Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Anemia is a disorder of the blood caused by inherited abnormal hemoglobin (the oxygen-carrying protein within the red blood cells). The abnormal hemoglobin causes distorted (sickled appearing under a microscope) red blood cells. The sickled red blood cells are fragile and prone to rupture. When the number of red blood cells decreases from rupture (hemolysis), anemia is the result. This condition is referred to as sickle cell anemia. The irregular sickled cells can also block blood vessels causing tissue and organ damage and pain.
Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Anemia is one of the most common inherited blood anemias.
Sickling of the red blood cells in patients with sickle cell anemia results in cells of abnormal shape and diminished flexibility. The sickling is promoted by conditions associated with low oxygen levels, increased acidity, or low volume (dehydration) of the blood. These conditions can occur because of injury to the body’s tissues, dehydration, or anesthesia.
Certain organs are predisposed to lower oxygen levels or acidities, such as when blood moves slowly through the spleen, liver, or kidney. In addition, organs with particularly high metabolism rates (such as the brain, muscles, and the placenta in a pregnant woman with sickle cell anemia) promote sickling by extracting more oxygen from the blood. These conditions make these organs susceptible to injury from sickle cell anemia.
Symptoms of Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Anemia
Virtually all of the major symptoms of Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Anemia are the direct result of the abnormally shaped, sickled red blood cells blocking the flow of blood that circulates through the tissues of the body. The tissues with impaired circulation suffer damage from a lack of oxygen. Damage to tissues and organs of the body can cause severe disability in patients with sickle cell anemia. The patients endure episodes of intermittent “crises” of variable frequency and severity, depending on the degree of organ involvement.
The major features and symptoms of Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Anemia include:
- Fatigue and anemia.
- Pain.
- Dactylitis (swelling and inflammation of the hands and/or feet) and arthritis.
- Bacterial infections.
- Sudden pooling of blood in the spleen and liver congestion.
- Lung and heart injury.
- Leg ulcers.
- Aseptic necrosis (severe infectious diseases) and bone infarcts (death of portions of bone).
- Eye damage.
Some features of sickle cell anemia that can occur at any age include:
- Fatigue.
- Anemia.
- Pain crises.
- Bone infarcts.
Many features typically occur in certain age groups.
Infants with sickle cell anemia do not develop symptoms in the first few months of life because the hemoglobin produced by the developing fetus (fetal hemoglobin) protects the red blood cells from sickling. This fetal hemoglobin is absent in the red blood cells that are produced after birth so that by 5 months of age, the sickling of the red blood cells is prominent, and symptoms begin.
Infants and younger children can suffer signs and symptoms such as:
- Fever.
- Abdominal pain.
- Pneumococcal bacterial infections.
- Painful swellings of the hands and feet (dactylitis).
- Splenic sequestration.
Adolescents (preteens and teens) and young adults more commonly develop the following symptoms:
Symptoms in adults typically are intermittent pain episodes due to injury of bone, muscle, or internal organs.
Diagnosis of Sickle Cell Anemia
Sickle cell anemia is suggested when the abnormal sickle-shaped cells in the blood are identified under a microscope. Testing is typically performed on a smear of blood using a special low-oxygen preparation. This is referred to as sickle prep. Other prep tests can also be used to detect abnormal hemoglobin S, including solubility tests performed on tubes of blood solutions. The disease can be confirmed by specifically quantifying the types of hemoglobin present using hemoglobin electrophoresis.
Prenatal diagnosis (before birth) of sickle cell anemia is possible using amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling. The sample obtained is then tested for DNA analysis of the fetal cells.
The hemoglobin electrophoresis test precisely identifies the hemoglobin in the blood by separating them. The separation of the different hemoglobin is possible because of the unique electrical charges they each have on their protein surfaces, causing them each to move characteristically in an electrical field.
Symptoms
Fatigue is a common symptom in persons with Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Anemia. Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Anemia causes a chronic form of anemia, which can lead to fatigue. The sickled red blood cells are prone to breakage (hemolysis) which causes reduced red blood cell life span (the normal lifespan of a red blood cell is 120 days).
