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.
