Blood poisoning, remedies

T raditional Medicine. This plant (E. angustifolia) was universally used as an antidote for snakebite and other venomous bites and stings and poisonous conditions. Echinacea seems to have been used as a remedy for more ailments than any other plant. Diseases and conditions for which echinacea was employed by physicians (1887-1939) included old sores, wounds, snakebite, gangrene, and as a local antiseptic internally for diphtheria, typhoid conditions, cholera infantum, syphilis, and blood poisoning. ... 

A 56-year-old woman developed the signs and symptoms of lead poisoning after taking an Indian herbal medicine for many years (147). Her blood and urine lead concentrations were 1530 ng/ml and 4785 gg/day. She also had raised liver enzymes. After withdrawal of the remedy and treatment with penicillamine, she made a full recovery. 

Nitroglycerin is a heavy, colorless, oily liquid, which has a sweet taste and, as ordinarily prepared, a pale yellow color. It freezes at about 8°, melts at about 12°, and explodes when, heated to 180°. Small quantities burn in the open air without explosion. Nitroglycerin is very sensitive to shocks, and can readily be exploded by a sharp blow. It is a powerful poison, resembling strychnine somewhat in its physiological effects. It is used as a remedy in heart disease, and is injected into the blood in cases of poisoning by carbon monoxide or water-gas. 

Calcium EDTA 11.28), injected as its sodium salt, sodium calcium edetate, is a most effective remedy for lead poisoning (Bessman, Rubin and Leikin, 1954). Sodium edetate (the same substance minus the calcium) was used in an attempt to decalcify stenosed valves in the heart even though it also caused a fall in blood calcium, the patients were none the worse after long courses of injections, e.g. 3 g (as a 0.5% solution) every 24 hours for 5 days a week, and 3 weeks per month (Seven, 1960). Sodium edetate has been used successfully to overcome digitalis-induced cardiac arrhythmia by restoring K /Ca - balance (Szekely and Wynne, 1963). 

The Goodmans first shock was learning Natalie had an elevated level of lead in her blood. Their second shock followed shortly thereafter when a City Board of Health inspector showed up with no prior notice at their home, pointed a strange-looking machine all over the walls, doors, and windows of their brownstone, and cited them for 44 violations of the lead poisoning law, with a warning that these hazards must be remedied within FIVE days. If not, the City would send in their own contractors and, if the Goodmans couldn t pay the bill, a lien would be put on their property. 

The condition known as alkalosis occurs when the pH of blood rises above about 7.45. Respiratory alkalosis is caused by hyperventilation, or excessive respiration. The simplest remedy consists of breathing into a paper bag in order to incresise the levels of inhcded CO2. Metabolic alkalosis may result from illness, poisoning, repeated vomiting, md overuse of diuretics. The body may compensate for the incrccise in the pH of blood by decreasing the rate of respiration. 

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