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2012-01-15T12:13:00.001+05:30

Philosophy

On closely studying materia medica, one can ascertain the fact that there is only narration about the symptoms, the symptoms that are outwardly expressed in a person’s deranged state of health. Basically in a healthy human being, no one can see symptoms, infact no outward menifestation of signs and symptoms, because symptoms and signs only arise in the circumstances of anarchy, chaos whether in the form of physical or psychical but it is also an interesting point to know that as the psyche remains the basic root cause always for the menifestation of symptoms outwardly on the physic. When there is any kind of anarchy at the level of psyche , the menifestation of symptoms will be obvious to find. Seeing from the social point of view then also, one can find easily that suppose if at the social circumstancial level if one finds any kind of chaos, or take for an example, suppose in a relationship also, then in that circumstances , the possibilities of some thoughts controversies , the conflicts, are obvious to arise. And the situation of conflicts is the situation of anarchy, where there is no place for peace, no happiness , only chaos one can find. So in a human body also, which is a conjoint working network of all the systems – e.g. nervous, circulatory, locomotor, sensory along with all the generalities – seeing from the repertorial point of view – the seat of regulating system remains the CNS - so if any disturbance at the level of CNS, any anarchy, if the harmonious equlibrium of the thought process is disturbed – if the waves passing through the the CNS – in lighter language – if the wave length of it is disturbed then the waves passing out will be abnormal obviously and an abnormal waves containing no harmonious wavelength will lead to abnormal sound or lighting in the respective case . So, in case of human physic also, the abnormality of a wave passing out from the brain will be obviously not lead to harmony – because itself it has not, instead it will lead to the circumstances of anarchy , a choas, where there will be no place for and infact in such circumstances no chance for harmony. It is also somewhat like symptom similarity. Infact I have observed that if one can closely analyse with out any bias , then it it is so easy to find out similarity between each and every substance of the earth, doesn’t matter whether it is alive or dead – because nature’s law is one similar can only cure the another similar one , not the opposite one. Opposite one can only attract - e.g. two opposite poles of magnet, or magnet and iron – or – supress – say for this case, in another word palliate – e.g. men and woman simply. It’s a kind of symbolic representation . harmonious equilibrium of a mind leads harmony of physic. If the waves of emotion will sound , then the recepting system will function normally and will ultimately lead to harmony of physic also – by meaning of saying that there will be no outer menifestation of signs and symptoms and only the healthy state that will remain . The healthy state of a person , not that of the patient. Patient will be in a deranged form and with the outward menifestation of signs and symptoms which constitute the totality of symptomds upon which the prescription basis. Now in materia medica or any kind of drug proving , we find only signs and symptoms , a vast range of , a bulk of symptoms that constitute the whole drug picture, and literally it means that we are only studying about the patient – only concentrating upon the pathological state – the deranged state . Here, the meaning of the word pathological is not like that of the pathological changes that happens in the different organs with various forms subject to the constitution of a particular person- e.g. leucophlegmatic , hydrogenoid, etc. – but the word pathological state is used here to mention about the particular constitutional types narrated – mentioned – in various materia medicas itself. It has basic consideration upon the understanding about particular diathesis , temparaments and likewise the same – because the various constitutional types mentioned here in the different materia medicas under the title of a specific drug proving are nothing but simply a deranged state , but it express a person’s susceptibility or tendency towards a particular diseased state. A person under the circumstances of stress – the system of his under the stress express the deranged form of susceptibility due to which there arise the outwardly menifestation of signs and symptoms. If the system of human being will be in a complete sound state – the chances of which is so less because after all the human being - as an alive creature on earth – to sustain life and for the purose of adaptability towards the environment – has to compromise at the emotional level very often infact always and this leads to the changes at the outer physical level that can be observed with the opened eyes – no need for the microscopic instrument . the changing waves at the emotional level changes the normal – sound wave of susceptibility – due to which a human being – being an alive creature – transforms from healthy to deranged state . the particular tendency towards some particular diseased state – diseased condition – the diathesis – the innate hereditory characteristic – the roots of which lies in the basis of DNA of a person – takes a deranged form . the harmony disturbed and ultimately the person – the physio form – starts to become prone toward the particular diseased condition – the pathological form . so, here word pathological state is used in this sense of meaning – because as we know that for mentioning any vital functioning of an organ in a harmonious way , generally the word used is physiological – some organ is working according to physiologicallly and when its functions are deranged , not in a harmonious way – that signs and symptoms becomes abnormal or otherwise the secretions takes an abnormal form – in such case the word pathology is used. So for the harmonious susceptibility of a human being – we can used physiological state for his state of health as a synonym and in the deranged case of susceptibility where there is observable and notable signs and symptoms with abnormality of secretion – we can use pathological state for its diseased condition respectively.

