Introduction

Humanity has gone through many types of biological cataclysms. The official dating of these cataclysms is from the year 541, from which we have found reliable documents. In that year, the so-called Justinian Plague erupted, caused by a bacterium transmitted by fleas and called “yersinia pestis.” Much later, in 2018, a comprehensive study of a Swedish tomb proved that the same bacterium had been killing people since 3,000 BC. Over the years, the plague caused by this bacterium changed its names but inevitably claimed its victims. Hundreds of millions of people have died from it, considering both plague pandemics—the so-called Black Death (1347-1353) and Modern Plague (since 1885). Bacteria evolve. Much faster than we can predict. Every new host is a new “laboratory” for pathogenic agents, from which they can update their genome in a way that not only makes them dangerous but deadly.

Cholera has also cruelly affected humanity. We have gone through seven serious cholera catastrophes, claiming the lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. And to this day, cholera is a scourge in many countries where clean drinking water is scarce and easily contaminated.

Throughout human history, people have died from viral infections. All kinds of viruses have been our downfall. The very concept of the virus as a pathogen was discovered and proven much later. Intracellular infections, in general, have been a heavy burden on humanity. The first viral pandemic occurred from 1889 to 1893, the so-called “Russian flu” (Influenza A/H3N8), which was then assumed to be transmitted by birds. Last year, highlighted virologists from Harvard and New York declared that it had been a type of SARS-CoV-2. Some precursor to the modern Covid. But the similarities don’t end here. Subsequent pandemics include the Spanish flu (1918-1919, officially named Influenza A/H1N1), Asian flu (1957-1959, officially named Influenza A/H2N2), Hong Kong flu (1968-1970, officially named Influenza A/H3N2), Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (2002-2003, officially named SARS-CoV), Swine flu (2009-2010, officially named Influenza A/H1N1), Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (2015 to date, officially named MERS-CoV), and the latest Covid-19 (2019 to date, officially named SARS-CoV-2).

It is impressive how not only the names are almost identical but also how the pathogen itself is characteristic. It differs from viruses causing smallpox, chickenpox, HPV viruses, Epstein-Barr, hepatitis viruses, rubella, viruses causing pneumonia, cytomegalovirus, rabies, and so on. The damage it inflicts on people is just one side; the other is its evolution, which is far more fundamental. Ultimately, after years, it will turn out that this virus has transformed into something less lethal. From the pathogen’s point of view, it is much better for its host to be alive to support the virus’s reproduction for a more extended period.

That’s how nature works—creating life that survives in a hostile environment. If it cannot survive in this environment, it undergoes changes until the environment is no longer hostile to it. The more complex this new life (new organism) is, the more challenging its transformation, and with so many more victims, this evolution is accompanied.

Over the past years of the pandemic, we had the opportunity to encounter many clinical cases that proved to us that change is the most certain event in our lives. We must be prepared for this change, and this preparation is expressed in the creation of the tinctures Achynora and Neda.