Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Letter From Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis Regarding H1N1 Flu 2009


LIGA MEDICORUM HOMEOPATHICA INTERNATIONALIS
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Collaborators
Dra. Patricia Carballo Quiroz,Dr. Ana Maria Carballo Quiroz
Dra Rosario Sanchez Caballero,Dra A. Elena Rodriguez
Dr. Antonio Sanchez Caballero,Dr. Antonio Sanchez Carballo
Dr. Jaime Andrade, Dr. Fernando Dominguez Vello
Dr. Fernando Francois Flores., Dr. Corrado G. Bruno
Dr. José Matuk Kanan, Dr. Ulrich D. Fischer

Specially thanks to Dr. Sandra M Chase, MD, DHT
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To All National Vice President
Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis
( Malaysia Att: Dr Nik Omar )

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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
10 Bone Pain
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Gelsemium
1. Has a fever chill
2. Hand trembles
3. Abundant perspiration
4. Downcast
5. Intense muscle aches, with leg pain
6. Remains immobile in bed
7. Face congestion
8. Injected Eyes, sore throat
9. Dry cough, rapid pulse
10. Despite the fever, has no thirst
11. Depression and pain

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