Coronavitus COVID-19. A slow recovery? Why not try this remedy.

Most people survive coronavirus COVID-19. Yet recovery can be slow, and just a conventional medicine has no preventative treatment, no treatment for the illness itself, it has no treatment that aids recovery.

Boris Johnson, our British Prime Minister, is one such case. He has been out of hospital now for 10 days now, at the time of writing, and he is still not sufficiently fit to be back at work. That is, apparently not unusual; and it is no reflection on him. Just a reflection on a medical system whose medical cupboard is bare.

For anyone who wants to get better homeopathy is a positive alternative.

Homeopaths has a phrase used often in our repertory of remedies - "not been well since...." I checked it out today for "not been well since influenza; and in the repertory I use there is just one remedy.

Gelsenium

It is a remedy that is known, and is often used, to help people recover from a bad bout of influenza.

Why not check it out? Contact a homeopathic pharmacy and order a bottle of Gelsenium 30c and see it it works for you.

Coronavirus COVID-19 in India & Cuba. Is Homeopathy the answer that the pharmaceutical establishment has to deny?

• Conventional medicine says that coronovirus COVID-19 is a new virus, they are dealing with the unknown, and they have limited knowledge about it,
• The pharmaceutical industry admits it has no treatment, beyond hand washing, social isolation and testing (none of which constitutes treatment),
• Medical science is being paid £$ billions to develop a vaccine, which (we are told by doctors) is ultimately the only answer to the pandemic.

So, is this all there is? Certainly this is all conventional medicine has to offer.

Yet perhaps there is something else going on in the world that conventional medicine can learn and benefit from. After all, conventional medicine always prides itself as being based on medical science. And science always seeks to learn and develop their understanding of what is going on by observing the world.

The answer is yes, there is something that can be observed. But medical science is choosing to ignore it. Indeed, it has been ignoring it now for the best part of the last century, and particularly during the last 20 years. Let's look at what is happening in two countries, India and Cuba.

India
A Microsoft News article (16th April 2020) asked the question "Why does India have so few coronavirus Covid-19 cases and deaths?" As it states,

               "India is four times more populous than the US, but has just 2% the number of cases and only 1.5% of the number of Covid-19 deaths. How has the country, whose per capita income is just a tenth of the US, avoided being flattened by the pandemic?"

Four possible explanations are offered. It might be that the epidemic has started late; that its lockdown has been successful; that it is doing more testing; and that India might have 'protective characteristics' against the virus. Each explanation is systematically rejected in the article, so it fails to answer the question it posed. But as MSN (like most mainstream media platforms) is part and parcel of the conventional medical establishment, it misses one important, and very obvious explanation.

INDIA USES HOMEOPATHY

This fact fails to get even a cursory mention in the MSN article. In India it is estimated that about 100 million people are totally dependent on homeopathic treatment. In the very early stages of the epidemic, the Indian government, and its health agency, AYUSH, announced that it was using a simple, inexpensive homeopathic remedy as preventative to the virus. And it was roundly condemned for doing so by the conventional medical establishment. I mentioned this in a blog written in early March.

Now, at the time of writing, 6 weeks later, this is conveniently ignored. Whilst in the USA 34,641 people have died, representing 105 people per million population; and in Britain 14,476 people have died, representing 215 people per million population; in India just 452 people have died, representing just 0.3 deaths per million population.

• The conventional medical establishment will, of course, trot out all the arguments why such numbers are not relevant, cannot be trusted, and should be dismissed.
• They will not look seriously at the figures to examine, study and test whether homeopathy has played a role - and whether it might be able to play a role in the advanced 'western' world, with its sophisticated, scientifically based medical system.

Cuba
An article (7th April 2020) in the Miami Herald (just across the Caribbean from Cuba) makes a statement: "Cuba promotes homeopathy as an effective ‘weapon’ against the coronavirus". 

