Cloud Publications
International Journal of Advanced Ayurveda, Yoga, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy
2020, Volume 9, Issue 1, pp. 602-608
ISSN: 2320–0251, Crossref: 10.23953/cloud.ijaayush.484
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COVID-19 and Homoeopathic Intervention- A Case Report
Partha Pratim Pal
Research Officer (H)/ S-1, Dr Anjali Chatterji Regional Research Institute (H), Kolkata, West Bengal under
Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy
Correspondence should be addressed to Partha Pratim Pal, justdoit.partha@gmail.com
Publication Date: 21 December 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.23953/cloud.ijaayush.484
Copyright © 2020 Partha Pratim Pal. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons
Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the
original work is properly cited.
Abstract Studies are going worldwide to develop an effective method for treatment against the global
pandemic of COVID-19 but unfortunately no treatment method has been declared as a specific
therapeutic approach against COVID-19. History stands as evidence where homeopathy intervention
has been beneficial in both preventive and curative aspects of various epidemics. Holistic
symptomatological aspect based on generalities enables Homeopathy to be effective in any disease
condition. Selection of homeopathic remedy is always on basis of the totality of symptoms and in
most cases the changes occurring in cellular and molecular level are not required except in few
occasions of dose and potency determination. This concept of healing through homoeopathy is
different from other conventional methods of treatment where molecular pathogenesis is the fulcrum
of the drug protocols. Hence, in the era of fight to discover vaccine against COVID-19, the following
case report shows how a COVID-19 positive individual with mild symptomatology of vomiting, fever,
malaise, heaviness of head and loss of taste, recovers with prescription of Bryonia alba 200, followed
by Tuberculinum 200, 1M and 10M and at the same time RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 becomes
negative in the duration of two weeks. Therefore, this case report demonstrates why Homoeopathic
intervention should be emphasized in the management of this international crisis.
Keywords Coronavirus disease; Bryonia; Tuberculinum; RT-PCR
Abbreviations OPD = Outpatient department; CO = Complain of; HO = History of; Contd =
continued; st quo = status quo; RT-PCR = Real time PCR;
1. Introduction
The novel Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by Severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) which has now turned into a global pandemic since its origin from
Wuhan city of Hubei Province in China in December 2019 [1]. The spread of COVID-19 is rapid.
Transmission is from close contact and droplet. There is scarce evidence to suggest airborne
transfer. The mean incubation period is about 3–9 days with a range between 0–24 days. About 44 %
of transmission is estimated to occur before symptoms arise [2].
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