Viral Infections

    Symptoms

       Remedy

 Frequency And Doses

At first onset, give Aconite, which may abort the dis­ease totally. Give a dose every hour for four hours, than discontinue; symptoms will either worsen or disappear.

Aconite. 30 or 200

1/2 hourly

The next step for influenza/ distemper type diseases is Gelsemium. The animal shows apathy, drowsi­ness and trembling, complete relaxation; there may be respiratory symp­toms and sore throat

Gelsemium 30 or 200

4 hourly

If neither of these stops the illness, go to Distemperinum (distemper nosode), or a nosode of the diagnosed disease, twice a day in 30C until the animal is well

Distemperinum 30

4 hourly

For a cough where there is difficult, rapid respiration, a full hard pulse and fever

Bryonia 30

4 hourly

When there are flu symptoms, fever, loose cough or sneezing, excessive thirst and soreness,

Eupatorium perfoliatum 30

4 hourly

. If the animal is hot and feverish, with glaring eyes, restless and in an excited mental state, try.

Belladonna 30

4 hourly

 can be used in advanced viral dis­ease, where there is yellow mucous discharge from nose or eyes

Hydrastis canadensis 30

4 hourly

For a weak, depressed, cold animal with vomiting and diar­rhea, with the condition worsening after the pet drinks water,

Ver­atrum album 30 or 200

4 hourly

when there is vomiting, diarrhea with bad odor and a blood tinge, restlessness, and when the animal craves frequent small sips of water.

Arsenicum alb 30 or 200

4 hourly

For high fever and weak pulse with putrid, bad-smelling discharges, may work. The animal is highly rest­less, delirious-and seriously ill.

Pyrogenium 200 or1M

6hourly)

Vomiting

With burning pain in the stomach; un- quenchable thirst,drinks little water at a time but frequently; retching and fear of death

Arsenic alb. 30

2 hourly

 With constant nausea and clean tongue

Ipecac 30  

2 hourly

 After drinking alcohol; sour vomiting after an hour of eating

Kali bich. 30

2 hourly

 Nausea and vomiting; worse after over eating; vomiting during pregnancy

Nux vomica 30 or 200

2 hourly

 With face bathed with cold sweat; nausea and vomiting during pregnancy

Lobelia info 30

2 hourly

 Violent vomiting with deathly nausea

Tabacum 30

2 hourly

 Violent, forcible vomiting of slimy acid liquid with food; with painful distortion of /' face and cold sweat

Verat-alb. 30

2 hourly

Warts

For tumors and for soft warts that bleed, especially warts around the mouth

Thuja 30,200

6 hourly

For vaccination-induced tumors, small knots that appear under the skin, and warts that become infected.

Silicea. 30,200

6 hourly

For fleshy warts or warts on stalks, especially those on the face or eye­lids.

Causticum 30,200

6 hourly

 Where there are numerous small itchy warts. The primary remedies are Thuja and Causticum. (Thuja tincture may used externally.)

Calc carb  200C

Weekly (1)

For large, smooth, flat warts try

Ducamara 30

6 hourly

Where soft, irritated bleeding warts do not respond to Thuja

Nitric Acid 30

weekly (3)

For horny, hard warts with a smooth surface.

Antimonium crudum 30

4 hourly

Wax in Ears

 Wax in ears; hard, yellowish in colour difficult hearing; loss of thirst

Pulsatilla 30 0 200

4 hourly

 Wax; yellowish white, hard, dry; tearing pain in ears

Lachesis 30 or 200

4 hourly

 Wax reddish, blood colored; defective  hearing

Conium mac. 200 or 1M

10 min. (3)

 Wax reddish; foul smelling; sore pain behind ears

Psorinum 200 or 1M

10 min. (3)

 Excessive ear wax; deafness and re-echo of words

Causticum 200

10 min. (3)

Weakness

 Due to loss of sleep; nervous tension           

Phosphorus 200

10 min. (3)

 Weakness oflegs; after diarrhoea    

Bovista 30

4 hourly

 Due to nervous exhaustion; chilly patient

calcarea carb. 200

4 hourly (3)

 GeneriIl tonic for nervous exhaustion

Kali phose 6X or 30

4 hourly

 Without any apparent cause; after acute disease

Alfa alfa tonic

before meals

 Intercurrent remedy, for psoric patients

Psorinum 200 or 1M

weekly (3)

Worms

Head remedy: to start the treatment Before worming puppies or kittens, give a dose of Sulfur if the coat is dry and unthrifty, or Calc carb if the baby is fat and seems top heavy; these strengthen the animal for the process. Then al­ternate Chenopodium. and Cina 3X twice a day for a week, stop for a week, and repeat. If used continuously in this way, the two remedies will normally keep puppies or kittens free of roundworms. If these fail, give Natrum phos two or three times daily if using 6X cell salt potency,or once or twice per week if using it in 30C

Cina 1M, 15 min. (3) from 2nd. day ­Santonine 3X and Natrum phos -6X, twice each for one week or more,  as required

4 hourly

 For tape worms; with morbid hunger

Anantherum 30

4 hourly

for tape­worms when there are bloody, slimy, foul-odored stools.

Mere cor  30

4 hourly

 Grinding of teeth; distension of abdomen with pain; worse after meal; itching around anus; nocturnal enuresis; desire for sweets

Embelia ribes Q or 30

4 hourly

 For pin worms, for the pet with roundworms where there is evident weight loss, poor digestion, distended abdomen, constipation alternating with diarrhea, good appetite and undigested food in the stool.

Teucrium Marum. 30

4 hourly

 For Ascarides

Abrotanum 30

4 hourly

 For hook worms

Chenopodium Q or 6

4 hourly

for tapeworm when there is weight loss, good appetite and itchy paws

Granatum 30

weekly (3)

If the pet with roundworms strains when eliminating stool and has bad breath, 

Spigelia 30

4 hourly

For irritable, angry pets with intense anal itching, (wormseed) is the roundworm remedy

Cina 30

4 hourly

 Intercurrent remedy

 

Yawning:---

Sulphur 200 or 1M

weekly (3)

 Even while physically occupied; with marked anxiety

Aconite 30 or 200

2 hourly

 After eating; with stretching of the limbs

Nux vomica 30 or 200

3 hourly

 Spasmodic yawning

Platina 200 or 1M

10 min. (3)

 Yawning with dyspnoea

Bromium 30 or 200

4 hourly

 Drowsiness without yawning

Chelidonium 30

4 hourly

 For complaints that comes on whenever patient yawns; trembling and shuddering

Cina 30 or 200

4 hourly

 Yawning with stretching and extending legs

Ruta g. 30 or 200

4 hourly

 Violent and spasmodic yawning

Rhus tox. 200.or 1M

4 hourly