{"id":57684,"date":"2023-12-08T04:18:46","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T04:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homeobook.com\/?p=57684"},"modified":"2023-12-08T04:18:46","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T04:18:46","slug":"scabies-spread-and-control-concept-of-psora-and-homeopathic-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homeobook.com\/scabies-spread-and-control-concept-of-psora-and-homeopathic-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Scabies-spread and control concept of psora and homeopathic approach"},"content":{"rendered":"
Dr Srinivas Babu Kathi <\/strong><\/p>\n ABSTRACT: KEYWORDS: <\/u><\/strong>Scabies, Diagnostic criteria, Control of Scabies, Psora,Homeopathic approach<\/p>\n INTRODUCTION:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n REVIEW OF LITERATURE: <\/u><\/strong>The discovery in 1687 of the itch mite marks scabies as the first disease of man with known cause.1 <\/sup>The itch mite Sarcoptes scabiei or Acarus scabiei is an extremely small, globular arthropod just visible to the naked eye.The female parasite borrows into the epidermis where it breeds and causes the condition known as scabies or itch.1<\/sup><\/p>\n INCIDENCE: <\/u><\/strong>It is common cause of itching dermatosis infesting ~ 300 million persons worldwide3.<\/sup> It is common in children , highest prevalence below 5 years of age but can occur at any age. No sex preponderance.3 <\/sup>The human acarus is morphologically indistinguishable from the animal variety but it is quite distinct physiologically. Therefore, animal scabies cannot flourish on the human skin3<\/sup>.<\/p>\n RISK FACTORS: <\/u><\/strong>Overcrowding, Poor hygiene, Low socio economic status are predisposing factors.4<\/sup><\/p>\n MODE OF TRANSMISSION: <\/u><\/strong>Close contact with infested person.This is often due to sleeping in the same bed or by children playing with each other or nursing an infested person.Contaminated clothes an bedlinen.1<\/sup><\/p>\n War, natural calamities , social or religious congregations provide good opportunities for the mite to spread and cause epidemics.<\/p>\n LIFE CYCLE OF SARCOPTES SCABIEI : <\/u><\/strong>The itch mite is just visible to the naked eye, measuring 0.4mm in size .1<\/sup>Gravid female mites, measuring ~ 0.3 mm in length, burrow superficially beneath the stratum corneum, depositing 3 or fewer eggs per day. Nymphs mature in ~2 weeks and then emerge as adults to the surface of the skin , where they mate and re-invade the skin of the same or another host.Transfer of newly fertilized female mites from person to person occurs mainly by intimate contact. Generally, these mites die with in a day or so in the absence of host contact.3<\/sup><\/p>\n SITE OF LESIONS: <\/u><\/strong>Sites involved are inter-digital webs, flexor aspect of wrist, ulnar border of forearm, elbows , anterior axillary folds, umbilicus and periumbilical area, medial aspect of thighs, genitalia , lower part of the buttocks , knees and ankles.In infants , palms , soles, face and scalp are common sites.4<\/sup><\/p>\n Burrows are pathognomic lesions of scabies which appears as S thread like greyish to darkline, few millimeters long with a vesicle at one end where mite is present.4<\/sup><\/p>\n The disease also affects the breasts in women and genitals in men.<\/p>\n CLINICAL FEATURES:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n INVESTIGATIONS: Burrow identification (Ink method):<\/strong> The suspected burrow is smeared with blue or black fountain pen ink and then wiped off with an alcohol swab after some time. The dye that enters the burrows is highlighted as a dark line.5<\/sup><\/p>\n Microscopic examination: <\/strong>The burrow is scraped with 15 no. blade and examine the material with 10% KOH or mineral oil under light microscope. Presence of mite, egg or fecal concretions (scybala) confirms diagnosis of scabies.5<\/sup><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/sup>DIAGNOSIS OF SCABIES:<\/u><\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/u><\/p>\n The main diagnostic features of scabies are1<\/sup>:<\/p>\n (1) the patient complains of itching which is worse at night .<\/p>\n Under dermoscope, mite in burrow resembles “jet with contrail”.5<\/sup><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/sup>DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Therapy: <\/strong>Permethrin (5%) cream is treatment of choice (single overnight application below neck all over the body with a second application after an interval of a week). It is the treatment of choice for infants (application includes head and neck also). Sulfur and crotamiton are safe in pregnancy.5<\/sup><\/p>\n Pruritus may persist for up to 1-2 weeks after the end of effective treatment.5<\/sup><\/p>\n Intralesional triamcinolone 5-10 mg\/ml in each lesion is used for nodular scabies besides routine scabies treatment.5<\/sup><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/sup>CONTROL OF SCABIES: HOMEOPATHIC WAY OF UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF PSORA: Psora is identical, therefore with the ancient form of leprosy, with the \u201cSt. Anthony\u2019s Fire\u201d or malignant erysipelas which prevailed in Europe for several centuries and then re-assumed the form of leprosy, through the leprosy which was brought back by the returning crusaders in the 13th<\/sup> century.7<\/sup><\/p>\n Psora has thus become the most infectious and most general of all the chronic miasms,\u201d says Hahnemann.The disease, by metastasis from the skin, caused by external palliative treatment, attacks internal organs and causes a multitude of chronic diseases the cause of which is generally unrecognized.7<\/sup><\/p>\n Hahnemann\u2019s teaching is thus elucidated and confirmed by pathology.The infectious, parasitic, primary and typical micro-organisms of Psora, driven from the skin by local treatment, finds a ready route to deeper tissues, structures and organs through the capillaries, the lymphatic and glandular systems and the nervous system. Here it develops its secondary specific form and character according to its location and the predisposition and environment of the individual, giving rise to a vast number of secondary symptoms.8<\/sup><\/p>\n Psora is the most ancient, most universal, most destructive, and yet most misapprehended chronic miasmatic disease, has become mother of all thousands of incredibly various(acute), chronic(non-veneral) disease. At least seven- eights of all chronic maladies spring from it as their only source. Psora or itch disease, is beside this the oldest and most hydra-headed of all the chronic miasmatic diseases.9<\/sup>Treatment of psora depends upon the stage with which the patient is suffering.To treat the primary manifestations of psora, a small dose of sulphur is abundantly sufficient to cure the infection.But if suppression has taken place sulphur alone is not sufficient, a well selected anti-psoric remedy to be selected.In Homoeopathy a remedy is selected by considering patient as a whole by process of individualization.