Homoeopathy : Honest Viewpoint
Homeopathy: a method of treating disease with small amounts of remedies that
, in large amounts in healthy people, produce symptoms similar to those being treated
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Homoepathy is a form of Alternative medicine which has been a subject of numerous controversies. Even furious debated have been raged regarding the name itself. Some spell it as homoeopathy while others prefer homeopathy. But name debate is minuscule comparing to the other disputes encompassing the whole practice. Regardless of many arguments homoepathy is widely practised in India and many other countries. Homoeopaths have claim that many influential people in the world to have been administered with their drugs.
My first brush with homoeopathy was during my childhood. Round sweet little globules were a fun to consume on a funny note that they weren't meant to be touched. When denied candies I used to devour them in replacement. Homoepathy was far more better than the bitter allopathic remedies that I despise till date. Homoepathy does not has any side effects and is usually inexpensive.
It was during my time in Ludhiana when I came in contact with students studying homoeopathy many of whom are my close friends. My inquisitive nature led me to dive in the volumed subject of homoeopathy. After much learning and nights of mind rattling discussions with students, patients and practitioners I have developed a notion about Homoeopathy.
"HOMOEOPATHY DEFINITELY WORKS BUT NOBODY KNOWS WHY"
By including nobody' I include every person with or without a role pertinent to homoeopathy. I won't refer the big researches done throughout world and the million dollar claim by one James Randi.
A wise quote from the wise mind of Abraham Lincoln said : You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.
Homoeopathy was devised and nurtured by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann during the early nineteenth century in Germany. Dr. Hahnemann's legacy was passed on to other known physicians who carried it forwards to this date. In India practising Homoeopathy is legal and there are registered medical practitioners throughout the country. A Homoeopathic physician I personally know began 4 years ago with his practice. After a rough start he has an average of 50 patients per day. The reason that his practice has grown is obvious. He has contributed to society by relieving his patients. The reason the people have chosen to ignore the loopholes and embraced homoeopathy is simple. It somehow seems to work most of the time if not all of the times.
The fundamentals of Homoeopathy were laid out about 200 years ago. Since then it has been bombarded with virulent criticism and at times has been labeled as pseudo-science. The fundamentals are themselves the target of most furious questions which have never been answered rationally. The basic law given by Dr. Hahnemann known as Law Of Similia. A substance that produces similar symptoms when administered to a healthy human being cures the same symptoms when they appear in diseased condition. Homoeopathy further gets complicated when the substance is diluted to astronomical level. The final solution' which physicians claim to cure the patients has not even a single molecule of reacting substance present in it. The explanation has been given that liquid like water and alcohol have a attribute to retain medicinal properties of the substance that interacted with them. Interaction involves shaking the solution vigorously at a specific frequency with specific force. The solution is further diluted and the interaction continues till the desired level of dilution is reached. Moving further homoeopathy has a romantic concept of linking every physical disease to the mental symptoms. This seemingly abstract idea seems to be pragmatic in today's scenario when majority of chronic ailments are attributed to stress and depression. So the concepts can't be debunked. These are some of the major controversies concerning homoeopathy right now. Some of the elements that these fundamentals refer to have long been outdated.
The world progressed at a lightening pace in the twentieth century. As the mankind accepted the authority of logical reasoning the archaic concepts of nineteenth century went through rigorous experimentation . The veracity of majority of these concepts has been been long termed as dubious. Wikipedia has publically categorised the memory of water to be a pseudo scientific concept. An old philosophical concept still relevant in homoeopathy is the concept of Vital force. Homoeopaths name vital force as mysterious force' which is the driving force behind all the living beings. When Dr. Hahnemann named it as mysterious force' he meant that there weren't enough resources in his time to comprehend the exact nature and form of such energy if it exists. Major theories supporting vital force including the one which was given during Dr. Hahnemann's time and was referred by him were falsified in the 1930s (
LINK ). Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the double helical structure of DNA, went as far as stating "And so to those of you who may be vitalists I would make this prophecy: what everyone believed yesterday, and you believe today, only cranks will believe tomorrow."
Who would like to be called as cranks in this age when metaphysical values hold greater value than the subdued spiritual ones? Why don't homoeopaths come forward and prove their claim and make a place among the main stream science? After long contemplation and discussion I feel that the reason is tantamount to the religious fundamentalism. When someone objects and questions about the debunked concepts the simple answer returned by the reticent Homoeopaths is because Lord (Dr.) Hahnemann said so'. A search on the Internet enlists a multitude of implausible theories which claim to explain homoeopathy. None of them ever bother to get a paper published to get verified with the mainstream science. Every layman is baffled when he/she come to know that medicine being consumed by them is devoid of any substance and still more astonished when told that concept of dynamism was falsified long time ago. Whenever mainstream has questioned the core concepts, the obdurate keepers of the code have almost denied to substantiate their laws. Whatever founder of Homoeopathy Dr. Hahnemann said is almost accepted to be absolute. A building built on quick sand is bound to hit the ground. Homoeopaths are still reading the same 200 year philosophy regarding soul, mind and vital force while the conventional medical world has sped miles ahead. All Homoeopathy has today are results. While surgery is said to be imminent in most serious of the cases homoeopaths still insist that single dose remedy of diluted substance can cure the ailment. A recipe for disaster in the troubled times of the diseased world. Still when questions are raised about the universal level of dilutions the answers given correspond to the Victorian world. I think it is high time that Homoeopaths must consider diverting resources towards research. In science their are a plethora of mysteries still needing to be unravelled. If Homoeopathy has some scientific roots they are deep down in the Quantam physics. Time to ride the tide.
Homoeopathy : Honest Viewpoint
By: Abhishek Modgil
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