However it is also the sole purpose of homeopathy but what will be the person ? after the process of complete cure , how one will look ? what will one find say for example lyco, arsenic, kalicarb, nux vomica , sulphur - most of our polychrest – how they will look in a healthier form – in a state of a person ? how they will react socially ? how they will look or live in a state of harmonious susceptibility ? these all questions will remain obviously interesting for the one to know – but unfortunately , till to the date – it’s a matter of imagination – because most of our materia medicas provides information regarding patient , not about their harmonious state , the healthy susceptibility – a person – that how he will be after the process of complete cure – how will he develop his social life or how will he sustain their life - how he will adapt the circumstances and to the environment – full proof picture of which is not available in any kind of materia medica - no transperancy about the drug’s complete physio form - about its healthier state - a kind of illusion - a foggy view , which is hidden – not with clear vision , one can only imagine that lyco will be like this or that or sulphur or whether nux vomica will react like this or that or pulsatilla – the feebleness and nervousness of whose will be like somewhat of this kind but without a clearity between the patho and physio form of every drug - between the healthy and deranged susceptibility - with out a clear picture – a curtain of smoke participates the both and becomes responsible for the illusion about the healthy – physio – form . A curtain of smoke that devides the both pictures – patho and physio – that doesn’t provide a clearity in vision and that doesn’t allow the one – physician or a studying student to see beyond it – beyond the patho form – that is to say – the physio form . then whatever in which we see – whether in kent’s , ferrington’s , allen’s – whatever materia medica but one can only ascertain the patho form not the physio one .

To ascertainn physio form of any drug is actually a hard task and for that one has to go deep in the level of psyche – the center point – the nucleus one can say – a kind of DNA where basis for the physio form – the innate hereditory characteristics is hidden where – and for that the perception of a physician matters – a perception without any illusion or misinterpretation – the basic need for which is that the physician should be a person first having a harmony at the centre – at the psyche – where the DNA of harmony lies – he should be possessed with harmonious susceptibility - if the physician having the lack of DNA at its centre – DNA of harmony then how can one make a desire from his side of a harmony or a true perception when he faces a patient – when the physician himself - the thoughts of whose are not in a harmony – then how can it be possible for him to make a true interpretation ? he himself will be in a state of patient having the derangred form of susceptibility . so, though our great master Hahnemann has said that the physician’s highest ideal of cure is gentle , rapid and permanent annihilation of symptoms of patient , but I would like to say here that the physician’s first duty should be to treat himself first – if he would be a person then only he can make the others person – if he is possessed with the harmonious susceptibility – the healthy susceptibility – then he can pass the same waves to others – say for to the patient . The waves of peace , humanity , the benovelant act of him , the mental calmness of him, will affect the person – a patient – in front of him and it will automatically make the patient calm and provide ease and comfort. The physician’s completeness , perfectness , calmness , peace and perserverance all the virtues – the waves of which will automatically pass to the patient.