Typically, the site of red blood cell production (bone marrow) works overtime to produce these cells rapidly, attempting to compensate for their destruction in the circulation. Occasionally, the bone marrow suddenly stops producing red blood cells, which causes a very severe form of anemia (aplastic crises). Aplastic crises can be promoted by infections that otherwise would seem less significant, including viruses of the stomach and bowels and the flu (influenza).
Allopathic treatments for Sickle Cell Anemia
Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Anemia tends to stabilize without specific treatments. The degree of anemia is defined by the measurement of the blood hemoglobin level. Hemoglobin is the protein molecule in red blood cells that carries oxygen from the lungs to the body’s tissues and returns carbon dioxide from the tissues to the lungs. Blood hemoglobin levels in persons with sickle cell anemia are generally between 6 to 8 gms/dl (normal levels are above 11 gms/dl).
Occasionally, there can be a severe drop in hemoglobin requiring a blood transfusion to correct the anemia (such as in patients suffering splenic sequestration). Blood transfusion is usually reserved for those patients with other complications, including pneumonia, lung infarction, stroke, severe leg ulceration, or late pregnancy. (Among the risks of blood transfusion are hepatitis, infection, immune reaction, and injury to body tissues from iron overload.) Transfusions are also given to patients to prepare them for surgical procedures.
Folic acid is given as a supplement. Sometimes a red blood cell exchange is performed. This process removes some of the sickle blood cells and replaces them with normal (non-sickle) blood cells. It is done when the sickle cell crisis is so severe that other forms of treatment are not helping.
Pain crises
Pain crises in persons with Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Anemia are intermittent painful episodes that are the result of inadequate blood supply to body tissues. The impaired circulation is caused by the blockage of various blood vessels from the sickling of red blood cells. The sickled red blood cells slow or completely impede the normal flow of blood through the tissues. This leads to excruciating pain, often requiring hospitalization and opiate medication for relief.
The pain typically is throbbing and can change its location from one body area to another. Bones are frequently affected. Pain in the abdomen with tenderness is common and can mimic appendicitis. Fever frequently is associated with the pain crises. A pain crisis can be promoted by preceding dehydration, infection, injury, cold exposure, emotional stress, or strenuous exercise.
As a prevention measure, persons with sickle cell anemia should avoid extremes of heat and cold.
Pain crises require analgesia for pain and increased fluid intake. Dehydration must be prevented to avoid further injury to the tissues and intravenous fluids can be necessary. Other modalities, such as biofeedback, self-hypnosis, and/or electrical nerve stimulation may be helpful.
Hydroxyurea is a medication that is currently being used in adults and children with severe pain from sickle cell anemia. It is also considered for those with recurrent strokes and frequent transfusions. This drug acts by increasing the amount of fetal hemoglobin in the blood (this form of hemoglobin is resistant to sickling of the red blood cells).
The response to hydroxyurea is variable and unpredictable from patient to patient. Hydroxyurea can be suppressive to the bone marrow.
Dactylitis and arthritis
Swelling and inflammation of the hands and/or feet is often an early sign of sickle cell anemia. The swelling involves entire fingers and/or toes and is called dactylitis. Dactylitis is caused by injury to the bones of the affected digits by repeated episodes of inadequate blood circulation. Dactylitis generally occurs in children with Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Anemia from age 6 months to 8 years.
Joint inflammation (arthritis) with pain, swelling, tenderness, and limited range of motion can accompany the dactylitis. Sometimes, not only the joints of the hands or feet are affected, but also a knee or an elbow.
The inflammation from dactylitis and arthritis can be reduced by anti-inflammation medications, such as ibuprofen and aspirin.
Prognosis
With allopathy, the life expectancy of persons with Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Anemia is reduced. Some patients, however, can remain without symptoms for years, while others do not survive infancy or early childhood. Nevertheless, with optimal management patients can now survive beyond the fourth decade. Homeopathy treatment for Sickle Cell Disease, Sickle Cell Anemia has good results and prognosis.
