Hear out plea for herbal mixture for COVID-19, HC tells Indian Medicine and Homeopathy director
A Division Bench of Justice Vineet Kothari and JusticePushpa Sathyanarayana, disposing of the PILs from K.Muthu Kumar Nayakar and Dr. K. M. Senthamilzh Selvan, saidthey can forward their representations to the Siddha CentralResearch Institute.
The institute, in turn, may forward the representationwith comments to the committee headed by the director ofIndian Medicine and Homeopathy, the bench said.
The director may consider the representations and passappropriate orders in this regard, preferably within a periodof one month, the court said. Nayakar claimed that the medicine contains nine herbalingredients which should be mixed with the blood of a COVID-19 patient and the mixture would kill the virus.
Despite repeated representations to the Central and stateauthorities to try out Ayurveda,Unani, Siddha Homeopathy drugson COVID-19 patients, there was no response and hence thepublic interest litigation (PIL), said Dr Senthamiz Selvan.
Reacting to the pleas, government pleader JayaprakashNarayan said the authorities have already considered thesekinds of representations and issued a detailed governmentorder on April 23 providing for variouskinds of medicines invarious systems, including allopathy, homeopathy, Unani andSiddha. As the petitioners still insisted that theirrepresentations to be considered separately, the courtsaid it was issuing the present directive. COR