Clostridium perfringens = Bacillus welchii
Vergleich: Staphelia
Vergleich. Cantharis + Clostridium perfringens + Mancinella
Siehe: Nosoden
Folgt gut: Manc./Canth.
Cause of food poisoning, and also of gas gangrene (myocrenosis).
In some animals it is also the cause of ‘overeating disease’ or ‘pulpy kidney
disease’ (enterotoxemia).
Vergiftung: Intense abdominal cramps and diarrhea beginning 8 - 22 hours after consumption of foods
containing large numbers of C. perfringens bacteria
capable of producing the food poisoning toxin. Ends usually within 24 hours but
less severe symptoms may persist in some individuals for 1 or 2 weeks;
Trehalose: Possible effect on gut microbiome Trehalose is widely
distributed and can be found in many organisms incl. bacteria, fungi, plants,
invertebrates and mammals, but it has been found that 2 strains of Clostridium difficile bacteria in human gut designated RT027 and RT078
are disproportionately more efficient at metabolising Trehalose
than other strains. These 2 strains are blamed for the Clostridium difficile epidemic. The time when Trehalose
was certified as a food additive coincided with the rise of the Clostridium difficile epidemic in U.S. and Europe (which is the year
2000 and onward). The consumption of the Trehalose
food additive might have contributed to the alteration of the gut microbiomes to favour the more virulent Clostridium difficile strain.
https://openscholar.dut.ac.za/bitstream/10321/3091/1/BISHOLOKZ_2018.pdf
[Khanya Zukolwakhe Bisholo]
2.3.3.4
Clostridium perfringens is an anaerobic
spore-forming bacterium found
in many environmental sources, as
well as in the intestines of humans and animals.
The food-borne disease strains of C. perfringens
exist in the soil, water, meat, poultry, dust and spice (Pelzer, 2011).
C. perfringens is the most common causes of food-borne illness in the
USA.
It is estimated that nearly 1 million cases of food-borne illnesses per
year are caused by this bacterium. This illness mostly occurs after consuming
food from
institutional cafeterias. It is
transmitted when individuals
consume food that is prepared
in large quantities
and subsequently kept warm
for a long
time prior
to serving (Fafangel at el., 2015).
The incubation period is 8 - 22 hours. The illness is characterized by
acute abdominal pain (cramps), diarrhoea and
vomiting.
Recommended treatment is
oral rehydration, and in severe cases, intravenous fluids and
electrolyte replacement (FDA, 2012)
[Louis Klein]
A case of a six year-old girl who had severe Epidermolysis
bullosa.
Epidermolysis bullosa
(Weber-Cockayne syndrome) is a group of inherited
disorders in which massive blistering of the skin develops in response to minor
trauma.
The mother was very protective of the child and of her 3 year old
sister. Both had suffered from this inherited disorder. Both children would get
large blisters on their
feet, after walking a short distance, and also on their hands and waist
from slight friction. The mother would curtail their activities and could be
seen in my local community pushing them around in a carriage or cart.
My patient, the six year-old, also presented in a peculiar way. She
entered wearing a hooded jacket and kept it on for the whole duration of the
interview, even though the temperature outside was mild and the room warm. She
did not make any eye contact with me and for the most part played quietly by
herself facing the wall, away from
me. When she did turn to talk with the mother, I could see that she was
very pale and had a rather strained and morbid expression on her face.
Prior to seeing me for this first consultation, she had had her case
taken by a good homeopath who was a student of mine. I had consulted on her
case at that time and suggested Mancinella, as the
sap from this tree can cause severe blistering on the skin. The Mancinella helped significantly but only for a period of
about six months and
on repetition failed further positive response.
She had suffered from diarrhea from a very
young age. The mother said “when she was a baby she would always have her knees
up and diarrhea shooting out onto her legs”. She was
also getting continuous stomachaches and had been
treated for “parasites” by a naturopath. As a baby she had an abdominal hernia
surgically repaired.
