SARS, Pneumonia Symptoms, Cure, Cause, Treatment, Homeopathy

-------------- Kim Kalina -----------------------------------------

I am a homeopath in NJ (USA) who recently recovered from probable SARS. I can't honestly agree with most of the remedies you have listed in your write-up; they simply do not address the core issue of SARS - the inability to breathe. It took me multiple doses of Carb-V 10M to recover over a period of 2 weeks, but I wouldn't have made it through without it. Having experienced it I can honestly say that the remedies, as a group, that will be curative are severe (life-threatening) asthma remedies. I also suspect ailments from vaccination remedies, as I believe this came from a mutated form of a live-virus Corona vaccine for animals (Asia is one of the few areas where they use live virus Corona vaccines - they are killed vaccines here, and live-virus vaccines are known to "jump" to other hosts and mutate). Aconite and Ars, possibly Phos may be helpful, but remedies like Carb-V and Spongia, Thuja, etc are the remedies I found most helpful and fit the pattern of this disease. I will be writing up an article about my experience for Homeopathy Today, but I hope you find this info helpful now for others who may be afflicted. Sincerely,Kim Kalina, CCH, RSHom (NA)

Greetings from a homeopath from your neighboring country for hosting an excellent website on homeopathy. I have gone through your article on SARS. It's nice. But I cannot make it out how have you reached to Chelidonium M as the prophylaxis of SARS! Do the symptoms of SARS, at least at the 1st stage of infection, correspond to Chelid's picture? Could you throw some light on your selection of SARS' prophylaxis?

Thanks Kim, kamal, and everyone else for all those replies, inputs, objections, and suggestions. First of all I would like to point to two useful threads related to this subject.

Many people have asked about the choice of Chelidonium as a prophylactic, so I will elaborate on this one first. When we select a prophylatic for a condition, the selected remedy should -

-- should be deep acting enough to create an artificial state powerful enough to work as prophylatic.

Now, while there are many medicines that can cover the common symptoms of SARS, there are not many which cover all the four criteria. For eg., Aconite covers the symptoms in the initial stages very well, but it is not deep acting enough to work as a prophylactic. The factor which tilted the scale in favour of chelidonium is that I found it to be the only medicine covering the social mental state at present. The state is that of Fear, and specifically Fear of Pneumonia. Chelidonium is the only medicine to have this (fear of pneumonia - Kent, Phatak). Since it covers all other common symptoms too, it was my natural choice as a prophylactic. In other stages also you will notice that the medicines which are coming up high have lot of 'fear' in general. Aconite, Arsenic, Natrum sulph, Phosphorus are all fearful remedies, with lot of anxiety, fear of disease etc.

--->> I must add a note here that the medicines were not selected on the basis of fear but on the basis of signs and symptoms of existing cases. It was only appreciated later that the remedies have something more in common - the element of fear and anxiety. Even chelidonium came up in the list by the virtue of its covering the physical symptoms. Only later it was picked up as a prophylactic because of the specific fear it covers.<<---

I still believe Aconite will hold the key in first stage, Natrum-sulph in second, and Crotalus in third. I will add Chelidonium in the second stage too. The medicines for third stage will be required by only 10-15% of all SARS cases as only this much percent of cases do not show spontaneous improvement by 7th day and start progressing towards respiratory failure.

Many homeopaths have raised the issue of general vaccine damage, or vaccine causing mutation. One thing I would like to share is that though scientists have isolated coronavirus and paramyxovirus from SARS patients, they have not confirmed them as causative as yet. Many of these viruses are found in our naso-pharynx in health too and scientists are still probing the hypothesis that this new form of disease has flared up due to a chance co-habitation of two viruses. It means that it is possible that disease has taken its current form due to simultaneous infection by two viruses. So, I still have my reservations regarding vaccine theory. But as kim has suggested the effect of live-vaccines, it may be possible that such use of vaccine may have originally resulted in this simultaneous infection.