[Saptarshi Banerjea]
Remedies
for fatigue, shortness of breath, cardiac symptoms, memory, pain, and loss of
smell and taste are included.
Post/ Long Covid Symptoms:
Common
long COVID symptoms include:
·
extreme tiredness (fatigue)
·
shortness of breath
·
chest pain or tightness
·
problems
with memory and concentration (“brain fog”)
·
difficulty sleeping (insomnia)
·
heart palpitations
·
dizziness
·
pins and needles
·
joint pain
·
depression and anxiety
·
tinnitus, earaches
·
feeling
sick, diarrhoea, stomach aches, loss of appetite
·
a
high temperature, cough, headaches, sore throat, changes to sense of smell or
taste
·
rashes
Commonest:
1. Extreme
Tiredness (Fatigue):
2.
Shortness
of Breath with Chest Pain & Tightness:
3.
Changes
in Sense of Smell & Taste:
4. Memory & Concentration:
TOPIC-1
EXTREME TIREDNESS (FATIGUE)
1) ALSTONIA
SCHOLARIS:
·
Tonic
after exhausting fevers (with diarrhoea / dysentery à Gone sensation in
stomach.
2) ARSENIC
SULPH. RUB (3x Trit.):
·
Influenza with intense catarrhal symptoms, great prostration (+++) and high temperature, purulent
discharges. Chilly even before a fire. Agg. night,
drinking cold water.
3) ARSENICUM:
·
Chilliness,
restlessness, anxiety, fear: fear of death (Acon.),
prostration. Burnings, relieved by heat. Oversensitive: fastidious (OCD). Queer
symptoms – red-hot-needle pains. Sensation of ice-water running through veins,
or boiling water going through blood vessels. Thirst,
sips of cold water.
4) AVENA SATIVA:
·
Best
tonic for debility after exhausting diseases.
·
Nervous exhaustion.
·
Sexual
debility à Spermatorrhoea, Impotency.
·
Inability
to keep mind on one subject.
·
Insomnia
·
Tonic for mental, physical & sexual debility after exhausting
disease. Nervous exhaustion, neurasthenia. Inability to focus.
5) AVIARE:
·
Debility
·
Diminishes cough.
Influenzal Bronchitis.
·
Improves appetite.
6) CINCHONIA
OFF:
·
Broken
down from exhausting discharges:
·
Prostration
·
Apathy &
indifferent.
·
Apathy pumped-out.
·
Ringing in ears.
7) CURARE:
· Curare takes hold of grippe or its after effects right away when the patient has these symptoms:
·
-
weakness with shaky lower extremities especially: the patient is surprised at
his weakness and says, “Why I am all gone”; thirst for large quantities of cold
water; sensation of heat and sensitive to heat; it is a remedy for the rapid
pulse of post-influenzal myocarditis
of which we see so many some years, persisting for weeks or months after grippe
when some degree of the above symptoms are present. Dr. R.E.S. Hayes, M.D.
8) CYPRIPEDIUM:
·
Post
Influenzal debility and insomnia.
9) GELSEMIUM:
·
Patients
sometimes come saying “cannot get well after `flu’ a few weeks ago”. They are
found to have a temperature of somewhere around 99oF. Not ill : Not well!
If they are chilly, with heats and chills; if they feel a weakness, and
heaviness of limbs and eyelids, Gels. quickly puts them right. 4D (Dull–Dizzy–Drowsy–Debility & H: Heaviness)
10) GENTIANA LUTEA
(Q):
·
Acts as a tonic, increasing appetite.
11) KALI PHOS.:
·
Indisposition to meet people.
·
Aversion to converse.
Pins & Neddles Tingling Numbness
Neurasthenia
Brain fag Insomina
Slightest
labour seems a heavy task.
·
Emotional Debility: Absent minded, forgetful from Excitement, Worry,
Overwork. Lethargy
à indisposition to meet people; disinclined to converse. Nervous &
restless, starts easily. Weak memory (Brain fag). Sensitiveness (+++)to all
impressions. Agg. Excitement, worry, mental &
physical exertion; 3 h. to 17 h. noise. > rest.
12) LATHYRUS SATIVUS:
·
After
influenza à Exhausting diseases:
·
Weakness
·
Heaviness
·
Slow
recovery of nerve power.
13) LEVICO (Q): Debility (+++) in
respiratory and skin diseases.
