Mirza Tahir Ahmad James Tyler Kent
Pyrogenium is prepared from the putrid matter obtained from decomposed meat, which is deadly poisonous. On ingesting decomposed meat, either a person catches high fever, becomes disorientated and then dies, or keeps suffering from its ill effects for a long time.
Pyrogenium has been so frequently referred to in this book that the reader may think that he has already read about it. Here, it is described briefly.
In a Pyrogenium patient, the discharges are extremely foul and poisonous, producing high fever, even death. It is a very powerful panacea for puerperal sepsis i.e. the fever developing after childbirth due to the infection and putrefaction of the retained placental contents in the uterus. It is extremely effective in curing this dreadful and potentially fatal condition. If Sulphur 200 is used in combination with Pyrogenium 200, it works even better.
Like Arsenic, it can also be of use in the treatment of influenza complicated by severe weakness and restlessness. Arsenic and Pyrogenium given together work much better in invigorating the weakness. The same prescription stands high in the treatment of diarrhoea and dysentery associated with foul smell. All sorts of catarrhal fevers associated with chills, putrefaction and restlessness can be satisfactorily treated with Pyrogenium, Bacillinum and Natrum Mur. In Pyrogenium, like Phosphorus, there is intense thirst for cold water. The cold water soon becomes warm inside the stomach and induces vomiting. The Pyrogenium patient is very cold deep down to the bones, yet likes to drink cold water. In this condition, Pyrogenium should be mixed with Phosphorus.
Pyrogenium is also useful in combating bad breath. If the patient also feels very cold, then Psorinum should be added to Pyrogenium.
I have found the combination of Pyrogenium 200 and Typhoidinum 200 very useful in the treatment of all typhoid patients. My late father also used Pyrogenium in the treatment of typhoid. Most probably it is he who invented this particular combination. In addition to Pyrogenium and Typhoidinum, Kali Phos 6X and Ferrum Phos 6X should be given seven to eight times a day. If a patient passes odorous stools, then Baptisia 30 should also be included, seven to eight times a day.
Pyrogenium is also effective against malaria, which is untreatable with common remedies. The patient feels severe chills and is restless like Arsenic and the discharges are extremely foul smelling.
In cattle also, Pyrogenium 200 and Sulphur 200 are equally effective in the treatment of puerperal fever following retention of the placenta and its infection.
Pyrogenium is also useful in the treatment of inflammation of the kidneys (nephritis). Once it becomes known that the patient had previously suffered from puerperal fever, causing damage to the kidneys, Pyrogenium will be found very effective.
Another symptom of Pyrogenium is that in spite of the high fever, the pulse rate is relatively slow. This conflicting type of heart rate is typical of Pyrogenium.
If the symptoms of Pyrogenium already mentioned are present, then Pyrogenium may be useful in the treatment of all kinds of skin diseases of the patient. Pyrogenium being basically related to the venous blood, the patient may develop piles, which can become infected and then putrefied. Pyrogenium is also useful in the treatment of a resistant type of offensive vomiting. If the constitutional symptoms of Pyrogenium are present, then bronchopneumonia and other infections of the lungs can also be satisfactorily treated with it.
Adjuvants: Bryonia, Sulphur, Arsenic, Typhoidinum, etc.
Potency: 30 to CM
by Mirza Tahir Ahmad
PYROGENIUM
Fever: The potencies prepared from Heath's 3d of decomposed beef have been used by the author for many years against all forms of septic fever and sequelae, when the symptoms agree.
Violent chill intermingled with heat and sweat, or dry heat with marked aching in the limbs; restlessness, > by motion and heat. The sore bruised condition is as marked as in Arnica and Baptisia; the aching in the bones like Eupatorium, the restlessness, > by motion and heat like Rhus.
Pains all aggravated sitting. Complaints come on from becoming cold, and from cold damp weather.
These features are found in hectic fevers in the last stages of phthisis, as well as septic fevers. It aborts puerperal fever in a few hours when clearly indicated. In cases of typhoid where there is the confusion like - that found in Baptisia and the heat is too intense for that remedy, Pyrogen should always be considered.
When the temperature reaches 106° and there is great soreness and aching this remedy will make great changes in a single day; but if the pains are > by motion and heat it will abort the fever.
When the pulse is extremely high, and the temperature not correspondingly high this remedy will be useful. On the other hand, when the pulse and temperature are out of rhythm either way this remedy should be considered if the case is of septic origin. Great pain when the flow from an open abscess becomes scanty. Violent burning in an abscess (Ars., Anthr., Tarent. cubensis).
Offensiveness prevails extensively; even putrid and cadaveric odors of body, breath, sweat and discharges. Fevers from sewer gas poisoning; erysipelas from infection and surgical fevers. It cures many chronic complaints that date back to septic conditions. She has not been well since a puerperal fever many years ago, is a good reason for thinking of Pyrogen.
