Pyrogenium; Uses/ Indications, Dosage, Side Effects

Materia Medica of Pyrogenium

• Mind – Irritable; holds everything in contempt. Full of desires, for what they know not.
• Head – Bones of skull? feel crushed or bruised. Pain? extends to teeth and root of the tongue.
• Eyes – Inflamed, red. Pain through eyeballs. Profuse lachrymation. Cornea? dim. Eyes tire from near vision. State of vision constantly changing. Spasm? of accommodation from the irritable weakness? of the ciliary muscle. Nausea from looking on moving objects.
• Face – Blue rings around eyes. Periodical orbital neuralgia?, with lachrymation, photophobia?, and smarting eyelids.
• Nose – Coryza, with stoppage of nose and nausea. Epistaxis.
• Stomach – Tongue usually clean. Mouth, moist; much saliva. Constant nausea and vomiting, with pale, twitching of face. Vomits food, bile, blood, mucus. Stomach feels relaxed as if hanging down. Hiccough.
• Abdomen? – Amebic dysentery with tenesmus; while straining pain so great that it nauseates; little thirst. Cutting, clutching; worse, around the navel. Body rigid; stretched out stiff.
• Stools – Pitch-like green as grass, like frothy molasses, with griping at the navel. Dysenteric, slimy.
• Female – Uterine hæmorrhage, profuse, bright, gushing, with nausea. Vomiting during pregnancy. Pain from navel to the uterus?. Menses too early and too profuse.
• Respiratory – Dyspnœa; constant constriction in chest. Asthma?. Yearly attacks of difficult shortness of breathing. Continued sneezing; coryza; a wheezing? cough?. A cough incessant and violent, with every breath. Chest seems full of phlegm? but does not yield to coughing. Bubbling rales. A suffocative cough; the child becomes stiff, and blue in the face. Whooping-cough, with a nosebleed, and from the mouth. Bleeding from lungs, with nausea; feeling of constriction; rattling cough. Croup. Hæmoptysis from slightest exertion (Millef). Hoarseness?, especially at end of a cold. Complete aphonia.
• Fever – Intermittent fever, irregular cases, after Quinine. Slightest chill with much heat, nausea, vomiting, and dyspnœa. Relapses from improper diet.
• Sleep – With eyes half open. Shocks in all limbs on going to sleep (Ign).
• Extremities – Body stretched stiff, followed by spasmodic jerking of arms towards each other.
• Skin – Pale, lax. Blue around eyes. Military rash?.

Indications of Pyrogenium

• Indicated for Fever
• A headache
• Nausea
• Restlessness,
• Vomiting.
• Pyrogenium is a homeopathic remedy often used for fever, headache, nausea, vomiting,
• Diarrhea
• Great restlessness.
• Other indications for its use include a feeling that the bed feels hard, parts lain on feel sore and bruised and the patient must move to relieve the soreness.
• The tongue is often large, flabby, clean, smooth as if varnished; fiery red and the diarrhea is horribly offensive.
• most indicated in blood poisonings; temperature goes up and down; the pulse is weak and rapid; restless, aches all over have chilled, is alternately hot and cold, and complains bed is hard.

Dosage? of Pyrogenium

• Take one pill or five drops of the remedy every 15 minutes to 4 hours (15 minutes for intense symptoms, 4 hours for milder ones). Once an improvement is noticed, stop dosing and repeat the remedy only if symptoms return. If there is no improvement at all by three doses, choose a different remedy or seek professional guidance.
• Adults and adolescents (12 years and older) -Take 10 drops three times daily or as recommended by your healthcare practitioner. Children (under 12 years)

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