BACILLUS SEVEN

Bacillus Seven

(Bacillus Asiaticus)

Pharmacy

ba-sv.Bacillusseven.Bacillus asiaticus.Bacilluscloacae.Bacillus freundi. Historical dose: All potencies.

Clinical

• Asthma
• Arthritis
• Backache
• Bronchitis
• Cardiac arrest
• Constipation
• Deafness
• Exhaustion
• Fatigue
• Fibrositis
• Flatulence
• Hemorrhoids
• Mental fatigue
• Menorrhagia
• Metrorrhagia
• Myocardial weakness
• Osteo-arthritis
• Osteoporosis
• Quinsy
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Rheumatism
• Senility
• Tonsillitis

Homeopathic

This remedy is so named as it was the seventh non-lactose fermenting type of bacillus observed in the laboratory. As it did not conform to any of the previously known groups, it was given the number "Seven."

Extreme mental and physical fatigue. Its site of action is the neuro-muscular junction. Unfit for mental exertion, leading to extreme physical exhaustion. Asthma, catarrh, sticky mucus. Low blood pressure and myocardial weakness.

Flatulence, fullness after food. Feeble urinary flow, loss of sexual function, premature senility. Rheumatic nodules. Backache, cannot stand long. Faints easily. Sensitive to cold. All the symptoms can be related to general lack of nerve and muscle tone.

Mind

The outstanding symptom is mental fatigue, a feeling of unfitness for any mental effort, which produces a sense of extreme physical exhaustion. Tense and tired. The thought of doing anything is sufficient to exhaust him.

Abdomen

Flatulence. A sense of fullness after food, flatulence and distention of the stomach. Flabby abdomen. Pain in liver region.

Back

Backache, cannot stand long without feeling of faintness. Fibrous rheumatism of neck and back, abdominal muscles, shoulders, and arms. Spinal osteo-arthritis.

Chest

Some pain.

Constitutions

More suitable for the elderly and the debauch.

Ears

Catarrhal deafness.

Eyes

Thrombosis central retinal vein. Eyes closed, lasted one week.

Face

Dark, pale, puffy. Angio-neurotic edema.

Female

Pain in vulvae, no leucorrhea. Menorrhagia and metrorrhagia.

Food

Averse to fat.

Head

Dull headaches.

Heart

Myocardial weakness. Sudden cardiac arrest. Slow pulse rate, often with lowered blood pressure.

Kidneys

Feeble urinary flow.

Limbs

Poor muscle tone. Joints swollen and painful. Fibrositis. Fibrous rheumatism thighs. Limbs stiff. Osteo-arthritis of the knees. Left hip fixed, arthritis. Rheumatoid arthritis. Knees and ankles. Stabbing pain in hip. Pain shoots up and down leg. Cramps in leg at night. Pes planus. Feet painful. Gout in left toe. Wrists and ankles immobile. Rheumatism of the wrists. Ganglion right hand. Fingers swell. Blood vessels burst in fingers.

Lungs

Asthma. Bronchitis. Bronchial catarrh, tough sticky mucus, difficult to raise. Worse at 2 a.m. (Kali-c.).

Male

Loss of sexual function. Premature senility.

Modalities

Sensitive to cold, to drafts and cold, damp air. Backache, better heat and rest. Worse damp and cold. Worse on commencing to move.

Neck

Stiff neck "cracks like a nut." Fibrositis of neck and shoulders.

Nose

Nasal catarrh.

Perspiration

Excessive perspiration.

Rectum

Constipation. Hemorrhoids.

Skin

Cracks in knuckles, fingertips, palms. Circinate eruption hands, palms, hot, nippy, and scaly. Paronychia fingers.

Sleep

Light sleeper. Wakes 2 or 3 a.m. Takes hours to fall off to sleep.

Stomach

Belching.

Throat

Tonsillitis. Quinsy.

Vertigo

Tendency to syncope after sudden exertion. Faintness on standing long and after sudden exertion.

Comments

Rheumatoid arthritis shoulders, elbow, wrists. Relaxed fibrous tissue with tendency to the formation of "rheumatic nodules."

Relations

This bacillus has a closer relationship to the two halogens, Bromine and Iodine, often in combination with Potassium. Compare: (1) Bromine, Iodine and particularly the Kali salts, especially Kali. (2) Among remedies related to this nosode are many iodides. (3) Calc-f.

References

Paterson.