What is hydrophobia ?
Hydrophobia means fear of water.
Symptoms of hydrophobia : Slight dizziness and nausea.Violent pressing outward in the forehead, the patient put the head to the wall.A very intolerable, snappish, irritable headache, with stiffness of the jaws and numb hands. Twitchings of the face and hands.Rending and tearing pain in the malar bones.Face pale, yellow, nearly brown/Both jaws feel stiff, with tingling in the cheek bones.Jaws stiff and sore.Jaws feel stiff and a disposition to gape.Rending pain in right upper jaw,towards the ear.Mouth full of saliva and total disinclination to drink.Saliva more viscid, constant spitting; feeling of general malaise all over, without pain.Increase of saliva.A large quantity of viscid saliva in the mouth.Saliva more plentiful, but thin and of a yellow color.Desire to swallow, and spittle more viscid than usual.Difficulty in swallowing liquids.Sensation as of inability to swallow, but can do so when trying.Difficulty in swallowing liquids;epiglottis appeared partially paralyzed. Burning down the oesophagus.Constant desire to swallow.Violent spasm of the throat with sense of suffocation.Strange constrictive sensation, with inability to swallow without great pain.Constrictive sensation in the throat, much worse when swallowing liquids.
Homoeopathy Treatment of hydrophobia : restlessness, violent convulsions, the patient being so violent that he had to be tied; he rolled about in his bed sleepless, and uttering crowing screams; he was delirious, without memory or consciousness; his pupils were extremely dilated; violent desire to bite and to tear everything with his teeth; extreme dryness of the inner mouth and fauces; the sight of a light, a mirror, or water, excited horrible convulsions, irresistible aversion to water, with constrictions and convulsions of the oesophagus; froth at the mouth and frequent spitting. belladonna, hyoscyamus, lachesis, stramonium, cantharides. cantharides appears to be more indicated when the inflammatory symptoms are the most prominent, and when the impeded deglutition does not proceed from a spasmodic constriction of the fauces, but from the inflammation of those parts, or from pains caused by swallowing.
