वर्ष 2013-14 सहित बारहवीं पंच वर्षीय योजना के दौरान आयुष विभाग की प्राथमिकताएं

वर्ष 2013-14 सहित बारहवीं पंच वर्षीय योजना के दौरान आयुष विभाग की प्राथमिकताएं

देश के कोने-कोने में प्रत्येक व्यक्ति को पूर्ण स्वास्थ्य के दायरे में लाना बाहरवीं पंच वर्षीय योजना की एक प्राथमिकता है। इस दौरान आयुष चिकित्सा प्रणाली की विशेषताओं को ध्यान में रखते हुए उसे आधुनिक चिकित्सा प्रणालियों के साथ-साथ प्रयोग में लाया जाएगा। रोगों से बचाव, विशेष रूप से महिलाओं, बच्चों, वरिष्ठ व्यक्तियों को ध्यान में रखते हुए नॉन कम्यूनिकेबल बीमारियों में, तनाव के प्रबंधन में, मानसिक रोगों की चिकित्सा में, बीमारियों से जूझते व्यक्तियों की देखभाल में और स्वस्थ्य लाभ में आयुष का प्रयोग किया जाएगा।

बारहवीं पंच वर्षीय योजना के महत्वपूर्ण उद्देश्य : -

बाहरवीं पंच वर्षीय योजनाओं में आयुष के लिए 10,044 करोड़ रूपये का प्रावधान रखा गया है। जबकी ग्यारहवीं पंच वर्षीय योजना में केवल 2994 करोड़ रूपये ही जिन उद्देश्यों के लिए खर्च किए गए वे हैः

1. स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं में आयुष के प्रयोग को बढ़ाया गया।

2. आयुष विभाग ने आयुष की विशेषताओं को चिकित्सा, विशेषतौर पर महिलाओं बच्चों और बुजुर्गों के लिए, मानसिक बीमारियों के चिकित्सा में, तनाव के प्रबन्धन में, बीमार व्यक्तियों की देखभाल में और पुनर्वास में किया।

बारहवीं पंच वर्षीय योजना के अंतर्गत जो सुझाव दिए गए हैं उनमें इन संस्थाओं को शुरू करने की सिफारिश की गई है : -

1. होमियोपैथी मेडिसिन फार्मास्यूटिकल कंपनी लिमिटेड

2. अखिल भारतीय योग संस्थान

3. अखिल भारतीय होमियोपैथी संस्थान

4. अखिल भारतीय यूनानी चिकित्सा संस्थान

5. राष्ट्रीय सोवा रिग्पा संस्थान

6. राष्ट्रीय औषधीय पौध संस्थान

7. राष्ट्रीय आयुष पुस्तकालय और अभिलेखागार

8. केंद्रीय सोवा रिग्पा अनुसंधान परिषद

9. आयुष संबंधित राष्ट्रीय मानव संसाधन आयोग

10. आयुष के लिए केंद्रीय दवा नियंत्रक

11. आयुष औषध प्रणाली का भारतीय संस्थान

12. राष्ट्रीय जराचिकित्सा संस्थान

13. मेटाबॉलिक तथा लाइफ-स्टाइल बीमारियों का राष्ट्रीय संस्थान

14. राष्ट्रीय ड्रग तंबाकू निवारण संस्थान

नए कार्यक्रम : आयुष के राष्ट्रीय मिशन के अंतर्गत कुछ और नए कार्यक्रमों की सिफारिश की गई है जो कि इस प्रकार हैः

1. आयुष ग्राम

2. फार्मेको विजिलेंश इनिशियेटिव फोर ए.एस.यू. ड्रग्स

3. शोध परिषद की इकाइयों को प्रभावी बनाना

4. राष्ट्रीय आयुष हैल्थ प्रोग्राम

5. अस्पताल और डिस्पेंसरी (आयुष के साथ-साथ राष्ट्रीय ग्रामीण स्वास्थ्य मिशन-एक फ्लेक्सिपूल)

source : http://www.pib.nic.in/newsite/hindirelease.aspx?relid=21511

Convert AYUSH department into a full- fledged Ministry – PAC

 

The Public Accounts Committee in its Thirty- second Report (Fifteenth Lok Sabha) has recommended converting the Department of AYUSH into full- fledged Ministry, to be named as Ministry of Indigenous Systems of Medicine or AYUSH Ministry.

