MYTHS AND FACTS ABOUT HOMEOPATHY

1. MYTH: HOMEOPATHY HAS VERY SLOW ACTION 

  FACT: HOMEOPATHY ACTS FASTER THAN ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE IN ACUTE CASES.

HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE ACTION IS VERY FAST WHEN COMPARED TO ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE IN ACUTE DISEASES  PROVIDED THAT THE MEDICINE IS SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF TOTALITY OF SYMPTOMS AND PRESCRIBED IN THE CORRECT DOSAGE AND POTENCY. HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE ACTS THROUGH OUR NERVES AND SO THE ACTION OF THE MEDICINE BEGINS RIGHT FROM THE INTAKE OF MEDICINE THROUGH THE NERVE ENDINGS PRESENT ON OUR TONGUE BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE ACTS THROUGH OUR CIRCULATORY SYSTEM WHICH INFACT TAKES MORE TIME TO ACT WHEN COMPARED TO HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE

2.MYTH: REGULAR INTAKE OF HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES CAN INCREASE YOUR BLOOD SUGAR

FACT: HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE DOESNT INCREASE BLOOD SUGAR

 

HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES ARE DISPENSED EITHER IN THE FORM OF SUGAR PILLS OR AS LIQUID FORM. THE SUGAR PILLS USED IN HOMEOPATHY DOES NOT CONTAIN GLUCOSE BUT INSTEAD CONTAINS LACTOSE  WHICH CANNOT MAKE THE PATIENT DIABETIC EVEN  ON REGULAR USAGE. THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF SUGAR IN HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES CONSUMED OVER A PERIOD OF ONE WEEK IS NOT MORE THAN ONE TEASPOON.

3.MYTH: HOMEOPATHY IS A HERBAL MEDICINE

FACT: HOMEOPATHY IS NOT JUST A HERBAL MEDICINE

 

HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES ARE NOT ONLY PREPARED FROM PLANTS BUT ITS  SOURCE CAN ALSO INCLUDE, ANIMALS, MINERALS, CHEMICALS, ENERGY SOURCES ETC.

4. MYTH: HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES CONTAIN STEROID

FACT: MISCONCEPT BY SOME PEOPLE

 

HOMEOPATHIC PILLS  ARE MADE FROM PURELY LACTOSE AND ALMOST ALL HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES HAVE ALCOHOL AS DILUENT. HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES HAVE BEEN EVEN TESTED BY THE UV ABSORPTION METHOD TO CHECK THE PRESENCE OF STEROID IN IT AND THE RESULT HAS PROVED THAT THERE IS NO STEROID CONTENT IN HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE AND THAT THESE ARE JUST  FALSE ALLEGATIONS MADE BY SOME PEOPLE TO DEFAME HOMEOPATHY.

5. MYTH: HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES CAUSE WEIGHT GAIN AS A SIDE EFFECT

FACT: HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES HAS NO SIDE EFFECT

 HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE HAS GOT NO SIDE EFFECTS. THERE IS A MISCONCEPTION AMONG PEOPLE THAT THE HOMEOPATHIC SUGAR PILLS CAN INCREASE YOUR WEIGHT. HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES ARE PREPARED FORM TINY AMOUNTS OF PROVEN HEALING SUBSTANCES DERIVED MAINLY FROM PLANTS, MINERALS, AND ANIMALS. THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT SO SAFE TO USE.

6.MYTH: ALLOPATHIC TREATMENT SHOULD NOT BE TAKEN WHILE UNDER HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT 

FACT: ALLOPATHIC AND HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT CAN BE TAKEN TOGETHER 

  

HOMEOPATHIC AND ALLOPATHIC TREATMENT CAN BE TAKEN TOGETHER PROVIDED THAT THERE SHOULD BE A GAP OF ATLEAST HALF AN HOUR BETWEEN THE TWO MEDICATIONS. HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES WILL NEVER  REACT WITH ALLOPATHIC MEDICINES AND PRODUCE ADVERSE REACTIONS. 

7.MYTH: HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES HAVE PLACEBO EFFECT 

FACT: HOMEOPATHY IS A PROVEN THERAPY  SUPPORTED BY SCIENTIFIC STUDIES.

 

RESULTS FROM NUMEROUS HIGH QUALITY RANDOMISED CONTROLLED TRIALS AND SEVERAL SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS HAVE SHOWN THAT HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES HAVE A CLINICAL EFFECT ABOVE AND BEYOND PLACEBO.

8. MYTH: HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES ARE ALL THE SAME WHITE SUGAR PILLS 

FACT: NOT TRUE, THE WHITE PILLS ARE ACTUALLY NEUTRAL VEHICLES OR CARRIERS OF ACTUAL MEDICINE 

THE WHITE PILLS ARE NOT THE ACTUAL MEDICINE, THE ACTUAL MEDICINE IS WHAT IS ADDED TO THEM IN THE FORM OF HOMEOPATHIC DILUTIONS. THE WHITE PILLS ARE JUST A MEDIUM OR VEHICLE THAT CARRIES THE ACTUAL MEDICINE THAT IS ADDED ON THEM. THERE ARE ABOUT 3000 MEDICINES IN HOMEOPATHY THAT IS USED WORLDWIDE.