Most patients suffer intermittent pain crises, fatigue, bacterial infections, and progressive tissue and organ damage. Impaired growth and development are the result of the physical and emotional trauma that is endured by children with sickle cell anemia.
Causes of death include bacterial infection (the most common cause), stroke or bleeding into the brain, and kidney, heart, or liver failure. The risk of bacterial infections does diminish after three years of age. Nevertheless, bacterial infections are the most common cause of death at any age. Therefore, any signs of infection in a person with sickle cell anemia must be reviewed with a doctor to prevent damage and save lives.
Interestingly, the sickle cell gene somewhat protects against malaria infection. This makes those with sickle cell trait (gene carriers) at least partially resistant to malaria. Furthermore, the geographic distribution of the sickle cell gene is similar to that of malaria infection. Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Anemia is a lethal condition that threatens life. However, there may be a selective advantage to being a sickle cell carrier (trait) if the person resides in an area of the world where malaria is very common. The advantage a person with sickle cell trait has over a non-carrier of the gene may explain why sickle cell anemia did not disappear from the world even though it is lethal.
The sickle cell gene is not a “black gene.” It just happens to disproportionately occur in the black population. When a black person who carries a sickle cell gene has children with a non-black person, the children may inherit the sickle cell gene regardless of race. There are also people of all races who carry the sickle cell gene.
Recent research is examining further ways to promote the development of fetal hemoglobin that delays the development of sickle cell in the newborn. Bone marrow transplantation is being used for patients with severe sickle cell anemia who have a sibling donor. Future treatments may involve genetic engineering where cures might be achieved.
Finally, genetic counseling can be helpful for parents and families to prevent sickle cell anemia. Sickle cell anemia is an inherited illness. Both parents must be carriers of the sickle cell gene for a child to be affected with sickle cell anemia. If each parent is a carrier, any child has a 1 in 2 chance (50%) of also being a carrier and a one in four (25%) chance of inheriting both genes from the parents and being affected with sickle cell anemia.
Homeopathic Treatment for Sickle Cell Anemia
Studies demonstrated that the medication induces an increase in leukocyte number. If an underlying illness is responsible for patient’s symptoms, treating and managing the underlying condition should help keep anemia and Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Anemia. symptoms at bay. Cancer, kidney disease, ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis, or other illnesses may be to blame.
There is numerous homeopathy medicine to treat different types of anemia Sickle Cell Disease or Sickle Cell Anemia and their cause(s), Here are some of them:
Aletris Farinosa
Anemia. Colic. Constipation. Convulsions. Debility. Dysmenorrhea. Dysuria. Endometritis. Fever. Hemorrhoids. Hysteric colic. Indigestion. Leucorrhea. Menorrhagia. Myalgia. Pregnancy vomiting. Sterility. Uterus, pain in; prolapse. Appetite lost with weakness. Gastrointestinal diseases.
X-Ray
Has the property of stimulating cellular metabolism. Arouses the reactive vitality, mentally and physically. Brings to the surface suppressed symptoms, especially sycotic and those due to mixed infections. Atrophy of ovaries and testicles. Sterility. Changes take place in the blood lymphatics and bone marrow. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Anemia and leukemia. Rheumatic pains. General tired and sick feeling. Palms rough and scaly.
Electricitas
Chorea. Headache. Hysteria. Paralysis. Rheumatism. Nervous tremors; anxiety; fear; restlessness, anxiety, and anguish; violent headaches; palpitation; swelling of parts. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia.
Helonias Dioica
Sensation of weakness, dragging and weight in the sacrum and pelvis, with great languor and prostration. The menses are often suppressed, and the kidneys congested. Women with prolapsus from atony, enervated by indolence and luxury. Diabetes mellitus, and insipidus. Constant aching and tenderness over kidneys. Tired and weak. Aching and burning across the lumbar region. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia.
