The Hindu : Tamil Nadu / Madurai News : Fresh hope for HIV patients

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Friday, Dec 09, 2005

Tamil Nadu

Tamil Nadu - Madurai

Fresh hope for HIV patients

The right mix is bringing the right results.

This is the news from the Mother Teresa Ward of Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre (MMHRC) where doctors claimed that nearly 30 person with HIV/AIDS responded positively to the `ARV capsules' based on an Ayurvedic formula.

Three months of taking a combination of regular Allopathy drugs (English medicines) and these Ayurveda capsules the patients gained weight and did not complain of fever etc. The discovery comes at a time when the whole world is waking up and taking cognisance of the spread of the AIDS menace. And about time too, for with the disease spreading so quickly everybody should exhaust all possible avenues to find a cure. Though cautious while announcing this to the media here, David Willmott Jabez, Medical Officer, MMHRC, insisted on the progress seen among the patients.

Their CD4 count improved radically after the herbal capsules were given as supplementary medicines as a trial. P. Meenakshisundaram from Devakkottai, who filed the patent a year ago, claimed that the herbal drug acted as an immuno-booster.

With doctors saying that the study is halfway through, preparations are being made to gradually withdraw Allopathy drugs so that the actual effect of the herbal capsules could be seen.

For now, it is a hope for HIV affected persons, doctors say.

in Madurai

From Shastry V Mallady in Madurai

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