Post-Covid Long Haulers: Natural Remedies and Treatment

Has your husband tried a course of ivermectin? That would be my first course of action, followed by a Hulda Clark parasite cleanse protocol.

@ Susan UK

Ivermectin is a good choice. However, I see you're in the UK and not sure if your Doctors there would prescribe it. If not, you can obtain it thru veterinary medicine. Sold are products like Noromectin Injectable for Cattle & Swine (you will drink it with orange juice 1.2ml per day, not inject) or Horse Paste Ivermectin 1.87% with no other additives.

Since you stated that Pine Needle tea has been working, just step-up the treatment.

Suramin (the isolated extract) in pine needles. Pine needles are high in vitamins C and A, among numerous other compounds, which provide a long list of benefits:

A 2011 Korean study demonstrated using pine needles in tea was the best way to access the antioxidant benefits from pine needles.

The study demonstrated that the hot water extract of pine needle proanthocyanidins and catechins offers the highest levels of antioxidant benefits compared with chemical extract processes.

There are other known benefits that pine needle tea and the tea made from other conifers share, which include:

• Analgesic

• Antibacterial

• Antifungal

• Anti-inflammatory

• Antimicrobial

• Antioxidant

• Antiseptic

• Antitumor

• Antitussive

• Antiviral

• Aromatic

• Astringent

• Decongestant

• Detoxifying

• Disinfectant

• Diuretic

• Expectorant

• Immuno-modulating

• Improves circulation

• Invigorating

• Lymphatic

• Relaxing

• Relieves nervous exhaustion and fatigue

• Relieves sore muscles

• Restorative

• Tonic

Herbalists the world over have known about the benefits of this tea. Pine needle tea has been used medicinally worldwide for thousands of years.

Make a Nasal Spray:

I would continue ingesting the pine needle tea but incorpate pine needle essential oil (Scots pine – Pinus sylvestris) into the treatment. I would made a home made nasal sprayer (repurposed saline nasal sprayer) by adding one drops of pine needle EO to it's saline mixture and using it afew times daily. This will disinfect the sinus membranes of any residual covid spike proteins remaining in that area since thats were it likes to hide.

Steam Inhalation of Pine Needle Essential Oil:

Steam inhalation – provide the best treatment method for respiratory illness. Add a few drops pine essential oil to a few cups of steaming water and inhale the vapors.

According to “Merck's Manual of the Materia Medica” published in 1899 – Steam Inhalants

List of plant oils uses as inhalants for respiratory problems. Pine (Pinus Sylvestris) – Bronchitis pg. 95,1 dram inhaled from hot water eases cough and lessens expectoration.

How to Steam Inhalation

https://www.traditionalhydrotherapy.com/Techniques/SteamInhalation.html

Make a Body Ointment:

Also, make a pine needle oil body ointment and rub the entire body down (head to toes) to cover the entire skin. Repeat every day. The skin is the largest organ of the body and anything put on it will percolate through the skin into the endocrine system and will distribute it through the body and organs is a result attacking the whole body simultaneously.

Recipe: 20 drops pine needle EO to every one fluid ounce carrier oil (coconut oil or olive oil).

Ingesting the Pine Needle Oil:

You can even ingest by mouth pine needle EO. However, do not drink the tea and ingest the oil at the same time... Only one - two drops in 2 ounces of juice 3 times daily. This is strong! If you think ingesting one drop is crazy, I personally ingest one teaspoon of Pine Resin Gum Turpentine daily as a Candida Protocol. I'm still alive. In Korean herbal medicine, they ingest Red Pine Needle Oil capsules.

Hope this helps….

Glad you are better now, Mark.

Could you please share where you purchased the Korean Pine Needle tea? I looked several weeks ago at my usual source for herbs (Mountain Rose Herbs), but they do not carry it. I did see some pine needle tea listed on Amazon, but you never know for sure who the seller / source is. Thanks!

Why thank you Orin. I will certainly check Etsy, as well as locally. Blessings to you.

