Naturopathy

Symptoms: Chicken-Pox is usually an infantile disorder: it rarely attacks adults, but when it does, it leaves the patient prostrated for a length of time. There is fever and a skin eruption in the form of vesicles which look like blisters. They dry slowly and scabs are formed. The vesicles appear in crops; as one batch dries up, another appears as opposed to small-pox where the vesicles develop simultaneously over the whole body.

Treatment: The treatment of chicken-pox should start, as in the case of other fevers, by fasting. Only fresh orange juice and water should be allowed to the patient with an enema morning and evening till the temperature drops to normal, the scabs over the vesicles fall and the tongue reattains its healthy hue. The eyessss of the patient should be protected from strong light as it is likely to harm the tissues. If there is cough present along with the fever in the earlier stage of the disease, cold packs to the chest should be applied to relieve the condition. Care should be taken to see that the patient does not scratch the vesicles.

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SMALL-POX

Symptoms: Small-pox is an acute infectious disease which has taken a huge toll of humanity throughout recorded history. It is only recently that it has benn wiped out. The orthodox treatment for small-pox is mainly preventive. Inoculating everybody has had the effect of pushing the dreaded scourage into the limbo of history.

But cases are extent when the disease has been caught by persons inoculated. Sometimes inoculation has had deleterious effect on the health of the person. The onset of the disease is sudden without any premonitory symptoms.

The temperature suddenly shooting upto 104 degree F or more with shiveringl the pulse is rapid, extreme thrist, pain in the back of the neck, intense headache and vomiting. There is an eruption, more serious than that of scarlet fever, all over the body. The vesicles resemble blisters which harden and later on fill with pus. They dry up, the scabs fall off but they leave ugly scars on the body. In severe cases the eruption appears; also in the eyes, leading to total blindness.

Treatment: There are two sides to the treatment of this dreaded disease: preventive and curative. Prevention consists in keeping the environment clean and a clean, healthy living according tothe principles of naturopathy.

If fever of small-pox strikes, the treatment is the same as in other fevers. The best way to deal with the eruptions on the body is to keep them clean; the patient should be prevented from scratching himself as he has the temptation to do because of the itch which comes on during the period when the scabs are falling.

Scratching will only delay the recovery and the pitting on the skin may be more pronounced. A little olive oil may be heated and applied with a swab over the scabs. That will not only alleviate the itch, but would also help the scabs to fall early.A small-pox patient should be given a cold sponge twice or three times a day. Alternatively, the parts of his body on which there are no vesicles, should be wiped with a piece of cotton-wool dipped in could water.