9. MYTH: HOMEOPATHY DOESNT REQUIRE DIAGNOSIS

FACT: LIKE ALL OTHER SYSTEM OF MEDICINES HOMEOPATHY DEFINITELY NEEDS A THOROUGH DIAGNOSIS

 

HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES ARE GIVEN SYMPTOMATICALLY AFTER TAKING THE WHOLE CASE HISTORY OF THE PATIENT THAT INCLUDES HIS PRESENTING COMPLAINTS, HISTORY OF HIS COMPLAINTS, FAMILY AND PAST HISTORY OF ANY OTHER ILLNESS, PHYSICAL GENERALS, MENTAL GENERALS, SYSTEMIC EXAMINATIONS, INVESTIGATIONS, PROGNOSIS, AND DIAGNOSIS OF THE CASE.

10.MYTH: HOMEOPATHY ALWAYS CAUSE AN AGGRAVATION OF THE SYMPTOMS AFTER TAKING THE MEDICINE

FACT: IT'S NOT NECESSARY THAT ALL THE MEDICINES HAVE TO BRING AN HOMEOPATHIC AGGRAVATION AFTER THE INTAKE OF MEDICINE 

 

AN HOMEOPATHIC AGGRAVATION IS A TEMPORARY INTENSIFICATION OF EXISTING SYMPTOMS FOLLOWING A HOMEOPATHIC REMEDY. THEY SOMETIMES OCCUR AS A PART OF INITIAL REBALANCING EFFECT, OR WHEN THE MEDICINE HAS BEEN TAKEN MORE OFTEN THAN NEEDED, OR IF THE PATIENT IS HIGHLY SENSITIVE TO THE MEDICINE. USUALLY, HOMEOPATHIC AGGRAVATION ARE HARMLESS AND SHORT-LIVED. THERE IS NOTHING TO GET PANIC AS AGGRAVATED SYMPTOMS  USUALLY RESOLVES WITHIN 3-4 DAYS.

 

CAN HOMEOPATHY TREAT PNEUMONIA AS A COMPLICATION OF COVID 19 ??

Homeopathy offers the safest and permanent recovery of patients with pneumonia, if the treatment is based on the totality of the acute and chronic symptom of the patient provided there is the correct selection of medicine, under optimal posology and medicinal potency.

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE 10 BEST HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES THAT CAN BE USED AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF PNEUMONIA.

1.ACONITUM NAPILLUS: FIRST STAGE OF PNEUMONIA

                                           

One of the main first stage remedies for pneumonia. The basic indication is the sudden onset of symptoms associated with marked anxiety and restlessness. Chills followed by high fever and quick pulse. Dry cough accompanied by short breath. Cough more during the night during expiration, worse from dry cold wind and deep inspiration. The pains in aconitum are intense, stinging cutting pain and due to which the patient gets feeling that some awful thing is going to happen and he even predicts the time of his death. This mental picture is always present in pneumonia or any other inflammatory condition of any part of the body.

2.BRYONIA ALBA: PNEUMONIA WITH CHEST PAIN 

                                   

Bryonia is an important medicine for pneumonia when it is accompanied by chest pain. Chest pain worse while breathing and coughing. Pain is better by holding the chest while coughing. They have a predominantly dry cough that gets worse during exertion, eating, or drinking. Cough is worse when the patient comes from cold air into a warm room or on breathing deeply. Rust-colored sputa are also one of the features of Bryonia.

3.IPECAC: PNEUMONIA IN INFANTS

 

 

 

Ipecac is indicated in pneumonia that is associated with nausea and vomiting. The child coughs, gags, and suffocates and there is a coarse rattling of mucus that can be heard throughout the room. The child appears pale, looks dreadfully sick, and very anxious. Often the cough ends in vomiting. Cough with blood in the sputa may also be present. 

4.PHOSPHORUS: PNEUMONIA WITH CHEST OPPRESSION 

 

 

Heaviness in the chest as if there is a load pressing it down. Cough is dry, hard, and racking. expectoration is profuse, bloody, or purulent. Pain in the chest worse by lying on the left side. In pneumonia, there may be burning in the head, with hot cheeks. Fever with gesticulation and delirium and violent thirst for icy cold water,fan-like motion of nose and difficult breathing is also seen in patients.

5.HEPARSULPH: PNEUMONIA WITH PURULENT SPUTA

 

Dry paroxysmal cough from evening until midnight and sometimes lasting all night with choking, gagging, and crouping. Expectoration is often purulent. The patient is very much sensitive to cold. Cough is worse from cold air even while uncovering hand or foot in bed.

6.ARS ALB: PNEUMONIA WITH CLASSIC MENTAL SYMPTOM OF FEAR OF DEATH.

