Today I had the inspiration to write this article titled is it necessary to know which pathogen is causing the flu process in the patient, observing so many things happening in our world.

In the history of medicine, we could observe several people treating their illnesses in the most varied ways in antiquity and not everything we are practicing today can be considered the best and most efficient. I say this because, due to the changes made in the past with the implementation of the Flexner report in 1910, they have behind of this implementation, the Rockefeller and Carnegie foundations, and started to consider “scientific” only what could be proved through laboratory and/or radiological exams [1].

But observing the alterations in the reasoning that we are having when facing the patient, we are only treating what can be seen with our eyes or proved at the level of laboratory tests and thus, we are losing the chance to treat what is most altered today, which is the cause of all physical or emotional illness, which is the energy part [2].

Great physical scientists such as Albert Einstein (1879–1955) said that “everything that exists in the universe is made of energy” and thus, as human beings are also part of this universe, it is also made of energy. This part is difficult to understand, as we were not taught to reason through things that we do not see, as the energy part is invisible to the naked eye and therefore, it has not been included in medical schools since the implementation of the Flexner report (1910), as thus, it would be easier for the pharmaceutical industries to produce drugs by treating the symptom. Perhaps also due to the lack of understanding of this very ancient area of medicine, few people learned the teachings of one of the oldest medicines today, which is traditional Chinese medicine [1-3].

If we use the teachings of Hippocrates (460 BCE - 375 BCE) the father of medicine, we can see that he says that "we must consider the ancient medical traditions prior to the knowledge we have nowadays by the current medical practice" [4].

 He said this oath because he knew that his teachings would one day be forgotten by the world medical community with the modernization of everything [4].

I am saying this because I attended my son's medical school graduation in Brazil in December 2022, and at the graduation ceremony, they talked about the medical oath, they spoke of ancient Greek names but the name of Hippocrates was not mentioned at any time and this caused me some strangeness since he was the father of medicine [4].

Therefore, to write this article, I will use the teachings of traditional Chinese medicine, following Hippocrates’ (460 BCE - 375 BCE) thoughts, to explain whether or not we need to know which pathogens are affecting the patient when he is experiencing flu-like symptoms such as runny nose, sore throat, and fever [4].

In the article written by Boktor and Hafner (2022) whose title is Influenza, they are saying that influenza is a viral disease that affects the lower and upper respiratory tract. The virus is transmissible through respiratory drops during talking, coughing, and sneezing. It can also be transmissible by touching inanimate objects and touching the nose and eyes soiled with the virus [5].

There are four types of influenza, A, B, C, and D. Influenza A and B cause human infection during the epidemic season. Influenza A has several subtypes such as H1N1 or H3N2, depending on the combination of hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N) because there are 18 different hemagglutinin subtypes and 11 different neuraminidases subtypes [5].          

According to the teachings of traditional Chinese medicine, diseases are divided into the superficial and deep syndrome. In the superficial syndrome (where all flu-like symptoms are characterized), there is the invasion of external pathogenic factors such as Wind, Cold, Heat, Humidity, or Dryness and they are the cause of disease formation when the patient has flu-like symptoms. In traditional Chinese medicine, diseases are not treated through the diagnosis by Western medicine but through the set of symptoms presented by the patient divided into syndromes [6].

These external pathogenic factors go inside the body through the upper side of the body and can invade the patient and can be localized between the skin and muscles and cause shivering and these entrances can cause fever [7].

All symptoms of an acute flu condition are treated as an invasion of an external pathogenic agent and, in the case of viral agents, such as influenza, SARS-CoV-2, etc. all have similar clinical symptoms [6,7].

Therefore, the treatment of these flu conditions is done by expelling the external pathogenic factor. For example, if the onset of a Cold, which is the most common pathogenic factor in our daily lives, and in the case of cases of influenza also occur at this time of year, in winter, therefore, if we treat the onset of a Cold, we will be treating the "viral" picture that Western medicine understands is caused by the virus but traditional Chinese medicine understands that the picture was caused by the entry of Cold into the individual's body [7].

