Another Wake-up Call for Innovative Research with Vision
Journal Title: Journal of Clinical Immunology & Microbiology - Year 2020, Vol 1, Issue 2
Abstract
An article titled “Why Tuberculosis Has Not Been Eradicated? Need for Vision and bold Innovative Research” published in 2017 was a wake-up call to Health Research Workers (HRWs) to carryout innovative research with vision. There was no response to this call made solely in the interest of achieving better health. Reasons for this have not been told. May be, this could have been misinterpreted as interferences in their well-established systems of research by a person who has little or no experience in their special subjects. Or, this might have been misinterpreted as questioning their ability to carry out innovative research themselves. This article makes another wake-up call to HRWs. Priority given for vaccine without trying cheaper preventive methods has been questioned. Importance of a habit of frequent nose blowing to prevent many diseases caused by pathogens which enter body through nose or mouth has been highlighted. Studies have been suggested to confirm its effectiveness because, if confirmed, nose blowing can eradicate corona pandemic and tuberculosis. Exhortations by enlightened Buddha that “Every human being is the author of his own health and disease” and by Prof. Deepak Chopra (a world famous expert on mind-body relations) that “Almost all your health problems are created or aggravated by your negative thoughts” have been ignored. This may be due to callousness and misuse of freedom for independent thinking which create grave situations which neutralize all efforts to improve health. Explains that a judicious use of different systems of medicine, with the approach of pooling benefits, can lead to an “ideal holistic health care system”. To develop this, a series of scientific studies on effectiveness of each system vis-à-vis each health problem and wide dissemination and discussion of these findings are necessary. A necessary first step in the series of studies is to conduct an exploratory study that can throw light on comparative effectiveness of treatment options available from three recognised systems for common diseases. Suggests a study on 100,000 persons to have a fairly large number of sick persons for treatment under each system and to cover sickness during all seasons.
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SS Nair
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- DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.46889/JCIM.2020.1204
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