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Rupnarayan Das

20 August, 2009

At a time when swine flu has been the subject of much 'Breaking News' all over, we, being literate and responsible Indians should be ultra-careful in tackling the issue. Very few among us know that the long-term remedy is available in India.

AT A time when swine flu has been the subject of much 'Breaking News' all over, we, being the literate and responsible Indians should be ultra-careful to tackle the issue. Very few among us know that the long-term remedy is available in India. The oldest mode of medicine or alternative medicine, i.e., homoeopathy, has a possible cure for the much-talked about swine flu. While there is fear among people about the disease, an ancient medical treatment procedure can be very effective in addressing the likely issues of prevention and cure of the disease. No matter that homeopathic treatment offer a slow process of curing any disease, its practitioners still consider it to be effective in treating swine flu. As per various reliable reports, homeopathy can both prevent and cure swine flu, without any side effects. In this type of treatment, medication is prescribed based on symptoms.

Most of the doctors who practice this alternative medicine system in India claim that homoeopathy is one of the safest methods to tackle the issue in the long run. As against modern allopathy, there are few takers for homeopathic medicines even if it claims to provide cent percent treatment. In the old books of medicine, swine flu is termed vatashlesmic and is reported to have safe medications to combat the disease. This alternative form of medicine, homoeopathy, works on the basis of symptoms and not the disease. If there was an epidemic and if the symptoms of some sick people of an area were addressed by proper medication, then a common trend would prevail, lessening the illness during the treatment regimen. This same medication then, if given to people of that area, can act as a preventive medicine.

As per latest news, homeopaths are now all set to forward a proposal to the health ministry to offer their services in tackling the spread of the influenza A (H1N1) virus. On the basis of the symptoms, homeopathy can offer an effective cure to swine flu. Swine flu is an acute and highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the orthomyxovirus. It is a respiratory disease related mainly to pigs. Orthomyxovirus regularly causes eruptions of influenza in pigs. The swine flu virus cause high levels of sickness, but low rates of death among pigs. The swine flu virus has the tendency to circulate among swine throughout the year. In a nutshell, people should know the following about swine flu - Symptoms: running nose, fever, sneezing and dullness. Primary symptoms are very similar to that of influenza. On the basis of symptoms like cough, cold, sore throat and fever, one cannot be considered as a patient of swine flu. So, there is no need to panic. Target: persons having significant risk of catching flu in general include the following: young children, older people having less immunity, pregnant women, persons with chronic health problems (such as diabetes, asthma, heart disease). But it has often been seen in the past that during various epidemics, most people who succumb to this dreadful disease are healthy young adults.

So, it's important that healthy people should also maintain their overall health and diet. Complications of swine flu include sinus infections, ear infections, bronchitis, pneumonia. Transmission is through coughing, sneezing, kissing, the touching of infected objects, the touching of the nose, mouth and/or eyes with infected hands. The age-old proverb 'Prevention is better than cure' stands effective in this period of time. Giving respect to this, the following measures could be adopted: There are everyday actions people can take to stay healthy. In addition: Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the tissue in the trash after you use it. Wash your hands more often with soap and water, especially after you cough or sneeze. Alcohol-based hand cleaners are also effective. Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Try to avoid close contact with sick people. Influenza is thought to spread mainly through coughing or sneezing. If you get sick, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that you stay home. Moreover, it is advisable to limit contacts with others to stop any likelihood of spreading or contracting he virus. For the sake of prevention, one can also have tea or hot water with black tulsi leaves added to it. Other hygienic practices include the use of masks and tissue paper.

Most importantly, one need not get carried away by fear of contracting swine flu. Stress is the main factor that can undermine one's immune system. It is important to note that flu doesn't kill everyone. Yoga, meditation, mild exercise and nutritious diets can help keep one's immune system in good condition and can ward off infection. Most infections are taken care of by our body even before we know that we are infected. So instead of panicking about the flu, we need to stay calm and focused on continuing to be a healthy nation. Most importantly, the need of the hour is to spread preventive measures. Moreover, the media, instead of spreading panic through 'Breaking News', should try to spread awareness on how to tackle the issue.

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COMMENTS (7)

James

.Great! Quite technical.

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RNDas

Thanks James

Sushil Kumar Mohapatra

.Very good Rup. Go ahead. God bless you.

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RNDas

Thanks Mr Sushil

James C

.Hi Jane, You'd have got better anyway! The homeopathy didn't help - it was just good old fashioned time that cured you. Scientific studies have shown time and time again that homeopathy is utter nonsense. It just doesn't work! "I don't believe the studies" you say? Well, in that case, throw away your computer. And your TV. And your car. And your spectacles. And prepare to see half your children die before their first birthday. And prepare yourself for your own death in your 40s, like you would have 300 years ago. Why? Because the same science that says homeopathy is bunk is also responsible for all of the above. You can't pick and choose just the bits you like. The scientific method cured smallpox. The same scientific method that homeopaths must deny to continue their practises.

