Homeopathic Reflection on
Coronavirus
These days what we experience in our
environment is not the picture of the coronavirus disease but most probably the
state prior to the breakout of the acute disease epidemic.
1.
The difference between chronic and acute diseases (from the aspect of
coronavirus disease prophylaxis)
The
homeopathic remedies that have appeared in different internet forums,
recommended by internationally appreciated homeopaths or institutions, were
identified based on the symptoms of coronavirus patients. They were based on
the specific symptoms that seriously ill patients had and on the patients’
condition who were in different stages of the virus infection. It is
interesting that these remedies are mainly the ones that have been clinically
used by homeopathy for acute influenza and pneumonia cases for centuries
(i.e. Arsenicum album, Bryonia, Gelsemium, Eupatorium, Phosphorus, Carbo
vegatabilis ).
The symptoms caused by coronavirus ,
in terms of their intensity, are different than that of the previous influenza
epidemics but their characteristics are the same. It means that the coronavirus
patients do not show significantly different symptoms from patients in the
previous epidemics, so this coronavirus epidemic would not require new special
homeopathic remedies.
The
remedies which were listed earlier were recommended on the basis of the general
symptoms of the disease. Nevertheless, any of these remedies could work well in
coronavirus disease just as they already worked well in influenza or pneumonia
cases so far. The same applies to those rarely used remedies for influenza and
pneumonia that, based on specific symptoms, were recommended by well-known
homeopaths. For example Camphora
I am emphasizing the expression of acute disease because, in the homeopathic and professional sense, these remedies can only be effective when we indeed apply them to acute diseases. In those cases when the given patient is already suffering from a chronic disease and the acute disease appears on the terrain of this chronic disease – based on the homeopathic principles – we should proceed witha case taking that is in
line with the rules of the acute stage appearing in chronic disease. I’ll
explain simply what that means:
I am emphasizing the expression of acute disease because, in the homeopathic and professional sense, these remedies can only be effective when we indeed apply them to acute diseases. In those cases when the given patient is already suffering from a chronic disease and the acute disease appears on the terrain of this chronic disease – based on the homeopathic principles – we should proceed with
·
if the symptoms of the acute
condition cover the symptoms of the chronic disease then , indeed, we have to
choose the remedy in accordance with the acute totality;
·
if it does not cover and the
patient’s symptoms of the chronic disease are also present along with the
symptoms of the acute disease, then we have to choose the homeopathic remedy in
accordance with the chronic totality. That is, in choosing the remedy we have
to take into consideration the symptoms of the given patient together with the
acute coronavirus symptoms. Otherwise there is no chance for healing the
patient in the homeopathic sense. And we can assume that those patients who
have got into a life-threatening condition or died can/could also fall into
this category. Therefore the recommended homeopathic remedies can only bring
homeopathic healing if they are given to patients who are suffering from acute
disease. And in this respect it does not matter whether those symptoms are of
the coronavirus or other traditional influenza virus. For the homeopathic cure
of coronavirus patients who are also suffering from some chronic disease,
experienced homeopaths would be needed who can take into consideration the
totality of the symptoms and the individuality.
2.
Relationship between two similar diseases (with respect to homeopathic
prophylaxis)
It
has been an obvious truth since Hahnemann that
two similar diseases cannot be present at the same time in an organism. Two
diseases are similar if they cause similar symptoms in the same organ systems.
In this case the stronger similar disease annihilates the weaker similar
disease. Homeopathy is based on this principle of nature, meaning that if a
disease, caused by an artificial medicine is similar to the original disease
and stronger (meaning that it is more dynamic), then it can cure the original
disease by replacing it. And when the medicine’s disease passes away then both
diseases heal. ( Hahnemann: Organon, 6th edition, Similar
diseases 43-51. §)
In
the case of two dissimilar diseases, the stronger disease temporarily suspends
the former disease, however the latter disease having been healed, the original
disease returns more vigorously than before. This is what we call
suppression. ( Hahnemann: Organon, 6th edition, The
dissimilar diseases 35-42. §)
The acute diseases caused by
‘classical influenza’, pneumonia and coronavirus are similar to each other,
therefore coronavirus , if stronger, is able to cure the ‘classical influenza’
by replacing it. Then the patient is not going to have influenza, ‘only’
coronavirus disease. So it means if we treat somebody’s symptoms similar to the
‘classical influenza’ symptoms, with those homeopathic remedies that have
already been effective in influenza diseases, then this homeopathic remedy
disease will be the strongest similar disease. This way, even if the patient
had influenza he is not getting coronavirus disease and if he did not have any
of these diseases he may not get any of these diseases (coronavirus and
influenza) with the help of the same remedies. That is because the two
diseases, influenza and coronavirus , are similar to each other. So the patient
who has already had influenza disease or the influenza disease is still ongoing
or any kind of weaker form and is treated with homeopathic remedies in
accordance with his complaints and symptoms, there is a high chance that he
does not get infected with coronavirus .
