Whooping cough - Drosera questions

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I am going to send a bunch of old emails that help with pertussis

questions! From Will MD homeopath and Phyllis Georgic Homeopath on

this list - much wisdom in these and they bear repeating.

Sheri

Here is a question someone asked - drosera is one of MANY remedies that

might be useful in whooping cough - but only in limited cases - don't use

unless it matches - read carefullly below.

What he is saying here is you may not even need a remedy at all unless your

child is in distress. You have to evaluate each child separately.

Get the book Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines - that would be

helpful - but not totally complete.

>1) Drosera is used for Whooping Cough sx (indications correct of

>course). In one of the case histories Shepherd discusses, an 11 month

>old boy who was exposed to whooping cough was taken to the doctor on

>the first day of his cough (The Whoop does not appear for a week), the

>child was sent home for that week. When he returned with the whoop,

>drosera cured in record time. (another week or so.)

>

> Now in my studies I learned that a homeopathic medicine given at

>the onset of an acute can stop the acute from occuring. An example is

>Belladonna at the onset of flushed face, glassy eyes, sore throat, and

>instant fever, etc.

>

> Why couldn't drosera be given to that child immediately? The child

>was exposed, it was probable he was in the prodromal period.

Good question. Actually there are two questions here - (1)does the child

need a remedy, and (2)what remedy does the child need? At the onset of the

illness, if Drosera matched the totality of symptoms, this would be

appropriate. But one couldn't knee-jerk to Drosera - perhaps, after being

exposed to whooping cough, the child is destined to move into a Corralium

rubrum state - or an Ipecacuanha state - or a Kali-c state - or, God

forbid, a Cuprum state (e.g.)- & then needs that remedy, then. In the

prodromal and catarrhal (early, pre-whoop) phases of pertussis, one takes

the case and gives the appropriate simillimum if it can be perceived.

Often a remedy is not needed or appropriate at this stage (incidently, most

pertussis patients never pass this stage into whooping).

One could fall back on the " genus epidimicus " if one were perceived locally

in a pertussis outbreak, and count on perhaps some statistical success -

tho I've not seen a genus epidemicus in the pertussis outbreaks that I've

seen & treated - perhaps there is just too much room for individuation of

response to this illness.

Will , MD

Homoeopathic Family Medicine

Blue Hill, Maine

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