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Homoeopathy Can Be Used As Adjuvant To COVID-19 Treatment: Dr Anil Khurana
Speaking to BOOM's Govindraj Ethiraj, Dr Anil Khurana said that homoeopathic medicines can complement treatments used to fight COVID-19.
| 7 May 2020 9:30 AM GMT
On May 1, 2020, the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation gave permission to homoeopathic practitioners to conduct research at COVID-19 quarantine centres and combat the virus.
The Ayush Ministry declared Arsenicum Album-30 as a "preventive' against COVID-19. Rajiv Bajaj, Managing Director of Bajaj Auto has also batted for the homoeopathic medicines to combat COVID-19. He, on the basis of research done by Dr Rajan Sankaran, has backed Camphor 1M as a potential medicine for COVID-19.
Homoeopathy has been dismissed by medical professionals as pseudoscience and BOOM has fact-checked the effectiveness of homoeopathic medicines before. The Indian government is keeping its options open to combat the novel coronavirus.
To understand how homoeopathy works and the research homoeopathy practitioners are conducting, BOOM's Govindraj Ethiraj spoke to Dr Anil Khurana, Director General Incharge of the Central Council For Research In Homoeopathy. Dr Khurana said that Arsenicum Album-30 can be used as an adjuvant in COVID-19 treatment but not as a standalone medicine right now. The full transcript of the interview can be found below.
Can homoeopathy combat COVID-19? Govindraj Ethiraj? In conversation with Dr Anil Khurana, Director General, Central Council for Research in Homeopathy.
In 1796, a German physician, called Samuel Hahnemann invented a discipline called homoeopathy. It has been around a long time but questions around its efficacy continue. Even today in the battle against coronavirus there are questions about its efficacy not just in India but in many parts of the world. The Government of India has now prescribed a set of medicines to be consumed as prophylactics. Now, these medicines are to be taken every day, for three days on an empty stomach and is believed to help fight or prevent a coronavirus infection. Now, how does homoeopathy work when it comes to a disease like COVID-19 and how effective could it be. To discuss this, I am joined by Dr Anil Khurana, Deputy Director-General, Central Council for Research in Homeopathy.
Govindraj Ethiraj: Dr Khurana, tell us, in a few lines, what does homoeopathy mean and secondly, in the context of fighting a disease or infection like coronavirus.
Dr Anil Khurana: The basic principle of homoeopathy is to increase the self-healing powers of the body and in that manner, these medicines work in a holistic way. And the main concept behind this is that—the law of similarity; in homoeopathic philosophy, we have validated it on an experimental level in the laboratory model also—that if you treat a person on a similarity basis, means a person is suffering from some symptoms, and there is a medicine that is able to produce those symptoms, then that will mitigate that person with those symptoms. That is what the basic hypothesis is about homoeopathy.
We have done in vitro models creating these kinds of experiments where we are, like, I can give you a small example—we exposed some cell lines to high heat stress and the medicine, which produces similar kind of a pathological format, where those medicines produce similar kind of pathological changes in those cell lines because of that heat, so we subjected those cell lines with the same medicine. And we could see that those cell lines survived when they were pre-treated with these homoeopathic medicines. So, there is a prophylactic effect of these medicines in the in vitro model. This also refutes that homoeopathy has a placebo effect, we have appropriate controls which we have kept at every place.
When we talk of the human body {in vivo} it is a little more sensitive area where there are a lot of interactions between cellular mechanisms are there, there are molecular mechanisms, there are genetic mechanisms, there are immunological factors everywhere. So, when we talk of these, that is why in homoeopathic medicine they actually enhance the basic innate immunity. We do not expect homoeopathy to create a kind of an acquired immunity as vaccines do. Vaccines create a specific antibody against a particular virus. That is why they are working against the virus.
Homoeopathic medicine because they are not antigenic, herbal medicine will not produce an antibody against a virus, but it will enhance the cellular immunity at the basic level. So, the medicine Arsenicum Album that has been given as a prophylactic for corona, we have seen in experimental models and previously reported in many places, that it has increased the cellular immunity level.
Govindraj Ethiraj: Do we know specifically that the enhanced cellular capability is sufficient to fight a virus-like COVID-19?
