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In the previous article, we discuss how experts think that coronavirus have been existed since the dinosaurs era, far before prehistoric human existed. Coronavirus can also experience mutation that causes a change in characteristics and virulence. It is not impossible that the HCoV-SARS2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) is a mutation product from the previous generation of coronavirus. Successful mutation is the key of evolution, and the cruel mother nature constantly forces all living creatures to experience adaptation and competition. There is one interesting fact about this COVID-19 epidemic, that in South Africa for the first time there is no influenza outspread in the country, except one case. Could this mean that, viruses also experience competition? No one can answer this for sure, but what scientists do know is that both coronavirus and influenzavirus are two groups of viruses that cause colds in adults. In the past, the coronaviruses are responsible for about 15% of all colds in adults. However, it seems that one of the coronavirus member has somehow experienced mutation and changed its characteristics, then causes a lot of trouble to governments of many countries. Even though the COVID-19 can be cured, but sometimes the recovery can be painful ; and if the treatment is too late, then the cell, tissue, or even organ damage can happen. Lung is the organ that is prone to damage caused by the virus. However, since the lungs have a crucial role in absorbing oxygen, damage in lungs will cause a systemic effect to the damage of other organs, such as brain, eyes, heart, etc.
Then, is there any method to kill or neutralize coronavirus that infects our body effectively? I believe the answer is YES, theoretically. How? By using what is called the integrated complementary healing approach. What is that? A healing approach that combines several kinds of treatment.
Then, what should we do? In the book Sun Tzu's Art of War, the basic rule before we go to a battlefield is "know yourself, know your enemy". So, using this principle, we first need to know more about coronavirus. By using dichotomy classification, coronavirus are classified as enveloped RNA viruses.
Look at the following illustrations.
(1.) Coronavirus has a hydrophobic protective shield.
(2.) Soap molecules have hydrophilic (likes water) heads and hydrophobic tails.
(4.) Then, the 'tails' will bind to the envelope's surface.
(5.) With some 'mechanical treatment', such as rubbing your hands while washing it, the 'heads' of soap molecules will be attracted to water while the 'tails' that stick to the virus' shield will pull it out, making the shield to break / collapse.
(6.) Without its protective shield, coronavirus' particles are now just tiny little pieces of meaningless genetic materials that no longer active and infectious.
(7.) According to WHO, the recommended duration of washing hands is about 20 seconds. Quite a lot, I think. Besides soap, alcohol (i.e. ethanol) can destroy the coronavirus' shield by using the same mechanism.
As discussed earlier, killing coronavirus is not difficult if the viruses are outside our body. But, if the viruses are inside our body, it will be a different story, since we cannot drink soap or alcohol. Even if you can drink alcohol, the minimum concentration required to kill the virus is around 55%, which is impossible to achieve (if your blood contains 55% of alcohol, this means you no longer have blood). So, how can we kill viruses that have invaded our body? Some people recommend drinking warm water, but this is also not effective. First, food will pass through esophagus, while coronavirus infects the mucosal membrane of respiratory systems, starting from trachea. So, they are different 'channels'. Sometimes coronavirus enters the wrong 'entrance' and passing through the digestive system. If this is the case, coronavirus will die as they enter the stomach because of the gastric acid.
So, how can we kill coronavirus? Theoretically, by using chemical compounds with the same characteristics as above. Compounds with hydrophilic 'head' and hydrophobic 'tail'. But, do these compounds exist? Yes, the mother nature has provided us. Shockingly, with the progress in technology as well as Modern Medical Sciences, the herbal medicines are gradually abandoned. It is such a sad news, because as the advancement in medical manufacturing technology has been exceptionally fast, scientists reveal the fact that pathogens (especially bacteria) are also developing their resistance against drugs and antibiotics. Herbal medicine, however, is composed of many compounds (components) that work synergically so it will be more difficult for pathogens to develop resistance against so many compounds. Even though the fact that finding the correct dosage for herbal medicine is difficult, but everything has its own advantages and disadvantages.
So, I was trying hard to find compounds that have the following properties :
- have 'head' and 'tail'
- have hydrophilic and hydrophobic parts
- if possible can pass through the digestion processes without changing its structure
- can be absorbed easily by the intestine
- dissolves easily in blood, so it can be transported to infected parts of the body
- if possible, does not produce any harmful waste after being metabolized
- if possible, easy to make
We extract these natural compounds from several herbal plants using special oil. The reason why we chose oil because the compounds we use are basically non-polars, though they have hydrophilic head and hydrophobic tail. Some compounds can actively attack the virus' envelope just like soap molecules, while other components help to strengthen immune system and alleviate the inflammation. The compounds are mainly members of flavonoids, alkaloids, and carboxylic acids. Please visit about us for more information about the products and how to order.
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HEAT THERAPY : A HYPOTHESIS
Heat therapy is one of the oldest healing method on Earth. This method was first documented by a Greek philosopher named Hippocrates (460 - 375 BC). One of his statements related to heat therapy is "give me the ability to produce fever, and I will cure any disease". Obviously the word 'fever' here is interpreted as 'heat therapy', since fever is manifested as the rise of body temperature. In the very past, sick people would soak themselves into a thermal spring or they would use a big kettle heated with firewoods. This method was once forgotten, especially after the industrial revolution. However, as Science & Technology progress and many new fields emerge, for example Medical Physics, it was revealed that heat therapy is useful to treat many health problems, although not all diseases can be cured using heat therapy.
Naturally, our body temperature will increase whenever we get a fever. However, body temperature that rises too high can be life-threatening, or causes some damage to the body (i.e. brain damage, vision loss, etc.). In our body, fever is usually followed by inflammation reaction. In heat therapy, we want to rise the body temperature passively, so the inflammation reaction can be minimized. The question is, will this therapy be effective against COVID-19 (or, coronavirus in general) infection? I personally believe so.
