HOMOEOPATHY FOR COVID-19

INTIAL STAGE (MILD CASES)

ACONITUM NAPELLUS

Sudden onset.  Anxiety, restlessness, excitement with dryness of mouth and thirst. Skin is dry and hot. Fear of death. Dry cough. Left side chest pain, worse lying on left side. Profuse sweat, wants to uncover. Fever with thirst.

BAPTISIA TINCTORIA

Sudden onset of high fever. Pains and soreness all over the body. Profound prostration. Chilly with soreness of body. Diarrhea with fever.

BELLADONNA

High temperature.  Dry heat, externally hot. Burning, pungent, steaming heat. Delirium.  Forehead hot, feet cold, Sweat on affected part. No thirst with fever.

BRYONIA ALB

Fever. Dry cough, stitching pain in chest. Great thirst, thirst for large quantities of water. Joint pains. Irritable, wants to lie quiet. Vertigo. Easy, profuse perspiration. Sweat sour or oily after slight exertion.

EUPATORIUM PERFOLIATUM

Fever with severe bone pains.  Great soreness and aching of bones. Thirst before chill; chills with thirst; along with backache, wants to be covered. Drinking causes nausea. Bitter vomiting at the end of chill. Sweaty scanty. Sweat, relieves all the symptoms, except the headache.

FERRUM PHOSPHORICUM

For first stage of all catarrhal and inflammatory fevers. Throbbing headache with sensitive scalp and earache. Chills with desire to stretch. Dry cough. Heat with sweaty hands.

GELSEMIUM SEMPERVENS

Fever with dullness, drowsiness and dizziness. Chills up and down back, wants to be covered. Wants to lie still. Great weakness. No thirst. Fever with muscular soreness, great prostration and headache.

HEPAR SULPUR

Catarrhal fever with ear, nose and throat complaints. Chilliness.  Chilly in open air or slightest draught. Thirstlessness during chill, thirst during heat. Throat pain better by warmth. Profuse sweat, sour, sticky, and offensive.

IPECACUANHA

Gastric symptoms predominate in chill in fever. Cold hands and feet; one hand cold, other hand hot. Thirstlessness with chills. Nausea and salivation. Breathlessness and dry cough causing nausea and vomiting. Clean tongue, not coated.

PULSATILLA NIGRICANS

Catarrhal fever with snuffles. Internally feels feverish, externally imperceptible. Chilliness without thirst.  Thirst with heat, wants to be covered in heat stage. External heat is intolerable, veins are distended.  Ever changing symptoms. Coated tongue, with slimy bitter taste.

RHUS TOXICODENDRON

Fever with muscular pain. Great restlessness. Muscle stiffness, better from motion. Dry cough before chill. Thirst for water. Triangular red tip tongue. Heat rashes, urticaria.

 

SEVERE CASES

 

ANTIMONIUM ARSENICOSUM

Catarrhal pneumonia. Dyspnea with excessive secretion. Wheezing. Worse on eating or lying down.   Rales and crepitations in chest. Especially in climacteric and old people. Comorbidities of heart. Weakness and restlessness. Coated tongue with thirst.

ARSENIC ALBUM

Great anxiety, restlessness. Great prostration. Dry burning heat with desire of cold water; wants to be uncovered during heat stage. Heat stage predominant. Chill and heat alternate. Difficulty in breathing, wheezing, worse lying down. Shortness of breath, must sit up. Pain in the right upper side of lung. Thirst for small quantities of water at frequent intervals. Water taste bitter. Complaints worse after midnight.

BROMIUM

Prolonged cold and cough, worse by heat, summer. Base of lung, especially right lower lobe is affected. Cough morning, worse open air, better by drinking. Dry cough during heat. Loose cough, worse by exertion and warmth. Cough with hoarseness, burning pain behind the sternum. Cough with rattling of mucus in larynx. Wants to take deep breath, but it excites cough.

CHELIDONIUM MAJUS

Pneumonia with liver and renal complications. Useful in early and late stages of pneumonia. Right lower lobe is affected. Cough loose, rattling, expectoration difficult or it flies from mouth.   Pain lower angle of scapula. Hemoptysis with dark colored expectoration. Tongue yellow with imprint of teeth, large and flabby. Yellowish tinged skin.

JUSTICIA ADHATODA

Paroxysmal cough, with suffocative obstruction of respiration. Cough with sneezing. Severe dyspnea with cough. Tightness across chest. Hoarseness, larynx painful.

KALI CARBONICONICUM

Dry, hard cough, about 3 am, with stitching pain in chest, worse by lying down have to sit upright.  Salty expectoration and cough with involuntary urination. Anxiety felt in chest, stomach, better sitting at elbow and knee. Profuse sweat on slightest exertion. Worse at 2-3 am, lying on painful side or left side, sudden motion. Consider after Belladonna and Bryonia.

