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.