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Health Remedies - Puerperal Fever

Puerperal fever, also called childbed fever, is a bacterial infection of the female genital tract following childbirth or abortion. It is a serious form of bacterial septicemia and is usually attributable to unsanitary conditions. It is characterized by a fever greater than 38°C arising in a mother in the first 14 days after childbirth. Other symptoms include flu-like symptoms (shivering, chills, malaise, loss of appetite, body aches etc.), abdominal pain, foul-smelling vaginal (lochial) discharge and abnormal vaginal bleeding. Puerperal fever is now rare due to improved hygiene during delivery.

Useful herbs

Hamiltonia suaveolens	For wounds, in puerperal fever; in diarrhoea, courbature (root)
Jasminum sambac	A poultice of the bruised root or leaves or flowers unmoistened applied to the breasts to arrest the secretion of milk in the puerperal state in cases of threatened abscess.
Jurinea dolomiaea	A decoction of the root is cordial. It is given in the treatment of colic and puerperal fever. The bruised root is applied as a poultice to eruptions.
Rhizophora mucronata	Used to remove blood from urine (bark); for the treatment of diarrhea (decoction of the bark); to stop bleeding (plant); given after childbirth to counteract infection (decoction of the leaves).
Stereospermum suaveolens	It is used to treat inflammations, vomiting, dyspepsia, flatulence, asthma, fevers, anasarca, diseases of the blood and distaste. A decoction of the roots is sued to treat a variety of conditions, including intermittent and puerperal fevers, inflammatory chest affections, and affections of the brain. The root bark is generally used in combination with other plant drugs.
Veratrum viride	Cures puerperal fever, phthisis pulmonalis, acute rheumatism, gastric irritation, colic, tetanus, acute gonorrhea, active cerebral engorgement, exophthalmic goiter with tachycardia, aneurism, acute cases of pneumonia, peritonitis, threatened apoplexy, chronic coughs, constipation, for bruises, sprains, fractures, to treat aches and pains