LYCOPODIUM CLAVATUM

Neglected or unresolved pneumonia with great dyspnea.  Right lower lobe is affected. Cough, with profuse greenish or blood-streaked sputum. Breathlessness.  Frown on forehead and flapping of alae nasi. Flatulent abdomen. Desire for hot food and drinks.

PHOSPHORUS

Fast paced disease, sometimes within 24 hours. Reddish flush on face and patient more active initially, later on exhausted. Pneumonia of left lower lung. Pneumonia with oppression, worse lying on left side.  Cough with rawness of chest. Hemoptysis by 2^nd or 3^rd day, bright red blood. Constriction of larynx. Worse lying on left side, better lying on right side. Paroxysms of 2-3 cough, worse lying down, has to hold the abdomen. Better by warm applications. Chills begin from back. Fever at night with sweat. Burning heat. Restlessness with thirst. Chilly patient. Desire for cold drinks and juice.

SENEGA

Rattling in chest. Sticky thick expectoration with wheezing. Rattling in chest, difficulty in raising sputum, especially in cases of emphysematous and COPD patients. Violent cough, hyperesthesia of chest.  Cough often ends in sneezing. Exudations in pleura. Worse lying on right side. Dryness in throat and chest. Consider after Bryonia stage.

VERATRUM ALBUM

Initial or last stages of pneumonia. Rattling cough. Difficulty in breathing. Tickling in chest in middle of sternum. Cold sweat on forehead. Very anxious.

EMERGENCY CASES WITH LOW SpO2

 

ASPIDOSPERMA

The digitalis of lungs. It stimulates the respiratory centers and increases the oxygen in blood. Want of breath during exertion.

ANTIMONIUM TARTARICUM

Great rattling of mucus, but unable to expectorate. Feels as if would suffocate, must sit up.  Flapping of ale nasi. Cold sweat. Cyanosis. Loss of appetite and nausea. Better lying on right side, by eructation’s and expectoration.

CARBO VEGETABILIS

Remedy for last stage, ‘death reviver’. Complicated pneumonia with multiple infections, especially in old age. Offensive sputum. Cyanotic, blue, pinched appearance. Icy cold sweat. Air hunger, gasping for breath. Wants sips of cold water.

CARBONEUM OXYGENISATUM

When Carbo veg fails. Patient goes into          unconsciousness. Sense of suffocation with rattling of mucus. Respiratory rate slow. Great coldness of surface, hands icy cold.

HYDROCYANIC ACID

Pneumonia with sudden collapse. Breathing slow irregular, gasping. Noisy and agitated breathing. Coldness, cyanosis, weak pulse. Comatose conditions.

OPIUM

Stertorous respiration. Rattling in chest during sleep. Cough with dyspnea and blue face with bloody expectoration.  Redness of face with swelling. Eyes and mouth half open. Comatose. Involuntary urination and stools.

 

POST- COVID -19 SYNDROME

Most people who have COVID-19 disease recover completely within a few weeks. But some people, corona virus can cause symptoms that can last weeks or months after the indication has gone. This is sometimes called post-COVID -19 syndrome or ‘long COVID’. The virus can damage the lungs, heart and brain, which increases the risk of long-term health problems.

Older people and people with many serious medical conditions are most likely to experience lingering COVID -19 symptoms, but even young, otherwise healthy people can feel unwell for weeks to months after infection. Common signs and symptoms that linger over time include:

·       Fatigue

·       Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing

·       Cough

·       Joint pain

·       Chest pain

·       Problems with memory and concentration

·       Sleep problems, insomnia

·       Muscle pain or headache

·       Tinnitus, earache

·       Fast or pounding heartbeat

·       Loss of smell or taste

·       Depression or anxiety

·       Fever

·       Dizziness on standing

·       Rashes

·       Worsened symptoms after physical or mental activities

 

HOMOEOPATHY MEDICINES

WEAKNESS

ALSTONIA SCHOLARIS

A tonic after exhausting fevers. Fever with diarrhea, dysentery. Weak digestion. Gone sensation in stomach and sinking in abdomen, with debility.

AVENA SATIVA

Best tonic for debility after exhausting diseases. Nervous exhaustion, sexual debility. Insomnia.

AVIARE

Loss of strength and appetite. Influenzal bronchitis. Diminishes cough. Improves appetite.

CHININUM ARSENIS

Great weakness. Weariness and prostration. A general tonic.

GENTIANA LUTEA

A tonic. Increasing appetite.

LATHYRUS SATIVUS

Weakness and heaviness, slow recovery of nerve power after influenza, and wasting and exhausting diseases.

PHOSPHORIC ACID

Weakness and debility. Mental debility first, later physical. Slowness of mind and special senses.

SARCOLACTIC ACID

Severe prostration after influenza. Tired feeling in morning on getting up. Muscular prostration. Sore feeling all over, worse in afternoon. Tired feeling in back and neck and shoulders. Arms feel as if no strength in them. Nausea. Uncontrollable vomiting even of water followed by extreme weakness.