The Department has taken several steps to make people aware about efficacy, efficiency and strengths of AYUSH systems of medicines, so as to encourage them to use these medicines.

The Department organizes Arogya fairs at National & State level. Recently, State level fairs have been organized at Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Sikkim and National level Arogya at Hyderabad. During the fairs folders, booklets and leaflets and other publicity materials published by the Department are distributed to the public for enhancing their awareness.

Source : http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=95311

Read the story : http://www.similima.com/convert-ayush-department-into-a-full-fledged-ministry-pac

Clinical evaluation of homoeopathic therapy in the management of hyperlipoproteinemia

Clinical evaluation of homoeopathic therapy in the management of hyperlipoproteinemia by  J.P. Govekar1, V.K. Paul, K. Singh, Praveen Oberai, , Varanasi Roja
Regional Research Institute (H), New Delhi
Central Council for Research in Homeopathy, Headquarters, New Delhi

Objectives:This study aimed at evolving a group of useful homoeopathic medicines in the treatment of hyperlipoproteinaemia, to identify their reliable indications, most useful potencies, frequency of administration and relationship with other medicines.
Methods: A prospective observational study was carried out during the period 1992-2003. Three hundred and twenty two patients with hyperlipoproteinaemia and various clinical presentations were studied. Patients of more than 30 years of age, with cholesterol > 200mg/dl, triglycerides > 170mg/dl, LDL > 150mg/dl, VLDL > 50mg/dl and HDL < 35 mg/dl were included in this study. Specificparameters were followed to assess the intensity of complaints and the improvement status.
Homoeopathic medicines were prescribed in different potencies (Q to 10M), basing on the presenting complaints, mental and physical attributes of the patients. The patients were advised to have low calorie diet and regular exercise.
Results: Two hundred ninety three (293) patients were followed up regularly and varying degrees of improvement were observed, viz. marked improvement in 77 patients, moderate improvement in 113 patients, mild improvement in 100 patients and no improvement in 03 patients. Abroma augusta 30, Gelsemium 30, Lycopodium 1M, Bryonia alba 30, Pulsatilla 30, Nux vomica 30 were found to be useful among the other prescribed medicines.
Conclusion: Results obtained from the study are encouraging with findings that 26% of the patients improved markedly with an evidence of changes in laboratory parameters. However, an experiment in controlled setting with improved protocol and clearer outcome parameters is required.
Key words: homoeopathy; observational study; hyperlipoproteinaemia; abroma augusta; gelsemium; lycopodium; bryonia alba; pulsatilla; nux vomica.

Courtesy : CCRH

Full Text with download link : http://homeopathyresearches.blogspot.in/2013/04/clinical-evaluation-of-homoeopathic.html

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An opportunity or a threat to homeopathy ?

Homeopathy :: An opportunity or a threat to homeopathy ?
Courtesy : Dr. Anil Singhal

Maharashtra Legislative Assembly is considering an option to allow homeopathic doctors to practice allopathy in the state. Replying to a calling attention notice on the issue of demand of homeopathic doctors to practice allopathy, state Medical Education Minister Vijay Kumar Gavit said “It is not possible legally to allow medicos to practice a medicine which they have not studied. Homeopathy doctors wishing to practice allopathy should study pharmacology. There should be a course of one year and then they will be allowed to practice allopathy”. Accordingly, Maharashtra Medical Practitioners Act, 1961 will be amended. He said the Homeopathy Council (CCH) in Delhi has been requested to include the subject ofpharmacology in the homeopathy curriculum.

As there is a shortage of allopathic doctors in rural areas, Govt. thinks with this amendment, homeopathic doctors may also prescribe allopathic medicines. This is true that both allopathy and homeopathy have same syllabus until last semester apart from pharmacology in allopathic and materia medica in homeopathic medical colleges.

Pharmacology deals with the drugs, its indications, beneficial and side effects, but homeopathic doctors are not trained in prescribing and follow-ups of patients with allopathic medicines. They have to learn applied part of it in different disease conditions in patients. Otherwise, they would be responsible for events of medical negligence.