Not all people who are exposed to external pathogenic factors get sick. Only people who have deficient in energy that protects against this invasion will get sick. In an article that I recently published titled “Is SARS-CoV- 2 Strong or Our Body Is Weak?” I am demonstrating that the COVID-19 pandemic is happening because most people have deficient internal energy and one of the energies responsible for protection against the invasion of an external pathogenic factor is the energy of the Kidney which is deficient in 97.5% of the population I am attending in Brazil. This result was published in the article written by myself (2021) titled Are we vaccinating immune compromised or immune competent for COVID-19? and this is happening due to the modernization of telecommunication, exposing people chronically to electromagnetic radiation and causing these alterations in the energy level of the being human, weakening the immune system, as I am explaining in the article I wrote (2021) whose title is The Influence of Cell Phones and Computers on Our Immune System [8-10].

For this reason, in traditional Chinese medicine, all diseases are treated according to the syndrome and not according to the agent that is causing the disease [6].

When the patient has a Cold shiver, runny nose, sore throat, or fever, they usually treat spelling these external pathogenic factors through sweating the patient orientating them to drink warm or hot water to sweat, and using medications to spell these factors also through swelling. Only after, you can tone the energy of this patient, which is usually in the second phase of treatment. In Chinese medicine, when you spell the external pathogenic factor, you cannot tone the internal five massive organs at the same time, because when you fortify the patient at this moment, the external pathogenic factor will not go out of the body and the patient will worse instead of improving [2,8].

For this reason, when the patient goes to the emergency room with symptoms of flu symptoms, the doctor will only orientate to spell out the external pathogenic factor orientating the right diet to not allow more entrance of external pathogenic factors through the wrong eating habits, as I am demonstrating in the article written by me (2021) titled What Are the Foods We Need to Avoid in Acute COVID-19 Infection [11].

The foods need to be cooked or roasted because the majority of raw foods including fruits and vegetables have Cold energy and the patient can acquire coldness through the ingestion of the wrong foods and worsen their condition [11].

Other orientations are to not walk barefoot, avoid opening the refrigerator, avoid fan and air conditioner and avoid to take bath with the door and windows open, to not cause Wind flow. It is also important to orientate the patient to cover all the skin to not allow the entrance of more external pathogenic factors through the skin, worsening the clinical manifestations, worsening the fever, and other factors [12].

If the patient does not improve only using these measurements, you can give medications to spell the external pathogenic factor through sweat. Normally I use acupuncture to spell the external pathogenic factors using points such as LI 4 and 11 and GB 20 bilateral. If the doctor needs to use some medication, highly diluted medications are the medications of choice to be used nowadays, due to the new type of population that we are facing nowadays, globally, that is characterized as immune deficient and not immune competent [2,13].

For this reason, I usually use highly diluted medications because the energy of the human body is very compromised and very low, caused by the influences of the modernization of telecommunication. According to Arndt-Schultz Law, created in 1888 by two German researchers, they say that the use of any kind of highly concentrated medication can cause a drop in vital energy and can cause the death of the patient. According to the study published by myself (2021), 90% of all my patients were in the lowest level of energy in the five internal massive organs of the Five Elements theory of traditional Chinese medicine [2].

There are some Chinese herbal medications with these properties of releasing external pathogenic factors. As Chinese herbs are also considered highly concentrated medications, I usually send these medications to a homeopathy pharmacy to transform them into highly diluted medications, to not worse, even more, vital energy and cause complications. In the webinar 2nd World Pharma 2023, which will be held on March 20-21, 2023, I will present the study titled: To Know Which Type of Medication We Need to Prescribe, We Need to Know Which Type of Patient We Have Nowadays. I am demonstrating that we need to know which type of population we have nowadays to know which type of medication we need to prescribe [14].

In the article, I wrote (2021) titled Is the Population in the World the Same as in the Past? I am demonstrating the population we have nowadays is different from the population we had in the past 10, 20, or 50 years ago because the energy of the five internal massive organs of the Five Elements theory of traditional Chinese medicine is very weak in energy leading to a state of immune deficiency of quite the whole population in this world [15].

