Interstitial lung disease includes a group of diseases that have thickening of the supporting tissues between the air sacs of the lungs. This thickening can be due to a variety of causes such as:
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- Associated autoimmune or collagen vascular diseases,
- Exposure to allopathic medications, agriculture medicines or toxins such as asbestos, tobacco smoke, factories toxins etc.
- Associated genetic diseases,
- Parasites or worms etc.
What is interstitial pneumonia?
Several terms related to interstitial lung disease have been used to describe this condition, including “interstitial pneumonia.” However, since pneumonia is usually associated with an infection, some doctors choose to use the term “interstitial pneumonitis” to refer to inflammation in the interstitial space since many of the causes of this inflammation are not infections.
Interstitial lung disease includes a group of diseases that have thickening of the supporting tissues between the air sacs of the lungs as the common factor. The interstitium is a thin layer of tissue that normally appears as a fine lace on X-rays or imaging studies (best visualized as the appearance of a sponge).
Interstitial lung disease results from a variety of causes that lead to the thickening of the supporting tissue around the air sacs rather than the air sacs themselves. Interstitial lung disease usually involves all of the lungs diffusely rather than affecting only one area.
A disease of the interstitium is recognized on imaging studies as a thick lace (sponge), sometimes symmetric, and in other types, scattered and irregular.
Interstitial fibrosis refers to the scarring of the lungs that can result from prolonged interstitial inflammation. Interstitial lung disease can be acute (coming on suddenly) or chronic (occurring over time). 
Symptoms of interstitial lung disease
Symptoms and signs of interstitial lung disease occur because the damage to the interstitium of the lung impairs breathing. The two most common symptoms are shortness of breath and a dry cough. These symptoms tend to come on gradually and progress.
Interstitial lung disease that has been present for a long time may cause signs and symptoms related to the lowering of the oxygen levels in the blood, such as clubbing of the fingertips and enlargement of the heart.
The symptoms can also reflect the underlying disease process and assist in making a diagnosis. Fevers, fatigue, and weight loss are non-specific but can suggest an infectious process. It is often difficult to make a diagnosis from symptoms alone since so many lung diseases can present with shortness of breath and cough.
What causes interstitial lung disease?
One of the more common infectious causes of interstitial inflammation is the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Viruses, bacteria, and fungi can all cause interstitial inflammation.
Interstitial lung disease has a broad list of causes. The exact cause of interstitial lung disease is not always known (idiopathic).
Some of the known common causes include toxins, environmental factors, chronic diseases, cancer, and infections. If treated with allopathy, depending on the cause, interstitial lung disease can resolve or may lead to irreversible scarring and damage to the lungs.
However, if treated with Homeopathy, interstitial lung disease could be treated completely does not matter which and what is the root cause.
Known causes of interstitial lung disease include the following:
- Environmental factors, such as toxins like asbestos, mold, certain metals, silica dust, talc, cosmetics and chemical dust etc; an interstitial disease caused by some of these irritants is referred to as “hypersensitivity pneumonitis”,
- Radiation therapy to the chest,
- Certain allopathic medications, including some chemotherapy, cancer-fighting allopathic medications and the heart allopathic medication amiodarone,
- Chronic autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma, and lupus,
- Infections: One of the more common infectious causes of interstitial inflammation is the bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Viruses, bacteria, and fungi can all cause interstitial inflammation,
- Cancer in some cases spreads throughout the lymph system in the lungs and appears as interstitial disease,
- Congestive heart failure, renal failure both can present with similar findings due to excess fluid in the spongy tissue of the lung. 
Idiopathic causes
Examples of idiopathic (unknown causes) forms of interstitial lung disease include:
- Bronchiolitis obliterans with organizing pneumonia (BOOP), sometimes known as cryptogenic organizing pneumonia (COP),
- Usual interstitial pneumonitis (UIP),
- Lymphocytic interstitial pneumonitis (LIP),
- Desquamative interstitial pneumonitis (DIP),
- Sarcoidosis,
- Lymphangiomyomatosis,
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis.