Later, this might be proven to be a (legal) form of quackery because of this fundamentally wrong teachings in homeopathic colleges, and any agency (like Flexner Report in 1910 in USA) may recommend the closure of homeopathic medical colleges due to (in)appropriate production of (un)educated and (ill)trained medical practitioners (or quacks). This would be an end to homeopathy in India like it happened in US in the first part of the 20^th century.

Also, a pertinent question is aroused — why this special maneuver is envisioned?

- Are they putting a question to efficacy of homeopathy?

- Have they accepted their inability to retain allopathic doctors in villages? or

- Is this a trap (by allopaths/pharmaceutical companies) to make an end to this established system of therapeutics.

In 2011, AYUSH had underlined the fact that Maharashtra is home to 15.78% AYUSH doctors, highest in the country. That has 14.09% non-allopathic practitioners. 184 homeopathic colleges across the country, the Maharashtra state has 43 colleges. With the new option, many students would opt for alternative medicine thinking of it as a backdoor entry to practice allopathy. This would be a disastrous situation to homeopathy. Can we control this mindset?

I believe, this is the time to do a swot analysis of this option, and in this aspect we have talked to some eminent persons in this field:

Dr. Kamal Puri – Homeopathic Consultant, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, says “Homeopaths should practice homeopathy, allopaths should practice allopathy. We are providing our homeopathic services in a well-known hospital in the capital seeing all kinds of cases in the OPDs, and we don’t see why a homeopath should prescribe allopathy medicine. Even many allopathy doctors themselves prefer homeopathy in certain chronic cases.”

Dr. Aditya Kaushik – Member, Delhi Board of Homeopathic System of Medicine, says “Govt. is discussing and exploring certain options so that any doctor practicing in rural areas can manage any life-threatening situation in a patient in a way that the patient should reach to a hospital set-up. This would help all the patients in emergency or trauma conditions. But, allopathy should not be practiced regularly. This is the time we should integrate all best. Similarly, allopaths can have special qualification in homeopathy like courses run by RLHH, UK.”

Dr. Pankaj Datta – Principal, Inderprastha Dental College, Gaziabad, who is a great believer in homeopathy, says “Homeopathy is a specialized branch of medicine. Today, we see a lot of systemic diseases in patients, so by adding pharmacology in the curriculum, a homeopathic doctor would be able to understand the symptoms properly in a patient who might be already on some allopathic medicines – its interactions, symptoms induced by medications, etc. Every system has its own limitation, a homeopathic doctor would be better equipped to manage patients with homeopathic medicines.”

Well, if we represent our best intentions for homeopathy correctly, we can establish this therapeutic science more firmly in this 21^st Century.

News from Sri Lanka–India to assist in setting up a Homeopathic University in Sri Lanka

With special thanks to Sri Lanka Brodcasting Corporation 1-2-2012

Following discussions held by Minister Salinda Dissanayake with India’s Health and Family Welfare Minister Gulam Nabhi Azad, India has come forward to assist in improving the indigenous medical system. This meeting has taken place on the sidelines of the 66th World Homeopathy Conference held in India recently. An MOU is to be signed between the two countries shortly. As a preliminary step, a delegation led by the Secretary of India’s health and family welfare Ministry will arrive in Sri Lanka next Sunday. During this visit the Indian delegation will discuss about establishing an indigenous medicine university and a homeopathy university.

Earlier in August 2011 The Sri Lankan Cabinet has given approval for the new Homeopathy Act to replace the existing one to improve the Homeopathy medicine system. With the new Act a Homeopathy Medical College is expected to be established with the consent of the University Grants Commission. This new Act will stipulate the establishment of a Homeopathy Medical Council, regularization of the Registration of Homeopathy Centres and registration of Homeopathy pharmacists.  as Sri Lanka Daily Mirror reports :

Homeopathy doctors should posses qualifications obtained from a local university or any other recognized institute approved by the UGC or qualifications obtained from foreign institutions approved by the Medical Council of the relevant country, according to a new Homeopathy Act.

The monitoring and administering process of the Homeopathy profession will be assigned to the Homeopathy Medical Council to be established under the new Act. Studies, Research and Development activities of Homeopathy and the production, imports, sale and distribution of Homeopathy drugs and Monitoring and controlling of Homeopathy Medical Institutes will also come under the purview of the proposed Council.