14) LOBELIA CERULEA:
·
Gives
a perfect picture of sneezing influenza, involving the posterior nares, palate and fauces. Very
depressed. Pain in knees. Great oppression in lower part of chest, as if air
could not reach there. Pain in chest under short
ribs of left side.
15) MACROZAMIA SPIRALIS (3x Trit.): (= Stangeria eriopus o. paradoxa) Australlische Essenz
·
Extreme debility after illness; collapse. Weariness from no assignable cause,
no pains. Boring pain at vertex; vomiting and retching all night; impossible to
open eyes, giddiness and cold.
16) NATRUM ARS:
·
Facilitates
the termination of cold and conserves the strength and appetite.
·
Oppression of chest.
17) PSORINUM:
·
Weakness
remaining after acute disease à Loss of fluid.
·
Hopelessness
·
Appetite does not return.
·
Chilliness
18) SALICYCLIC
ACID:
·
Acid
à Debility after influenza.
·
Tinnitus aurium & deafness.
·
Roaring
– like buzzing of bees.
·
Prostration
after influenza, also tinnitus aurium and deafness.
19) SARCOLACTIC
ACID:
·
When Arsenic fails.
·
Epidemic influenza.
·
Tiredness
à Morning on getting up & muscular prostration à Arms feel as if no
strength in them.
·
Nausea++.
·
Uncontrollable
vomiting à even of water.
20) SCUTELLARIA:
·
Nervous sedative.
·
Nervous fear.
·
Nervous
weakness after flu? Cardiac irritability.
·
Muscle twitching.
21) TINOSPORA
CORDIFOLIA (GULANCHA) (Q):
·
Intermittent
fevers, jaundice, torpidity of the liver. It is widely used as a “pick-me-up” remedy where
the patient has become extremely weak owing to repeated attacks of fever and
also to exhausting seminal emissions. It is a very good
medicine in excessive palpitation of the heart due to awful weakness or
excessive seminal emissions.
Clinical Tips:
1)
Asthenia (post influenzal) : * Chininum
ars. * China. * Carbo veg.
2)
Cough after Influenza : * Kreosote. * Eriodictyon. * Pix liquida.
3)
Nerve power weak, after Influenza slow recovery of nerve- power : *
Lathyrus. * Scutellaria lateriflora.
4)
Weakness after Influenza : * Abrotanum. * Kali phos. * Nat- silicum. * Lobelia purpura (Nervous prostration) . * Salicyclic
acid.
5)
Continued debility :- China.
6)
Debility after influenza :- Carbolic Acid.
7)
Tired; Stiff; Nausea; Vomiting; Muscular prostration :- Sarcolactic Acid.
8)
Loss of strength and appetite :- Antim
Iod.
9)
Prostration after influenza :- Salicylicum
Acid.
10)
Slow digestion & Sinusitis :- Eucalyptus.
11)
Weakness with shaky lower extremities : Curare.
Clinical Tips on Indian Drugs used:
Debility: Cynodon Dactylon Durva, Dub, Dubla, Durba) ; Ficus Religiosa Asvattha, Ashud, Asud, Ashatwa,
Aswat, Asvattha) ; Tinospora Cordifolia Gulancha, Goloncha, Giloe, Gurach, Gadancha, Nimgilo, Palo) .
TOPIC-2
SHORTNESS OF BREATH
WITH CHEST PAIN & TIGHTNESS
1) AVIARE:
·
Debility
·
Diminishes cough.
Influenzal Bronchitis.
·
Improves appetite.
2) CARBO VEG.:
·
Never
fully recovered from the exhausting effects of previous illness.
·
Loss of vital fluids.
·
Respiratory >> fanning.
·
Weak digestion >> eructation.
3) CHININUM
ARS:
·
Circulatory
weakness after acute infections.
·
Early Myocardial -Degeneration.
·
Shortness
of breath on ascending.
·
Must have open air.
·
Coldness of hands & feet.
·
<<
sitting bent forward at open window Clarke) .
·
General tonic à Weakness++.
4) LOBELIA
CERULEA / SYPHILITICA:
·
Posterior nares affected.
·
Oppression
in lower part of the chest.
·
Pain
chest under Ribs of left side ? Splenic pain) .
·
Unhappy state of mind.
·
Brain
weakness à Exertion of mind intolerable.
·
Seemed
he would so wild.
5) PNEUMOCOCCIN:
·
NBWS
COVID Pneumonia:- a) Chorea, b) Heart [Tyler].
6) PIX LIQUIDA:
·
Bronchial irritation after flu.