Now it is understandable why it is a
realistic recommendation by homeopaths that to cure coronavirus disease, we use
the most suitable remedies that have often been used for influenza. So if any
kind of influenza-like illness is acquired by somebody, like cold, influenza,
commencing pneumonia, since they are all similar diseases, the effective
homeopathic remedy can have preventative impact on the coronavirus
disease. It is possible that we did not even realise that we had it or
did not have it, or we would have it or we would not have it.
If
we treat the coronavirus disease with a remedy that would cause a disease dissimilar to coronavirus – so that we supress the
disease – then we temporarily suppress the symptoms of coronavirus disease, but
later on a disease may come forward, a disease similar to coronavirus but much
stronger. It can occur inexactly the same way as it has happened in the history
of different kinds of influenza epidemics.
3.
The state of the world before the coronavirus disease
Let’s return to the opening thought:
what we currently experience around us (in Hungary) is a state prior to the
outbreak of the symptoms of an acute disease. And this state is the impact of
acute coronavirus disease spreading ‘backwards’. Namely, whatever was caused by
the virus (i.e. seriously ill patients, quarantine, deaths, chain reaction-like
unstoppable spreading of the virus, a fate that seems un-escapable, centralised
power measures, etc.) they are all the impacts of the virus upon people who are
not yet infected and are forced to change their everyday lives, actions and
habits in this globally changed world. All these changed habits, emotions,
thoughts, this common mental state, are also the impacts of the virus, most of
the time without any acute body symptoms or instead of acute body symptoms, or
prior body symptoms.
A homeopathic remedy that is in line
with this state could be a good preventive homeopathic remedy because by curing
this actual state it would reduce the susceptibility to this disease.
I would like to emphasise that I
would not like to come up with a new prophylaxis homeopathic remedy. I am
simply writing this because I strongly believe that in line with these
thoughts, we can get a deeper understanding of the coronavirus with the help of
homeopathy.
I have listed the most significant
mind symptoms and themes of the current state of the globe (not yet the picture
of the acute disease!): responsibility, anxiety about family, anticipation,
people’s fear of infection, avoiding going to any community, avoiding touch,
wanting to stay at home, always wanting to wash hands, fear about money
matters, anxiety for the future, can only see a dark future, feeling of being
isolated, repeated ritual actions, fearful thoughts all the time, and cannot
stop these thoughts. To my understanding these are the symptoms that can best
picture the current state and what we can actually observe in ourselves and in
the environment.
Setting
the repertorization program to ‘small remedies small rubrics’, the first remedy
that appears in the list is Carcinosinum.
Knowing the homeopathic remedies and
the theory of miasms, this repertorization can help to understand the core idea
of the whole epidemic. And it can help to understand why this epidemic could
become global. It is connected with the fact that today the most significant
common general disease predisposition in the world is the susceptibility to
cancer.
Indeed, the coronavirus enthrones the
failure of the curing strategies for the epidemics by suppressions that have
been applied so far. This epidemic has been evolving on the terrain of the
global suppression, just creating metastases exactly as the metastasis
commences from the primary centre of the cancerous tumour .
Even now the whole world is anxious
to have vaccination as soon as possible. It seems that in terms of ideology
there is no difference whether we are scientific, rational or esoteric or
spiritual. The situation currently is directly life-threatening and when we
have to save lives immediately, there is no other concept and no other chance.
The world can only imagine solving the problem with suppression and the world
is expecting the help of science – while for a homeopath this global epidemic
indicates the total failure of such an approach.
