Homeopathy Health Care

Anthrax is an acute disease in humans and animals caused by Bacillus anthracis, which is highly lethal in all forms. There are effective vaccines against anthrax, and some forms of the disease respond well to antibiotic treatment.

The anthrax bacillus is one of only a few that can form long-lived spores: in a hostile environment, caused perhaps by the death of an infected host or extremes of temperature, the bacteria produce inactive dormant spores which can remain viable for many decades and perhaps centuries. These spores are found on all continents except Antarctica. When spores are inhaled, ingested, or come into contact with a skin lesion on a host they reactivate and multiply rapidly.


Anthrax most commonly infects wild and domesticated herbivorous mammals which ingest or inhale the spores while eating grass or browsing. Ingestion is assumed to be the most common route by which herbivores contract anthrax, but this is yet to be proven. Carnivores living in the same environment may ingest infected animals and become infected themselves. Anthrax can also infect human when they are exposed to blood and other tissues from infected animals (via inhalation or direct inoculation through broken skin), eat tissue from infected animals, or are exposed to a high density of anthrax spores from an animal's fur, hide, or wool.

Remedies & Symptoms

ANTHRACINUM:

• Induration of cellular tissue.
• Red lines, streaks and stripes mark out the course of the lymphatics.
• Oedema of the affected parts.
• Discharge of ichorous, foul-smelling pus.
• Gangrene, absorption of ichor with ichoraemia, collapse.
• Violent burning pains, not relived by Arsenic.
  

• Stitching, burning pain in anthrax, with sensitiveness to the touch and erysipelatous redness around it.
• Furuncles, with manifold sloughs of dead connective tissues.

• Anthrax burning like fire.
• Intense burning in the seat of the carbuncle and some distance around the tumour.
• Sensation as if boiling water was running beneath the skin.
• Restlessness, thirst, debility; at night, from warmth.

• If given early will sometimes about anthrax, later it promotes suppuration.
• Carbuncle surrounded by indurated sports, pain intense, sleeplessness.
• Stinging burning of edges of ulcer with corroding discharge.

• Dark redness around the sore, which discharges dark, bloody pus.
• Tension of the skin around the carduncle, as if too short; nightly burning of the ulcer, obliging one to rise and wash it with cold water.
• Gangrene, carbuncle from blood- poisoning.