Homoeopathy — Page 324
Eupatorium 324 patient feels like it is 106ºF. In other words, his feelings for both cold and heat are equally enhanced. Once the fever is at its climax, the patient stops sweating. He starts sweating when the fever goes down. This sweating actually hastens the temperature to decrease. However the patient develops a severe headache which is a little bizarre because in the case of malaria, when the fever goes down due to profuse sweating, his headache also gets better. This peculiar observation, i. e. the fever is coming down but the headache is getting worse, is only found in the nature of a patient of Eupatorium. Physicians have been warned previously regarding the treatment of malaria and it is repeated here once again. In malaria, no medicine should be given while the fever is coming on. Unless the fever starts subsiding, no medicine should be given. The best time for the treatment to be given is between two malarial attacks. If during that time, the properly indicated medicine is administered, either the patient will not get a new attack of malaria or the next one would be very mild. It may so happen for two or three days; every subsequent bout of fever will be milder and milder, so much so that the patient will be completely cured. Eupatorium has also been successfully used in the treatment of rheumatism. In the patient of Eupatorium, the joints swell and lumps appear over them. There is pain along the course of the nerves. The gouty pain is mostly on the big toe. Rheumatism patients usually suffer from headache. They feel nauseated and become dizzy in the morning, The dizziness is reduced in the evening. A patient of Eupatorium feels pain behind the eyeballs. For the treatment of pain in the eyes, Gelsemium and Bryonia can be useful adjuncts. When the patient develops diarrhoea, the stools are copious and greenish in colour and thin like water. There may be griping also. Sometimes, the stools are scanty to start with and then become plentiful causing severe dehydration and weakness. After that, the patient becomes constipated, which lasts many days. In Eupatorium, the cough is very troublesome. There is pain over the chest and the whole body shivers. The patient is oversensitive to cold. Eupatorium, being a treatment for the common cold, is also effective on the lungs.