Dr Anil Khurana: See, the first line of defence, in corona, the first line is macrophages—these are the first line of defence in the cellular immunity. So, they or the T-cells or the b-lymphocytes, some of the cells, say engulf the virus and kill them. So, if we increase the cellular immunity means, if you can increase the level of these cells...As we have seen in HIV disease also, we did a lot of work on HIV over the last 23 years, we have seen that the CD4 count has increased because of the homeopathic medicine.
We have such examples with us, people who have survived more than 15, even 16 years with homoeopathic medicine, although the number is very less, even then, with homoeopathic medicine, they could maintain a good CD4 level, so that they could fight out the HIV infection. Similar way mechanism we are expecting in corona, that if we increase the cellular immunity, the body will be less susceptible to catch an infection.
Govindraj Ethiraj: So you are saying that, let us say, therefore the progression of the disease as we know it, of course, the symptoms are expanding, early symptoms about progressing through the respiratory tract, attacking the lungs, and then disabling the lungs. That is something that these medicines are not specifically designed to counter...
Dr Anil Khurana: Yes, our medicines also have some kind of organ affinity. There are many medicines who have a special affinity for a particular organ, so like this Arsenicum which you are talking about has a special affinity for the respiratory system. It is a potential drug in homoeopathy for asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease, acute bronchitis, chronic bronchitis; for influenza-like illness, we have been giving it as a prophylactic since many seasons in some of the areas. We have collected data also—that the incidences of new illness are coming down among the people who have got this medicine over a period of years, at the change of season. So, our homoeopathic medicine will be having a specific kind...it can also generate specific immunity because of its propensity to act on a particular organ.
Govindraj Ethiraj: You mentioned Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease or COPD, now that obviously concerns the lung. You have data about how it has worked in the case of COPD, its efficacy on COPD patients
Dr Anil Khurana: Basically see, the people who suffer from COPD, they are mostly chronic smokers, and they are working in some kind of a polluted/pollutant area—so these are the people who have COPD. They develop some kind of tissue changes in the body. They accumulate toxins in the body also and one of the aspects of homoeopathy is that these homoeopathic medicines when they enhance the self-healing powers, the body itself goes into the detoxification stage. They throw out the toxins, from the body.
In West Bengal, we did an experiment on arsenic toxicity, the arsenic level is very high in certain pockets of the country. West Bengal is one of those areas—the level of arsenic was very high. So, when we gave this potentised arsenic to them, the level of arsenic in the body had gone down. So, they were less susceptible to those kinds of changes into the body because of the toxicities. So, these toxins that come up maybe because of infection, as we are seeing in corona what happens—the main pathology is coming because of the cytokine storm. This cytokine storm is damaging the lungs. So, our medicines will detoxify, they will remove those toxins from the body so that self-healing comes up faster.
Govindraj Ethiraj: Are there preconditions for this? I mean for some patients it may work, for some, it may not. This, of course, extends to general immunity, as we know 85% of the patients may be nothing happens in any case, there will be, let us say, mild fever or flu symptoms.
Dr Anil Khurana: That is why we have started our trials, in early stage we were not having access to these corona patients because of all being treated at COVID care treatment centres, identified by the Government of India. Because of the notification issued by the Ministry of Ayush, we have approached the higher authorities at the Ministry of Health and at the state level. Now, at some places we have been given access to those patients for clinical trials using homoeopathy as an adjuvant, we are not going standalone, right now. So, the population, which is hospitalized, means those who have already gone into a stage of the symptomatic stage, they need hospital care, we are adding homoeopathic medicine to them. So, we will be seeing whether by adding homoeopathy the recovery comes faster, or there is less mortality, low complications—that is what we are expecting.
Govindraj Ethiraj: How many patients do you have under trial right now?
Dr Anil Khurana: We have just started yesterday only and at two hospitals, as the number grows, we will be getting more access to those patients. Because we got the approvals only three days ago, from the ethical committee, from the hospital authorities—all those procedures that are required for a clinical trial, even CTRI registration (Clinical Trials Registry- India), all those mandatory things we have completed now, now we are going to register patients today or tomorrow onwards.