               "As scientists around the world speed up clinical trials to find a cure or vaccine for the coronavirus, the Cuban government will begin distributing a homeopathic remedy to the elderly and other vulnerable people to “prevent” the spread of the disease, a top health official said. Dr. Francisco Durán, national director of Epidemiology at the Ministry of Public Health, said in a press conference on Sunday that “sublingual drops” of the compound PrevengHo-Vir “prevent different diseases such as influenza, the common cold, dengue, and emerging viral infections such as this one.”

Homeopathy became popular in Cuba in the 1990's when it could not afford the prohibitively expensive pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines it was using at the time, and so tried homeopathy instead. In particular, it began to treat its annual leptospirosis epidemic, which regularly each year killed hundreds of people. I have blogged about this before, in March 2010, February 2011, May 2011, and December 2016.

Homeopathic treatment for leptospirosis proved to be remarkably successful, and has been used ever since. The Cuban Regulatory Authority, CECMED, said that it had approved a homeopathic remedy to combat the coronavirus COVID-19 epidemic “as an alternative for the prevention of influenza, flu, dengue, and emerging viral infections.” It confirmed that it had previously approved similar homeopathy remedies as a preventative for dengue and cholera, and cited a 2009 World Health Organization resolution, presented by China, that recognizes homeopathy as a component of traditional medicine.

The Miami Herald is presumably a small, local publication which, like all USA mainstream media publications, is controlled by, and part of the pharmaceutical medical establishment. So perhaps quite naturally the rest of its article casts doubt on the use of homeopathy, utilising the usual mantras.

• there is no scientific evidence to support homeopathy,
• the 'controversial' principle of 'like curing like',
• the FDA has not approved any homeopathic remedy for any medical use,
• the National Institutes of Health caution that there is little evidence to support homeopathy as an effective treatment for any specific health condition,
• it quotes local people, clearly opposed to homeopathy - but fails to quote anyone who is in favour.

Cuban statistics provide a picture similar to India. It has registered just 27 deaths, which represents just 2 in every million people.

So in both India and Cuba a decision has been taken to use homeopathic treatment both to prevent and treat coronavirus COVID-19. The response of the pharmaceutical medical establishment, and its scion, medical science, has been to ignore this completely, and where possible to attack it. The result of their non-observation has ensured that their myopic faith in pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines has not been shaken. It demonstrates that conventional medicine has no interest in finding solutions to this pandemic outside their domain, they have taken a decision not to investigate further, they refuse to test the hypothesis that homeopathy might be a viable and useful alternative to having no treatment whatsoever. They make no suggestion that that 'misinformation' coming from India and Cuba might be tested by setting up randomised controlled studies.

Which means, essentially, that conventional medicine, dominated as it is by pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines, is not interested in any kind of medical treatment outside the confines of their own self interest. As I mentioned in a previous blog, our 'scientific' medical system prefers that people die rather than admit that another medical therapy has better, more effective, and considerably less expensive  medical treatment for this epidemic.

It is, after all, an admission that would do irreparable harm to the future of immensely rich and powerful industrial interests.

Addendum 29th April 2020
Facebook Censorship
Homeopathy Plus updated the work being done with homeopathy in India. The article can be found here.

https://homeopathyplus.com/video-indian-police-use-homeopathy/

It is worth reading for its content - but also to indicate that Facebook is censoring this kind of evidence, and that it is in the hands of, and under the control, of the Pharmaceutical Medical Establishment

Homeopathy. Do people like it once they have tried it?

FACEBOOK WILL NOT ALLOW ME TO POST THIS WEBPAGE TO YOU!

CAN YOU SEE WHY?

This is the page that is being censored by Facebook. It can be read in full here 

https://homeopathyplus.com/we-love-homeopathy-because/

When I try to post this message on Facebook this is what I am being told

homeopathyplus.com
Your content couldn't be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards
If you think that this doesn't go against our Community Standards, let us know.

I have let them know that I do not think that this link should 'go against' any standards, and I have indeed let them know this. So far there has been no response.

