Coronavirus 2019-nCoV Anhang
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[Dr. Ajit Kulkarni with Roma
Bushimensky]
Interview
The COVID-19 Pandemic and its Homeopathic Approach
I am fine. The outbreak of COVID-19 has put the international community
in front of an unprecedented global challenge, one that knows no boundary, at
least at present.
Coronavirus patients were reported first from China and rapidly it
gained a foothold in all continents (except Antarctica). The perilous spread is
alarming as we are daily getting new patients afflicted with the virus. There
are five stages of the corona pandemic.
Cases mostly imported from
affected countries
Local transmission from
positive cases
Disease spreads in the
community, large areas get affected
Disease takes the shape of an
epidemic with no clear endpoint
Resolution stage
We can include China and Italy in the 4th group. It is now a
big challenge to halt the onset of stage III in many countries of the world.
The 5th stage, it seems has begun in China and it is a
natural outcome.
Coronaviruses are named for the crown-like spikes on their surface.
There are four main sub-groupings of coronaviruses, known as alpha, beta,
gamma, and delta.
Human coronaviruses were first identified in the mid-1960s. The seven
coronaviruses that can infect humans are:
Common human coronaviruses
229E (alpha coronavirus)
NL63 (alpha coronavirus)
OC43 (beta coronavirus)
HKU1 (beta coronavirus)
Other human coronaviruses
MERS-CoV (the beta coronavirus
that causes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS)
SARS-CoV (the beta coronavirus
that causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS)
SARS-CoV-2 (the novel
coronavirus that causes coronavirus disease 2019, or COVID-19)
People around the world commonly get infected with human coronaviruses
229E, NL63, OC43, and HKU1. CoVs are positive-stranded RNA viruses with a
crown-like appearance under an electron microscope (coronam is the Latin term
for crown) due to the presence of spike glycoproteins on the envelope.
Coronavirus disease is a new strain discovered in 2019 and has not been
previously identified in humans. The term COVID-19 is used for the clinical
disease caused by
SARS-CoV-2. Remember, while transmission of SARS-CoV-2 appears similar
to that of the related SARS and MERS coronaviruses, the new virus has a lower
fatality rate.
Sars-CoV-2, the virus that causes the Covid-19 disease, is detectable
for up to three hours in aerosols, up to four hours on a copper surface, up to
24 hours on cardboard, and up to two-three days on plastic and stainless steel.
By the time I finish this interview (22/3/2020), the breaking news is
that the WHO has confirmed COVID-19 as airborne and can remain eight hours in
air, depending on factors like heat and humidity.
How does coronavirus attack the human body?
The disease can cast a storm over the whole human body. Coronavirus
particles have spiked proteins sticking out from their surfaces, and these
spikes hook onto cell membranes, allowing the virus’s genetic material to enter
the human cell.
COVID-19 replicates itself in the upper respiratory system, making
droplets from coughing and sneezing, the main means of spreading the disease.
Infected people produce
a large quantity of the virus at the beginning of the infection with an
incubation period up to 0-14 days. In a recent study, it is found that the
incubation period can be as
long as 27 days and it could reflect a double exposure.
Once infected, the body will launch an attack against the virus in which
immune cells will target COVID-19. As the virus proliferates, they burst out
and infect neighbouring cells.
The symptoms often start in the back of the throat with sore throat and
dry cough. Some patients may develop productive or wet cough, which is thick
mucus coughed up.
The virus then crawls progressively down the bronchial tubes.
“The virus will actually land on organs like the heart, the kidney, the
liver, and may cause some direct damage to those organs. As the body’s immune
system shifts into
high gear to battle the infection, the resulting inflammation may cause those
organs to malfunction”
Dr. Schaffner.
Can you discuss the evolution of COVID-19 disease?
The virus causes mild to moderate symptoms after infection in most
cases, such as, fever, dry cough, and fatigue. But this is when the infection
is limited to the upper respiratory tract – nose and throat. Once the infection
involves the lower respiratory tract, complications set in.
The spread of the coronavirus disease is better understood in the
following way.
DAY-BY-DAY PROGRESSION OF COVID-19 (from symptomatic point of view)
Day 1-3
Cold and flu like symptoms
Fever
Mild or no throat pain
Day 4
Increased throat pain
Sore voice
Fever 36.5 C
Mild headache and diarrhoea or
cramps
Day 5
Throat pain very severe,
< eating or drinking
Soreness of voice increases
Dry cough
Joint pains < motion
Weakness
Day 6
Increase in fever, 37 C
All above symptoms increase in
intensity
Nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea
increase
Starts feeling shortness of breath
in a mild way
Body ache or pain from joints
extends to fingers
Increase in weakness
Day 7
Intensity of fever increases
38 C
Excessive coughing with sputum
All above symptoms <
Day 8
Cough <, usually dry
Severe difficulty in breathing
Heaviness and pain in chest
All above symptoms further
<
Toxic appearance of the
patient
Fever, intense, above 38 C
Day 9
All the symptoms become much
<
Cyanosis
Kidney failure
Respiratory failure
Multi-organ failure
This is not a strict pattern though many patients follow it.
Understanding the day wise evolution will help a homeopath to assess the
situation from a miasmatic diagnosis, remedy diagnosis and overall management.
CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION (from Pathological point of view)
Mild to moderate cases
Fever, nasal congestion, dry
cough, fatigue, sputum formation, shortness of breath, sore throat, headache,
body ache, chills, nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, loss of smell
and taste etc.
This constitute 80% of
patients.
The difference in mild and
moderate cases is that the above symptoms are mild in the former and there is
no pneumonia while in the latter the symptoms are more
intense and manifestations of
pneumonia are seen in imaging.
Severe cases
Adults who meet any of the
following criteria: respiratory rate; > 30 breaths/min; oxygen saturations;
93% at a resting state; arterial partial pressure of oxygen (PaO2)/oxygen
concentration (FiO2); < 300 mmHg. Patients with > 50% lesions progression
within 24 to 48 hours in lung imaging should be treated as severe cases.
Pneumonia with fluid
accumulation
This constitutes 14% of
patients.
Critical cases
Extensive pneumonia
Meeting any of the following
criteria: occurrence of respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation;
presence of shock; other organ failure that requires monitoring and treatment
in the ICU.
This constitutes 6% patients.
A fact to be noted is that not all people go through all the stages of
infection. There may jumping from a mild variety to critical in a rapid way.
This jumping is a tubercular miasmatic characteristic and you must think to
intervene with Tuberculinum at this stage. Rather, every patient who has recovered from
COVID-10 must be given a dose
of Tubeculinum 1M in order to prevent the relapse. More doses of
Tuberculinum can be thought of relevant to the individual instance.
Do you regard COVID-19 as another kind of Influenza?
Both spread in similar ways and share many of the same symptoms, but the
flu and the coronavirus have key differences.
Corona virus is a completely
novel virus and humans have a zero pre-existing immunity to it; hence, every
person is vulnerable.
COVID-19 is caused by one
virus, SARS-CoV-2 while flu is caused by any of several different types and
strains of influenza viruses.
COVID-19 patients may not
express a runny nose or sneezing, but these are common symptoms of common
influenza. Shortness of breath is very rare in flu cases.
COVID-19 might be spread
through the airborne route (meaning that tiny droplets remaining in the air
could cause disease in others even after the ill person is no
longer near) though both can
be spread from person to person through droplets in the air.
In COVID-19, fever appears on
an average of 5-6 days after infection. However, incubation period (the time
between exposure and first symptoms) can extend up
to 14 days. This period may be
extended in the future depending upon the behaviour of the virus.
The coronavirus is more
insidious and more contagious in comparison to common flu. It is said that
COVID-19 kills 2.3% of patients, meaning it is currently 23x
more fatal than the seasonal flu.
The coronavirus can last up to
six weeks in some severe and critical cases.
Comments regarding homeopathy:
For a homeopath, it is not only the label of COVID-19 or influenza.
During the virus infection, host factors trigger an immune response against the
virus.
However, immunopathogenesis is associated with an immune response that
goes out of control, and results in pulmonary tissue damage, functional
impairment, and
reduced lung capacity. Apart from the above host factor, the host i.e.
the individual is the most pivotal point in homeopathic philosophical and
practical thinking.
COVID-19 is deeper and destructive and it has its specific syndrome,
unlike common influenza. A homeopath, therefore, should not focus on
Influenzinum or Oscil.
They are the nosodes for common flu and in view of changes in mutation
of the virus, we need a change in the nosode. The symptoms and the pathology
are different
and we must address the situation which is prevailing now if we want to apply
the Law of Similars in an appropriate way. We must accept the destructive
potential
of coronavirus. Miasmatic assessment will be different, here, in
COVID-19. A homeopath doesn’t prescribe on the basis of the name of the disease
but on the totality
of symptoms and signs as represented by the sick individuals.
Please discuss pneumonia in a COVID-19 patient.
Development of pneumonia is a danger signal for COVID-19 patients.
COVID-19 attacks the lungs in three stages:
Viral replication
Immune hyperreactivity
Pulmonary destruction
1. COVID-19 first enters the body, then starts replicating itself
rapidly in the lungs, creating the viral replication stage, ultimately filling
the airways with fluid, pus and
debris with consequent impaired flow of oxygen.
2. Next occurs immune hyperreactivity. This is when the body’s immune
system effectively kicks into overdrive and bombards the lungs with immune
cells in an effort to repair lung tissue. When this type of response is
triggered, immune cells can overreact and damage healthy tissues.
3. third phase of pulmonary destruction then begins (like SARS). Here,
respiratory failure may occur and patients may require the assistance of
ventilators to breathe.
The predisposing conditions for COVID-19 pneumonia tend to be old age
and medical co-morbidities (such as chronic pulmonary disease, diabetes, and
other chronic diseases), similar to previous viral infections (such as
influenza H7N9).
Pneumonia is of two types: Moderate and severe. Unilateral pneumonia is
rapidly followed by bilateral, sub-pleural lesions are seen, consolidation with
surrounding
halo sign is seen, ground-glass opacities, fine mesh shadow and tiny
nodules are CT findings.
Typical CT features of C0VID-19
CT scan features of SARS-cov2
1.
2. Patchy ground glass opacities
3. Nodules and patchy exudation
4
5. Multifocal consolidation lesions
6. Diffuse consolidation, “white lung”
(Courtesy Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment)
Most patients show chest x ray abnormalities, with patchy air space
disease. CT scan of the lungs shows “ground glass opacities” (observed more in
right upper lobe).
With < of illness, opaque areas scatter and thicken in places,
creating a “crazy paving” pattern on the scan.
Pulmonary pathology is of pleural effusion, pronounced pulmonary oedema,
extensive consolidation, focal haemorrhage, small pulmonary thromboseembolism
and
interstitial thickening, with fibrosis of a mild to moderate nature or
of honeycomb type.
Histopathological observations of pulmonary lesions not only show
nonspecific inflammatory responses such as oedema and inflammatory cell
infiltration but also
exhibit severe exfoliation of alveolar epithelial cells, alveolar septal
widening, damage to alveolar septa, and alveolar space infiltration in a
distinctly organized manner. Pathologically, inflammation includes degeneration
(necrosis), infiltration and hyperplasia.
COVID-19 begins and ends in their lungs. There are GIT affections in COVID-19
patients like nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea etc. but they are not as dangerous as
lower RT. Hence, pneumonic manifestations are elaborated.
Can Homeopathy work as a
prophylactic against COVID-19?
The answer to this question is a long one. You must first understand the
Law of Similars. Let us see how immunology and serum therapy are related to
Homeopathy.
The complete development of immunology and serum therapy is based on the
principle of Similia.
It is interesting to read what Emil Von Behring, one of the founders of
this discipline in late 19th and early 20th centuries,
wrote: “In spite of all scientific speculations
and experiments concerning small-pox vaccination, Jenner’s discovery
remained an erratic boulder in medicine until biochemically thinking Pasteur,
devoid of all classroom knowledge, traced the origin of this therapeutic
boulder to a principle, which cannot be better characterized than by
Hahnemann’s word ‘Homeopathic’. Indeed, what else causes the epidemiological
immunity in sheep vaccinated against anthrax than the influence previously
exerted by a virus similar in character to that of a fatal anthrax virus? And
by what technical term could we more appropriately speak of this influence
exerted by a similar virus than by Hahnemann’s word ‘Homeopathy’?”