 

                                                                 Pneumonia when difficult breathing and shortness of breath are prominent features. The main mental symptoms accompanying most of the patients are anxiety, fear of death, and mental restlessness. Cough with excoriating or rusty expectoration and there is burning of the chest as if coals of fire are on the chest.

7.VERATRUM VIRIDE: PNEUMONIA ASSOCIATED WITH NAUSEA.

 

 

Pneumonia with difficult respiration associated with nausea and faint feeling in the stomach. There is a sensation of heavy load in the chest with a burning sensation. Violent cough with breathing difficulty on every attempt to walk or any slightest exertion.

8.ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM: PNEUMONIA WITH RATTLING OF MUCUS

 

                               

There is much rattling of mucus which is difficult to be expectorated out. Bronchia and chest seem to be loaded with mucus. Complaints get worse while lying down but feels better with expectoration. The patient has a profound weakness. There is frequent yawning leading to dozing and sleepiness. Expectoration is difficult with shortness of breath. Cyanosis is seen due to carbonized air. Antimonium Tart is generally given in the last stage of pneumonia.

9.CARBO VEG: LAST STAGE OF PNEUMONIA/ PNEUMONIA IN OLD PEOPLE

 

Given in the hopeless stage, where the patient is in a state of collapse. cough is quick, short with labored breathing. A yellow and sticky expectorant may be present. There is stagnation of blood in the capillaries that causes blueness, coldness, and ecchymosis. In general, the patient has a sunken Hippocratic face with great prostration and needs to be fannes hard to keep breathing.

 

10.CAMPHOR: PNEUMONIA LAST STAGE /PNEUMONIA OF OLD PEOPLE

 

The classic presentation is the icy coldness of the whole body. Even breath is cold. There is a sudden sinking of strength. Pulse is small and weak. Suffocative dyspnoea. Violent dry hacking cough that suspends respiration.

In the present COVID 19 situation, the major complications resulting in death of the patients are pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome(ARDS), acute liver injury, acute cardiac injury, secondary infection, acute kidney injury, and septic shock. Homeopathy can definitely be helpful both in prophylactic as well as in a therapeutic way to deal with the present COVID 19 situation provided the medicines are selected on the basis of proper case taking and totality of symptoms.

10 INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT HOMEOPATHY

1. DO YOU KNOW THE FOUNDER OF HOMEOPATHY WAS AN ALLOPATHIC PHYSICIAN BEFORE HE DISCOVERED HOMEOPATHY??

HAHNEMANN WAS AN ALLOPATHIC PHYSICIAN IN HIS EARLIER DAYS. HE WAS DISSATISFIED WITH THE STATE OF MEDICINE  IN HIS TIME PARTICULARLY PRACTISES SUCH AS PURGING, BLOOD LETTING AND THE USE OF TOXIC CHEMICALS. HE FELT THAT THE MEDICINE HE HAD BEEN TAUGHT TO PRACTICE SOMETIMES DID THE PATIENT MORE HARM THAN GOOD. THIS DISCONTENTMENT LEAD HIM TO DISCOVER A NEW SYSTEM OF MEDICINE CALLED HOMEOPATHY AND THUS HE LATER BECAME THE FATHER OF HOMEOPATHY.

2. DO U KNOW THE DISCOVERY OF HOMEOPATHY WAS ACCIDENTAL ??

 

AS AN ALLOPATHIC DOCTOR HAHNEMANN WAS NOT HAPPY WITH THE STATE OF MEDICINE IN HIS TIME. AT ONE POINT OF TIME, HE GAVE UP HIS OWN DAILY PRACTICE TO BEGIN WORKING AS A CHEMIST WHILE TRANSLATING MEDICAL TEXTS. HAHNEMANN AT THAT TIME KNEW AROUND 12 LANGUAGES AND WAS INTERESTED IN TRANSLATING BOOKS FROM OTHER LANGUAGES TO GERMAN. DURING THAT TIME HAHNEMANN WAS WORKING ON A PROJECT TO TRANSLATE WILLIAM CULLEN'S MATERIA MEDICA (BOOK OF MEDICINES) TO GERMAN LANGUAGE. HE CAME ACROSS ONE CHAPTER IN WHICH IT WAS WRITTEN ABOUT THE MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF A SPECIES OF SOUTH AMERICAN TREE BARK(CINCHONA) AGAINST MALARIA. HAHNEMANN ONE DAY INGESTED THE JUICE EXTRACTED FROM THE PULP OF CINCONA  BARK AND TO HIS SURPRISE HE DEVELOPED SYMPTOMS EXACTLY LIKE MALARIA. FROM THIS HE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT ANY SUBSTANCE  WHICH HAS THE ABILITY TO PRODUCE SYMPTOMS OF A PARTICULAR DISEASE CAN ALSO CURE THAT PARTICULAR DISEASE. THUS HAHNEMANN POSTULATED THE LAW OF "SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURENTUR"; LET LIKES BE CURED BY LIKES WHICH BECAME THE PRIMARY PRINCIPLE OF HOMEOPATHY. THIS IS HOW THE DISCOVERY OF HOMEOPATHY HAPPENED.

