Homeopathy Health Care

What is Gangrene?

It is a term that refers to the death of living tissue while it is still part of the body. It is usually due to insufficient oxygen supply. Tissue death caused by poor blood flow. It is usually black with color, often with a foul odor.

When the living tissue turns gangrenous, it happens due to a secondary infection, the most common cause of gangrene is an impairment of the blood supply to the affected part of the body.

• Gas gangrene
• Senile gangrene
• Dry gangrene
• Wet gangrene
• Cold gangrene
• Humid gangrene
• Fournier gangrene
• Emphysematous gangrene

ARSENICCUM

Hard, red, blue painful swellings by external warmth,

Hot, shining, burning red sports and blusih blisters.

Fetid diarrhoea, after mid-night, with restlessness and prostration

Intense thirst, drinking little and often

BROMINUM

Hospital gangrene

Death of edges of the wounds

Cancerous ulcer in face

Stony- hard swelling of glands, especially on lower jaw and throat,

Decayed teeth and gums, foul breath

CARBO VEG

Dry gangrene

Cachectic persons, where vital powers have become weakened

Great foulness of all the secretions

Great prostration; sepsis; indifferences, fainting after sleep, while yet in bed, morning.

CINCHONA:

Humid gangrene, parts turn balk.

After repeated hemorrhages, coldness of the extremities

Bedsores in people who are much debilitated from excessive discharges

LACHESIS

Impending gangrene

Gangrenous blisters, bluish or balk- looking, burning and itching

Tingling in the parts with heat and redness

Ichorous offensive discharge

Traumatic gangrene

Great tenderness of throat to pressure

Dry mouth, dry skin, constant fever and thirst

SECALE COR

Gangrene especially of old people.

The whole skin looks dingy and shriveled

Dry gangrene of extremities, the parts are dry, cold, hard and insensible, of uniform black color.

Numbness insensibility and coldness of limbs, from cold applications