The distinction among these idiopathic conditions is based on the exact pattern of lung damage, severity, and location of the disease.
How is interstitial lung disease diagnosed?
The diagnosis of interstitial lung disease typically involves imaging tests, measurement of blood oxygen levels, and sometimes, biopsies or tissue sampling. The typical symptoms and signs of interstitial lung disease, when they occur, should prompt a diagnostic work-up that includes a thorough medical history and physical examination, including blood tests to examine electrolyte levels and blood cells counts.
A history of exposures to environmental toxins may be explored if there is no apparent cause of the symptoms. Often, the precise diagnosis comes from the history if extensive occupational, vocational, travel, and exposure history is obtained.
Imaging studies
Both chest X-rays and high-resolution CT scans of the chest may be ordered. Depending on the history and exam, other testing may be beneficial. 
For example, a patient having arthritic complaints consistent with Rheumatoid arthritis. X-rays of the effected joints may be helpful. Echocardiogram is a test that can evaluate cardiac function as well as the pressures in the lung. This can be useful both for diagnosis and treatment.
Blood Tests
Sometimes blood tests can aid in the diagnosis and or treatment of these patients. Tests for collagen vascular disease (lupus, rheumatoid arthritis), arterial blood gases, liver tests, and others may be beneficial.
Noninvasive tests
That measure lung function (pulmonary function tests – PFTs). The most common of these involves forcefully exhaling into a spirometer, to measure lung volume and air flow. These PFTs are usually supplemented with more elaborate testing involving a body box. This helps measure more accurately the different lung volumes but also can measure gas exchange through the tissue of the lung (diffusing capacity or DLCO).
Bronchoscopy
The direct visualization and examination of the airways of the lungs using a viewing tube is called bronchoscopy. Biopsies or washings of the airways are often obtained during this procedure for examination in the laboratory. Usually this does not get an accurate or definitive diagnosis, though it can be helpful to evaluate the possibility of infections, cancer, and sarcoidosis.
Biopsy
Open lung biopsy is generally necessary if history and less invasive tests are non-diagnostic. In most major centers, this biopsy is performed by minimally invasive techniques referred to as video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS). This usually only requires a brief hospital stay, sometimes less than 24 hours.
Allopathic treatment for interstitial lung disease
Corticosteroids are sometimes used in an attempt to control interstitial inflammation. Drugs that modulate immune function, like azathioprine, cyclophosphamide, mycophenolate may be given along with or following steroid treatment. These medications may help slow the progression of the disease, but they are unable to reverse the scarring in cases of long-standing interstitial lung disease. In severe cases with irreversible damage, lung transplantation may be indicated. 
As the treatment of interstitial lung disease depends upon the cause, definitive diagnosis is often essential since the treatment may involve:
- antimicrobial agents,
- immunosuppressing agents,
- avoidance behavior,
- chemotherapy, and
- in some cases, no therapy is available.
Management of the underlying disease process is also essential in a person with interstitial lung disease related to these conditions. If the disease is thought to involve hypersensitivity, then the best therapy is an avoidance of this offending substance.
Depending upon the severity of the symptoms, respiratory support, including supplemental oxygen and even ventilator support, may be required. Respiratory therapists may be part of a treatment team with the goal of improving day to day function. Smoking cessation is an essential part of the treatment for anyone with interstitial lung disease.
The disease of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis does not respond to any measures. The diagnosis can be made at times by the history, physical, and characteristic chest CT findings. Sometimes lung biopsy can be avoided if the patient’s signs and symptoms present in the classic fashion. If this disease is strongly suspected or diagnosed referral to a tertiary center for transplant center is recommended for evaluation and possible therapeutic research trials.
What is the prognosis for interstitial lung disease?
- As mentioned previously, some forms of interstitial lung disease resolve completely, while others lead to long-term and irreversible scarring and lung damage with accompanying respiratory failure.
- Pulmonary hypertensionis a form of high blood pressure that affects the arteries within the lungs. This form of hypertension can develop in cases of long-standing interstitial lung disease and can lead to enlargement of the heart and right-sided (the side of the heart that pumps blood back to the lungs to receive oxygen) heart failure (known as cor pulmonale).