Under the changes to be introduced the Ministry of Indigenous medicine expects to promote Homeopathy by providing qualified doctors, ensuring their services to the patients and providing of standard drugs.

The Homeopathy Medical Council will also arrange to streamline the registration of the Homeopathy Doctors and the pharmacists to avoid the engagement of unqualified doctors and pharmacists in Homeopathy treatments.

However in India . the Calcutta University annually provides 10 scholarships to Sri Lanka for homeopathy studies. Thirty-five Lankan students are studying in India.

दो होम्योपैथिक चिकित्सक पदम पुरस्कार से सम्मानित

पहली बार भारत  सरकार ने देश के दो ख्यात होमियो चिकित्सकों को पद्म अलंकरण से सम्मानित है। पद्म अलंकरण से सम्मानित स्व.डा.जुगलकिशोर का होम्योपैथिक चिकित्सा  पद्द्ति से गहरा रिशता रहा है । दिल्ली मे ५६ वर्ष की प्रैकिटिस का  गहन  अनुभव , अनेक होम्योपैथिक पुस्तकों के रचयिता और अनेक भारतीय दवाओं के परीक्षण करके होम्योपैथिक रिपर्ट्री को उन्होनें समृद्ध किया है । गत वर्ष २३ जनवरी २०१२ को वे इस नश्वर शरीर को छोड़ चले गए। विएना और ग्रीस में आयोजित अंतरराष्ट्रीय होमियो कांग्रेस में भारत का प्रतिनिधित्व किया। उनकी पंचकार्ड रेपटरी होमियो चिकित्सकों के लिए बड़ी सहायक बनी हुई है। नेहरू होमियो कालेज व अस्पताल तथा बी . आर. सूर होम्योपैथिक कालेज व अस्पताल में बतौर कंसल्टंट अनेक वर्षों तक सेवाएं दीं। शारदा बायरन होमियो लेब के भी वे सलाहकार रहे।

वर्तमान में डा.मुकेश बत्रा भी इसी तरह होमियोपैथी की पताका को ऊँचाई पर फहरा रहे हैं। वे १९७४ से होमियोपैथी के क्षेत्र में सक्रिय हैं। २००१ में उन्होंने पाजीटिव हेल्थ फाउंडेशन की स्थापना की। वृद्धाश्रम व अनाथाश्रमों को गोद लेकर वहाँ डा.बत्रा की टीम निशुल्क सेवाएँ देती है। डा.बत्रा दूरदृष्टि वाले उद्यमी चिकित्सक हैं। टाइम्स आफ इंडिया सहित अनेक पत्र-पत्रिकाओं में उनके नियमित लेख छपते हैं। टीवी पर भी उनके हैल्थ शो होते रहते हैं।

लेख के लिये आभार : यदा कदा

Extreme Homeopathic Dilutions retain starting materials- A nanoparticulate perspective : research Paper by IIT researchers Prashant , A.K.Suresh, Jayesh Bellare & Shantaram Govind

 

छह महीने पहले ब्रिटिश मेडिकल असोसिएशन द्वारा होम्योपैथी के वैज्ञानिक आधार को लेकर लगाए गए सवालिया निशान का भारत के वैज्ञानिकों ने करारा जवाब दिया है। आईआईटी बॉम्बे के वैज्ञानिकों ने अपने एक शोध में साबित किया है कि होम्योपैथी की छोटी, उजली और मीठी गोलियां नैनोटैक्नॉलजी के सिद्धांत पर काम करती हैं।

आईआईटी बॉम्बे ने हाल ही में ‘अलसेवियर’ मैगजीन में ‘ होम्योपैथी ‘ पर एक रिसर्च प्रकाशित किया है। इसमें कहा गया है कि होम्योपैथी पिल्स में सोना, तांबा और लोहा जैसे नैचरल मेटल्स होते हैं। इनके घुलने की क्षमता मीटर के एक अरबवें हिस्से तक की होती है।

गौरतलब है कि आईआईटी बॉम्बे के केमिकल इंजिनियरिंग के वैज्ञानिकों ने होम्योपैथिक पिल्स के घुलने की क्षमता का अध्ययन किया। वैज्ञानिकों ने गोलियों के घुलने के बाद शक्तिशाली इलेक्ट्रॉन माइक्रोस्कोप से इस घोल का अध्ययन किया और उनमें मौजूद मेटल्स के नैनो पार्टिकल्स का पता लगाया।