A company in California sells a spray that contains suramin. Https://www.narayanbeauty.com/products/pinon-pine-gold-hydrosoul-2-oz-22-00

I think the Korean pine needle tea isn't potent enough to help detoxifying your system. You should look for the oil instead, it can be ingested. I take about 8 drops directly under my tongue without any problem (of course it wouldn't taste too pleasant for some people).

The thing about SURAMIN is no joke. Scientist Judy Mikovits said it's the cure to Covid and the spike proteins of the vaccine. She said the elites would not leave themselves without a cure... and its Suramin. I don't think Earth Clinic allows links necessarily but use either Pine Needle Tea (I use a second black tea bag in there for flavor as well) or look up Contamishield which is the only actual product I've seen whose base is Suramin.

Hi Mark, Thanks for sharing. What brand of Korean pine needles did you use? How much Korean pine needle tea were you taking every day? Thanks

I was using organic pine needle tea and after several uses I had an allergic reaction. If you are allergic to pine trees keep this in mind.

What brand did you use? I have tried without success.

Can you tell the the dosage of the tea and also where you bought it from? Much thanks.

Do NOT take iodine if COVID-19 attacked your kidneys or if you have kidney disease.

Unlike other diseases, which harm your kidneys because of too much inflammation, COVID-19 directly attacks and kills your kidney cells that filter your blood through the ACE2 receptor.

Personally, my kidneys were swollen after I got a fever from COVID. They did not hurt, but I couldn't sleep on my back without them bothering me. By about the 5th day the swelling went away. My kidneys felt like a deflated balloon but nothing painful and any other problems with urination other than a lot of foam on my first piss. Later, after having no other symptoms for a while, I still noticed fluid in my lungs every morning, so I looked for long hauler treatments. I purchased and took Lugol's iodine as recommended. The next day my kidneys have been bothering me since with always some foam/bubbles in my urine. It's been a week and I'm still having problems but they come and go now. Possible permanent kidney damage isn't worth it. Look for other remedies if you're a long hauler.

Where did you find the organic combination?

NAC which Amazon is selling will increase glutathione levels. Can take as much as 2400mgs a day.

Chris Masterhohn, PhD, has a protocol for Long Covid.

Hi, when did you start feeling better? Or could you give a breakdown of how your recovery went? I just ordered going to give it a try

Greetings from the Horn. I got Covid and it went down my entire nervous system. It also triggered diabetes...as I was borderline. Any advice as I am suffering from yeast infections and high sugar in blood? Is Ivermectin useful at this stage? Thx

Ari,

Thank you very much for saying so.

I think Pine Bark Extract (PBE) would be useful for Long Covid. My favorite would likely be melatonin as I had previously posted about and I think that the two would work well together. On a related note, Grape Seed Extract (GSE), not to be confused with Grapefruit Seed Extract (GSE), has very similar qualities to PBE.

I also think that bringing your vitamin D level (25 OH d level) well up into the upper half of the reference range of 30 ~ 100 ng/ml will likely be additive to the other two.

Taking vitamin D at the time of Covid-19 infection may not be optimal because it can take two weeks or longer for the vitamin D3 supplement to be fully converted to the active form of vitamin D. For Long Covid, I think the importance is to get your 25 OH d level up into the upper half of the reference range which your doctor can test for you to make sure you go high enough, but not beyond the top of the reference range.

Regarding PBE for high blood pressure, when I took very high dose PBE as an experiment, it had no discernible effect on my blood pressure.

Art

Thanks Art!!! Appreciate you taking the time to respond to my questions. Have a great weekend!!

Looking for safe white pine needle tea? So many ads, not sure where to order from.

Hi, could you share the recipe for culture vegetables and water kefir please?
Thank you

There are numerous books, videos, and web sites where you can find instructions for making your own cultured foods and kefir water drinks. Try book stores and libraries or search on line. One excellent web site is culturedfoodlife.com. I am confident that the probiotics in my diet greatly strengthened my immune system which effectively destroyed the COVID virus that had entrenched itself in my body. I continue to include plenty of these probiotics in my diet each day and the health benefits are remarkable.

