11/26/2024
There has been a lot of pneumonia in my area as of late. It is a common question I am receiving: "What can Homeopathy even do for Pneumonia"?
The answer is:
1) Homeopathy pre-dates Antibiotics! So we have vast information about the effectiveness of Homeopathy for supporting recovery from pneumonia.
2) The remedy choice does not change due to diagnosis. We simply follow the symptoms that are presenting: respiratory symptoms, general symptoms, accompanying symptoms, mood, energy, etc and give the best indicated remedy, assessing after 24 hours for movement toward healing.
3) Homeopathy can be used alongside adjunct therapies when that is the wish of the client (including OTC medicines, antibiotics, herbals, etc)
All will be well! If you need support, please reach out
When homeopathic treatment is administered to patients experiencing the early symptoms of an epidemic disease, its progression can be quickly arrested, preventing the development of more advanced stages of the disease.
For example, Dr. Arthur H. Grimmer (pictured here), Professor of Materia Medica at the Hering Medical College in Chicago, pointed out during the Great Flu Pandemic (1918-19), âIt is a rare thing for a pneumonia to develop if a good homeopathic physician is called during the first twenty-four hours of an attack of influenza.â
Similarly, Dr. John McBride of Zanesville, Ohio, remarked, âDuring the epidemic of 1918, when in my city the death rate was very high, it was the other fellow who kept the undertakers busy, so that they said our profession did not have cases of pneumonia. I do think our treatment prevented the development of pneumonia."
Sources:
*A. H. Grimmer. Remedies frequently indicated in the recent epidemics of Spanish influenza and pneumonia. Clinique 1919; 40: 11-16.
*John McBride. Discussion. A study of the comparative value of the homeopathic treatment and other methods of treatment in lobar pneumonia. Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy 1922-1923; 15: 541-550.