The preventive use of homeopathy was first applied in 1799 during an epidemic of scarlet fever in
Königslütter, Germany, by Dr. Hahnemann. A single dose of the remedy Bell. was
prescribed as the Genus Epidemicus to the susceptible
children in the town with more than 95% success rate.
The question is whether ultra-highly diluted homeopathic remedies have
demonstrable anti-viral effects and the answer is a big yes. I appeal to
everyone to read research papers by Anisur Rahman Khuda Bukhsh.
What is the concept of prophylaxis in Homeopathy?
Clinical practice based on the Law of Similars opens new horizons on
which homeopathy projects its infinite potentialities, one of which is the
field of prophylaxis.“Homeopathic prophylaxis” is adopted against many
contagious diseases. It has the same
principle of the Law of Similars, like vaccination (which is followed
in mainstream medicine).
Homeopathy is a constitutional therapeutic system and its selective and
collective approach takes into account the concept of health as an ongoing
process. One of the benefits of homeopathy is that a homeopathic physician can
commence treatment at whatever stage the patient is presented to him, even if one
is still waiting for the definitive diagnosis to be made on the basis of
investigations like serology, culture, x-ray, etc. since the homeopathic
treatment never interferes with any diagnostic procedures.
The prevention of disease by using an agent, which may cause or transmit
the disease has been known for centuries, and its earliest example was of
protection against viral infections. For example, the Chinese used to give
protection against smallpox by the compulsory wearing of garments of the patient
in full suppuration, or by the introduction of a one-year-old dried pustule
into the nostrils.
During the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe,
vaccination against smallpox using inoculation with variolic pus was also
carried out. Even Hippocrates has recommended the consumption of the slimy
saliva (from under the tongue) of a rabid dog, taken as a drink, as protection
against rabies. The above examples are of ‘Isopathy’, a form of therapy based
on the principle of treating with the same agent that may cause or transmit the
disease. Comparing with Isotherapy, Homeopathy is based on the Law of
Similars.
Can you elaborate further on homeopathic prophylaxis and the use of
vaccinations in conventional prophylaxis?
There are four issues to be discussed.
Homeopathic Prophylaxis
Homeopathic Vaccination
Genus Epidemicus (GE)
Vaccination in mainstream
medicine
Homeopathic Prophylaxis (HP) and Homoeopathic Vaccination (HV) are not
the same. Homeopathic prophylaxis is used when there are sporadic, endemic,
pandemic
or epidemic outbreaks of contagious acute diseases (like COVID-19).
HP involves the use of homeopathic remedies, selected on the basis of
totality of symptoms as manifested by the mass who are affected. The purpose of
HP is to reduce
or eliminate the morbidity of contagious diseases and thus also save the
most people from mortality.
Although it is not a very specific individualized modality, it involves
a less individualized and non-routine way of prescription for the short term.
HP has been used since
the inception of homeopathy.
When a remedy specific to the individual occurrence of an epidemic (Genus
Epidemicus) is identified, this remedy will act more surely in homeopathic
prophylaxis and
early treatment of cases also.
Homeopathic vaccination (HV) involves the use of a series of disease
products (nosodes) in an effort to confer long-term resistance to a variety of
diseases.
The long-term time is involved with the concept of HV. However, a nosode
as a remedy can become GE, provided it covers the totality of symptoms as
suffered by the community from a contagious disease.
In mainstream medicine, each immunization procedure carries some risk of
adverse reactions since crude/material amounts of disease agents and several
other ingredients
are being used which may result in an actual infection or else an
immunological reaction. These reactions may deter both a doctor as well as a
patient from using these procedures in individual cases. The adverse reactions,
acute and chronic, have been recorded over the years and we have now enormous
data about it.
Let us take the example of the vaccine against Covid-19 in mainstream
medicine. It could take one to two years to prepare the vaccine. Further, less
is known about this particular virus and certain viruses behave in an unusual
manner. This indicates that developing the vaccine is not an easy task.
In the absence of vaccine from mainstream medicine, should the mankind be
subjected to spread of COVID-19? However, more research is required in this
field. Homeopathic prophylaxis is based
on the totality of data (the field of semeiology), and not on the causative
agent only.
In view of the problem of change/mutation of the strain of the virus and
the difficulty in preparing a vaccine, the homeopathic prophylactic drug based
on Hahnemann’s’ concept of ‘Genus epidemicus’, is comparatively easy to
prepare.
In such cases, nosodes (homeopathic potentized
preparations of disease-products), can be used as prophylactics. As a result of
many years of clinical use, there seem to be rational grounds for recommending
these nosodes due to their efficacy and safety. Nosodes should be used only
under strict supervision of expert homeopathic physicians.
In the current set-up, we can’t compare immunization in mainstream
medicine and homeopathic vaccination. We need double-blind control studies and
a large number of
cases to draw the conclusions. This is the most favourable point in the
history of medicine to do research on homeopathic vaccination and all the
concerned authorities from government and private institutions should take
necessary steps.
The virus is circulating and it is almost everywhere. Millions of people
are under its grip and mainstream medicine should not oppose Homeopathy,
Ayurveda and alternative therapies. Opposing homeopathic prophylaxis means, in
another way, opposing the very principle on which the whole edifice of
vaccination is built. Let us be one in our fight, let us be united, let us bury
grudges and take up the gauntlet for the sake of humankind.
Can you give some evidence that homeopathy has proved itself as a
preventive medicine?
Yes, the history of homeopathy is replete with beneficial results of
homeopathic prophylaxis in contagious diseases such as Japanese Encephalitis, Yellow fever,
Cholera, Diphtheria,
Influenza,
Plague
etc.
Homeopathic medicines have been used to treat the flu symptoms for
centuries in the countries where such illnesses have common recurrences. They
can be of valuable help
in preventing and treating the present COVID-19 pandemic. They can
provide quick relief from symptoms of the flu and its use is inexpensive too.
Homeopathy was 98% successful in treating the Spanish flu epidemic in
1918. Dr. T.A. Mccann, from Dayton, Ohio, reported that 24,000 cases of flu
treated allopathically had a mortality rate of 28.2% while 26,000 cases of flu
treated homeopathically had a mortality rate of 1.05%. This last figure was
supported by Dean W.A. Pearson of Philadelphia (Hahnemann College) who
collected 26,795 cases of flu treated with homeopathy with the above result. Of
the fifteen hundred cases reported at the homeopathic medical society of the
District of Columbia, there were only fifteen deaths. Recoveries in the
National Homeopathic hospital were 100%. In Ohio, of 1,000 cases of influenza,
Dr. T. A. Mccann, MD, Dayton, Ohio reported no deaths. In Connecticut, 6,602
cases were reported, with 55 deaths, less than 1%.
Gels. and Bryonia were used successfully to treat
Spanish flu in 1918. According to Dr. Frank Wieland, MD, Chicago, “(with) 8,000
workers we had only one death.
Gels. was practically the only remedy used. We used no Aspirin and no
vaccines.”
The Journal of the American Institute for Homeopathy, May, 1921, had a
long article about the use of homeopathy in the 1918 flu epidemic. If we refer
to literature about influenza prophylaxis in homeopathy, many remedies have
been recommended viz. Influenzinum-hispanicum, Ars. Bry. Carb-v. Eup-p. Gels. Influ. Mucobacter,
Nelson’s influenza vaccine, Oscil. Phosphorus, Sulphur etc. by authorities
like Pierre Schmidt, Grimmer, William Gutman, Fergie Woods, Younan, etc. Dr. P.
Sankaran’s booklet of “Prophylactics in Homeopathy” is worth referring to in
this connection.
The successful stories about Homeopathy’s ability to prevent as well as
treat epidemic diseases have been compiled well by Fran Sheffield
(www.fransheffieldhomeopathy.com) through “Homeo-prophylaxis: Human Records,
Studies and Trials”. The compilation is worth reading.
Can you discuss how Hahnemann developed the concept of Genus Epidemicus?
Hahnemann’s aphorisms 100-102, from ‘Organon of Medicine’(6th
edition), give guidelines about the investigation of epidemic diseases and the
role of Genus Epidemicus.
In aphorism 100, he emphasizes the need to examine each epidemic or
sporadic disease as an independent new disease and that the totality of each
case must be traced thoroughly by observing the phenomenon in its complete detail
and in all its aspects and phases.
In aphorism 102, Hahnemann comments that the whole extent and complete
picture of the entire epidemic disease cannot be learnt from examining a single
case of the epidemic but can be deduced and ascertained from examining several
patients of different constitutions. It is then that the Genus Epidemicus could
be found out based
on the totality of symptoms.
Hahnemann emphasised, “no epidemic disease should be taken for any
previous one and treated in the same way, since all that break out at different
times are different
from each other”.
Note that the totality of symptoms should not be only quantitative but
qualitative.
On the basis of the data provided above, it is possible to find the
Genus Epidemicus (GE) for the COVID-19.
The GE should be the one single remedy that covers the contagious
disease in a thorough and evolutionary spectrum. The GE can’t change due to
stages of COVID-19 but homeopathic treatment based on individualization and
totality may get changed. I am not in favour of complex remedies being used as
a preventive.
What is your criteria for the selection of a remedy for Genus Epidemicus
of the corona pandemic?
There are two distinct divisions: GE as a preventive remedy and the use
of homeopathic remedies for the sake of treatment of the disease. If a patient
is diagnosed for corona, the role of GE is finished for that individual. Now
this patient needs homeopathic remedies according to his presenting totality.
However, it is the usual experience that the GE remedy helps in the first stage
of the disease as a treatment remedy.
If we want to find GE, we must build up the totality of an evolutionary
order from Day 1 onwards and see the pivotal points as the essence of the
totality. The long exercise which I have presented above is for this purpose. I
have a frank opinion that we shouldn’t use only conceptual and imaginative
thinking to select GE. It must be based on hard facts and clinical co-relation.
Why am I focusing on evolution and pathology etc.? For us homeopaths, it is
very important to understand the course and behaviour of the disease that lead
the body through this. This understanding will lead us to the right remedy in
both divisions of GE and actual treatment.
We can select appropriate remedies according to the types of coronavirus
disease and it will be of great help for both clinic and hospital cases as a
part of treatment.
Note that the recommendation for GE may change in the future in view of
the changing scenario. GE fits only for masses where time is a crucial issue.
Treatment of COVID-19 is a specific individual targeted approach.
How will you select GE? Do you want to give it to everyone?
We have already defined five stages of the corona pandemic.
Cases mostly imported from affected countries
Local transmission from
positive cases
Disease spreads in the
community, large areas get affected
Disease takes the shape of an
epidemic with no clear endpoint
Resolution stage
GE should not be given to everyone on the planet. It should be given to
those who are exposed and those that are positive and related to stage I and
II. GE should be given to all people who have an exposure, and are in an
incubation period (which may be for 14 days) and are asymptomatic. In the third
stage, naturally GE must be given to a large community in which Corona has
become widespread. In the fourth stage, there is no discrimination. Everyone
should be given GE (like Italy at present).
The whole idea of GE is to save the people as much as possible from the
corona outbreak.
GE is not a universal cure for all COVID-19 patients. It is for
prophylaxis.
GE can’t assume the status of Simillimum. Simillimum is where there is
an individualized treatment. There is no life-long immunity for corona and
hence, even after resolution stage, GE should be given to prevent further
onslaught of COVID-19. Such cases need Tuberculinum as an anti-miasmatic remedy
to boost the immunity.
I have interacted with many Corona positive cases and tried to elicit
the data. Unfortunately, there are few PQRS symptoms and these are not
available in all cases.
The remedy of GE must cover
Affinity for respiratory
tract, both upper and lower; esp. lungs
The remedy must cover the
typical pneumonia in its pathogenesis
The action must be of
destructive character
The remedy must have sepsis in
its pathogenesis
The remedy must cover
tubercular and syphilitic miasmatic states
The remedy must cover the evolution
of COVID-19 as a single spectrum in its pathogenesis
The remedy must cover the
onset and the speed with which the march of the disease occurs
There are ‘n’ number of remedies and you will find patchy similarity
with many remedies in one way or other. For GE, we need a synthetic approach
and not a fragmentary one. We should not be driven by imaginations. Otherwise,
many remedies will crop up as GE and it will cause only confusion.
It is here that I endorse the views of George Vithoulkas. An attempt is
made in my work to evaluate the process of finding out GE in a serious way.