Alumina
Old people, with lack of vital heat, or prematurely old, with debility. Sluggish functions, heaviness, numbness, and staggering, and the characteristic constipation. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Delicate children, products of artificial baby foods. Abnormal cravings-chalk, charcoal, dry food, tea-grounds. Heartburn; feels constricted. Aversion to meat. Arms feel paralyzed. Legs feel asleep. Inability to walk. Spinal degenerations and paralysis of lower limbs.
Arsenicum Album
A profoundly acting remedy on every organ and tissue. Its clear-cut characteristic symptoms and correspondence to many severe types of disease. all-prevailing debility, exhaustion, and restlessness, with nightly aggravation, are most important. Great exhaustion after the slightest exertion. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. This, with the peculiar irritability of fiber, gives the characteristic irritable weakness. Burning pains. Unquenchable thirst. Burning relieved by heat. Seaside complaints. Injurious effects. Gives quiet and ease to the last moments of life when given in high potency. Fear fright and worry. Green discharges. Infantile leishmaniasis. Degenerative changes. Gradual loss of weight from impaired nutrition. Reduces the refractive index of blood serum. Maintains the system under the stress of malignancy regardless of location. Malarial cachexia. Septic infections and low vitality.
Arnica Montana
Injuries, falls, blows, contusions. Tinnitus aurium. Putrid phenomena. Septic conditions; prophylactic of pus infection. Apoplexy, red, full face. After traumatic injuries, overuse of any organ, strains. Acts best in plethoric, feebly in debilitated with impoverished blood, cardiac dropsy with dyspnea. A muscular tonic. Traumatism of grief, tension, depression and/or anxiety. Marked effect on the blood. Affects the venous system inducing stasis. Ecchymosis and hemorrhages. Relaxed blood vessels, black and blue spots. Tendency to hemorrhage and low-fever states. Tendency to tissue degeneration, septic conditions, abscesses that do not mature. Sore, lame, bruised feeling. Neuralgias originating in disturbances of pneumo-gastric. Rheumatism of muscular and tendinous tissue, especially of back and shoulders. Aversion to tobacco. Influenza. Thrombosis. Hematocele. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia.
Calcarea Carbonica
An effective homeopathy medicine used by doctors and conventional bone marrow treatments. According to a study, Calcara Carbonica decreases tumor-induced suppression of T cell proliferation and avoids tumor-induced loss of effector T cell repertoire. Calcara Carbonica prevents the adhesion and invasion of cancer cells. In other words, it stops cancer cells from attacking.
Its a best choice for impaired nutrition being the keynote of its action, the glands, skin, and bones, being instrumental in the changes wrought. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Increased local and general perspiration, swelling of glands, scrofulous and rachitic conditions generally offer numerous opportunities for the exhibition of Calcarea. Incipient phthisis. It covers the tickling cough, fleeting chest pains, nausea, acidity and dislike of fat. Gets out of breath easily. A jaded state, mental or physical, due to overwork. Abscesses in deep muscles; polypi and exostoses. Pituitary and thyroid dysfunction.
Raised blood coagulability. Is a definite stimulant to the periosteum. Is a hemostatic and gives this power probably to the gelatine injections. Easy relapses, interrupted convalescence. Persons of scrofulous type, who take cold easily, with increased mucous secretions, children who grow fat, are large-bellied, with large head, pale skin, chalky look, the so-called leucophlegmatic temperament; affections caused by working in water. Great sensitivity to cold; partial sweats. Children crave eggs and eat dirt and other indigestible things; are prone to diarrhea. Calcarea patient is fat, fair, flabby and perspiring and cold, damp and sour.
Calcarea Phos
It has many symptoms in common with Calcarea carb. One of the most important tissue remedies, there are some differences and characteristic features of its own. It is especially indicated in tardy dentition and troubles incident to that period, bone disease non-union of fractured bones, and the anemias after acute diseases and chronic wasting diseases. Anemic children who are peevish, flabby, have cold extremities and feeble digestion. It has a special affinity where bones form sutures or symphyses, and all its symptoms are worse from any change of weather. Numbness and crawling are characteristic sensations, and tendency to perspiration and glandular enlargement are symptoms it shares with the carbonate. Scrofulosis, chlorosis and phthisis. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia.
