Ameliorating effect of microdoses of a potentized homeopathic drug, Arsenicum Album, on arsenic-induced toxicity in mice
P Mallick, J Chakrabarti Mallick, B Guha and AR Khuda-Bukhsh
Abstract
Background: Arsenic in groundwater and its accumulation in plants and animals have assumed a menacing proportion in a large part of West Bengal, India and adjoining areas of Bangladesh.
Because of the tremendous magnitude of the problem, there seems to be no way to tackle the problem overnight.
Efforts to provide arsenic free water to the millions of people living in these dreaded zones are being made, but are awfully inadequate. In our quest for finding out an easy, safe and affordable means to combat this problem, a homeopathic drug, Arsenicum Album-30, appears to yield promising results in mice. The relative efficacies of two micro doses of this drug, namely,
Arsenicum Album-30 and Arsenicum Album-200, in combating arsenic toxicity have been determined in the present study on the basis of some accepted biochemical protocols.
Methods: Mice were divided into different sets of control (both positive and negative) and treated series (As-intoxicated, As-intoxicated plus drug-fed). Alanine amino transferase (ALT) and
aspartate amino transferase (AST) activities and reduced glutathione (GSH) level in liver and blood were analyzed in the different series of mice at six different fixation intervals.
Results: Both Arsenicum Album-30 and Arsenicum Album-200 ameliorated arsenic-induced toxicity to a considerable extent as compared to various controls.
Conclusions: The results lend further support to our earlier views that microdoses of potentized Arsenicum Album are capable of combating arsenic intoxication in mice, and thus are strong candidates for possible use in human subjects in arsenic contaminated areas under medical supervision.
Address: Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani-741235, W.B., India
Email: P Mallick – palash_mallick@yahoo.com;
J Chakrabarti Mallick – jayati_c@rediffmail.com;
B Guha – guha_bibhas@rediffmail.com
AR Khuda-Bukhsh – arkb@klyuniv.ernet.in
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arsenic primary epicentre is deranged secretions thus toxins of disease like that of gastric typhoid affect elevated pulse, motor excitement, sensory disturbances like restless,main pathology effect is gastric disturbances toxic intestines.aw woodward explanation extracted.so arsenic flusher of toxins and this leads to stoppage of morbid secretions from other outlets as from nose diarrhea etc.homeopaths have worked hard to arrive at conclusions public still flocks to allopaths main reason multinationals not advertising homeopathy.