Ayurveda foundation cures cancer patients

New Delhi, Aug. 1. (PTI): The Government today told the Lok Sabha
that 11 cancer patients treated at an Ayurveda and Siddha research
foundation in Dehra Dun in 1997 were found to be leukemia free after
90 days of medication and ten of them were alive till date.

Health Minister C P Thakur told the House during question hour that
the treatment was part of a Centrally-sponsored research project to
evaluate the effect of metal-based ayurvedic formulation on acute pro-
myelocytic leukemia (APML) in October 1997.

In a clinical study conducted on 15 patients of APML at the Chandra
Prakash Cancer Research Foundation in Dehra Dun, four patients died,
he said. "It has been found that out of 11 patients who completed 90
days of treatment all were found leukemia free on the assessment of
bone marrow and ten out of 11 patients are alive to date," Thakur
said.

He said, however, the complete project report has not been received
yet from the principal investigator and the drug is under clinical
trial.