Database of COVID-19 Cases Treated with Classical Homeopathy

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed an unprecedented challenge to healthcare and the available solutions are far from satisfactory. Classical homeopathy may have a role to play in alleviating this burden. With the intention of providing basic information for future rigorous studies, the curating of covid cases treated with this therapy was taken up. The results are promising although far from being definitive. Of the 367 patients considered for statistical analysis, the mean age of the participants was 42.75 years, and males and females were 166 and 201 respectively. The mean follow-up period was 6.5 (SD 5.3) days, with a median of 1 homeopathic remedy used per case. 192 patients were diagnosed by RT<strong>–</strong>PCR, 111 by the WHO clinical criteria and 64 via retrospective antibodies. According to the WHO criteria, 255 were confirmed cases, 61 were probable cases, and 51 were suspected cases. It was seen that a considerable percentage (73.8%) of covid patients improved under homeopathic treatment, even those among severe disease (78.6%). Correlational analyses showed that presence of fever was associated with more likelihood of improvement and increasing age and a greater number of homeopathic remedies required in a case were associated negatively with improvement. However, it was seen that severe cases were more likely to improve under homeopathic treatment. This database is fraught with many confounders which must be taken care of in future studies.