According to law of similars , like is treated by like , that similia similibus curentur in latin – so, in a case if a physician is healthy, in a physio form , in a state of harmonious equilibrium, then only he can provide the others same- otherwise it is a known fact - what one have , he will pass to to others the same – however the first and foremost criteria for this is that he should have something . One person’s characteristic , good or bad is passed to others , if a person having something to spend – something to give – then only he can give someone that he has – whatever a person doesn’t possessed with not a single possibility arises of giving or exchanging because in reality it doesn’t exist. Exchange of anything – whether of money or of quality – can only be possible when a person possses himself the same thing – he must have firstly the particular thing – the money or the quality say for this case. So , if a physician wants to exchange – wants to pass his good qualities , his faith in homeopathy as a system of treatment – his wantings to cure the patient and ofcourse his deep faith that the particular diseased condition can be treated by homeopathy such thoughts that are most important – because it will lead a patient to understand the system of treatment that he is under going and also we all know that for curing a disease, physician should also have faith in his treatment and diagnostic criteria , but that’s the another thing – that most of us possessed by – but the main thing is that patient should have faith first – he should be prepare enough to have patience during the whole plan of treatment and also he should be possessed with the confirmity of positive result – about the cure – because negative approach most often – infact always – interefers with the process of cure – some where they disturb the whole process and resultant effect will be the delayed process of curing for which the physician himself has not expected most oftenly and the failure results here both in case of physician in his practice and in case of patient – in the form of lossing the patient and – in socially spreading of homeopathy . people most often get prejudice about homeopathy due to this reason . The delayed process – due to inefficiency of a physician – to be frank – as well as due to lack of faith in system of treatment at both level- in the case of physician – who is not able enough to grow faith in himself as well as in patient about the confirmity of result – about believing in the system of treatment and physician – the lack of sufficient or enough trust becomes the main reason - leads to various misinterpretation about homeopathyy . They can only be negated in the circumstances where a physician himself is a person , not a patient – a physio form – having possessed with normal – healthy suscepatibility – who is having complete faith in the system he is praticed with as well as the cases he deals with . Then only he can make infact tranform the another one in a state of annihilation of symptoms – in a complete physiological state – having harmonious equlibrium at every level where not a single point remains for the anarchy – for the thought controversies – and such a physician , who himself is in a physiological state – in a state of completeness , highly satisfied – in a state of saturation at every level – where there will be no place for discontendness – a person – physician can only make the sociaty healthy . where a person – a physician doesn’t need to develop his skills with too much perspirational efforts , but instead it develops at its own without even knowing of a person. Such a person can only reach upto the deeper layers - is able to dig the deeper, unopened layers of homeopathy and can open the mystery - the mysterious truth hidden behind . On opening the layers of knowledge he can find in between the words – the words that are not written – that are hidden in between the lines - truly representative of actual meaning. He can differentiate the meaning of wordings and words of meaning and chooses from them , the later – throws away the former . The purpose of this whole discussion is fulfilled here . The former – the meaning of words represents the totality of symptoms – pathological – deranged state of a person , the complete drug picture of a medicine that most of our materia medicas are compiled by , where the later – the words of meaning is representative of the physio form – a person – that how one will appear , how will be the picture of a personality after acheiving the state of complete cure . However words are not important , not to be concentrated upon so much , but the feeling – the meaning hidden behind the said words is meaning ful – and only a person - not a patient – can only understand the meaning . this is also necessity for a physician, that he should be able enough to find and catch the meaning between the words – said by patient , then only he can find out the similimum. Otherwise if he falls in the words , then he may fall into an illusion – an illusive picture of a patient , his misleading symtomatic totality – which misleads a physician also (but this is only possible in the circumstances where a physician not having sound state of mind ) and in such a case , failure is obvious. So a physician should be unparalleled , concentrated and absorbed in only one thing . He should be a devotee to homeopathy first . If this state is achieved then only cure could be effortlessly and with convience and the resultant success and satisfaction through the profession will be absolute and unasked for .

psychological cause of nerve damage - paralysis

2012-01-15T12:11:00.000+05:30

Psychological cause of nerve damage – Paralysis

Paralysis is a serious disorder having loss of muscular function at the affected part along with loss of sensation over affected area . The chief cause responsible for the paralysis is nerve damage whether in brain stem or in spinal cord. The etiology varies ranging from injury to brain stem or spinal cord to multiple sclerosis – but here we are concerning for the psychological cause of paralysis – psychological in the sense not the psychological disease condition e.g. OCD, hypochondriasis or schrizophrenia - but sometime we have came across the situation where inspite of so many diagnosis and exhaustive lab reports , one can’t find a proper etiology – a cause - that can be define in that case - the etiology seats in the psyche – the basic centre – the CNS – that regulates every system of the human physic – but how this whole process progresses upto the level of paralysis – complete loss of function and sensation . Let’s discuss it .

