The
antiviral effect of homoeopathic
drugs against two
animal viruses,
Chicken Embryo Virus (CEV) of fowls and Simliki
Forest Virus (SFV), causing
encephalitis and
death in
mice were investigated. In all 10
drugs in 33 potencies were tested against CEV and 8
drugs in 26 potencies showed varying degree of
virus inhibition. The
drugs that caused 100//inhibition of CEV were Typhoidinum 200,
Hydrophobinum 1000, Tuberculinum 1000,
Nux vomica 200, and
Malandrinum 1000. Of the
drugs tested in 11 potencies against SFV, none were found effective in either preventing
disease or
death of
mice infected with this
virus