Govt. seeks time to clear herbal cure for AIDS

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Govt. seeks time to clear herbal cure for AIDS

New Delhi, Oct 26. (PTI): Two men from Hyderabad, who claimed to have

invented a herbal medicine for treating people suffering from

HIV/AIDS, have approached the Delhi High Court seeking direction to

the Centre, Central Council for Research in Ayurveda a nd Siddha,

Drug Controller of India and Indian Council for Medical Research for

constituting a committee to test the efficacy of their medicine.

Petitioners - A M Krishna and C H Bhoomeshwat - requested the Court

to ask the Andhra Pradesh Health Secretary and the Commissioner,

Indian Medicines and Homeopathy Department of the State Government to

grant temporary licence to them, as in case of M/S Bathina Brothers -

the suppliers of fish medicine for Asthma cure, so as to enable them

provide their medicine to HIV/AIDS patients.

The petitioners urged the Court to direct the respondents to set up a

Committee under its supervision to test the efficacy of their

medicine - " Immuno Herbal Sanjeevani " .

Justice B D Ahmed posted the matter for December 18 after Centre's

counsel Jayant Sud sought time to respond to the petition.

Earlier, the Court had in December last dismissed their petition with

the direction to the drug licencing authority to examine their claim

and pass appropriate orders.

Thereafter they again approached the authorities as directed by the

Court but their case was yet to be decided, they claimed.

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