Quacks who cried dengue’s cure…

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While the dengue remains out of control for the government, many have found it a chance to make hay while the sun shines by selling fake medicines for the disease, Pakistan Today has learnt. Despite the agreement of physicians that there has been found no specific medicine for dengue till date, uncertified medicines claiming usefulness against dengue have surfaced the city markets and their sale is continuing without any notice from the department concerned. Separate medicines for “prevention and cure” of dengue fever are available in medical stores in different areas of Lahore. The list of such medicines includes many herbal and homeopathic medicines which the manufacturers claim save people from dengue.
The doctors however denied their usefulness until proved with proper trial. Doctors around the world have not yet succeeded in developing a vaccine against dengue, and many hope that doctors would get a breakthrough by 2014. However, different herbal and homeopathic medicines are being marketed in the city since dengue outbreak. Papaya leaves extract has been advised by some medical circles and was claimed that it enhances the platelet count of patients. Now this extract is being advertised to be available in different stores. Some of homeopathic laboratories have also started the production of medicines for dengue and those are available at different medical stores with multiple names including China Sulf, Upatorium and Crotolis.
Homeopathic doctor and a homoeopathic laboratory owner Dr Inwaar Elahi said the medicine for fever symptoms like dengue has been used in homeopathy since long. These drugs have been successfully used by various homeopaths across the globe for its treatment and management, he said. He said he had distributed 100,000 tablets free of cost and on insistence of medical stores he had started a limited commercial production. He said he would offer his services to government as well.
Another homeopathic doctor, on anonymity, said there were about 25 homoeopathic drugs available for the treatment of dengue fever. He claimed homoeopathic system of medicine could treat and prevent all forms of dengue fever including hemorrhagic by immuno-modulation of the patients without any adverse effects. The symptomatology of patients suffering from dengue was studied to decide about the curative and preventive homoeopathic medicines for any patient as well as epidemic as a whole, he added.
Many herbal physicians have also started giving herbal extracts that they say are useful against dengue fever and are advertising their self-made medications. Medical experts, however, claim that such medicines are of no use and should not be sold until they are tested by recognised bodies and platforms of medicine.
According to different sources various quacks have been contacting government hospitals and labs with their self-produced medicine for prevention and cure of dengue. “They are taking benefit of the emergency situations and marketing their formulations without any prior tests and trials,” said a senior doctor, on anonymity. Chief Microbiologist Mayo Hospital Dr Tayyaba said such medicines without a prior record or trial were not advisable and must be banned in the market.

2 COMMENTS

  1. It is really a story which has propaganda of allopathic doctors. homeopathy is world's second largest health system according to WHO.If a allopath is saying that there is no medicine that does not mean he is true. He even cannot know the working of homeopathy.This reporter has filled a biased story and called the trained doctors as quacks.dengue is cureable through homeopathic system of medicine and 25 medicine are available since last 200 years.
    It is the resposibility of media to be independent not agent of allopath or multinational pharma companies.

  2. Claiming to have a specific treatment for any disease is against the basic principles of homeopathy. I wonder how people dare to make such claims.

    I hope Mr Raza can provide us some reference of 25 medicines for dengue fever out of Samuel hahnemann's classic literature. Waiting eagerly to get some new knowledge.

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