There is affinity for the right side of the lung in pneumonia with COVID-19
patients. But as the disease progresses, bilateral affection of the lungs
occurs and the whole lung is filled with fluid, debris and pus.
Some authors have given importance to ‘winter’ and ‘days are hot and
nights are cold’ as causative modalities. As the corona virus spreads, it is
not influenced by weather (it has spread in Iran, Dubai etc. which have hot
climates, but the virus has survived and is multiplying). Hence, to select GE
on the basis of a certain kind of weather has a limited scope.
The GE which is based on the totality of the current outbreak may be
changed if the symptoms change. See the instructions for the prevention of
Corona given by WHO and other wise people. They are very important, and
everyone must follow them.
Many homeopaths have suggested remedies such as Antim tart, Bryonia,
Camphor, Eucalyptus globulus, Eupatorium perfoliatum. Gelsemium, Justicia
adhatoda, Merc-sol etc. Do you agree with these suggestions?
The physicians who have suggested these are highly respected and we must
salute them for their studies. I think the above remedies are more for the sake
of treatment than GE.
Let us begin with Antim-tart. It is slower in onset. Borland gives the
pattern of response, “ You expect to find the symptoms of Antim-tart cropping
up late in a pneumonia, you do not usually get them in the early stages and by
the time the patients have gone on to an Antimony tart state, they are
seriously ill”. Coarse, loose rattling cough is characteristic of Ant-tart and
most of the patients of COVID-19 have dry cough and the Ant-tart, cough grows
less frequent as disease advances and the patient shows signs of ‘carbonised
blood’. Further, corona patients are found to > with warm drinks while
Ant-tart has cough < warm drinks.
Bryonia matches well at many levels. But it has fibrinous or exudative
inflammation. It lacks a pyemic or septic state; the debris and pus with fluid
accumulation is not a part of Bryonia action. Bryonia can be a remedy for mild
to moderate types when pneumonia has set in and there are joint pains <
motion. When the state becomes severe and critical, Bryonia gets ruled out.
Bryonia has both incubation and deterioration occurring slowly. Note that
Bryonia doesn’t cover the collapse i.e. the failure state of the economy.
Bronchoscopic manifestation of Covid 19 Sars-cov2
Bronchoscopic manifestations of COVID-19: bronchial mucosa swelling and
congestion; large amounts of mucus secretions in the lumen (Courtesy Handbook
of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment)
I am giving this figure in order to show that we can’t give importance
to dry cough only and that there are mucus secretions inside. The same can be
said about other remedies. They are more indicated at some stage of COVID-19 as
a part of treatment rather than GE. GE is a broader and different idea.
Gelsemium is dull and sycotic and lacks the septic state and destructiveness.
Gelsemium is touching the initial phase
of the disease when the state is a mild one.
Eucalyptus globulus covers the miasmatic fevers i.e. caused by polluted
environment. It has toxaemia but rarely pyemia and typifies a
congestive-catarrhal state. Fever is usually of low type with subnormal
temperature. Eucalyptus lacks the gravity with which corona sweeps the economy
of the individual and social health. Eucalyptus has more ‘aspiration
pneumonia’.
Camphor is an interesting entry. It corresponds to the critical stage
when collapse has occurred and there is complete arrest of breathing. Violent
dry cough is also covered well. However, the pathogenetic action of Camphor is
not that of pus, decomposition and debris that occur as a part of violent
destructive inflammation in COVID-19. Rather than for GE, I would prefer to
keep it for treatment of the class of severe and critical patients. Camphor is
primarily an erethistic remedy (as represented by clonic spasms, convulsions,
asthmatic spasm etc.) where the system goes into the abnormal state of
irritability leading then secondarily to arrested respiration. It is necessary
to perceive the process, the phenomenon behind the result and it is different
in each remedy.
Justicia adhatoda is a known immunity booster and it has been suggested
in crude form. In Ayurveda, there are many immune boosters. Merc sol has also
been suggested as GE. Merc sol is mostly needed when there is severe pain in
the throat and there is a big and active battle going on in the throat not to
allow the virus to go down into the lungs. Here I will prefer Merc-cyn.
Calc-carb has also been suggested. Calc-carb has a prolonged sycotic
phase and a little tubercular phase where we get glandular affections. Calc-c
has no intense fever and the type of evolution of a destructive type is not the
cup of tea of Calc-c.
Can you give prominent indications of some remedies you think for Genus
Epidemicus?
Four remedies come up for consideration: Arsenic album, Carbolic acid,
Phosphorus and Sulphur. Three nosodes
come up Hippozaeninum, Tuberculinum and Corona virus nosode.
ARSENIC ALBUM
A profoundly acting remedy on
every organ and tissue. The action is that of organic decay; it destroys the entire
machinery of life.
Ailments from crowded close
places and also from meat; agg.; spoiled, bad.
Nose: Thin, watery,
excoriating discharge. Feels stopped up. Sneezing; profound; without relief.
High temperature.
Collapsed stage of a pneumonic
crisis. Complete sinking of vital forces. Multi-organ failure.
Rapidly progressing violent
inflammations. Sudden intense effects. Sudden, rapid decline. The system goes
downhill in spite of well selected remedies.
Syncope; almost unconscious, cold
sweat, dizzy, complains of thirst, anguish; rattling mucus.
Acute respiratory distress
syndrome leading to death.
Covers the range from mild to
critical variety of COVID-19.
On the top of what is written,
fear and anxiety injected in the minds of the population correspond well with
Ars-alb.
It is said that corona
outbreak occurred after eating animals. We have a rubric, Generalities; food
and drinks; meat; agg.; spoiled, bad and we have remedies such as ARS BELL BRY
camph carb-an CARB-V CROT-H LACH PYROG VERAT
Sulphur doesn’t cover the
above rubric though it has meat < and this is one of the reasons to
emphasise Ars-alb as GE.
New information of loss of
taste and smell is also covered by Ars-alb.
My colleague from Moscow is collecting
symptoms from COVID-19 patients and she found that most of the symptoms develop
suddenly.
CARBOLIC ACID
A blood poisoning remedy like
–Echi.–Pyrog., but with a slant for tissue destruction, like Ars. or Sec. A homoeopathic
antibiotic against infections, zymotic states, toxemias, esp. intestinal
(Bapt., Eucal.).
Low resistance. Low vitality.
Lack of repair. Old age.
Malignant types of diseases
especially when there is a tendency to generalized destruction of tissues.
Breaking off (Crot-h. breaking down) of tissues: incomplete tissue
disintegration. Sloughing.
Coryza with watery discharge.
Influenza and resulting debility.
Fever high at onset, sudden
and rapid rise, rapid prostration; pulse rapid and feeble; tending to
malignancy and collapse.
Pneumonia: Circumscribed
pneumonia. Double basal pneumonia. Necropneumonia. Septic pneumonia (, Pyrog.).
Pneumonia of right base. Gangrene of lungs.
Gasping for breath, unable to
lie down, wants hands held. Takes long inspirations, with yawning. Stertor ().
Impending respiratory paralysis.
Both temperature and pathology
develop rapidly.
For the critical stage when
there is extensive pneumonia, septic shock and failure of the system.
PHOSPHORUS
Action on both upper and lower
respiratory tract.
Usually the speed with which
the disease process evolves is rapid, though a few cases can be with insidious
onset. Suddenness of symptoms is a strong feature.
Violent inflammation which
shifts rapidly to other parts of the body.
Cough: Dry, choking, short,
with hoarseness, violent, tormenting, hacking, hoarse, barking, dry.
Hemoptysis is usually a
symptom of pneumonia.
Destructive and disintegrating
processes.
The system is overactive
though seriously weak.
Respiration quickened,
oppressed, short, laboured.
Complete solidification of
lung tissue with dullness of percussion.
Pleuro-pneumonia.
Third stage of pneumonia:
Cheesy degeneration of lungs; purulent infiltration and abscess. “When Bry. and
Rhus-t. are insufficient in catarrhal and pneumonic states.”
Pleurisy: Dry, high fever;
late stages; heart dilated; purulent infiltration.
SULPHUR
Everything is dirty: eating of
dirty animals, the patient looks dirty and smells horribly offensive.
Destruction and decomposition
as central pathology. Tendency to suppurate.
Action: Absorbs infiltration
and prevents suppuration.
Continued high grade fever.
Violent, fluent coryza and
frequent sneezing; profuse discharge of purulent mucus
Dry, violent cough,
hoarseness, with choking and watery coryza. Scanty sputum.
Shortness of breath from
talking or walking; intense oppressed feeling; severe dyspnoea.
Neglected influenza and
Pleuritis. The patient is definitely going to be < .
Pneumonia: Neglected, badly
treated; hepatization or abscess; hectic fever; slow solidification; fibrous
pleuro-pneumonia; with severe weakness. Extensive dirt has accumulated in the
lungs.
Acute air hunger, great
respiratory distress. Asphyxia, death apparent. Collapse.
Weakness, lack of reaction.
NOSODES
HIPPOZAENINUM (From Absolute MM)
Auto-infection, with pyemia
(Bufo) (without blood poisoning, unlike Echi.); suppurations low, malignant.
Purulent inflammations of
serous membranes, esp. of linings about joints. Purulent infiltrations.
Malignant abscesses in lungs.
Putrescence: Destructive
tendency to tissue decomposition.
Collapse. Repair processes lag
behind.
Descending catarrh beginning
in nose.
Pneumonia: Specific process.
Nodules larger, forming isolated grey hepatizations and abscesses, Pneumonia
malleola.
TUBERCULINUM (From Absolute MM)
Rapid and complete physical
break-down; after contacting acute infections such as pneumonia, influenza
etc., no signs of vital reaction, declining, a running down state.
Affinity for respiratory tract
esp. lungs
Frank inflammatory processes (not
mere congestion), in the lungs, pleura or vital organs.
Viral infections in patients
with tubercular taint (, Eucal., Calc-c.); progressing even to septic condition
(cp. Pyrog.).
Active proliferations occur to
an intense degree causing extensive damage and disintegration of tissues.
Sporadic influenza is an
outburst of latent tubercular diathesis, says H. C. Allen.
Pneumonia: Bronchopneumonia.
With symptoms of Ant-t, Bry and Zinc. A clearing up remedy in delayed
resolution with lack of response, septic foci, or caseous hepatization
appearing.
Septic conditions, abscesses;
pus copious, thick, greenish. Leucocytosis.
is the best general antidote
to the chronic effects of influenza toxin.
When the well-selected
remedies fail, as an intercurrent remedy.
CORONA VIRUS NOSODE
Corona virus nosode is an
interesting idea and definitely better than Influenzinum. The isopathic
principle is followed when one uses the same biological product which is the
cause of the disease.
The current circulating
Coronavirus Nosode is a homeopathic nosode that is made from the current
circulating strain that started in late 2019 (now named “COVID-19”).
There is no proving data or
clinically confirmed data yet, but it can be given on the basis of isopathy.
Can you discuss your Miasmatic assessment of COVID-19 cases?
If we study the coronavirus disease in evolutionary totality, it is
possible to see the cleavage. We can split the day wise data, analyse the
pathology which is supervening and assess the miasmatic state. This will help
us figure out the remedies.
Psoric manifestations
Mild symptoms such as fever, cold, throat pain, sore voice, headache,
diarrhoea etc. Return to baseline of health is early and easy. Immunity good.
Good response to the treatment. No complications. COVID-19 is limited to upper
respiratory tract. Psora applies to Day 1-4.
Sycotic manifestations
The mild symptoms in psora become intense and constant. Lingering
response. Weakness and dullness. Fever becomes constant and heaviness of head.
Dry cough in bouts, often with expectoration; thick, yellow-greenish. Soreness
of voice increases. Joint pains. Yet COVID-19 is limited to URT. Sycotic miasm
is mostly for Day-5 status of the patients. 80% mild to moderate cases will be
under the dominance of psoric and sycotic miasms.
Tubercular manifestations
There are two types of patterns of response: 1. Acute, sudden onset and rapid pace of the
disease. 2. Slow, then rapid pattern. COVID-19 usually follows the second pattern.
It is from the Day 6 that we are able to see the tubercular miasmatic dominance
and up to day 8.
This phase is characterized by high grade and persistent fever, intense
throat pain and development of pneumonia and pleural effusion. Intense heaviness
in chest, breathlessness, increased respiration, low oxygen saturation,
enteritis, profound debility and toxic appearance are on the screen.