This is a simple, uncontroversial webpage that has been published by an important homeopathic website. It contains a large number of comments from people who use homeopathy, and found it to be useful and helpful.

• there is no trolling, no hate, no criticism - nothing that any reasonable person should not be able to read.
• Facebook may be opposed to homeopathy, as clearly they are, but not allowing a link to their platform for something as innocent, and innocuous as this, is pure censorship.
• WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT HOMEOPATHY IS POPULAR, THAT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD VALUE IT.

Many other people and organisations are finding that these social media platforms are being subjected to censorship. Facebook is not alone, but it is certainly at the forefront of undermining free speech, and can certainly be considered to be part of the Pharmaceutical Medical Establishment.

It is a growing trend, and I urge anyone who wishes to have their information uncensored to sign up to this, and other websites, that seek to put forward an alternative view on health issues before they become out of reach to you.

Please, look down the left hand column of this website, and click on "Follow".

Homeopathy. Does it work?

This message was removed by Quora!

Can you see why?

Homeopathy does not work

• says a member of the conventional medical establishment!

Apple computers are better than Windows computers

• says the Apple salesman!

This Ford does not work as well as our cars

• says the guy trying to sell us a Toyota (and vice versa)!

This washing powder does not get clothes clean

• says a company producing a rival product!

To ascertain the truth about homeopathy we first have to decide who is sending the message, and then decide why the message is being sent.

Second, most salesmen sell by positively emphasising the quality of their product. 

• So why do conventional medical spokesmen spend so much time rubbishing another medical therapy?
• Why can they never demonstrate their medicine works with patient outcomes?

Third, why is homeopathy still around after over 220+ years?

• without government support? 
• The answer is that it works, patients get better, and come back for more.

And fourth, how much do people who criticise homeopathy know about homeopathy; and have they ever used it?

The message is clearly undermining the propaganda of the pharmaceutical medical establishment - and withdrawing the message shows that Quora (like many parts of the pharma supported media) supports this establishment, and seeks to censor anyone who thinks otherwise.

Coronavirus. COVID-19. The pharmaceutical drugs cupboard is bare. Hydroxychloroquine. Chloroquine

The pharmaceutical drugs cupboard is bare. There is nothing available to treat Coronovirus COVID-19 (beyond washing hands and self-isolating). There has been mention of two drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, but they are not approved for used - perhaps unsurprisingly.

I first noticed how bare the pharmaceutical drugs cupboard was when I wrote my E-book, "Why Homeopathy?" which compares conventional and homeopathic treatment for a large number of serious illnesses and diseases. I was genuinely surprised when I discovered how conventional medicine had little or no effective treatment for many, if not most of these conditions.

The coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic has given further proof of this. The pharmaceutical medical establishment has no preventive treatment, or any treatment for the virus once it has infected an individual. This is why it has caused a such panic, a panic generated by governments who rely on it, and the mainstream media, who unquestioningly pay homage to it.

When someone is infected, all fingers and toes are crossed; help them to breathe; but otherwise just hope that they will pull round in time. That's all there is.

Yet this is conventional medicine. It has a reputation to defend. This is the medical system that tells us that it is defeating disease (even though chronic disease has increased multi-fold since it became dominant in most parts of the world). So it must be seen to be offering something, anything - beyond urging us to wash our hands!

So what about some existing drugs? Perhaps there is something already in the drugs cupboard that will help.

• What about hydroxychloroquine?
• What about chloroquine?

These are two old, tried, tested - and failed malaria drugs, both known to cause some horrendous side effects, leading doctors to be loathe to prescribe them.

Hydroxychloroquine (Paquenil).