The world does not recognise the
failure, and in this dangerous situation, being helpless, cannot do anything
else. So far there is no new, consensus-based, efficient concept in healthcare
and in any other global issues. Due to the lack of such a concept we can only
envisage a one-way emergency scenario. The increasingly worse global epidemics
convey a message about the necessity for an urgent, radical change for those
who understand that.
The world, the public and science
urge us to make the vaccine as the only solution, as soon as possible. But for
homeopaths it is increasingly evident that this exactly leads to a new global
epidemic disaster. Homeopaths should look for cooperation with healers who have
new solutions, concepts and should look for cooperation with scientific
researchers’ new concepts, and with those people who can recommend other kind
solutions. And due to the fact that conventional medicine does not have any
solution to this current global situation, homeopaths should act immediately.
Homeopaths should believe in the validity of their own concept and offer that
concept whenever it is possible.
The coronavirus creates a special
state that is prior to the outbreak of its acute phase and this state – which
is clearly visible by homeopathic observation – is the same as the cancerous
predisposition. This is the general, intellectual, mental and physical state of
the world, independent from ideology and culture.
Cancer as a model disease can make us
understand the state on which terrain a global epidemic can evolve that is
similar to it. The spreading of this virus and its ‘combat manner’ is similar
to that of the invasive cancer that is spreading unstoppingly through
metastasis. Starting from the declaration of the diagnosis of cancer, it means
an undoubtedly direct and unstoppable route to death, and the fact that
it cannot be stopped and can diffuse without limit, is bursting out from the
depth of the current state and it defines our relation to the coronavirus .
The emergency condition and the
measures of governments are similar to our imagination about the working of our
immune system, meaning that we can only slow down our downfall, but we cannot
escape it.
The expression of chain-reaction is
very meaningful in this case. In earlier times our lives could be more
expanding, revolving, restarting, expansive in a spiral way or ascending,
sinking later on then dashing. Now in a chain-reaction-like manner, the world
and the inseparable individuals are relentlessly moving towards a kind of
termination. The individual cannot do anything, he is swept up by history, by
the power , by profit, by the economy, by the global money market, by the
pharmaceutical industry, by the food industry, by the educational system, by
the oil industry, by the electric and the atomic energy industries.
It
is not by chance that the cancer patient receives radiotherapy. It is not by
chance that contemporary homeopaths, such as Jan Scholten and Jeremy Sherr in
relation to this epidemic, say that remedies now and in the future will be made
from radioactive materials, atomic elements. This is the global mental state
and its belief system that make mankind globally susceptible to acute epidemics
similar to cancer.
Treating this state with anything
that does not suppress this state but heals it, can make a difference, since
this is the chronic and miasmatic terrain on which this acute disease can
become an epidemic.
4.
Diseases similar to the prior state of the coronavirus acute disease
If
we repertorise the most important mental symptoms in this state prior to the
acute phase of the coronavirus infection, we find some other remedies
besides Carcinosinum. If we apply a different analysis method,
we find Arsenicum album among the most important remedies.
That is why it is understandable that some homeopaths recommend this remedy for
prevention, because this remedy covers the symptoms of both the acute disease
and the prior mental state of the disease.
Bryonia
and, Calcium carbonicum are
also recommended for the same reason for both prophylaxis and treatment when
somebody is already infected. Arsenicum album, along
with Carcinosinum, covers exactly all the behavioural
patterns that are related to mortal fear and anxiety, resulting in compulsive
disorders. Bryonia and Calcium carbonicum mirror the state of lost
security when the patient wants to stay at home, to lock the door, to conserve
food and money, which is also characteristic of compulsive disorders.
If
we concentrate on the small remedies and individual symptoms in our
repertorisation then a small remedy, Cuprum aceticum will
come forward, next to Carcinosinum. We can
also consider Carcinosinum cum Cuprum , which
remedy is regarded by Tinus Smithas as the
most relevant remedy of our current world.
Cuprum
metallicum is one of the homeopathic remedies
for compulsive disorders and it can work well many of the cases. This remedy is
used for unstoppable, chain-reaction-like actions that later on turn into
convulsive body complaints (i.e. unstoppable vomiting, diarrhoea and
suffocative cough).