The type of severe disease of 14% of patients is due to the dominance by
the tubercular miasm. Day 6-8 needs careful
monitoring and a remedy selected on the basis of totality and that covers the
miasmatic state, if given in the right posology is able to help the system from
the clutches of death. There are three signals that indicate the increasing
influence of tubercular miasm. Very severe throat pain (probably a last-ditch
effort on the part of the organism (through throat) to prevent the virus to go
down in the lungs), pneumonia which is rapidly increasing and lymphopenia (a
critical factor associated with disease severity and mortality).
The three stages of pneumonia represent the tubercular miasm. Don’t
misunderstand that the first stage is psoric. It is not only replication but
rapid changes of destruction (tubercular miasm is a blend of hyperreactivity of
psora and destruction of syphilis).
Syphilitic manifestations
No response to treatment. Disease progresses with high pace.
Complications à, hemodynamic state poor. Cyanosis. Kidney failure. Collapse.
Comatose condition. Respiratory collapse. Multi-organ failure.
The above miasmatic criteria should be applied to all cases of pandemic
COVID-19 for preventive and treatment modality. If we take into account the
clinical features of COVID-19 in totality, the tubercular miasm is preponderant
over the system right from the Day-4, and if the clinical condition becomes
< , it progresses to the syphilitic miasm.
The most common cause of death is respiratory failure. Other causes of
death are pneumonia (leading to sepsis), high fever (leading to neurological
problems), dehydration and electrolyte imbalance (from excessive vomiting and
diarrhea).
Can you be precise in miasmatic categorization?
Mild to moderate cases: Psoric3. Sycotic1. Tubercular1.
Severe cases: Tubercular3. Syphilitic2.
Critical cases: Syphilitic3.
(The numerical marks denote the activity)
How will you process the data of COVID-19 from a homeopathic standpoint?
TABLE OF ANALYSIS WITH COMMENTS
The points in bold are related to COVID-19 disease
1. Nature of disease
Acute. Requiring preventive measures in view of contagiousness.
Requiring immediate attention and treatment. In evolution, it becomes per acute
i.e. violently acute
Aetiology: Virus
Diagnosis: COVID-19
Highly contagious, human-to-human transmission. Hence, GE is needed.
· Acute/Per acute/ acute on chronic
(exacerbation).
·
Sub-acute/Chronic/Remission
· Mixed / Messed: natural +
iatrogenic
· Psycho-somatic
· Somato-psychic
· Auto-immune
· Clinical diagnosis
2. Phase of the Disease
Fully developed: Clinically
Homeopathically: Inadequately
developed (absence of PQRS)
· Pre/Sub-clinical/Clinical
· Functional
· Structural
· Fully developed
· Inadequately developed
3. Affinity
Respiratory Tract: Upper and Lower. Lungs; right lobe
Cells/ Tissues / Organs/ Systems/Sides
4. Type of Pathology
The immune system becomes a prey and can’t mobilize its resources when
the state travels from severe to critical state
On pathological examination of the resected lobectomy specimen of
COVID-19 patient, 1.2 cm grey-white nodule adjacent to the pleura was
identified.
· Allergic
· Atrophic
· Benign
· Degenerative
· Destructive
· Dysplasia/ Proliferation
· Hyperplasia / Metaplasia /
Hypertrophy
· Induration / Hardening
· Inflammatory (serous,
fibrinous, catarrhal, eosinophilic, granulomatous, pyogranulomatous,
fibronecrotic, lymphocytic, suppurative).
· Malignant
· Necrosis / Sclerosis
· Nodular
· Ulceration
· Hemorrhagic
· Ischemic
· Venous
· Calcareous
· Fibrotic
· Rheumatic
5. State of pathology
All three stages represented.
Reversible in mild cases. Borderline to irreversible in tubercular and
syphilitic cases.
· Reversible
· Borderline
· Irreversible
Sudden development of symptoms
6. Pattern of response
· Sudden
· Alternating
· Erratic
· Regular
· Irregular
· Paroxysmal
· Periodic
· Lingering
· Shifting
· Progressive
· Continuous
· Recurrent
· Static
7. Pace of disease · Rapid
· Slow
· First rapid then slow
· First slow then rapid
· Moderately rapid
· Moderately slow
8. Expressions
No PQRS symptoms available.
(+= scanty, ++ =
moderate, +++ = ample)
· The field of modalities:
General Particular
· The field of sensations:
General Particular
· The field of
symptoms: Pathognomonic Non-pathognomonic
Common
Characteristic
9. Miasmatic diagnosis
Already given above
· Dominant / Active
· Fundamental
· Combined
Psora Sycosis Tubercle Syphilis
10. Sensitivity
Fear, anxiety make a person sensitive
At physical level sensitivity increased
· High
· Moderate
· Decreased
At Mind level:
At Nerves (body) level:
11. Susceptibility
Active and progressive disease bringing more symptoms and pathologies
but absence of PQRS
· High
· Moderate
· Decreased
12. Suppression
Not present
· Mind
· Physical
13. General vitality
Moderate à low
Sinking of immune forces as the disease advances
· Good
· Moderate
· Low
14. Monogram
Inflammatory. Exudative. Putrescent. Slow then rapid. Destructive.
Tuberculo-syphilitic.
· Pathological Generals
· Behaviour of the system
This type of analysis is interesting and deep. Which rubrics you will
select for repertorization?
I want to focus on the evolution of COVID-19 and the typical pathology
it develops. I don’t want to take common mental symptoms as rubrics. This is
not a psycho-somatic case. It’s a contagious disease and fear and anxiety in
view of social issues and media hype are common.
I would prefer to perform two types of repertorization, one covering the
quantity of rubrics that are related to the disease so that we will have a wide
panorama to lay hands on and the another one from the exclusive point of view
where I will focus on crucial and determinant rubrics.
Also, note that selection of GE only on the basis of rubrics is not an
adequate idea. Let us take an example. The rubric Respiration; arrest,
arrested’ contains 244 remedies. Many remedies do possess functional symptoms
only. I mean, a rubric assumes importance in strong pathology developing
contagious disease like COVOD-19, only if the remedy has the pathogenesis of
pathology. Can we apply the same thinking to Ignatia and to Hydrocyanic acid?
The rubrics are pieces of documents given by the advocates but the final
decision has to be taken by the judge of the supreme court which is Materia
medica.
LARGE SET OF RUBRICS
Generalities; violent
complaints
Generalities; progressive
diseases:
Generalities; reaction; lack
of
Generalities; vitality
decreasing
Fever, heat; insidious fever
Fever, heat; slow
Throat; pain; fever, during
Throat; pain; influenza, from
Chest; inflammation; lungs,
pneumonia; influenza, in or after
Stomach; nausea; pneumonia, in
Stomach; vomiting; pneumonia,
in
Rectum; diarrhea; pneumonia,
in
Chest; inflammation; lungs,
pneumonia; apex, upper; right
Chest; inflammation; lungs,
pneumonia; collapse, with
Chest; inflammation; lungs,
pneumonia; destruction of tissue, cavities, with
Chest; inflammation; lungs,
pneumonia; resolution, with delayed
Chest; inflammation; lungs,
pneumonia; weakness, with
Chest; inflammation; lungs,
pneumonia; pleura-pneumonia
Chest; inflammation; lungs,
pneumonia; collapse, with
Generalities; collapse:
Generalities; blueness of
parts, cyanosis:
Chest; nodules; lungs: hippoz
Clinical; asphyxia, death
apparent; paralysis of lungs, in threatening
New information
New signs for detecting COVID-19 in patients
The British Association of
Otorhinolaryngology (ENT UK) says asymptomatic patients – ones who do not have
a fever or a cough – could show a loss of smell or taste as symptoms after
contracting coronavirus.
Addition of two rubrics
Smell; loss of, wanting
Taste; wanting, lost
REPERTORIAL FILTER
Small set of rubrics
Respiration; arrest, arrested
Chest; lungs; right
Chest; inflammation; lungs,
pneumonia; old people
Chest; inflammation; lungs,
pneumonia; apex, upper; right
Chest; inflammation; lungs,
pneumonia; pleura-pneumonia
Chest; inflammation; acute;
lungs
Fever, heat; insidious fever
Fever, heat; intense heat, 39+
c., 102+f
Generalities; collapse
Generalities; reaction; lack
of
Generalities; violent
complaints
Repertorial filter
Dr. Kulkarni, what is your final selection for GE?
There is a tussle between
Arsenic album and Sulphur. My mind is also thinking of Carbolic acid and
Hippozaeninum as both covering the range from cold to severe pneumonia and
septic shock.
But yet as GE, I suggest
ARSENICUM ALBUM as a homeopathic prophylactic remedy for the COVID-19 outbreak.
The AYUSH Ministry of India has already announced Arsenicum album as a
homeopathic prophylactic remedy for COVID-19 infection.
I am happy that my independent study and analysis, based on symptoms,
signs, pathology, evolution of COVID-19 etc. has come to the same conclusion of
Arsenic album. The very meaning of GE is that with concerted efforts of all
investigators and researchers, we arrive at the same conclusion. This is in
line with the Hahnemannian approach.
I endorse the views of AYUSH and Central Council for Research in
Homeopathy (CCRH). I hope that reading my interview and CCRH ‘Homeopathic
perspectives in COVID-10 Coronavirus infection, Fact sheet’ will be interesting
reading.
What are your reasons for selection of Arsenic-album?
Apart from the homeopathic data obtained through proving and clinical
confirmation (indications have been given elsewhere), we have to focus also on
toxicological data.
On the respiratory tract, Arsenic poisoning causes
Irritation of nasal mucosa,
pharynx, larynx, and bronchi
Pulmonary edema
Tracheobronchitis
Severe and very severe
pneumonia
Pulmonary insufficiency
Leucopenia
Cough and dyspnoea
Reynolds’s observation: Arsenic
might play a role in the etiology of many viral diseases as the immunity is
depressed with Arsenic poisoning.
A new study confirms that
exposure to low to moderate amounts of arsenic can impair lung function.
“Restrictive lung defects, in
those exposed to Arsenic, are usually progressive and irreversible,” said
Habibul Ahsan, MD.
Acute severe Arsenic poisoning
causes acute respiratory failure.
A new link between cystic
fibrosis and Arsenic poisoning has been found out.
In short, a strong similarity
exists at the pathological level between Coronavirus disease and Arsenic
poisoning and this point shifts in favour of Ars-alb as a prophylactic remedy.
That the coronavirus pandemic
resulted from human consumption of animals is a point of debate. Many viruses,
bacteria and parasites that have caused major diseases in the past have been
zoonotic, (meaning they had their origin in animals). This causative modality
is also covered by Ars-alb.
Profound weakness as
experienced by COVID-19 patients points to Ars-alb.
Many patients develop
restlessness and agitation, and these are classical indications of Ars-alb.
CLINICAL STAGES OF SARS-COV2 FROM
MILITARY MEDICAL RESEARCH IN CHINA
I have more to offer. While I was finishing the interview, I came across
the Military Medical Research Journal, China which has presented seven clinical
stages. We are getting some “homeopathic symptoms” here.
Stage 1
Early-stage. Clinical manifestations: Aversion to cold without sweating,
headache and generalized heaviness, limb pain, glomus and fullness in the chest
and diaphragm, thirst with no desire to drink, ungratifying loose stool, yellow
urine, frequent micturition.
Stage 2
Early-stage. Clinical manifestations: Aversion to cold with or without
fever, dry cough, dry throat, fatigue and hypodynamia, oppression in chest,
epigastric fullness, or nausea, loose stool. Tongue: Pale or reddish; fur slimy
white. Soggy pulse.
Stage 3
Middle-stage. Clinical manifestations: Persistent fever or alternating
cold and heat, cough with less phlegm, or yellow phlegm, abdominal distension
and constipation; oppression in chest with shortness of breath, cough with
wheezes, panting on exertion; or red tongue, slimy yellow fur or yellow dry
fur, slippery and rapid pulse.
Stage 4
Severe stage. Clinical manifestations: High fever, oppression in chest
with shortness of breath, purple-black facial complexion, lips dark and
swollen, obnubilation, crimson tongue, yellow dry fur, surging and fine rapid
string like pulse.
