The international economic response to the Covid 19 pandemic has been good but the medical response has been poor. People have been denied options for alternative treatments because the main expertise is in pharmaceutical medicine. An awful lot of people and organisations need to be held to account because the whole episode has been mismanaged from a health perspective.
I am not questioning the efforts of doctors to help others: it is not their fault that the system that employs them is so single track, and nor are they responsible for the poor actions of a minority of orthodox practitioners. But there are many well researched alternatives to treat the symptoms of Covid 19 which are being sidelined in favour of hastily tested and sometimes harmful drugs.
This post reports the findings of two key academic studies of real life homeopathic treatments of Covid 19, and lists the most frequently used homeopathic remedies for tackling the symptoms of Covid 19 in India and Italy.
Which homeopathic treatments are being used and which symptoms of Covid 19 are they being used to treat?
Bipin Jethani et al examined the clinical characteristics and remedy profiles of patients with Covid 19 in a retrospective cohort study. Link to summary article https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33567460/
In the study, confirmed COVID-19 patients admitted at a COVID Health Centre in New Delhi between April 29 and June 17, 2020 were given conventional and homeopathic treatment. "Patients were grouped into mild, moderate or severe categories of disease. Their symptomatologic profiles were analyzed to identify indicated homeopathic medicines".
The study found that Arsenicum album, Bryonia alba, Pulsatilla nigricans, Nux vomica, Rhus toxicodendron and Gelsemium sempervirens were the most frequently indicated homeopathic medicines for the treatment of Covid 19.
The symptoms treated were fever (43.4%), cough (47.4%), sore throat (29.6%), headache (18.4%), myalgia (17.9%), fatigue (16.8%), chest discomfort (13.8%), chills (12.6%), shortness of breath (11.2%) and loss of taste (10.2%).
A second study from Italy found these medicines were prescribed
A study of 50 cases involving 20 registered homeopathic practitioners, demonstrating the effective use of alternative treatments to address symptoms of Covid 19 in the community and avoid the need for hospitalisation, found that the following were prescribed (in order of frequency):
Bryonia alba (21 times); Arsenicum Album (16 times); Phosphorus flavus(9 times); Atropa belladonna (6 times); Antimonium tartaricum (6 times); Eupatorium perfoliatum (4 times); Phosphoricum acidum (3 times); unspecified patient's basic remedy (3 times); Lycopodium clavatum(3 times); Sulphur (3 times); Hepar sulphur. (2 times); Kalium phosphoricum (2 times); Gelsemium sempervirens(2 times); Mercurius solubilis, Chelidomum majus, Spigelia anthelmia, Solanum dulcamara, Psorinum, Spongia tosta, Ferrum phosphoricum, Ruta graveolens, Causticum hahnemanni, Thuya occidentalis, streptococcinum, Ignatia amara (once each).
Full study here https://corkhomeopathyclinic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/SymptomaticCOVID-19patientstreatedbyhomeopathicitalianphysicians_2020_04_13_1.pdf
Effectiveness
The Italian study concluded that "the COVID-19 disease is extremely complex, so it is essential to combine the contributions of different medicines to increase clinical results, as is beginning to be demonstrated by the integration of allopathic medicine with traditional Chinese medicine"
"Treatment practice of COVID-19 showed that early intervention of TCM is important way to improve cure rate, shorten the course of disease, delay disease progression and reduce mortality
rate". https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7128263/
Outcome
Of the 50 cases studied all 50 patients symptoms were relieved to the point that none need to be hopitalised.