HEART COMPLAINTS

 

ADONIS VERNALIS

A heart medicine after influenza. Low vitality, with weak heart and slow, weak pulse. Cardiac asthma. Frequent desire to take a long breath. Weight on chest. Cardiac dropsy. Faint feeling in epigastrium. Restless sleep.

IBERIS AMARA

Cardiac dropsy after influenza. Palpitation with vertigo and choking in throat. Violent palpitation induced by slightest exertion, or by laughing, or coughing. Wakes with palpitation about 2 am.  Conscious of heart’s action. Stitching pain as of needles through ventricles felt as each systole. Tachycardia. Cardiac dyspnea.

 

LOW SpO2

ASPIDOSPERMA

Removes temporary obstruction to the oxidation of blood by stimulating respiratory centers, increasing oxidation and excretion of carbonic acid. It stimulates the respiratory centers and increases the oxygen in the blood. Want of breath during exertion.

 

LUNGS

 

ANTIMONIUM ARSENICOSUM

Pneumonia associated with influenza. Emphysema with excessive dyspnea and cough, much mucus secretion. Cough is worse by eating and on lying down. Pleurisy, especially of left side with exudation and pericarditis with effusion.

BERYLLIUM METALLICIUM

Lung fibrosis. Respiration painful, aggravated by movement. Cough deep, dry, painful, aggravated by bending backwards. Sputum streaked with blood. Cyanosis, cough accelerating the respiratory rhythm. Cough aggravated by smoke, improved in a very warm room.

CHINNIUM ARSENIC

Asthmatic breathing on ascending. Breathing unsatisfactory, wants more air than can take into lungs. Suffocative attacks beginning in morning and lasting till noon. Great weakness.

KALI IODIDE

Whistling asthmatic breathing. Violent cough, worse in morning. Expectoration like soap suds, greenish. Pneumonia when hepatization commences. Stitching pains through lungs to back. Dyspnea on ascending with pain in heart. Pleuritic effusion. Cold travels downward to chest.

KALI SULPHURICUM

Post-influenza cough. Rattling of mucus in chest. Yellow slimy expectoration. Cough worse in evening, and in hot atmosphere.

THIOSINAMINUM

Lung fibrosis. It is a powerful dissolvent. Dissolves strictures, adhesions etc. Accelerated respiration.

SHORTNESS OF BREATH

ASPIDOSPERMA

Removes temporary obstruction to the oxidation of blood by stimulating respiratory centers, increasing oxidation and excretion of carbonic acid. It stimulates the respiratory centers and increases the oxygen in the blood. Want of breath during exertion.

CARBO VEGETABILIS

Never fully recovered from the exhausting effects of previous illness. Imperfect oxidation. Respiratory symptoms are better from fanning. Weak digestion. Simplest food disagrees. Accumulation of gas in stomach and intestines. Better from eructation. Cold sweat, cold breath, cold tongue, cold tongue.

CHININUM ARSENIC

Circulatory weakness after acute infections. Shortness of breath on ascending. Early myocardial degeneration. Must have open air. Coldness of hands, and feet, knees and limbs. Asthmatic attack with great prostration.

LOBELIA SYPHILITICA

Great oppression in lower part of chest, as if air could not reach there. Dry hawking cough. Pain in chest under short ribs of left side. Posterior nares affected.

 

MEMORY AND CONCENTRATION

AVENA SATIVA

Nervous exhaustion. Inability to keep mind on one subject. Insomnia. A tonic for debility after exhausting diseases.

KALI PHOSPHORICA

Nervous prostration. Lack of nerve power, neurasthenia, mental and physical depression. Indisposition to meet people. Brain-fag. Forgetful. Loss of memory. Sleeplessness. Slightest labor seems a heavy task.

SCUTELARIA

Nervous weakness after flu. A nervous sedative. Nervous fear. Confusion of mind. Apathy. Inability to study or fix the attention of one’s work. Cardiac irritability. Twitching of muscles. Restlessness. Sleeplessness.

MUSCLE PAIN

LATHYRUS SATIVUS

After influenza, and wasting, exhausting diseases. Weakness and heaviness of limbs. Slow recovery of nerve power. Sleeplessness.

SARCOLACTIC ACID

Tired feeling in morning on getting up. Tired feeling in back and neck and shoulders. Arms feel as if no strength in them. Epidemic influenza, especially with violent and retching and greatest prostration. Tried when Arsenic alb fails.

SOLANUM LYCOPERSICUM

Muscular pains left after influenza. Sharp pain in right deltoid and pectoralis muscles. Intense aching in lower limbs. Tingling along the right ulnar nerve.

SMELL& TASTE

CAROLICUM ACIDUM

Smell very acute. Influenza and resulting debility.

MAGNESIUM MURIATICA

Loss of smell and taste, following catarrh. Must breathe through mouth. Constipation. Stools knotty, like sheep’s dung, crumbling at the verge of anus.