Ways to manage hepatitis C without cirrhosis: treatment by comparison of coded eastern medicine hepcinal with interferon alpha 2b and ribavirin

Hepatitis C virus [HCV] infection is a serious and significant global health problem in the Pakistan and elsewhere. In majority of cases HCV infection remains asymptomatic but in advance cases it may progress to fibrosis of liver, shrinkage of liver cells or failure of liver. The hepatitis C may progress to cause liver cirrhosis that mostly develop in 20% of the affected patients in 20 years with an increased risk in male, alcoholic drink, immune-compromised and who acquire HCV infection after the age of 40 years. This was an open-label prospective study conducted on 66 clinically and immunologically diagnosed cases of HCV infection. In Hepcinal treated group, there were significant improvement in HCV associated symptoms compared to control group [p<0.05]. While Interferon therapy resulted in significant improvement in serological response [55.88%] compared to Hepcinal treated patients [46.88%]. It was concluded that Hepcinal has shown better clinical response but no significant serological response [p=0.3244] and it might be an alternative therapy to treat hepatitis C infection and to prevent its progression into chronic ailment

Comparative clinical efficacy and safety of coded herbal medicine dermovix in the management of patients with atopic dermatitis versus allopathic medicine

Atopic dermatitis [AD] is defined as a chronic, highly pruritic inflammatory condition of skin. It is estimated that this disease may lead significant morbidity and also adversely affects the quality of life. Atopic dermatitis responds well to home treatment. Proper skin care reduces the need for medicines. Topical creams and oral antihistamines can be used to suppress the symptoms. The clinical trial was conducted on 60 patients in which 30 are control and 30 are test by taking written consent from them. Dermovix significantly improved skin symptoms associated with AD. This Dermovix ointment was safe and well tolerated in specified age group patients. Overall results of individual group were analyzed by using Paired sample t-test and level of significance of all the symptoms was calculated. Both the drugs showed similar efficacy and the calculated p value was p<0.05. Except in case of dry skin the test drug had shown not significant p value i.e. 0.407. When we compare all these and their effects and patients' complaints then Test group have shown better results because of no side effects