Rajesh Ganjhu’s claim of having a sure cure for rabies has been acknowledged by medical authorities, but the road to convert the knowledge into a medicine is long and riddled with obstacles, he says

For Rajesh Ganjhu, it may have been a long wait but for government organisations, it is one of the many files that they have to clear. Ganjhu, who introduces himself as a tutor and an ex-student of Pune University, has a tale to tell. Hailing from a family of vaidya, Ganjhu was fascinated by the skill of his grandfather, who was a known vaidya in Khunti, a small village in Jharkhand.

Eventually, Ganjhu went on to believe that herbs could also kill viruses like rabies. Working on this belief, he finally came up with a herbal medicine that he claimed killed the rabies virus. “I chose my subjects in graduation and post graduation accordingly and also gave up my job to concentrate on this whole-heartedly. After a research of two years, heI made that anti-viral herbal formulation against rabies from a single herb in 2005. “I got it tested at the National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore and the Haffkine Institute, Mumbai and finally, at the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Delhi. While the tests tuned out to be successful at all the three places, I fail to understand what is taking the government so long to officiate the whole thing and introduce the medicine as soon as possible,” says Ganjhu.

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