21st Century - An Era Of Homoeopathy !!

With more and more patients developing resistance to the so called prescribed specific wonder treatment find themselves lost, so the doctors remain in dilemma that despite of the best choice of specific drug therapy the patients don't respond favourably. If at all a patient becomes better by these strong medication it gets its toll in the form of some unwanted adverse effects as its compensatory price. Every year we are confronted with one epidemic or the other leaving behind a devastating effect on the human economy. Today when India has acquired the Nuclear efficiency, we fail to provide the basic health care to our children from the deadly Malaria's, Measles, Dengue, Tuberculosis, Gastro entritis etc. When lot of Government effort has been made to evolve various health schemes to combat these maladies, unfortunately the various systems of medicine have not been given their due representation for achieving this goal. As there is a very good potential in treating and preventing quite a few of these problems by the Indigenous system of Medicine and Homoeopathy at large. As now a days every latest drug (so called magical drugs) of modern medicine has definite adverse effects on some part, organ or system of the human body. This has been proved beyond doubt repeatedly at various platforms by medical experts while discussing about iatrogenic diseases etc. In the present day scenario when more and more cases of Tuberculosis are becoming Multi Drug Resistant (MDR TB) to the Antitubercular treatment, Homoeopathic treatment is coming to their rescue and quite a many cases have responded favourably and has been cured. In the danger arena of AIDS and HIV infections it is becoming an all time threat to the human race. In India itself the number of patients suffering and dying with AIDS is alarming. Homoeopathy as such by its time testing record is able to provide the booster to the vital energy of the suffering patients by virtue of its basic principles and approach. Homoeopathic medicines enhances the defensive capacity of the individual in other words improves the Immune system by the very specialised Individual , Constitutional treatment which is the basis of the treatment in homoeopathy and that is why it is said that the Homoeopathy treats the Man in totality who is sick and not the mere disease of some organ or system etc of his. It recognises the ultimate Man whose vital energy has got deranged or altered due to certain morbific external agents in the form of disease causing factors, but this all happens to the person who is prone, or whose immune system is weak to withstand that morbific factors, that's why people living in same environment, patho-physiological conditions do not respond always similarly, and if at all they get affected their reactions are different and their genetic, aptitude, physical and mental make-up is different and accordingly their response is also different. Under such circumstances if the treatment is also done on their specific individuality and susceptibility the patient is going to develop the natural resistance against the disease phenomenon and gets well. Since homoeopathy is a therapeutic system of medicine developed in the early 18th century by a German Scientist Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, whose birth Anniversary is being celebrated on 10TH April every year. Homoeopaths all over the world celebrate it as Hahnemann's Day . He evolved Homoeopathic system with a basic law of similarity i.e. "Similia Similibus Curentur" where a patient is treated by giving the particular medicine which produces certain symptoms in a healthy individual during Drug Proving, it only can cure the symptoms in a diseased person also. Simply it could be understood as Let like be treated by likes. As also believed that poison kills poison. Unsatisfied by the then existing medical practices which did more harm than good, he sought for a method which would be Safe, Gentle and Effective. He believed that human beings have a capacity for healing themselves and that the symptoms of disease reflect the individual's struggle to overcome the forces antagonistic to life - now a days called as Immune system of the body. Apart from this the medicine is selected on the basis of individuality and constitution. Homoeopathy has already established a name in treating Chronic diseases. But it is equally effective in Acute and serious conditions also. The newer outlook towards the disease which is being discussed now a days was understood more than 200 years ago by Dr.Hahnemann and he emphasised that the man should be treated as whole. There are certain misconceptions prevailing like it takes very long or it is good only for children and older diseases and also that first the disease is aggravated than cures and also that there are lot of restrictions with this medicine, all these needs clarifications because all this is not true.

Homoeopathy is a system in which remedy is chosen on the basis of patient's individual symptoms comprising of his mental, emotional, and physical state. Homoeopathy is not a panaccea but is an elixir of life looking at the positive side of the person with holistic approach. Homoeopathic treatment has been helping a lot many number of people with so called incurable diseases also and earned laurels in the field of providing permanent cure to the diseases with no adverse effects whatsoever. Homoeopathy does not underrate the efficacy of other systems and surgery but argues for its commercial abuse. There are quite a many cases which can be saved from unnecessary surgery if the homoeopathic treatment is given at proper time. Homoeopathy has a role to play in the preventive medicine also as it has done in the case of Plague, Dropsy etc. In this era of 21st century Homoeopathy is going to be reckon as a medical system of the modern age for its efficacy, cost effectiveness and harmless way of curing the diseases. I dare to say that "HOMOEOPATHY ENSURES HEALTH SAFELY" as a tribute to the Father of Homoeopathy on his birth anniverssary.