·
Muco-purulent sputum.
·
Pain
at 3rd left costal cartilage – joining rib à Pain of left Bronhus Hering) .
Clinical Tips on Indian Drugs used:
Cough:
Cynodon Dactylon (Durva, Dub, Dubla, Durba); Ficus Religiosa (Asvattha, Ashud, Asud, Ashatwa, Aswat, Asvattha); Tinospora Cordifolia (Gulancha, Goloncha, Giloe, Gurach, Gadancha, Nimgilo, Palo).
TOPIC-3
CHANGES IN SENSE OF SMELL & TASTE
1) CARBOLIC ACID:
·
Acuteness
of smell à Increased olfaction sensitivity.
·
Flu Debility
2) MAGNESIA
MUR:
·
Loss
of smell & taste following catarrh.
·
Constipated
TOPIC-4
MEMORY & CONCENTRATION
1) AVENA SATIVA:
·
Best
tonic for debility after exhausting diseases.
·
Nervous exhaustion.
·
Sexual
debility à Spermatorrhoea, Impotency.
·
Inability
to keep mind on one subject.
·
Insomnia
2) CINCHONIA
OFF:
Broken
down from exhausting discharges:-
·
Prostration
·
Apathy &
indifferent.
·
Apathy pumped-out.
·
Ringing in ears.
3) KALI PHOS.:
·
Indisposition to meet people.
·
Aversion to converse.
Pins & Neddles TinglingNumbness
Neurasthenia
Brain fag Insomina
Slightest
labour seems a heavy task.
·
Emotional Debility: Absent minded, forgetful from Excitement, Worry,
Overwork. Lethargy
à indisposition to meet people; disinclined to converse. Nervous &
restless, starts easily. Weak memory Brain fag) . Sensitiveness +++) to all
impressions. Agg. Excitement, worry, mental &
physical exertion; 3 h. to 17 h.; noise. Amel. rest.
4) LOBELIA
CERULEA / SYPHILITICA:
·
Posterior nares affected.
·
Oppression
in lower part of the chest.
·
Pain
chest under Ribs of left side? Splenic pain) .
·
Unhappy state of mind.
·
Brain
weakness à Exertion of mind intolerable.
·
Seemed
he would so wild.
5) SCUTELLARIA:
·
Nervous sedative.
·
Nervous fear.
·
Nervous
weakness after flu? Cardiac irritability.
·
Muscle twitching.
TOPIC-5
MUSCULO SKELETAL PAINS
1) LATHYRUS SATIVUS:
·
After
influenza à Exhausting diseases;
·
Weakness
·
Heaviness
·
Slow
recovery of nerve power.
2) SARCOLACTIC
ACID:
·
When Arsenic fails.
·
Epidemic influenza.
·
Tiredness
à Morning on getting up & Muscular prostration à Arms feel as if no
strength in them.
·
Nausea++.
·
Uncontrollable
vomiting à Even of water.
3) SOLANUM
LYCOPERSIUM:
·
Pains left after flu.
·
< right side.
·
< dust.
·
Right
deltoid markedly affected (Sang-c.)
TOPIC-6
POST COVID CARDIAC COMPLAINTS
1) ADONIS VERNALIS:
·
Heart
medicine after influenza.
·
Slow
& weak pulse.
·
Cardiac
Asthma:
·
Desire
to take a long breath.
·
Weight on chest.
·
Cardiac dropsy.
2) IBERIS:
·
Clarke
quotes 1890 à Attack of flu à Cardiac weakness for 2 years à Every walking à
Cardiac distress.
·
Cardiac debility after influenza.
·
Palpitation
from slightest exertion < laughing; < coughing.
·
Choking sensation in throat.
·
Needle
like pricking at each cardiac contraction.
·
Conscious
of heart’s action Keynote) .
TOPIC-7
POST COVID THERAPEUTICS
INSOMNIA: Scrutellaria, Kali-p., Avena,
Cypripedium.
LOSS OF SMELL: Mag-m.
ACUTENESS OF SMELL: Carb-acid.
SHORTNESS OF BREATH: Chin-ars., Lob.
Syph.
HEART: Adonis,
Iberis.
TINNITUS: Sal-acid.
MASCULO-SKELETAL: Lathyrus, Sarcolactic Acid, Solanum-lyco.
COUGH AFTER: Pix Liq., Tulc Av.
NBWS COVID PNEUMONIA: Pneumococcin.
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