Re: beyondhom cat scratch "issue"

Hi Shannon

If it seems infectious (hot? red? etc. if you leave it) have you tried the good old stand-bys: Belladonna; Gunpowder; Pyrogen? Also even Hep. Sulph. if it gets very painful.

And I'm also thinking of Hypericum if the pain is on a nerve, and moving upwards.

Probably all too familiar! But I don't know what you've tried.

Liz


From: Shannon Nelson 
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2012 7:13 PM
To: [email protected] 
Subject: beyondhom cat scratch "issue"


  
I wonder if anyone has input about this?

A couple of months ago I got a scratch to my foot by one of my cats. 
This particular cat gets into particularly icky things, and several 
times in the past several years I have had small scratches from him 
that became slowly worse and worse, until bandaged with castor oil. 
(None of my usual anti-infectives, external or internal, made even the 
slightest difference.)

This last time, before I got hold of castor oil it had gone beyond 
what that could clear, and the "something icky" has evidently made its 
way into a nerve in my foot, where it is very happy.

Spilanthes tincture stops it from spreading or worsening (thank you 
Dale for bringing spilanthes to my attention!), BUT seems unable to 
clear it from the nerve. Each time I go too long without my dose (6-8 
hours), it begins to spread and worsen. And when I get back to the 
regular dosing, I regain most of the ground that was lost, but not all.

It feels to me as tho my immune system takes NO notice of this 
whatever-it-is at all, and I'm kind of stumped about where to go from 
here. From standpoint of homeopathic treatment, there's very little 
acute symptomatology to work with because of the spilanthes.

Anyone have thoughts, or heard of anything like this?

Thanks,
Shannon