Hi Deirdre,

I haven't finished reading it yet, but I can kind of see where this article is going. So far what I see is that melatonin would be a very good countering agent for the issues they are describing about how the muscles are affected by long covid.

Two main things they are discussing as a result of SARS CoV-2 are decreased mitochondrial function and decreased Oxidative Phosphorylation Capacity (OXPHOS) in the muscles leading to reduced muscle function capacity and muscle fatigue which are exacerbated by exercise. In the following study it is shown that melatonin can counter both issues :

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11854034/#:~:text=We recently showed that melatonin, in vivo and in vitro.

Here is a relevant quote :

We recently showed that melatonin counteracted mitochondrial oxidative stress and increased the activity of the mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) enzymes both in vivo and in vitro.

Melatonin has also shown the ability to restore mitochondrial respiration enzymes, one of the issues that they brought up in this study.

I'm not sure why they are completely ignoring the fact that SARS CoV-2 increases reactive oxygen species (ROS) and reactive nitrogen species (RNS) very significantly in Covid-19 patients and then exercise further increases those ROS levels to levels capable of damaging muscle tissue and potentially causing fibrosis, essentially what they are describing in a roundabout way. Everything they are saying so far points toward the elevated ROS and RNS levels and impaired mitochondrial function associated with Covid-19 that are exacerbated by physical or even mental exercise. In long covid patients, these two seem to remain elevated as discussed in other studies.

Melatonin acts to return mitochondrial function to homeostasis and at a bare minimum significantly improves mitochondrial function and is a very potent scavenger of ROS and RNS through both direct antioxidant and radical scavenging by melatonin and its metabolites and indirect actions via upregulating many of the bodies own potent antioxidants and radical scavengers. The following May 2023 study clearly shows that both ROS and RNS are elevated in Covid-19 patients :

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10219364/

Here is a very relevant study quote :

The results indicated that the serum levels of individual ROS and RNS were significantly higher in COVID-19 patients than in healthy subjects. The correlations between the serum levels of ROS and RNS and the biochemical markers ranged from moderate to very strongly positive. Moreover, significantly elevated serum levels of ROS and RNS were observed in intensive care unit (ICU) patients compared with non-ICU patients. Thus, ROS and RNS concentrations in serum can be used as biomarkers to track the prognosis of COVID-19. This investigation demonstrated that oxidative and nitrative stress play a role in the etiology of COVID-19 and contribute to disease severity; thus, ROS and RNS are probable innovative targets in COVID-19 therapeutics.

So here we are back to more evidence in total suggesting that ROS and RNS result in increased oxidative stress and increased levels of inflammation both of which are damaging to the body in multiple ways and to multiple body organs including muscle . While the exact methods of action that SARS CoV-2 uses to cause this elevated status of ROS and RNS have not been fully elucidated yet, other studies have suggested that using these two as potential targets in Covid-19 and long covid (LC) can be beneficial for patients with C-19 or LC.

Imo, it will be a very long time before science discovers the exact methods of action involved in LC and because of that it makes more sense for those currently suffering with LC to pursue potent antioxidants and radical scavengers in the case of LC. Melatonin meets this criteria as well as other potent antioxidants such as alpha lipoic acid (ALA) and are worthy of consideration. In the specific case of muscle tissue stress, topical melatonin may have a part to play as well.

Art

Another research finds that long covid symptoms point in two directions- Dysautonomia (an umbrella term for various autoimmune conditions) and Mast Cells Activation Syndrome (not to be confused with other disorders involving mast cells).

There are articles:

“antihistamines improve cardiovascular manifestations and other symptoms of long covid attributed to mast cell activation” (Frontiers of cardiovascular medicine)

“Long covid following mild sars-cov-2 infection: characteristic T cell alteration and response to antihistamines”

There is also something about melatonin, but I have to read Art's posts, but in short it does lots of good things..