Treatment of malaria

As mentioned above, the Ukrainian Tropical Institute widely uses subcutaneous injections of methylene blue together with quinine in pl. praecox: the lowest recurrence rate is obtained just by this method of treatment. The school of Prof. Kisel, on the contrary, seems to be skeptical about methylene blue; thus, Belyaev in his conclusions states that methylene blue has very little effect on malaria. Prof. Alekseev in his article "To specific treatment of malaria" says that methylene blue apparently acts as a substance that excites defenses, but is not, unlike quinine, a parasiticidal substance; it gives relatively good results for m. quartana.