The common side effects include: nausea, vomiting, stomach pain or cramps, loss of appetite, weight loss, diarrhoea, dizziness, spinning sensation, headache, ringing in ears, mood changes, nervousness, irritability,skin rash, itching, and hair loss. More seriously it is known to cause muscle eakness, twitching, uncontrolled movement, loss of balance or coordination, blurred vision, light sensitivity, seeing halos around lights, pale skin, easy bruising, bleeding, confusion, unusual thoughts and behaviour, and seizures/convulsions.

Chloroquine (Aralen).
The common side effects include: blurred vision, nausea, vomiting, abdominal/stomach cramps, headache, diarrhoea, hair loss, changes in hair colour, and muscle weakness. More serious the also include mental/mood changes (such as confusion, personality changes, unusual thoughts or behavior, depression), hearing changes, darkening of skin or tissue inside the mouth, worsening of skin conditions, sun sensitivity, signs of serious infection (such as high fever, severe chills, persistent sore throat, unusual tiredness, swelling legs or ankles, shortness of breath, pale lips/nails/skin, signs of liver disease (such as severe stomach or abdominal pain, yellowing eyes or skin, dark urine), easy bruising and bleeding, muscle weakness, unwanted or uncontrolled movements (including tongue and face twitching).

Just what a patient needs whose life is threatened by a potentially deadly type of influenza - more toxicity for their immune system to cope with in a time of crisis!

Yet this is what pharmaceutical medicine does, all the time. They offer us drugs that are known to have serious adverse reactions but telling us only about the (fairly tenuous) benefits, and not the (known and serious) side effects. MIMS have emphatically said that these drugs are NOT approved for the treatment of COVID-19, but this message has not been so readily broadcast, and a cursory search of the internet shows that many people are now desperately looking for these drugs, aware of the 'benefits' but unaware of the dangers.

What is not broadcast at all are the many natural therapies that can protect us from the virus, and treat us if the virus is contracted. Unfortunately, neither governments, health authorities, nor the mainstream media are interested in a 'natural immunity' strategy.

Except, of course, for a small minority of people - in the know!

chloroquine

Coronavirus. COVID-19. Does Natural Medicine have an alternative?

No-one can be in any doubt about the message we are hearing about coronavirus, COVID-19. It is loud, clear, and insistent. This is a killer disease. It threatens everyone. We must all wash our hands. We must self-isolate. We must support the NHS. National governments around the world have determined that they must put our entire way of life, and our economy at risk.

So is there no alternative to the coronavirus panic? What about the natural medical community? Does it have anything to offer? According to the conventional medical establishment, and its political allies in government and the mainstream media, there is no such alternative. TINA rules. We must do what we are told, quite regardless of the personal, social or economic consequences.

Nor is there much chance that anyone who is part of the pharmaceutical medical establishment will want to know about any such alternative. They will fight against it, vigorously, for two reasons.

• First, they know that beyond 'washing your hands' and ventilators, their treatment cupboard is bare. 
• Second, they would not want anyone to know that there is another way of looking at infections, and the threat they represent - it might undermine their monopoly with mainstream health services.

Yet this does not mean there is no alternative! So let me try to trace what strategy might have been put in place - had natural medicine a voice, any voice, any role within the pharmaceutical-dominated mainstream national health systems around the world. Let me muster as much arrogance as I can, and try to speak not only for homeopathy, but for naturopathy, herbalism, acupuncture, and so many more natural therapies.

Natural Medicine and the Immune System
Any natural health strategy would be built on our body's immune system. It is what makes natural medicine different to conventional medicine. This is not only our best defence against infections, it is something pharmaceutical medicine routinely ignores, and on occasions actually tries to undermine.

Our immune system is specifically designed to fight bacterial and viral infections, and it will usually do so if we look after it properly, and support it whenever necessary.

General Advice
There has been nothing particularly wrong with the general advice given to us by conventional medicine establishment during the last 2-3 months - just a bit limited. We should all wash our hands. But there is so much more that should have been done to encourage people to support and maintain their natural immunity:

• good diet and nutrition, including the value of vitamins C and D,
• freedom from unnecessary stress and anxiety, 
• a sensible exercise regime, and good levels of general fitness. 

