Saturday, March 21, 2020

Steam Inhalation to kill Corona Viruses


There has been some debate among the Minister of Health Malaysia, the Director-General of Health and former Deputy of Health Malaysia, other doctors and members of the public as well, whether drinking warm water recommended by the current Minister of Health helps kill the corona virus?


Read here their quarrels :




Let me now join in this interesting  debate as a former  senior  medical researcher and multi-disciplinary  scientist

There is scientific truth that viruses cannot withstand high temperature.  I shall explain.   

This is one of the reasons why the body response with a fever when infected by Covid19 or any viral or bacterial infections

This immunological response designed by the body of generating a high temperature (fever) is gospel truth and nobody can deny this

However, I do doubt if the warm water temperature is high enough (at least 75 degrees C), or can be drunk or maintained long enough (at least for 20 minutes) to inactivate the viral RNA and its outer protein envelop?

At such high temperatures of 75 degrees C it will instantly scald the throat, let alone maintain it for 20 minutes. Throat reflex will instantly throw out the hot water

Furthermore Covid19 is primarily a respiratory tract and not esophageal- gastro tract infection.  These are two separate anatomical systems.

Any water drunk can only enter the stomach, and not into the windpipe

How then could any water hot or cold enter from the throat into the windpipe, airways and into lungs instead of into the esophagus  when it is blocked by the epiglottis in the throat when food is eaten, water drunk?

The reason given by the Minister of Health is correct in that viruses are intolerant to high temperatures and I concur with him. 

But there is a catch here:


Frigid of Space where Viruses Lurk in Suspended Animation:


We scientists trained and qualified in astrobiology and astronomy knows that there are untold quantities of pre-life molecules, biomolecules, viruses lurking out there in space in the interstellar clouds that literally remain there for hundreds of thousands of years in the frigid and darkness of space

They can withstand horrendously long journeys lasting thousands of light years in suspected animation because they are not activated yet into life in a  frigid and dark environment of interstellar space  where the temperature is  only a little above 3 Kelvin (3 degrees above absolute zero)

This is the temperature as CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background), the remnant temperature from the Big Bang when the Universe was first created along with pre-life such as RNA molecules and viruses  soon after the Big Bang. The searing temperatures from the Big Bang then dropped to almost absolute zero soon after

Pre-life molecules like RNA are synthesized soon after

That how the viruses are kept in suspended animation at such low temperatures where all molecular movements including viral RNA freezes to almost zero and remain motionless  for thousands of millions of years without needing any living host, oxygen, nutrients, or any life-sustaining molecules etc. simply because all molecular motions and movements  is zero or almost zero

Now after this astrobiological explanation from me, we now know why viruses cannot tolerate high temperatures in Earth’s hot environment or in the fever of an infected person as they are used to almost absolute zero Kelvin found  in deep, deep space for thousands of millions of years from where they originate

Having explained that, let now go back to what the Minister of Health recommended

The Minister of Health advice is to drink warm water to kill the corona virus

I do not agree with him that drinking warm (not hot) water can inactivate the corona virus in the respiratory tract.

However I would like to use his idea to work it  in another way.


Alternative Therapeutic Modality: Based on Space Science: 


Since corona viruses, and for that matter all viruses like cold environment, and are heat labile, let me use this scientific truth to recommend   all suspected corona viral infected patients to inhale HOT steam for at least 20 – 30 minutes.

Repeat this procedure as many times as they can inhale except take care not to flood the bronchioles and lungs with condensed stream, or they may be drowned by the condensed steam – caution.  Aspirate excess water in the airways using postural drainage often.  This is physiotherapy that does not require harmful and unnecessary drugs  


Anti-viral Oil:


If they like, enhance that anti-viral steam-inhaling therapy with anti-viral essential oils such as from star anise, camphor, eucalyptus oils, and  all oils rich in powerful anti-virals phenylpropanoids and sesquiterpenes.

Add about 5 mls. of these anti-viral essential aromatic oils into the boiling water, and inhale the steam

Steam together with all these anti-viral aromatic oils will enter into the respiratory tract and fight the virus. Steam can NEVER into the stomach


Mechanisms of Hot Steam on Airways:


The action of  steam inhalation is not just that alone. Warm steam when inhaled will trigger off the following mechanisms


1.       Liquidize any thick mucus (mucins which are heavily glycosylated proteins) trap in bronchus and bronchioles along with the virus for easy expectorant effect and expulsion from the airways.  Retinol from cod liver oil accelerates the airways ciliary sweep as the primary mechanism for mucus clearance along with the trapped viruses.


2.       Warmth is not a conducive environment for viruses. They die very easily in hot and warm surroundings since they are pre-life RNA particles that “thrive” under the frigid cosmic background temperature of nearly minus 273 degrees C (3 Kelvin) where they remain in suspended animation for at least 4 billon years in torridly-chilly inter-stellar space before arriving on Earth.


At that temperature near 0 K (−273.15 °C; −459.67 °F), nearly all molecular motion ceases where mathematically ΔS = 0 for any adiabatic process, and where S is the entropy according to the laws of thermodynamics of near absolute zero.


3.       The heat of the steam above body temperature (37 0 C) will cause bronchial dilation and angio-vascular dilation and  vascular injection over the area bringing in immune bodies such as  cytotoxic  T cells seeking for any kind of viral infections via their toxic mediators.


Cytotoxic T cells have specialized proteins called T cell receptors (TCRs)  tagged on their surfaces  that help them to recognize virally-infected cells.


Each cytotoxic T cell has a TCR that can specifically recognize a particular antigenic peptide bound to an MHC molecule.


If the T cell receptor detects a peptide from a virus (example corona viruses), it alerts its T cell of a pathogenic invasion.


The T cell then releases cytotoxic factors to destroy the plague-ridden cell and, consequently prevent the survival of the invading virus



This is natural medicine (naturopathic medicine), a field among others, I am also well-trained and also well- qualified. These quarrelling  doctors can learn quietly from me.  


That will INSTANTLY SOLVE all the quarrels among the top experts on health and medicine.


I hope they, all including all specialists doctors too will read my explanation and suggestion


Hope this helps to settle their disputes


Lim ju boo

BSc PG Dip MSc MD PhD FRSPH FRSM

Postdoctoral CE in:

Astronomy / Astrobiology (University of  Oxford)
Evolution and Mystery of Life (University of Cambridge)
Forensic Science (Toxicology) (Cambridge)

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