Stage 5
Severe-stage: Clinical manifestations: Dyspnea, panting on exertion or
need assisted ventilation, accompanied by coma, and agitation, cold limbs with
cold sweating, dark purple tongue, thick or dry thick tongue fur, floating and
rootless pulse.
Stage 6
Recovery-stage. Clinical manifestations: Shortness of breath, fatigue
and hypodynamia, anorexia, nausea and vomiting, glomus and fullness, weak
stools, ungratifying loose stool, pale tender-soft enlarged tongue, slimy white
tongue fur.
Stage 7
Recovery-stage. Clinical manifestations: Generalized heat with sweating,
chest heat vexation, retching and vomiting, shortness of breath and lassitude,
red tongue and thin tongue fur, vacuous pulse.
This third reportorial filter also points to Arsenicum album in a far
more qualitative way.
What is next strategy if Ars-alb fails as GE?
One of the reasons why India is able to contain the spread of virus may
be consumption of Ars-alb. by a large number of people, and sincere homeopaths are
distributing Ars-alb since the announcement of it as a preventive drug by
AYUSH. However, if the spread is alarming, I will recommend Carbolicum acidum.
Will you suggest some remedies for the treatment of COVID-19 patients?
See, when you enter into treatment part of COVID-19, there are many
remedies to be discussed. But any remedy you give must augment the immune
response towards inhibition of the virus replication, promotion of the virus
clearance, induction of the tissue repair and triggering of the adaptive
mechanisms. I reiterate, GE is for prophylaxis and it has its limited time
zone, though it is extremely important.
When you decide to venture upon actual treatment of corona patients, you
have to apply the fundamental principles of case taking, data processing, LSMC
(Location, Sensation and Pathology, Modalities and Concomitants) cleavage with
due value to the clinical and pathological realm, the stage in which the patient is and the
application of the Law of Similars for the selection of a remedy. Nothing can replace an adequate and accurate
case taking. I suggest only the list of
prominent remedies.
Mild to moderate cases
Ars-alb, Bryonia alba,
Chelidonium, Eup-perp, Ferrum-phos, Gelsemium, Hepar, Merc-sol, Merc-cy.
Severe cases
Apis mel, Ars-alb, Bry,
Camphor, Kali c, Kali-i, Lyc, Phos, Pyrog, Sulph, Tub
Critical cases
Ars-alb, Antim-tart, Camph,
Carb-ac, Carb-an, Carb-v, Hippoz, Kali-c, Kali-iod, Sulph, Ver-alb.
Can you give us more tips for the treatment of pneumonia?
If you want to treat pneumonia in COVID-19 patients, you must ponder
over ‘Pneumonias’, a classic and practical book by Borland. Borland classified
pneumonia under the following categories:
Incipient stage: Aconite,
Belladonna, Ferrum phos and Ipecacuanha
Frankly developed pneumonia:
Bryonia, Phosphorus, Veratrum viride, Chelidonium
Complicated pneumonia:
Baptisia, Pyrogen, Lachesis, Merc-sol, Hepar-sulph, Rhus-tox
Creeping/Definite Bronchopneumonia
in adult: Natrum-sulph, Pulsatilla, Senega, Lobelia
Late pneumonia: Antim-tart,
Carbo-veg, Kali-carb, Lycopodium, Arsenic-album, Sulphur
Let us integrate the above classification with the modern classification
of COVID-19 cases. The mild to moderate variety fits in well with incipient and
frankly developed stages, while severe and critical types correspond well with
the remaining three types as mentioned by Borland.
On the third day of the infection, when consolidation is developing and
there is high fever, Borland advocated the use of Ferrum-phos in high potency
(1M or 10M) given repeatedly which has the capacity to abort the course of
pneumonia.
Let us take Carbo-veg. It’s a remedy for the critical stage where the
patient is on his deathbed. There is cyanosis, and oxygen saturation is poor.
There is intense air hunger and icy cold sweat with a horrible sense of a
weight on the chest and the patient literally gasps for the breath. This data
is enough to know the seriousness of the condition. The failing lung (and the
heart) and the patient if put on oxygen respond astonishingly well to the
administration of Carbo-veg. When the lung is filled with debris, and pus and
the patient is in shock, Carb-veg is indicated.
You see, carbons are between living and dying. Hence it is not only
Carb-veg that comes, Carboneum sulphuratum also has coryza, loss of smell and
taste, collapse, debris and lack of reaction. The same can be said about
Kreosote or Naphthalinum.
We have seen that in COVId-19, the lung is filled with fluid and here
you must think of Kali carb. Here you get violent chest pains with dry cough.
Kali remedies have very little or no fever. Apis mellifica should also find
entry here.
Viral myocarditis is a serious complication of COVID-19 and it appears
it is developed after pneumonia.
Under the rubric, Heart & circulation; inflammation; heart,
carditis; myocardium, myocarditis; influenza, after: crat cur dig. Digitalis
can be a big choice as it has broncho-pneumonis; senile pneumonia with dry
cough, cyanosis, cold extremities; kidney failure; dropsy; cardiac failure
after influenza or pneumonia and most markedly bradycardia. It must be compared
with Camphor.
Curare (Arrow poison) is a little understood and a neglected remedy. It
is multi-phasic remedy and a cocktail of Bapt, Bell, Bry, Carbn-s, Dulc, Eucal
and Gels. Curare has also miasmatic
(polluted environment) fever; toxic; septic.
When do you want to intervene with Hippozaeninum or Tuberculinum?
I will use them when well indicated remedies will do only lip-service. I
have already provided the indications.
What posology you will advise for COVID-19 patients as a part of
treatment?
I will prefer 1M and more in a frequent repetition schedule, say every
three or four hours. In critical condition, I may repeat every 15 minutes too.
Can you suggest any treatment plan?
Yes, it is possible to give a gross treatment plan. It is based on the
evolution and totality of symptoms as gathered after innumerable sources.
treatment plan for coronavirus
Do you wish to share any further insights about the coronavirus
outbreak?
Humans are paying the price of encroachment upon the earth and not
respecting Mother Nature. See how life has changed within a few months and that
too from a small invisible organism. It would have been thought impossible to
cause so many changes for humans within such a short period.
The truth is that you can possess sophisticated armed forces, but you
can’t shoot a virus. The COVID-19 crisis
touches every aspect of our lives, including our existence. The coronavirus pandemic forces us to look at
issues such as self-indulgence, hyper-individualism, narcissism, consumerism,
selfishness and spiritualism.
The crisis has reduced the speed and the rather maniacal pace of the
human species. The crisis has brought to light through a major health issue,
the limitations of mainstream medicine.
Homeopathy, Ayurveda and other complementary therapies have been
advocating for holistic approaches and therapies for many years. They need big
time entry into the mainstream and not pooh-poohing.
Will we focus only on a tiny invisible virus, or we look at the problem
in the larger perspective and prospective way?
The lesson is ‘small is big’. ‘Tiny is powerful’. Invisible causes
visible changes. And human beings are highly vulnerable in the prodigious
universe.
You can’t mock homeopathy because it is sub-physiological, that it uses
infinitesimal potencies. The coronavirus in its all-pervasive pandemonium is a
wake-up call, it is a karmic test which we need to pass, so that we as a
species can transcend our conduct on this planet, which we have maligned and
mistreated for far too long. Humans need wisdom. They need balance and control.
Thank you, Dr. Ajit Kulkarni, for a comprehensive interview.
You’re welcome, Roman and thank you for such relevant questions. The
present interview is an outcome of actual observations made by researchers,
doctors and patients from our interaction with actual COVID-19 patients since
the outbreak of coronavirus November 2019. It is subject to change in view of
any new information that is cropping up.
I must mention my colleague, Guy Tydor, Israel for his valuable
suggestions.
UPDATES 27th March, 2020
Questions Answered
Dr. Ajit Kulkarni will answer the questions here and will give us the
updates about his views. . The question is from a modern medicine doctor who
also studies homeopathy. He doesn’t want to disclose his name.
Question
The Cov2 and cov has 73 percent similarity in the receptor binding
domain (RBD) of the spike protein that attaches to ACE2 receptor. So, we have to assume that the antibodies of
cov should protect us from cov2 to a greater extend. It happens in immunological
reactions. But what is the reality?
The actual interface with in the RBD that clips with ACE2 is highly
variable (say 34% overlap, so our actual antibodies fail to recognize the COV2
. This is what happens in Cov2 infection. That trick is in the molecular level.
So what is the reliability in aggressively collecting symptom data and putting
it on repertory? There is an extremely variable host response. If we try
”influenzinum” it might make more sense. At least we are thinking in a
molecular level for similarity. So should we spend time again and again in
repertory, or go to the war front to help them by all means? We could do extensive study about this, once
the epidemic is contained. See the graph of Europe. In every country it is
increasing.
The questioner is focussing on the mechanism of attaching the spike
protein of the virus to the ACE2 receptor and brings out a very important point
that the actual interface of RBD that clips with ACE2 is highly variable. This
is exactly the concept of ‘individualization’ which is the central tenet in
homeopathic prescribing. It is this variability that matters in homeopathy at
the Genus Epidemicus and treatment level, and this is the reason why each
patient is a unique individual in its form, function and structure. Thus, to
follow individualization becomes a scientific and rational way to proceed.
The questioner has brought out one more point, that the actual
antibodies fail to recognize COV2. Thus, two problems – ‘recognition’ and
‘surveillance’ play a big role. Homeopathically, a remedy must cover the theme
of the above in its pathogenesis.
The whole issue is not of the molecular level, but of the host.
Naturally, the thinking in homeopathy is explicitly related to vital force,
immunity and organismic wholeness. It is the derangement of the vital force
through several known and unknown mechanisms that there is genesis, maintenance
and progression of the disease.
The most reliable aspect is gathering the totality out of hosts’
responses at various levels of the derangement of the vital force and apply the
natural law of healing i.e. the Law of Similars. One of the reasons for failure at the
preventive and treatment level of mainstream medicine is the reductionist
approach which is constantly pushed.
Describing the mechanism of RBD clipping and host variability, and
linking it to Influenzinum under the molecular level doesn’t make sense,
because even at the molecular level, it doesn’t become relevant. Influenzinum
is prepared from the approved seasonal inactivated influenza vaccine (Boiron).
We have already given many differences between seasonal influenza and COVID-19
disease. If at all we want consider the molecular base, it should be the
Coronavirus nosode. However, we don’t want to push only Isopathic principle.
We endorse the views of the questioner that the use of the repertory as
the only device for finding GE or even for treatment is not an adequate idea.
However, we differ from the author about his views of collecting the data in an
aggressive way. This is the need of the hour from the homeopathic standpoint.
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[Dr. Ronald D. Whitmont]
Gesamtheit aller Mikroorganismen, die ein vielzelliges Lebewesen natürlicherweise (d.h. ohne Auslösung von Krankheitssymptomen) besiedeln.
Das Mykobiom ist die Gesamtheit aller im Mikrobiom enthaltenen Pilzorganismen
The disease appears to
preferentially attack elderly men and those with significant underlying chronic
medical illnesses. There is currently no conventionally recognized effective
preventative treatment, vaccination or cure for COVID-19, though homeopaths
have successfully managed many outbreaks of similar epidemic infectious
diseases over the last two centuries.
Most recommendations are based on
the principle of “slowing” spread of COVID-19, since it cannot be stopped. The
theoretical basis of slowing spread, or “flattening the curve” is based on
trying to prevent overwhelming the available medical resources of hospitals and
intensive care units (ICU’s), not on ending the pandemic. Conventional care is based on respiratory
support and eventually, vaccination. All
available information on the spread of COVID-19 indicate that, for most healthy
people, the illness will manifest as a mild self-limited cold or influenza-like
illness, but for those who suffer from chronic illness it may be much more
serious and at times, deadly. A brief analysis of the overall situation might
explain why.
Testing strategies vary between
country and geographic region. In the
US, testing resources have been withheld for the very ill. This means that many
more people could be asymptomatic carriers of this disease. So far, the
majority (82%) of known cases of COVID-19 infection have developed symptoms ranging
between extremely mild colds,
to moderate flu-like illnesses, or
no symptoms at all.
Normal, healthy children do not
appear to be affected by this disease, but they may be asymptomatic carriers
who spread the infection to others. COVID-19 is a mutated coronaviruse which
typically causes the “common cold.”
