dengue: stop this loss of precious lives

THIS ARTICLE APPEARED IN THE SUNDAY ISLAND OF JUNE 17 2012

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DENGUE: STOP THIS LOSS OF PRECIOUS LIVES

June 16, 2012, 4:15 pm
I was appalled to read the sad news in the Sunday Island and the Sunday Times of June 10, of the sudden death of two boys, Alastair Senanayake 23 and Damith Amarasuriya 28, the sons of two business magnates in Colombo both of whom succumbed to dengue. As the father of three sons myself, one of whom barely survived an attack of dengue about 10 years ago, I can well imagine the utter grief of their parents when their son was felled in the prime of his life with a virus disease for which there does not seem to be any cure in medicine.

I have been trying to open the eyes of the medical fraternity for over the last five years when I first discovered that a homeopathic remedy was being used extensively in India to cure dengue, which I felt could also be used to treat victims of dengue in Sri Lanka, where the latest statistics of fatalities for this year in the Western Province alone number 65 with over 15,000 victims treated.

The remedy is Eupatorium Perfoliatum 200c and I imported it from India and have given it to many patients who were known to be suffering from dengue in Sri Lanka.

This remedy is given in what is termed the 'wet dose' which is made by inserting just three drops of the remedy into a half liter of drinking water sold in the supermarkets. They were all cured within a short period of under 12 hours after taking the first dose of a large teaspoonful (5ml) of the water remedy from the bottle with subsequent doses taken every three hours.

It is a matter of concern that in spite of the fact that I offered to give a group of doctors whom I recently addressed at a meeting, this same homeopathic remedy free of charge, none of them were prepared to accept my offer. They informed me off the record that they dared not do so for fear of the repercussions that could follow by using a homeopathic remedy to treat their patients. They frankly admitted that there did not exist any drug that could be used to treat dengue and this other flu but they could not dare to experiment with any remedy or drug that was not specified in the government Pharmacopea.

I had informed these doctors that I would be medicating sealed bottles of drinking water which I had taken with me for the meeting with the remedy in their presence, and that all they had to do was to give their next patient known to be suffering from dengue or the current flu raging throughout Sri Lanka a dose of the remedy, but they were all sad that they could not take me up on my offer for use officially in their hospitals.

I do wonder how many more sons and daughters will be sacrificed so very unnecessarily to dengue and the other Virus disease which closely resembles dengue but is not quite as dangerous, which is now prevalent in Colombo today. This other virus also strikes overnight and it will be true to state that at least 5% of the population in the city are infected, judging by the number of people who are on sick leave in offices or are suffering at home today.

I can personally vouch for the fact that anyone can be infected if bitten by an infected mosquito as I too was infected a few days ago. I was feeling out of sorts with a feeling of lethargy and tiredness on the evening of last Poya day and was feeling decidedly worse the next morning. I took a dose of this remedy in the morning as soon as I was certain that I was harbouring some virus borne disease. I took the second dose shortly before lunch and was relieved to feel quite normal by evening.

My plea to the doctors, especially those in the children’s hospitals in the city, which it is reported, are inundated with thousands of little patients, is to give this remedy a chance to save their precious lives. The doctors in the hospitals admit that they have lost the battle to do so, as they do not have any drug to cure a patient. The least that can be expected of all those in the medical profession, is to lay aside their prejudice against homeopathy and use the one remedy that can save these precious lives.

A large teaspoonful of this remedy can be given, with any other drugs and medication that they are currently using to treat their patients to a test group as they will then be able to verify from this test group of patients who are given this homeopathic remedy whether it does help to cure dengue and other virus borne diseases in a better manner than those who are not given the remedy.

My plea to the government is to request the Sri Lanka Medical Council to permit the use of this remedy Eupatorium Perfoliatum 200c in the wet dose on a test basis as I feel that this is the only way to break this imbroglio as the doctors are forbidden to use a homeopathic remedy in their hospitals under the rules that govern their work. This remedy has proved to be very effective in CURING dengue and is being used extensively in almost all hospitals in India where dengue and other virus borne infections are prevalent and are even more common than in Sri Lanka.

Doctors have frankly admitted that there is no drug in the Pharmacopeia that can cure dengue and other similar virus borne diseases. I have personal experience that Eupatorium Perfoliatum 200c does cure this disease and have cured many patients who presented dengue and the current virus. It is my fervent hope that the government health authorities permit me to offer this remedy to the doctors in the hospitals free of charge to enable them to save lives especially of their junior patients who are known to be victims of dengue or the flu.

It will be seen that if we succeed in curing dengue and other similar virus borne diseases, this disease can be effectively eradicated from our land as the ubiquitous mosquito will lack any future victims to enable it to carry on with its deadly mission.

Please visit my website for further information on 'Treatment of Dengue' on

www.joedelivera.com

Joe De Livera
Colombo
SRI LANKA