It’s time to take Homoeopathy in corona fight, say experts

By Sfoorti Mishra :

NEW DELHI,

IT HAS been more than three months since COVID-19 pandemic broke out and the hunt for its medicine has been intensified across the globe. While the world health community is leaving no stone unturned to find a solution for the highly contagious disease, the Homoeopathy practitioners say that they should also be given a chance to attempt find therapeutic treatment of novel coronavirus and should be taken on the same page for finding its drug.

Homoeopathy is the longest established complementary and alternative medicine (CAM). Speaking to IANS, Dr Kushal Banerjee, of Dr Kalyan Banerjee’s Clinic, one of the largest and oldest Homoeopathy practices in India and abroad, said, “Homoeopathy has a good track record with epidemics and infectious diseases, therefore people should keep their biases aside and should try all treatments possible to save lives amid this pandemic.

“There are many examples where Homoeopathy did far better than allopathic. The biggest example is Spanish flu, going back to the time of the Scarlet fever epidemic, there were high survival rates in the treatment prescribed by Dr Samuel Hahnemann, father of Homoeopathy, when people were dying, by using conventional medicines. Most recently Dr Marino published papers in 2008-09 on Dengue and Swine flu.” “We are in the process of analysing data. We are also running an online survey to estimate the result of that prescription. Database of 15,000 people is ready.

It will be the second largest study on COVID-19 anywhere in the world, the largest is of 20,000 patients. We have got responses from patients from 12 countries including the US, Italy, Norway and Sweden. The data is looking very promising. Another practitioner of Homoeopathy, Dr Shalini Tomar of Jodhpur, said, “It has been found in a research that besides Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) and Influenza like illness (ILI), the novel coronavirus causes RBC breakdown too, that’s why the use of anti-malarial drug Hydroxychloro-quine (HCQ) has been advocated recently as it is recommended in malaria. We have lots of medicines in Homoeopathy which can help cure RBC.”