3. DO U KNOW THAT THE ACTION OF HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE IS FASTER THAN ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE??

 

 

PEOPLE HAVE A MISCONCEPT THAT HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES ACT VERY SLOWLY. BUT THIS IS NOT TRUE. HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES CAN ACT FASTER THAN ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE IN ACUTE CASES PROVIDED THAT THE MEDICINE IS PRESCRIBED ON THE BASIS OF TOTALITY OF SYMPTOMS AFTER PROPER CASE TAKING. HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES ACT THROUGH THE NERVES, SO WHEN YOU TAKE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES ITS ACTION BEGIN RIGHT FROM THE NERVE ENDINGS PRESENT ON YOUR TONGUE AND THUS YOU CAN SEE THE RESULT WITHIN A FEW SECONDS OF INTAKE OF MEDICINE. BUT IN ALLOPATHY MEDICINAL ACTION IS THROUGH THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM AND SO WHEN COMPARED TO HOMEOPATHY, ALLOPATHIC MEDICINES  REQUIRES MORE TIME TO GIVE YOU THE RESULT.

4. DO YOU KNOW THE TERM ALLOPATHY WAS FIRST INTRODUCED BY DR SAMUEL HAHNEMANN(FATHER OF HOMEOPATHY) ??

 

THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE IN BOTH EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA DURING THE 19th CENTURY WAS REFERRED TO AS HEROIC MEDICINE BECAUSE OF THE EXTREME MEASURES USED BY THE PHYSICIANS OF THAT TIME LIKE BLOOD LETTING AND PURGING. THE TERM ALLOPATHY WAS USED BY HAHNEMANN TO HIGHLIGHT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HOMEOPATHY AND THE CONVENTIONAL HEROIC MEDICINE OF THAT TIME. 

5. DO YOU KNOW HOMEOPATHY WAS USED BY NAPOLEON'S ARMY DURING THE EPIDEMIC OF TYPHUS FEVER??

 

 NAPOLEON LEFT FRANCE IN JUNE 1812 TO CONQUER RUSSIA WITH 600,000 SOLDIERS AND ONLY 3000 SOLDIERS REMAINED ALIVE ONE YEAR LATER. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT HE LOST CLOSE TO 220,000 SOLDIERS SOLELY TO EPIDEMIC TYPHUS. IN 1813 IN HIS SECOND ATTEMPT TO CONQUER RUSSIA, NAPOLEON RETREATED WITH HIS ARMY TO THE CITY OF LEIPZIG AND THERE HE WAS SURROUNDED BY THE ALLIED ARMIES. INCIDENTALLY, DR SAMUEL HAHNEMANN WAS LIVING IN LEIPZIG DURING ITS SEIZE IN THE FALL OF 1813. TYPHUS BECAME THE EPIDEMIC IN LEIPZIG AND EVERY PHYSICIAN WAS OBLIGED BY THE AUTHORITIES TO BE IN CHARGE OF A MAKESHIFT HOSPITAL TO TREAT ITS POPULATION INFESTED WITH EPIDEMIC TYPHUS. IN HIS MAKESHIFT HOSPITAL, HAHNEMANN TREATED AROUND 183 CASES OF TYPHUS WITHOUT EVEN LOSING A SINGLE CASE. AT THE SAME TIME CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT WAS HAVING A MORTALITY RATE OF OVER 30%

6. DO YOU KNOW THERE ARE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES THAT ARE PREPARED FROM ENERGY SOURCES LIKE SUNRAYS, MOONLIGHT, MAGNET ETC??

 

THERE ARE CERTAIN HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES THAT ARE PREPARED FROM ENERGY SOURCES EITHER NATURAL OR ARTIFICIAL. THEY ARE KNOWN AS IMPONDERABILIA. THE MEDICINES FROM THESE SOURCES INCLUDE LUNA ( FROM FULL MOON), MAGNETIC POLUS AUSTRALIS (SOUTH POLE OF MAGNET), MAGNETIC POLUS ARTICUS(NORTH POLE OF MAGNET), MAGNETIC POLI AMBO(MAGNET), SOL (SUN RAYS), ELECTRICITY(ELECTRICITY), XRAY, RADIUM ETC.

7. DO YOU KNOW HOMEOPATHY WORKS WELL IN TREATING ANIMALS??

  

HOMEOPATHY OFFERS SAFEST AND PERMANENT SOLUTION TO ANY KIND OF HEALTH ISSUES FOR MANY PEOPLE. THIS IS TRUE FOR ANIMALS AS WELL. VETERINARY HOMEOPATHY IS GROWING IN POPULARITY AND MANY DOCTORS AND VETERINARIANS ACROSS THE WORLD ARE USING HOMEOPATHY FOR TREATING ANIMALS. HOMEOPATHY WORKS WONDERFULLY IN ALL KIND OF SKIN ALLERGIES, EAR INFECTIONS, ARTHRITIS, RESPIRATORY ALLERGIES AND MANY OTHER CONDITIONS IN ANIMALS. IT HAS GIVEN WONDERFUL RESULTS IN DOGS, CATS, CATTLE, POULTRY ETC.