The main centre for stress lies in the nucleus – whether in the nucleus of nerve cell – a smallest component or in the nucleus of whole human body – that is to say DNA . In nucleus – the basic component - responsible for the the transfer of hereditory characteristic - lies, named DNA - The basic innate hereditory characteristic represents a particular constitution that can be personalized - can be varied from person to person and that decides a particular person’s ability to cope up with or to overcome the stress and variation and flactuation arising in the normal sound waves of emotions and impulses while facing different adverse circumstances . This is the way a person sustains his life . It’s a process of adaptation towards the environment to sustain the existance . The basic characteristic – the hereditory transmission decides - that upto which limit a particular constitution can with stand with the stress . The tendency to overcome stress depends upon the constitution – Some are robust constitution - Some are having weak constitution and constitution is composed of two basic component – infact it includes two basic component - physic and psyche. Physical stress – infact it’s not so much important – because in most circumstances – infact always it arises from the psyche . The psyche remains the basic cause for the origin of stress. Psychological stress originates in the form of variation and flactuation in the degree of impulses according to the surrounding circumstances . Impulses like frustration , anger , fear , sexual impulses – impulses , in short they arises from emotional or intellectual need and when due to adverse circumstances they don’t get satisfied – variation in the flow of impulses is observed . The changing waves of impulses if the constitution is enough capable to cope up with , can overcome or results in Paralysis.

My Article In DB lifeline નકારાત્મક વિચારોનું દમન સોરાયસીસ dated 5 jan 2012

2012-01-06T10:20:00.000+05:30

આધુનિક વિજ્ઞાન મુજબ મનુષ્યને અસરકર્તા મોટા ભાગના રોગ પ્રકારના હોય છે એટલે કે રોગનું ઉદ્ભવસ્થાન મહદ્અંશે માનવીનું મન છે ! જયારે મનની લાગણીઓના પ્રવાહમાં કોઈ કારણસર વિ ોપ ઉદ્ભવે ત્યારે તેનું પ્રતિબિંબ શરીર ઉપર પડે છે. જેને માનવી રોગ ગણીને વિવિધ દવાઓ દ્વારા શારીરિક ઉપચાર કરે છે. હકીકતમાં જો મનની લાગણીઓનું નિયંત્રણ કરવામાં આવે તો શરીર પણ સ્વસ્થ રહી શકે છે. આજે આપણે વાત કરીએ છીએ... રોગોની, તેમાંનો જ એક રોગ છે - સોરાયસીસ.

સાયકો-સોમેટિક રોગની પ્રક્રિયા વિષે જોઈએ તો માનવીના મનમાં આઘાત લાગવાથી કે વિ ોપ ઉદ્ભવવાથી ડર, ક્રોધ, ગુસ્સો, ઈષ્ર્યા, જીદ, શોક, આઘાત વગેરે વલણો ઉત્પન્ન થાય છે. કોઈ કારણસર આ લાગણીઓને દબાવવામાં આવે તો તે માનસિક સ્વરૂપે બહાર આવી શકતી નહીં હોવાથી શારીરિક રીતે રોગનાં લ ાણોના રૂપમાં બહાર આવે છે. આ સમયે જો વ્યકિતના માં ઝાંખી કરીને મૂળભૂત કારણ શોધીને તેનો ઉપચાર કરવામાં આવે તો શારીરિક લ ાણો આપોઆપ દૂર થઈ જાય છે. હોમિયોપેથી ચિકિત્સા પદ્ધતિ આ વિષય ઉપર કામ કરે છે. જોકે એ પણ વાસ્તવિકતા છે કે ઘણી વખત વધારે પડતાં સૂર્યપ્રકાશમાં કામ કરવાથી કે જે જગ્યાએ કંઈક વાગ્યું હોય ત્યાં સોરાયસીસનો ઉદ્ભવ જોવા મળે છે. પરંતુ તેની સાથોસાથ કયાંક ને કયાંક નું ડિસ્ટર્બન્સ સંકળાયેલું હોય છે. તેથી જ આજ સુધી સોરાયસીસનું કોઈ દેખીતું-નક્કર કારણ શોધી શકાયું નથી.

