Antimonium Tartaricum as a Possible Homeopathic Prophylactic Remedy in the COVID-19 Epidemic
| Autor: | Sylvio Antonio Mollo, Fernanda Maria Simões da Costa Fujino, Ana Amélia Campos Claro Olandim, Jennifer Anne Coggan, Eduardo N. Takeyama, Nilson Roberti Benites, Priscila de Oliveira Neto Cervezão, Soraya Cristina Sant'Ana, Renata Lemonica, Vagner Doja Barnabe |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Population MEDLINE Materia medica Disease 03 medical and health sciences 0502 economics and business Epidemiology medicine Humans Intensive care medicine education Epidemics 030304 developmental biology 0303 health sciences education.field_of_study business.industry SARS-CoV-2 05 social sciences COVID-19 PREVENÇÃO DE DOENÇAS History 19th Century Homeopathy Antimony Potassium Tartrate History 20th Century Mental health COVID-19 Drug Treatment Complementary and alternative medicine Materia Medica 050211 marketing Symptom Assessment business Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual) Universidade de São Paulo (USP) instacron:USP |
| ISSN: | 1476-4245 |
| Popis: | The current COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) epidemic has proved challenging due to its high impact on physical and mental health. According to Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, in an epidemic the most severe symptoms of the clinical condition presented by the population in question should be the basis for selecting the medication that is as similar as possible to them, and which should be administered to individuals who have been exposed to the disease but have not yet developed it. This medicine is called the genus epidemicus. This study aims to demonstrate the reasoning used to propose the homeopathic medicine Antimonium tartaricum (Ant-t) as a genus epidemicus in the COVID-19 epidemic. It was decided to develop the reasoning based on the respiratory symptoms described in the epidemiological bulletins presented by the Health Surveillance Secretariat of the Ministry of Health of Brazil, as these symptoms are the most serious of the disease. After repertorization, it was confirmed in the Materia Medica that Ant-t has a high degree of similarity with these respiratory symptoms, including the most serious situations, of COVID-19. Homeopathic Ant-t is thus a possible prophylactic genus epidemicus in the COVID-19 epidemic; further studies are needed to test this conclusion. |
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