this time:
Following the dictates of classical homeopathy, applicable also to animals, and by crossing the listing rubrics in the Repertories which consider influenza, pneumonia and pulmonary hemorrhage caused by the latter, it is clear that there are only two remedies which could be “highly suggestive” for the treatment of hemorrhagic pneumonia caused by the virus H3N8 in dogs. These two remedies are: Calcarea Sulphurica and Sulphuricum Acidum.
Reading the proving of the single remedies in the medical book of Doctor Clark, only one remedy appears which could be “highly suggestive” and specific for the treatment of hemorrhagic pneumonia caused by the virus H3N8: Sulphuricum Acidum.
Doctor Clark describes in his “Materia Medica” the proving of Sulphuricum Acidum which for similarity can treat: ecchymosis, hemorrhage, influenza, pneumonia, prolonged hemoptysis, cough with hemoptysis, profuse pulmonary hemorrhage and the subsequent collapse. In the Repertories influenza, pneumonia, pulmonary hemorrhage during pneumonia, etc. can be found in the rubrics. Not wishing to re-write a book of homeopathy only in order to indicate the “highly suggestive” homeopathic remedy for the treatment of hemorrhagic pneumonia caused by the influenza virus A which infects human beings dogs also, I would advise anyone who wishes to understand how I identified the remedy, to read the book “SARS, a proposition for its treatment” in which the modus operandi of classic homeopathic medicine is described.
Just for my own personal curiosity, I decided to do a little repetorization myself of the symptoms that have come out of the Ukraine, and this is what I found.
I went to my homeopathic software under hemorrhagic pneumonia and found the following 10 remedies in Reference Works:
baptisia- (source, Knerr)
calcarea sulphurica- (source, Kent)
cantharsis - (Source: Reckweg)
chel (chelidonium) (Source: Knerr)
chin (china) - (Source: Knerr)
crot-h (crotalus horridus) (source: Knerr)
ferr-p (ferrum phosphoricum) (Source: Woodbury)
merc (mercurius) (hemorrhagic pneumonia with suppuration of the lungs (Source: knerr)
sec (secale) (Source: Woodward)
sulph-ac (sulphuricum acidum) (Source: Kent and Knerr)
However, in both Kent's reperatory and the Classic respiratory, there were only 2 remedies under "chest, hemorrhage, pneumonia, after", and that was: Calc-s and sulph-ac.
I then thought of the symptoms that are being reported by the doctors out of Ukraine with the patients with the hemorrhaghic pneumonia, and what was most striking was the suddenness. I typed in the rubric: "generalities: sudden manifestations."
Under that one, there was only 1 remedy that shared both symptoms and that was sulph-ac. Calc-s does not have the rubric "sudden manifestation". This explains why that source picked sulphuricum acidum.
However, if you use different sources, lesser known sources, you'll find the other remedies, too also have symptoms of "hemorrhagic pneumonia" and "sudden manifestations", including:
ferr-p (also a common flu remedy),
crot-h (known for hemorrhaging)
cantharsis
Since ferrum phosphoricum is also a common cold and flu remedy, I'll also put this blurb down from Woodbury about ferrum phosphoricum:
PATHOGENETIC ACTION. Physiologically normal constituent of the blood, enriches it with hemoglobin. Disturbances of iron molecules in muscular structures cause relaxation, resulting in stagnation of blood stream, congestion, passive hemorrhages, constipation, colic; possesses the power of attracting oxygen; found, normally in the blood corpuscles, hair, and in muscles.
CHARACTERISTICS. One of the Tissue Remedies. Iron in general and the Phosphate in particular is the remedy often indicated in the first stages of local and general febrile disturbances and inflammation. Catarrhal affections, local and general congestions, in anemic subjects with pallor and hemorrhagic tendency. Debility with failing appetite in children of anemic or chlorotic type.
First stage of influenza, cold in the head, predisposition to colds, cough, hard and dry, hoarseness, sore throat. Expectoration of pure blood in pneumonia. First stage of otitis media; hemorrhage from any part, hot, bright red in color.
Urinary difficulties, heat, chilliness, pain and fever, incontinence, spurting of urine with cough. Anemia from lack of pure blood, nosebleed, especially in children; wounds of soft parts with inflammation. Night sweats of anemic persons. Restless sleep, anxious dreams. First stage of heart disease, palpitation, rapid pulse, flushed face, articular rheumatism, crick in the back, shoulder; palms hot, rheumatic pains worse from any motion; movement sets up or increases the pain.
HOMOEOPATHIC USES. Acute fevers; colds, otitis media, acute coryza; incontinence of the urine; rheumatism, bronchitis; coughs, pneumonia, hemorrhage from any part, fractures with injury of soft parts; sprains, abscess, boils, carbuncles, chlorosis, or secondary anemia.
So, in addition to sulphuricum acidum, ferrum phosphoricum might also be a good choice for hemorrhaghic pneumonia that comes on suddenly.....if this spreads to your neck of the woods.
If anybody can find any other specific and striking symptoms that is particular to the patients in Ukraine and India (symptoms not common to all patients with pneumonia, but peculiar to this form of pneumonia that is killing peple in the Ukraine and India), post them and I can do another repetorization to try to narrow it down even further.
[edit on 8-11-2009 by nikiano]
