By now we have heard a lot about
S.A.R.S. Toronto is facing a terrible epidemic. Vancouver has a large
oriental community and S.A.R.S is already in that city. How long until
it becomes pandemic (spanning continents)?
The illness generally begins with a
fever greater than 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit, according to the CDC. The
fever is sometimes associated with chills, headache, malaise, and body
aches. Some also experience mild respiratory symptoms at the outset.
After three to seven days, the person may develop a dry, non-productive
cough that might be accompanied by or progress to the point where
insufficient oxygen is getting to the blood. In 10% to 20% of the cases,
patients will require mechanical ventilation.
Homeopathy has a strong history of high rates of success
in epidemics (highly contagious, rapidly spreading diseases).
Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, the Founder of
Homeopathy, treated 180 cases of Typhus Fever in 1813 and only two of
his patients died. Contrary to his allopathic colleagues which were
experiencing mortality rates of over 30%.
Hahnemann also had huge
success in treating patients in the Cholera epidemic of 1830 in Germany.
In 1854 it struck London and Homeopaths there had similar success
compared to their allopathic counterparts, whose patient losses were
around 50%. Later it was revealed that the Allopaths had a mortality
rate for the epidemic of 59% while the Homeopaths had a mortality rate
of only 9%.
In 1912, it was recorded that out of
6,063 cases of pneumonia treated by allopathic medicine, the death rate
was 29.5%. Homeopaths treated 9,385 cases and their death rate was 3.9%.
(Numbers taken form European and United States hospitals).
I could go on here but the numbers are
all sensibly the same. Homeopathy is the medicine of choice against
infectious diseases, such as S.A.R.S. (a good book to read on this
subject is Dorothy Shepherd's "Homeopathy and Epidemic
Diseases").
It will take at least a year before a
vaccine can be ready for human trials. Homeopathic remedies are readily
available now. The only task that really needs to be accomplished from a
classical homeopathic perspective, requiring far less time, is to
carefully gather the clinical objective and subjective symptoms of the
people who have contracted the disease and, after careful analysis, to
decide which remedy or remedies in the Homeopathic Materia Medica are
most similar to the epidemic. This remedy can be used therapeutically
and prophylactically (prevention), it is called the genius
epidemicus.
Phytopia has created
a special homeopathic remedy kit containing 12 remedies indicated for
specific symptoms of colds, flu, bronchitis, pneumonia, SARS, This
is based on the symptom pictures of each spacific remedy in
the kit.
This kit contains
the following remedies:
Aconite, Apis, Belladonna,
Bryonia, Carbo Veg, Cuprum, Eupatorium perf, Hepar Sulf, Influenzinum,
Phosphorus, Veratrum Veride, Tuberculinum.
For more information about this
kit & to order CLICK
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