Indian natural herb Tulsi to fight back swine flu

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Indian natural herb Tulsi to fight back swine flu

Ayurveda, the traditional 'science of life', has a remedy for diseases when every other stream of medicine fails. Now, at a time when swine flu is spreading like wildfire across the world, Ayurveda has the remedy in the form of the miraculous herb, the basil leaves commonly known as Tulsi.

Tulsi, the purest and most sublime plant, has been known and worshipped in India for more than five millennia for its remarkable healing properties. Considered as an 'Elixir of Life', this wonder herb has now been claimed to keep the deadly swine flu at bay and help fast recovery in afflicted persons. "The anti-flu property of Tulsi has been discovered by medical experts across the world quite recently. Tulsi improves the body's overall defence mechanism including its ability to fight viral diseases. It was successfully used in combating Japanese Encephalitis and the same theory applies to swine flu," Dr U K Tiwari, a herbal medicine practitioner says. Apart from acting as a preventive medicine in case of swine flu, Tulsi can help the patient recover faster. "Even when a person has already contracted swine flu, Tulsi can help in speeding up the recovery process and also help in strengthening the immune system of the body," he claims. Dr Bhupesh Patel, a lecturer at Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar is also of the view that Tulsi can play an important role in controlling swine flu. "Tulsi can control swine flu and it should be taken in fresh form. Juice or paste of at least 20-25 medium sized leaves should be consumed twice a day on an empty stomach." This increases the resistance of the body and, thereby, reduces the chances of inviting swine flu," believes Patel. As its name suggests, Tulsi has again proved to be the 'the incomparable' medicine - this time, in the prevention and cure of swine flu. The symptoms of the H1N1 flu virus in people are similar to the symptoms of seasonal flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. A significant number of people who have been infected with novel H1N1 flu virus also have reported diarrhea and vomiting. The high risk groups for novel H1N1 flu are not known at this time, but it's possible that they may be the same as for seasonal influenza. However, Please consult a practitioner in case of any such symptoms. Doctors have strictly advised against self medication.

 

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guardian.co.uk, Saturday 15 August 2009 09.00 BST

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Swine flu panic is sweeping India. But the biggest casualty of this media-manufactured hysteria is common sense

 

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Swine flu is strangling India. The government in Goa has advised against "non-essential" travel to other Indian states. The states of Tamil Nadu

and Rajasthan have asked residents to stay away from Maharashtra. In Bombay, celebrations for Krishna Janmashtami, a popular festival honouring Hinduism's most adored deity, have been cancelled. The health ministry in Delhi has called for "social distancing measures".

Schools, colleges, shopping malls and multiplexes across India's major cities have been shut down. Millions of Indians are going to mark the 62nd anniversary of India's freedom from colonial rule by locking themselves up. According to the headline splashed on the front page of the Times of India, there's "No stopping swine flu".

One could be excused for thinking that human life on the Deccan plateau has, or is about to, become extinct. But the reality is that this "unstoppable" killer virus has so far claimed all of 24 lives. While each death is tragic, and the number will no doubt climb, two dozen fatalities, scattered across a country of 1.3bn people, do not amount to a pandemic.

Dr Shobha Broor, a professor of microbiology at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi, estimates that seasonal flu kills up to 50,000 people annually in India. She told me that resources are being stretched to conduct tests on people who do not need them. Each testing kit costs up to $300 and, according to Broor, only those with existing conditions – mainly heart disease, diabetes or respiratory problems – should be

tested.

But the biggest fatality in this media-manufactured mass hysteria is common sense. Under intense pressure from a deeply irresponsible news media, the government is diverting precious resources to control the spread of a virus which, in 90% of cases, is cured without any medication at all.

Roche, the Switzerland-based manufacturer of Tamiflu, has been the principal beneficiary of this panic. By July this year, it had made nearly $1bn on sales of Tamiflu. The Indian government alone has stocked up on more than a million Tamiflu capsules, spending between 35 and 200 rupees on each capsule.

Roche has sold a licence to Hetero Drugs to manufacture generic Tamiflu for India and Africa. Local pharmaceutical giants want a share of the pie, and are pressing the government to let them manufacture the drug. By the time the drug is widely distributed, the virus will most probably have developed resistance. This is an extraordinary rip-off. But the government has to be seen to be doing something, and all it can do is spend money – money that is required elsewhere.

There is a reason why the spread of H1N1 is getting the kind of attention in India that malaria and tuberculosis, which kill many thousands each year, never do. In a country that is so sharply divided along class lines, where everyday integration is limited to the street, H1N1 has emerged as the disease of the socially mobile, of the beneficiaries of globalisation. It is telling that the first confirmed case of H1N1 in India was a 23-year-old man returning from the US.

For over a decade now, well-heeled Indians, and those joining their ranks, have built walls around themselves, excluding the poor – those most likely to suffer from malaria and TB, diseases all but extinct in first-world India's imagination – with a brutality unmatched in any part of the democratic world. The malls and multiplexes and schools and colleges that have been shut down define this class of Indians: apathetic, callous and, as we now know, cowardly. Remarkably, the virus that has shaken their world is named after swine.

 

 

 

 

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Indian natural herb Tulsi to fight back swine flu

Ayurveda, the traditional 'science of life', has a remedy for diseases when every other stream of medicine fails. Now, at a time when swine flu is spreading like wildfire across the world, Ayurveda has the remedy in the form of the miraculous herb, the basil leaves commonly known as Tulsi.

Tulsi, the purest and most sublime plant, has been known and worshipped in India for more than five millennia for its remarkable healing properties. Considered as an 'Elixir of Life', this wonder herb has now been claimed to keep the deadly swine flu at bay and help fast recovery in afflicted persons. "The anti-flu property of Tulsi has been discovered by medical experts across the world quite recently. Tulsi improves the body's overall defence mechanism including its ability to fight viral diseases. It was successfully used in combating Japanese Encephalitis and the same theory applies to swine flu," Dr U K Tiwari, a herbal medicine practitioner says. Apart from acting as a preventive medicine in case of swine flu, Tulsi can help the patient recover faster. "Even when a person has already contracted swine flu, Tulsi can help in speeding up the recovery process and also help in strengthening the immune system of the body," he claims. Dr Bhupesh Patel, a lecturer at Gujarat Ayurved University, Jamnagar is also of the view that Tulsi can play an important role in controlling swine flu. "Tulsi can control swine flu and it should be taken in fresh form. Juice or paste of at least 20-25 medium sized leaves should be consumed twice a day on an empty stomach." This increases the resistance of the body and, thereby, reduces the chances of inviting swine flu," believes Patel. As its name suggests, Tulsi has again proved to be the 'the incomparable' medicine - this time, in the prevention and cure of swine flu. The symptoms of the H1N1 flu virus in people are similar to the symptoms of seasonal flu and include fever, cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, body aches, headache, chills and fatigue. A significant number of people who have been infected with novel H1N1 flu virus also have reported diarrhea and vomiting. The high risk groups for novel H1N1 flu are not known at this time, but it's possible that they may be the same as for seasonal influenza. However, Please consult a practitioner in case of any such symptoms. Doctors have strictly advised against self medication.

 

 

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