冠状病毒

文/葛欧格·斯德文（Georg Soldner）   翻译/汪澎  编辑/熊欣杰 图/取坎填离图 网络图片

如果我相信，这场未来影响巨大的疫情总体上正在走向尾声（很多人一定反对），那么，也许现在正是开始总结的时候了。我们来读一读瑞士歌德馆人智医学部两位部长之一葛欧格·斯德文的这篇清晰明白的小文。（编者案）

对于兽医来说，冠状病毒是这个学科领域的常见一部分，但是现在冠状病毒SARS-COV2已经跨越边界来到人类这里。什么是病毒，它是如何攻击人类有机体的，我们又如何应对呢？

病毒与有机体的物质体连接紧密。他们起源于基因组中的物质，就像基因组一样，能够影响到细胞的新陈代谢，因此能够让细胞对有机体产生排异。当感染发生的时候，病毒会深入到有机体。有机体辨认出特定的细胞为外来者，这是因为病毒影响到这些细胞，因此有机体开始做出对整个系统最好的反应选择。

它开始迎战这些细胞，要清除它们。这就产生了疾病的症状，所以就有疾病的爆发：有机体开始要去除掉被感染的细胞，这样也可以清除掉侵入的病毒，它采用的方式是咳嗽、发烧、产生粘液的方式。

任何死于病毒感染的人，因此也可以看做是自身免疫系统攻击的受害者，对免疫系统的管理，是个体的“自我组织体”存在的表现，是“我”在身体内存在的表现。

 
从身体中排异（疏离）

一个人，当他的物质身体越来越和自己疏离，就越容易受到病毒疾病的感染，现在这个病毒叫做新型冠状病毒（COVID-19）。当然，特别是对于相对高龄的群体，尤其容易受到感染，此年龄的人，通常会骨质收缩、肌肉减弱或者有慢性疾病。 对冠状病毒感染的治疗，80岁以上的人士、有二型糖尿病或心血管疾病的人，都是尤其困难的。“我”越少临在于我的身体内在——这个意义上，也就是“我”全然投入身体越少——感染也就越容易在身体内传布，造成的结果也会更加严重。当然，如果一个人的检测结果是阳性，如何治疗也是很重要的。
生病的人通常会突然要离开家庭的环境，比如像在中国，他们需要和很多其他生病的人一起在一个临时住处呆在一起治疗。不幸的是，常规医学没有有效药剂和针对这个病毒的疫苗。通常，发烧是可以通过药物缓解的。然而，在危重的病例中，氧气支持，甚至必要时，临时的机械通气都是可能救命的，这就是为什么，临床照护集中于相对重病患者是非常重要的。 我们已经了解到一些状况，焦虑和退热疗法会让病人问题更为严重，对康复不利。能够帮助人去克服这个疾病的，就是要帮助他们能够更好地进驻到自己的身体内，帮助他们暖化自己的身体，能够感受到在身体内的那种舒适感。
因此，毫不奇怪，这种疾病对孩子来说的危险性小很多。对于50岁以下的人也是如此，有时候这种病毒疾病在这样的人身上看起来就像一个普通的流感那样。咳嗽、鼻炎、疲劳是典型的早期症状。另外，肺炎是这种疾病相对危险的表现，这种症状起初通常是有呼吸频率加快（呼吸急促）现象而被辨认诊断出来的。

与太阳的关系 

病毒从医学的观点看，是特别有负面特征的。会经过很长的时间，有机体才会被唤醒，才会注意到有这么一个外来的客人，正在威胁着机体而造成伤害。我们已知道此疾病，甚至可以在感染后27天才会爆发表现出来。然而平均来说，这个潜伏期是5天，综合所有病例，其中95%是在12.5天以后表现出来。因此，被波及的人至少要两周的隔离。
这个病毒也会比一般的流感病毒更有传染性。平均来说，通常的流感病毒，一个人可以感染到1.3个人，而感染到冠状病毒的人可能至少感染3个人（有些高度感染的疾病，比如麻疹、百日咳，传染人数一般在12-18人。）因此感染率高于流感，而且也会花更长时间才表现出来。这些特点综合来看，就会非常有利于瘟疫的传播，让世界各地的医生都很担忧。 

与动物王国的关系 

然而，一个巨大的谜团出现了：这些不同寻常的病毒到底是从哪里来，为什么能够发展起来呢？有意思的是，许多这类病毒从动物而来。这种冠状病毒很可能从爪哇蝙蝠而来。那么为什么从动物王国而来的病毒会对人类有危险呢？
我们当前时代对动物做了很多不可尽数的痛苦之事：大规模屠宰、实验室的动物实验，都会引起动物王国无助地忍受着痛苦。是否这些痛苦就是导致，把本来只属于动物机体的病毒转移出来而造成的后果呢？ 我们也习惯了只是看物质的层面，看物质层面的时候，也大多是与心识和情感分开来看。对肠内菌群和微生物组的研究表明，不仅是细菌还有病毒，都证明了与通常物质观点相反的呈现。
这就引发了病毒不只是微生物的问题，而且是一个如何面对动物世界的道德问题。鲁道夫·史代纳100年前就已经指出了这些关联性问题了。而今天，要由我们去了解这些关系，去询问除了科学分析之外的深层问题。

