Homeopathy Health Care

Cholera, sometimes known as Asiatic or epidemic cholera is an infectious gastroenteritis caused by enterotoxin -producing strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Transmission to humans occurs through eating food or drinking water contaminated with cholera vibrios. The major reservoir for cholera was long assumed to be humans themselves, but considerable evidence exists those aquatic environments can serve as reservoirs of the bacteria.

Vibrio cholerae is a Gram-negative bacterium that produces cholera toxin, an enterotoxin, whose action on the mucosal epithelium lining of the small intestine is responsible for the disease's infamous characteristic, exhaustive diarrhea.

In its most severe forms, cholera is one of the most rapidly fatal illnesses known, and a healthy person's blood pressure may drop to hypotensive levels within an hour of the onset of symptoms; infected patients may die within three hours if medical treatment is not provided. In a common scenario, the disease progresses from the first liquid stool to shock in 4 to 12 hours, with death following in 18 hours to several days, unless oral rehydration therapy is provided.

Remedies & Symptoms

ACONITE

• Forming stage, where there is great vascular excitement.
• Voilent heat and dryness of skin.
• Great fear and anxiety of mind, with nervours excitability.
• Full and frequent pulse vertigo, particularly on raising the head.
• Bitter, greenish vomiting.
• Stools whitish, with discharge of lumbrici.
• Fear of death, predicts the day he will die.

• Mostly in last stage, complete collapse of pulse, patient lies in a state of asphyxia.
• The spasms and vomiting have ceased followed by great debility.
• Cold breath, cold tongue, or coldness all over, livid countenance, hoarse voice, and sunken eyes.

• Hippocratic countenance, pointed nose and hollow eyes.
• Yellowish, blackish, or parched tongue.
• Violent thirst with a desired to drink often, but little at a time, spasmodic colic.
• Painless diarrhoea stools blackish, bilious or whitish.
• Prostration even unto fainting.

• Vomiting first food, then a greenish substance.
• Violent constrictive pain in abdomen, as if intestine were squeezed between stones relieved by forcible pressure.
• Terrible cramp-like pains which draw patient almost double.
• Thin greenish slimy or watery stools; retention of urine.
• Worse after eating or drinking.