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Let us take the example of a terrorist attack on our country like 26/11. It was one event which caused lot of damage, destruction and pain to people of the country. Now, before 26/11 also terrorist were making attempts to cause destruction, but they were not successful in many instances. They failed because our defenses and intelligence worked to their full potential and prevented the actual occurrence of such damages.
This situation of defenses working to their full potential can be compared to a state of health.
Now, when the terrorist got successful in creating damage, the whole country realized that there were lapses in our defenses. They did not function to their fullest potential, thus giving the terrorist an upper hand to create destruction.
This situation when the defenses are not working to their fullest potential is comparable to a diseased state in our life. When one falls ill, there are lapses in our internal defenses and we see this in the form of tissue destruction, suffering, pain, and altered blood biochemistry-i.e. sickness.
During the 26/11 attacks, though there were lapses in our defenses, we nevertheless could limit the chaos and destruction to the two hotels only. It did not spread through out the whole city like it happened say for e.g. in Iraq. This is because the defenses forces still gave a fight, though with some effort it was able to finish the terrorist.
Similarly, in a disease state though there are lapses in our defenses, the body still is attempting to fight the stressor. It is due to this fight that we experience pain, suffering. Disease therefore represents the fight between the person’s defenses and stressors.
To sum up, disease is a war between the internal defenses and the stressor. During this time, the defenses are functioning at a lower than normal level, hence the pain and suffering.

Let us continue with our example of 26/11. It is because this event happened, did we think of improving our defenses system. This is because such incidents bring to our awareness the lapses in our self. It in a way helped us to improve.
Similarly disease also is an event which brings to awareness the lapses in our internal defences. This is the first step towards improving our defenses. Disease therefore is immensely valuable in creating awareness, provided we pay attention to it.

Now that we understand disease as something that has value in creating awareness, it is important that we have a slightly different approach to tackle disease that what is done conventionally. Conventionally, pain, fever, vomiting etc – the symptoms of the disease are suppressed. If there is an infection, medicines are given to kill the germs. The whole conventional approach is to avoid/control suffering at any cost. With this approach, the real lapses in our internal defenses are never rectified. In fact, with time they just worsen resulting in more dangerous diseases.
Homeopathy, here has a different approach in dealing with disease. It attempts to understand & rectifies the lapses in our defenses. Homeopathic medicines are work as immune-modulators. It is an approach almost exactly opposite to what is done conventionally.

Firstly, Homeopathy is based on the principle of LIKE CURES LIKE. It means, substances which are capable to producing certain diseases in a healthy person, will cure similar diseases occurring in a sick man.
For example if the plant Cinchona, is able to create Malaria-like fevers when consumed by healthy person, then it will cure malaria-like symptoms in a naturally sick person. It does so not by killing the germ of the disease directly, but it rectifies the internal defenses of the person. These strengthened defenses will then neutralize the germ in the blood stream.
Secondly, homeopathy works on the principle of individualization. Let me give an example to explain this- If a person A has diarrhea, fever with rigors, is very anxious and afraid of death he will receive Arsenic Album as the remedy. Another person B, who has loose motions, fever and is very irritated when spoken to will receive the remedy Nux-Vomica. This is the individual difference in the treatment, in spite of both of the above cases being diagnosed as having Malaria.
Homeopathy pays great attention to these individual differences in the disease patterns.

They will depend upon the disease that one suffers. For e.g. a diabetic patient has to avoid sugar and oil etc. But for all patient receiving homeopathic treatment it is advised to avoid coffee, strong perfumes, tobacco etc. Exception being in cultures where coffee is a part of their routine diet- e.g. South India.

Yes. I will give you two cases to illustrate the effectiveness of homeopathy in acute problems-
i) Case of Acute appendicitis: This is case of a 4 year old child who was brought to me at 10 pm with a complaint of a very acute lower abdominal pain, fever and vomiting. He received Belladonna 1m which cured him of his appendicitis. There is no relapse of the condition for now more than two years.
Alongside, careful sonography, blood reports were carried out and the parents were asked not to give anything orally to the child just in case an emergency surgery had to be performed.
(Reports attached.)

ii) Malaria: This is a case of a 42 year old lady who had developed fever with rigors in the morning and come over for consultation the same evening. A detailed history of the onset and the pattern of the fever were considered. Phosphorus 1m was given. Blood report showed Plasmodium Vivax . After receiving Phosphorus, the patient did not get another attack of Malarial fever. Her reports were repeated after two days. These showed disappearance of the parasite from the blood and her platelet count which was low in the first report had jumped up to normal.
(Reports attached).
In both these cases besides complete clinical recovery, even the laboratory reports have shown complete recovery.
Emergency situations can be dealt with effectively, provided there is an infrastructure& knowledge to deal with such situations.

One experiences stress and stress-related diseases due to the way we perceive and react to a particular situation. It is very individualistic, therefore in the same situation- one person feels stressed and becomes sick, while the other lives life to the fullest and happily.
Homeopathy is immensely helpful in stress-related diseases. Homeopathic medicines create awareness about the way we perceive things. Thus, it gives us a healthier outlook to the same situation, resulting into greater state of health mentally and physically.

No. It is no required. Homeopathy treated unconscious patients successfully , of course depending upon the pathological condition. These patient’s do not have a positive bias or a negative bias for the system, yet the treatment is effective in them. Homeopathy is effective even in children, animals and even plants- all of which do not have a bias for or against homeopathy.

Homeopathy predominantly utilizes plants, animals, minerals kingdom as the source of its medicines. Each of these substances is subjected to serial dilution according to a fixed scale, and is shaken vigorously at each dilution. This process is called potentization.

Firstly, we homeopaths do not need to give steroids as in most cases, the patients have come to homeopathy after already taking steroids for several months.
Secondly, steroids are not “magic pills”for every condition. In fact, certain conditions can worsen if one gives steroids – e.g. infections.
Lastly, strictly from technical standpoint of view. The old biochemical test called Libermann-Kuhn’s reaction was used in Textile industry. This test gave positive results with steroids, sugars and alcohol, all three. When homeopathic medications are subjected to this old biochemical test, they give a positive reaction simply because they contain alcohol and sugars, not because they have steroids. It is a false-positive test. To best method to test homeopathic medicines is UV-absorption spectrum, as no two substance give the same spectrum.
This controversy is completely unnecessary and can be avoided completely.