Synovitis

Introduction

Water gets accumulated in the joints of ankle and knees of the patient suffering from this disease. It is called ‘water on the knee’ in English. Water gets accumulated under the movable cap presents on the knee joints, due to which, knee becomes swell and painful that convert into this type of dangerous disease later. If this disease is not treated on time, it can be dangerous.

Treatment of this disease by following drugs

1. Kali-iod

If knee swelling is like a sponge with the feeling inside the joints, the patient feels pricking pain in the joints, pain is aggravating at night with excessive restlessness; using Kali-iod 3 is very effective.

2. Apis

Using Apis 30 is beneficial in the condition of accumulation of water in the knee joints. If patient feels pain as if cutting with knife or sting pain, aggravating pain even after little movement of the knee, water becomes accumulative in the joints, etc., this drug should be used for the treatment. It is also very effective in the condition of scrofula. In the case of infantile scrofula, if the knee got swelling, water gets accumulated; treatment of such symptoms by Iodine 3 after Apis is beneficial.

3. Bryonia

If the knee swelling has become yellow with stiffness and tightness; the patient feels fast slanting pain like pricking a needle; pain is aggravating even after little movement or if this disease has occurred by getting hurt in gastric patient, taking Bryonia 30 is beneficial. If the patient is healthy however feels severe fever, he should use Aconite 30 for the treatment. If patient’s knee is dark red, too swelled and pain has started suddenly, using higher potency of Belladonna is beneficial. If Aconite or Belladonna makes no impression, Bryonia is very effective in such symptoms.

4. Sulphur

If Apis or Bryonia makes no impression in this disease, Sulphur 30 can be used.

5. Ledum

If water has been accumulated in the knee joints with swelling due to any type of injury, the affected part can not able to be touch and feels fast pain, but fever is absent or low fever, taking Ledum 3 or 30 in this stage is beneficial.

6. Mer-sol

If water becomes accumulative in the knee of the patient suffering from syphilis or scrofula and joints began to decompose, using Merc-sol 30 is very effective. While using this drug, the patient should careful about symptoms like- aggravating the symptoms of disease at night, profuse sweating but feels some relief by it, feeling cold, restlessness and feels as if pus is forming in obsessed part, this drug should be used in this stage to cure it.

7. Calcarea carb

Those children whose physical structure is too loose and flabby, sweating from his head, the legs have fallen cold, suffers from scrofula; for the treatment of such child, using Calcarea carb 30 or 200 is very effective.