The earth, our everyday environment
reveals a state that is similar to a patient who has serious compulsive
neurosis symptoms. And because it is similar, in the homeopathic sense, we can
efficiently cure it with a remedy that is in line with this state.
Again and again we have to check our
actions to see whether we have cleaned the door handle, whether we have touched
the handrail, the button of the elevator, whether we have touched the tap after
having washed our hands. Because if we touched the tap after we washed our
hands we have to wash our hands again, then we dry our hands with the towel and
we have to wash our hands again because we dried it with the towel that might
be infected, but before that we throw the towel into the washing machine,
because if we did it after washing our hands we would have to do it again.
We know people who already act like
this, namely, they did not leave their houses because they were afraid of the
infection. When they got home they immediately disinfected themselves, they
regarded the whole world as an infected area, they constantly and consistently
thought only the same themes, and they could not get rid of the thought of
infection. Whoever they met they did not shake hands or washed their hands
immediately afterwards, if at all they dared to go out. So far these
people have been treated with serious psychiatric medicines, regarding them as
having lost their connection with reality.
But now when this kind of behaviour
has become the behaviour of the masses, this has turned into the reality of the
whole world. And then while this has become the reality of the whole world this
behaviour has turned into the norm of the whole community, accepted by
everyone.
In the background of the compulsive
neurosis, diagnosed by psychiatry, there is the unspoken fear of death,
regarded as unrealistic by others. Now, when most of us live in mortal fear,
all of this has turned into reality. The behaviour that is similar to that of
the compulsive neurosis, has become real and not only accepted but desired as
well. And indeed, we cannot have any objection and it is not ethical at all to
question the reality of this tragic situation. The question is not that mortal
fear is justifiable or not, or to what scale panic, terror and worries are
justifiable but the reality is that the characteristic symptoms of the general
behaviour are similar to that of the symptoms of a psychiatric disorder. And
because homeopathic remedies heal on the basis of similarity, by applying
remedies that cause similar symptoms to the original ones, remedies for this
psychiatric disorder can be suitable to heal the global mental state prior to
the acute stage of the epidemic. And by doing so the susceptibility can be
reduced.
Having
performed the repertorisation of the symptoms recognised in these behaviours ,
another homeopathic remedy is turning up, Veratrum album. This
remedy can be considered in the latter acute stage of the disease, especially
in those cases (along with lung-related symptoms like suffocation) when the
patient’s significant characteristics are vomiting, diarrhoea , weakness
together with trembling. We have already heard about these symptoms, in
connection with the latter phase of the disease. The fact that this remedy has
already appeared when we did the repertorisation of the symptoms applicable in
the prior state of the disease, we can presume what direction the disease,
caused by the coronavirus , can possibly move towards, if at all.
Actually,
this remedy can be suitable for acute cases infected by coronavirus . The remedy
can also indicate a characteristic psychological state that is prior to the
acute case. For quite some time Veratrum album has
been a well-known in homeopathy for bipolar states, maniac depression or cases
when anorexia alternates with bulimia. And indeed, there are patients who are
not ill yet, but still struggling with the state surrounding them, living their
everyday lives in extreme duality. They want to accumulate and be prudent
with their reserves.
The world is breathing again, the
atmosphere is purifying, dolphins are playing in the lagoons of Venice, mankind
is becoming conscious and is waking up, learning lessons to change for the
better. Through mortal fear the virus has taught people that real change is
necessary, and the planet can be saved by awakening individual responsibility.
Stay at home, look after your beloved
ones, realise what really is important in life. Beside many salvation
stories, we find on the other pole, apocalyptic visions projecting the global
ending hour of mankind. There are salvation stories and damning stories
at the same time. It is changing from hour to hour, from minute to minute.
5.
Influenza diseases which are similar to each other
For
two decades I have been paying attention to influenza epidemics which last for
one to two months each year. At the Association of Homeopathic
Medical Art in Hungary, we receive many letters about homeopathic
healings.
If
we follow Hahnemann’s concept about the
interpretation of epidemics, then we can say that a great number of people are
becoming subjected to different kinds of influenza viruses. It appears that
every year we can witness a great dimension of ’influenza virus. If we interpret
this phenomenon in line with classical homeopathic proving protocols, then we
can say that every year a great number of people demonstrate symptoms which are
very similar to each other.
