Articles from: July 2016
Aim of medicine: An interview with Professor George Vithoulkas
Homeopathy and healthcare: an interview with Professor George Vithoulkas
Abstract
In an age of increasing commercialism and advertisements, we often find saner voices suppressed or go unheard amidst the din and noise of these prevalent views. However alternate views exist like parallel universes, unseen yet strongly influencing us, drawing our heart and mind towards a deeper hidden reality. Homeopathy is one such world-view that looks at man from a different and holistic viewpoint than merely as a bundle of chemicals or a mechanical machine. As cracks begin to appear in our healthcare delivery system and promises of ultimate therapy through allopathy, more and more attention is turning towards alternate approaches of which homeopathy is among the most well-recognised and trusted method of treatment. The following interview gives us a brief but incisive overview of this alternate field of medicine that continues to help and heal many despite the strictures passed upon it by the proponents of mainstream medicine.
Introduction
The rapid development of medicine in the 20th century, due to the large-scale implementation of breakthroughs in chemistry, biology and applied technologies read more [...]
The bad effects of wrong Homeopathic treatment -Urdu- Hussain Kaisrani
نا اہل ہومیوپیتھک ڈاکٹروں کے علاج کے بعد بھی مریضوں کی حالت ناگفتہ بہ ہو جاتی ہے۔ یہ ڈاکٹر صاحبان مریض کو بیک وقت تین ادویات دینے کے عادی ہوتے ہیں۔ اور بعض ڈاکٹر اونچی طاقت میں دوائیں بلا ضرورت استعمال کرنے کے عادی ہوتے ہیں، بلا جواز ان کا استعمال بے دھڑک کرتے ہیں۔ اور بدقسمتی سے اب کچھ عرصہ سے ہومیوپیتھک مرکبات کا اِستعمال بھی بے تحاشا ہو رہا ہے۔ واضح رہے کہ ہومیوپیتھک کا یہ بنیادی اصول ہے کہ ایک وقت میں صرف ایک دوا کا اِستعمال عمل میں لایا جائے۔
ایسے ہومیوپیتھک ڈاکٹرز کے بعد اگر مریض کا صحیح علاج کرنے کا موقع میسر آئے تو ایلو دو تین دن دینا ضروری ہو جاتا ہے۔ اِس سے اصل علامات واضح ہو جاتی ہیں۔
اِس بات کو سمجھنا بے حد ضروری ہے کہ ہومیوپیتھک ادویات read more [...] Why Some People Handle Stress Better Than Others
(Mandy Oaklander)
A quick scan of any recent headline would reveal that humans live in a highly stressed world, full of violence, terror and hate. Sometimes, it’s a wonder we can go on with our lives at all. (If that feels like you, see this recent piece about How to Cope When the World Feels Like Total Chaos.)
“There is a drive to cope and to survive,” says Rajita Sinha, director of the Yale Stress Center and lead author of a new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Yet we all respond to stress differently, and some of us are more resilient than others.
But why? Sinha and her colleagues wanted to look inside people’s brains during a stressful situation to see if anything special was happening to help people cope better with stress. They recruited 30 healthy people and put them in an fMRI scan session for six long minutes, during which they were shown either stressful or neutral images. “When you get stressed, it’s not brief—it goes on for a little bit,” Sinha says. “And that’s the state in which the brain has to figure out what to do.” The stressed group was shown 60 scary, violent images, like people being shot, read more [...] Observing the patient after prescribing the homeopathic Remedy – Hussain Kaisrani
After prescribing the remedy, the physician shall very carefully observe his patient in every respect;
his general condition,
aggravations and amelioration of symptoms,
any change in the symptoms or in the patient himself, etc.
The Observations
After giving the medicine to the patient if the physician's observation is a prolonged aggravation and final decline of the patient, the case is incurable.
The Second observation is, the long aggravation, but final and slow improvement. It is a hopeful case with prolonged repetition of the same remedy at longer intervals. For many years you may go along with prolonged aggravations followed by amelioration untill an outward manifestation appears whereby the patient will attain final recovery.
The Third observation after administering the remedy is, quick aggravation, short and strong with rapid improvement of the patient. Whenever you find an aggravation comes quickly, is short, and has been more or less vigorous, then you will find improvement of the patient will be long, the structural changes many appear in the surface organ, and with the passage of time the surface organs regain their natural structure after they read more [...] The Future of Homeopathy – A Perspective View
There is an overall impression that homeopathy is used today by millions of people and practiced by hundreds of thousands of practitioners all over the world … which is true! Whether the practitioners are capable of using this new force in medicine in an appropriate way is a totally different story. The homeopathic field of medicine is so open to all kind of interventions, distortions and bad practice that its original form is almost totally masked or lost and its effectiveness reduced to a mere 10% of its capabilities. This minimal 10% derives mainly from a small group of practitioners that have followed the original teachings of S. Hahnemann and the right lines of applications. The effect of those practitioners in their private practice is near 70-80% of success. These practitioners were recognised as classical homeopaths, but soon a lot of intruders attached to their name this qualification in order to confuse the public and get a portion of the clientele.
Though Homeopathy’s overall effectiveness is low due to its bad application by most of its practitioners, in the minds of the people it has been established as a form of medicine that is better and more effective than conventional read more [...] 12
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Hussain Kaisrani, The chief consultant and director at Homeopathic Consultancy, Lahore is highly educated, writer and a blogger 