- The prognosis is dependent upon the type and severity of interstitial lung disease as well as the underlying health status of the patient.
Homeopathic treatment for interstitial lung disease
There are many effective medicines for sarcoidosis available in Homoeopathy, with proper diagnosis and prescription sarcoidosis treatment is not more then 40-60 days, even the complicated cases. Smoking cessation is an essential part of the treatment for anyone with interstitial lung disease. Homeopathic management of the underlying disease process is also essential in a person with interstitial lung disease related to these conditions. Homeopathic treatments are able to reverse the scarring in cases of long-standing interstitial lung disease. 
If the disease is thought to involve hypersensitivity, then the best Homeopathic therapy is also an avoidance of this offending substance. Here are few medicines for sarcoidosis:
Arsenicum Iodatum
Slight hacking cough, with dry and stopped-up nostrils. Diphtheria. Chronic follicular pharyngitis. Pleuritis exudative. Chronic bronchitis. Pulmonary tuberculosis. Pneumonia, Bronchopneumonia after grippe. Recurrent fever and sweats. Unable to lie down; fears suffocation. Air-passages constricted. Asthma worse midnight. Burning in chest. Suffocative catarrh. Cough worse after midnight; worse lying on back. Expectoration scanty, frothy. Darting pain through upper third of right lung. Wheezing respiration. Hemoptysis with pain between shoulders; burning heat all over. Cough dry, from Sulphur etc. fumes.
Palpitation, pain, dyspnea, faintness. Irritable heart in smokers and tobacco-chewers. Cardiomegaly (Heart dilatation). Cyanosis. Fatty degeneration.
Beryllium Metallicum
Inflammation of trachea and lungs. Bronchitis. Pulmonary sarcoidosis. Respiration painful, worse by movement. Bloody sputum. Slight fever with gradual weight loss. Tendency to skin tumors.
Baryta Carbonica
Dry, suffocative cough, full of mucus but lacking strength to expectorate. Larynx feels as if smoke were inhaled. Chronic aphonia. Stitches in chest; worse inspiration. Lungs feel full smoke.
Palpitation and distress in region of heart. Aneurism. Blood pressure increased, contraction of blood vessels. Palpitation when lying on left side. Swollen glands in nape of occiput. Fatty tumors about neck. Bruised pain between scapulae. Stiffness in sacrum. Weakness of spine. Pain in axillary glands.
Senega
Hoarseness. Hurts to talk. Bursting pain in back on coughing. Catarrh of larynx. Loss of voice. Hacking cough. Thorax feels too narrow. Cough often ends in a sneeze. Rattling in chest. Chest oppressed on ascending. Bronchial catarrh, with sore chest walls; much mucus; sensation of oppression and weight of chest. Difficult raising of tough, profuse mucus. Asthenic bronchitis with chronic interstitial nephritis or chronic emphysema. Old asthmatics with congestive attacks. Exudations in Pleura. Hydrothorax. Pressure on chest as though lungs were forced back to spine. 
Bryonia Alba
Soreness in larynx and trachea. Hoarseness. Dry, hacking cough from irritation in upper trachea. Cough, dry, at night; must sit up; worse after eating or drinking, with vomiting, with stitches in chest, and expectoration of rust-colored sputa. Frequent desire to take a long breath; must expand lungs. Difficult, quick respiration; worse every movement; caused by stitches in chest. Cough, with feeling as if chest would fly to pieces; presses his head on sternum; must support chest.
Croupous and pleuro-pneumonia. Expectoration brick shade, tough, and falls like lumps of jelly. Tough mucus in trachea, loosened only with much hawking. Coming into warm room excites cough. Heaviness beneath the sternum extending towards the shoulder. Stitches in cardiac region.
Calcarea Iodata
Enlarged lymph glands. Hectic fever with green purulent expectoration. Chronic cough; Pain in chest, difficulty breathing after syphilis and mercurialization. Hectic fever; green purulent expectoration. Croup. Pneumonia.