Nevertheless, there are also a few
people who show peculiar symptoms at the same time of the influenza epidemic.
And these peculiar symptoms are similar to each other. However, they are not
similar to the influenza’s usual symptoms. Since these symptoms are not similar
to the influenza symptoms, the only reason we could relate them to each other
is that those symptoms appear at the same time of the influenza epidemic.
I
am compiling example cases. A few years ago, during the usual influenza
epidemic season in January and February, a great number of men, who were not in
connection with each other at all, demonstrated lumbago and sciatica symptoms.
Those men never had such symptoms before, nor had those ever since. ( We share
cases with the members of our homeopathic Association, and
I can say that other healers, doctors and patients, independently from each
other, observed such interesting incidents.)
Of course, it can be a simple
coincidence, but we can consider that, every year, there is a large population
which does not demonstrate the general symptoms of influenza, but only the
specific symptoms. And from this picture we do not even know that these
symptoms could belong to the influenza. We can only assume that they are
influenza symptoms, because they appear simultaneously with the influenza, and,
in spite of the fact they belong to a smaller population of patients it points
toward a kind of coexistence.
Anther
time, during the usual annual influenza epidemic, while the majority of the
population suffered from the ’traditional’ and general symptoms of the
influenza, some other people did not get sick with symptoms similar to that of
the influenza but , in parallel with each other (but not connected with each
other, and living at different locations), indicated that they were suffering
from severe diarrhoea , together with increased susceptibility but not any fever.
These conditions which accompany
influenza epidemics and come out at the same time as the epidemic then vanish
when the epidemic passes away, can be regarded as coincidence, but we can
consider them peculiar symptoms of the given year’s influenza epidemic.
In
the same way, Hahnemann found,
during provings of homeopathic remedies, participants, whose reactions to the
remedy were peculiar, demonstrating totally different symptoms to that of the
majority of the participants.
If we regard the different kinds of
influenza as an annual common proving, when a large portion of the population
experience the virus as a common influence, then a significant number of people
will have similar general symptoms. This means that we can see the symptom
portraits of the influenza that are similar to each other (i.e. high fever,
throat pain, cough, headache, discharges as well as muscle pains and pains in
the bones).
Nevertheless, there will always be
groups that are distinct from each other in the given epidemic, demonstrating
other specific individual symptoms, different from the majority of the
population, but similar to that of the patients in the same group.
We can also say that these symptoms,
that are peculiar, and indicated by only a small number of people, belong to
the characteristics of the epidemic and belong to the epidemic. We can,
therefore draw the conclusion that influenza has a wide spectrum of portrait,
from which in every year the similar and general symptoms are becoming obvious,
but these do not demonstrate the whole spectrum of the influenza symptoms, but
only the symptoms typical of the whole population. But there are always groups
which, instead of the influenza’s typical symptom spectrum in a given year,
show only a fraction of the influenza’s symptom spectrum, the symptoms that are
not present within the majority of the population.
That
is why it is possible that every year the majority of the influenza patients
can be treated with the same homeopathic remedies for centuries (e.g Gelsemium, Eupatorium, Bryonia, Arsenicum album).
Due
to the fact that there are patients who have those atypical symptoms of
influenza, we have observed that most of the time one specific remedy emerges
each year. This is how Rhus toxicodendron emerged
in the epidemics of the previous years (when a group of people ’only’
experienced lumbago-like pains), or Carbo vegetabilis (when
some part of the population had long-lasting, suffocative cough), or Baptisia (when long- lasting throat inflammation
was the main characteristic, with no pain as well as increased susceptibility without indicating any influenza
symptoms), or Aloe or Podophyllum (when the dominating symptom was the
unstoppable diarrhoea with no other influenza symptom), or Arnica was the good remedy (when some people only
had muscle pain without fever or upper respiratory tract symptoms during
influenza epidemic).
I wonder why somebody has all the
general symptoms of influenza or only has some portion of them. Based on
different experiences there can be different answers to this question. For this
we also have to consider what I wrote about in the beginning of this study.
