HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA PYROGEN - DRUG PICTURE

1. PYROGEN
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DR VANITA JOHARI
MD (HOM), MSC (COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY)
PROF & HOD, DEPARTMENT OF HOMOEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA.
SMT CHANDABEN MOHANBHAI PATEL HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, MUMBAI.

2. A CASE OF 12 YEAR OLD BOY WITH
FEVER
 A 12 year old boy was brought for
treatment
 He was suffering from high fever since
3-4 days, with cough and general
malaise
 His condition was deteriorating very
quickly
 The symptoms were not clear enough
for any prescription
 Pyrogen was prescribed & it cleared
picture and brought out symptoms and
help improving generals

3. PYROGEN.
 Also called Pyrexin. Sepsin.
 A product of the decomposition of
chopped lean beef in water, allowed
to stand in the sun for two or three
weeks
 Pyrogen is defined as "a chemical
non-living substance formed by living
bacteria, living pus-corpuscles, &
living blood- or tissue-protoplasms
from which these corpuscles spring."

4. SPHERE OF ACTION
 BLOOD, LYMPH
 HEART AND
CIRCULATION
 SENSORIUM AND
MIND
 GIT
 FEMALE GENITALS
 SKIN

5. CAUSATION
 Blood poisoning.
 Ptomaine poisoning.
 Sewer-gas poisoning.
 Typhoid fever (remote effects of).
 Dissecting wounds.
 Purperium
 Suited to - Face: burning; yellow;
very red; pale, sunken, and bathed
in cold sweat; pale, greenish, or
chlorotic.-Circumscribed redness of
cheeks.

6. GUIDING SYPTOMS
 IT IS Aconite of the typhous or typhoid quality of pyrexia,"
and wherever poisoning by bacterial products
 Sepsis is the essence of the action of Pyro. H. C. Allen gives
this indication for its use in septic states:
 "When the best selected remedies fail to relieve or
permanently improve "-analogous to the action of Pso. and
Sul
 As Pyro. is a product of carrion, the carrion-like odour of
bodily emaciations, secretions, and excretions

7. PHYSICAL GENERALS
 The bed feels hard (Am.) ; PARTS LAIN ON FEEL SORE AND
BRUISED (Bapt.) ; rapid decubitus (Carb. ac).
 GREAT RESTLESSNESS; must move constantly to > the soreness of
parts (Arn., Eup.).
 Tongue: LARGE, FLABBY; clean, smooth as if varnished; fiery red;
dry, cracked, articulation difficult (Crot, Ter.).
 Taste: SWEETISH; TERRIBLY FOETID; pus-like; as from an abscess.
 Vomiting: persistent; brownish, coffee-ground; offensive, stercoraceous;
with impacted or obstructed bowels (Op., Plb.).
 Diarrhoea: horribly offensive (Psor.) ; brown or black (Lep.) ; painless,
involuntary; uncertain, when passing flatus (Aloe, Olean.).

8. GUIDING SYMPTOMS
 No appetite. Great thirst for small quantities, but the least
liquid was instantly rejected.-> Drinking very hot water
 "Constipation, from impacted of faeces in fevers; stool large,
black, carrion-like."
 Chill begins in back, between scapulae." "Severe general
chill of bones and extremities.“
 Pulse abnormally rapid, out of all proportion to
temperature
 Ulcers, deep, burrowing wounds, extremely painful and
discharging freely.

9. MIND
 Loquacious; can think and talk faster than ever before
 Delirious on closing eyes; sees a man at foot of bed.
 Sensation as if she covered the whole bed; knew her head
was on pillow, but did not know where the rest of her body
was.
 Feels when lying on one side that she is one person, and
another person when turning on the other side.
 Sensation as though crowded with arms and legs.-
 Hallucination that he is very wealthy; remaining after the
fever.
 Unable to sleep for brain activity and crowding of ideas
 Whispers in sleep.Kept awake by purring of heart.
 Dreams: of various things; of business.

10. FEVER
 Chill begins in back. Chill commences with pains in the limbs.
Shivers and begins to move about restlessly. No fire would warm;
sits by fire and breathes the heat from it
 Heat stage: temperature rises gradually and as gradually
subsides with soreness, bed feels hard
 Great heat with profuse hot sweat, but sweating does not cause a
fall in temperature.
 Perspiration on upper part of body; > motion; >. Perspiration
horribly offensive, carrion-like; disgust up to nausea about any
effluvia arising from her own body.-Cold sweat over body.
 Pulse abnormally rapid, out of all proportion to temperature
 Mental, delirium, loquacity, Mania of Grandeur, …
 Appetite, thirst, tongue, taste, diarrhea, weakness…
 Frequent calls to urinate with fever

11. FEVER WITH…
 Excruciating, bursting, throbbing headache
 Diphtheria with extreme fetor.
 Urine Albuminous, containing casts; horribly offensive, carrion-like.
 Puerperal peritonitis with extreme fetor; Septicaemia following
abortion; foetus retained, decomposed.
 Expectoration: rusty mucus; horribly offensive. Neglected
pneumonia
 Heart tired as after a long run; increased action < least motion,
Cardiac asthenia from septic conditions.
 Ecchymosis. Skin pale, cold, of ashy hue.-Obstinate, varicose,
offensive ulcers of old people
 Menses horribly offensive; carrion-like.-Menses last but one day,
then a bloody leucorrhoea, horribly offensive.-

12. RELATIONS
 Compare: Septicaemin (B. Sanderson says bacteria and
pus cells produce the same chemical result; Pyro. and
Sept. may therefore he identical
 Malar. (the vegetable Pyrogen);
 Lach. In typhoid with soreness, bed feels hard, Bap.,
Arn., Rhus. > Motion and stretching limbs,
 Uterine haemorrhage, Ipec. ("if Ipec. fails when
indicated give Pyro.,"
 Black stools, Lept.
 Constipation, Op., Sanic., Pb.
 Vomits water as soon as warm in stomach, Pho.
 Varicose, offensive ulcers of old persons, Pso. Secale
cor