Iodum
Hoarse. Raw and tickling feeling provoking a dry cough. Pain in larynx. Laryngitis, with painful roughness. Grasps throat when coughing. Right-sided pneumonia with high temperature. Difficult expansion of chest, blood-streaked sputum; internal dry heat, external coldness. Violent heart action. Hepatization spreads rapidly with persistent high temperature; absence of pain in spite of great involvement, worse warmth; craves cool air. Croup in scrofulous patients. Inspiration difficult. Dry, croupy cough, with difficult respiration; wheezy.
Palpitation from least exertion. Pleuritic effusion. Tickling all over chest. Iod cough is worse indoors, in warm, wet weather, and when lying on back. Heart feels squeezed. Myocarditis, painful compression around heart followed by great weakness and faintness. Palpitation from least exertion. Tachycardia.
Lycopodium Clavatum
Tickling cough. Dyspnea. Tensive, constrictive, burning pain in chest. Cough deep, hollow. Expectorations gray, thick, bloody, purulent, salty. Night cough, tickling, from fumes. Catarrh of the chest seems full of mucus rattling. Neglected pneumonia, with great dyspnea. Aneurism. Aortic disease.
Phosphorus
Inflammation of lungs. Hard, dry, tight, racking cough. Congestion of lungs. Burning pains, heat and oppression of chest. Pneumonia of left lower lung. Pneumonia with oppression, worse lying on left side. Rusty, blood –colored, purulent sputum. Difficulty in breathing. Bleeding hemorrhoids. 
Pancreatic disease. Large, yellow spots on abdomen. Violent cardiac palpitation with anxiety. Pulse rapid, small, and soft. Heart dilated (Cardiomegaly). Wounds bleed very much, even if small; they heal and break out again. Jaundice. Little ulcer outside of large ones. Petechiae. Ecchymosis. Immunotropic Purpura. Scurvy. Fungus hematoidin and excrescences.
Pulsatilla Nigricans
Capricious hoarseness; comes and goes. Dry cough; must sit up in bed to get relief; and loose cough in the morning, with copious mucous expectoration. Pressure upon the chest and soreness. Great soreness of epigastrium. Urine emitted with cough. Pain as from ulcer in middle of chest. Expectoration bland, thick, bitter, greenish. Short breath, anxiety, and palpitation. Smothering sensation on lying down. Varicose veins. Stitches in precordial region. Burning in region of heart.
Spongia Tosta
Great dryness of all air-passages, dry, rough, short and irritating coughs, Croup. They feel extreme dryness in all the air passages. The cough gets worse mostly during nighttime. It may be better by taking warm drinks. Along with cough there may be difficulty in breathing and suffocation. Another attending symptom is burning sensation in the chest. Sometimes they also complain of whistling in the chest and pain in the chest on coughing. Valvular insufficiency. Angina pectoris; faintness, Hypertrophy of heart, with asthmatic symptoms (cardiac asthma). Swelling and induration of glands, Itching; measles.
Kali Phos
Cough, with scanty, thick, white, yellowish expectoration catching breath. Heart – dull throbbing, Vomiting of blood, with palpitation. Blue spots on calves as if they would ulcerate. Itching of whole skin.
Aconite Nepalis
Works best in inflammations, inflammatory fevers. Serous membranes and muscular tissues affected markedly. Burning in internal parts; tingling, coldness and numbness. Influenza. Tension of arteries; emotional and physical mental tension explain many symptoms. Hyperemia, congestion not after exudation has set in.
Belladonna
Drying in nose, fauces, larynx, and trachea. Tickling, short, dry cough; worse at night. Larynx feels sore. Respiration oppressed, quick, unequal. Cheyne-Stokes respiration. Stitches in chest when coughing. Larynx painful; feels as if a foreign body were in it, with cough. High, piping voice. Moaning at every breath. 
Violent palpitation, reverberating in head, with labored breathing. Palpitation from least exertion. Throbbing all through body. Heart feels too large. Rapid but weakened pulse.
