Study of Homoeopathic Drugs In Encephalitis Epidemic (1991) In Uttar Pradesh (India)

Abstract

Epidemiological investigation of Japanese encephalitis epidemic was conducted during the period 29th Oct.1991 to 16th Nov.1991 in the wake of reoccurrence of this epidemic in the four districts of Uttar Pradesh (lndia)viz.- Gorakhpur, Deoria, Maharajganj and Basti by a team of research workers of Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy (CCRH). A total of, 237 patients (223 camp patients + l4 cases of the sequelae of Japanese Encephalitis ( JE) discharged from various Hospitals/Primary Health Centres were studied. A Genus Epidemicus "Belladonna' was worked out on the basis of totality of symptoms observed in the patients of JE. Single dose of Belladonna 200 was distributed as a preventive in 96 villages covering 3,22,812 persons. Follow up of 39,250 persons was done revealing no untoward development of any signs or symptoms of encephalitis. Besides this, the symptoms of patients discharged with sequelae were relieved to a great extent in comparison to the symptoms prior to their treatment. Credibility of "Belladonna'' has thus been proved in both preventive and treatment aspect in the present investigation for treatment of Japanese Encephalitis.