Indian Scientists Find Rattlesnake Venom Pills To Kill HIV
So you fear the serpent's fang? Snake venom may have bitten Adam's fortunes and reversed the human fortune. Still, it has its uses now.
It can treat AIDS, say Indian researchers at the World Homeopathy Summit in Hyderabad, on Saturday.
A breakthrough research by Hyderabad-based JSPS Government Homeopathic Medical College, and Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT), extracted some homeopathic medicine from snake venom, Crotalus Horridus. It shows that it can stop the multiplication of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), according to dna.
Professor Dr Praveen Kumar, head of the department of practice of medicine at JSPS College, said: "Scientifically speaking, Crotalus Horridus has inhibited reverse transcriptase or RT, an enzyme which is utilized by viruses like HIV and Hepatitis-B to convert the viral RNA into viral DNA, so that they multiply into billions and wreck patients."
He added: "Our experiment entails that the homeopathic drug has the capacity to act on HIV, Hepatitis-B and so on. Our work has certainly opened the floodgates of advanced research and clinical testing," he said.
Homeopathy has been adapting the process of converting snake venom and poison from deadly scorpions, spiders and wild bees into medicinal substances, shifting them into nano-particles that have proved very effective for patients, said Dr Rajesh Shah, organizing secretary, Global Homeopathy Foundation said.
The virologist, Dr Abhay Chaudhary, director of Haffkine Institute, which also manufactures polio vaccines in India, said that he was taken aback when he learnt that homeopathy sources medicines from virus, bacteria and parasites before microbiology advanced.
The Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH), a premium government body under AYUSH and GHF, has organized the summit. "The summit should bring about a paradigm shift in the way the world looks at homeopathy and shock even some practicing homeopaths who believed that the medicines had some undetectable and unseen energy effect and acted as placebos," said Dr Rajesh Shah, organizing secretary, GHF.
