What I notice in my daily clinical practice is that people who work with hospital infection control always keep in mind that infections that appear after hospitalization come from bacteria that were inside the hospital, such as the bacteria transmitted by a person that not have washed hand or using some medical instrument on the patient that might not be properly cleaned or sterilized [1].

However, if we broaden our minds and understand that the human being is made up of the part of the matter that we can see with the naked eye and made of energy that we still cannot see by the naked eye, we will be able to understand that everything that happens in the human being in the part that we can see, went through a phase of energy imbalances before materializes in the part where the eye can see, in this case, we are focusing our reasoning on the infectious process that is happening in the patient who is inside the hospital for some cause[2-4].

This patient can be there for several motive, for an emergency, or because he is chronically debilitated and suddenly needs hospitalization, or because he needs surgery for some end, etc [2].

The cause can be of the most varied reasons but what is causing the diseases is the part invisible to see with the naked eye, and this part is almost never studied by the current Western medicine because, since the implantation of the Flexner report in 1910, they implanted norms in all the faculties of medicine in the United States and in Canada, saying that they would only consider “scientific” what can be seen and proved by laboratory and/or radiological exams. And drugs considered “scientific” would only be those produced by the pharmaceutical industries [5].

Through these alterations after the implementation of the Flexner report, a great development in the research was done in the medical faculties and in universities around the world.  However, the human being started to be seen only as a part and not as a whole, and thus, some errors of interpretation in the diagnosis and in the treatment started to happen, for not seeing the whole but only the parts [5, 6].

In the case of hospital infection, there are alterations in the energy level of the patients predisposing them to have hospital infection prior to admission to the hospital that could cause more imbalances when submitted to the administration of so many drugs or wrong eating habits, leading to a formation of internal Heat, responsible for the production of symptoms of hospital infection [2-4].

In the article I wrote about nosocomial infections (2020) titled What Do We Need To Know To Prevent And Control Nosocomial Infections Completely? - Part 2, I said that the control of hospital infection through hospital infection control programs, can manage to control only 1/3 of hospital infections, but we still have to control the 2/3 of hospital infections that we still cannot control nowadays with this hospital infection control programs[3-4].

The energy alterations that occur in our patients are still not studied by Western medical doctors because they were not trained for this in their medical faculty and this vision of the formation of diseases through alterations in the energy level is studied through the reasoning used by traditional Chinese medicine, which has existed for more than 5 thousand years, where phenomena of nature are observed such as variations of sun and moon, day and night, summer and winter, as transformations of Yin and Yang energy that exist within our body and which are the cause of the formation of all diseases within our organism, from an energy point of view, before materializing and being seen with the naked eye[4].

In a study that I carried out analyzing the energy of 1000 patients of the five massive internal organs (Liver, Heart, Spleen, Lungs, and Kidney) of the five elements theory of traditional Chinese medicine, between 2015 and 2020, I concluded that 90% of these patients in Brazil were total without energy in these five internal massive organs, which are responsible for the production of our protective energy and for our own survival [7].

This means that most or all of the patients that we are admitting to the hospital today are considered immunocompromised and not immunocompetent, as the vast majority of doctors think these patients are. These energy changes are caused by the chronic exposition to electromagnetic waves from the use of cell phones and computers and the implementation of 4G and 5G cell phone technologies, causing a reduction in our energy and this reduced energy is the cause of most diseases today, including nosocomial infections [8, 9].

I say this because an individual in this energy-deficient situation, when admitted to the hospital, will receive several medications considered “scientific”, considered highly concentrated medications produced by pharmaceutical industries as medicine for pain, fever, antibiotics, anti-inflammatory, hypoglycemic, antihypertensive, anxiolytic, sleep inducers, etc. And what the patient will experience in this case is an even greater drop in energy, which could lead to complications such as thrombosis, myocardial infarction, stroke or even death [2, 4, 10].

In the article written by myself (2018) titled Why Do Patients Still Catch Hospital Infections Despite the Practice of Infection Prevention and Control Programs? I am describing the alterations in the energy level when the patient is weak, and this weakness state can reduce the production of Yin, Yang, Qi, and Blood. The rebalancing of these energies is the basis of the treatment of all diseases according to traditional Chinese medicine reasoning and the deficiency of one or the combination of energy deficiencies causes the formation of internal Heat, it is as if it were a Fire inside the patient that manifests itself externally as hyperemia in the surgical scar, yellowish color in the secretion, etc. [2, 4, 11, 12].

Failure to interpret these signs and understand that these symptoms are due to the patient's lack of energy, which the majority of the world's population is having, causes these symptoms to be treated with antibiotics and thus, causing more Heat formation, as the use of any highly concentrated medication can cause the reduction of the vital energy even further and cause more internal Fire formation [2, 11, 12].

Therefore, any highly concentrated medication can cause the formation of nosocomial infection and not just the excessive use of antimicrobials, as scholars thought until today [4].

In my daily practice, I treat all cases of nosocomial infection only by rebalancing the patient's internal energy and removing internal Heat through traditional Chinese medicine techniques. Dietary changes must be made in addition to rebalancing the energy, and filling the energy of the five massive internal organs with highly diluted medications according to the theory of Constitutional Homeopathy of the Five Elements Based on Traditional Chinese Medicine. This phase of treatment must be performed to reduce internal Heat production, which is responsible for the symptoms of infection in hospitalized patients [2, 4, and 13].

