Malaria officinalis
Nosode
Malaria Officinalis suits patients with a history of malarial exposure or living in malarial regions who develop a chronic cachexia. The patient tends to have periodicity in complaints, liver and spleen affections, and a generally debilitated constitution. This nosode-like remedy addresses the lingering effects of miasmatic malarial infection.
Key symptoms
- Headache, nausea, distress in stomach from malarial miasm
- Tongue coated white
- Ague, bilious fever, and camp fever
- Spleen affections with enlargement
- Hay-fever symptoms
- Neuralgia and rheumatic pains
- Constipation alternating with diarrhoea
- General malaria cachexia
[In the summer of 1862 G. W. Bowen, of Indiana, allowed vegetable matter to decompose in water in glass jars, for one week (No. I.), two weeks (No. II.), and three weeks (No. III.). At each stage provings were made by inhaling the gases given off. Later some drops were taken internally. For curative purposes a tincture was made by adding ten drops of the No. II. (in which the fibre was not altogether decomposed) to ninety drops of alcohol. Bowen's cases were all treated with this. Boericke and Tafel made a 30th tincture of this and Yingling inhaled it. This resulted in his proving. Later Yingling obtained from B. and T. the 30th attenuation of No. III. (in which decomposition of the fibre is complete), and had this run up into the higher attenuations. These were used in his clinical experiences.]
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