वैज्ञानिकों की टीम में शामिल डॉक्टर जयेश बेल्लारी ने बताया, ‘निश्चित रूप से अतिघुलनशील होने के बावजूद होम्योपैथी पिल्स में मापने योग्य मेटल्स मौजूद होते हैं।’ सीधी भाषा में समझें तो 4 लाख कणों में से एक कण के कंसन्ट्रेशन के बावजूद यह गोलियां असरकारक होती हैं।

डॉक्टर जयेश ने बताया कि उनके छात्र प्रशांत चिक्रमाने ने ‘ एक्सट्रीम होम्योपैथिक डायल्यूशन्स रिटेन स्टार्टिंग मटीरियल्स : अ नैनोपार्टिकुलेट पर्सपेक्टिव ‘ पर थीसिस लिखा है। होम्योपैथी मॉर्डन मेडिसिन के लिए पहेली बना हुआ है। इसके डॉक्टरों ने इसकी घुलनशीलता और मेटल्स की मौजूदगी पर काफी अध्ययन किया है। इसे हर तरह से जांचा परखा है, लेकिन इसके मैकेनिज्म पर अब भी काफी काम किया जाना बाकी है।

Scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) have established that the sweet white pills work on the principle of nanotechnology.
    Homeopathic pills—made of naturally occurring metals such as gold and copper-—retain their potency even when diluted to a nanometre or one-billionth of a metre, states the IIT-B research published in the latest issue of Homoeopathy, a peer-reviewed journal published by the reputed Elsevier. IIT-B’s chemical engineering department bought commonly available homoeopathic pills from neigbourhood shops, prepared highly diluted solutions and checked under powerful electron microscopes to find nanoparticles of the original metal.
    “Our paper showed that certain highly diluted homoeopathic remedies made from metals still contain measurable amounts of the starting material, even at extreme dilutions of 1 part in 10 raised to 400 (200C),’’ said Dr Jayesh Bellare. His student, Prashant Chikramane, presented the paper ‘Extreme homoeopathic dilutions retain starting materials: A nanoparticulate perspective’, as part of his doctoral thesis. IIT theory proves what some homoeopaths have always known
    Homoeopathy was established in the late 18th century by German physician Samuel Hahnemann. While it is widely popular in certain countries, especially India, the British Medical Association and the British parliament have in recent times questioned homoeopathy’s potency. Around four years ago, British research papers rubbished homoeopathy as a mere “placebo’’.
    “Homoeopathy has been a conundrum for modern medicine. Its practitioners maintained that homeopathic pills got more potent on dilution, but they could never explain the mechanism scientifically enough for the modern scientists,’’ said Bellare. For instance, if an ink-filler loaded with red ink is introduced into the Powai lake, Bellare said, there would be no chance of ever tracing it. “But the fact is that homoeopathic pills have worked in extreme dilutions and its practitioners have been able to cure tough medical conditions,” he added.
    “We had analyzed ayurvedic bhasmas a few years ago and found nanoparticles to be the powering agent ,” the team members said. For the first time, scientists used equipment like transmission electron microscope, electron diffraction and emission spectroscopy to map physical entities in extremely dilution. They could measure nanoparticles of gold and copper (the original metal used in the medicines).
    American homoeopaths—Dr Joh Ives from Samueli Institute in Virginia and Joyce C Fryce from the Centre of Integrative Medicine, University of Maryland—said, “We are all familiar with the simple calculations showing that a series of 1:99 dilutions done sequentially will produce a significant dilution of the starting material in very short order,” they wrote in a special editorial in the journal. But as dilution increases, this theory goes awry. “(But) Chikramane et al found that, contrary to our arithmetic, there are nanogram quantities of the starting material still present in these ‘high potency’ remedies.’’
    The hypothesis is that nanobubbles form on the surface of the highly diluted mixtures and float to the surface, retaining the original potency. “We believe we have cracked the homoeopathy conundrum,’’ said Bellare. According to homoeopath Dr Farokh J Master, the IIT theory has proven something what practitioners have always known. “My instruction to my patients has always been to dilute the pills in water and stir it 10 times with a spoon. Then remove the spoon , dip it in another cup of water and stir 10 times. I advise my patients to do this in five cups before discarding the first four cups and then drinking the fifth cup in two equal doses,’’ said Master.
MEDICAL FACTS
FOR…
Homeopathy works on the principles of nano-particles, say IIT-B’s department of chemical engineering team
    Using state-of-the art techniques, they could find particles of the original element as small as one-billionth of a metre
    The hypothesis is that a nanoparticle-nanobubble rises to the surface of the diluted solution; it is this 1% of the top layer that is collected and further diluted. So, the concentration remains
AGAINST…
Homeopathy is merely a placebo, said a meta-analyses published in the Lancet in 2005.
    The British Medical Association said that homeopathy had no scientific basis; dub it witchcraft
    Many National Health Services in the UK excluded homeopathy from their purview

