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India is going to host a global homoeopathy meet this month. Practicing homoeopaths, researchers and scientists from basic streams of physics and chemistry would attend the two-day meet beginning April 11 in Mumbai.
“We are going to discuss latest developments in the medical stream. We are expecting scientific papers and speakers from over nine countries, including Cuba, Brazil the United States and the UK,” Praveen Kumar, Head of Department of Practice of Medicine at JSPS College, said.
Addressing a press conference here on Thursday, he said the organisers have invited the Australian researchers (who had recently questioned the efficacy of homoeopathy) for the meeting. “We have asked them to come and take part in the deliberations to understand the homoeopathic science,” he said.
IICT research
Prathama S Mainkar, a scientist with Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) said that homoeopathic medicine made from snake venom (crotalus horridus) showed positive results in arresting the multiplication of human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV).
“We found that it (venom) has some anti-viral properties. We however have to further the research,” she said.
The IICT team is in touch with the Pune-based National Institute of Virology for taking up the research further.
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