Govindraj Ethiraj: These are patients who volunteer for this or do they do not have a choice
Dr Anil Khurana: Without written informed consent we do not enrol any patient; the patient has to be willing.
Govindraj Ethiraj: I am going to come to the composition of these medicines in a moment. But we have also been hearing about how some of these European countries, and I started out by saying that this was obviously introduced by Germany many centuries ago, Spain is thinking of banning homoeopathy, other European countries are not looking at this very seriously right now, so why is there a disconnect?
Dr Anil Khurana: See, in the Western countries there has been little bit opposition about regarding homoeopathy—the main reason being they could not find any detectable particle in the homoeopathic medicine. That is the main reason. It is highly ultra-diluted, that is the main controversy behind homoeopathic medicine. Otherwise, if you go for biological effects and activities in animal models, cell lines, we have sufficient evidence that homoeopathic medicine works, and it is not a placebo effect. That is for certain. But the only question is how does it work? And what is there in the medicine which is working.
We have done one experiment with IIT Mumbai, they have come out with evidence that even in higher potencies, the original particles are retained because of the potentisation process. This has been published internationally also. And we are now further validating—what kind of these particles are, how they behave into the solution, and when they are disassociated from the original molecules, whether it is an ionic response—all those basic parts, homoeopathic medicines, we are working with IIT Mumbai.
They did with metals—they cannot be dissolved, evaporated—so they have done this experiment with metals, in potentized form in 200 dilutions. 200 dilution is 100 raised to power minus 200. It is that much high dilution. And Avogadro limit is only 10 raised to power minus 23. So, we are way beyond the Avogadro limit. Still, some particles are still there. They have hypothesized that this is some kind of a vowels/bubbles theory and they are still working on how to explain this thing in a scientific platform.
These are the controversies in the Western side that, European countries and other parts, American continent they are little sceptical about this but many researchers in the Western side, even some Nobel Laureates have come in front to explain these parts of homoeopathy. You might have been knowing about Dr Luc Montagnier who was the Nobel laureate for HIV virus. He also started doing something on this homoeopathic model, he did not specify exactly homoeopathy, but the experiment was on homoeopathy model, where he has diluted the DNA of a bacteria to such a level but still DNA was acting.
Govindraj Ethiraj: Arsenicum Album 30...We know allopathic drugs and the conditions they are manufactured in, FDI approval, there are good manufacturing practices and so on. Tell us about what environment are these drugs manufactured, where do the inputs come from, what is the quality control that is maintained and by whom
Dr Anil Khurana: See the manufacturing of homoeopathy [medicines] is very well regulated in India and India, and India is now becoming the exporter of homoeopathic medicines to other countries and it is because of that the GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) is strongly enforced, it is under Drugs and Cosmetic Act, so every manufacturing unit has to get the GMP certification from the Government of India, only then can they manufacture homoeopathic medicines.
There are has been some concern about the raw material—especially the plants, actually in homoeopathy 70 per cent of the plants are of European origin. Because of the bio-diversity act that comes in between, there were some difficulties in procuring these raw materials from the Western side. But the Government of India, Commerce Ministry has eased out some relaxation to import those raw materials from there and that is why they are able to get proper raw material in India.
And this Arsenicum Album is simply a chemical, Arsenic Tri Oxide and is quite commonly available in the country, not an issue. We have Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India, which has more than one thousand one hundred and eleven (1111) monographs of drugs. There are standards laid down in the Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia of India. Two biggest pharmacopoeias in the world are—HP US (United States), which is a little bigger than us, they have 1300 some medicines. In India, we have 1111 medicines. And in totality, if we combine these two pharmacopoeias, then we have monographs of more than 1600 medicines.
So, there are no questions on the quality of homoeopathic medicines, technology is highly advanced right now. There is a pharmacopoeia commission of Indian medicine in homoeopathy, there is Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia Committee, I am the member secretary of that committee. There are drug testing labs available at the different state level, central level; there is a homoeopathic pharmacopoeia laboratory available. Another aspect that has emerged lately in the last 3-4 years is pharmacovigilance. If there is a spurious drug coming into the market, and there is some kind of reaction among the patients, they are being reported at appropriate levels. So, drug testing labs are picking those samples from the market, why they are causing some reaction. So, all these steps are being taken to regulate the quality of homoeopathic medicine.
