| Homoeopathy is a holistic form of medicine. In treating an illness it takes into account the unique emotional and physical traits of the individual concerned. So the medicine prescribed for two patients suffering from the same disease will be different. Although homoeopathy works very quickly in common, everyday complaints, it is a treatment for those in search of an instant cure in acute diseases.In chronic diseases, it requires careful self observation and the will power to stick to a plan of action. The reward for this is a greater sense of well- being, energy and resistance to disease. |
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| HOMOEOPATHY IS SAFE, SIMPLE, SCIENTIFIC, ECONOMIC AND EFFECTIVE MEDICINE FOR ALL |
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Disease has always been the scourge of mankind from time immemorial. He has consistently
attempted to overcome the malady through different means. Perhaps it is these attempts
that later synchronized with the formation of systems of treatment as pursued by
different races and groups of the inhabitants on earth. Of the major systems of
treatment pursued seriously, three approaches stand out boldly in their popularity,
utility and efficacy in practice. They are the Allopathic, Ayurvedic and Homoeopathic
systems. There are numerous other indigenously developed approaches in the treatment
of diseases like Siddha (Indian), Unani (Arabic), Acupuncture (Chinese), Pranic
healing, Reiki (Holland), Magneto-therapy, Naturopathy, Chiropraxy etc. Some of
them use medicines for the purpose of treatment while others not. But these are
all considered as alternate systems of treatment to the three major methods, Allopathic,
Ayurvedic and Homoeopathic. Of these, Homoeopathic is, perhaps the latest, brand
new addition of the scientific minded, rational man, to the other two major, long
existed, age old, methods. |
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The word 'Homoeopathy' is Latin, which means similar suffering. (Homoeo =
similar and pathy = suffering). Substances possessing poisonous property to produce
sufferings in healthy human beings when used in small doses become medicines to
cure natural diseases of similar sufferings. This was an old principle stated by
Hippocratus, the father of modern medicine. A German allopathic doctor named Christian
Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843) verified the above principle convincingly
while investigating into the reason for cure of malaria by cinchona. He subsequently
continued research with the verification of results on similar experiments made
and founded a new system of medicine, to which he gave the name as Homoeopathy.
It was he who had named the prevalent western system of medicine as Allopathy because
he had proved medicines used in allopathy to treat a particular disease, as producing
opposite or indifferent signs and symptoms (Allo = opposite; pathy = suffering)
when tested in healthy human beings, than those of the disease treated. |
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It is only about two hundred and odd years since Homoeopathic system of treatment
was first introduced into the world by Hahnemann, its celebrated inventor. For reasons
advanced, analyzed and studied in detail regarding the origin and cure of diseases,
it is possible to get convinced that Homoeopathy is the only true healing art of
the mankind, especially having been carefully designed to ward off any toxic effect
of the drug use necessitated by various systems of treatment for the cure of diseases.
Unlike any other system of treatment that use medicine in any form as a tool to
abate disease, homoeopathy has an exclusive and refined method of preparation of
medicines, to save man from the possibility of drug poisoning. When the extensive
and large-scale preparation of poisonous drugs purported as medicines for various
technically termed diseases, are used in massive doses, the human race is inadvertently
surrendering to the grip of a vicious circle of diseases. This happens in two ways,
primarily by the suppression of the natural diseases and secondarily by the poisonous
influence of the enormous amount of medicines taken, the latter being called as
iatrogenic diseases. |
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According to the philosophy of Homoeopathy medicinal substance required to cure
natural diseases is the barest minimum in quantity. But the substance used for the
preparation of medicine ought have produced similar signs and symptoms as that of
the disease to be cured, in healthy human beings when experimentally tested. Substances
from animal kingdom, vegetable kingdom, mineral kingdom, gas, fire, electricity,
magnet, disease products, secretions, hormones etc. have been tested (technically
known as 'proved') in healthy human beings in this way in several years' of effort
by the Masters of Homoeopathy beginning from Hahnemann, for the preparation of Homoeopathic
Materia Medica. From such a Materia Medica, selection of Homoeopathic medicine is
made for the irradiation of natural diseases usually treated by Homoeopathy. When
the medicine so selected becomes very similar in signs and symptoms it produced
to the signs and symptoms of the disease treated, cure take place smoothly without
leaving any sequalae (after-effect) behind. This has been verified true in almost
all curable diseases time and again since the introduction of Homoeopathy to the
world. Even the most stubborn cases labeled and rejected as incurable by other systems
of treatment have been found to yield to well selected Homoeopathic medicines easily
when the 'similimum' of homoeopathy work in a patient for a short period. When erudition
become impregnation with the above knowledge of treatment "*Homoeopathy offers a
life of service to humanity and it is the only method of healing that surely sets
the sick man and sick woman on the permanent road to recovery." |
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Diseases are situations created by the desperate attempt of the defensive
mechanism of an individual to re-establish health. From among the Homoeopathic materia
medica, it is possible to select a medicine resembling the signs and symptoms of
any disease, old, existing or new because Homoeopathic materia medica is the stock
of a large variety of tools capable of combating any such situation created by an
individual for the purpose of maintaining his health. Unlike in case of the other
modern systems of treatments Homoeopathy, therefore, need not wage a war afresh
in case of whatever malady man is compelled to face. Homoeopathic physicians only
needs to select the most suitable weapon of medicine already available in his armamentarium
of medicines in which one will always be available befitting to each individual
victim who suffers from whatever diseases. Beware that it is not the disease that
matter but the man suffering from the particular disease. Due to the very same reason
it is also possible that even a most modern disease hitherto not heard of can also
be prevented by Homoeopathic medicine in individuals because the defensive mechanism
necessary to work in a situation similar to that of such an impending disease could
be created by a medicine that almost always exist in Homoeopathic materia medica. |
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Homoeopathy maintains a holistic outlook. It treats the man in disease and not the
disease in man. Contemporary people on earth are demanding a way to regain their
lost health in order to face the challenges that technological civilization has
imposed on them. Homoeopathy can help the ailing humanity in this endeavor, because
it studies man in all his three levels of existence, the mental level, the emotional
level and the physical level. |
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The mental and emotional levels are primarily involved in the loss of his health
rather than the physical level but his primary concern goes to the physical level
and the other two are neglected. Thus his imaginations always fall short of understanding
the diseases in its proper perspective. His efforts to restore health, therefore,
become tedious and ineffective. His desperate attempt to drive away disease from
the physical plane ultimately results in the suppression of diseases. Thus diseases
become more and more complicated; migrate from less important organs to more important
organs; change from less complicated state to more complicated one; shift from a
sophisticated phenomenon to become an un-understandable one. |
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Approaches: Curative, Preventive and Palliative. |
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Homoeopathic approach, just as explained in the above paragraph is, therefore, holistic
and curative in nature while in modern concepts other than that of Homoeopathy,
suppression of diseases take place in the name of scientific solutions. In Homoeopathic
treatment the patient's mental and emotional levels are primarily set right so that
the sufferings in the physical level follow suit and normal health is restored.