8. DO YOU KNOW HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES ARE PRESCRIBED ON THE BASIS OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE PATIENT??

 

 THERE IS A SAYING THAT HOMEOPATHY DOESNT TREAT THE DISEASE BUT RATHER TREATS THE DISEASED PERSON. THIS IS CALLED HOLISTIC APPROACH. ACCORDING TO HOMEOPATHIC HOLISTIC PRINCIPLE, TWO INDIVIDUALS EVEN IF THEY ARE HAVING THE SAME COMPLAINT WILL BE PRESCRIBED DIFFERENT MEDICINE ON THE BASIS OF THEIR CONSTITUTION. A CONSTITUTIONAL MEDICINE IS GIVEN AFTER THE DETAILED CASE TAKING OF THE PATIENT THAT INCLUDES HIS MENTAL AS WELL AS PHYSICAL CHARACTER.

9. DO YOU KNOW NOT EVEN A SINGLE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE HAS GOT ANY SIDE EFFECT??

 

  HOMEOPATHY IS THE SAFEST MODE OF MEDICINE FOR ANY KIND OF HEALTH ISSUES. IT IS IDEAL FOR ANY AGE GROUP. IT HAS NO SIDE EFFECTS AND SO EVEN PREGNANT AND LACTATING WOMEN CAN TAKE HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES. HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES ARE PREPARED FORM TINY AMOUNTS OF PROVEN HEALING SUBSTANCES DERIVED MAINLY FROM PLANTS, MINERALS, AND ANIMALS. THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT SO SAFE TO USE.

 10. DO YOU KNOW BODY IMMUNITY CAN BE IMPROVED WITH HOMEOPATHY??

  

BASICALLY, OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM PROTECTS OUR BODY FROM FOREIGN BODIES LIKE BACTERIA, PARASITES, VIRUSES ETC. BUT IF OUR IMMUNE SYSTEM BECOMES WEAK OUR BODY WILL BE PRONE TO ALL TYPES OF ILLNESS.SO IT IS VERY MUCH ESSENTIAL TO HAVE A STRONG IMMUNE SYSTEM INSIDE OUR BODY. HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES CAN HELP IN STRENGTHENING THE IMMUNITY BY DEVELOPING NATURAL DEFENCE INSIDE OUR BODY AGAINST DISEASE CAUSING MICROBES. THUS  THROUGH HOMEOPATHY, WE NOT ONLY GET A STRONG IMMUNITY BUT ALSO A PERMANENT  CURE TO ILLNESS.

FIND OUT HOW HOMEOPATHY CAN BE A BIG RELIEF IN THIS CORONA CRISIS

COVID-19 HAS BECOME A MAJOR CONCERN THESE DAYS. BASICALLY CORONA VIRUS DISEASE (COVID 19) IS AN INFECTIOUS DISEASE CAUSED FROM CORONA VIRUS. THIS VIRUS FIRST ORIGINATED IN WUHAN, CHINA WHICH THEN SPREAD TO EVERY CONTINENT EXCEPT FOR ANTARCTICA, THUS BECOMING A SERIOUS GLOBAL HEALTH CRISIS OF OUR TIME.

                                                     FEATURES OF CORONA VIRUS                                          

                                               

CoVs ARE POSITIVE STRANDED RNA VIRUS THAT HAS GOT A CROWN LIKE APPEARANCE DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF SPIKE GLYCOPROTEIN ON THE ENVELOPE. THE  SUBFAMILY ORTHOCORONAVIRINAE OF THE CORONAVIRIDAE FAMILY CLASSIFIES INTO FOUR GENERAS OF COVs-       ALPHA CoV

                                                                                          BETA CoV

                                                                                          DELTA CoV

                                                                                          GAMMA CoV  

COVID 19 VIRUS IS REPORTED TO BE A NEW MEMBER OF THE CORONA VIRUS GENUS AND IS CLOSELY RELATED TO SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME-CORONA VIRUS (SARS CoV)

COMPARED TO SARS-CoV AND MIDDLE EAST RESPIRATORY SYNDROME CORONA VIRUS (MERS-CoV), COVID 19 VIRUS EXHIBITS FASTER HUMAN TO HUMAN TRANSMISSION, WHICH LEAD THE WHO TO DECLARE A WORLDWIDE PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY.

                                        SYMPTOMS OF COVID 19

COVID -19 PATIENTS MAY PRESENT DIFFERENT SYMPTOMS  RANGING FROM MILD TO SEVERE SYMPTOMS.

