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soning most often begins with nausea, vomiting, album in a 30C potency for the mitigation of It is well
abdominal pain and severe diarrhea; additional Covid-19, beginning in January of this year.
symptoms include restlessness, fever, chills, After all, Covid-19 is associated with cold- and known that
sneezing and watery nasal discharge, cough and flu-like symptoms. those in
difficulty breathing. Acute poisoning may also Amazingly, as of November 16, India had need of
include, interestingly, a fear of being poisoned, only recorded about one hundred thirty thou-
deceived or robbed, as well as a fear of death sand deaths from Covid-19 in a population of homeopathic
and dying. Chronic arsenic toxicity results in 1.385 billion people, many of them crowded arsenic often
multisystem disease, with heart failure, kidney into enormous cities. This translates to a death have a fear
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failure and cancers affecting numerous organs, rate of ninety-four per million. Compare this
often accompanied by characteristic black le- to the roughly two hundred fifty-two thousand of germs and
sions on the skin. recorded deaths in the U.S. population of 380 contagion.
Arsenic exerts its toxicity by inactivating million—a death rate of seven hundred fifty-
up to two hundred enzymes, especially those nine per million—or to Belgium’s death rate of
involved in cellular energy pathways and DNA one thousand two hundred forty-two per mil-
synthesis and repair. This explains its profound lion. Of course, we can’t be sure that all these
effects. 7 people in fact died from the illness or just with
It is well known that those in need of ho- the illness.
meopathic arsenic often have a fear of germs and Three other countries with very low Co-
contagion, can be obsessive about cleanliness vid-19 death rates are the Asian nations of
and may feel they have offended others—but Pakistan (thirty-two deaths per million), Ban-
they may also like to cause suffering both to gladesh (thirty-seven deaths per million) and
people and to animals. They can be elegant as Nepal (forty-two deaths per million). All three
well as miserly individuals who may be overly countries have, like India, embraced homeopa-
concerned with wealth and possessions. thy. It goes without saying that many patients
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also may have been treated with homeopathy in
ARSENICUM AS HOMEOPROPHYLAXIS those countries if they became sick.
Homeopathically, if someone already
suffers from the above-described symptoms, GOVERNMENTS, HEALTH
arsenic in potency may be extremely helpful. AUTHORITIES AND THE MEDIA
In addition, if an infection known to cause But there is more. The government and me-
such symptoms is in the vicinity, homeopathic dia responses to the pandemic are also imbued
arsenic may help to prevent the development of with the flavor of Arsenicum album.
such symptoms. The intense focus on cleanliness and disin-
This may be why India—a country benefit- fection can be seen as an Arsenicum symptom.
ing from broad government support for home- Arsenicum patients can be obsessive about
opathy—began widely distributing Arsenicum cleanliness and order and are terrified of germs.

PROFILE OF ARSENICUM ALBUM
Sneezing and runny nose Fastidiousness, cleanliness
Shortness of breath Fear of being poisoned
Fever and chills Fear of being deceived
Dry cough Fear of infection
Suffocative cough Fear of germs, contagion
Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea Fear of death
Food poisoning Fear of cancer
Traveler’s diarrhea Many types of cancer
Burning sensations Miserliness, greediness
Restlessness Maliciousness
Worse midnight to 2-3 am Likes to cause suffering to others

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