Namely, the difference is that some people are infected with influenza as an
acute disease, others are infected by it on the terrain of a chronic disease.
Consequently, if somebody has a
relatively strong immune system so the influenza infection is not able to cause
the general acute influenza symptoms, then only the partial symptoms may appear
in him during the influenza epidemic.
It is also possible that influenza
cannot infect healthy people, however, temporarily it can cause complaints of a
few organ systems that are weak. For instance, if during an influenza epidemic,
somebody is infected by influenza virus who has a weaker spine, then he will
temporarily have sciatica. Or those people who have a weaker digestve system,
will temporarily have diarrhoea , which symptom is not similar to that of the
influenza disease but to that of a food poisoning.
It is possible that influenza
infection is demonstrated by the most general symptoms, with those people who
have chronic disease , and, furthermore, these people would also have individual
symptoms of their basic chronic disease. And it is also possible that patients
are being treated for their chronic disease and their medicines suppress the
manifestation of the influenza, and instead, during influenza epidemic, their
symptoms of chronic disease are strengthening.
For
years similar effects could be noticed with those people who had been
vaccinated against influenza. Our homeopathic Association has
been receiving related observations for more than two decades, and these
observations indicate that those people do not have symptoms typical of the
influenza disease, but they appear in parallel with the influenza epidemic.
They have unexplained complaints such as symptoms of the urinary tract, we find
severe, weakening diarrhoea in patients who did not use to have such symptoms
and cannot tell the reason for its happening.
Some
people have incomprehensible muscle pain that appears suddenly and disappeara a
few days later. ( In these cases, the remedies that homeopathy could offer for
symptoms occurring after vaccination helped: Thuja, Arnica or Silicea. And because
these remedies have been working well as general remedies after vaccination,
and had no specific symptoms, we can conclude that these complaints belong to
the symptoms of the relevant influenza epidemic and we cannot see the influenza
because the vaccination suppresses the general symptoms of influenza. ( With
this statement I do not intend to stand for or open up a discussion about the
necessity or not of vaccination, I simply want to share my observations.)
What do we understand from influenza
that has a larger spectrum of symptoms, larger than what we normally observe in
an epidemic? At this point, the theory I mentioned about the extinguishing or
overriding effect of the similar diseases in the beginning of this study makes
sense. Influenzas are similar diseases to each other, they are alike year by
year, and they are also similar to the diseases that are caused by different
kinds of influenza viruses that are spreading at the same time. ( It means that
the influenza viruses are similar to each other in a synchronic and diachronic
way as well.)
And if they are similar, then the
homeopathic treatment of any kind of its modification can prevent the coming
out of any other type of influenza. The significance of this phenomenon is that
all those individuals and peculiar symptoms that are present with some people
(without having the usual and obvious symptoms of influenza), could be treated
by homeopathy. And this is the real way of preventing the coming out of
influenza. Namely, if we interpret all symptoms as part of the influenza
symptom spectrum during an influenza, that appears in a person who does not
have chronic disease – an experienced homeopath can recommend a remedy
when any symptom, that is seemingly independent of the epidemic, appears.
For
instance if we know that usually lumbago appears in parallel with the epidemic,
most probably it can also be an expression of the epidemic. Then, if somebody
has pain in the back for no reason, we know Rhus toxicodendron will
be good not only against backache but also for the prevention of a serious
influenza disease. If the person receives this remedy in time, from an
experienced homeopath, then we do not even know what was prevented by the
remedy. Simply, there is a great chance, that the influenza avoids this person.
Or it is also possible that influenza will happen on a smaller scale,
moderately.
If we took notice of the symptoms
that were apparent with some people, prior to the outburst of the epidemic on a
larger scale, then by treating these conditions, most probably, the serious or
life-threatening illness would be avoidable or the course of the influenza
would be moderate.
In the severe stage of the illness
the remedy choice should already be made on the basis of individual symptoms
which are present – for this reason, in the previous days, internationally
recognised homeopaths have made recommendations for homeopathic remedies.
However, these remedies can only work when the trouble is serious, and the
majority of the patients need life-saving hospitalisation .
