Dr S Ranganathan

The innate and adaptive immunity in man proves nothing but the evolution and biology believes more in itself than in human intelligence or, medical or other allied research advancements of man.   After all, man is also a product of evolution only.   If man could easily surpass pathogens through his medical research and sophisticated gadgets to diagnose the disease and or perform surgery and have drugs to treat diseases means, where is the need for acquired and adaptive immune defence?   Innate immune defence is born with the man whereas the adaptive or acquired immunity; where the adaptive immunity is obtained either by active means or by passive means. Man hasn’t recognized own immune defence mechanism so greatly than the medical advancement, corporate hospitals, high name tag bearing medical practitioners, super speciality diagnosis gadgets etc.   No doctor can cure any disease just with drugs or surgical intervention alone and the positive outcome of treatment i...

  The question of whether the herbal recipes (herbs boiled in water or oil, made into paste with sugar or honey or just dried and powered and called as churna or mixed with faecal matter of several animals, toxic metals and animal parts) can act like a ‘drug’ and cure diseases itself is very crude, untidy and juvenile from the scientific per se.     Let us not tries to fit the herbal recipes into the definition frame of ‘drug’ as described by the allopathic science and instead let us accept all such products as mere extension of ‘silly science’ of the past and such porridge were made more with ‘individualized fallacy’, fatal love over ignorance and need to establish the supremacy of an imbecile over innocence and gullibility around.   Certainly faith medicines in India enjoy the claps of the devotees of God since time immemorial and also patronage of the spiritual leaders.   Like a tape work or hook worm, the faith based healing system has entered into hum...

A few cases of reinfection of COVID 19 are getting reported from different parts of the world and which means, in scientific sense those who got recovered from the virus attack have again turns positive for the virus sooner or later, possibly with symptoms.   The question is whether they were only positive for the viral genome and or presented with full blown COVID symptoms as well is not clear in most reports.   When someone turned positive for the virus for the second time obviously must have some strong symptoms otherwise why should they go for testing the virus by RT PCR?   What we really need to know is whether the second episode is more severe from the symptom per se or the second episode is quite mild and manageable?   Was there any patient presenting only clinical signs but were negative for the virus?     It is already stated clearly that the lingering effect of COVID would continue post elimination of the virus and hence why all those did...

The recent article emerged from United States of America narrating the incidence of several children enduring various health complications post recovery from COVID 19 (viral negativity) has clearly led the medical scientists to postulate the possible role of immune flare up or immune shove of the host may be due to the virus and also the possible involvement of various pathogens and commensal flora in the human body, for the prolonged complications even after the elimination of the virus.   Such possibility opens up the Pandora’s Box of various possibilities, permutations and combinations of interactions happening between the new virus and the host ecosystem at different levels.   Why after the decline or elimination of the pathogen, the immune mechanism of the host body must still react and complicate itself instead of engaged in healing or repairing work of the host remains strange?   Does that mean, the immune mechanism of the host, like how it could not r...

Showing curiosity and having respect over someone’s knowledge in ‘something’ has proven to spoil not only the knowledge quest of the so called ‘scholar’ due to the possible inflation ego, but also would terminate the enthusiasm of the ‘confessed ignorant’ from learning anything beyond the scholar.   Indians greatly suffer from the above malaise.   We made our medical experts, especially the clinicians more than life but most of them are ignorant at heart and proven doesn’t deserve such recognition. How a pathogen can evolve with extraordinary smartness and unique power to use ‘man’ as its porter, victim and also an evangelist at the same time?   We allowed the so called experts to abuse our nation through their ignorance and made the country believe what they speak alone were gospel science and which resulted in senseless lockdown and economic destruction.   During the fag end of 2019, people were chased and caught for RT-PCR test and then pushed insid...