The mother also said that she was very attached to her as well as to her
sister. When I asked the child about this, she said, “I know why but I’m not
going to tell you.”
She was home-schooled. She was a very intense, moody child, “not very
cheery” but could focus on one project for long periods. She could slip into
states of helplessness where she then became whiny or argumentative (her
sister).
The mother said that the child “has a connection with people who are
dying”. She insisted on frequently visiting her dying grandmother at the
hospital and was there when
she died. The mother thought she supported her well during this and that
the girl was OK afterwards. Grandmother’s cancer was diagnosed during the
pregnancy of this child. The mother had been in a state of “horror” when told
that news. From my experience the child was not going to fit well known
homeopathic remedies or even into many of the groups of unusual remedies with
which I was familiar. Homeopathy had only an imperfect response to this disease
and so I set out to understand some of the roots of this crippling hereditary
condition. I studied/contemplated the whole child, as well as the nature of the
disease.
During this time I would see the mother either carrying the child or
wheeling her round. I had difficulty choosing a remedy for the child. I decided
to give this even deeper contemplation and also to try and think in a more
creative way. I wanted to find something in nature that could cause the problem
and which would also encapsulate something of the child’s general state. When I
focus more on what underlies the case, I always keep in my mind’s eye a picture
of how the patient presented in the interview, thereby maintaining in a
visceral way a real sense of the patient. Since I had some response from a
first remedy made from a plant, I was now also looking for an underlying
causative or miasmatic agent and for a reflection of
this chronic disease in an acute state. After considering them, I ruled out
modern underlying causative agents such as radiations, toxic metals and other
chemicals and looked in the direction of a nosode.
I wanted to find something that would cause, in an acute disease, a
great blister-like swelling as well as diarrhea. I
looked, searching through various options.
What finally came to me was gangrene - an anaerobic bacterium that, in
gas gangrene, creates a huge blister and which can also cause a food-borne
illness with severe diarrhea. I felt that if we could
see how this same type of acute pathology was translated into a chronic
condition then we would see its similarity to diseases where there is chronic
blistering.
Not only that, when I thought of the child covering herself, and her
rather dark personality, these seemed to match what I would conceive of as the
general mental and emotional state of a homeopathic remedy made from an
anaerobe like Clostridium perfringens (which was
prepared but not proven). Lastly, Clostridium perfringens
is a food poisoning agent and therefore covered the ‘chronic diarrhea’ aspect.
I am pleased to say that the child responded beautifully to just 2 doses
of Clostridium perfringens C 30. She has been
virtually blister-free, and hood free, for over 5 years.
Her personality is now cheery and well balanced. There is a similarity
between this remedy and known homeopathic remedies which have blistering as a
key aspect (Manc. and Canth.x).
Clostridium perfringens follows these two
remedies.
What dispositional symptoms do these better-known remedies share?
The main symptom is “Mind, delusions possessed” or “Mind, possessed of
the devil”.
In the Clostridium perfringens patient there
is a feeling as if they are possessed by something dark - they appear “gothic”
and horrorfilled, similar to the chronic Canth. who,
I have found, likes to wear black clothing and is rather dark in their demeanor. In distinction, Manc.
still retains a degree of innocence to their being but they also have this same
tendency to be attracted to black magic and dark forces.
As I wrote in the first Focus Guide, my experience of Mancinella and of other Euphorbiaceae. is that the mind is elastic and
easily “blistered,” thus reflecting what can happen on the physical level.
We can also see the black religious garb itself as part of the ‘look’ of
this miasm.
This penitential aspect of the theme can manifest in differing degrees
and situations. I had a male patient in his sixties who had done well on Cadm-s. for many years.