So this condition has to be
prevented. This, therefore, means that the initial, hardly noticeable symptoms
are worth being treated, which are seemingly independent of the epidemic. In
this case it does not matter whether these symptoms are simply cold or
indigestion or muscle strain or moderate influenza or the latent symptoms of
coronavirus . These symptoms, if they come forward, without any special reason,
are the different kind of individual appearances of a common state, part of a
symptom spectrum, irrespective of what we call this disease. It’s an
influence which affects all of us at the same time. symptoms that break to the
surface at the periphery of the epidemic, at same time as the corona virus.
6.
Symptoms that surface at the periphery of the epidemic, simultaneously with the
coronavirus disease
Since
the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic lots of people have become sick from
traditional influenza, many of them have fever, cough or simple cold, they blow
their nose, and many people have strange and peculiar symptoms, for no special
reason (not knowing that other people also have those symptoms) simultaneously
with the corona virus disease. In the recent weeks we, at the Association, have been receiving mails highlighting a
few peculiar symptoms.
A
great number of people suffered from serious neck pain, without any additional
complaints. This symptom turns up on one side of their body, similar to the
pain when somebody lays down on their neck, or is exposed to a draft, but these
complaints seem unreasonable and are getting more painful as time passes.
Somebody may even have strong pain or stiffness in the neck. In these
cases Rhus toxicodendron or Dulcamara are working well.
There
were people who reported strong muscle pains, like they had muscle strains with
strong weakening affect . This symptom also seemed unexplained because the
patients had not done anything that could justify those muscle strains. The
condition is not attached to any other complaints. This condition can quickly
be treated by Arnica.
Others
reported chest oppression, and long-lasting cough that shook their whole body
without having any fever nor any other symptoms. This condition can be healed
by Bryonia, or when these symptoms are together with
suffocation then it can be cured with Carbo vegetabilis.
Some
had nerve pain, lasting for days, located in their arm and shoulder, and it
originated in a certain point between their scapulae, and the pain was extremely
paralysing . By taking Magnesium phosphoricum these
complaints could be relieved.
Others
reported severe diarrhoea . The stool is sudden, unstoppable and forcible. In
this case heavy flatus also wants to pass together with the stool. They never
had these complaints before. The homeopathic remedies Aloe or Podophyllium treated
these complaints quickly and efficiently. ( It is worth noting that the mental
characteristics of Aloe are ‘being excluded’, a state when the person is
isolated from his family or society. This remedy belongs to the Liloflorae plant family just like Veratrum album, which was mentioned earlier on in this
study. This remedy feels that he/she is losing his/her status in the society.
It is characteristic of Podophyllum’s mental state that the patient cannot
accommodate quickly to the changed situation. All of these mental states
describe well the current global situation we have.
Some
people reported that they began having moderate fever, throat ache, cough and
these symptoms disappeared and returned after a few days in a more severe
condition. This sort of action is typical to Ferrum poisoning. By continuously
giving someone Ferrum dose by dose, moderate symptoms break out then disappear
entirely, however the symptoms reappear in a more severe manner. In most of
these cases Ferrum phosphoricum could help
significantly.
There
were people who already have fever , mostly intermittent fever, meaning that
exactly at the same time fever increases then decreases then stops then
increases again, following this pattern systematically for days. In these
cases China, the remedy for malaria, the remedy of the
intermittent fever could work well. ( It is interesting that the science of
medicine is just examining the possible effect of a malaria medicine for
coronavirus .)
The above cases are only examples.
Other homeopaths can, of course, have different experiences. I am writing about
these cases with no intention to urge anybody to start taking any homeopathic
remedy without control. It is only important to me to show, that with the help
of homeopathy, those patients can be helped who are in a state similar to that
of influenza, or those who already have some moderate symptoms, could avoid the
severe impact of coronavirus . There are many people who have some kinds of
symptoms and they do not attribute them to coronavirus , but they could also be
helped, based on these symptoms, so that they cannot get seriously ill. This
would be the professional responsibility of experienced homeopaths.
For me it is not important to come up
with remedies. I can recommend, like so many homeopaths have done. Homeopathy
gives us the possibility to understand the correspondences of the globe that is
currently burdened by the coronavirus . For me homeopathy is a way of observing
phenomenon via the order of the nature. It is because I believe that
comprehending is partly healing as well. The mental process of understanding a
given state is a contribution to health.
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