National Workshop: Prevention of Communicable Disease through Homoeopathic
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2000 Nov / Dec VOL II NO 6.
Reported by
Dr S Praveen Kumar
'Tarent

Close on the heels of the tremendous success in prevention of Japanese encephalitis last year in Andhra Pradesh, the department of Indian Medicine and Homoeopathy, Government of Andhra Pradesh conducted a national level in Hyderabad on 23rd and 24th January, 2001, 3000 delegates attended the workshop. 5 working groups of 50 to 60 delegates made. Each group debated for two days and suggested preventive dosage for each disease. The five diseases selected were Japanese Encephalitis, Gastroenteritis, Malaria, Infective Hepatitis.

Inaugural Function: 23rd January 2001, Dr S Aruna, Honorable Health Minister, A P, lauded the services of Homoeo doctors in the control of J E epidemic last year. She emphatically stated: no side effects after B C T administration and statistics proved their efficacy. .Minister emphasized that among 2-5 crore children who were given BCT only 746 JE cases were reported and 74 deaths. This is much less as compared to the 1016 (33%less) cases in 1999 and 203 deaths (66%) Health secretary Sri Tigidi promised all help in future programs. The commissioner of IM and H Dpt, Sri T Janardhan Naidu supervised the deliberations closely for 2 days.

Eminent Homoeopaths who attended: Dr V P Singh, CCRH with many CCRH teams, Dr Manchandra, Deputy Director, Government of Delhi, Dr Khanna, CCH member, Dr Chouhan, Dr K Sivashankar, Former AD, Dr G L N Sastry, Former CCH Member and Dr G Janardhan Reddy, Former AD, Dr B Sohansingh, CCH Member and Dr N S Prashant, PG Prof and convenor of this workshop. The five working groups concluded the following preventive drugs: Bell, Calc-c and Tub for JE, Camphor, Ars-alb for GE, Morbillinum for measles, Nux-v, Chel and Sulphur for Infective Hepatitis and Chin-ars, Malaria-off and Tub for Malaria as the recommended preventive drugs.

The final prescription schedule:

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