Skepticat

. Well said, Natteri Adigal! Hundreds of clinical trials have been carried out on homeopathic remedies in the UK. As a result we can say that THERE IS NO GOOD EVIDENCE THAT HOMEOPATHY WORKS beyond a placebo effect. If people want to waste their money on a cultish and scientifically implausible therapy to cure their colds and headaches, more fool them but to promote it as something that can treat serious infectious diseases is highly irresponsible. It is this kind of ignorance and charlatanry that lead to the death of baby Gloria Thomas at the hands of her homeopath father. (google her name if you don't know about her.

Natteri Adigal

.One thing the "literate and responsible Indians" have to first realize that homeopathy is neither ancient nor Indian! It started in Germany just two Centuries ago. Homeopathic remedies (they are NOT medicines) are marked by the repetitive dilution process to remove as much pharmacologically active ingredients as feasible. As a corollary, they CANNOT have any curative properties. Its principle is that the body cures itself and brings homeostasis. But, that could take years and cannot coexist with modern living that brings a virus from the other side of the earth in a day. Moreover, the system is based on instilling in the patient absolute, blind faith in the therapist. That was okay in the time of Ram and Krishna. I am free to vouch my grandfather had swine flu and a baba cured him; my father had leprosy and a baba cured him; my mother was HIV+ and was cured by a baba; I was totally blind, deaf and mute as well as impotent and sterile and a baba cured me; my kid had cancer, COPD, bipolar disorder, epilepsy, migraine, etc etc and a baba cured him when he had an acute myocardial infarction! But without having to back the contention with VERIFIABLE diagnosis (For example without testing for the H1N1 activity), nobody will take me seriously. Going to a homeo "doctor" is like consulting any of the thousands of pot-smoking nanga babas one still sees in India (and many parts of the world). It is sad to see seemingly educated persons capable and sitting in front of a computer spreading such ignorance. This is the mentality that leaves India at the bottom-most rungs of human development and quality of life index!

jJANE-DORA FRASER

.i HAD SWINE FLU AND TOOK 5 HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES TO TACKLE THE SYMPTOMS. THE COUGH WAS THE MOST SEVERE SYMPTOM AND THERE HAS BEEN 95% IMPROVEMENT. MY TEMPERATURE IS BACK TO NORMAL. AND I'M SLOWLY GETTING BACK TO NORMAL. I USE HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES REGULARLY SO I HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THEM AND I KNOW FROM REPEATED EXPERIENCE THAT IF YOU MATCH YOUR SYMPTOMS CORRECTLY WITH A REMEDY THEN SUCCESS IS USUALLY GUARANTEED. FOR MANY COMMON AILMENTS. yOU JUST HAVE TO DO YOUR RESEARCH, PERSERVERE AND GET A MATCH. iI LIVE WITH ME AND USE HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES FOR PAIN RELIEF. I USED TO USE A LOT OF PAINKILLERS. SINCE I'VE BEEN USING HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES I HAVEN'T TAKEN ANY PAINKILLERS IN 9MONTHS.I ALSO USE A COMBINATION APPROACH FOR TACKLING SERVERE CHRONIC INSOMNIA. IT;S IMPROVED THE QUALITY OF MY LIFE AND MOST IMPORTANTLY ITS FANTASTIC FOR PAIN RELIEF WHETHER IT BE TOOTHACHE, BRUISING ACHING, DENTAL PAIN, MUSCLE PAIN, CRAMP ETC... IF YOUR SUFFERING EXSTREME PAIN GIVE HOMEOPATHY A TRY. IT CAN'T ALWAYS CURE, BUT IT CAN GIVE YOU ENORMOUS PAIN RELIEF AND MAKE LIFE MORE COMFORTABLE FOR YOU. IT HAS CURED MYMENOPAUSAL HOT FLUSHES WHICH IMPRESSED MY GP AS I WAS HAVING A TERRIBLE TIME WITH THEM. I ALSO USE REMEDIES FOR ANGINA. I CARRY CACTUS WITH ME ALL THE TIME AND WHEN I GET AN ANGINA ATTACK THE SYMPTOMS SUBSIDE WITH 2-5 MINUTES OF TAKING IT.

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RNDas

Hi jJANE-DORA FRASER, THanks for your comment. People generally have doubt regarding the efficacy and safetey concerns of Homoeopathic medicines. But, moest people don't know it's long-term beneficial effect. Your case can be exemplified in this context, wherein you have got benefits of the homoeopathic medications in any kind of ailment. I believe and hope Mass Media takes on a step ahead to educate the citizens regarding this.

BPrasad

.Nice article. Good analysis.

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RNDas

Thanks Mr BPrasad for ur comment on this article and the previuos one. I'd be more than delighted if readers get the needed information in this period of time when Swine Flu has come to the limelight with all its vigour.