Chikungunya - Homeopathy for treatment and prevention

Patients who have contracted Chikungunya Virus infection are found to have incapacitating joint pain or arthritis, stiffness and swelling of joints for weeks or months. Many Chikungunya patients cannot do their routine work for several weeks after illness due to debilitating stiffness and joint pain, weakness etc. Additionally, some patients have reported prolonged fatigue lasting several weeks. Loss in terms of absence at work is very huge.

Homeopathic drugs like Sulphur, Lycopodium, Colchicum, Ledum Pal, Arnica, Eupatorium Perfoliatum, Ruta etc. when given according to symptoms of the patients, relieves sufferings after Chikungunya very effectively however more accurate and effective remedy can be chosen by a homeopathic doctor according to clinical picture of that particular case. Homeopathy works effectively in all viral diseases. Homeopathic pills are simply chewed (dissolved) on tongue and are sweet in taste. Homeopathic medicines do not cause gastric irritation, are safe on kidneys and liver even when taken for long duration.

"Genus Epidemicus" is a concept in Homeopathy that helps as a preventive remedy in an epidemic. According to this concept clinical picture of a group of patients in a particular locality is studied and the most suitable remedy is selected as the Genus Epidemicus for that particular epidemic. This remedy is given to all healthy people in that locality in order to prevent them from suffering from that disease. This remedy increases person's immunity to such level that even after infected mosquito bites, it cannot produce active disease in the person's body.

It is always wise to have medicinal prevention as mosquito bite cannot be prevented at all times. Chikungunya mosquito (Aedes Aegypti) bites in daytime so it is practically very difficult to prevent mosquito bite when you are working outdoors.