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Homeopathy for the current flu wave
In the past weeks around the turn of the year there were only sporadic respiratory infections, mostly with hoarseness and dry cough, but no remedy that appeared to be epidemic in character was identified.
Only since the 3rd week of January have a number of uniform infection pictures been seen in the practice, which also seem to respond to a single remedy: Calcium carbonicum. These are clinical pictures with unusual sensation of cold (“I have never been so cold in my life”), fever around 39°C, severe malaise, cold alternating with heat and sweating with gastrointestinal symptoms, vomiting and diarrhoea. Respiratory symptoms (hoarseness, sore throat) may also be present.
The first indication for the remedy came at the end of last week, six days ago. Markus Kuntosch treated an acute patient with Calcium carbonicum in our Kandern practice. The remedy acted so convincingly quickly, rapidly and comprehensively that we have been giving it to all patients with similar symptoms since the beginning of the week, all four with the same clear and rapid result. Therefore we are publishing this early information now, although still with caution because of the early observation phase.
The first indicative case:
A 25-year-old patient has been ill for 4 days with chills, night sweats, fever around 39.5°C, hoarseness, aching limbs and sore throat. He prefers to lie down and rest. Any physical exertion worsens his condition. Even reading a newspaper is too strenuous for him. He felt completely wiped out. A polarity analysis (Bönninghausen method according to Heiner Frei) of the following symptoms places Calcium carbonicum first with a very clearly leading polarity difference of 20 points. Calcium carbonicum C200 dissolved in water and a teaspoon administered every two hours brought rapid improvement. Already the next morning he was fever-free, his nose was discharging a lot of clear mucus, the limb and throat pains had significantly eased and he felt fitter.
Further confirming cases:
A sturdy, slightly overweight man in his late 50s had been feeling intensely cold for several days; he said he had rarely felt so cold. The cold alternated with heat and sweating episodes. His nose ran, he had a cough and non-purulent sputum. Since yesterday he had abdominal pain and had had diarrhoea twice. Under the rubric “fever alternating with sensations of cold” Calcium carbonicum is represented at a degree of 3. Because of the first case and his constitutional similarity with Calc (sturdy, heavy build with tendency to sweat and flaccid tissue), Calcium carb C30 was given using the plussing method. After a few hours he felt generally better; by the evening the abdominal pain had gone, his temperature had fallen to 37°C, and the night was much better than the whole week before. The next morning he felt refreshed again, no diarrhoea, no coldness, no sweating. He only required one more day of sick leave that week because he felt well again.
Furthermore we treated three more patients with Calcium carb C30 with the same rapid success. They all had intense sensations of cold, felt really ill with fever and gastrointestinal complaints including nausea and vomiting. One patient said he had never been so cold in his life. After Calc carb C30 using the plussing method the malaise was much improved after half a day, the vomiting and diarrhoea stopped the same day and all three felt well again the next day and returned to work or school.
Plussing method:
This method of administration originates from the Indian physician Dr A. U. Ramakrishnan. He originally used it for cancer patients, but it has also proven effective for simple acute infections in our practice. A few globules (the amount is of secondary importance, 5–10) are dissolved in a half-litre bottle of water and the bottle is shaken vigorously 20 times. Then the bottle is drunk over the first day in small portions. In the evening leave about one centimetre of liquid in the bottom and refill in the morning with fresh water (do not fill completely; leave some air). Shake this dilution vigorously 20 times again and drink it over the day in small portions. Repeat the same procedure on the following day. If necessary, one can repeat with a fresh dose of globules on the 4th day.
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