A group of Homoeopathic doctors under the banner of Homoeopathic Council for Epidemic Disaster Management in Kerala has claimed invention of new a nosode to cure Chickunguniya within short time of occurrence.

The doctors informed that the new medicine, Alpha-B-Guniya, is a Homoeopathic remedy prepared from the very pathological specimen of the Chickunguniya subjects from Cherthala Taluk in Alappuzha District, where the disease has most affected.

The team has conducted clinical trials and recorded the results for the 14 patients, in which fever of 12 patients cured upto 85.71 per cent within the first day of treatment. The team also noted significant progress in joint pains with the first week of treatment, adduced Dr N Ramaswamy Sharma, Head, Department of Organon, Dr. Padiyar Memorial Homoeo College, Chottanikkara who was a team member from the council.

He said that the team has conducted 25 days clinical trials for the new medicine in the disease-affected area with written consent of the patients. "The nosode has been derived from the very same Alpha viruses, which cause Chickunguniya, and the idea lead us to clinical trials. We invented that the medicine, potentised as 1/27 parts of the actual potency, has can both the functions of a curative and preventive," Dr Sharma told Pharmabiz.

The research and clinical trial was conducted in a hurry while the epidemic was spreading over the state, and the council has to conduct proving trials on healthy people before filing for drug approval. The council has yet to decide on filing it for an approval as its first preference is to provide medicines to the patients, the council sources added. However, the council has delivered the documents to the Central Health and Family Welfare Ministry and the state government claiming success in Chickungunya treatment.

The council is planning to launch a website for the medicine with details on the trials conducted. The team of doctors is also planning to derive nosodes to other viral disease like dengue, soon. "For the past several decades, Homoeopathic system of medicine is remaining silent without any progress in developing new medicines, and we found that the nosode is the potential area where homeopathy can develop as a better treatment option. Our council will concentrate more on these field and if we can derive a new nosode for an epidemic in the initial stage, we can overcome a major disaster," maintained Sharma.

The team of doctors on the study consisted of private Homoeopathic practioners including Dr Devarajan, from Cherthala, Dr Jordy Paul and Dr Unnikrishnan from Muvatupuzha the near by area of Cherthala.