For this reason, the second step of treatment of all superficial syndrome is to tone the energy of the five internal massive organs to increase our vital energy, which was proof very low and showed in the article written by myself (2021) entitled Energy Alterations and Chakras’ Energy Deficiencies and Propensity to SARS-CoV-2 Infection [2].

In this article, I measured the energy of the five internal massive organs of the five elements theory of traditional Chinese medicine composed of the Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lungs, and Kidney, from 2015 to 2020,  what I found was that 90% of these patients were in the lowest level of energy and the remaining patients have energy in one or a combination of energies in these five internal massive organs, as I am showing in the article written by myself (2021) titled  Are We Vaccinating Immunocompetent or Immunocompromised People for COVID 19? [9].

In the article, I wrote (2021) titled What Have the Behind all Kinds of Infections that We Need to Know? I am saying that all kinds of infections such as viruses, fungi, community, and hospital infections have in common, energy deficiency inside the five internal massive organs (Liver, Heart. Spleen, Lungs, and Kidney) and the need to tone the energy of all these organs to treat the cause of formation of disease and not just treating the symptoms [16].

For this reason, it is important to understand how is the immune system of humanity nowadays, to understand that what is ill is the human and they must be treated to allow everyone to have a normal immune system, increasing these energies, that is very low, due to the modernization of our world [15,17].

To this end, the use of computers, cell phones, metallic implants, and all things that can reduce our vital energy will weaken our body as the use of any kind of highly concentrated medications will reduce the energy, which was proven very low and can worsen the vital energy and cause complications such as dyspnea, fatigue, thrombosis, myocardial infarction, strokes or even death, as I am showing in many articles written by myself [2,18-22].

In many cases, the complications and severity of the cases could be related to the type of medications that the patient was used to relieve the symptoms and as the patients are usually without energy, the use of any kind of highly concentrated medications will drop the energy and cause respiratory insufficiency, multiples organs failure, Blood stagnation leading to thrombosis, myocardial infarctions with or without arterial obstruction, or any kind of complications because all functions depend on energy [2,18-22].

In summary, cases of patients with the flu-like syndrome do not have to know the type of micro-organism or virus that is causing the disease. The use of measurements to release the external pathogenic factors and in the second step toning the internal energy of the patient using highly diluted medications such as homeopathy medications according to the theory created by myself (2020) titled Constitutional Homeopathy of the Five Elements based on Traditional Chinese Medicine is of paramount importance to tone the energy of these organs independent of the type of diagnosis or the age group because the majority of patients nowadays are very weak in energy and if we treat the virus or bacteria using highly concentrated medications, we will only reduce the vital energy and reduce the energy that is already very low and cause more complications such dyspnea and formation of ground glass opacity in SARS-CoV-2 infection, as I am showing in the article written by myself (2022) whose title is Energy Alterations in Patients with Ground Glass Opacity in SARS-CoV-2 Infection” [17,22].

The development of multi resistant bacteria due to the overuse of antibiotics is also a very worrying situation that we are facing nowadays because we know that antibiotics were not indicated to be used in virus infection and the doctors still insisted on keeping the antibiotics prescription in virus infections [23].

According to Hippocrates (460 BCE - 375 BCE), the father of medicine, “diseases are only reactions of the body to the disease process and the function of the doctor is to give measurements to patients to overcome this process and cure” [4].

So, to reduce complications when treating patients with flu-like symptoms, we need to know which type of medication we will need to prescribe. To this end, we need to know the type of population that we have nowadays. And according to the study I did in Brazil, measuring the energy of the five internal massive organs, 90% of them were in the lowest level of energy so the population is very deficient in energy, leading to the necessity to prescribe highly diluted medications to increase vital energy, such as homeopathy medications. The use of highly diluted medications will increase these energies, and this is the effect that we need in this new type of population that we have nowadays, characterized as very low in energy [2, 17&24].

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