HOMEOPATHIC REMEDY FOR AIDS

HOMEO REMEDY FOR AIDS?

 WHAT IS AIDS
 HOW DOES IT OCCUR
 SYMPTOMS OF AIDS
 INVESTIGATION & DIAGNOSIS
 PREVENTION OF AIDS
 WHAT CAN HOMOEOPATHY DO

‘Discretion is the better part of valour’. If you have heard of this statement and if you know how most of the cases of AIDS have spread; through sexual contact with a person having the disease without protection, as simple as a condom, we would realize how apt the saying is.

AIDS are dreaded four letters in the world today. AIDS stands for Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome and is contracted from person to person by HIV or Human Immuno-deficiency virus.
December 1 happens to be The World AIDS day.

WHAT IS AIDS?

HIV weakens the body's immune defenses by destroying CD4 (T-cell) lymphocytes. CD4 lymphocytes are a group of white blood cells that normally help guard against attacks by bacteria, viruses and other germs by coordinating the immune system.
When HIV destroys CD4 lymphocytes, the body becomes vulnerable to many different types of opportunistic infections which invade the body because its immune defenses are weak. HIV infection also increases the risk of certain cancers, illnesses of the brain and nerves, body wasting and death. The entire spectrum of symptoms and illnesses that can happen when HIV infection significantly depletes immune defenses is called AIDS

HOW DOES IT OCCUR?

* HIV spreads from person to person through various routes. As the virus is found in the various discharges any exchange of body fluids can spread it from the infected person to the uninfected.
* It spreads through sexual intercourse with an infected person and a simple usage of a condom is enough to stop the transfer.
* It occurs due to transfusion of infected blood to a patient not suffering from the same.
* It occurs if a mother breast-feeds a child and if she is having the virus.
* It occurs due to needles used by a person with HIV being used by an uninfected person.
* Once the virus enters into the body it may remain dormant for sometime and later in some individuals in about six months starts multiplying rapidly. The body fights these viruses and at some point of time is so overwhelmed that the immune system becomes submissive and fails to counter a simple infection too.
* At this point of time any opportunistic infection which infests the body becomes a titanic struggle to maintain health. The Physician attending to the patient in the right earnest.

SYMPTOMS OF AIDS:

# In the early stages there are little or no symptoms at all. A few days after the virus enters the body there could be some flu like illness with fever and bodyache and some accompanying symptoms like sore throat, rash, nausea and vomiting, diarrhoea, fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, headache and joint pain.
# Later as the white blood cells continue to be destroyed there could be skin infections which keep recurring or fail to heal and swelling of nodes in the body along with ulcers of the mouth which become obstinate.
# In the next few years there is occurrence of low-grade fever continuing for several days, unexplained loss of weight, joint and muscle pains and fatigue.
# Any old infections like tuberculosis or Psoriasis that have been under control due to good immunity spring with a vengeance and take their toll.
# Related infections of the lungs are the most common whether it is pneumonia, tuberculosis or even cancerous changes in the lung tissue.

INVESTIGATION & DIAGNOSIS:

- ELISA & Western Blot are two blood tests that would confirm AIDS. But this takes time to appear positive in the blood say about six months.
- When a person is already infected and confirmed with the above the number of CD4Tcells number is crucial to judge the intensity of AIDS.

PREVENTION OF AIDS:

+ Maintaining a monogamous relationship or use barrier method like a condom during sexual intercourse.
+ Blood products should be properly tested before transfusion.
+ Pregnant mothers who are HIV positive should take certain care prescribed to probably prevent the infection from spreading to the child.

WHAT CAN HOMOEOPATHY DO?

As of now there is no cure for AIDS in Homoeopathy. Undeterred work is on to prevent the progression of the active manifestation of the disease in the infected. The ‘window period’ as it is called is the time between the virus appearing in the body and the incessant multiplication of the virus, which has been found to be varying between various individuals. So indirectly it also means that in some infected the diseases progresses gradually.

Homoeopathy is working on the same to delay the progression of the disease so that the body does not fall prey easily to the minor infections thereby disturbing the balance of metabolism and further deterioration.

Needless to say Homoeopathy has definite remedies to act against diseases of the lung, skin etc. caused due to secondary infection.

Dr. Venugopal Gouri
BHMS (Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine & Surgery)
Consultant Homeopath
Mobile: 9140 – 56 27 26 25.
Email: drvenugopal@hotmail.com