ALKALIZATION FOR COVID-19.
I am providing some additional information on alkalization for Covid-19. There is an article available in the net titled “Bengal Cops use mustard oil, lemon water to battle Covid, claims many recovered with the remedies”. From this article, it appears that mustard oil has antiviral properties. It appears that among natural substances that can alkalize our body, lemon and lime stand at the top. For anti virals, one can take aspirin, anti viral herbals, mustard oil, etc.
There is a question raised in Quora “Why is lemon water considered alkaline? Aren't lemon acidic?" There is an answer by Mark Roseman, Biochemistry Professor. It is as follows:
“Citrus fruits are acidic but do alkalize the body after metabolism. This water is mixture of acids such as citric acid, but also the sodium salts such as sodium citrate. This mixture is acidic since citric acid has pH = 3.1. Ingestion of the sodium salts, the acids produce sodium hydroxide as an oxidation products. This is sometimes referred to as “alkaline ash”. Sodium hydroxide is also known as caustic soda which has very high alkaline level (near pH = 14). There are chemicals that can alkalize the body. One such chemical is cesium chloride. Cesium chloride is used in the alternate treatment for cancer to alkalize the body. But it has side effects. When a person consumes cesium chloride, potassium level in the body will drop drastically.
A virus has a DNA (DioxyriboNucleic Acid) or RNA (RiboNucleic Acid) genome and is called a DNA virus or an RNA virus respectively. The vast majority of virus have RNA genome. Notable human diseases caused by RNA virus includes the common cold, influenza, SARS, COVID-19, hepatitis C, hepatitis E, west Nile fever, Ebola virus disease, rabies, polio and measles. Two diseases in the list are associated with coronavirus with different strains. They are as follows:
1) SARS ( Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) – Coronavirus strain SARS-CoV.
2) COVID-19 - Coronavirus strain SARS-CoV-2.
There is an article available in the net titled “Conformational Change of Coronavirus Peplomer Glycoprotein at pH 8.0 and 37 Degree Centigrade”.
A peplomer is a protein spike on a viral envelope. These protrusions bind only to certain receptors on the host cell. The receptor of the coronavirus is the angiotension-converting enzyme 2 (ACE 2) on the host cell. Virus fusion to the host cell requires pH acidification. According to this article, the coronavirus was quite stable at pH 6.0 and 37 degree centigrade (half-life approximately 24 hours) ; but at pH 8.0 and 37 degree centigrade, the coronavirus has a half-life is approximately 30 minutes.
We will assume we have 1 trillion coronavirus inside our body and our body temperature is 37 degree centigrade. If the coronavirus has pH 6.0, body will have 0.5 trillion coronavirus inside our body after 24 hours. It will take 41 days at pH 6.0 to bring coronavirus count to zero. If the coronavirus was treated briefly at pH 8.0 and 37 degree C, it will take 20.5 hours to bring coronavirus count to zero as shown below:
1. 0.0 hour = 1 Trillion.
2. 0.5 hour = 500 billion.
3. 1.0 hour = 250 billion.
4. 1.5 hour = 125 billion.
5. 2.0 hour = 62.5 billion.
6. 2.5 hour = 31.25 billion.
7. 3.0 hour = 15.625 billion.
8. 3.5 hour = 7.812 billion.
9. 4.0 hour = 3.90l billion. ...........
10. 8.0 hour = 15.26 million...........
11. 12.0 hour = 59562. ..........
12. 16.0 hour = 232. ..........
13. 20.0 hour = 1. ...........
14. 20.5 hour = 0.
Alkalization has two benefits :
1) It interfers with the fusion of coronavirus with the host cell since it needs pH acidification.
2) It reduces coronavirus count drastically by brief treatment at pH = 8.0 at body temperature.
Even though the calculation shown above are for different coronavirus strain, it gives some idea what one can expect for Covid-19.
Best wishes.
P. Raghavan.