This disease is also one, which is common with children. The child has slight fever, with eruption of vesicles (blisters). Each vesicle is on a redenned skin. The vesicles slowly dry up and form scabs (as over wounds).
These fall off gradually. These come and dry in small lots and not all at once. These cover the whole body, more the neck and the shoulders. In all, it takes a fortnight to vanish. Chicken Pox is also the result of wrong feeding and unhealthy living and also improper environment.
The treatment in Nature-cure is the same as described in the case of common fevers, and in measles, except that no special care for the eyes is needed, only that the child does not scratch the vesicles.
Small Pox
It is a virulent type of fever and happens in very unclean conditions of living, like improper sanitation, etc. Besides, the toxic-like conditions within the body are also responsible for the outburst of this disease.
It generally spreads like an epidemic and sometimes takes a heavy toll of lives. It generally attacks children, or those others at younger age. In the medical science, vaccination is taken as a preventive measure.
But in Nature-cure, stress is laid on purification of the body, by regulated living on nature’s principles. Small Pox spreads virulently beginning with high temperature around 104T, with shivering and rapid pulse, headache, vomiting and pain in the back of the neck.
High fever is followed by eruptions on the surface of the body, which dry up at the end.
Treatment
The patient should be kept segregated. Allow the fever to take its own course. The fever runs its course for a few days, during which the toxic matter in the body goes on being oxidised.
In case of high fever, wet packs as given in the case of common fever, should be applied. In two days of the fever, there will begin to appear pustules (pimples containing puss) on the body, of which great care is to be taken.
The temperature recedes as the pustules start forming. They cause an itching sensation, but the patient should not be allowed to scratch them. The itching will cease with the drying up of the pustules and the fever will come down.
During the next few days all precautions, as advised in the case of fevers, be followed.