Interferon is not your last resort

An article by

Dr Asghar Ali Shah

Homeopathic Physician

Published in The News International on April 3, 2009

One of every 12 people on our planet is affected by hepatitis B or C. It is estimated that 4,110 people die daily of hepatitis that is now recognized as one of the top healthcare problems.

Many researchers believe that this situation is a result of the indiscriminate use of the antibiotics. Anti-malarial drugs and pain killers. They are of the view that the usage of these medicines has rendered our immune system venerable to the infections caused by the viral hepatitis.

These days the medicine industry has only one answer to the viral hepatitis and that is a course of interferon injections. Medical researchers have been inserted in interferons since their role in the immune process was first noticed by two Japanese scientists nagano and kojima in1954. Interferons (IFNs) are natural proteins produced by the cells of the immune system of our bodies in response to challenges by foreign agents such as viruses, parasites and tumour cells. Intrferon assist the immune response by inhibiting viral replication within hosts cells, activating natural killer cells and inducing the resistance of host cells to viral infection.

Just as their natural function, interferons have antiviral, antiseptic and anti cancerous properties. When administered as drugs. But majority of the hepatitis patients do not respond to their infertion therapy. The tiny minority, which responds to it, usually develops long lasting side effects and they may also become resistant to the therapy in future. So bring the only treatment in the allopathic system is no justification for exposing millions of sufferers to the hazards of this therapy.

Our bodies naturally produce thousands of substances including Interferons and know best how to utilize them most appropriately against the attacks of interferons and other aliments to keep us healthy & strong. A dose of homeopathic medicine properly individualized according to the symptoms of a particular patient, triggers a natural healing process in that patient and can permanently cure his chronic conditions like hepatitis B or C.

Let me illustrate the point by giving details of three hepatitis C cases I dealt with recently.

1. Mrs. Farhan mir of Lahore developed hepatitis C and of course she was very much worried. Her gastroenterologist advised her to start the course of injections but she doubted their efficacy and was also afraid of the side effects. Her sister in Sialkot asked her to try the homeopathic treatment. When I took her detailed symptoms I found that she was morbidly anxious about the health and education of her children. She was unable to digest the dairy products and always gnawing hunger at 11 am she had two deliveries through cesarean section. She was not very sensitive to cold and also had hot burning feet. She frequently felt nausea and dry mouth. She had a long history of frequently taking pain killers for her headaches and body aches.

2. Abdul ghani, a 62 year old man from vehari, had his blood tests done as a part of requirement for his job visa for the UAE. It was a shock for him to discover that he was suffering from hepatitis C. He was convinced by his well wishers to get the homeopathic treatment. I took his symptoms and discovered that he was a very cool minded person. He had mild diabetes and was unable to digest oily food. His eyesight was getting weaker and weaker. He had a great craving for milk. He always suffered from flatulent stomach and became very tired after little exertion.

3. Mrs. Tassaduq Razaq Kiani, a 38 year old woman from Rawalpindi was asked by her doctor to get her blood tested. And as a result showed that she was having hepatitis C. She opted for the homeopathic treatment. Her symptoms showed that she was very sensitive to cold and heat. Her symptoms always got aggravated after washing clothes. Both her parents had diabetes. She frequently complained for vomiting and diarrhea. She had poor assimilation.

All these three persons were suffering from the same disease that is hepatitis C. But they showed different subjective and objective symptoms. Three different homeopathic medicines which best suited their individual symptoms were given to them and within a few months by the grace of ALLAH they were no more hepatitis C patients.

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Lets get to the bottom of Hepatitis C

An article by
Dr Asghar Ali Shah
Homeopathic Physician
Published in The News International on October 03, 2010

The common people in our country believed that unhygienic conditions lead to the development and spread of hepatitis C. The reality is far from it. No doubt unhygienic conditions lead to many a disease or infection but not hepatitis C. The cases of this disease are on the increase in the hygiene-conscious developed countries.
While only patients often show a keen interest in the knowledge of treatment, everybody ought to know about the causes of the disease to take preventive measures in time. The discovery of the hepatitis C virus in 1989 was considered a major breakthrough. Then a race began among all pharmaceutical companies to beat one another out in finding a vaccine or a lasting cure for this disease. This race continues till to date.
Recently a team of medical researchers, while trying to get to the bottom of the rapid spread of the hepatitis C all over the world, came across a strange discovery. They found striking similarity between the symptoms experienced by the Hepatitis C patients and the side-effects of the antibiotics. They dug out a strong link between the extensive usage of antibiotics and the spread of hepatitis C disease.
They also observed that patients with a history of constant use of antibiotics for a long time are more prone to develop the chronic form of the disease. Antibiotics are drugs used to treat infections caused mainly by bacteria. Even when properly administered, antibiotics weaken the immune system by altering the body’s natural bacterial balance.
The first antibiotics were prescribed in the late 1930s. They were hailed as the magic bullet that would put an end to the threat of infectious diseases. In 1969 the US Surgeon General said, “The war against infectious diseases has been won.” This impression was, however, proved erroneous as in the last few decades we faced an alarming increase in cases of bacterial infections that do not respond to antibiotics. This is because bacteria acquire resistance to antibiotics, so there is a continuous search for new and effective antibacterial agents.
The hepatitis C virus is spread by contact with an infected person’s blood. But not all who get the infected blood develop the chronic hepatitis. Most of the young, healthy and strong persons successfully resist against the virus. This means that weak defiance mechanism along with other factors contributes to the development of the chronic form of this disease.
In homeopathy great emphasis is laid on strengthening the immune system of the body. People are now gradually becoming aware of the dangerous side-effects of the antibiotics. The number of patients using homeopathic medicines to strengthen their own immune defences is increasing day by day. Only those who have a strong defence mechanism are, by the grace of God Almighty, safe from hepatitis C in the real sense.

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