Of the scores of diseases and disorders that allopathy has given up on, Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease or Histiocytic Necrotizing Lymphadenitis, is another one. Sushmita (name changed), 41, a consumer researcher, ran from pillar to post in search of a cure for this disease, till she found an answer in Ayurveda.
“By end of September, last year, I had high fever and enlargement of lymph nodes. I consulted a general physician and an ENT specialist and I was put on some steroids,” said Sushmita.
Doctors suspected everything from tuberculosis to rheumatoid arthritis to cancer. Meanwhile, pain in the lymph node was increasing and suddenly one day, I had severe rashes. My allopathic doctors neither had a medicine nor an answer to it and I felt like they were experimenting with me, remembered Sushmita.
Exasperated, Sushmita went to Ayur Vaid Hospital as a last resort, where the consultant doctor provided her the right assurance. Within a week, she was cured. “Like many other mainstream doctors, I too was unaware of Kikuchi-Fujimoto Disease. However, I focused on her ‘peetya’ problem, and she got cured,” said Dr Narayanan Namboodiri, senior consultant physician, Ayur Vaid.
Ayur Vaid Hospital’s Domlur centre is the first ayurvedic hospital in India to have received NABH accreditation. The national accreditation process for hospitals started in 2006 and till date there are only 60 mainstream hospitals in India who have received NABH accreditation. Dr Giridhar J Gyani, secretary general, Quality Council of India (QCI), said, “Accreditation proves to patients and the stakeholders that the hospital conforms to global benchmark on safety and quality of care.”