THE MOST COMMON PRESENTATION OF COVID 19 ARE FEVER TIREDNESS AND DRY COUGH. SOME MAY HAVE OTHER ASSOCIATED SYMPTOMS LIKE BODY PAIN, SORE THROAT, DIARRHOEA, CONJUNCTIVITIS, HEADACHE, LOSS OF SMELL OR TASTE OR EVEN A SKIN RASH.

IT REQUIRES IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION WHEN THE PATIENT STARTS PRESENTING  SOME SERIOUS SYMPTOMS LIKE DIFFICULTY IN BREATHING OR SHORTNESS OF BREATH, CHEST PAIN OR LOSS OF SMELL.

                                                   TRANSMISSION 

COVID 19 SPREADS EASILY AMONG PEOPLE THROUGH DROPLETS RELEASED WHEN SOMEONE WITH THE VIRUS COUGHS, SNEEZES OR TALKS. THESE DROPLETS CAN BE INHALED OR LAND IN THE MOUTH OR NOSE OF A PERSON NEARBY.

IT CAN ALSO SPREAD IF A PERSON TOUCHES A SURFACE WITH THE VIRUS ON IT AND THEN TOUCHES HIS MOUTH, NOSE OR EYES. 

                                       

                                                  RISK FACTORS

1. PEOPLE WITH A VERY WEAK IMMUNE SYSTEM ARE AT HIGH RISK OF INFECTION. OLDER PEOPLE WITH ALREADY EXISTING DISEASE CONDITION HAVE CONSIDERABLY LOW LEVEL OF IMMUNITY.

2. PEOPLE WHO ARE IN CLOSE CONTACT WITH COVID 19 PATIENTS ARE AT HIGHER RISK; FOR EXAMPLE THOSE AT HEALTH SERVICE 

3. PEOPLE WHO HAVE A RECENT TRAVEL HISTORY FROM AN AREA WITH ONGOING COMMUNITY SPREAD OR THOSE WHO ARE RESIDING IN AN AREA WITH ONGOING COMMUNITY SPREAD OF COVID 19

                                                    

                                                 COMPLICATIONS 

ALTHOUGH MOST PEOPLE WITH COVID 19 HAVE MILD TO MODERATE SYMPTOMS, THE DISEASE CAN ALSO RESULT IN DEATH OF SOME PEOPLE. MAIN REASON FOR DEATH ARE COMPLICATIONS RESULTING FROM PNEUMONIA, ORGAN FAILURE, HEART PROBLEMS, ACUTE RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, BLOOD CLOTS, ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE ANY OTHER ADDITIONAL VIRAL OR BACTERIAL INFECTIONS.

                       HOW CAN HOMEOPATHY HELP IN THIS CRISIS ??

                                                        

 HOMEOPATHY IS THE SYSTEM OF MEDICINE THAT IS BASED ON THE PRINCIPLE OF  SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURUNTUR. ACCORDING TO THIS PRINCIPLE OF SIMILIA LIKES CURES LIKES, TO BE PRECISE A DRUG THAT IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING MORBID SYMPTOMS IN A HEALTHY PERSON CAN CURE SIMILAR SYMPTOMS OCCURRING AS A MANIFESTATION OF DISEASE.

HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES ARE PREPARED BY A PROCESS CALLED POTENTISATION. DURING POTENTISATION, THE BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF THE SOURCE MATERIAL IS ACTIVATED THROUGH PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES OR IN SHORT, CRUDE SUBSTANCE IS REFINED AND ACTIVATED INTO POTENT MEDICINE.

    HOW TO FIND THE PROPHYLACTIC MEDICINE IN HOMEOPATHY??

1. BY ADMINISTERING POTENTISED HOMEOPATHIC PREPARATION OF THE CAUSATIVE AGENT IN THE COMMUNITY.

2.BY FINDING THE GENUS EPIDEMICS. 

3.BY USING CONSTITUTIONAL MEDICINE.

                      FINDING HOMEO PROPHYLAXIS FOR COVID 19

HERE WE USE THE PRINCIPLE OF GENUS EPIDEMICUS ie WE FIRST STUDY THE SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF AS MANY INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED WITH COVID 19 TO CONSTRUCT A PICTURE OF THE DISEASE. WE THEN GIVE THOSE MEDICINE WHICH IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THE SIMILAR DISEASE PRESENTATION OF COVID 19 IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS.

THIS MEDICINE WILL ACT AS PREVENTIVE FOR COVID 19

    DOES ARS ALB 30 ACT AS PREVENTIVE FOR CORONA PATIENTS ??

                                                           

BASED ON THE SYMPTOMS OF THOSE INFECTED WITH CORONA, THE MINISTRY OF AYUSH(MINISTRY OF AYURVEDA, YOGA, UNANI, SIDHA, NATUROPATHY, AND HOMEOPATHY), HAS RECOMMENDED ARS ALB 30 AS PROPHYLACTIC MEDICINE AGAINST CORONA INFECTION.