Natrum Muriaticum
The prolonged taking of excessive salt causes profound nutritive changes to take place in the system, and there arise not only the symptoms of salt retention as evidenced by dropsies and oedemas, but also an alteration in the blood causing a condition of anemia and leukocytosis. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. There seems also to be a retention in the tissues of effected materials giving rise to symptoms loosely described as gouty or rheumatic gout. The proving are full of such symptoms. A great medicine for certain forms of intermittent fever, anemia, chlorosis, many disturbances of the alimentary tract and skin. Great debility: most weakness felt in the morning in bed. Coldness. Emaciation most notable in neck. Great liability to take cold. Dry mucous membranes. Constrictive sensation throughout the body. Great weakness and weariness. Oversensitive to all sorts of influences. Hyperthyroidism. Goiter. Addison’s disease. Diabetes.
Kalium Carbonicum
Soft pulse, coldness, general depression, and very characteristic stitches, which may be felt in any part of the body, or in connection with any affection. All Kali pains are sharp and cutting, nearly all better by motion. Never use any Salts of Potash where there is fever. Sensitive to every atmospheric change, and intolerance of cold weather. One of the best remedies following labor. Miscarriage, for consequent debilitated states, for sickle Cell Disease or sickle Cell Anemia. Early morning aggravation is very characteristic. Fleshy aged people, with dropsical and paretic tendencies. Sweat, backache, and weakness. Throbbing pains. Tendency to dropsy. Tubercular diathesis. Pains from within out, and of stinging character. “Giving out” sensation. Fatty degenerations. Stinging pains in muscles and internal parts. Twitching of muscles. Pain in small spot-on left side Hypothyroidism. Coxitis.
Pulsatilla
Pulsatilla is known for its anti-cancer effects on diverse cancer tumors. Mild, gentle, yielding disposition. Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable, contradictory. The patient seeks the open air; always feels better there, even though he is chilly. Mucous membranes are all affected. Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish green. Often indicated after abuse of Iron tonics, and after badly managed measles. Symptoms ever changing. Thirstless, peevish, and chilly. When first serious impairment of health is referred to age of puberty. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Great sensitiveness. Wants the head high. Feels uncomfortable with only one pillow. Lies with hands above head.
Nitricum Acidum
Blisters and ulcers in mouth, tongue, genitals; bleed easily. Fissures, with pain during stool, as if rectum were torn. All discharges very offensive, especially urine, feces, and perspiration. Persons who have chronic diseases and take cold easily and disposed to diarrhea. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Excessive physical irritability. Cachexia, due to syphilis, scrofula, intermittent fever with liver involvement and anaemia, etc. Gravel; arthritis. Capillary bleeding after curettage.
Arsenicum Hydrogenisatum
The general action of Arsenic more accentuated. Anemia. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Anxiety; despair. Hematuria, with general blood disorganization. Hemorrhages from mucous membranes. Urine suppressed, followed by vomiting. Prepuce and glans covered with pustules and round superficial ulcers. Collapse. Coldness; prostration. Sudden weakness and nausea. Skin becomes dark brown. Acute promyelocytic leukemia.
Ferrum phosphoricum
The early stages of febrile conditions. Common bone marrow disorders, including leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS), and aplastic anemia. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Nervous, sensitive, anemic with the false plethora and easy flushing of Ferrum. Prostration marked; face more active than Gels. The superficial redness never assumes the dusky hue of Gels. Pulse soft and flowing; no anxious restlessness of Acon. Susceptibility to chest troubles. Bronchitis of young children. In acute exacerbation of tuberculosis, a fine palliative of wonderful power. Corresponds to Grauvogl Oxygenoid Constitution, the inflammatory, febrile, emaciating, wasting consumptive.
