KATHMANDU.

Homeopathic drug “Arsenicum album 30” can’t prevent corona virus infection . The novel corona virus is the latest pandemic that has emerged from Wuhan, China which is declared as a global health emergency .

Claim:

The ministry of Ayurveda ,Yoga and Neuropathy , Unani , Siddha, Sawa, Rigpa and Homeopathy of India released two advisories via PIB on the preventive and treatment measures that can be taken for the corona virus epidemic .

One of the advisories was using the Homeopathic drug “Arsenicum album 30” as a prophylactic medicine for the prevention of infection .

Fact check :

1.Evidence for Arsenicum album 30 for corona virus 

– No studies were found about the effect of Arsenicum for corona virus in humans or animals (In VIVO ) or (Ex VIVO ) to study drug efficacy.

2.Evidence of Arsenic um album 30 for any infection 

– Only one paper was found , published in British homeopathic Journal (Kanye and Rafferty 1994) 

For it’s use in Neonatal diarrhoea in Calves but was found to be statistically invalid by Verdier ,ohagen,and Alenius in 2003 .

CONCLUSION: 

Thus , Arsenicum album 30 hasn’t been proved or researched scientifically by homeopaths to cure Corona virus or any other infection in human .

References :

Kayne , S.and Rafferty.A (1994)

De Verdier ,K,Ohagen,P., And Alenius S. (2003) 

AYUSH ministry of India