Nearly 20% of those who become sick
with COVID-19 develop more severe symptoms consistent with a severe bout of
influenza. A very small percentage of
these have developed complications including pneumonia, ARDS and respiratory
failure leading to death.
Depending on geographic region,
scope of testing and other available resources, between 1 – 14% have died. The majority of these deaths were in the
elderly and those undergoing treatment for other pre-existing chronic medical
conditions, including diabetes, hypertension, kidney, lung, heart and liver
disease. About 1% of those who
have died did not appear to fit into
this risk category and their deaths have not been explained.
Worldwide, most people exposed to
the COVID-19 virus will only develop mild upper respiratory tract symptoms
similar to the “common cold.” A small
number of people, predominantly those affected by and being treated for an
underlying chronic medical condition, are significantly higher risk of
developing more severe symptoms, complications and death.
The epidemic of chronic inflammatory
illnesses in the US and other developed nations results from the ubiquitous
reliance on pharmaceutical medicines to manage illness
in our society. These effects are most readily observed in
relation to the battle against infectious disease.
According to the CDC, the average
American child receives 15 courses of antibiotics before their 18th birthday.
Most pediatricians routinely recommend the use of either Tylenol, Ibuprofen or
a combination of both in every febrile illness involving the immune system.
The heavy reliance on antibiotics
and antipyretics (and many other drugs) for routine treatment of acute
infections, is associated with significant adverse effects on the microbiome
and the immune system.
The cumulative effect of this
over-reliance on medications to treat common acute inflammatory conditions
promotes the development of chronic inflammation in the form
of allergies, asthma and
autoimmunity and an impaired ability to fight infections.
Coronaviruses are comprised of a
group of viruses that are frequently associated with the “common cold,” but
they have also been associated with several severe epidemics known as SARS and
MERS. The novel COVID-19 coronavirus is more aggressive than the “common cold”
and poses a significant challenge for those already suffering
from impaired immunity, which
includes most Americans.
The increased risk of developing
complications and death from COVID-19 appears to be due to several factors,
including the presence of an underlying chronic medical condition that impairs
immunity, as well as the concomitant use of certain medicines that can suppress
immunity and delay recovery, particularly the class of medicines
that include NSAIDs.
Coronaviruses apparently bind to
their target cells in the lung, kidneys, blood vessels and GI tract through
angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors, which has
led researchers at the Department of
Biomedicine and Internal Medicine at the University Hospital in Basel
Switzerland, and the Department of Pharmacology in the
School of Medicine at Aristotle
University in Thessaloniki Greece to recognize that certain drugs used in the
treatment of hypertension, diabetes and inflammation may be responsible for
“increases [in] the risk of developing severe and fatal” infection with
COVID-19.
The drugs, angiotensin converting
enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, angiotensin II type-I receptor blockers (ARBs),
Thiazolidinediones (Avandia and Actos), and Ibuprofen,
appear to increase risk of these
severe illness, risk of respiratory failure and death from COVID-19.
Ibuprofen and other NSAIDs, drugs
that have been routinely and ubiquitously utilized to reduce inflammation, are
among “the most commonly used
medications in the world,” but their continued use may do the opposite: they
may increase the risk of developing inflammation[27] and possibly the “cytokine
storm,” which is believed to
be the final common pathway leading
to death in many epidemic infections including COVID-19.
There is good reason to suspect that
these drugs increase the risk of complications and death from COVID-19 and may
account for the, so far, unexplained deaths of the
1% who do not fall into other risk
categories from this virus. This would
not be the first time that an NSAID was implicated in a pandemic.
An estimated 50 million people died
worldwide in the great influenza pandemic of 1918. That pandemic also marked the first time that
aspirin (an NSAID) was marketed
and made available for public
use. It was taken in large doses by
many, on the advice of physicians and pharmacists, who recommended it to
prevent and treat influenza.
There is reasonable anecdotal and
preclinical evidence to suggest that the heavy use of aspirin was associated
with some of the gravest consequences in otherwise “young and healthy”
individuals who precipitously died from this virus. Contemporary physicians understand that
aspirin is contraindicated in viral infections because of its association with
increased risk of both immune and neurological complications.
Even though aspirin is no longer
routinely recommended for the primary prevention of cardiovascular disease
“because of [a] lack of net benefit,” it is still routinely taken
by more than 29 million American men
due to a belief that it helps.
Aspirin isn’t recommended because it
causes more deaths from gastrointestinal bleeding, stroke and cancer than it
prevents from cardiovascular disease. Since it may also increase the risk of
complications and death from COVID-19, it should be avoided along with all the
other NSAIDs.
Interestingly, viruses are not
considered to be “living” organisms, but they are the most ubiquitous
biological agents in the natural world, outnumbering bacteria by 10:1.
The overwhelming majority of viruses
in our bodies (and in the ecosystem in general) are beneficial, ie, they do NOT
cause illness, they promote ecological health and symbiosis between other
organisms and serve to advance the continual evolution of stable
ecosystems. There are approximately 380
trillion individual viruses in the average healthy human body (compared with
only 37 trillion human cells); there are more than 1030 (one nonillion) viruses
in the oceans alone and more than 1.7 million different
viral species that have already been
identified.
Not only do viruses spread by
person-to-person contact, but they are readily transported and disseminated through
the atmosphere where they remain viable for long periods
of time.
National borders, fences, walls and
quarantines will not disrupt this mode of transmission, where more than 800
million viruses fall onto every square meter of ground daily across the entire
globe, even in the most “pristine alpine environments.”
In addition to viruses, more than
545 different bacterial and 168 different fungal species are transported in
fog, clouds and “fresh air.” The concentration density of these micro-organisms
increases as air becomes more polluted with smog, dust, smoke and other
man-made pollutants.
Viruses are critical for both human
and environmental health and stability. An extremely small number of viruses
are actually associated with human illness but many more
are associated with significant
long-term health benefits. But for those
suffering from chronic illness or taking medicines that interfere with the
microbiome or the immune system, even relatively benign viruses can increase
the risk of devastating illness.
Viral infections impart definite
long-term health benefits, particularly during childhood, where they help
educate and stimulate the immune system to mature. The greater
the number of acute lower
respiratory-tract infections (which are mostly viral experienced in childhood,
the lower their risk of asthma and allergies throughout life.
Children with older siblings, larger
families and more acute infections, and those who attend day care at an early
age have more viral respiratory infections and a significantly lower risk of
developing autoimmune disease, including Type 1 Diabetes.
A number of diseases including
atopy, diabetes, and multiple sclerosis appear to be prevented by early
childhood exposure to viruses. Exposure to viruses, and the acute infections
that they trigger, appear to activate the innate immune system and form a
bridge to adaptive immunity, which is responsible for resolving inflammation
and providing lifelong protection.
Viral exposure plays a critical role
in immune system development and the prevention of chronic illness. Animals raised in germ-free conditions
demonstrate significant impairment in organ development and immune system
competency.
Households that practice high levels
of hygiene, including automatic dishwashing have higher levels of allergies and
autoimmunity compared with those who don’t.
Children raised without conventional
medicines appear to have lower rates of rhinoconjunctivitis, atopic eczema, and
atopic sensitization than their age matched peers.
A critical caveat to viral
infections is that these long-term benefits fail to materialize if antibiotics
are administered to treat these common childhood infections, an all
too common practice in American
households.
In a healthy state, every human
hosts a wide range of benign asymptomatic chronic viral “infections.” Only a
very small fraction of these viruses are capable of causing
human illness, and most exist in
stable symbiosis with the immune system and the microbiome. Not surprisingly viral infections can be
triggered by environmental factors, particularly immunosuppressive therapies
that disturb the microbiome.
Viruses may play an important role
in preventing illness since they have been used to treat certain
conditions: Herpes simplex virus (HSV)
exposure reverses late stage malignant melanoma and many “common cold” viruses
(incl. coronavirus) treat bladder, brain and breast cancers.
Routine exposure to these particular
viruses throughout might life may play an important role in in preventing these
conditions, but more research is certainly warranted
on the benefits of viral exposure.
Certain viruses become pathogenic
when either the immune system is suppressed, or the microbiome is
disrupted. Antibiotic induced dysbiosis
(an ecological imbalance
in the microbiome) triggers the
herpes simplex Type II virus (HSVII) to become lethal.
Dysbiosis triggers the human
papillomavirus (HPV) to shift from commensal to pathogenic by becoming invasive
and causing cervical cancer. Both of these viruses
normally exist in benign symbiosis
with the body, when the microbiome is healthy, without causing illnesses.
When the microbiome is disrupted
(usually by medications) the ecological balance is disturbed, and normally symbiotic
organisms can become pathogenic. This may be one
of the mechanisms behind the extreme
pathogenicity of the COVID-19 virus in those with impaired immunity. The virus causes only a mild illness in a
healthy individual,
but in an immunologically (or
microbiome) compromised individual, the virus is associated with a much more
severe disease.
Many viruses have been found to play
key roles in immune system development, and their absence can create long-term
health problems: for example, the offspring of mothers who lack exposure (prior
to pregnancy) to rubella or coxsackie B viruses, are at significantly higher risk of developing
autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X19313647?via%3Dihub
Mice who have been exposed to
herpesvirus, cytomegalovirus, or Epstein Barr Virus are protected against
bacterial infections caused by Listeria monocytogenes (which
causes gastroenteritis and brain
infections) and Yersinia pestis (which causes bubonic plague).
Not only are viruses “considered to
be key contributors to the evolution” of all other organisms on the planet,
most viruses evolve rapidly to adapt to their hosts, tending
to become less “virulent” and more
symbiotic over time.
A successful virus adapts to (rather
than kills) its host by reaching a state of “metastatic equilibrium” and
becoming commensal or symbiotic. Even corona virus COVID-19
has undergone mutations and has been
detected in at least two different forms: one more aggressive than the other.
Depending on environmental factors
(particularly medical interventions), this adaption process can shift the virus
in the opposite direction: into more resistant and aggressive forms. When this happens, viral evolution follows a
similar pattern seen when bacteria are treated with antibiotics: they develop
resistance, which is frequently accompanied by more aggressive and virulent
behavior.
Viruses (like bacteria) are critical
components of all living systems essential to the environment and the human
microbiome. Continued health requires a process of continual exposure and
adaptation to these organisms.
Conventional medical pharmaceutical
approaches which emphasize antibacterial and antiviral treatments have failed
to grasp the ecological importance of these organisms
in human health and immune
development.
One of the most obvious results of
this approach is the epidemic of chronic inflammatory illnesses now plaguing
modern pharmaceutically dependent societies.
COVID-19
is an organism that takes advantage
of the biological gap created by this approach in a subset of the population
which has been made extremely vulnerable. This is an entirely predictable
outcome, long foreseen, based on the methods of treatment utilized by our
society.
What is most needed now is an
effective system of medicine that promotes immune system adaptability and
microbiome diversity instead of treatments that weaken immunity, and force
organisms to become more virulent and aggressive. A method of treatment that fosters
adaptational health rather than antibiosis is present in homeopathy.
Homeopathic medicines have been
shown to be effective across a wide range of infectious conditions, both in
clinical and pre-clinical (laboratory) settings without
damaging the immune system or the
microbiome.
Ultra-highly diluted homeopathic
medicines work by regulating the expression of genetic information at the
cellular level. They have been shown to
significantly lower the
risk of developing infection when
used prophylactically before viral exposure.
Homeopathy has been shown to be
effective in the management of life-threatening sepsis (a systemic infection)
when used adjunctively alongside conventional management
in the intensive care unit (ICU)
with significantly improved acute and long-term benefit. Homeopathy has been
found to be effective in numerous public health situations treating a range of
both infectious and noninfectious conditions.
Homeopathic medicines demonstrate
significant viral modulating effects in multiple human pathogenic respiratory
virus strains in-vitro, altering patterns of both pro- and anti-inflammatory
cytokines, suggesting that it may lower the risk of “cytokine storms” while
maintaining the ecology of the human microbiome.
Homeopathic medicines have been used
to treat and prevent epidemic illnesses around the world: significantly
reducing viral loads, improving lymphocyte counts, and providing physical,
neurologic, immunologic benefits along with improved quality of life and
increased survival in HIV/AIDs and reducing the occurrence of epidemic
Leptospirosis.
The science of understanding viral
infections and the human virome is in its infancy, at best, but it is
abundantly clear that viral epidemics and pandemics have been < ned by
practices that weaken, rather than strengthen the immune system-microbiome
axis.