Govindraj Ethiraj: You must have seen this—industrialist Rajiv Bajaj of Bajaj Auto made a public appeal for the use of homoeopathy. He also said that not to use Arsenicum Album 30, but to use Camphor 1M because he felt that was more effective. How do you weigh in on this?
Dr Anil Khurana: Actually, Arsenicum Album 30, was recommended by our scientific advisory board or central council for research in homoeopathy—there is a group of experts available with us and when Ministry asked us, per chance our meeting was going on at that point of time. So, we analyzed the whole information that was available on the net, in one of the Lancet Journal, which was published, symptomatology, which was reported from Wuhan city. That symptomatology was available with us from that Lancet Journal, and that formed the basis for identifying a medicine.
In homoeopathy, there is a concept called Genus Epidemicus, how we declare this medicine as a prophylactic, which will enhance the immunity. That is method is when we analyze the symptomatology in the community, who are getting affected. When this call was made to ask/tell what the prophylactic medicine from the homoeopathic side was, at that time India was not getting many cases, there were a few cases only. But we had a lot of data available from the Wuhan city. And we have connections with different homoeopathy associations— Liga Medicorum Homoeopathica Internationalis, which is international homoeopathic medical league, which has a branch in Hong Kong also, there are homoeopathic doctors associated with that. So, we also asked them for their inputs—because they have also seen as per homoeopathy way symptoms. So, we collected all these symptoms and based on that, the medicine which covers the totality of these symptoms, the maximum symptoms, that is the genus epidemics...
Govindraj Ethiraj: This Camphor 1M, you are saying is not as exhaustive as Arscenium?
Dr Anil Khurana: The Camphor that Dr Sankaran advised to Rajiv Bajaj, Dr Sankaran is working in Prana Hospital run by Rajiv Bajaj. He actually treated few cases in Iran, he himself did not treat, he suggested medicine to some doctor in Iran. And those were the cases who were actually suffering and were hospitalized, they were also taking antiviral drugs at that point of time. And I have seen those case records, there is no denying that Camphor might have helped them because I cannot right now conclude with just 8-11 cases that this medicine has worked. We have to have a big sample size and there should be a control group on the other side.
In a few cases Camphor works, there is a presentation of diarrhoea actually, a great amount of weakness. So, in this community, not many patients are reporting diarrhoea. Most of the patients were reporting upper respiratory tract infection. So, there was fever, dry cough and breathlessness. So, this was the presentation at an earlier stage.
Now that trend is changing. Most of the people are coming with asymptomatic, with mild symptoms. So, the trend is changing. But the patients who are going into complications, they are showing all these set of symptoms—even they are going for respiratory distress. Camphor does have an affinity for gastric mucosa because it is called gastric flu. At this point of time, Camphor can be one of the drugs for treatment not for prophylactics.
Small success stories have started building up, you might have heard the video of Principal Secretary of Health from Gujarat, Arsenicum was given to 1600 quarantine people, who had come into contact with the COVID positive person and they found that none of them got infected with the coronavirus. So, these small stories are building up, but now we have to collect data on a scientific platform. That is why we have started proper clinical trials, in three type of studies—first is asymptomatic positive patients, people who are in the quarantine zone, means people who have come into contact and are in the high risk, and third is the adjuvant who have already suffered and hospitalized. So, this is how we are moving. Hoping that we will come with some kind of encouraging results.
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By Pauline Macaraeg | Dec 27, 2017
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) issued another reminder last week that it will accept old and demonetized banknotes only until Friday, Dec. 29. No further deadline extension will be made after this, the BSP said.
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PULASKI COUNTY, Mo. (March 12, 2010) — Commissioners did little during a mostly quiet Thursday morning meeting other than hold closed session meetings on undisclosed subjects, but in some of the few public comments of the day, Eastern District Commissioner Bill Farnham said he wants to give a stern warning to people on Texas Road that piles of gravel placed for the road crews are to benefit the public, not private homeowners.
"Apparently one of the neighbors saw someone backing their pickup to our road piles. The sheriff's dispatch called the road foreman and asked what he should do about it; the deputy told him to put it back, gave him a stern warning and said they'll be back if it happens again," Farnham said. "Those piles were put there for a reason: To fill potholes, not to fix people's driveways with."
