Homoeopathy is an unproven science
Homoeopathy is based on
experimental pharmacological and clinical data. Over
the years, homoeopathic medicines have been
extensively studied for their efficacy in a variety
of indications. Clinical studies have been conducted
in India as well as other countries. In fact, the
term 'Allopathy' was coined by the founder of
homoeopathy whom the allopaths regard as the founder
of experimental pharmacology.
Homoeopathic medicines are only
sugar pills which act more as placebos and have no
medicinal value as such
The white sugar pills, as such do
not have any medicinal value. But these act as
vehicles or carriers for the medicines, which are
alcohol based. Otherwise the medicine can be taken
directly or dissolved in water. Homoeopathic
medicines have been scientifically studied the world
over and found to be effective in a wide range of
diseases. Thus they are not placebos.
Homoeopathy is a 'magic remedy'
that can treat any disorder.
Homoeopathy, like any other field
of medicine, has its limitations. For example, it
cannot treat cases where surgery is unavoidable,
dental cases, etc.
Homoeopathic doctors are quacks
who do not have formal training in the field of
medicine.
Qualified doctors practice
Homoeopathy, in most parts of the world. In India,
there are over 180 medical colleges, which offer
degree and post-graduate studies in Homoeopathy. At
present, there are over 1,50,000 trained homoeopaths
in the country.
Homoeopathy is only useful in
chronic cases
Very often it is - where
everything else has failed! But the true reason for
this perception is because people turn to
homoeopathy so late when everything else has failed!
After years of allopathic treatment often an illness
becomes chronic. The treatment will now naturally
take longer than in case of using homoeopathy right
from the beginning.
Homoeopathy cannot be used in
diabetic patients
It can! The minute amount of
sugar globuli (the little round pills) taken daily
does not matter. Sugar intake in the daily diet is
significantly higher than that taken by a few
globuli. In very severe cases, the dilution may be
taken as drops in water or over lactose.
The homoeopath gives the same
white pills for all types of illness. How can they be
really effective?
Depending on the illness,
homoeopaths medicate with different medicines. The
sugar pills serve only as a vehicle for transfer of
the medicine. The selected medicine, out of a range
of more than 1200 different dilutions, is targeted
to the individual problems.
Are there really no side effects
of homoeopathic medicine
Generally there are no side
effects of homoeopathic medicine if prescribed in
potencies of 3CH and above. However, some tinctures
and triturates in very low potencies like 1x, 2x
have some side effects of minor nature.
Homoeopathy Drugs cause initial
Aggravation
It is generally felt that
homoeopathic drugs cause initial aggravation, which
is not a correct picture. The fact is that
homoeopathic drugs stimulate the immune reaction by
way of creating an artificial similar symptomatology
in subtle manner which if it all felt by the patient
is of transitory nature, and hardly affect the
quality of life. Patients with chronic diseases who
had been taking palliative immuno-supppressive drugs
(steroids), invariably report long drawn
aggravation. Such aggravation is due to the
withdrawal effect of the drugs. The safe course in
all patients is to withdraw these drugs gradually
and after getting some additional relief with
homoeopathic drugs, aggravation can be minimised.
Sometimes in chronic cases where there is lot of
suppression of different symptoms for the last many
years and the problems are of complex nature, old
symptoms of the patient tend to appear during the
phase of recovery, all such symptoms should be
within tolerable limits and should give a
simultaneous feeling of well being. So there is no
need to have apprehension about the aggravations
while taking homoeopathic treatment for any disease.
Homoeopathy treats only the
Symptoms
Homoeopathy takes in to account
symptoms of the disease; characteristics of the
patients, his desires and aversions, his state of
mind and prepares a portrait of sickness, which is
used for selecting a suitable homoeopathic drug.
This drug usually covers most of the symptoms and
removes the disease by stimulating the immune system
of the body permanently. Homoeopathic doctors also
monitor all other laboratory parameters like testing
of blood sugar, eye examination, and heart
examination in a diabetic patient. All these
parameters help the physicians in the management of
the case and helps in deciding about the extent of
recovery during the follow up of patients. Hence
homoeopathy gives comprehensive health care to
patients.
Homoeopathy Drugs are Slow to Act
It is a myth that homoeopathic
drugs are slow to act. Patients respond to
homoeopathic medicines instantaneously and the
symptoms start improving quickly, even with single
dose. Since homoeopathy usually deals with the
chronic and lingering problems and such problems do
take longer time to recover, this at times creates
an impression that the drugs are slow in action. But
the face remains that the problems, which were
almost difficult to treat by the other systems of
medicine do recover permanently with homoeopathy. It
will be pertinent to add that the acute symptoms
like migraine headache, diarrhoea, fever and colic
recover with well - selected homoeopathic drugs
instanteneously. So it can be said that the response
with the homoeopathic drugs usually depends upon the
duration and intensity of the problem and is not at
all slow.
Homoeopathic Treatment requires
Dietary Restriction
It is a fallacy that a lot of
dietary restrictions are required while taking
homoeopathic medicines. Dietary advices even in
homoeopathy are primarily decided by the disease of
the patient like salt restrictions in hypertension,
sugar restriction in diabetes mellitus patients etc.
It has been seen that homoeopathic medicines do act
on person who are in that dietary restriction are
preprequisite for taking homoeopathic are treatment.
However, it will be wise to keep the mouth clean and
fresh before taking the medicine. There are very few
homoeopathic drugs where some dietary restrictions
would be advisable to ensure better and lasting
effect of the drugs.