It is clear that the COVID-19
pandemic now facing modern society has been aggravated by modern medical
practices which weaken immunity, reduce diversity of the microbiome and
overtreat common infections with antibiotics and antivirals.
Plans and hopes to rely on a vaccine
solution to the COVID-19 issue are patently false, as our experience with
influenza has already demonstrated.
Routine forced vaccination to prevent influenza is one reason why
COVID-19 has proven to be so devastating, particularly for hospital personnel.
Hospital based health care workers
are some of the most heavily vaccinated individuals in our society, many having
been forced to vaccinate simply to keep their jobs.
Not only do these vaccines fail to
promote permanent immunity, but their regular use promotes the occurrence of
pandemic influenza. It also increases the risk of developing infection from
other respiratory viruses, including the corona virus through a phenomenon
called “virus interference.”
Modern medicine has provided many
distinct advantages to the world, but it has failed with respect to the
environment, the microbiome, the immune system and long-term health.
It is time for society to come to
grips with the extremely “inconvenient truth” that modern medicine is creating
a chronically ill society that is increasingly vulnerable to epidemic illness.
It is time to integrate other
systems of medicine, including homeopathy, into a comprehensive system that
augments the wonderful benefits of modern medicine but mitigates the dreadful
amount of harm that it produces.
Failure to pay attention to the
warning signs imbedded in the COVID-19 pandemic would be a grave mistake. The
homeopathic approach, which supports the immune system-microbiome axis, must be
fully evaluated and contemplated as one of the most viable and environmentally
sound solutions to this crisis.
The remainder of this discussion
focuses briefly on a practical approach to COVID-19. A healthy lifestyle and diet in addition to
appropriate (and individualized, when possible) homeopathic treatment may be
helpful.
It is also important to avoid (as
much as possible) unnecessary or hazardous medical therapies that might weaken
the immune system or damage the microbiome making recovery more difficult,
unless they are necessary to save life or limb.
The immune system is key to
maintaining health and recovering from illness.
Inflammation is the primary mechanism that the innate immune system utilizes,
and anything
that interferes with it may impair
the body’s ability to fight infection and fully recover.
Prevention:
A worldwide network of homeopathic
practitioners have been working for months to share information and determine
the Genus Epidemicus for this epidemic.
Whenever possible, each case should
be carefully evaluated to determine the appropriate individual medicine that
most closely suits it. The following
homeopathic medicines have shown the most promise both regionally and internationally,
so far: Bry. Ars. Eupatorium p. Gels. Camph. and Kali-m.
Most of the current public health
recommendations are designed to “flatten the curve,” to slow the spread of
illness and protect those who are more vulnerable, but cannot prevent
infection.
Only complete isolation with air
filtration and environmental sterilization could provide this, but once
quarantine is broken, the problem would be compounded by significant loss of
microbiome diversity, which would be a much more serious problem. For most healthy people, getting infected
with COVID-19 will result in a mild illness or no symptoms at all. There may even be a long-term benefit to
acquiring this infection.
Handwashing is a reasonable step to
prevent transmission. The use of
antibacterial soaps and hand sanitizers are generally unnecessary. Plain soap
and water are sufficient.
There are contradictory
recommendations regarding the use of gloves and facemasks, but the latter are
in extremely short supply and homemade versions will be inadequate
to prevent transmission.
Social distancing has been highly
recommended at this time.
Adequate rest and relaxation are
critical and should be prioritized.
Manage stressful activities and work situations in a timely manner to
ensure adequate time for recovery.
Regular moderate exercise and sun
exposure are critical for immune system functioning. Vitamin D supplementation does not impart the
same benefits as natural sunlight.
Eat fresh whole foods with high
nutritional value when possible. Avoid overeating. Avoid “junk” foods, highly processed
products, those with preservatives, and refined sugars. Keep all flour-based foods to a minimum.
Consume raw garlic. Stay well hydrated
but avoid over-hydration. Urine frequency, odor and color can be used to judge
hydration status. Prevent constipation
with a high fiber diet and adequate fluids.
Eat naturally fermented foods every
day which are high in pre- and pro-biotics.
Reminders when sick:
Get adequate rest.
Eliminate refined sugars and foods
with a high glycemic index.
Discontinue all nonessential vitamin
and mineral supplements for the duration of the acute illness. Utilize
probiotics, pre-and pro-biotic containing foods (naturally fermented foods and
brine). Eat lightly, or fast for short periods.
Stay hydrated but avoid
over-hydration.
Do not try to lower fevers unless
this is deemed medically necessary.
Postpone showers and baths since these frequently lead to more
cooling. Avoid becoming chilled.
Stay in contact with your primary
care physician. Remember that viral
illnesses are normal and that most people who are otherwise healthy will
benefit immunologically from these experiences (even though they may be
unpleasant) in the long run. Infections help the immune system manage and
reduce chronic inflammation and can provide significant long-term health
benefits. Try to avoid using unnecessary
medicines that simply “manage symptoms.”
Stay in contact and consult closely with your homeopathic provider as
needed. If difficulties arise, or if you
seem to be getting < , make contact with a medical professional. Pay attention to your instincts and ask for
help if things are progressing unexpectedly.
[Zeit-online: Janis Dietz und Ingo Arzt]
Post Covid. Davon spricht man, wenn die Beschwerden auch länger als drei Monate nach einer akuten Corona-Infektion noch anhalten. Die Symptome sind so vielfältig,
das Krankheitsbild oft so diffus, dass niemand genau weiß, wie Menschen in Deutschland betroffen sind. Hunderttausende sind es sicher. Plausibel erscheint, dass rund
zehn Prozent der mit Corona infizierten Long Covid entwickeln, also maximal drei Monate krank sind. Post Covid trifft wahrscheinlich rund zwei Prozent der Infizierten.
Die Zahlen schwanken aber je nach Studie. Bei 35 Millionen offiziell erfassten Coronafällen in Deutschland kann man sich aber ausrechnen: Long Covid ist eine Volkskrankheit.
Wir wollten von Betroffenen wissen, wie ihr Leben mit Long Covid aussieht. Innerhalb kürzester Zeit bekamen wir mehr als 1.000 Nachrichten. Manche der Berichte klingen hoffnungsvoll, doch viele der Erkrankten sind verzweifelt. Manche verbringen Wochen in abgedunkelten Räumen, fühlen sich, als hätten sie einen Hirnschaden, führen ein Leben wie auf Pause, ohne Kraft für Arbeit, Kinder oder Partnerinnen. Sie sei bald arm durch die Krankheit, erzählt eine Leserin. Ärzte werden oft als überfordert beschrieben, viele Betroffene ergoogeln sich mögliche Therapien und zahlen aus Verzweiflung fünfstellige Summen aus eigener Tasche. Und immer wieder der Aufschrei:
Wir werden nicht wahrgenommen, wir brauchen Hilfe.
[Dr Aditya Kasariyans, Iran]
Part 1:
Here in Iran, I have been involved in corona virus patients’ treatment
since 22nd Feb 2020, directly or indirectly (through the accounts of
other colleagues, from different parts of the country or the world).
None of the patients who were already on antiviral medications were/
will be persuaded to stop their antivirals. The intention is to hasten the
recovery in a smoother way
with the least side effects and to help improve quality of life in the
patients affected and their families, in a more natural way. Hence, to
contribute to shortening the disease and decreasing the probability of person
to person transmission.
My first case was my physician friend who at that time had almost recovered
from the disease but helped much in gathering the initial symptoms; the main
symptoms she presented were:
Case 1:
General malaise and soreness
all over
Positive corona test
Low grade fever; maximum
rising to 38.5° C
Perspiration especially on the
back and forehead
Cold perspiration
Chill especially on the first
two days
The intense need to lie down
all the time without the energy to get up
Desire for open air; except
during the chill phase
Dry coughs
Slight dyspnoea when putting
effort in doing physical activity
Temporal headache
I have always had the privilege of being the student of very eminent
homeopaths from India, who always supported me in my journey of becoming a
homeopath with their professional ideas. This study specifically continues with
intense collaboration, kind support and wisdom of my teacher and mentor Dr.
Rajan Sankaran, Mumbai, India.
The rubrics taken and analysis you can find below in the writing of Dr
Rajan Sankaran. The cases are taken meticulously with strict consideration of
ethics. Most of our patients didn’t have any previous experience with
homeopathy. I have made sure to spend enough time with each patient and his/her
family to explain the approach which homeopathy considers in these types of
cases.
We aligned our expectations and tried to answer the questions and doubts
which inevitably rose along the way. We
had the privilege to build our research and treatment
study on our patients’ trust, for which we are utterly grateful.
We faced major challenges within the course of this study. Most
provinces in Iran do not have direct access to homeopathic remedies. Hence, for
almost all cases I provided the remedies from my collection of remedies and all
are and will be distributed for free.
The intention of this study is to shed a light and introduce a new
perspective into understanding epidemic cases, and Hahnemann’s instructions in
dealing with such circumstances. We are putting the utmost effort to improve
our observations, understanding treatment approaches in the cases we will
encounter.
Within a few days I had two patients from the north of Iran which is one
of the major sites of the disease.
(The selected cases are arranged chronologically, from the earliest to
the latest)6
70 years old female
Hx of CABG and Hypertension
A few days prior she started
complaining of intense sleepiness
An evening before she
collapsed for the second time at home, she had brought her phone to her
daughter in law, showing telling her this is my bank card.
Eyes were open but it seemed
she is not understanding anything; she had to be addressed few times before she
would answer, as if you suddenly waking up from a deep daydreaming.
Intense prostration, walking
was so difficult; desired to lie down.
Appetite significantly
diminished
She was found sitting with her
head down due to intense prostration
Fainted twice before being
taken to the hospital
Admission in ICU with positive
test and both lungs with infiltration
I got in touch with this patient at this stage where after a week of
hospitalization her tachypnea had resolved. She had started eating well. She
was transferred out of ICU.
I had prepared some further questions to be asked when she was visited
by her family. But despite the report of her wellness, when the family had
arrived to hospital,
she was undergoing CPR. Apparently very well and communicative a minute
or two before sudden death.
No restlessness was observed
by the family
About thermal inclinations:
she was saying it is hot when she was transferred between wards and asked to
uncover. (not reliable)
Thirst: no information
Also no change was observed in
mental-emotional plane by the family
No reliable information about
chill, perspiration, thirst and thermal inclinations
Max fever: 38° C.
Case 3:
42 year old male
Risk factor: BMI>30. Grade
2 fatty liver.
General malaise and
prostration
Appetite diminished
significantly
One episode of diarrhoea on
the first day only
Admission to hospital due to
severe prostration
Fever started max 38.2° C.
Dry Cough
Not a single cough when
sleeping or lying down. The moment he lies down the cough stops
The mouth feels dry. Sips of
water just to moisten the mouth.
The prostration and weakness
is great, and he doesn’t have the energy to sit and wait for the tea to cool
down as he has to lie down.
Can hardly tolerate sitting to
eat something.
Moaning due to the general
soreness.
Doesn’t have the energy to
turn around so prefers to stay in one position in the bed
Desire for cold drinks
“I had shut my phone down as
well because I didn’t have energy to speak”
Cold perspiration
Significant increase in the
sense of smell; “I can even distinguish spices.”
Taste of the mouth as usual
Skin sensitive to touch. Felt
as if burnt all over.
On the day of commencement of homeopathy treatment for coronavirus
covid-19, he was already on anti- viral medication for 10 days. (Tavanex,
Hydroxychloroquine, Tamiflu)
1st follow up; 40 hours post prescription of Camph 1M, every
4 hourly:
Prostration significantly
improved
Significant increase in
general energy
4th follow up; 4th day post prescription:
I have started driving.
Prostration is completely gone
Cough one or two during the
day
Appetite almost normal
No perspiration
No fever
Right now, on Camph 1M BID.
Case 4:
55 year old male
Extreme weakness and
prostration during the day and fever-chill-perspiration 7-8p.m. onwards till
morning.
Severe perspiration especially
neck so that it would make the clothes drench.
Risk factor: Diabetic patient
(not controlled;HbA1C= 10
Day one had diarrhoea; Has not
recurred
5 days post commencement of
fever and chill, I started to have dyspnoea and dry cough
In two days, the dyspnoea
increased so much that had to be transferred to a hospital with O2 aid.