Let's get back to the Sun Tzu's Art of War story, which implication means we have to dig deeper about the coronavirus' characteristics. As mentioned before, coronavirus have a protective shield (envelope) made of phospholipid bilayer. Coronavirus infect respiratory system, because the virus' binding receptors like to attach themselves to mucosal membranes of the respiratory tracts. Coronavirus have already existed since million of years ago, so they can evolve and adapt (infect) to many animal species. Scientists have learnt that coronavirus family (coronaviridae) are capable to infect hundreds (if not thousands) of species. Even though this fact seems scary, but I found an interesting pattern : all potentially infected species only come from 2 major groups, aves and mammalia. Thus, what are the similarities between aves (birds) and mammals?
Yes, both mammals and aves are warm-blooded creatures. Each of them has a specific body temperature. This means, human and animals infected (including the natural reservoir) if combined, will have a body temperature range that falls on a narrow range. Due to its long evolutionary processes, coronavirus can infect many species, despite the variation of cell receptor structures in different species. However, their evolution aren't still enable them to tolerate a wide range of temperature. We can take advantage of this weakness in an attempt to cure coronavirus infection. That's why, grandma always said to have a hot chicken soup when we catch cold, I think this is somewhat true. Experience is the best teacher.
Then, what is the body temperatures of some warm-blooded animals? The following table gives some data.
From the data obtained, the body temperature range for mammals lies between 33 - 40 °C (91 - 104 °F) with the exception of echidna (89 °F / 31.7 °C), while aves body temperature is between 38 - 42 °C with the exception of hummingbird (45 °C / 113 °F). Bats, the creature that has been thought as the natural reservoir for coronavirus have varying body temperature, but can rise to 106 °F (41 °C) when the bats fly. Scientists also found that bats have unique immunity system that can be activated to aggressive state when its body temperature reaches 40 °C (104 °F) or more. This is the reason why bats do not get sick even though they have contracted the virus : because their immune system and the pathogens are always in dynamic equilibrium. If bats are the natural reservoir for coronavirus, even though a COVID-19 patient's body has reached 41 °C (which means, a high fever) but this will not affect the coronavirus significantly, since coronaviruses have been exposed to that temperature oftentimes when they are living in their natural host. So, we need a higher temperature in order to kill coronavirus. I believe that wee need a temperature of 43 °C or more in order to kill the virus.
So, the next question is, how can we achieve that temperature? There are 3 possible methods.
(1.) Infrared Radiation
Infrared is divided into 3 zones based on its wavelength : the short-wave, medium-wave, and long-wave. Each of them has its own characteristics and healing ability. Infrared wave can easily penetrates the skin and fat tissues and reaches the place.
You can expose yourself to infrared wave by buying an IR lamp. There are many types of IR lamp sold, and they are all OK. You just need to direct it to your throat or chest and it will work effectively. The advantage is, it can penetrate soft tissues in our body, and we can do it alone. The disadvantage is that this IR lamp gets overheat easily and the coverage area is relatively small, if compared to sunbathing.
(2.) Bath Tub
This oldest method is still applicable until now. Especially in this modern era, almost every house has a bath tub equipped with hot water. We can also set the temperature. The advantage is very easy to use. Also, even if we are infected with the coronavirus, we can still do the therapy without worry to spread the virus to other people, since we do it in our own house. The disadvantage is, because water has a density of 1000 kg/m³ and specific heat of 4200 J / kg °C, it will not wise to leave elder people unaccompanied, because high temperature may cause heat stroke.
(3.) Sauna
There are two types of sauna : wet and dry. I would recommend the wet sauna rather than the dry sauna. The reason is because wet sauna contains water vapor. Coronavirus infects respiratory system, which means even though they infect the inner parts of our body, there is always 'a contact' between the virus and the air around us (well, actually, the air we inhale is more precise). Sauna room is filled with air saturated with vapor, which temperature is higher than our body temperature, around 48 to 55 °C (118 - 131 °F). When we inhale the air, our body temperature is lower than the temperature of sauna room, so the absolute humidity decreases (relative humidity exceeds 100%) as the inhaled air temperature decreases. As a consequence, water vapor starts condensing in the contact area. Since most of the viruses attach themselves to the mucosal membranes, they are subjected to contact to supersaturated air. Water vapor that condenses gives-off energy as much as 2300 Joule per gram, a very big amount for coronavirus particles. This treatment can weaken the virus and help our antibody by alleviating its pressure. The disadvantage of this method is, that sauna is usually a public place, so if we are already contracted the coronavirus, during the trip there we can pass the virus to many other people. Even though, in the sauna room itself, coronavirus will die.
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It is important to understand that temperature as high as 45 or 50 °C does not kill coronavirus. It needs a temperature of 60 °C or higher to kill coronavirus. What kills coronavirus when our body temperature is risen to 43 °C or more is called hyperthermia-induced antibody stimulation. For optimum result, we can combine this method with our supplement. We call this method as INTEGRATED COMPLEMENTARY HEALING APPROACH.
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References :
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/coronavirus/2020/04/18/Coronavirus-can-survive-60-degrees-Celsius-for-an-hour-boiling-temp-kills-it-Study
https://www.biomedicenter.com/local-hyperthermia-can-induce-increase-immune-system-response/
https://www.news24.com/news24/southafrica/investigations/for-the-first-time-in-36-years-there-will-be-no-flu-season-in-south-africa-20200807
https://www.goldennumber.net/body-temperatures/
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/new-clue-found-why-bats-spread-viruses-dont-get-sick-n81321
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