An Overnight Cure of COVID with Arsenicum album

by Mitch Fleisher, MD, DHt

Keywords: COVID-19, homeopathy, Arsenicum album

This is a 54-year-old lady, who has been my patient for over 20 years, with a past medical history of asthma; she now lives in Paris, France, and was interviewed via cell phone after having been diagnosed with COVID (allegedly the omicron variant, but that was unconfirmed).

She complained of severe chest constriction—“a heavy weight on my chest,”¹ severe dyspnea, a dry hacking cough much worse lying flat, especially worse at night making her sit up; cough and dyspnea were better from warm drinks; she was very chilly, had a low grade fever, aches all over; and was extremely fatigued and irritable, annoyed by anyone being around her, but she wanted someone in the next room. She was also fearful of dying alone from her respiratory illness. Pulse oximetry reading was 88 %; meanwhile she was not responding to the anti-asthmatic and antibiotic medications from her Parisian regular physicians, resulting in her being on the verge of hospitalization, which she dreaded.

The remedy choice appeared obvious in that this case presented the classic symptoms of Arsenicum album:

1. Restlessness, mental and physical (acon., cham., rhus-t), irritability. 2. Anxiety and fear of death or of being incurable (acon.) Anxious lined face (adults) 3. Prostration … 6. Cachectic appearance …8. Fear of being alone and of the dark (phos., hyoscy.), of robbers, of suicide. 9. Thirst for little at a time and often. 10. Coldness …
AGGRAVATION: From cold (except congestive headache) … lying with head low …
AMELIORATION: From warmth …“)²

She was prescribed Arsenicum album 1M in water, 1 teaspoon for one dose only. (Directions: 10 pellets are placed in 4 ounces of water, stirring until dissolved with only 1 teaspoon taken for one dose.)

The next morning she emailed me that she was feeling much better—all her flu-like, respiratory and emotional symptoms had dramatically improved to the point of being barely noticeable. She continued to do well the subsequent days without any need for any more doses of her homeopathic medication.

On further follow up on December 24, 2001: she was feeling totally fine, reported no post-Covid symptoms and was on vacation with her family in Corsica.

About the author: Mitchell A. Fleisher, MD, DHt, DABFM, DcABCT, is a double board-certified family physician specializing in anti-aging, regenerative medicine, stem cell therapy, advanced musculoskeletal injection therapy, constitutional homeopathy, nutritional and botanical medicine, with over thirty years experience practicing the gentler art and science of Integrative Medicine. Dr. Fleisher is the Medical Director of the Center for Integrative & Regenerative Medicine (C.I.R.M.) and Second Vice President of the AIH.

1. Allen TF. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica, A Record of Positive Effects Upon the Healthy Human Organism. Boericke & Tafel. New York. 1874. P. 526. “Tightness of chest, as if bound by a hoop. Great tightness on the chest; he felt as if he must burst. (Tightness of the chest, threatening suffocation, for one hour) … Oppression in the region of the sternum, makes respiration difficult (for eight days) …“
2. Neatby, EA, Stonham, TG. A Manual of Homoeo-therapeutics. Reprint Third Edition. Foxlee-Vaughan Publishers. London. 1987. P. 210.