Protocol for treating COVID-19
If you have early symptoms of COVID-19 start with the Early COVID regime further down this page.
If your symptoms are more severe, such as breathlessness or coughing, or the Early COVID regime doesn't relieve your symptoms, use the Late COVID regime. Instructions here
If you want to boost your immune system, BEFORE you have an infection, use the prophylactic (preventive) regime ( Instructions here) to prepare your body in case you get infected. If you get symptoms of an infection, cease this treatment and begin the Early COVID regime.
If you have early symptoms of COVID-19 start with the Early COVID regime further down this page.
If your symptoms are more severe, such as breathlessness or coughing, or the Early COVID regime doesn't relieve your symptoms, use the Late COVID regime. Instructions here
If you want to boost your immune system, BEFORE you have an infection, use the prophylactic (preventive) regime ( Instructions here) to prepare your body in case you get infected. If you get symptoms of an infection, cease this treatment and begin the Early COVID regime.
Early COVID regime
(previously Step 2)
(previously Step 2)
This protocol is not an alternative to standard medical care.
It is to be used in ADDITION to standard medical care. It uses heat to enhance the body's ability to fight off the coronavirus in the early stages of infection.
If you have symptoms of a respiratory infection, you should contact your doctor, or medical authorities, and arrange for testing. At the same time, forward the "Letter to my Doctor" (download below) if you intend to use the Early or Late regimes of this protocol.
Pay attention to your doctor's advice especially if you have:
We are in a battle against COVID-19, your doctor is a powerful ally in this battle.
This is a treatment that makes physiological sense and has anecdotal and historical evidence. There are no recent trials to support this therapy for COVID-19, but they are likely to be underway soon. N.B. Heat is a powerful treatment and must be used with common sense and an acceptance that all treatments, even natural ones like this, have risks.
It is to be used in ADDITION to standard medical care. It uses heat to enhance the body's ability to fight off the coronavirus in the early stages of infection.
If you have symptoms of a respiratory infection, you should contact your doctor, or medical authorities, and arrange for testing. At the same time, forward the "Letter to my Doctor" (download below) if you intend to use the Early or Late regimes of this protocol.
Pay attention to your doctor's advice especially if you have:
- Diabetes
- Heart disease
- Lung disease
We are in a battle against COVID-19, your doctor is a powerful ally in this battle.
This is a treatment that makes physiological sense and has anecdotal and historical evidence. There are no recent trials to support this therapy for COVID-19, but they are likely to be underway soon. N.B. Heat is a powerful treatment and must be used with common sense and an acceptance that all treatments, even natural ones like this, have risks.
Before doing any traditional hydrotherapy:
read "Important Points to be Observed with all Treatments"
read "Important Points to be Observed with all Treatments"
Early COVID regime
This treatment may abort the disease and prevent the chest complications that require the intensive interventions in the Late COVID regime.
This treatment may abort the disease and prevent the chest complications that require the intensive interventions in the Late COVID regime.
If you are at risk of falling, have blood pressure or heart problems you will need a carer to assist you. The treatment links below have detailed instructions.
When to begin the treatment:
Begin as soon as any symptoms occur, or preferably, as soon you feel that “something is coming on”. If diagnosed with COVID-19 continue with treatment as long as symptoms are present.
When to cease the treatment:
Continue daily for three days. This is usually sufficient, only continue if symptoms reoccur.
When to begin the treatment:
Begin as soon as any symptoms occur, or preferably, as soon you feel that “something is coming on”. If diagnosed with COVID-19 continue with treatment as long as symptoms are present.
When to cease the treatment:
Continue daily for three days. This is usually sufficient, only continue if symptoms reoccur.
- Heat the body until sweating profusely (NOT exercise, if you have an infection, vigorous exercise may damage your heart),
- Keep head cool during heating with a Cold Compress.
- Once sweating, follow with a short, sharp cold.
- Dry off well, but quickly, then go to bed for at least 30 minutes, staying warm.
- Repeat daily for two more days. Sweating is not necessary after the first day.
When to end the heat:
- First treatment: Profuse sweating
- 2nd and 3rd treatments: the body is sufficiently warmed that patient is looking forward to the cold. Should be no longer than 20 minutes of heat.
Please do the treatment with a support person as THIS TREATMENT CAN CAUSE A DROP IN BLOOD PRESSURE and make you feel faint. Sit, squat or lie down immediately if you feel dizzy or light-headed.
If you already have heart problems, the heat or the sudden sharp cold could trigger HEART PALPITATIONS. To minimise this risk, keep the heart cool with an ice bag or cold compress over the left side of the chest while doing the heat treatment, and cease treatment if you feel unwell.
Treatments must be adjusted to the person and their other illnesses, especially:
- Diabetes: use milder heat in foot bath if cannot feel heat with feet
- Heart conditions: use milder heat and cold, be ready with ice bag for chest compression if arrhythmia
- Pregnancy: A 2019 review found it was safe for pregnant women to sit in hot baths (40°C / 104°F) or hot/dry sauna (70°C / 158°F; 15% Relative Humidity) for up to 20 minutes, irrespective of pregnancy stage, without reaching a core temperature that would damage the fetus.
- Bed rest in a separate room with a sunny aspect and a window open for fresh air. Stay warm.
- Light exercise only.
- Eat mostly fruit and vegetables.
- Drink large quantities of water. Hot water before the treatment to increase the heating effect and start sweating more quickly.
- 20 minutes of outside sunshine per day, if you can do so safely without contact with others.
Click these links for detailed instructions Be creative: there are many ways to warm yourself up to sweating: remember to keep your head cool
- wrap yourself up and sit in front of the fire or in the sunshine - use black plastic to wrap up
- sit in the almost-closed car in warm sunshine
- use the spa bath or sauna
- drink hot water before any of these treatments (so you are being heated internally as well)
- Use the 2 litres of ice water, with added ice, that was for the cold compress during the heating treatment. At the end of heating, have the patient stand in the bath or shower and you throw the water over the patient’s upper back/nape of neck.
- Or if winter time, a cold shower over nape of neck for long enough to elicit a sharp intake of breath and to say, “wow that’s cold!”
For infants and small children:
Half bath followed by 1 litre of ice water poured quickly over the sitting child’s nape of neck. Dry quickly and keep warm in bed. Use cool water, not cold, for infants.
Often one treatment is sufficient, if performed early in the infection, i.e. when mum first notices that the child is not well.
When to end the heat;
Child comfortably warm.
If symptoms are not relieved by this treatment commence the Late COVID regime.