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.

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