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Complete Freund’s Adjuvant (CFA) द्वारा गठिया से पीडित किये गये चूहों पर होम्योपैथिक औषधि रस टाक्स के परीक्षण ( Modulation of arthritis in rats by Toxicodendron pubescens and its homeopathic dilutions.)

Source : pubmed & Indian Journal of Research in Homeopathy

पशुऒं पर होम्योपैथिक दवाओं के परीक्षण अधिक देखे नही जाते हैं लेकिन इधर हाल के दिनों मे इन परीक्षणॊं की संख्या बढी है , हाँलाकि यह होम्योपैथिक सिद्दातों का पूर्ण रुप से पालन नही करते इसके बावजूद इनकी महत्ता से इन्कार नही किया जा सकता है । होम्योपैथिक पद्दति मे निशिचित सिद्दांत हैं और उनके लिये लक्षणॊं का लेना और उनके ऊपर प्रेसक्राब करना एक अनिवार्य शर्त है ।

हाँलाकि हाल ही मे The Faculty of Homeopathy २०११जर्नल मे प्रकाशित एक लेख जो पबमेड पर प्रकाशित हुआ कम चर्चा का विषय रहा । पटेल इन्सटिटुयूट आफ़ फ़ारमासियुटिकल रिसर्च के सी.आर. पाटिल , आर.बी.जाधव आदि का लेख रस टाक्स की anti inflammatory property पर था ।

सर्वप्रथम Complete Freund’s Adjuvant (CFA) द्वारा चूहों को गठिया से पीडित किया गया और उसके बाद सिलसिलेवार शुरु हुये  प्रयोगशाला परीक्षण । रस टाक्स के 3cH, 6cH, 30cH, 200cH पोटेन्सी को सफ़लतापूर्वक प्रयोग  कर के उनके परिणामों को होम्योपैथिक मैटैरिया मेडिका आदि मे वर्णित लेखों  के आधार को  सही पाया गया । यह रिसर्च अभी जारी है ।

Modulation of arthritis in rats by Toxicodendron pubescens and its homeopathic dilutions.

Patil CR, Rambhade AD, Jadhav RB, Patil KR, Dubey VK, Sonara BM, Toshniwal SS.

Source

R. C. Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Karvand Naka, Shirpur 425 405, Dhule, Maharashtra, India.

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Toxicodendron pubescens P. Mill (Anacardiaceae) known in homeopathy as Rhus toxicodendron (Rhus tox) is used as an anti-inflammatory medicine in homeopathic practice. In this study, Rhus tox in its crude form and homeopathic dilutions (3cH, 6cH, 30cH, 200cH) was evaluated for effects on Complete Freund’s Adjuvant (CFA) induced arthritis in rats.

METHOD:

We assessed the severity of arthritis through observations including inflammatory lesions, body and organ weight and hematological parameters including C-reactive protein (CRP). Blinded radiological analysis of the affected joints and pain intensity determination was also carried out.

RESULTS:

Rhus tox protected rats from CFA-induced inflammatory lesions, body weight changes and hematological alterations. Rhus tox protected against radiological joint alterations due to arthritis. Arthritic pain scores were also favorably affected by Rhus tox. All the dilutions of Rhus tox including crude form showed anti-arthritic activity. The maximum protective effect was evident in the crude form at 10mg/kg/day, by mouth.

CONCLUSION:

This study supports claims in the homeopathic literature on the role of Rhus tox and its ultra dilutions in the treatment of arthritis and associated pain. Further study is needed to explain this anti-arthritic effect of Rhus tox.

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