According to sheriff's department records, that stems from an incident shortly before 5 p.m. on Monday when a resident called to report that someone had backed a "big green Dodge truck" up to a lot on Texas Road between True and Twilight.
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Crismon told dispatchers that "no charges will be filed if (the person with the pickup) puts the rocks back and doesn't come back to that area again."
Farnham said the pickup truck driver shouldn't have gotten off so easily.
"Things would have been different if the sheriff's dispatcher would have called me," Farnham said.
In other business, county commissioners decided to decline an offer from the Meramec Regional Planning Commission to conduct a tire pickup this year after learning that under new rules, they'd have to accept used freezers and refrigerators as well as tires, and pay the cost to remove Freon from the equipment if it hasn't been done already.
"So if they're not willing to take just tires, we don't want to do it?" asked Presiding Commissioner Don McCulloch.
Commissioners agreed, noting that they don't have enough money to pay to remove the Freon.
That doesn't mean people should throw old refrigerators into ditches or other illegal dumps, Farnham cautioned.
"(Cleanup organizers) named one of the local contractors who will take the Freon out of the refrigerators," Farnham said.


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Dear Elders . . . A Letter about Accommodating
This letter was sent by friends to the elders of their congregation on behalf of a friend and fellow member who has Multiple Chemical Sensitivities. All names have been changed to protect privacy, and it appears here by permission. Although it pertains to a congregation member who has Multiple Chemical Sensitivities, it is primarily about accommodations necessary to include someone with a disability in church life, and begs a question for all of us, "How well is your church listening to and responding to those among your congregation who have disabilities of any kind?"
To the Elder Board of First Church,
We are writing this letter in partnership with Dick and Jane Smit. Together with several others in the congregation, we have been seeking to support Jane as she navigates her disability.
In 2012, Jane approached the existing Council with regards to her need for accommodations due to her Multiple Chemical Sensitivities disorder (MSC). She was hopeful that a scent-free policy would not only be adopted but also be actively promoted through the use of regular public announcements, well-placed signage, and leader and congregational support. At the time, Jane was thankful for Council's efforts to create a safe church, but since then there has clearly been some difficulty translating policy into education and action. There has been one public announcement by leadership. The simple line in the bulletin is not enough to raise awareness of the seriousness of this concern for a fellow sister in Christ. The declaration on the website poses a risk when you consider that someone seeking a scent-free church would assume that First church is a safe place for them, but this is not the case. If this resulted in a serious reaction, how would the church respond? If First church is going to declare itself to be a Scent-Free Facility then it needs to act on that declaration.
It is very important to note that MCS is not an "allergy" and cannot be medically controlled. The only "treatment" is avoidance. We cannot emphasize enough the severity of Jane's reactions. Within minutes, her brain and nervous system are affected, causing reactions such as migraine, a dazed and overwhelmed state, temporary paralysis, and the inability to speak. Her "new normal" requires Jane to always be diligent, and alert for extenuating circumstances. However, she cannot control her reactions and the speed at which they happen, and is therefore dependant on others to provide a watchful eye and physical assistance. Repeated exposure to scents, organic solvents or pesticides are considered to be part of the "vicious cycle" of MCS and can cause further permanent damage to an already injured system. Jane's increased limitations correlate directly with increased exposures. Simply put, MCS is a recognized disability, not an allergy.
Obviously, to continue to experience exposure at the hands of fellow church members is very discouraging—surely the church should be at the forefront of efforts to minister to people with disabilities and not be creating obstacles for them. Many churches today have successful disability policies and we believe First church can be as successful in addressing this particular need as it has been with other accommodations.
Accordingly, we would welcome the opportunity to talk with the elders (or anyone else!) about how best to move forward. More specifically, here are some of our suggestions that we urge you to consider:
Educate yourselves, as leaders, on what a Scent-free Policy should mean and its importance to First church's vision and mission of embracing all.
Invite Jane to speak to the Elder Board to share how this disability has impacted her life.
Invite the our classis' Regional Disability Advocate to speak on this issue and provide information on how to effectively implement such a policy.
