{"id":101352,"date":"2020-04-20T16:14:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T23:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=101352"},"modified":"2020-04-20T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T23:14:34","slug":"cuba-uses-homeopathy-for-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2020\/04\/20\/cuba-uses-homeopathy-for-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba Uses Homeopathy for COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy HomeopathyPlus<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/homeopathyplus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Cuba-Coronavirus.jpg\" alt=\"Cuba Uses Homeopathy for COVID-19 1\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/homeopathyplus.com\/covid-19-our-eyes-are-still-on-india\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">India<\/a>&nbsp;is not the only country using homeopathy as a preventative for COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cuba with its population of 11.34 million is doing the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since early April, the Cuban Ministry of Health has been rolling out the combination remedy PrevengHo\u00aeVir as a way to increase resilience in its population to viral diseases and respiratory infections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PrevengHo\u00aeVir consists of the remedies: Anas barbariae 200; Baptisia tinctoria 200; Bacillinum 30; Pyrogenium 200; Eupatorium perfoliatum 200; Influenzinum 200; Arsenicum album 200.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The head of the Department of Natural and Traditional Medicine when speaking on state television, It is not a product that has been specifically registered for the coronavirus but is used in the prevention of viral illnesses and acute respiratory diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The treatment is being distributed to the entire population through the primary health system and the \u2018family doctor\u2019, a professional assigned to each Cuban neighborhood and who directly cares for an average population of about 600 people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In spite of a late start, how is Cuba progressing in its fight against COVID-19?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldometers.info\/coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wordometer<\/a>&nbsp;shows that, like India, it still has a surprisingly low incidence of infections in comparison to other highly developed and affluent countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of today\u2019s date (20th April, 2020) Cuba reports 91 infections per million of population. In contrast, the US reports 2,309 per million and the UK reports 1,769 per million. India still impresses with 13 per million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is not the first time Cuba has used homeopathy for the treatment and prevention of epidemics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PrevengHo\u00aeVir was also rolled out for the Influenza A (H1N1) epidemic while other homeopathics are regularly used in Cuba\u2019s outbreaks of cholera, Dengue fever, and leptospirosis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(In tomorrow\u2019s newsletter we will explain why several different homeopathic remedies rather than just one are being suggested and used by doctors and goverments for COVID-19.)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy HomeopathyPlus India&nbsp;is not the only country using homeopathy as a preventative for COVID-19. Cuba with its population of 11.34 million is doing the same. Since early April, the Cuban Ministry of Health has been rolling out the combination remedy PrevengHo\u00aeVir as a way to increase resilience in its population to viral diseases and respiratory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}