LIGA MEDICORUM HOMEOPATHICA INTERNATIONALIS H1N1 FLU 2009

Dear homeopathic colleagues:

Since the outbreak of H1N1, all national and international health

organizations, governments and the worldwide population have been

concerned about the progress of this disease.

We all know that homeopathy offers a good alternative to the standard

treatments by university medicine.

The LMHI gathered the already documented experience of our

Mexican colleagues in the treatment of H1N1 and wants to

disseminate this information. In this way

The LMHI fulfills its mission to participate actively in maintaining and

improving the health of human beings.

With this first bulletin on H1N1, LMHI wishes to contribute to the

application of homeopathic medicines in this pandemic.

Best wishes

Dr.Corrado Bruno                         Dr.José Matuk

Past-President LMHI                    Prime Vice President LMHI

The H1N1 flu is a respiratory infection caused by a strain of influenza virus of

the type A, which normally causes outbreaks of influenza in pigs. The disease

affects pigs almost exclusively, however, a new strain of virus, derived, in part

from the human influenza virus, and, in part, from the pig influenza virus, has

been demonstrated to be transmissible to humans and, worse, from human

being to human being. Another concern that has arisen is the serious form of

disease and, because of the high mortality rate of this strain of virus and of its

capacity to be transmitted between humans, there is the concern that the H1N1

flu could become a global pandemic.

The H1N1 flu epidemic has spread rapidly in the past weeks. The World Health

Organization increased the level of global pandemic alert from level 4 to level 5,

which means that, even if the majority of the countries has not been affected

yet, there are strong signs that a pandemic is imminent and that the time to

organize a contingency plan is short. The increase in alert level indicates that

the probability of an emergence of a global H1N1 influenza pandemic has

grown during the last weeks.

It should be noted that there are reports of cases of influenza caused by other

viruses which are not the H1N1. They must be distinguished from the epidemic

of human influenza as they present different behaviors. The human influenza

has a sudden appearance that evolves more quickly toward pneumonia, with

severe attack on the general state of the patient. On a parallel level, there are

many cases that do not correspond to human influenza, or to seasonal

influenza. They represent rather common colds that have no connection with

influenza.

At present the homeopathic colleagues of Mexico have been able to identify

indirectly, by the written reports of doctors in hospitals, the following

symptoms:

• Fever

     Proceeded by 40% great chills

   
Persistent fever between 38.5 °C (101.3°F) to 39.4 °C (102.9°F)

                 accompanied by fresh diaphoresis on the back, face and neck

• Generalized weakness, adynamia without extreme prostration
• profuse sweating during fever
•  Sore throat

     Severe

     Pain by intake of solid initially and then even liquids

•  Scarce cough

     Non painful

     Dry

   
In attacks

•  Constant arthralgias in the hands, elbows and shoulders at the febrile

                   peak

     Cold Applications amel

•  Retroocular headache or eyeballs pain ("My eyes hurt")

     With rest amel

•  Occipital and neck headache aggravated by being raised on a pillow
•  Some patients with occipital pain of throbbing type

                   Complications:

•  Pneumonia with infiltrated interstitial or multiple pockets

      Productive cough with yellowish expectoration

                    Between 48 and 72 hours the medical situation has developed or has become

                    complicated. The symptoms are vague and have limited clinic homeopathy

application, but, as the symptoms were obtained directly from a significant

number of H1N1 confirmed infected patients, homeopathic medicine can be

used.

Influenza ranks among the category of respiratory diseases, but, in reality, the

whole body is disrupted when the person gets sick. In short, people affected

are often very sick and are suffering from all or some of the symptoms:

• High fever.

• Headache.

• Clear nasal discharge.

• Sneezing.

• Cough, often becoming severe.

• Severe aches and pains.

• Fatigue for several weeks.

• Sometimes sore throat.

• Extreme exhaustion.