Aletris Farinosa
Extreme weakness and fatigue. Such patients always feel tired with minimal energy levels. Vertigo, with sleepiness, vomiting, purging; even stupefaction. Facial skin looks pale. Repeated abortions, Vaginal discharges, abundant bleeding during periods. Appetite lost, with weakness. Disgust for food, nausea; obstinate indigestion. Vomiting during pregnancy. Cramps. Griping. Pain all through abdomen, scanty diarrheic stool. Aching in hypogastrium and across back of hips. Hysteric colic. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Hemorrhoids. Urine incontinence. Menorrhagia, profuse, and black. Prolapsus. Sterility. Habitual tendency to abort; sensation of weight in uterine region; tendency to prolapse.
Moringa
Metabolic anemia. Malnutrition. Pernicious Anemia This type of Anemia arises from an autoimmune disorder where there is atrophy of gastric mucosa with the resultant decrease in parietal cells and intrinsic factor produced by these cells. Intrinsic factor is required to absorb Vitamin B12. So, in Pernicious Anemia, defective absorption of Vitamin B12 is the cause and not its nutritional deficiency. Malnutrition.
Alstonia Sclerosis
If the cause is malaria or other liver and/or spleen disease. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Malarial diseases, with diarrhea, dysentery, anemia, feeble digestion. Bloody stool, dysentery; diarrhea from bad water and malaria. Painless watery stools
Alumina
Stitching, burning pain in head, with vertigo. Low-spirited; fears loss of reason. Confused as to personal identity. Hasty, hurried. Time passes slowly. Variable mood. Objects look yellow. Eustachian tube feels plugged. Worms/Ascarides. Abnormal cravings-chalk, charcoal, dry food, tea-grounds. Heartburn; feels constricted. Aversion to meat. Stool hard dry, knotty; no desire. Rectum sore, dry, inflamed, bleeding. Muscles of bladder paretic. Pain in kidneys, with mental confusion. Frequent desire to urinate. Menses too early, short, scanty, pale, followed by severe exhaustion. Leucorrhea acrid, profuse transparent, ropy, with burning. Arms feel paralyzed. Legs feel asleep. Paralytic weakness. Bad nutrition. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia.
China Officianalis
China acts both as a hemorrhage controller as well as enhances the amount of blood after the bleeding episodes. One of the best homeopathic medicines after too many allopathic drugs and/or for excessive bleeding/blood loss. Debility from exhausting discharges, from loss of vital fluids, together with a nervous erethism. Bleeding could be due to traumatic injury, periods, and so on. The person is usually tired and faints quite often. China is used to control hemorrhage as well as improves blood quantity after bleeding episodes. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Spasmodic thoric headache. Blue color around eyes. Hollow eyes. Yellowish sclerotica. Black specks, bright dazzling illusions. Spots before eyes. Tinnitus. Vomiting of undigested food. Slow digestion. Tympanitic abdomen. Pain in right hypochondrium. Gallstone colic. Liver and spleen swollen and enlarged. Jaundice. Internal coldness of stomach and abdomen. Gastro-duodenal catarrh.
Triumfetta Semitriloba
Internal ulcerations. Antihypertensive, astringent, diuretic, mucilaginous and emollient. Diarrhea, dysentery, internal hemorrhages and gonorrhea. Leprosy. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia.
Patients with severe colds. Sterility (it promotes childbirth). Boils.
Calceria Phosphorica
One of the most important tissue remedies. Anemia. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Peevish, forgetful; after grief and vexation. Defective hearing. Headache, with abdominal flatulence. Bleeding after hard stool. Diarrhea. Green, slimy, hot, sputtering, undigested stools with fetid flatus. Fistula in ano. Menses too early and excessive. Prolonged nursing. Malnutrition.
Iridium Metallicum
Intestinal putrefaction and septicemia. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Anemia, increases red corpuscles. Epilepsy; lupus. Rheumatism and gout. Uterine tumors. Spinal paresis. Exhaustion after disease. Puny and weak-limbed patients. Nephritis of pregnancy. Kidney weakness.