Natural therapies, in their many forms, always outlined how this is best done. Therapists would have described how we can all help to support our immune system. Every natural therapy would most certainly have stressed that 'natural' immunity was more important to our resistance to this coronavirus, or any other infection, than any pharmaceutical drug or vaccine.

An Infection Incident
Once there was an infection incident like the coronavirus outbreak, natural therapies would have placed even more emphasis on this general advice. Indeed, they have been doing so with their patients. If you have missed the message it is because it has been given no coverage by government, the conventional medicine, or the mainstream media. Their voice has been entirely censored. The wall-to-wall coverage of the pandemic has been monopolised by one system of medicine - that does not value the immune system is quite the same way.

All natural medicine stresses the importance of the immune system, and its message would have been to encourage everyone to improve their diet, to enhance their vitamin levels, to exercise, and keep fit. And this would, of course, have been done in addition to washing their hands!

In addition, each of the natural therapies, such as homeopathy, naturopathy, acupuncture and herbalism, would have been offering their remedies and treatments to anyone who wanted them, or who needed to boost their natural immunity against the infection.

Two things would have arisen by a campaign to boast our natural immunity:

• it would have helped to prevent the number of people who contracted the virus,
• and it would have ensured the virus, if contracted, was in a mild form.

Protection Strategy
The panic that now surrounds COVID-19 has been generated by a medical system, dominated as it is by the drug industry, that has no effective protection or treatment against this, or any other viral or bacterial infection - beyond vaccines of highly questionable effectiveness and safety. As a result, the reaction to the panic has been to place most people in self-isolation, or quarantine.

This would not have been necessary for a medical system that had any level of confidence in its treatment.

Even the media is telling us that COVID-19 is killing very few people who do not have an 'underling health problem'. Natural medicine would have been able to look at this fact, coldly and rationally, and recognise that the virus was not as 'deadly' as we are being told, that the vast majority of people who were dying were actually dying of the  'underlying health conditions', with the infection an added complication.

If natural medicine was in the ascendant it would not have been necessary to place everyone into lock-down - a large proportion of the population would not have been seen to be vulnerable, or in need of special protection measures and self isolation.

Society would not have had to be closed down as it has been. The economy would not have to be placed in jeopardy. This would have had two consequences that would have enable us to take a quite different approach to COVID-19.

• Those who do not have 'underlying health problems' would have benefited from a supported immune system. They would have been allowed to continue working, contributing to the economy, and playing a part in maintaining normal social and economic life. Some of these people would, indeed, catch the virus. But with natural medicine there would have been an element of confidence in the bodies of fit and healthy individuals to either resist the infection, or recover from it. It would have had treatment that would limit the impact of the infection. I have discussed the homeopathic treatment of influenza here (and coronavirus is flu) and compared it with conventional medical treatment.

• Those people who did have 'underlying health problems', and so were more at risk of the infection, would have gone into self-isolation. In addition, these people would be offered the same advice about supporting their immune system, and where necessary receive treatments from homeopaths, herbalists, naturopaths and others. Ultimately, and where necessary, there would be the option of hospitalisation and ventilators.

Avoiding social and economic closure
The closing down of social and economic activity is a direct consequence of our almost total reliance on pharmaceutical medicine, which wants us to believe that immunity comes from a bottle of pills (even when it does not have any pills to offer), or a vaccination.

It does not.

The alternative strategy offered by natural medicine would have meant that only people with 'underlying health conditions' would have to take special care, including self-isolation and quarantine, et al. Otherwise, society would have continued normally.The size of the problem would have been instantly and massively reduced. The closing down of social and economic life would not have been necessary, with all the problems this is going to cause in future months - after this pandemic inevitably closes down.

The fit population, with a fully functioning immune system, could carry on with their normal lives, and help support the support of the most vulnerable.