Ground glass opacity on CT
scan
Severe body aches bone pain
kind specifically lower back and legs with fever, chill and perspiration
7-8p.m. onwards. During the day time no bone pain.
Skin sensitive to touch; But
needed someone to massage the legs.
Cold perspiration
Tongue coated in white
Very little thirst
Bitter taste in the mouth
No appetite at all
I prefer to lie down. When I
would lean somewhere my body would itself slide down so that I would lie down.
Best position: supine >
breathlessness
Cough mostly dry
I feel both warm and cold; if
my feet are out of blanket, they become ice cold and then I put them in the
blanket and till they get warm and then I get over
heated and I have to uncover.
Evening and nights are worst
This patient decided to only stay on anti-viral medications. (Tavanex,
Hydroxychloroquine, Tamiflu)
Case 5:
A 30 year old female
Fever for two days max 38.2°
C.; mostly in the evenings and nights
After two days the fever
totally stopped and I stayed well for two consequent days
Again I started having fever
and prostration
Severe nausea
I fainted while trying to go
to bathroom
I had severe dizziness,
numbness all over
Severe shiver started, teeth
chattering
Cough, dry, agg by talking,
amel by lying supine
Desire cool weather except the
chill phase
No vomiting
Appetite diminished
The sense of taste has
decreased less, but I can feel the smells; I feel much nausea with the smell of
food.
Much perspiration, on tummy and
back, I need to change the cloths every few hours once.
I cannot sit, I need to lie
down
My prostration is so much that
I cannot even sleep, I just lie down
Bitter taste in the mouth
Started Camph 1M 12 days post anti-viral medication (Tavanex,
Hydroxychloroquine, Tamiflu)
1st follow up within 10 hours post Camph 1M, every 3 hourly:
Prostration has decreased much
I need to lie down but my
general energy is much better
Nausea less but still there
2nd follow up 72 hours later:
Prostration is much less
I can sit longer
I have taken a shower after 10
days and I feel much refreshed
Nausea is gone I can eat
Coughs are less
Less dysponea
Latest update 5 days post prescription:
I don’t have prostration
I can sit without support
Nausea is gone
Cough is much less
Dysponea is much less but
still much when I put an effort to do something like climbing the stairs.
Previous days I was not able to climb the stairs.
CT scan was performed as she
gained energy: both lungs are infiltrated; (She was put on Kaletra)
She is still under treatment with Antiviral medications mentioned above.
Right now on divided dose of Camph 1M; every 5 hourly. (Intention is to
increase the potency to 10M)
Case 6:
A 19 year old lady; no risk
factor
Severe pain all over the body
and soreness
Nausea
Appetite diminished
Bitter taste in the mouth
Intense prostration; I need to
lie down all the time; best position is supine
Frontal headache
Coughs; dry
Sense of smell normal
1st follow up after 24 hours Camph 1M every 4 hourly. (On Homeopathy only):
Intense body pain has
decreased and it was continuous previously, now there is a significant interval
between the pains
I have been able to sleep last
night better; the first night I was just tossing around due to the pain.
Coughs have started dry one or
two
Intense prostration I had is
50% less but still I need to lie down; supine position is preferred
No appetite yet
Headache had decreased in
intensity but it is still there
2nd follow up 48 hours later:
I don’t have prostration; but
still I like to lie down in supine position
I have one or two coughs daily
Much less weakness
I have been able to eat but
not much
I still feel sick
Headache is only when I cough
Nausea is gone
5th day follow up:
I feel almost healthy
No weakness
Appetite is almost normal
Cough is gone
Headache is gone
Right now on Camph 1M BID
Case 6:
A woman 70 years old
Severe prostration so that she
has not been able to really move around for the last 2 weeks
On anti-viral medication
(Tamiflu, Hydroxychloroquine)
Cough
Nausea
Appetite is diminished
1st follow up on 14th
day of anti-viral medications; after 17 hours of Camph 1M, every three
hourly:
She has asked for milk
Prostration seems less to the
eyes of the family
2nd follow up after 24 hours:
Prostration is much less
She has taken a shower after 2
weeks
Appetite better but asks more
for milk
Nausea is less
Cough still present
Latest follow up 6 days after the remedy:
Prostration is much less
almost not there
Nausea is gone
Appetite is much better
Coughs only one or two during
the whole day
Has taken a CT scan ; awaiting
for the results
Right now on Camph 1M 5 hourly
Case 7:
A 50 year old male
Tested positive for corona
No risk factor
Itching in the throat for the
last week
Lumbar pain and knee pain
Bones pain
Headache in the temporal areas
When I sleep on sides, I feel
ache on the ribs of same side. To alleviate, I turn to the other side but again
it starts paining. I have to lie supine or totally get up to feel fully well
again.
No dyspnoea
Every few minutes one or two
dry coughs; I drink a warm drink and it totally gets better and after 10
minutes it starts again
Thermally chilly but now I
don’t feel colder than normal
I have dryness in the mouth
more and I need more of warm drinks
No coating on tongue
No taste in the mouth
My sleepiness has increased,
when my leg pain started I wanted to only sleep. But the pain of the back and
knees and ankles and headache also rib pains were not allowing me to sleep. I
had to change position to be able to sleep
Soreness and bruised feeling
all over the body, as if you have climbed the mountain
Fever max 38 degrees of
Celsius
The pain in knees and ankles are when I
sleep. When I wake up these decrease or go away.
Deep massage alleviates the
pain temporarily
Dryness of the mouth; need to
drink sips of warm water
1st follow up 24 hours
after the Camph 1M (On homeopathy only):
I feel much less bruised and I
have been able to sleep
The rest of symptoms are the
same
2nd follow up 48 hours later:
Body aches and pains are much
less
I feel like lying down still
but I have more energy; if I desire I can sit for 10 minutes
The pain in the back got so
severe during the night for 2 hours and then subsided along with all other
pains in the joints that I had
I have dryness in the mouth
still; very little amelioration
5th follow up; the 6th day:
I am back to work
I don’t have any fever
No cough
Energy level is normal
No stuffiness in the nose
No sore throat
I can tolerate sitting down
like normal.
No joint pains or back ache
any more
Case 8:
Female; 57 years old
Symptoms started 15 days ago
with fainting and dysponea
Fever, max 40° C.
Chill during hospitalization;
teeth chattering chill
Perspiration very
insignificant
Ground glass opacity in CT
scan
One or two coughs daily
I feel extreme prostration
despite I am much better compared to the days I was in the hospital
White coated tongue
Bitter taste in the mouth
Less sensitive sense of smell
1st follow up on the
17th day of anti-viral medication (Hydroxychloroquine, Tamiflu); 30 hours
after Camph 1M every 4 hourly:
I feel much better with
prostration;
I feel much better with my
mood as I felt very depressed
Continuing the treatment with Camph 1M every 5 hourly.
Case 9:
A 60 year old male
Risk factors: diabetes, Hx of
Cerebellar vascular accident
The wife dies within 24 hours
of appearance of the corona disease symptoms (Dizziness and intense
prostration)
Retrospectively the son
declared that his father is very sleepy during the last week and he sent me the
video
He even fell asleep while
drinking coffee.
CT scan was obtained; mild
opacity typical for corona was marked in 4 areas of both lungs
Camphor 1M every 4 hourly was started; all symptoms vanished within 48
hours.
Right now on Camph 1M TDS and awaiting for a recheck CT scan.
Case 10:
A 24 years old female
The symptoms started like a
flu
Severe headache in temporal
areas; needed to press my forehead
Coryza
Sore throat
Prostration and weakness
A week later all symptoms decreased
but I started to get dyspnea while walking and also cough. As my boss was
positive for corona I went for a CT scan and that
turned to be positive.
Medications: Tamiflu,
Hydroxychloroquine, Levofloxacin)
Camphor 1M every 4 hourly. 7 days after the positive CT scan.
1st follow up 24 hours
after Camph 1M 4 hourly.
I have been at home all the
time and I have not checked if I have dyspnea or not
I don’t have any other
symptoms
2nd follow up 48 hours
after Camph 1M 4 hourly:
I don’t have dysponea while
walking or climbing
No additional symptom
Treatment is still going on with Camph 1M every 5 hourly.
There are about 10 more cases being treated with homeopathy and for the
cases who have more of respiratory symptoms, or more severe symptoms we suggest
Camp 10m.
The rest of the cases and the follow ups will be published as an update
to the work we are doing. We will also update with the results of the CT scans
that are now awaited.
Part 2 – By Dr. Rajan Sankaran, India
About 10 days ago my former student and now colleague from Iran, Dr
Aditya Kasariyans approached me for help in dealing with the spreading corona
virus epidemic in Iran.
As per the Hahnemannian guidelines in treating epidemics, I suggested
that she collect symptoms from actual patients either directly or through her
colleagues and send me
a list of the symptoms and the course of the disease which are found in
a majority of cases. She did so for 40 cases, including two whose cases she
took herself in a homeopathic manner.
I list below the symptoms she sent and the course of disease observed.
From a detailed study of these facts, I came to 4 remedies: Ars. Camph.
Carb-v. and Verat.
A reference to the genius of the disease, its individuality: sudden
collapse, cold sweat and a relative absence of restlessness, led me to the
remedy Camphor.
I asked her to administer the remedy Camphor in 1M to the 2 cases under
her care. Within 24 hrs she reported a significant improvement in the cases. Then
she found more cases and sent me more symptoms . I found these too corresponded
with Camphor (see repertorisation chart 2 )
The next day she applied it to 3 more cases, one of them even without
taking the symptoms. The results in her words were ‘dramatic’. I asked her to
give more patients the remedy and report. The next day she reported very
positive results from other cases 8 (pl see her writing above. ) .
I feel that I have some data to share with the profession:
Based on these findings I suggest Camphor as a possible genus epidemicus
and to use it as a treatment ( 1m in water every 3 hrs ) and prophylactic ( 1M in pills 2x daily for 2 days)
One needs to be open to the fact that some of the patients will continue
to have their own symptoms in the epidemic and may respond better to their
individual remedies if the genus epidemicus is not effective.
*Note: Further investigation is needed to evaluate the effects on more
cases and determine whether other remedies may also be indicated.
Symptoms Gathered from Patients and Analysis
Nagging headache, forehead.
Fever low grade.
Perspiration upper body. Forehead cold.
Shivering, chills
Extreme prostration.
In cycles. Swinging.
Collapse, Sudden, sit, lie down, legs together,
not falling. Sinking, SUDDEN COLLAPSE.
Sleepiness
during/ before the fever
I want to lie down. Can’t even sit.
Desires cold drinks
Thirstless
Irritation in throat causing cough
Cold hands
Touch <. Skin is sore.
Weakness is so great that they don’t want to
change their position.
Respiratory distress but completely conscious.
No restlessness.
Camphor
Skin of the whole body painful. Camphora is always indicated when death
threatens through rapid depression of neural activity or of pulmonary or
cardiac activity,
e.g. in drowning. In such situations of collapse it is on a par with
Carb-v. Sensitive, slightest touch hurts. It is used, as a rule, in prostration
occurring suddenly
and increasing rapidly.
Camphora (Analysis From Plant
Kingdom )
Magnolidae: theme of shutting yourself in and walling off the outside
world. You can see this from the following rubric:
Mind: DELUSIONS, imaginations; world; she has her
own little, in which things are clear, outside is uncertain. This seems to be
the main idea in this epidemic with everyone retreating in to their own world
and the outside world seen as dangerous and uncertain.
My suggestion:
Based on these findings I suggest Camphor as a possible genus epidemicus and to use it as a treatment
( 1M in water every 3 hrs ) and
prophylactic (1M pills 2x daily 2 days)
The medicine I suggest is not a substitute to taking all possible
precautions and in case of any symptoms to get tested and take the treatment
recommended by your doctor.
Further investigation is needed to evaluate the effects on more cases
and whether other remedies too may be indicated. I
invite the experiences of my valued colleagues.
Also we should try to set up controlled clinical trials through official
channels. I strongly urge my fellow homeopaths to try to make this happen.
One also needs to be open to the fact that some of the patients will
continue to have their own symptoms in the epidemic and may respond better to
their individual remedies
if the genus epidemicus is not effective.
For regular updates on these cases, recent research, experiences of other colleagues and other news please send
an email to theothersong1@gmail.com with
the heading : pl
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