Doctor of Traditional Chinese medicine, Homeopathic medicine, Los Angeles, USA
Dean of Academic Affairs, Royal University Oriental Medicine, Los Angeles, USA
Received: 04 April 2024; Accepted: 10 April 2024; Published: 12 April 2024
Citation: Archer G. “ A Novel & Natural Treatment for MRSA Infections”. J Alter Med Ther (2024): 102. DOI: 10.59462/JAMT.1.1.102
Copyright: © 2024 Archer G. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Staphylococcus Aureus, a bacterium that causes boils, carbuncles, abscesses, osteomyelitis and most postsurgical wound infections had for many years been treated with Penicillin until it developed a resistance to its use. In place of penicillin Methicillin, a chemical derivative of Penicillin, was developed. Unfortunately, the bacterium quickly developed a resistance to that as well. Methicillinresistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) is a staph infection that is now difficult to treat due to this antibiotic resistance. [1]
Its characteristic symptoms include [2]:
• A skin lesion that does not improve
• One or more swollen bumps that drain pus
• The pain associated with this type of wound is greater than usual.
MRSA has evolved and spread, it is endemic in our modern hospitals as well as in our communities. In 1997 MRSA accounted for 50% of hospital Staph infections and just 10 years later in 2007 the CDC estimated that MRSA caused 94,000 severe infections each year, killing 19,000 people. [3]
A recent case presented itself in our clinic that demonstrated both the speed and thoroughness with which natural medicine, specifically high potency homeopathic nosode treatment, contributed to saving a life and curing MRSA. A former patient of mine called me late one afternoon. Her husband had recently been released from a local hospital after having successfully been treated for MRSA. Unfortunately, their 5-year-old son contracted the illness and had to be admitted to ICU critical care. The young boy was diagnosed with MRSA infection in the lungs contributing to pneumonia. In the hospital, despite all of the care afforded by our modern hospitals the boy was languishing showing no signs of improvement.
Despite the overall difficulty to administer Chinese herbal treatments in such an environment, homeopathic remedies can be easily administered by a family member with access to the patient. In this case the remedy chosen was Staphylococcus Aureus 200c, taken twice daily for five consecutive days. Homeopathic remedies are easily administered orally and sublingually, where they are allowed to dissolve. Within five days the boy’s health recovered and his doctors discharged him.
While it is difficult to say if the homeopathic remedy alone got the child well as he was hospitalized and on iv antibiotic treatment; it is equally preposterous to dismiss its role in the child’s recovery when evidence suggests that the child was in ICU for a week with little improvement and the situation fast becoming desperate. It is important to understand that the staph infection has become antibiotic resistant due to both the incorrect use of antibiotics a well as their overuse. [4] Not so with homeopathic and herbal medicines.
In the case of herbal medicines due to their low usage in our country these stubborn bacteria have not built up any resistance. We will find, as we have in our clinic, that not only MRSA but other stubborn infections such as recurrent urinary tract infections or chronic respiratory infections, to name just a couple respond quickly and resolve easily. An additional benefit of herbal medicine is when used properly it will not engender extraneous side effect symptoms.
Homeopathic nosode therapy offers a unique approach that directly attacks the specific pathogen in question utilizing a potenized version of the pathogen in question. Depending upon the reaction of the patient additional varied potencies of the remedy may be employed until the entirety of the illness is removed. As in herbal therapy there are no side effects to the use of homeopathic treatments and they can be employed in an integrative fashion alongside pharmaceutical treatment.
I would submit that the evidence in question verifies the efficacy of this approach – safe, sane, inexpensive medicine that works quickly. Perhaps MRSA is more of a problem due to institutional care, rigid paradigmatic thinking that relies upon an over-reliance in the use of pharmaceutical drugs that by their excessive use train the pathogenic agents to become stronger, more resistant, and more menacing than they really are. With the use of natural medicines none of these issues arises, but I will let our patient have the last word here in quoting from her online review of our care.
“Very good recommendations, he helped me fight the MRSA bacteria which is a strong infection. If it is not treated in time, it can cause infection in the blood and organs which can lead to rapid death. With the medications he prescribed, we put them in at the hospital… Dr. Gary told us after 5 days to recheck and his tests came back negative. I give it more than 5 stars. Super recommended:”
This meta-analysis shows a clear association between exposure to antibiotics and MRSA isolation. This information may be useful for researchers in designing future studies and for policy decision-making on the appropriate management of antibiotic therapies.