Kerala-based Institution of Homoeopaths has offered to effectively treat the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) in India and abroad, claiming general medicines in homoeopathy are capable of killing the virus which causes the disease.

“SARS, with symptoms of fever and cough, is curable through homoeopathy within two to three days in its first stage and the viral disease itself is not as dreaded as being publicised across the world,” Dr K C Prasobh Kumar and Dr S Vidya Prakash, general secretary and vice-president of the Institution of Homoeopaths, Kerala, told Pharmabiz.com.

Stating that unauthorised use of chemical drugs usually caused certain diseases that were difficult to diagnose, they said homoeopathy's way of treatment, quite popular in West Bengal and Kerala, had been effectively curing such diseases by killing the virus.

“Homoeopathy treats patients to boost their immunity after identifying the disease,” they said, adding while antibiotics could not kill a virus, homoeopathy successfully eliminated any virus that caused imbalance in the human body.

'Pulsagnilla' and 'Trionia' were some of the general medicines that were used in homoeopathy to treat fever and cough and application of specific therapy had cured even dreaded diseases like leptospirosis which recently turned into an epidemic in the state, they said.

Offering to treat SARS anywhere in the world, the doctors said for the cost of purchasing a mask, several patients inflicted by the viral disease could be cured through use of homoeopathy medicines which were comparatively cheaper.

“Homoeopathy medicines costing Rs 10 could cure any viral disease in less than a week, but, unfortunately, this system of medicine is not as popular as others,” they said.

“Although use of masks has been prescribed to resist the virus, masks can't serve the purpose,” they claimed. Masks only served as a preliminary protection, but the virus was capable of inflicting a person in several other forms, they said.

“If desired, we are prepared to send our teams to any part of the world to treat SARS,” they said, adding homoeopathy never gave importance to diseases based on their nature (airborne or waterborne), but always offered to treat the patients after initially identifying the virus that caused the disease.

“SARS is yet another viral disease which has caused so much sensation due to its rapid outbreak in certain countries where homoeopathy is not practised,” they added.