A Local City Homeopath Says Hepatitis C Virus Can Cure Liver Cancer
In a study published in an international medical journal, a local city homeopath has highlighted the anti-cancer effect of a new homeopathic medicine prepared from Hepatitis C virus in a laboratory model.
There is, at present, skepticism over the efficacy of homeopathy, with many international journals having called it a “placebo” effect.
The director general of Central Council for Research in Homeopathy in AYUSH, Dr R K Manchanda, said the research underscored the principle of homeopathy. “Hepatitis C is known to cause liver cancer. Here, a diluted version of a medicine drawn from the Hepatitis C virus has helped control cancer cells,” he said.
“But the study published in Elsevier’s Journal of Integrative Medicine shows that our Hepatitis C virus-based medicine successfully destroyed live cancer cells within a lab setting,” said homeopath Rajesh Shah.
“Homeopathy works on the principle of ‘like cures like’, which means that any substance having a capacity to produce certain disease, can be used to treat the same or similar disease, if the same substance is consumed in ultra-dilute dose,” said Dr Shah.
The article’s main authors are a team of molecular biologists, led
by Dr A R Khuda-Bukhsh from the University of Kalyani in West Bengal. The AYUSH chief said the new medicine is far from a cure for liver cancer.“We in homeopathy say medicines can help treat a disease. It may help patients if taken along with other medications, but there is a still a whole lot of research to be done,” said Manchanda, adding that the paper should be viewed as proof that homeopathy works.
A leading oncologist said the efficacy of homeopathic medicines, especially in oncology, has not yet been proven.