              

 IT HAS RECOMMENDED ARS ALB 30 TO BE TAKEN EMPTY STOMACH DAILY FOR 3 CONSEQUENT DAYS. THE DOSE SHOULD BE REPEATED AFTER ONE MONTH BY FOLLOWING THE SAME SCHEDULE IN CASE THE CoV INFECTION PREVAILING IN THE COMMUNITY.

WHAT ARE THE OTHER PRECAUTIONARY MEASURES TO BE CONSIDERED TO PREVENT COVID 19??

1.CLEAN YOUR HANDS OFTEN WITH SOAP AND WATER FOR 20 SECONDS OR WITH AN ALCOHOL BASED HAND RUB

2.MAINTAIN A SAFE DISTANCE FROM PEOPLE ALMOST 6 FEET DISTANCE FROM PEOPLE ESPECIALLY WHO IS COUGHING OR SNEEZING

3. DONT TOUCH YOUR EYES NOSE AND MOUTH 

4.COVER YOUR NOSE, MOUTH WITH BENT OF ELBOW WHILE YOU COUGH OR SNEEZE 

5.USE MASK THAT COVER YOUR NOSE AND MOUTH PROPERLY

6. STAY AT HOME WHEN YOU ARE SICK

7. MAKE SURE YOU SEEK MEDICAL ATTENTION IN CASE YOU HAVE A FEVER, COUGH OR BREATHING DIFFICULTY 

       

TOP 5 EPIDEMICS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD BEFORE COVID-19 CURED THROUGH HOMEOPATHY

                                                 

TOP 5 EPIDEMICS THAT SHOOK THE WORLD BEFORE COVID-19 CURED THROUGH HOMEOPATHY

HOMEOPATHY HAS BEEN USED TO TREAT EPIDEMIC DISEASES SINCE THE BEGINNING OF 19TH CENTURY. SAMUEL HAHNEMANN (FATHER OF HOMEOPATHY) USED THE MEDICINE BELLADONNA TO CURE PEOPLE FROM SCARLET FEVER IN THE EARLY 19TH CENTURY. DR HAHNEMANN DISCOVERED THE PROPHYLACTIC EFFECT DURING IN OUTBREAK OF SCARLET FEVER IN 1799 WHEN THREE OF HIS FOUR CHILDREN FELL ILL. THE FOURTH CHILD WAS ALREADY TAKING BELLADONNA FOR AN AFFLICTION OF HIS FINGER JOINTS, AND SO, DR HAHNEMANN REASONED THAT SINCE THE CHILD WAS TAKING BELLADONNA, HE WAS PROTECED FROM INFECTION.

1. THE FAMOUS TYPHUS FEVER OF 1813

IN 1812 THERE WAS AN OUTBREAK OF A SEVERE TYPHUS FEVER THAT FOLLOWED THE DEVASTATION OF NAPOLEAN'S ARMY WHICH WAS GOING TO ATTACK RUSSIA. HE LEFT WITH AROUND 600,000 SOLDIERS AND ONLY 3,000 OF THEM REMAINED ALIVE AN YEAR LATER. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT AROUND 220,000 SOLDIERS DIED DUE TO EPIDEMIC TYPHUS 

IN 1813, IN HIS SECOND ATTEMPT TO CONQUER RUSSIA, NAPOLEAN RETREATED WITH HIS ARMY TO THE CITY OF LEIPZIG WHERE HE WAS SURROUNDED BY ALLIED ARMIES AND WHERE THE LARGEST BATTLE OF NATIONS OCCURRED.

INCIDENTALLY, DR SAMUEL HAHNEMANN, WAS LIVING IN LEIPZIG AND IT WAS HIM WHO TREATED 183 CASES OF TYPHUS. THE CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT SHOWED A MORTALITY RATE OF ABOUT 30%  WHILE UNDER HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT ONLY TWO HAD LOST THEIR LIVES.

2. THE CHOLERA EPIDEMIC OF THE 1830s

IN THE YEAR 1831, THE CHOLERA FIRST SPREAD IN EUROPE, PROCEEDING FROM THE EAST, WHERE THE DELTA OF THE GANGES WAS THE SEAT OF CHOLERA. IT HAD ITS FIRST ORIGIN IN INDIA DURING 1817, FROM THERE IT SPREAD TO ARABIA IN 1821 AND REACHED RUSSIA IN 1823. FROM THERE IT SPREADS TOWARDS NORTH AND IN JULY 1831 TO ST. PETERSBURG AND IN OCTOBER TO BERLIN, VIENNA, AND HAMBURG AND LATER TO SUNDERLAND, ENGLAND. HAHNEMANN AT THIS TIME PREDICTED WHICH REMEDIES WOULD BE INDICATED TO DIFFERENT STAGES OF CHOLERA. HIS PREDICTIONS TURNED OUT TO BE TRUE AND MILLIONS OF PEOPLE BENEFITTED FROM HIS ADVISE. HOMEOPATHY CAME OUT WITH FLYING COLOURS BY DECREASING THE DEATH RATE FROM AN AVERAGE OF ABOUT 50% TO 1-2%

3. CASE OF SCARLET FEVER IN 1849

DURING THE MIDDLE PART OF THE 19TH CENTURY A MOST VIRULENT FORM OF SCARLET FEVER KNOWN AS MALIGNANT SCARLET FEVER AFFECTED MANY COMMUNITIES IN THE EASTERN PART OF AMERICA, WHERE IT BECAME THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH AMONG CHILDREN. IN CARLISLE, PENNSYLVANIA, THE HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN ADOLPH LIPPE REPORTEDLY SEEM TO HAVE TREATED OVER 150 CASES OF SCARLET FEVER  IN 1849, WITHOUT EVEN A SINGLE DEATH RATE. WHILE UNDER CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT THE DEATH RATE WAS OVER 90%.