 
我们能做什么？
有许多方法可以让我们在个人生活领域，帮助我们的有机体克服疾病，这包括了远离酒精、控制糖分的摄取，保持生命的（健康）韵律，配合以充足的睡眠、与阳光的积极连接。当我们的免疫系统缺失阳光，尤其是缺乏三月的阳光，是很严重的缺失。
从全年来看，在我们的纬度（译注：瑞士的纬度）到三月的时候，之前居高的死亡率通常就会降低。这和冬天数月缺乏阳光有关，提醒了我们每天去户外是尤其值得的，如果可能，最好在正午，让你与周边有所连接，与宇宙的元素有所连接。 当人智医学创立时，维生素D已在之前被发现了，鲁道夫·史代纳就用肺结核作为例子详细解释过这一点。对于免疫系统来说，维生素D片剂只能非常有限地代替阳光吸收的效果。早晨服用增强磷、增强型陨铁（关于增强型制剂，请见文后译注——译者）也可以如同光物质一样支持到免疫系统。对于年老人士、或者有心血管疾病的人，可以服用人智学为基础心血管系统的药剂，进行规律的散步、充足的睡眠都是需要的。睡眠少于6个小时的人，更易被感染。 

人类之间的健康呼吸
如果疾病已经发生了，会建议隔离，尽管轻度症状的病例现在都是在家中的（指瑞士和德国或部分西方国家采取的方式，中国的情况有不同——译者）。对我而言，重要的是，人智医学数十年的经验是，治疗病毒或细菌性的肺炎，是不要用抗生素的，而需要使用人智学医药以及人智医学的外用治疗方法，是尤其有效的。在医学部的医生一起已经聚集在一起思考对治的方案了，并给世界各地的医学同事们可以去采用。 

是什么弱化了肺部？有两个原因：一是缺乏和大地以及太阳的连接，二是社会紧张。因此建议，保护你的肺部、这个呼吸器官，要从内在和外在去平衡社会紧张。以我的观点来看，那些处于未解决的社会冲突中的人们，在此处的风险是大大增加的。
医学会推动人们这方面的信念，也就是接种疫苗能够防患所有感染。这是错误的。甚至是流感疫苗也只是能够达到10-30%的防护；仔细洗手、科学卫生地擤鼻涕和咳嗽带来的作用，也同样能带来相等程度的效果——而且没有疫苗带来副作用。
所以，很重要的一步是，打破对环境和我们自身的恐惧和抵御性的图像，并要问问我们自己，能够如何支持到环境和自身的活力与整合性。

译注：这是人智医学集中采用顺势振荡稀释的方式制作药剂或营养补充品，从而让其中的元素能量增强，也就是为什么暂且译作“增强”。通常有德国的WALA品牌可以选择，药剂中内含的元素和成分，通常用D开头加上数字，表示振荡稀释的倍数，这些药剂的具体名字，鉴于翻译此文的主旨，是协助我们认识冠状病毒和身心健康关系，理解和运用其中的一些原则，因此不会另外找出药剂名字来特别推荐。本文先是德文写出，很快又被译成英文。这篇译文从英文译出。并在中文后面列出英文版全文，以供参考。

The Corona Virus

Georg Soldner

For veterinarians, corona viruses are part of daily life, but now the corona virus SARS-CoV 2 has crossed the barrier to humans. What is a virus, how does it attack the human organism, and how can we respond?

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Viruses are closely linked to the organism’s physical body. They originate from the substance of the genome and, like the genome, can influence the metabolism of cells, thereby making them alien to the organism. If an infection occurs, viruses penetrate into the organism. The organism recognizes that certain cells are made alien by the viruses, beginning to do something other than what is best for the whole. It begins to turn against these cells in order to eliminate them. This is what creates the symptoms of the disease that now breaks out: the organism is trying to get rid of the infected cells so as to get rid of the viruses that have invaded, by employing, for example, coughing, fever, and phlegm. Anyone who dies of a viral infection can therefore also be seen as a victim of their own immune defense, whose regulation is an expression of the individual “I-organization”, the I-presence in the body.

Alienation from the body

The more a person is already in a situation where the physical body is becoming alien to her or him, the more susceptible she or he is to this viral disease, now called COVID-19. Of course, this is especially true at a higher age, when bones shrink and muscle mass decreases, or in the case of chronic illnesses.

