Publications by authors named "Ruchika Bhalla"

Objective: This study was undertaken to assess the effectiveness of Eupatorium perfoliatum (EP) 30C on the incidence of dengue fever and acute febrile illness (AFI) during the 2017 dengue outbreak.

Methods: We conducted a prospective, open-label, community-based parallel cohort study involving apparently healthy individuals residing in 06 urban slums (JJ colony) of Delhi. The participants were enrolled in two cohorts - the medicine cohort (MC) and the control cohort (CC).

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Objective: This work was undertaken to evaluate the protective effect of 30C against COVID-19.

Design: The work was designed as a prospective parallel cluster cohort study.

Intervention: Participants were enrolled in a homeopathy intervention (HI) cohort (who received ) or in a non-intervention (NI) cohort (who received no systematic intervention) from COVID-19 containment areas of Delhi.

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