. Dry cough, barking cough, whooping cough, with pain in stomach before attack, with expectoration of blood. Violent cardiac palpitation, with labored breathing. Glands swollen, tender, red. Boils. Alternate redness and paleness of the skin. Indurations after inflammations. Erysipelas.
Apis Mellifica
Hoarseness; dyspnea, breathing hurried and difficult. Edema of larynx. Feels as if he could not draw another breath. Suffocation; short, dry cough, suprasternal. Hydrothorax.
Graphites
Constriction of chest; spasmodic asthma, suffocative attacks wake from sleep; must eat something. Pain in middle of chest, with cough, scraping and soreness. Chronic hoarseness with skin affections. Inability to control the vocal cords; hoarseness on beginning to sing and for breaking voice.
Drosera Rotundifolia
Spasmodic, dry irritative cough, like whooping-cough, the paroxysms following each other very rapidly; can scarcely breathe; chokes. Yellow expectoration, with bleeding from nose and mouth; retching. Deep, hoarse voice; hoarseness; laryngitis. Rough, scraping sensation deep in the fauces and soft palate. Sensation as if crumbs were in the throat, of feather in larynx. Laryngeal phthisis, with rapid emaciation. Clergyman’s sore throat, with rough, scraping, dry sensation deep in the fauces; voice hoarse, deep, toneless, cracked, requires exertion to speak. Asthma when talking, with contraction of the throat at every word uttered. 
Rhus Toxicodendron
Tickling behind upper sternum. Dry, teasing cough from midnight until morning, during a chill, or when putting hands out of bed. Hemoptysis from overexertion; blood bright red. Influenza, with aching in all bones. Oppression of the chest cannot get breath with sticking pains. Bronchial coughs worse on awaking and with expectoration of small plugs of mucus. Dry teasing cough. Cardiac Hypertrophy. Pulse quick, weak, irregular, intermittent. Red, swollen; itching intense. Vesicles, herpes; urticaria; pemphigus; erysipelas; vesicular suppurative forms. Glands swollen. Cellulitis. Burning eczematous eruptions with tendency to scale formation.
Leprominum (Mycobacterium leprae, Nosode of Leprosy) (Russian research in Russian language)
Описание Лепроминиум (Leprominium) лекарственной формы
Нозод проказы.
В библейские времена проказой называли разные кожные заболевания, в том числе такие хронические или инфекционные заболевания, которые, вероятно, включали псориаз и лейкодермии. В настоящее время проказа, или болезнь гансена, понимается как хроническая грануломатозная инфекция, причиной которой является mycobacterium leprae (палочка лепры), действующая на наружные части тела, такие, как кожа.
Существуют различные формы, а именно:
Лепроматозная (бугорковая) лепра, при которой кожные узелковые поражения инфильтрированы с отсутствием четких контуров и являются бактериологически положительными; тест с лепромином отрицателен.
«хотя проказа напоминает многие заболевания, она никогда не приводит к состоянию депрессии, ни прямо, ни косвенно, что является достаточно уникальным. Это дало нам клиническую перспективу тщательного индивидуализирования использования этого нозода».
Испытано и введено Dr Qaisar Ahmed.
Диф. диагностика
*** syphilinum и leprominium.
Депрессия: syph. Приводит к суицидальным намерениям; lepr. Приводит к принятию своей судьбы и обращению к религии и бог.
Выздоровление: syph. Отчаяние; lepr. Полон надежд.
Педантичность: syph. Мания мыться; lepr. Тщательный, хочет и поддерживает порядок в веща.
Сон
Общие симптомы
*** tuberculinum и leprominium.
Внешность: tub. красивая внешность, длинные ресницы, круглое лицо и сияющие глаза; lepr. Некрасивая внешность, некрасивое лицо, жирная кожа и восковой но.
Поведение: tub. клептомания; lepr. Ничего не украде.
Настроение: tub. очень раздражительный; lepr. Обычно мягкий в поведении, только иногда раздражаетс.
Путешествие: tub. желание путешествовать; lepr. Нет особого желания путешествоват.