Coronavirus infections are particularly difficult to treat in people over 80 years of age, and people with type II diabetes or cardiovascular diseases. The less I am present in my body—the less it is completely permeated by me in this sense—the more easily the infection can spread in the body and the more serious the consequences can be. Of course, how a person who has tested positive is treated is important. Sick people are often abruptly removed from their home environment and were initially treated in China with many other sick people in improvised accommodation. Unfortunately, conventional medicine has no helpful medication and no vaccine to offer in this case. Often, fever is reduced using medication. However, in severe cases, oxygen support and, if necessary, temporary mechanical ventilation can save lives, which is why it is important that clinical care concentrate on more seriously ill patients.

Based on everything we know here, anxiety and antipyretic treatment make patients sicker rather than healthier. What helps people overcome the illness is everything that helps them better penetrate and warm their body, and be able to feel more at home in it. Therefore, it is not surprising that the disease is hardly dangerous for children. This is also true up to the age of 50, where the course of the disease usually corresponds to that of a normal flu. Coughing, rhinitis and fatigue are the typical early symptoms. In addition, pneumonia can be a dangerous aspect of the disease, which is initially recognizable mainly by a higher respiratory frequency.

Relationship to the Sun

This virus has particularly negative characteristics from a medical point of view. It can take a very long time for the organism to wake up and notice that there is a foreign guest on board, threatening to cause harm. There is a known case of the illness in which the disease only broke out 27 days after infection. On average, however, this period is 5 days, and 95 percent of all cases manifest after 12.5 days. Therefore, those affected are quarantined for a long period of two weeks. This virus is also more contagious than a normal flu virus. On average, one person with the normal flu virus infects 1.3 other people, whereas someone with the corona virus is more likely to infect 3 other people (for a highly infectious disease such as measles or whooping cough, the figure is 12 to 18). The infection rate is therefore higher than with influenza, and it also takes longer to manifest. The combination of these characteristics, which favor an epidemic spread, make physicians worldwide nervous.

Relationship to the animal kingdom

However, one big puzzle arises: Where do these apparently novel viruses come from and why did they develop? Interestingly enough, many of the viruses come from animals. The corona virus probably comes from the Javanese bat. So why do viruses from the animal kingdom become dangerous for humans? We are currently inflicting untold suffering on animals: Mass slaughter and experimentation on laboratory animals causes pain that the animal kingdom is helpless to bear. Can this suffering lead to consequences that alter viruses that are native to the animal organism? We are used to only looking at the physical and to seeing it as mostly separate from the mind and emotions.

Research on intestinal flora, on the microbiome, which includes not only bacteria but also viruses, proves the opposite. This raises not only the microbiological question of the origin of the virus, but also the moral question of how to deal with the animal world. Rudolf Steiner pointed out these connections more than 100 years ago. Today it is up to us to investigate these relationships and to ask deeper questions in addition to scientific analysis.

What can we do?

There are a number of measures we can take in our personal lives to help our organism overcome the disease. These include abstaining from alcohol, moderating sugar consumption, and maintaining a rhythm of life with sufficient sleep and an active relationship with the sun. What our immune system often suffers from is a lack of sunlight, a deficiency that is most severe in the month of March. Seen over the year, the highest mortality rate in our latitudes therefore falls at the end of March. This is related to the lack of sunlight during the winter months and reminds us that it is extremely worthwhile to go outdoors every day and in winter, if possible, at noon, to connect with the periphery, with the elements of the cosmos. 

When founding Anthroposophic Medicine, even before vitamin D was discovered, Rudolf Steiner used tuberculosis as an example to explain this in detail. It is true that for the immune system, vitamin D tablets can only replace the absorption of sunlight to a limited extent. Potentized phosphorus and correspondingly potentized meteoritic iron in the morning can also support the immune system as light substances. For those who are older and may have to deal with cardiovascular diseases, anthroposophic basic remedies for the cardiovascular system, regular walking and sufficient sleep are also recommended. Those who sleep less than six hours are much more susceptible to such infections.

A healthy breathing between human beings

If illness occurs, quarantine is currently recommended, although mild cases can now be treated at home. It seems important to me that Anthroposophic Medicine has decades of experience in treating viral and bacterial pneumonia without antibiotics, with anthroposophic medicines and external applications which can be extremely effective. The physicians in the Medical Section have put together a treatment plan and made it available to international medical colleagues.

What weakens the lungs? Two things: a lack of relationship to the earth and the sun, and social tensions. It is therefore advisable to protect your own lungs, this respiratory organ, from the inside and outside by trying to balance social tensions. In my view, those who are in unresolved social conflicts are increasingly at risk here. Medicine has promoted the belief that vaccinations can protect against all infections. This is a mistake. Even the flu vaccination only offers a protection rate of 10 to 30 percent; careful hand washing and hygiene for nose-blowing and coughing are just as effective – without possible vaccination side effects. So it is an important step to break away from this fearful, defensive image of the environment and our own body and to ask what we, ourselves, can do to support their vitality and integrity.