<\/p>\n HOMEOPATHIC APPROACH :<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n ARSENICUM ALBUM: SULPHUR- SEPIA: CAUSTICUM: Agg on becoming cold, from getting wet or bathing.11<\/sup><\/p>\n KALI SULPH: CARBOVEG: Itching worse on evening, when warm in bed and better from cold.Moist skin, hot perspiration, burning pain, offensive discharge.11<\/sup><\/p>\n PSORINUM: REFERENCES:<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. Srinivas Babu Kathi Dr. Sirigadha Spandana <\/strong>Internee Batch 2017<\/p>\n Dr. Nagula Taraswi\u00a0 <\/strong>Internee Batch 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dr Srinivas Babu Kathi ABSTRACT: Over the past decade scabies has been recognized as \u201cneglected tropical disease\u201d by World Health Organization. Human scabies a common infestation, has a worldwide distribution with a variable impact and […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":43078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[12485,12486,12484],"class_list":{"0":"post-57684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-homeopathy-general","8":"tag-concept-of-psora","9":"tag-homeopathic-approach","10":"tag-scabies-scabies"},"yoast_head":"\n
\n<\/u><\/strong>Over the past decade scabies has been recognized as \u201cneglected tropical disease\u201d by World Health Organization. Human scabies a common infestation, has a worldwide distribution with a variable impact and presentation depending on the clinical situation.<\/p>\n\n
\n<\/u><\/strong>If a mite is demonstrated, one needs no diagnostic criteria. Typical lesions on the penis and nipple, the presence of burrows even without a mite and inter-digital lesions are almost diagnostic. Severe pruritus, especially at night, of short duration or in family members is also very suggestive.5<\/sup><\/p>\n\n
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\n<\/u><\/strong>In the control of scabies, it is essential to treat all members of the affected household simultaneously whether or not they appear to be infested. Before commencing the treatment the patient is given a good scrub with soap and hot water.1<\/sup><\/p>\n\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cThe oldest monuments of history\u201d says Hahnemann,\u201dshows the Psora even then in great development. Moses, 3400 years ago pointed out several varieties. In Leviticus , he speaks of bodily defects which must not be found in a priest who is to offer sacrifice, malignant itch is designated by word Garab, which the Alexandrian translators, translated with Psora agria, but the Vulgate with \u201cScabies jugis\u201d.The Talmudic interpreter, Johnathan, explained it as dry itch spread over the body.<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Skin dry and scaly like parchment white and pasty, black vesicles and burning pain.11 <\/sup>Anxiety, restlessness, fastidious, prostration, burning and cadaveric odours are prominent characteristics.10 <\/sup>Burning pains, the affected parts burn like fire, as if hot coals were applied to parts >by heat, hot drinks, hot applications.11<\/sup>Worse cold.<\/p>\n
\n<\/u>This is great Hahnemannian Anti-psoric11<\/sup>.To be thought of when there is a paucity of symptoms to prescribe on, a latent condition of the symptoms due to psora.10 <\/sup>Its action is centrifugal- from with in outward-having an elective affinity for the skin, where it produces heat and burning, with itching, made worse by heat of bed12<\/sup>. Dirty, filthy people, prone to skin affections.Aversion to being washed, always < after a bath.Skin affections that have been treated by medicated soaps and washes.11<\/sup><\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Itching not relieved by scratching worse in bends of elbows and knees.12 <\/sup>Eruptions about genitals, lips and mouth, face and body. Moist eruptions that pour out a watery fluid, or thick, yellow, purulent fluid.10 <\/sup>Worse evenings, washing, dampness, after sweat.Better by warmth of bed, hot applications, cold bathing, after sleep.11<\/sup><\/p>\n
\n<\/u>The skin of a causticum person is of a dirty, white sallow.Burning, rawness and soreness are characteristic.Soreness in folds of skin, back of ears, between thighs.12<\/sup><\/p>\n
\n<\/u>The skin is very sensitive: a sore feeling in skin.Scaly eruptions on a moist base.Sensation of burning, in the skin, burning after scratching.Itching, burning, crawling, stinging < when warm in bed,< scratching.10 <\/sup>Ailments accompanied by profuse desquamation.Yellow mucous and serous discharges.12<\/sup><\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Persons who have never fully recovered from the exhausting effects of some previous illness.11 <\/sup>Sluggishness, laziness, turgescence, these are characteristics.10<\/sup><\/p>\n
\n<\/u>Dirty, dingy look. Intolerable itching. Eruptions especially on scalp and bends of joints with itching, worse from warmth of bed.11<\/sup>Ailments from suppressed itch or other skin diseases. Eruptions disappear in summer, return in winter. Carrion like odour of discharge.11 <\/sup>Worse change of weather, from cold. Better heat, warm clothing,summer.12<\/sup><\/p>\n\n
\n<\/strong>Professor & HOD ,Dept. Homeopathic Pharmacy
\nHamsa Homeopathy Medical College\u00a0 Hospital & Research Centre
\ndrsnbabukathi@gmail.com<\/p>\n