Homeopathy stands out in dealing with flu
An article by
Dr Asghar Ali Shah
Homeopathic Physician
Published in The News International on October 12, 2009
The 1918 flu pandemic killed from 50 to 100 million people. About 500 million people, one third of the world’s population at that time, became infected.
Homeopathy was very successful in dealing with the flu pandemic proving its superiority over the conventional medicines. The famous historian Julian Winston writes that perhaps the most recent use of homeopathy in major epidemic was during the influenza pandemic of 1918.
The journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, May 1921, had a detailed article about the use f homeopathy in the flu epidemic. Dr T A McCann, from Dayton, Ohio, reported that 24000 cases of flu treated allopathically had a morality rate of 28.2% while 26000 cases of flu treated homeopathically had a morality rate of 1.05%. This last figure was supported by W A Pearson of Philadelphia who collected 26795 cases of flu treated with homeopathy with the above result.
Swine flu (H1N1) is a viral infection that affects the respiratory tract of pigs. It causes regular outbreaks of influenza in swine throughout the year. Swine flu was first proposed to be a disease related to human influenza during 1918 flu pandemic.
Transmission of the virus from the pigs to humans is not common and whenever it does transmit it usually produces antibodies in the human blood. However in some cases it leads to human influenza.
Symptoms to zoonotic swine flu in humans are similar to those of influenza and of influenza-like illness in general, namely chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, weakness and general discomfort, muscle aches.
The victims of influenza general include those who are at 65 or above, chronic health patient women and young children. In the past during flu pandemics most people who succumbed to the disease were healthy young adults.
Complications of swine flu can include pneumonia, bronchitis, sinus infections, ear infections and death. Precautionary measure for the swine flu include:
*Cover your nose and mouth when you cough and sneeze.
*Throw the trash after using it.
*Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough and sneeze. You can also use alcohol based hand cleaners.
*Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or your mouth. Germs spread this way.
*Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
*Stay home if you’re sick.
There’re fears that swine flu will become major global pandemic. Many countries are planning for major vaccination campaigns. US is testing swine flu vaccine on children and adults. However swine flu vaccine has rise concerns among the people across the world. According to a survey one third of british nurses refused to take swine flu vaccine because of its possible side effects.
The swine flu vaccine contains mercury compounds, which can cause autism in children. Even the scientists who have helped in making the vaccine are reported to have discouraged their family and friends from taking the vaccine. Some companies or groups of people, who have pharmaceutical business, claim that 2009 flu outbreak in humans is due to new strain of influenza a virus, subtype H1N1. It can easily transfer from human to human.
In most cases strains cause only mild symptoms and the infected persons make a full recovery without requiring medical attention and without the use of antiviral medicine.
As the threat of swine flu pandemic is looming large over the world the homeopathic medical community has come together to provide information about the homeopathic treatment f swine flu symptoms.
In homeopathy there’s a concept called genus epidemic. This means if there is an epidemic and you take the symptoms of say 15 ailing people of an area, you will notice a common trend there may be different curative medications for different cases of swine flu.
In Brazil the homeopathic doctors community has collected data on the symptoms of swine flu and homeopathic treatments for the symptoms.
When Japanese encephalitis hit andhra pradesh 10 years ago the government of india distributed among children one million doses of homeopathic medicine that proved effective bulwark against the disease.
