LAHORE: Nature has a way of its own, nicely put indeed. The dengue cases continue to rise in the city and the medications continue to fall short. What has not failed is the juice of papaya’s leaves that has now proven to be one of the best cures for dengue fever, though it has not been scientifically proven yet.
Dozens of dengue patients benefited from the juice and even some medical doctors also prescribe it as an effective treatment for the disease. The complications the disease carry with it self are life threatening and the implications that papaya leaf juice have are miraculous.
Dengue fever decreases the white blood cells and it is believed that papaya leaf juice increases the white blood cells count dramatically, though scientific research has yet to prove it. In last two days around 50 dengue positive cases have been reported in government hospitals and private laboratories were also diagnosing dozens of dengue cases regularly. 150 (150,000) platelet count is considered to be normal which falls when the dengue fever rises.
Pakistan Today surveyed the affects papaya leaf juice was having on the dengue treatment and found that the treatment was affective and was getting popular day by day. A 45-year-old Hamza Ikram Butt, who was shifted to the ICU last year with platelet count down by 80 per cent, said “Papaya leaf juice gave me a new life and left the doctors stunned when I had lost hope” Dr. Sajid, a private clinic owner, said that papaya leave juice was the most effective medicine available in the market.
“I always prescribe papaya leaf juice to my dengue patients and it has always worked”, he added Ahsan Saleh, a dengue pateint, who remained hospitalised for several days in a local hospital, said “Doctors took several days in diagnosing and treating the disease but as soon as I started using the papaya leave juice, its magical effect was imminent” Some people have even started planting papaya in their gardens to cope with this fatal disease in future.
Faizan Butt a resident of Nespak Housing Society told Pakistan Today that “I have planted a sapling of papaya in my small garden, as its leaf juice cured my various friends suffering from dengue” An entrepreneur, Mirza Ikhlas, said “When my platelet count went down vigorously which was at 70,000 and the medications failed it was papaya leave extract that worked for me.”