A young man of good inheritance suffered from blood poison and made a poor recovery, and for several years was affected with abscesses in various parts. He was pale and sickly, rheumatic and stiff; at this time there was an abscess of the calf slowly forming. He took Pyrogen and made a rapid and complete recovery. This time the abscess did not open. He has remained in good health now ten years.
It has cured Bright's disease that could be traced to septic origin It is a most useful remedy when there is threatening heart failure in septic and zymotic fevers. Septic hemorrhage, when the blood is dark. It will often save life in the most dangerous and rapid septic fevers.
Loquacity; can think and talk faster than ever before, especially during fever.
Irritable. Delirium and confusion of mind about his body and limbs (Bapt.).
Sensation as though he covered the whole bed.
Knew her head was on the pillow, but did not know where the rest of the body was.
Feels when lying on one side she is one person, and another when turning on the other side.
Sensation as though crowded with arms and legs.
These symptoms are much like Baptisia, but if the temperature runs very high Baptisia will not meet the condition so well as Pyrogen.
Head: Violent congestion of the head with pressing pain and pulsation, > by pressure.
Copious sweat on the head.
Pain in occiput on coughing; in the morning on walking.
The eyeballs are sore to touch, on turning them outwards or upwards.
Septic bleeding from nose.
Fan-like motion of aloe nasi (Lyc.).
Face pale, sunken, and covered with cold sweat.
Cheeks red and burning hot.
Mouth: The mouth is foul, and the taste putrid.
The tongue is coated, and brown.
Brown streak down the center.
Sordes on the teeth.
Putrid odor from mouth.
Vomiting of bile, blood; of putrid masses.
Vomits water when it becomes warm in the stomach.
Stercoraceous vomiting.
Coffee ground vomiting.
Thirst for cold drinks during chill and heat.
Abdomen: Distension and great sensitiveness of abdomen.
Inflammation of peritoneum, intestines and uterus, of septic origin.
Rumbling in bowels.
Pain on deep breathing.
Cutting, colicky pain.
Pain in right side going through to the back < on every motion, talking and breathing; > by lying on right side; groaning with every breath.
Copious, liquid, putrid stools.
Involuntary stool.
Profuse, watery, painless stool.
Stool carrion-like.
The difficult constipated stool also like carrion in odor.
Constipation with hard dry, black, putrid stools; small black balls like olives.
Putrid bloody stools.
Soft narrow stools with great straining.
Haemorrhage from bowels.
Urines: Urine scanty or suppressed.
Red deposit, hard to wash off.
Albuminous urine containing casts.
Putrid urine.
Frequent calls to urinate as the fever comes on. Intolerable tenesmus of the bladder; spasmodic contractions, involving rectum, ovaries, and broad ligaments (case cured by Yingling).
Involuntary urine and stool in septic fevers.
Women: Uterine haemorrhage.
Putrid, scanty lochia.
Suppressed lochia.
Violent chill; puerperal fever.
Menses lasting one day, then bloody leucorrhea.
Septic fever following abortion.
Prolapsus of uterus.
Chest: Wheezing when expiring.
Weak and husky voice, and hoarseness.
Cough with large masses of mucus from larynx, < by motion, and in warm room.
Cough causes burning in larynx and bronchi.
Putrid, thick, purulent expectoration.
Cough < by lying, > by sitting up.
Bloody or rusty expectoration.
Cough, with copious, offensive night sweats.
It is a great palliative in the last weeks of consumption.
Abscesses in lung.
Heart failure in septic fevers, < by least motion.
Every pulsation felt in distant parts.
Anxiety and sinking sensation in region of heart.
Distinct consciousness of the heart.
Aching at the bifurcation of the trachea.
Oppression of chest and heart.
Fullness in region of heart.
Feels as if the heart were pumping cold water (Yingling).
Palpitation. Loud heart beats.
Sensation of purring of the heart.
Rapid irregular fluttering pulse.
Back: Pulsation in the neck.
Weak feeling in the back. Stitching in back on coughing.
Pain in all the limbs with great restlessness.
Aching in bones all over the body. Soreness of the muscles and the bed feels hard, > by motion.
Limbs: Cold extremities.
Numbness of extremities. Hands and arms numb.
Hands cold and clammy. Pain in the thighs during chill and fever.
Pain in the knees and legs during chill and fever, ameliorated from walking, and from heat. Aching in legs while sitting, > by walking.
Aching above knee as if bone were broken, > by stretching of limbs and motion. Feet and legs dropsical. Numbness of feet.
Skin pale, cold, of ashy hue. Obstinate varicose offensive ulcers of old people. It has cured many, old fever sores with putrid, thin, bloody discharges. Carrion-like perspiration. Putrid odors of the body. Must be covered in all stages.
Chill ameliorated by warm bed. The chill is quotidian; it comes in the evening, generally at 7 P.M. The periodicity is regular. Cold sweat on the body. Hot sweat with high temperature. The sleep is full of frightful dreams. Persistent thoughts prevent sleep. Suffocation in sleep. Cries out in sleep from oppression of chest.
by James Tyler Kent