PYROGENIUM mit generierter deutscher Übersetzung Pulfords THERAPEUTIC HINTS - Another remedy not mentioned, but which is to be thought of in cases on a septic base is Pyrog. when there are symptoms which appear to be a mixture of Arn., Eup-per. [Ed.: most likly Eupertorium perfoliatum], and Rhus-t. and where the temperature and pulse do not correspond, the pulse being rapid, irregular and fluttering. Borland bl4 (Ed.: Is one of Borland's "Complicated Pneumonia = mixed infection or alcoholic patient" - remedies. (Bapt., Hep., Lach., Merc., Pyrog., Rhus-t.) The Pyrog-pneumonias are usually much more rapid in their onset than the Bapt. Mentally the patients are quite different. You will always get a certain amount of loquacity in your Pyrog-patients. They are rather impatient, they talk fast, they talk a good deal, and they are liable to be rather irritable. In appearance the Pyrog-patients tend to have a brighter flush, they are not quite so cyanotic as the Bapt. On any exertion, coughing, or anything of that sort, they tend to flush up much more, and they then become definitely dusky. After a paroxysm of coughing the colour tends to ebb, and they may become definitely pale. The temperature tends to be definitely higher than in the average Bapt. case, running up to 104°F or 105°F [40, 1 - 40, 6°C], and it is always accompanied by very considerable hot sweat. (Ed.: Tyler tl2: "Quickly oscillating temperature.") The tongue in Pyrog. and Bapt. cases is sometimes very difficult to distinguish as you will get Pyrog-patients with one that is almost as dry as it is in Bapt., and with the same kind of brown, dry coating. But occasionally you will come across a Pyrog-patient with a much redder tongue with less coating on it (Ed.: Tyler tl2: "Fiery-red, smooth tongue."), and which is very dry and accompanied by a good deal of thirst. Both these patients suffer from waves of heat, but in Pyrog. they are always followed by waves of shivering they are alternate hot and cold waves. It is almost as if the patient suddenly blushed from his toes to his head, exactly the same thing as would be described as "hot flushes". In both the Bapt. and the Pyrog. there is exactly the same complaint of general soreness, which is described in the same way; they say the bed is too hard [DD Arn. tl2] and they move about to try to get an easy position, which makes them restless [DD Ars., Rhus-t. tl2]. They give exactly the same description of not knowing where their arms and legs are, and they both say, they are moving about in order to bring their sensation back to normal. You cannot distinguish the one from the other in this respect. There is one point you can track on to these aching pains, and that is that in Pyrog. cases you quite commonly hear the statement that the illness started as an aching in the legs which gradually spread up. It is a quite frequent story. In contrast to the chest symptoms in Bapt., the Pyrog-case suffers much more from a sense of general oppression of the chest, with a good deal of aching soreness actually on the chest wall. And the respiration in the Pyrog. case is always very rapid and very shallow, which is frequently the case in Bapt. also. The sputum in the Pyrog-case tends to be more profuse, it is somewhat pus-like, and it is always offensive. [Ed. "Offensiveness." (Bapt., Kreos.) tl2] Then there is one other point which at once distinguishes the Pyrog. pneumonia from that of any other drug in the Materia Medica, and that is that there is always a discrepancy between the pulse and the temperature. That discrepancy may be a very rapid pulse with a comparatively low temperature; or equally commonly it may be a high temperature and a comparatively slow pulse. It may go either way, but it is the discrepancy between the pulse and the temperature that really matters. Rabe rbbx It also has the symptom of fan-like motion of the alae nasi and a desire for with amelioration from being rocked... Phatak ptk2 Neglected pneumonia. Rehman rma1 Complementary Psor. - In a case of broncho-pneumonia as the patient felt much better after Pyrog. but cleared up only very slowly. Sulph. - Epidemic Influenza, when Pyrog. has suspended the first attack of fever. Compare with: Sulph. tl2, Bapt. bl4, Lach. bl4 Followed by: Psor. rma1, Sulph. rma1