Ferrum Metallicum
Anemia with tachycardia. Best adapted to young weakly persons, anemic and chlorotic, with pseudo-plethora, who flush easily; cold extremities; over sensitiveness; worse after any active effort. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Weakness from mere speaking or walking though looking strong. Pallor of skin, mucous membranes, face, alternating with flushes. Orgasms of blood to face, chest, head, lungs, etc. Irregular distribution of blood. Pseudo-plethora. Muscles flabby and relaxed. Vomiting immediately after eating. Vomiting after midnight. Stool undigested. Discharge of long pieces from uterus. Women who are weak, delicate, chlorotic, yet have a fiery-red face. Menses too early, too profuse, last too long; pale, watery. Sensitive vagina. Tendency to abortion. Prolapse of vagina. Bradycardia. Anemic murmur. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Pulse full, but soft and yielding; also, small and weak. Heart suddenly bleeds into the blood vessels, and as suddenly draws a reflux, leaving pallor of surface.
Ferrum Phosphoricum
Early stages of febrile conditions, it stands midway between sthenic activity of Aconite and Bell, and the asthenic sluggishness and torpidity of Gels. The typical Ferr phos subject is not full blooded and robust, but nervous, sensitive, anemic with the false plethora and easy flushing of Ferrum. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Prostration marked; face more active than Gels. The superficial redness never assumes the dusky hue of Gels. Pulse soft and flowing; no anxious restlessness of Acon. Susceptibility to chest troubles. Bronchitis of young children. In acute exacerbation of tuberculosis, a fine palliative of wonderful power. Corresponds to Gravel’s Oxygenoid Constitution, the inflammatory, febrile, emaciating, wasting consumptive. Ferr phos (in lower potencies) increases hemoglobin. In pale, anemic subjects, with violent local congestions. Hemorrhages, bright from any orifice. Vertigo. Aversion to meat and milk. Vomiting of undigested food. Vomiting of bright red blood. Peritonitis. Hemorrhoids. Stools watery, bloody, undigested. Palpitation; pulse rapid. Cardiac diseases. Short, quick, soft pulse.
Ceanothus Americanus
Ceanothus Americanus has specific relation to the spleen. Ague cake of malaria. A left-sided remedy generally. Anemic patients where liver and spleen are at fault. Chronic bronchitis with profuse secretion. Marked blood pressure, reducing powers. Active hemostatic, materially reducing the clotting of blood. Splenomegaly. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Urine constant urging to urinate. Urine green; frothy; contains bile, sugar.
Phosphorus
Yellow atrophy of the liver and sub-acute hepatitis, prostration, faints, sweats, shooting pains, etc. Polycythemia. Blood extravasations; fatty degenerations, cirrhosis, caries. Loss of memory. Vertigo. Congestion of head. Brain-fag. Face pale, sickly complexion; blue rings under eyes. Hippocratic countenance. Throws up ingesta by the mouthfuls. Vomiting. Sharp, cutting pains in stomach. Ulcerative colitis. A very weak, empty, gone sensation felt in whole abdominal cavity. Liver congested. Acute hepatitis. Fatty degeneration. Jaundice. Pancreatic disease. Large, yellow spots on abdomen. Hematuria. Metritis. Chlorosis. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Phlebitis. Fistulous tracts after mammary abscess. Slight hemorrhage from uterus between periods. Menses too early and scanty-not profuse, but last too long. Weeps before menses. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Stitching pain in mammae. Leucorrhea profuse, smarting, corrosive, instead of menses. Amenorrhea, with vicarious menstruation. Violent heart palpitation with anxiety.
Pulsatilla
Sad, crying readily; weeps when talking; changeable, contradictory, very irritable: sensitive to all impressions. Ugly, malicious. Mucous membranes are all affected. Discharges thick, bland, and yellowish green. Often indicated after abuse of allopathic Iron supplements. Severe headaches. Aversion to fatty food. Dyspepsia. Rumbling, watery stools. Congestive headache, associated with hemorrhoids. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia.