In circumstances where modern medicine fail to open-up a way into the encroached
innermost parts of the cell in which the disease producing virus easily gain access,
Homoeopathic medicines that perform an eccentric work evicts the viruses from their
habitat in the interior of the cell and restore primary normalcy there so that rapid
cure and restoration of health follows. In the sphere of preventive medicine Homoeopathy
is well known and most effective in situations of viral invasions precipitating
an array of health problems ranging from meningitis, encephalitis, viral hepatitis,
measles, scarlet fever, chicken-pox, mumps, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus,
aids, viral endocarditis, leptospirosus, viral pneumonia and so on. The efficiency
of Homoeopathic medicines to prevent conditions created by Bacilli (Tuberculosis,
Bacillary Dysentery, Typhoid etc.) and Bacterial affections is well known. In advanced
cases in which it may not be possible to provide a cure to the patient, most smoothening
palliative work is seen undertaken by the selected Homoeopathic medicine. |
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The socio-economic impact created by adopting Homoeopathic system of treatment is
much better than any other system of treatment prevalent in the world. |
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Manipulations are not permitted in Homoeopathy for the purpose of treatment
and hence ailments like transmission of Aids never occur due to Homoeopathic treatment
unlike in the dominant system of treatment in which injections, blood transfusions
and laboratory manipulations on the body of the patient are frequent carrying the
risk of spreading serious ailments from carriers of such diseases. Keeping morale
is a pre-requisite for the effectiveness of Homoeopathic treatment and hence the
patient also become healthy in mind and soul. Because the defensive mechanism is
strengthened by Homoeopathic medicines, following the discipline of Homoeopathy,
controls the invasion of new outbreaks of diseases like SARS, Chikunguniya, swain
flu etc . Since the institution of Homoeopathic treatment is on the basis of data
collected from the patient and his/her by-standers, treatment can be begun without
waiting for costly investigations to fix the disease. This aspect, along with the
availability of medicines in cheap rates, makes Homoeopathy cheaper than many other
systems of treatment. Homoeopathy is, therefore, most suitable for the developing
nations. There is only one handicap to Homoeopathy that it is very difficult to
master it. It is a Devine Science that unless one dedicate his/her life for its
study, it may not be possible for him/her to encompass it fully. Yet in countries
like Australia, Belgium, USA, UK, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Canada, Germany, Finland,
Netherlands, Holland, Switzerland, Ireland, Austria, Malaysia, Srilanka, Czechoslovakia
etc. there are Homeopathic doctors who render exemplary services trying to restore
the sick to health using this unique system of treatment. Many a time when diseases
become a hard nut to crack to the modern systems of medicines, Homoeopathy steps
in with its simple yet wonderful magical capacity to cure diseases in man, has helped
to restore the sick to health and has controlled epidemics during their outbreak
effectively and independently because preventive medicine was available only in
Homoeopathy in many situations. The demand for Homoeopathy, in fact, is increasing
day by day in various countries mainly due to the flaws of Allopathic medicine and
its characteristic inability to cure diseases except in accidental instances, definitely
not due to its merit but due to natures play. Because Homoeopathy is built upon
on the rock of natural laws, what was laid down as the cause of production of diseases
and the principles of curing them in man always stand flawless and help the mankind
to regain his health, lost, of course, because of his own fault! |
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| How Dr. Binoy Vallabhassery Assesses? |
| Dr. Binoy Vallabhassery categorizes people into constitutional types. In homoeopathic terms a person's constitution is his /her inherited and acquired physical, emotional and intellectual make up. A closely fitting constitutional remedy, selected according to these criteria acts preventatively and curatively. |
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| In addition to examining the symptoms of an illness, he enquires the fears, food preferences and response to general factors such as weather. He also takes into account a person's physical appearance, weak areas of body. Dr. Binoy Vallabhassery then selects a remedy that closely matches a person's constitutional type. |
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General Factors
The weather, seasons, temperature
and time of day may worsen or improve physical conditions |
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Food preferences
Some people are inclined to crave sweet foods, while others
cannot tolerate them.Food likes and dislikes are an important
part of assessing constitutional types |
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Fears
Before prescribing a remedy,
homoeopaths take into account
tangible fears, ,for example,insects
and snakes and emotional fears,such as fear of death ,failure and insanity. |
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Personality & temperament
Some people are by nature optimistic and cheerful,while others are by nagative and irritable.Homoeopaths categorize
people according to their emotional characteristics. |
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