I'm wondering whether there is any alternative treatment for severe malaria. I live in a reasonably isolated area with no local homeopaths or related practitioners.
My mother is currently critically ill with malaria caused by Plasmodium palsaforum. Her liver is being blocked, she is severely jaundiced, her lungs are being affected, her blood coagulation agents are decreasing, she has a rising bacteriological count in the blood, and has difficulty breathing. She's been severely ill for eight days and will now be placed on another three day course of high quinine doses. It is very uncertain whether she will survive this new treatment. I have been advised to administer Pau d'arco and omega three oil tablets. Problem is that she cannot take anything in whatsoever, vomiting all the time. This is where traditional medical science comes to a standstil. Does anybody in cyberworld know of anything else that could be useful? Preferablly injectable? Thank you very much.

There are a few treatment remedies. The vomiting problem would suggest to me that you try Arsenicum alb. first. The main remedy is China off. but Eupatorium, nat. Mur, Pulsatilla and Sulphur should all be considered. With homeopathic remedies a pillule is just left under the tongue to dissolve so your mother should be able to manage this.
Maybe there are homeopaths on the BB (Ben?) who have experience of malaria. What I have given you was from a modern book on the subject.

[This message has been edited by Ricky (edited 29 August 1999).]

It also suggests veratrum album!
But this info is not enough, what time is she worse, what time better, colour of vomit, consistence, any blood? Any skin eruptions,discolorations, bleeding?

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The malaria we see in India usually has shivering. If she is in a really bad shape you may have to give her a remedy NOW. If she did have shivering (she already has vomiting) then Arsenicum alb is a choice. The cyberworld discussion will take sometime to come out with a correct remedy. So you may want to try Arsenicum alb 1M immediately. ONE DOSE only, WAIT and post back.

Thanks for the advice so far! Her condition has made a very dramatic change about six hours ago. All simptoms seem to be reversing slowly. Malarial count is now zero. This has been a most puzzling case right from the beginning and seemingly very much unlike the usual. Doctors assume a particularly virulent strain of P. falceparum. No skin discolouration (except for that caused by malarially induced jaundice) and no blood. Vomit initially only foam, later green bile and still later on only clear liquid. Very little headache. Had shivers, but not particularly badly. At present: oxygen levels in blood at a new 97%;clotting of cappilaries in lungs -- better; clotting by dead red blood cells in liver -- better. Bacterial count -- better. She still has trouble swallowing anything -- even water, due to nausea. She now seems to be tolerating quinine much better than ever before. Most puzzling. Will keep posted. Thanks again.

Seems like china does the job for now, but considder natrium mur as a follow up treatment afterwards. For the vomiting, now i would try one dose Natr M x12 or x6, and only that potences, and se if it helps, if it do, go higher, till max x200 one dose.

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Homeopat MNNH Geir E.T. Marcussen
email: getm@eunet.no
http://www.homeopati.no

Both nat.m. and Nat.sulph. destroy the plasmodium of malaria. Thus being free of the disease, take a course of three doses of Malaria officinalis, one week apart in a 200c and you have immunity for the rest of your life. I have given this treatment to many people and have yet to see it fail.

Just a quick last update for those that have been interested so far:

Thank you once more for everybody's input during this crisis. It has been much appreciated. It turned out to be nearly impossible to get my mother to take in any kind of medication whatsoever. She quickly came to a point where even the slightest amount of water would start violent spasms of vomiting. Mostly "dry-spasms" with nothing more than a teaspoon or three of clear liquid.

In the intensive care unit, doctors became greatly alarmed when her kidneys, liver and lung capillaries began clogging with dead red blood cells. This also helped to cause water to build in the lungs. The lung condition, in particular, was very serious and could very easily have caused her death if any infection or bleeding had had to occur at all. Then, as the last three day's quinine treatment was begun, her entire condition started turning around within a period of six hours. This has been amazing and difficult to explain. She also reacted with VASTLY less severe side-effects from the quinine. Again, inexplicable. The nausea subsided greatly. All conditions improved dramatically and within 24 hours she was out of danger. Within two more days she was discharged and is now making exceptionally good progress, although full recovery is said to take at least five weeks.

The lesson for me was that a patient should start taking homeopathic treatment before heavy quinine doses are administered. If left until too late, it seems that the nausea problem becomes so great that nothing can be administered orally to alleviate both symptoms and treat the disease itself. Not even the tiniest pills are tolerated! What I'm wondering now, is whether there exists any kind of a homeopathic "first aid kit" remedy which can be used at the earliest signs of malaria? This could be important advice in malaria-stricken areas! In South Africa, it is difficult to get hold of homeopathic remedies in time and there still exists a certain measure of distrust between conventional doctors and homeopaths. It seems that people living in malaria-risk areas should stock up in advance and be ready. Perhaps Bala might face similar circumstances in India?

I have just read Ben Rozendal's posting saying that malaria immunity is possible for life. I'd like to know how that would come about with these two drugs -- i.e. do they lead to the production of antibodies? This is very interesting! I've heard there currently is promising research done on develoing a vaccine, but nothing final(!)

Kindest personal thanks once more!

Herm
Are you saying that you administered a homeo remedy and she recovered, or, she recovered without any by herself?

Herm, Malaria officinalis is made from the rotting plants on which the mosquito breeds and which obviously generates the plasmodium. Thus, as an almost identical substance, it is capable to produce the substance in the blood that immediately destroys the plasmodium, which enters the blood after the sting. I reckon off-hand to have treated at least between 5000 to 10000 cases with it ( having extensively lived in India, where it is almost endemic) and as I said, I have to yet see it fail. Here in Oz we have a type called Ross River virus and it has more severe symptoms than malaria. Yet everytime that I have given it, people have gone back to the region where they got the disease and not been affected. It is part of a travel kit I sell for the tropics and I never have heard that they needed to use Nat.m. or China, except for friends who had never heard of it. Nat.m. by the way, can kill a case when given during the fever. You must always wait till the temperature comes down. Then give Na.m. followed by Mal.off. and you case is clinched. The Nat.m. will bring on a last and milder bout of fever and bingo! Mal.off. no more fever.