Can Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) Alleviate COVID-19 Pain? A Case Study

Among the symptoms of COVID-19 fever, general malaise, pain and aches, myalgia, fatigue, and headache can affect the quality of life of patients, even after the end of the acute phase of the infection and can be long lasting. The current treatment of these symptoms, also because COVID-19 patients ha...

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Autores principales: Metastasio, Antonio, Prevete, Elisabeth, Singh, Darshan, Grundmann, Oliver, Prozialeck, Walter C., Veltri, Charles, Bersani, Giuseppe, Corazza, Ornella
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Psychiatry
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7717955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33329145
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.594816
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author Metastasio, Antonio
Prevete, Elisabeth
Singh, Darshan
Grundmann, Oliver
Prozialeck, Walter C.
Veltri, Charles
Bersani, Giuseppe
Corazza, Ornella
author_facet Metastasio, Antonio
Prevete, Elisabeth
Singh, Darshan
Grundmann, Oliver
Prozialeck, Walter C.
Veltri, Charles
Bersani, Giuseppe
Corazza, Ornella
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description Among the symptoms of COVID-19 fever, general malaise, pain and aches, myalgia, fatigue, and headache can affect the quality of life of patients, even after the end of the acute phase of the infection and can be long lasting. The current treatment of these symptoms, also because COVID-19 patients have been asked not to use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), in particular ibuprofen are often unsatisfactory. Among the above mentioned symptoms malaise and fatigue seem the most difficult to treat. In this case report we describe the use of kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) by a patient with confirmed COVID-19 infection. What we observed was a fast and sustained relieve of the above mentioned symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-77179552020-12-15 Can Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) Alleviate COVID-19 Pain? A Case Study Metastasio, Antonio Prevete, Elisabeth Singh, Darshan Grundmann, Oliver Prozialeck, Walter C. Veltri, Charles Bersani, Giuseppe Corazza, Ornella Front Psychiatry Psychiatry Among the symptoms of COVID-19 fever, general malaise, pain and aches, myalgia, fatigue, and headache can affect the quality of life of patients, even after the end of the acute phase of the infection and can be long lasting. The current treatment of these symptoms, also because COVID-19 patients have been asked not to use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), in particular ibuprofen are often unsatisfactory. Among the above mentioned symptoms malaise and fatigue seem the most difficult to treat. In this case report we describe the use of kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) by a patient with confirmed COVID-19 infection. What we observed was a fast and sustained relieve of the above mentioned symptoms. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-11-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7717955/ /pubmed/33329145 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.594816 Text en Copyright © 2020 Metastasio, Prevete, Singh, Grundmann, Prozialeck, Veltri, Bersani and Corazza. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Metastasio, Antonio
Prevete, Elisabeth
Singh, Darshan
Grundmann, Oliver
Prozialeck, Walter C.
Veltri, Charles
Bersani, Giuseppe
Corazza, Ornella
Can Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) Alleviate COVID-19 Pain? A Case Study
title Can Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) Alleviate COVID-19 Pain? A Case Study
title_full Can Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) Alleviate COVID-19 Pain? A Case Study
title_fullStr Can Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) Alleviate COVID-19 Pain? A Case Study
title_full_unstemmed Can Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) Alleviate COVID-19 Pain? A Case Study
title_short Can Kratom (Mitragyna speciosa) Alleviate COVID-19 Pain? A Case Study
title_sort can kratom (mitragyna speciosa) alleviate covid-19 pain? a case study
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7717955/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33329145
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.594816
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