સોરાયસીસ જયારે જટિલ સ્વરૂપ ધારણ કરીને સમગ્ર શરીરમાં ફેલાઈ જાય છે, ત્યારે તેની સારવાર અને રોગની નાબૂદી ખૂબ મુશ્કેલ બની જાય છે.

સોરાયસીસ શરીરની ત્વચાના કોઈપણ ભાગ ઉપર થઈ શકે છે, પરંતુ મોટાભાગે તે ચહેરો, કપાળ, બરડો અને કોણીના ભાગે વિશેષત: જોવા મળે છે. તેના ચકામામાં પણ વિવિધતા હોય છે જે એક મી.મી.થી લઈને સમગ્ર હાથ કે પગને આવરી લે તેટલા મોટા પણ હોય છે. આવા એટલે કે ચાંઠા ઉપરની ચામડી એકદમ સૂકી અને શુષ્ક હોય છે અને થી તદ્દન અલગ તરી આવે છે. તેનો રંગ ક્રીમ કલરથી લઈને ઘટ્ટ સફેદ સુધી હોય છે. એટલે તો પ્રચલિત ભાષામાં તેને પણ કહેવામાં આવે છે. સોરિયાસીસ સાથે કયારેક ખરજવું પણ સંકળાયેલું હોય છે. આ પ્રકારના કિસ્સામાં ચામડીની સપાટી ખરબચડી અને કથ્થઈ કે કાળારંગની ત્વચાના લેયરોથી ઢંકાયેલી અને સામાન્ય ચામડીથી ઊપસી આવેલી હોય છે. કોઈ વખત સોરાયસીસ ખૂબ જ જટિલ સ્વરૂપ ધારણ કરીને સમગ્ર શરીરમાં ફેલાઈ જાય છે. ત્યારે તેની સારવાર અને રોગની નાબૂદી ખૂબ મુશ્કેલ બની જાય છે.

શિયાળામાં ઠંડી ઋતુ અને વાતાવરણની ઠંડીને લીધે સોરાયસીસનાં ચાંઠાઓમાં અતિશય ખંજવાળ આવે છે અને દરદી ખંજવાળે ત્યારે ચામડી ઊખડી જાય છે અને કયારેક તેમાં લોહી પણ આવે છે. ઘણી વખત સોરિયાસીસમાં ઈન્ફેકશન થવાથી પરુ પણ જામી જાય છે અને કયારેક જે જગ્યાએથી ચામડી ઊખડી ગઈ હોય ત્યાં સખત જાડું પડ બાઝી જતું જોવા મળે છે.

હોમિયોપથી પદ્ધતિમાં રોગનો નહીં પરંતુ રોગીનો ઈલાજ કરવામાં આવે છે. તેથી તેમાં અલગ અલગ વ્યકિતઓ માટે અલગ અલગ દવાઓ હોય છે, કારણ કે દરેક વ્યકિત માટે રોગનું કારણ, તેનાં લ ાણો, માનસિકતા અને શારીરિક બંધારણ ભિન્ન પ્રકારનાં હોય છે. આ રોગ થવાના કિસ્સામાં નિષ્ણાત હોમિયોપથી ડોકટરની સલાહ અનુસાર નિયમિતપણે ધીરજપૂર્વક દવાઓ લેવામાં આવે તો આ રોગ અવશ્યપણે મટાડી શકાય છે.

NUX VOMICA - A PERFECTIONIST .........MY OWN !

