Wednesday 5 September 2018

Is Ayurvedic Treatment for HIV Effective?


As per recent estimation by Centre of Disease Control over 25 million people are suffering with dangerous ailment like HIV and out of which, around 9 million people have developed AIDS; mainly in undeveloped locations such as South Africa; and thus, many people are looking for proper HIV Treatment Center in Nigeria.

India is identified to be the hub for number HIV patients struggling for good quality of life and essentially for survival. Recently, with the technological advancements and improved scientific understanding it has been possible to immediately offer anti-retroviral treatments to people who have been exposed to HIV. However, it should be noted that the cost of treatment is extremely high and is not suitable for people, who are in middle income or low-income group. Thus, experts are searching for the alternative treatment options for curing HIV and related infections. Accordingly, various studies across India and China have confirmed application of ayurvedic medicines to be effective in augmenting immunity and associated regularizations. In this regard, number of attempts have been proposed to essentially configure the effect of ayurveda on HIV and related manifestations. 

A study with more than 200 candidates was conducted, wherein almost about 200 candidates were selected for treatment with ayurveda. The study has been conducted in Pune, India and is being published in one of the prestigious journals of Immunology. All the included patients were male and were further categorized into two groups, one is reference group and the other one is identified to be as the test group. The patients were included by performing relevant tests of routine investigations. The test patients were administered with ayurvedic doses daily for 15 days and all the other parameters were measured to analyze the effect of drug on them. The same drug application was continued for another 15 days, with predetermined post procedural investigations, as proposed. A control group of patients were given placebo and all the patients were further supervised for one month. The interval of supervision was gradually increased. A total duration of study was proposed to be three months.

Accordingly, the results of the study show significant improvement in immune regularization of patients, who are on ayurvedic treatment schedule. Whereas that of the patients with control group showed no significant signs of improvement. Antigenic specificity of the blood obtained from all the patients of both test as well as controlled group, when measured exhibited significant difference. RNA viral load of test patients was found to be reduced to the great extent.

Thus, ayurvedic treatment for HIV offers significantly effective cure, as compared to its allogenic counterparts, pertaining to immune regularization, decrease in viral loads and improved quality of life.