The Supreme Court issued a notice to the Centre on Monday in response to a petition challenging the Ayush Ministry's Advisories and Guidelines, which authorised state governments to prescribe Arsenic Album 30 as a homoeopathic immune booster. The case was brought by a group of doctors and science communicators, and a bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Aniruddha Bose invited the Centre and others to respond.
Petitioner Cyriac Abby Philips and others were represented by Senior Advocate Anand Grover and advocate on record Prashant Padmanabhan. The petitioner has asked the court to declare that the Respondents' Guidelines, Advisories, and Fact Sheets allowing the administration of the homoeopathic drug Arsenic Album 30 as a Covid 19 preventive are in breach of Articles 14 and 21 of the Indian Constitution.
The petition also seeks an interim restraining order prohibiting the Respondents from administering the homoeopathic drug Arsenicum Album 30 to any portion of the public, particularly children, for the purpose of "raising immunity." The Petitioners requested an appropriate order preventing governments from providing the homoeopathic drug Arsenic Album 30 or any other homoeopathic medicine in mass to any sector of the public, notably youngsters and the elderly over 65 years of age.
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