• Fever and pain throughout the body generally last from three to five days, but

the cough and fatigue can last for two weeks or more.

• Mexican fever may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting and diarrhea.

Diagnostic Guides

Until now the guidelines that have been given to define a case of Mexican

influenza (case definition / swine flu) by CDC (Influenza like/illness ILI) are as

follows:

• A confirmed case of influenza A H1NI defines a person with an acute

breathing illness with laboratory confirmation of the A H1N1 influenza

virus through the following laboratory diagnosis:

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1. PCR/RT in real time

2. Viral Culture

• A probable case of infection by influenza A H1NI defines a person with

influenza type symptoms

1. Positive for influenza A, but negative for H1 or H3 influenza by

PCR/RT

• A suspected case of influenza A defines people who do not meet the

criteria at the top and have H1NI negative tests:

1. Healthy person, under the age of 65 years, hospitalized with

symptoms similar to the influenza.

2. Lives in a state (country) where no cases of influenza have

been confirmed, but has traveled to a state (country) where

there are one or more probable cases.

3. Has been in contact in the last 7 days with a person with

similar symptoms to the influenza (ILI).

Homeopathic Medicines

Homeopathic medical treatment is individual, but in the face of an epidemic, we

can obtain groups of drugs characterized by the peculiarities of the symptoms

of the sick.

For this specific epidemic, we have obtained the following remedies for the

symptoms found in different patients.

The symptoms listed above are the common symptoms of the disease that, for

the homeopathic doctor, serve to show whether or not it is Influenza.

However, they are not useful for the prescription of homeopathic medicines.

The pattern and the individuality of the symptoms of each patient are what

determine the prescription of a homeopathic remedy.

We have listed the symptoms for which these remedies have been indicated,

without determining an epidemic genius. The drugs mostly indicated for this

epidemic given by homeopathic Mexican doctors are the following:

Aconitum n.

1. Fear will die because of the disease

2. Red Throat

3. Onset of the symptoms after exposure to cold

4. harsh beginning

5. The symptoms appeared suddenly

6. Red Congested face

7. Muscle aches and pains

Belladona a.

1. Red teary eyes

2. Red flushed face

4. High fever - greater than 39oC (102.2°F).

5. Acute inflammation of the throat

6. Throbbing Pain while coughing

7. Severe headache

8. Violent pulsations caused by the headache

9. Red face. Brilliant and Injected Eyes

10. Cannot stand the least light or noise

Bryonia Alba

1. Begins with sudden head pains

2. Worsened by body movement

3. Painful cough

4. Fever with chills.

5. Intense back and leg pain

6. Aggravated by the least movement, improved by rest

7. Extreme thirst for large amounts of liquid

8. Cold, red throat

9. limb pain while walking.

10. Dryness of mucous

 

 

 

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Arsenicum Album

1. Begins with arduous throat pain

2. Improvement by consuming hot drinks

3. Widespread cold, feels cold

4. He covers himself too much

5. Feels prostrated, tired, exhausted

6. Violent vomiting, and has frequent, but scanty diarrhea

7. Thinks will die

8. Burning evacuation

9. Cough after drinking

10. Agitated and anxious

11. Does not want to be alone

Eupatorum Perfoliatum

1. Fever that starts with chills, shivering and shaking

2. Back pain

3. Continued fever, with intense and insatiable thirst

4. Bone pain, as if they had been beaten

5. Back pain, as if it were broken

6. Snoring

7. Painful cough, aggravates the chest when coughing

8. Great pain of muscles and bones

9. Feels as if the back were dislocated

10. Congested face during fever

11. The sweating improves all the symptoms, except the headache

Mercurius Vivus

1. Begins with hoarseness and aphony

2. Catarrh, running nose, burning.

3. Sore throat as if it were raw meat

4. Dry cough, spasmodic

5. Fever with night sweats that do not improve

6. Constant thirst

7. Indented tongue

8. Halitosis

9. Very wary

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