Nux Vomica
Nux patient is rather thin, spare, quick, active, nervous, and irritable, with bad nutritional habits. Sour mouth taste and nausea. Liver engorged, with stitches and soreness. Hematuria. Spermatorrhea. Menses too early, lasts too long; always irregular, blood black. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia.
Natrum Muriaticum
Prolonged taking of excessive salt causes profound nutritive changes to take place in the system, and there arise not only the symptoms of salt retention as evidenced by dropsies and oedemas, but also an alteration in the blood causing a condition of anemia and leukocytosis. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia. Anemia due to Stress, depression and anxiety. Palpitations with fluttering sensations. Excessive use of salt. Vertigo along with tachycardia. A best choice for certain forms of intermittent fever, anemia, chlorosis, many disturbances of the alimentary tract and skin. Great debility: most weakness felt in the morning in bed. Coldness. Emaciation most notable in neck. Great liability to take cold. Dry mucous membranes. Constrictive sensation throughout the body. Great weakness and weariness. Oversensitive to all sorts of influences. Hyperthyroidism. Goiter. Addison’s disease. Diabetes. Throbbing blinding headache. Burning pains and stitching after stool. Anus contracted, torn, bleeding. Constipation. Menses irregular, profuse. Tachycardia. Sensation of coldness of heart. Heart and chest feel constricted. Fluttering, palpitating; intermittent pulse. Heart’s pulsations shake body. Intermits on lying down.
Acid Nitricum
Blisters and ulcers in mouth, tongue, genitals; bleed easily. Fissures, with pain during stool, as if rectum were torn. All discharges very offensive, especially urine, feces, and perspiration. Persons who have chronic diseases and take cold easily and disposed to diarrhea. Excessive physical irritability. Cachexia, due to syphilis, scrofula, intermittent fever with liver involvement and anemia, etc. Gravel; arthritis. Capillary bleeding after curettage. Irritable, hateful, vindictive, headstrong. Bleeding of gums. Ulcers in soft palate, with sharp, splinter-like pains. Salivation and fetor oris. Bloody saliva. Hemorrhages from bowels, profuse, bright. Prolapsus ani. Hemorrhoids bleed easily. Diarrhea, slimy and offensive. After stools, irritable and exhausted. Jaundice, aching in liver. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia.
Urine. scanty, dark, offensive. Smells like ammonia. Cold on passing. Burning and stinging. Urine bloody and albuminous. Alternation of cloudy, phosphatic urine with profuse urinary secretion in old prostatic cases. Uterine hemorrhages. Menses early, profuse, like muddy water, with pain in back, hips and thighs. Stitches through vagina. Metrorrhagia after parturition.
Acid Picricum
Muscular debility. Heavy tired feeling. Myelitis with spasms and prostration. Writer’s palsy. Progressive, pernicious anemia. Uremia with complete anuria. Dementia with prostration. Severe headaches, vertigo. Bitter mouth taste. Aversion to food. Inflammation of kidneys with profound weakness, dark, bloody, scanty urine. Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia.
Along with Homeopathic treatments, advise your patient to eat iron-rich food and have a regular blood check-up at least once in six months.
Also study the following medicines for Sickle Cell Disease. Sickle Cell Anemia: Acet-ac., acon. ars-i., bar-i., bar-m., bry., carb-s., carb-v., carc., cean., chin., chin-s., con., cortiso., crot-h., ferr-pic., ip., merc., nat-a., nat-p., nat-s., nux-v., op., pic-ac., sulfa., sulph., syph., thuj., tub.
P. S: This article is only for doctors having good knowledge about Homeopathy and allopathy, for learning purpose(s).
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None of above-mentioned medicine(s) is/are the full/complete treatment, but just hints for treatment; every patient has his/her own constitutional medicine.
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