Sunitha Rao
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Bengaluru:
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Doctors in Karnataka will
advise the Liberian government on using traditional Ayurveda to tackle
modern-day scourge Ebola. State health minister UT Khader confirmed
correspondence between his office and Liberian counterparts on this
subject. “A month ago, we received mails from Liberia
about it and I had discussions with Ayurveda specialists in Belagavi.
The doctors are working on it.“
According to Ayurveda, pitta (in the form of bile juice) becomes concentrated and dries up leading to corrosion in cell walls resulting in bleeding when a person is infected with Ebola. Ayurvedic medicine prevents denaturing of pitta from liquid to dried acidic form and neutralizes toxins released by the Ebola virus.
Doctors from AyurVAID hospitals, a chain of Ayurvedic hospitals, had sent a proposal to the Karnataka government on possible treatment for Ebola. The government has also discussed Ayurvedic treatment with the doctors at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases where a quarantine unit has been set up for Ebola-suspect cases. “As of now, there's no treatment for Ebola. We discussed methods of treatment with AyurVaid doctors. I've written to the government that if we get an Ebola-suspect case, we'll take up a combined therapy of allopathy and Ayurveda,“ said Dr Shashidhar Buggi, director, RGICD.
Ebola is transmitted through bodily fluids, blood, contaminated medical materi al such as needles or syringes, or even infected organisms.It's not transmitted through the air. The symptoms show up 2-3 weeks after contraction and include nausea, fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and headache. In extreme cases, there could be internal bleeding and the intestinal tract is affected.
According to Ayurveda, pitta (in the form of bile juice) becomes concentrated and dries up leading to corrosion in cell walls resulting in bleeding when a person is infected with Ebola. Ayurvedic medicine prevents denaturing of pitta from liquid to dried acidic form and neutralizes toxins released by the Ebola virus.
Doctors from AyurVAID hospitals, a chain of Ayurvedic hospitals, had sent a proposal to the Karnataka government on possible treatment for Ebola. The government has also discussed Ayurvedic treatment with the doctors at the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Chest Diseases where a quarantine unit has been set up for Ebola-suspect cases. “As of now, there's no treatment for Ebola. We discussed methods of treatment with AyurVaid doctors. I've written to the government that if we get an Ebola-suspect case, we'll take up a combined therapy of allopathy and Ayurveda,“ said Dr Shashidhar Buggi, director, RGICD.
Ebola is transmitted through bodily fluids, blood, contaminated medical materi al such as needles or syringes, or even infected organisms.It's not transmitted through the air. The symptoms show up 2-3 weeks after contraction and include nausea, fever, sore throat, muscle pain, and headache. In extreme cases, there could be internal bleeding and the intestinal tract is affected.
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