It is a type of disease occurring in the joints. Sometimes, it affects one or two joints and sometimes all the joints of the body. When this disease occurs in a person, first of all, burning sensation starts in the bones of his body and the joints of big bones get swelling, redness and pain too. The patient is lying down on the back silently and sometimes pain and stiffness start by movement. Shivering occurs, skin becomes hot, and the nerves become tough, headache, sweating with sour smell or sticky too. The patient feels thirst, tongue is dirty, red scanty urine passes with sour smell, constipation, and respiratory organs become out of order. The symptoms of disease aggravates at night. The patient suffers from fever with the body temperature as 104 to 105 degree. Normally, this disease is recovered within 3-4 weeks. When this disease persists for more than 3-4 weeks, it becomes chronic. Due to this disease, respiratory organs also become obsessed, pain starts in the left side of the body, the chest feels much pain, having difficulty in breathing. These are signs of aggravating disease. Indigestion goes on persisting with this disease. Mostly, this disease occurs in male compared to female.
Causes:-
There are several reasons of occurring acute rheumatism like- exposure to cold, wearing wet clothes for a long time, living in dirty places, taking sour things, meat, eggs, etc. in large quantity, malfunctioning of the liver, blood poisoning, suppression of sweat suddenly due to exposure to cold, etc. Mostly, a person who does not take an appropriate quantity of nutritive elements in his diet starts suffering from this disease. There is high possibility of this disease in those children whose mother is suffering from T.B.
Treatment by different drug:-
Lachnanthes- If acute rheumatism occurs with gastric affects in the neck, stiffness in it, Lachnanthes 3 is used for the treatment of such symptoms.
- Aconite- If this disease is in its aggravating stage, pain like pricking has occurred in the bones joints or muscles with severe fever and other symptoms like- restlessness, swelling of the obsessed part, redness, lack of appetite, passing red urine, stiffness in the neck, burning sensation in the eyes, etc. occurring this disease in the winter season due to exposure to dry air, Aconite 1 or 6 can be used to cure such symptoms of the patient. Using Aconite 30 is very effective in the cases of occuring swelling with joints pain or feeling excessive weakness in the body or in the chronic stage of this disease, etc. this drug is used when the patient feels heat and having the symptoms of putting off his all the clothes due to heat. If other types of symptoms are found in the patient with this disease as- hotness of the body skin and the sole, profuse sweating with offensive smell, sour taste, becoming all the eaten things sour, intensive pain in the left organs, etc., Aconite should be used to cure such symptoms of the patient.
- Bryonia- The patient feels pain on the joints like cutting or pricking like needle or putting irrigative drugs; pain starts to aggravate by little movement; the skin of the body remains too hot. With these symptoms, several types of other symptoms are also found in the patient as- constipation, dried and solid stools, profuse sweating, too much shivering, etc. thus, Aconite should be used to cure such symptoms of the patient. If vat (gout) is suppressed by the use of Aconite, using Bryonia 3, 6, 12 or 30 provides relief. This drug is used only when the tongue and the body skin is dry.
- Belladonna- In the condition of this disease, painful area of the patient’s body becomes red and swelled, slanting pain occurs, patient feels violent pain in his head, the face and the eyes become red, pain starts suddenly and also cured suddenly. Thus, using Belladonna 3x or 6 is very effective for the treatment of such condition of the patient.
- Rhus-tox- Pain gets aggravated when patient is taking rest, at night or after getting up in the morning or by the heat of the bed and ameliorated by little movement or by fomentation of obsessed parts. If the patient has other types of symptoms too as- restlessness, unbearable to cold wind, aggravating pain at the time of taking rest, occurring gout due to exposure to cold wind or in the rainy season, etc., using Rhus-tox 6 is beneficial to cure such symptoms of the patient. If pain is aggravating by movement, Bryonia should be used, but if pain aggravates by movement at the first time and then ameliorates by movement at the second time and again starts by stopping walking, etc., Rhus-tox should be used.
- Colchicum- If this disease has occurred in a healthy person, he starts suffering from painful gout (vat), painful area of the patient’s body gets swelling or have not even little swelling, when obsessed part is pressed by a finger, turns white, pain starts like pricking needle, symptoms like paralysis are also found on the obsessed part and the symptoms of disease aggravates at night, etc., taking Colchicum 1, 3 or 6 is beneficial to cure such symptoms of the patient.
- Pulsatilla- The section around bones joints gets swelling with little redness and pain, the affect of pain moves from one place to other, pain like breaking occurs, pain like applying medicines in the small joints of the bones of the knees, hands and legs, feeling cold, restlessness, sleeplessness, acute or chronic gout, swelling in the joints.
- Apis- If the patient feels insensitiveness or hardness of the affected part, the joints of the body gets swell with slanting pain, seems as if the joints of the body have become inflexible, violent burning sensation occurs with pain, heat becomes unbearable for the patient, scanty urine with lack of thirst, etc., Apis 3x or 30 can be used for the treatment of such symptoms.
- Cimicifuga- When the attack of this disease falls on the waist and the chest, pain like pricking needle occurs in the back and side area of the stomach, the neck becomes inflexible, pain starts in the legs with hotness and swelling, shivering in the body, unable to walk, pain in the entire body like putting medicines or cutting with a razor, fast pain in the head or in the spinal cord with fever, etc., taking 3 potency of this drug is beneficial for the treatment of such symptoms of the patient.
- Actaea-Spicata- Fast pain occurs in the small glands of the body, wrist, heel, fingers and toes due to gout that begins to aggravate by little movement, by touch or at night, etc., 3 potency of this drug can be used to cure such symptoms of the patient.
- Macro tin- In this disease, if the patient feels fast pain in the waist, taking 3x potency of this drug is very useful to cure that patient.
- Merc-Vivus- Pain starts in many joints of one side of the body, accumulating blood, and swelling or burning sensation, sweating like oil with offensive smell, fever and aggravating the symptoms of disease by bed heat at night, etc., thus the powder of Merc-Vivus 3x should be used to cure this disease.
- Eupat-perf- This drug is very effective to cure backache. In the condition of backache occurring due to influenza, malaria or biles or bone and due to doing more muscular work, etc., 1x potency of this drug can be used.
- Viola-Odorata:- In the condition of gout in the right side of the upper organs of the body, treatment of this disease with 3 potency of this drug is very useful.
- Arnica- Using 3 or 30 potency of this drug is beneficial in the condition of pain of the muscles and then becoming that muscle as tough, occurring gout due to injury or after falling down.
- Natrum-sulph- If this disease occurs due to spermotorrhea and the symptoms of disease are aggravated due to exposure to moist air in the rainy season, for the treatment of it, taking the powder of Natrum-sulph 12x is very useful.
- Arum Metallicum- In the condition of gout that moves from one joint to other and in the last, affects the chest region, using the powder of Arum Metallicum 30 is very effective. Due to this disease, if the patient feels difficulty while sleeping, he has to sit by bending himself frontward, profuse sweating, gout occurring due to gonorrhea or syphilis, etc., Arum Metallicum can be used.
- Phytolacca- If this type of gout has occurred due to syphilis, using 30 potency of this drug is very effective. This drug should be also used in the cases of swelling of the fingers joints with fast pain, becoming the fingers joints hard and shiny, etc.
- Phosphorus- If gout occurs due to washing clothes in the water for a long time like a washer man, for the treatment of this disease, using Phosphorus 3 or 30 is very effective.