Combating epidemics through miasmatic prescription (Japanese Encephalitis)

The recurrence, resistance to vaccines and medicines and the rise of infectious diseases is quite alarming in India. One among them is Japanese Encephalitis (J.E.), an endemo-epidemic acute encephalomyelitis accompanying a viral infection. The first case of J.E. was detected in 1979 in Andhra Pradesh state. Initially Belladonna was administered in a small way with good results, but the Government did not take any effective steps. Since 1990 it had become an unmanageable problem. Between 1993 and 1999 recorded J.E. cases were 5308, and 1511 children died. In spite of vaccination it continued unabated. The Governm…