PLEURODYNIA
Pleurodynia is also called Bornholm Disease,
viral (coxsackie B) epidemic disease with an incubation period of
two to four days, marked by a brief fever, severe chest and lower
back pain aggravated by deep breathing and movement, and a tendency
to recur at intervals of a few days. The disease is usually self-limiting,
terminating in complete recovery.
Homeopathic Medicines & Treatment for Pleurodynia
#Ranunculus bulbosus. [Ran-b]
This remedy acts especially upon the chest walls, causing pain likes
pleurodynia. Its symptoms are worse from change of weather. Hughes
claims wonderful success with this remedy when the pain is so intense
that the patient dare not move, and many others have verified this
claim. It has also a left-sided infra-mammary pain. **Aconite may
be found useful if the attack has been brought on by exposure to
a dry, cold wind fever is present.
#Cimicifuga.
This remedy is also praised by Hughes in pleurodynia which is worse
on the right side, especially if hysterical or due to uterine troubles.
It also has a left-sided pain below the mammary gland. There is
usually accompanying it a sense of faintness at the pit of the stomach.
#Arnica [Arn]
is especially the remedy for pleurodynia or rheumatic pleurisy from
over-exertion. The chest feels bruised, the pain is increased by
motion and still more by pressure. **Rhus radicans has pleurodynia
with pains shooting into the shoulder. **Gaultheria is suitable
to pleurodynia, where the pain is located in the anterior mediastinum.
**Guaiacum. According to Farrington this remedy rarely fails in
pleurodynia with tuberculosis.
#Bryonia. [Bry]
Here the pains are stitching and tearing, aggravated by motion and
expiration. They are diminished by lying on the affected side, thereby
differing from **Nux vomica,as with this remedy the patient cannot
lie on the painful side. **Bryonia is especially useful in the rheumatic
diathesis. |