4. EPIDEMIC OF MALIGNANT DIPHTHERIA (BETWEEN 1859-1862)

DURING THE PERIOD BETWEEN 1859-1862, LARGE COMMUNITIES ON THE EASTERN SHORE OF THE UNITED STATES WAS AFFECTED WITH THE DEADLY EPIDEMIC OF DIPHTHERIA. THREE HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS IN PHILADELPHIA REPORTEDLY HAD TREATED CLOSE TO 300 OF FULLY DEVELOPED CASES OF MALIGNANT DIPHTHERIA WITHOUT EVEN A SINGLE DEATH IN THE WINTER OF 1860, WHILE THE MORTALITY UNDER CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT WAS OVER 50 %.

5. YELLOW FEVER (1850-1878)

DURING THE 1850s, THERE WERE SEVERAL EPIDEMICS OF YELLOW FEVER IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. THE DISEASE WAS EVENTUALLY FOUND TO BE TRANSMITTED BY MOSQUITO. THE MORTALITY UNDER ALLOPATHIC TREATMENT WAS BETWEEN 15-85%. DR. HOLCOMB, A HOMEOPATHIC DOCTOR REPORTEDLY FROM NATCHEZ, TREATED YELLOW FEVER  IN 1853 AND THE MORTALITY RATE UNDER HIS TREATMENT WAS 6.43%. ANOTHER HOMEOPATHIC DOCTOR DR. DAVIS ALSO TREATED YELLOW FEVER SUCCESSFULLY WITH MORTALITY RATE OF 5.73%.IN 1878 THE MORTALITY IN NEW ORLEANS UNDER CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT WAS 50 % AND 5.6 % UNDER HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT.

CAN HOMEOPATHY HELP IN THE PRESENT CORONA CRISIS AS WELL ???

                                                                                                     

HOMEOPATHY WORKS ON THE PRINCIPLE OF GENUS  EPIDEMICUSIN SITUATION OF EPIDEMICS/PANDEMICS. UNDER THIS PRINCIPLE THE SYMPTOMATOLOGY OF AS MANY INDIVIDUALS AFFECTED WITH COVID 19 ARE STUDIED AND A PICTURE OF THE DISEASE IS CREATED. THEN THAT MEDICINE WHICH IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THE SIMILAR DISEASE PRESENTATION OF COVID 19 IN HEALTHY INDIVIDUALS ARE GIVEN AS THE PROPHYLACTIC MEDICINE.

BASED ON THE SYMPTOMS OF THOSE INFECTED WITH CORONA THE MINISTRY OF AYUSH, HAS RECOMMENDED ARS ALB 30 AS PROPHYLACTIC MEDICINE AGAINST CORONA INFECTION. IT HAS RECOMMENDED THAT ARS ALB 30 COULD BE TAKEN EMPTY STOMACH DAILY FOR THREE DAYS. THE DOSAGE SHOULD BE REPEATED AFTER ONE MONTH BY FOLLOWING THE SAME SCHEDULE IN CASE THE COVID INFECTION PREVAILS IN THE COMMUNITY.

NOW WHEN WE LOOK INTO OUR PRESENT SITUATION OF COVID 19 PANDEMIC, WHICH HAS AFFECTED THE WHOLE WORLD, THE ABOVE HISTORICAL EVIDENCE SHOWS HOW HOMEOPATHY DEFINITELY HAS A STRONG PROPHYLACTIC AND THERAPEUTIC ROLE TO FIGHT AGAINST COVID-19. HOMEOPATHY CAN DEFINITELY HELP US TO DEVELOP IMMUNITY AND PREVENT THE DISEASE FROM SPREADING.

REFERENCES

THE STORY AND HEROES OF THE ART OF MEDICINE BY J.RUTHERFORD RUSSEL
THE PHYSICIAN THROUGHOUT THE AGES BY ARTHUR SEIWYN-BROWN
THE SCIENCE OF THERAPEUTICS BY CAROL-DUNHAM
LIFE AND LECTURES OF HAHNEMANN BY THOMAS LINDSLEY BRADFORD
HOMEOPATHY A SYSTEM OF THERAPEUTICS BY JOHN WEIR
SAMUEL HAHNEMANN-HIS LIFESTONE BY RICHARD HAEHL MD
WHAT IS HOMEOPATHY BY JT CONQUEST