The role of pharmaceutical medicine is causing the panic
And perhaps another lesson might have been learnt. Many people with 'underlying health problems' will have an opportunity to understand using pharmaceutical drug treatments (for a variety of illnesses and diseases), some of them quite intentionally, have actually undermined their immune systems. If there is anyone reading this who has any doubt about this you only have to look at what conventional medicine does with its 'immuno-suppressant' drugs. Anyone who takes these drugs, whose immune system is suppressed, is more susceptible to infection, including coronavirus COVID-19.

Treatment Options
What are the treatments that are offered by natural medicine? Homeopaths, for example, have been looking at the symptoms of this COVID-19 infection very closely since the earliest days of the outbreak, and a number of remedies have been identified that are known to treat the symptoms. They include Arsenicum Album, Bryonia, Gelsenium and Eupatorium. These, and other remedies, have been used successfully by homeopaths to treat flu-like illnesses (and COVID-19 is a flu-like illness) for a very long time.

The clinical evidence for their effectiveness of these remedies is huge, and a matter of public record. I have listed about 10 studies that vouch for this effectiveness in my "Why Homeopathy?"

Other natural therapies have done the same, and they would have been able to offer these treatments to patients in the same way, providing patients with an alternative, a choice, the opportunity not to panic.

Coronavirus COVID-19. The important questions that aren't being asked

In recent weeks we (in Britain and no doubt in many other parts of the world) have had wall-to-wall, 24/7 coverage of the coronavirus COVIS-19 pandemic.

Yet there are questions that are just not being asked by the mainstream media. The purpose of this short blog is to ask them.

CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE

• Why does pharmaceutical medicine (over 100 years since the Spanish Flu in 1918) still have no treatment for influenza - beyond washing hands, and self-isolation, and putting our economy into lockdown?
• How many people who are now dying of COVID-19 have received the influenza vaccine this year?
• Although COVID-19 does not kill many people directly, mainly those with an 'underlying health condition', how many of these 'underlying conditions' relate to people who are taking immuno-suppressant drugs that intentionally undermine and suppress the immune system?

NATURAL IMMUNITY

• Why is more attention not being paid to the concept and value of 'natural immunity', and what worried people can do to strengthen their natural immunity to this infectious disease?
• Why is more attention not being paid to the importance of diet and nutrition, including the use of vitamin C and vitamin D as a preventative to the pandemic?
• Why is more attention not being paid to the importance of a fit and health exercise regime?

NATURAL MEDICINE

• Why are alternative medical practitioners not being asked to assist in mainstream health services in both the prevention of the pandemic, and its treatment?
• Why is there no mention of alternative therapies, such as homeopathy, naturopathy, herbalism, and many others when practitioners around the world are working hard to protect, and cure their patients. India and Cuba are known to be using homeopathy, why is there not mention of this.
• Why did the Chinese epidemic stop so quickly? It is suggested that China is now using Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and that the use of high doses of vitamin C has become government policy. Why is this never mentioned?
• Why is conventional medicine allowing patients to die, without offering sick patients the opportunity to use alternative medicine? Why is the media not asking whether doctors prefer patients to die rather than to try treatment that is non-conventional?

ECONOMIC LOCKDOWN

• Why is the complete social and economic lockdown been deemed to be necessary? Countries like Sweden has not imposed a complete lockdown, how are they faring with the virus, and how is this assisting their economy?
• Why has the pandemic centred on wealthier nations, with a more developed (pharmaceutical dominated) medical system? Why have most poorer countries not had so many cases, or so many deaths?
• There are suggestions that the pandemic centres on areas where 5G has already been rolled out. Why has this not been discussed? And why is mainstream media seeking to close down discussion on any potential link?

The mainstream media is telling us that they rely on 'expert' advice. The government says it bases its policies on 'expert advice' too. The problem is that all the 'experts' who are being consulted come from the pharmaceutical medical establishment. And even if government, and the media, were to ask these 'awkward' questions they would probably receive no satisfactory answer.