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------------- Kim Kalina -----------------------------------------
Dr. Bhatia,
I am very interested in why you keep thinking that people with
SARS exhibit gastric symptoms - I have spoken to the clinicians
at the CDC about the numerous suspected probable cases and they
do not see these symptoms you describe. I have not encountered that
at all either. Please advise on where that info is coming from.
To add my most recent discovery, after I suffered a brief relapse
this past week I discovered that the remedy for the relapsing state
of SARS is Bryonia, which in fact makes a lot of sense since it
is the premier remedy of the Typhoid Miasm. This illness, in my
estimation, definitely fits Sankaran's picture of Typhoid miasm
- "the "subacute" miasm between the acute and the
psoric miasms. Typhoid has a prolonged prodrome with a feeling of
malaise, days before the temperature rises significantly. Typhoid
has both the acute features as well as slowness. It is an intense
struggle in which there is an acute threat from outside - the response
is not just instinctive but has the component of a struggle. The
feeling is that of a critical situation, which if properly handled
for a critical period, will end in total recovery." I also
wish to share that I am not a person who has ever taken a 10M of
any remedy, but I find that in this illness it has taken multiple
doses of very high potencies to eradicate. I would guess, therefore,
that that need for very high potencies is part of the disease itself,
since it is not common to me. I hope that this info is helpful to
anyone attempting treatment of SARS.
Kim Kalina, CCH, RSHom (NA)
USA
------------ Dr. B's Reply ---------------------------------------
Hi Kim,
I have nowhere written that all cases of SARS show gastric symptoms.
When I replied to Dr. Kamal's query regarding this, all I said was
yes in later stages SARS patients do show gastric symptoms like
nausea and diarrhea. This information has not come from my brain.
The source of this information has been the net. Nearly every site
which lists the symptoms of SARS in detail, list loss of appetite,
malaise, nausea, diarrhea, and gastrointestinal disorder among the
signs and symptoms. Even WHO site lists these. I have not dreamt
this information. And you wont see these symptoms in suspected
probable cases (your words) as they are known to occur in later
stages. There has not been any confirmed case of SARS here in India
as yet. Even when we get one, I do not think I will get to treat
such a case (if it is prediagnosed) because of all the political
ho-hala and scare of epidemic. So my information remains indirect
but well-confirmed from more than one source.
Regarding your own case. Again the diagnosis was never confirmed
in your case. I have seen numerous cases of influenza with marked
weakness and dyspnoea, often needing carbo veg. I do not say that
you did not get SARS but I cant say 'you did get' either. That would
be presumptuous. Bryonia of course can play a useful role. It did
come up in the initial analysis and is listed among the second stage
remedy group. I will leave the interpretation of your analysis about
Typhoid miasm open for others. Nearly every homeopath has his/her
own different understanding of the theory of miasms, so I would
refrain from making such a general analysis myself. But I would
like to hear from others too regarding their understanding of the
miasm behind this illness.
I invite further comments on this.
Dr. Manish Bhatia
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