In the initial visit, his chief complaints were allergies and
depression. After a number of years of doing well, at a follow-up appointment,
he suddenly showed up wearing
a black cap (toque) pulled tightly over his head and other dark-coloured
warm clothing. He kept the clothing and cap on throughout the interview, even
though the room
was quite warm. At this appointment he was again moderately depressed
but not as bad as the first appointment. He described how he and his wife lived
a frugal, vegan lifestyle - even though he craved meat and luxury to a certain
extent.
He and his wife were very critical of any divergence on such matters. In
this case, the ‘mortification’ (you could say) has to do with a lifestyle
choice.
On top of this, his current depressive state had been trigged by being
falsely accused of abusive behavior by a previous
student. The alleged event had taken place over
20 years ago. Currently, he was having gruesome dreams of people being
held hostage and being sliced up by the person holding them hostage. I asked
him if he had had
any episodes of food poisoning and he replied affirmatively- when he was
younger, and he described the episode as being very serious. With the
characteristic dark clothing and cap, ‘mortification’, false accusation, dreams
and a history of food poisoning, I prescribed Clostridium perfringens
nosode. In the follow-up, his clothing had changed
and was cap-free.
He presented Clostridiales with a dramatically
sunnier and consistently happier mood which has continued in subsequent follow
ups.
The meaning of the word mortification also extends to pathology and we
see this in gangrenous states: “the death of one part of the body while the
rest is alive; gangrene; necrosis.” This may be an important remedy for the
treatment of gangrenous states, although I have had no experience yet with this
pathology using this particular nosode.
In addition to the case mentioned, I have had other successes treating
individuals with Epidermolysis bullosa
using homeopathically-prepared Clostridium perfringens. However, I don’t have enough patient
experience with this disease to say whether other types of Clostridiales
nosode made into homeopathic remedies might achieve a
similar result or, whether other nosodes may
be indicated. The challenge for homeopathy is also that many such patients will
need a range of different first prescriptions
before the Clostridium perfringens can work in
such a wonderfully deep way.
Cause: Food service germ.’ ‘Cafeteria
cramps.’ Conditions are favourable for C. perfringens
in food that has been prepared hours before it is to be served and then kept
warm or at room temperature.
Tissue gas: the name given by mortuary workers to the action of C. perfringens on dead bodies.
Is widely distributed in the environment and frequently occurs in the
intestines of humans and many domestic and feral animals. Spores persist in
soil, sediments, and areas subject to human or animal fecal
pollution.
Perfringens food poisoning is the term used to
describe the common foodborne illness caused by C. perfringens. A more serious but rare illness is also caused
by ingesting
food contaminated with Type C strains. The latter illness is known as
enteritis necroticans or pig-bel
disease.
The common form of perfringens poisoning is
characterized by intense abdominal cramps and diarrhea
which begin 8 - 22 hours after consumption of foods containing
large numbers of those C. perfringens bacteria
capable of producing the food-poisoning toxin. The illness is usually over
within 24 hours but less severe symptoms may
persist in some individuals for 1 - 2 weeks.
A few deaths have been reported as a result of dehydration and other
complications.
In most instances, the actual cause of poisoning by C. perfringens is temperature abuse of prepared foods. Small
numbers of the organisms are often present after cooking
and multiply to food poisoning
levels during cool down and storage of prepared foods. Meats, meat products,
and gravy are the foods most frequently implicated.
Institutional feeding (such as school cafeterias, hospitals, nursing homes,
prisons, etc.) where large quantities of food are prepared several hours before
serving is the most common circumstance in which perfringens
poisoning occurs. The young and elderly are the most frequent victims of perfringens poisoning.
The bacterium can also cause tissue necrosis, bacteremia,
emphysematous cholecystitis and clostridial
myonecrosis (gas gangrene). The last named a deadly
form of gangrene;
it progresses rapidly, expanding within internal tissues, leading to
toxemia and shock.
Appearance of Patient: Gothic, dark quality (not always)/wearing a
head-covering.
Vorwort/Suchen Zeichen/Abkürzungen Impressum