Approach other churches who have successfully implemented scent-free policies to gather feedback and support.
Embark on a program of education for the members of First church, to establish a safe church for those with MCS and other disabilities, highlighting its importance to First church's vision and mission.
Adopt a scent-free policy:
- Switch to non-toxic cleaners, soaps and products wherever possible
- Place obvious signage throughout the church and bathrooms
- Provide notices to inform group leaders, and those renting the facility
Explore with Jane and the ushers the advisability of establishing a certain area of the sanctuary that is absolutely scent-free as an added layer of protection for Jane.
Obtain a simple wheelchair for those times when any person needs to be assisted out of the sanctuary due to a health incident.
Ideally, appoint and support one of our members as a Disability Advocate.
We ask the elders to please engage with us on this issue. This will be a life-long struggle for Jane and her family, and they need the help of their church community. We hope that First church will strive to become a "sanctuary" for those with disabilities… inside our tribe, and out.
Peace and grace,
Harry and Susan Van Dyke
Julius and Linda Johnson
Harold and Anne Jones
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Kenta Maeda is a baseball player who is in a class of his own. The Japanese pitcher plays in the Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Before making the move, he played in his home country for the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of the Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) where he has not only achieved a lot but has also set a good number of records. Since joining the MLB in 2016, he has become an important part of the Dodgers team.
Kenta Maeda was born on April 11, 1988, in Tadaoka, Osaka, Japan. Inasmuch as there is nothing much on how he was raised or his family, what has dominated his life and story is baseball which he started playing since he was a child.
By the time he got to high school, Kenta Maeda was already an excellent player. He played for the PL Gakuen High School which is popular in the annual Summer Koshien tournament. It was from there that he got drafted by the Hiroshima Toyo Carp in the NPB Draft of 2006.
Before getting the call to play in the top Japanese league, the pitcher spent the 2007 season playing for the for the Carp's secondary team. In 2008, he got the call to play in the main team. He would record his best year in the league in 2010 when he made his first NPB All-Star before going on to make four more. He also won his first Best Nine Award (before adding two more), his first of five Golden Gloves Awards, and first of two Eiji Sawamura Awards.
In addition to all these, he when he took home the Sawamura Award, he became the youngest pitcher to make the pitching Triple Crown in the history of Japanese baseball.
In 2015, the Carp decided to take advantage of the posting system and make Kenta Maeda available for the Major League Baseball. He got signed by the Los Angeles Dodgers who offered him a 25 million deal that would keep him with the team for the next 8 years.
More so, the deal would also see him have incentives of up to $10 million each year, with everything adding up to over $90 million. On its part, the Hiroshima Carp got to make $20 million from the deal as the posting fee.
Maeda made his MLB debut in a game that saw the Dodgers getting the better side of the San Diego Padres at Petco Park. By the end of his first year, came after Corey Seager and Trea Turner to end third in the National League Rookie of the Year Award voting. He also had a good 2017 season, although it did not go as great as it could have gone after the Dodgers lost the 2017 World Series to the Houston Astros in seven games.
Apart from playing in the NPB and the MLB, the pitcher has also played for the Japanese Baseball team. He was part of the team that got the Bronze medal at the 2015 WBSC Premier12 international baseball championship.
Inasmuch as not so much is known about how he was raised or his family, it is known that Kenta Maeda is a married man. The Dodgers man got married to Saho Narushima in 2012. At the time, Kenta was still in the NPB while Narushima was working as a TV personality.
According to reports, the couple first got to meet through a mutual friend who introduced them sometime in 2010 and soon afterward, they began dating. By 2011, they got engaged and the next year, they became man and wife after tying the knot in Hiroshima.
Apart from being a TV announcer, Saho Narushima also loves cooking which is evident by what she shares on her social media and in 2015, she published a cookbook.
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The family had lived in Japan before finally moving to the United States. The couple has two children, a daughter and a son who was born in 2018.
A good-looking man, Kenta Maeda also has a good height and body build. In numbers, he stands at a massive height of 6 feet 1 inch (185 cm) and he has a body weight of 175 lb (79 kg). The general body measurements of the right-handed pitcher have not been provided, but it is obvious that he has good measurements.


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