Страхи: tub. боязнь собак; lepr. Бесстрашны.
Потоотделение: tub. обильная потливость, особенно лица, носа и верхней губы; lepr. Потливость не выражена, сухость кож.
*** carcinosinum и leprominium.
Работа: carc. Трудолюбивый; lepr. Леность из-за физической недееспособност.
Заболевания от: carc. Предчувствия, испуга и приближения; lepr. Длительное переживание гор.
Настроение: carc. Гнев из-за собственных ошибок; lepr. Обычно обладает мягким характеро.
Эмоции: carc. Плачет от замечаний, от музыки, когда рассказывает о своих симптомах; lepr. Не склонен плакат.
Утешение: carc. Утешение.
Страхи: carc. Боится животных, собак, темноты, толпы, экзаменов; lepr. Бесстрашны.
Путешествие: carc. Желание путешествовать; lepr. Желание путешествовать не выражен.
Кожа
Голова, лицо и уши
Лицо прокаженного (львиноподобное лицо)1.
Утолщение кожи лица с постоянно присутствующими поперечными и вертикальными морщинами.
«человек, уродливый внешне, но очень добрый сердцем».
Характеристика и сферы действия
Характерные особенности
Отвращение к жизни, однако нет желания совершить самоубийство.
П надеется на выздоровление.
П чувствует себя отвергнутым и подавленным.
Однако не хотел бы просить.
Лучше умереть, чем попросить.
П тщательный.
П желание надевать белую одежду.
Отвращение к одежде черного цвета.
П сочувствующий и ищущий сочувствия.
«однако в начальной стадии заболевания замыкается в себе, так как не хочет, чтобы другие знали о его болезни».
>О склонность к кровотечениям, простудам и нагноению.
>О в семейном анамнезе туберкулез, может быть лепра.
>О в анамнезе:
О следует применять при заболеваниях, которые развиваются медленно, но приводят к необратимым патологическим изменениям.
О благоприятное действие lepr.
«в большинстве случаев успешного применения leprominium после приема нозода у пациента наблюдался жидкий стул со слизью».
О хуже лучистое тепло и солнце.
О скудное потоотделение. Сухость по всему телу.
>О отвращение к сладкому и молоку.
>О хуже кислое.
>О отсутствует желание секса [у лиц как мужского, так и женского пола].
>О лучше отдых.
Ф преждевременное поседение волос.
Ф светобоязнь.
Слезотечение, нераздражающее или едкое, хуже от света и солнца.
Ф уплощенный кончик носа.
Заложенность носа.
Расстройство чувства обоняния.
Ф лицо воскообразное или маслянистое.
Выпадение одной трети бровей с наружного конца.
>Ф ощущение, будто что-то застряло в горле.
>Ф боли в суставах, особенно коленных и в спине.
>Ф жар в ладонях и подошвах.
>Ф гипопигментированные пятна; утолщенные, четко очерченные, поднимающиеся над поверхностью кожи бляшки.
Поражение кожи, напоминающее дерматомикоз.
* все симптомы взяты из работы the emerging picture of leprominium: the leprosy nosode, представленной prakash vakil в proceeding of the 1991 professional case conference.
Аппетит и пищевые пристрастия
>Желание – рыба. холодная как лед вода. Желание – мясо, k острая пища, зеленый перец, кислое, k сладкое.
Ухудшение: кислое.
Thyroidinum
Beryllium Metallicum
Severe asthenia with drowsiness, feeling the cold, and weight loss. All cases of acute viral affection (including the flu), where breathing difficulty (severe dyspnea and violent cough/dyspnea at the slightest effort) quickly become serious and where there is major asthenia. Also indicated in laryngitis, severe bronchitis and pneumopathy, viral pneumonia, emphysema, bronchitis and bronchiolitis”. pulmonary fibrosis, sarcoidosis, tuberculosis, obstructive pulmonary disease.
Indicated in cases of lung edema and when granulomas are present. In oncology, it may be prescribed as part of supportive care, to patients with bronchial cancer with a painful cough, asthenia and anorexia. Psoro-sycosis and tubercular in acute cases; syphilitic in chronic cases.