I have many clinical experiences in treating hospital infections that were not curing only using antibiotics such as in the article written by myself (2022) titled Immunodeficiency Generated by Energy Deficiency as the Cause of Non Improvement of Nosocomial Osteomyelitis in the Knee Post Motorcycle Accident. In this article, I am presenting one patient of 32 years-old that was treating a nosocomial knee infection after motorcycle accident after implantation of metallic implant in the bone fracture. The doctor was using many kinds of antibiotics without improvement of her condition of nosocomial infection. She went to my clinic after two years of treatment of nosocomial infection without improvement and what I did was only to orientate her to avoid some foods such as the ingestion of dairy products, raw foods, Coldwater, and sweets. There were other groups of foods to orientate to avoid such as the ingestion of chocolate, honey, coconut, melted cheese, alcoholic beverages, fried foods and spice foods. The last group of foods to orientate to avoid was the ingestion of coffee, soda and matte tea [14].

Despite all these orientations, it was done auricular acupuncture with apex ear bloodletting to balance the energy of Yin, Yang, Qi and Blood and take out the internal Fire, responsible for the production of infectious symptoms, in this case, hospital infection [2, 14].

The last step in her treatment was to replenish the energy of the five internal massive organs using highly diluted medications according to the theory written by myself (2020) titled Constitutional Homeopathy of the Five elements Based on traditional Chinese Medicine. Using these homeopathy medications, it was possible to replenish the energy of the Liver using Phosphorus, the energy of the Heart using Sulphur, the energy of the Spleen using Calcarea carbonica, the energy of the Lungs using Silicea and the energy of the Kidney using Natrum muriaticum [13].

This specific patient improved from her knee nosocomial infections only using all these tools without using any kind of antibiotics, because the energy imbalances necessary to have nosocomial infection was treated and the patient improved completely from her infection condition without using any kind of antibiotics. The use of antibiotics by the patient can reduce even more the internal energy, and cause more formation of internal Fire, causing more hospital infection symptoms[14].

The ideal thing to avoid nosocomial infection would be to abolish the use of any kind of highly concentrated medication in the hospital to avoid the reduction of the vital energy of the patient and more formation of internal Fire, responsible for the formation of hospital infection symptoms. The use of highly diluted medication and acupuncture (as it is occurring in Italy in the hospital in Tuscan Public Health system where they combine treatment of patients using homeopathy and complementary system) to rebalance the Yin, Yang, Qi, and Blood energies, and take out the internal Fire,  are the basis for the treatment of any disease according to traditional Chinese medicine and can treat infections such as community and hospital infections as I am showing in the article written by myself  (2019) titled Is It Possible to Treat Community-acquired and Nosocomial Infectious with the Same Method, Without the Use of Antibiotics? [15, 16]

I know that this will not be possible in the short term, but in the future, maybe we will have an evolution to reduce nosocomial infections that so haunt patients who need hospitalization and that increase hospital costs. Therefore, a holistic understanding of the patient in his matter and his energy is essential for the management of these nosocomial infections nowadays [4]

According to Hippocrates (460 a.C. – 377 a.C) “we need to treat the patient and not the disease the patient has”. So, according to him, we need to treat the “root” and not only the “leaf” level of the disease formation [2, 17].

In the case of hospital infection, if we treat the “root” of the tree, all the patient symptoms will improve at the same time, in this case, we also will treat hospital infection by treating the “root”, because if we treat the “root”, we will take out all the energy disharmony that was causing the infections in the “leaf” level and also considering the influences of the external pathogenic factors that was maintaining the infectious symptoms. Using this kind of reasoning, the bacteria will have no more conditions to survive and the infection will resolve without using any kind of antibiotics [2, 15, 18].

According to Hippocrates (460 a.C. – 377 a.C) he said that it is more important to know which type of patient has the disease than to know which disease the patient have. If we treat the energy disharmony of the patient, all the patient’s symptoms will resolve such as psychological and physical symptoms at the same time, as I usually show in all my articles about the patient that began this reasoning when I treated him in 2006 [17].

He was a 70 years-old male patient with leg pain and was using anti-inflammatory medications for the last 6 months with no improvement of his condition. When I treated his energy imbalances (Kidney Yang deficiency), this patient improved his leg pain and also from another condition that he did not tell me. He had been treating glaucoma for the last 40 years with no reduction of his intra-ocular pressure only using eye drops and for the first time in his life, his intra-ocular pressure reduced from 40 to 17 mmHg [6].

So, in this case, treating the energy alterations in the root, it is possible to treat the most difficult disease nowadays, that it is cancer, as I am showing in the article written by myself (2020) titled The Importance of Treating Energy Imbalances and Chakras Replenishment for Prevention and Treatment of Cancer, and in the second article titled (2022) Energy Alterations in Patient with Malignant Thyroid Tumor and How Can We Treat It without Doing Surgery, Chemotherapy or Radiotherapy [19, 20].

So, in this brief editorial, I want to demonstrate that what Hippocrates said in the past can work these days, because the use of antibiotics will only cause a major reduction in our vital energy and can produce more internal Fire, responsible for the clinical manifestations of hospital infection nowadays. Using this kind of reasoning, we will be able to treat infections and reduce the resistance of bacteria to antimicrobials, which is another problem nowadays, caused by the excessive prescription and consumption of this kind of medication [17, 21].

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