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| Nhuchche |
Posted
on 31-Aug-02 03:47 PM
After all the bad publicity of NEPAL in the foreign media, this could be the break Nepal needs to re-affirm it's greatness. Somebody should jump in an copyright this so that some multinational company cannot claim it's theirs. This is awesome news if it's true!
Acharya affirms cure for AIDS
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KATHMANDU, Aug 30
A traditional treatment-method practitioner from western Nepal, Ramesh Kumar Acharya today claimed here that he has completed the trial treatment of two patients of HIV/AIDS.
With the financial help of Birendra Nagar Municipality and other private firms, he started experiment of his kind of medicine on 25-year -old Khagendra Gautam and 24-year-old Suman Shahi around seven months ago and, according to him, the patience are showing symptoms of positive changes.
He had prepared the mixture of medicine with 11 types of locally-found herb. Talking with media persons today, he said that the first phase of his experiment was successful and he wished to make this "invention" useful for the millions of AIDS patinents in the world.
"People often doubt when one finds out solution to what is considered impossible. But we can gain trust when the evidence is presented," he said.
Acharya urges the government to establish an HIV/AIDS Test Council in case he has to undergo a series of problems while experimenting the medicine of the disease that is till now considered incurable.
He said he had already presented the file of his experiments to Health Minister and the Minister also assured to help him if needed.
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| anepalikt |
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on 31-Aug-02 06:32 PM
A few years ago I had heard a similar story abotu Kaptad baba curing AIDS. Who knows!? I hope so though and you are right, it would be a real pity to let multinationals reap the benefits. Though on the other hand, in terms of making such a drug available to people all over the world, only a multnational might be able to do that. If the cure turns out to be real, I hope they won't raze the area for the said plants, but rather look at some sustainable way of regenerating an harvesting them.
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| ~*cherrycola*~ |
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on 31-Aug-02 09:43 PM
if true.. good news indeed!! sounds too good to be true. But why a cure only in Nepal, if this herb can do wonders for nepali then why not other aids sufferers around the world?
hope this is some sort of breakthrough in the battle against treating HIV/AIDS.
*god bless the world of science..
peace!! :o)
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| ~*cherrycola*~ |
Posted
on 31-Aug-02 09:47 PM
sorry.. :D
i didn't read the article properly.. lol.
~*smOoch*~
peace
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| prasnachinha |
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on 31-Aug-02 11:53 PM
indeed a great news!
Billions of dollors have already been spent in this world wide battle against AIDS. There have been some achievements in one or many ways but there has never been a significant finding that leads us to a complete cure. One of the problems that aayurvedic and herbal medicines has is the lack of scientific back up in the modes of action. In that context the scientific community would be very sckeptical about this news. This is not the first time that some one came up with nobel treatment against aids or Hepatitis B or cancer. However what is exciting about this news is that the person is trying to complement aayurvedic jadibuti with the tools of modern medicine.
CD4 count is the major parameter of assessing the prognosis of the disease. Is it something that boost up our immune system so that CD4 count does not decline as it happens in the text book case of HIV/AIDS? Based on the findings, it is very unlikely that our jadibuti has that selective virus-cidal effect. Another important point is that nobody exactly knows how long it takes to reach to the full blown AIDS from HIV positive state. Many people who contracted HIV in 80s are still alive. So this dramatic change in CD4 count could be a natural one as in the case of many patients.
The good news is that even amidst chaos, govt has decided to help this young scientist. I wish we had some set up to carry out some basic virological and cell culture experiments in nepal. I wish all the best.....
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| suman |
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on 01-Sep-02 11:19 AM
Very good news, indeed! If the scientist is confident, then the scientist must, MUST, patent it and then allow multinational company to do further research, sell etc. If the scientist is too generous(does not want money for himself), here is what he could do ... setup a trust fund, transfer the patent to the fund and let the fund handle the sale. The profit can then be allocated directly to the development of hospitals, R&D institutes, universities etc, under the leadership of this young scientist. We are probably talking about a market of trillions of dollars here.
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| Rato Bhale |
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on 01-Sep-02 11:37 AM
I don't believe it even a bit. AIDS is a longterm disease. To really know whether the drugs has worked or not, you'll need to wait a long time(20-30 years). HIV mutates very very quickly . So to come up with a conclusion in such a short time( I am assuming it to be shortterm) is wrong.
I think Acharya doesn't know what he is doing. He is just mixing herbs without knowing what chemicals present in the herbs are making symptoms of HIV to be reduced. Nepal doesn't have the technology necessary to come up with a cure.
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| Bhenda |
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on 01-Sep-02 05:42 PM
Rato Bhale is right. How do they even know the virus is reacting to the medicine, ahiley summa there is no cure for any virus... I dont believe it.
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