Quassia amara: Herb to Reduce Fevers Naturally
A decoction of the inner bark and leaves of the Quassia amara plant is used as a natural remedy to lower fevers of all kinds in both children and adults. Quassia amara contains quassinoids that are known to reduce fever naturally.
Note that NSAIDs like aspirin, ibuprofen, diclofenac, etc. are not recommended for use during a skin-rash infection as they can develop into gangrene. There is a higher risk of developing necrotizing fasciitis / gangrene / flesh-eating bacterial disease when NSAIDs are used to treat fevers and inflammation for chickenpox and other skin-rash diseases.
If your child is suffering from a fever due to a viral infection or for unknown causes, visit this page to learn about how to dose Quassia amara properly as an herbal remedy for fever.
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Quassia amara: Herbal Remedy for Measles
An infusion / tea made from infused leaves of the Quassia amara tree is used topically on the skin for measles in children. A decoction / tea of both the Quassia amara bark and leaves can be used as a wash to reduce viral shedding, itching, and to also kill virions that end up in the dermal blood vessels.It should also be noted that Quassia amara can help reduce spleen inflammation and purify the blood when administered internally as a tea during the eruptive / rash stage of measles, but in traditional use this herb is said to be administered typically as a bath rather than being given internally for both measles and smallpox. However, because studies into Quassia amara are typically funded by Big Pharma and thus, the studies are not concerned with traditional use per se, or developing a true understanding of traditional use, but rather, studies focus on the substances found in herbs that might be isolated from the plant and developed into drugs.
For spleen, liver, and urinary tract diseases, the stem and the bark of the Quassia amara plant are used as a tea / decoction and measles infection would be no exception to the list of diseases that would require a tea infusion for treatment. An infusion of the bark and leaves is also used to reduce fever, of course. This suggests that Quassia amara would function best if it were administered both internally as an infusion tea as well as topically as a wash or a bath for measles and other skin-rash infections specifically.
In 1922 in St. Louis, 264 children with measles were included in a study to examine spleen inflammation during measles infection. In 1923 and 1924, another series of studies examined 133 additional children with measles at which time doctors noted that the ability to easily touch and feel the spleen occurred very suddenly in all children when the measles rash appeared. Spleen inflammation disappeared as soon as the rash began to abate. As such, it’s clear that the spleen plays a big role in this skin-rash disease. It can thus be valuable to work to support the spleen as part of a protocol for the natural treatment of measles.
This fact about the role of the spleen (and also the liver) as the focal organ for treatment in measles, is vital in that the measles virus itself is often not lethal. However, measles virus infection and the subsequent inflammation of the spleen is indicative of immune system suppression that greatly increases a child’s susceptibility to opportunistic bacterial infections. It is the secondary, opportunistic bacterial infection that is most dangerous for a patient and that is most commonly associated with long-term illness or death.
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Is immune amnesia real?
Recently, the mainstream journalism community has begun propagating the idea of “immune amnesia” where a person infected with the measles virus gets a total immune-system reset that makes it so that they have practically no immunity at all. This seems partially plausible or perhaps like a concept that’s based on some fundamental truth, but if “immune amnesia” were a real thing, it seems unlikely that very many measles survivors would not have survived after measles epidemics prior to the advent of a vaccine. Also, it also seems as though the measles vaccine would wipe out the immune system in the same way as infection with the measles virus as the vaccine is a live, attenuated (partially weakened) vaccine.
These are mainstream “news” sources that are propagating this mis-information about measles.
While it is not only plausible but known that measles infection causes the immune system to become suppressed for a period of time, it does not seem plausible that the body is permanently “reset” into a state of “immune amnesia” and a total lack of immunity from everything that we’ve been exposed to prior to the moment of measles infection. One of the roles of the spleen is immunological, after all. But even people with HIV, a disease that’s said to destroy the immune system, still have immunity against some diseases even as the disease progresses to full-blown AIDs.
Parents who are trying to decide whether or not to get the measles vaccine (MMR) or how to treat an unvaccinated child at home for measles need to know that immune amnesia is not real. If it were real, the human race would not have survived to the present day.
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Herbs That Support the Spleen: Herbal Remedy for Mpox, Measles and More…
One of the herbs that is often used for spleen deficiency in Traditional Chinese Medicine is ginseng and indeed, this herb has been studied as an herbal remedy for viral infections like measles, Mpox / monkeypox, and more. Ginseng has been used in traditional medicine for thousands of years as an adaptogenic medicine to support the spleen and to help prevent viral infection at the same time .
Scientists believe that measles-infected patients suffer from decreased numbers of macrophages and neutrophils in the spleen as well as defects in interferon-gamma, a cytokine that plays an important role in cell-mediated immunity, tumor surveillance, and whole-body response to viral infection. This may explain how and why chlorine dioxide solution / miracle mineral solution (CDS / MMS) (as well as other reactive oxygen species medicines) can be used to treat measles infection as CDS / MMS releases the same type of reactive oxygen species (the superoxide anion) released by neutrophils to kill invading pathogens. CDS / MMS as well as food grade hydrogen peroxide and other reactive oxygen species medicines can be useful through this mechanism of action as an at-home remedy for measles. The earlier that you can begin working with a reactive oxygen species medicine after exposure to measles, the better.
If you work with a reactive oxygen species medicine like CDS / MMS or food grade hydrogen peroxide though, it can also be useful to work with Quassia amara and red ginseng too as spleen-healing medicines that also purify the blood. However, reactive oxygen species medicines are delicate and they are easily canceled out by herbs and supplements. Be sure to wait 30 minutes both before and after CDS / MMS dosing before administering an herbal remedy like Quassia amara for measles.
Blood purifying herbs are generally recommended for severe viral infection to support the spleen.
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