Remedies, Remedies, Everywhere!

In the search for a COVID-19 preventative and treatment, it only takes a quick look on the internet to see a number of
homeopathic remedies have been suggested.

Arsenicum, for example, is recommended by the AYUSH branch of the Indian government, Camphora and Phosphorus
by doctors treating COVID-19 patients in Iran, Coca because COVID-19 symptoms look a lot like the those of high-altitude
sickness, and the combination remedy PrevengHo®Vir by the Cuban government because of its effectiveness during the
Influenza A (H1N1) epidemic.
Numerous other remedies such as Gelsemium sempervirens, Carbo vegetabilis, and Phosphoricum acidum have also been
recommended.

With so much homeopathic information on offer, what should we pay attention to?

That information which shows a clear relationship between remedy and symptoms at the time the person presents for
treatment.

How Homeopathy Works

Homeopathy is a symptom-based approach to treatment.

It treats the presenting symptoms of an individual rather than the masses according to their named disease.

The underpinning tenet of homeopathy is that there has to be a symptom-similarity between disease and remedy before a
self-healing response from the body can be stimulated.

Explained differently, the remedy has to mimic or duplicate the symptoms of the unwell person before a ‘like treats like’
reaction takes place.

(A more detailed explanation of homeopathy and its treatment effects is available in the tutorial section of this website.)
Knowing this, and knowing that COVID-19 produces different symptoms at different stages in different people, it becomes
clear that one remedy won’t suit all.

Any one from a number may be needed depending on what symptoms are present when treatment is sought.

COVID-19 Symptoms
Our understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and the nature of the COVID-19 disease produced by it, is still developing but it
is now clear that we are looking at much more than just a respiratory virus.

As well as the lungs, SARS-CoV-2 has the ability to affect other organs, especially those rich in ACE2 receptors.

Those include the brain, eyes, heart and blood vessels, liver, kidneys, intestines, as well as the back of the nose and the
base of the lungs.

This multi-organ effect produces a diverse range of mild to serious symptoms, not all of which are experienced by one
person at the same time: fever; night sweats; dry cough; frothy pink mucus; chest heaviness; difficulty in breathing;
thromboses and emboli (clots); brain inflammation and resulting injury; stroke; seizures; confusion; discolouration of
fingers and toes; heart arrythmias (irregular pulses); heart inflammation and swelling; cardiac arrest; depression; weakness
and collapse; headache; body aches; loss of smell and taste; bitterness of taste; abdominal pain and diarrhoea; kidney
injury and failure, and conjunctivitis (pinkeye).

That’s a lot of symptoms being experienced and, with homeopathy being a symptom-based approach to treatment, it
explains why so many remedies have been suggested.
For a breakdown of medical information on this virus, see: How does coronavirus kill? Clinicians trace a ferocious rampage
through the body, from brain to toes.

Re
medies for Symptoms
While homeopaths typically choose remedies for individuals and their unique symptoms, a small group of remedies,
especially for infectious or epidemic diseases, always emerge as being better than others for the particular problem.

The following reportorial chart, which lists key COVID-19 symptoms and corresponding remedies for those symptoms,
shows what this looks like.
Potential COVID-19 symptoms are listed on the left-hand side of the chart while matching remedies are displayed on the
top of the right-hand side.

The numbers under each remedy indicates how strongly that remedy relates to each symptom – 1 indicating a minor
relationship, 3 indicating a strong relationship.

From the homeopathic perspective this type of chart is a start but further information is needed to increase the accuracy of
any remedy displayed on the chart.

For example, good homeopathic prescriptions are made when the context in which the symptom occurred is known, the
location and nature of each symptom is understood, and factors which either improve or worsen each symptom have been
identified.

That sort of information is not readily available from current medical reports.

When Will Information Become Clearer?

At the moment, isolation measures and ICU requirements means that COVID-19 treatment has largely been in the hands of
orthodox medicine – homeopaths have had little access to those infected.

If orthodox medicine, for the sake of those they are treating, opt for greater collaboration with homeopaths the way will be
open to quickly and safely test which remedies will produce the best results for various symptom sets.

Hopefully that information will soon emerge from countries such as Cuba and India where greater governmental support
for homeopathy exists.

In the meantime, homeopathy remains the ‘medicine of the people’ which allows anyone and everyone to apply at their
choosing for themselves.