ENT signs
Coryza with obstruction, dry, cracked lips, redness of the mucous membranes of the mouth and pharynx. Ulcers of the tip of the tongue. Shiny appearance (as if vitrified) of the mucous membranes. Metallic taste, burning and cutting dysphagia improved by cold drinks and eating. Tinnitus.
Intermittent fever, in spurts, beginning with chills, worsening from 23 hours to the morning, accompanied by great weakness and sweating.
Digestive signs
Anorexia, feeling of fullness, of being bloated, aggravated by breathing in, nausea, improved when lying down and aggravated in the car; aversion to sweets. 
Respiratory signs
Inflammation of the larynx with hoarseness, dyspnea which worsens at the slightest movement, dry, painful cough, aggravated when leaning back and from the cold, improved in a warm room. The cough is spasmodic, seeming to come from the sternum. No or very slight sputum with a sweet taste. A little hemoptysis may be present as well as a feeling of chest oppression when taking a breath, wheezing and crackles on auscultation.
Psychological signs
Anxiety with the fear of being seriously ill. Patient wants rapid therapeutic results.
Cerebral Signs
Occipital and/or parietal headaches improved by fresh air, aggravated by coughing and movement. The pain goes from left to right, they are throbbing, with a feeling of bursting.
Radiological signs
Blurred images, suggesting an acute pneumopathy. Micronodular infiltrate in chronic cases.
Cardiac signs
Palpitations with sensation of lipothymia and weakness of the legs.
Locomotor signs
Prickly back pain, with a feeling of cold in the lumbar area; pain like bruising of the limbs, pain as for a sprain. Finger clubbing (in chronic cases).
Urinary symptoms: increased porphyrinuria.
Skin signs
Papulas and itchy rashes. Skin ulcerations (in chronic cases).
Haematological signs
Hypochromic macrocytic anaemia, leukocytosis, hypercalcemia, hyperproteinemia and increased sedimentation rate.
COMPARISONS
Phosphorus and Lachesis in acute cases but also Calcarea carbonica, Baryta carbonica, Calcarea silicata, Hepar sulfur, Magnesia carbonica, Strontium carbonicum and Causticum in chronic cases
Latrodectus Mactans
Latrodectus mactans mainly affects the heart, producing a typical picture of Angina pectoris. Heart attack. The precordial region seems to be the center of attack. The person becomes restless with heart pains and prostrated. Anxiety about the heart. Fear of suffocating or dying. Violent heart pains , sharp, extending to shoulders or both arms to fingers with numbness. Constriction of chest muscles with radiation to shoulders and back. It is a left sided remedy.
Blood becomes thin and watery. Lowered coagulability. Inflammation of the coronary arteries. Chronic hemorrhaging endothelial plasmatic condition. Chronic idiopathic thrombocytopenia.
Violent abdominal pain with nausea and sinking sensation at epigastrium. Extreme apnea. Gasping for breath, fear of losing breath or dying.
Coldness of the whole surface of the body. Skin cold as marble.
Euphrasia lathyris
Labored breathing. Breath cold, musty odor. Cough; first, a hacking, as from inhalation of Sulphur; later on, paroxysmal, like whooping-cough, in regular paroxysms, ending in diarrhea and vomiting, with sleepiness between each paroxysm. Heart weak and fluttering heart-action. Pulse 120, full, bounding, somewhat irregular.
Sepia
Muscular asthenopia; black spots in the field of vision; asthenic inflammations. Tarsal tumors. Ptosis, ciliary irritation. Venous congestion of the fundus. Dry fatiguing cough. Dyspnea; worse, after sleep; better, rapid motion. Hypostatic pleuritis. Whooping-cough. Violent intermittent cardiac palpitation. Beating in all arteries. Tremulous feeling with flushes.
Herpes circinate in isolated spots. Itching; not relieved by scratching. Chloasma; herpetic eruption on lips, about mouth and nose. Ringworm-like eruption. Urticaria. Ichthyosis with offensive odor of skin.
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