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The truth of the law of nature on which our system is based is
being repeatedly verified by the Homoeopaths practicing all over
the world. If the symptoms of a given case be known, the law of
relation (Similia Similibus Curentur) will at once point to the
appropriate remedy and we can trust upon this medicine with
confidence, even though no such case of disease has ever
subjected to treatment by homoeopathic physicians.
HIV/AIDS the most dreaded, most discussed STD of the past three
decades, is still out of the reach of Homoeopaths all over the
world. The dominant school of medicine having better
infrastructure than ours have done many researches and reached
at the conclusion that this disease has no therapeutic
management. Physicians of our system having no research
infrastructures and who depend on the dominant school scientists
for the current knowledge about every disease, always dreaded to
come forward with any solid evidences about the homoeopathic
management of HIV / AIDS.
History
AIDS was first reported June 5, 1981, when the U.S. Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention recorded a cluster of
Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia in five homosexual men in Los
Angeles.
Three of the earliest known instances of HIV infection are:
1. A plasma sample taken in 1959 from an adult
male living in Kinshasa, today part of the Democratic Republic
of the Congo.
2. HIV found in tissue samples from "Robert
R.", a 15 year old African-American teenager who died in St.
Louis in 1969.
3. HIV found in tissue samples from Arvid Noe,
a Norwegian sailor who died around 1976.
Two species of HIV infect humans: HIV-1 and HIV-2, HIV-1 is more
virulent and more easily transmitted. HIV-1 is the source of the
majority of HIV infections throughout the world, while HIV-2 is
not as easily transmitted and is largely confined to West
Africa. Both HIV-1 and HIV-2 are of primate origin. The origin
of HIV-1 is the Central Common Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes
troglodytes) found in southern Cameroon. It is established that
HIV-2 originated from the Sooty Mangabey (Cercocebus atys), an
Old World monkey of Guinea Bissau, Gabon, and Cameroon.
Most experts believe that HIV probably transferred to humans as
a result of direct contact with primates, for instance during
hunting or butchery. A more controversial theory known as the
OPV AIDS hypothesis suggests that the AIDS epidemic was
inadvertently started in the late 1950s in the Belgian Congo by
Hilary Koprowski's research into a poliomyelitis vaccine.
According to scientific consensus, this scenario is not
supported by the available evidence.
A recent study states that HIV probably moved from Africa to
Haiti and then entered the United States around 1969.
Conventional Treatment
Current treatment for HIV infection consists of highly active
antiretroviral therapy, or HAART. Current optimal HAART options
consist of combinations (or "cocktails") consisting of at least
three drugs belonging to at least two types, or "classes," of
antiretroviral agents. Typical regimens consist of two
nucleoside analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NARTIs or
NRTIs) plus either a protease inhibitor or a non-nucleoside
reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NNRTI).
HAART allows the stabilization of the patient’s symptoms and
viremia, but it neither cures the patient of HIV, nor alleviates
the symptoms, and high levels of HIV-1, often HAART resistant,
return once treatment is stopped. Moreover, it would take more
than the lifetime of an individual to be cleared of HIV
infection using HAART. HAART is thought to increase survival
time by between 4 and 12 years. This average reflects the fact
that for some patients – and in many clinical cohorts this may
be more than fifty percent of patients – HAART achieves far less
than optimal results. This is due to a variety of reasons such
as medication intolerance/side effects, prior ineffective
antiretroviral therapy and infection with a drug-resistant
strain of HIV. The complexity of these HAART regimens, whether
due to pill number, dosing frequency, meal restrictions or other
issues, along with side effects that create intentional
non-adherence, also has a weighty impact.
The side effects include lipodystrophy, dyslipidaemia, insulin
resistance, an increase in cardiovascular risks and birth
defects.
MY EXPERIENCE
I came to this field of treating HIV/AIDS very unexpectedly by
attending a male child aged 1 year and 3 months. The child was
brought to me during my general practice at Ottasekharamangalam,
as the child showed marked reduction in haemoglobin count along
with respiratory infection he was referred to Sree Avittam
Thirunal (SAT) Hospital, Medical College Thiruvananthapuram.The
child was diagnosed HIV positive there. Both parents are also
diagnosed HIV positive. Because of the lack of attention from
the Doctors and Nursing staff there, they brought the child back
to my treatment.
I employed Homoeopathic Medicine after analyzing the symptoms
and the child recovered from the respiratory complaints soon. I
understood that all the disease condition the child developed
thereafter were opportunistic disease of HIV. Due to the good
result observed while treating the child, the parents also
started Homoeopathic treatment.
The CD4 count of the child showed marked increase from 350 in
Oct 2002 to 949 in March 2008. This gave me great confidence and
I devoted most of my time in observing and treating HIV/AIDS
persons. Next I treated a HIV positive case with oral
candidiasis. Then I treated a lady with chronic skin lesion of
three and half year duration (the lesion appeared like Kaposi’s
Sarcoma). She was a positive speaker of KSACS (Kerala State Aids
Control Society). Within three months her skin lesions subsided
and also her general health improved. This incidence brought
many HIV positive persons under my treatment. Now I am working
as Consulting Physician under Thiruvananthapuram District
Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS which comprise about 450
HIV positive peoples since four years.
In my experience Homoeopathic Medicines are showing miraculous
work in containing the opportunistic infections due to HIV/AIDS.
Many opportunistic infections- oral candidiasis, skin leisions,
respiratory infection and others are very well manageable by
Homoeopathic treatment. Here I want to make one thing clear
that, the homoeopathic tools I employed were our age-old materia
medica, philosophy and the repertories. I have nothing special
or new to present before you concerning the management of these
cases. I haven’t found any new medicines or developed any other
specific routes or shortcuts for the management of these cases.
I tried only to individualize each case and had given much
importance for antimiasmatic treatment. Also I compelled my
patients to follow the diet and regimen as explained in the book
“Chronic Diseases” by our master. The medicines that showed
efficacy in relieving their symptoms were Nux vom, Sulphur,
Psorinum, Merc sol, Syphillinum Thuja, Nitric acid, Medo, Ars
alb, Acon, Phos, Tuberc, Carbo veg, Silicea, Rhustox etc. The
above experience helped me to reach the following conclusions.
Homoeopathic medicines are found highly effective in the
treatment of opportunistic infections found associated with
HIV/AIDS. This treatment produces no side effects or any
deterioration of general health of the patient.
Patients who were treated by Homoeopathic medicine showed
improvement in CD4 Count and reduction in viral load.
Homoeopathic medicines were found effective even in patients who
discontinued their treatment due to side effect of ART (Anti
Retroviral Therapy).
Now about 450 HIV positive persons under my observation
and about 50 of them are using Homoeopathic medicines. About ten
HIV positive persons showed marked improvement in CD4 count. I
am having the lab reports, still & video pictures with me for
proving the above mentioned cases. I hope the authorities may
give due importance to the above facts and utilize this great
system of medicine for the betterment of peoples living with
HIV/AIDS.
Dr. Jayaprasad Karunakaran BHMS
Member, Indian Homoeopathic Medical Association (IHMA),
Neyyattinkara Chapter,
JJ Hospital & Homoeopathic Research Centre, Mandapathinkadavu,
Ottasekharamangalam P. O,
Thiruvananthapuram 695125.
Kerala State, India.
e.mail: jefferson_dr74@yahoo.com
Phone: +91 9388204811
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