2011-12-28T11:14:00.000+05:30

Nux vomica :

THE MAIN THEME OF THIS MEDICINE IS HIS UNCONTROLABLE EXCESSIVE DISASTROUS AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR UPTO THE LEVEL OF INSANITY. THIS BECOMES A SOURCE OF WEAKNESS FOR A PERSON COZ HE HAS NO CONTROL OVER HIS EMOTIONS. OFTEN HE FEARS THAT HE CAN’T CONTROL HIS IRRITABILITY. IRRITABILITY – A KIND OF INSANE IRRITABILITY WHICH LEADS HIM TO THE DESIRE OF THE DISTRUCTION OF OTHERS. BUT ALONG WITH THAT, BECAUSE OF LOTS OF IDEAS CROWDING IN HIS MIND THE FEELING OF GIULT AND A KIND OF INSECURITY IS ASSOCIATED ALONG WITH IT, DUE TO WHICH AT THE TIME OF TAKING ANY ACTIVITY AT HAND HE CANT PERFORM ENOUGH.INFACT HE CANT GATHER HIS IDEAS AT THE PARTICULAR EVENT HOW TO BEHAVE AND THIS LEADS HIM TO THINK A LOT AND THE CYCLE THUS GO ON.

ANOTHER PARTICULAR THING TO BE NOTED ABOUT NUX VOMICA PATIENTIS THAT HE FEELS THAT HIS BACK WOULD BE BREAK. THIS IS A KIND OF IMAGINATION, A SIGN OF INSECURITY AT THE PSYCHE.HE SUFFERS FROM BACKACHE – LUMBAGO. AS WE KNOW THAT IN THE HUMAN PHYSIC, BACK IS SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF SUPPORT. A KIND OF FINANCIAL SUPPORT, AN EMOTIONAL SUPPORT. THAT’S WHY, THE NUX VOMICA PATIENT DREADS ABOUT THE FINANCIAL RUIN AND THIS FEAR LEADS HIM TO CONSTANT PROFESSIONAL WORK WHICH FINALLY IN THE EXTREME ANXIETY AND CROWDING OF SO MANY IDEAS IN HIS MIND FROM WHICH IT BECOMES ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE FOR HIM TO ESCAPE.

A FEELING OR DREAD OF FINANCIAL RUIN, FEELING OF INSECURITY LEADS HIM TO THINK THAT HIS BACK WOULD BE BREAK.

CONSTANT CROWDING OF IDEAS IN MIND LEADS TO BRAIN FAG, FATIGUED CONDITIONAND HE HAS NO CONTROL OVER HIS EMOTION, THAT’S WHY FREQUENT AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR. ALSO HE IS DISCONTENDED, NEVER SATISFIED. THIS LEADS HIM FOR THE CONSTANT EFFORT TO BECOME PERFECTIONIST BUT UNFORTUNATELY, ALL HIS EFFERTS DIRECTED TOWERDS THE WRONG DIRECTION AND IT IS EXPRESSED AT HIS PHYSICAL LEVEL.
ALL MENTAL SYMPTOMS OF THE NUX VOMICA PATIENT ARE EXPRESSED AT HIS PHYSIC LEVEL IN EVERY ORGAN, IN EVERY SYSTEM. THE WRONG DIRECTION OF EFFORTS ARE DUE TO CROWDING OF IDEAS THAT LEADS TO BRAIN FAG.

@NEVER SATISFIED – DISCONTENDED – CROWDING OF IDEAS IN MIND – AGGRESIVE BEHAVIOR – FREQUENT IRRITABILITY- UPTO THE LEVEL OF INSANE IRRITABILITY- DISTRUCTION OF OTHERS- DESIRE TO DOMINATE OR COMMOND OVER OTHERS – DESIRE FOR PERFECTIONISM- BRAIN FAG ASSOCIATED WITH FEELING OF GUILT OR INSECIRITY – LEADS TO LUMBAGO , BACK PAIN – FEAR OF FINANCIAL RUIN – EVERY ACTION DIRECTED TOWERDS THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION – INSOMNIA – EXPRESSED AT THE PHYSIC LEVEL IN THE FORM OF HURRIED , WORRIED CHARACTER, INCREASED ADRENALIN SECRETION – MUSCULAR SPASM – ANTI PARISTALTIC MOVEMENT- MUSCULAR PAIN ALL OVER.

THE PSYCHE FEATURE – EVERY ACTION IN THE OPPSITE DIRECTION – EXPRESSED AT THE LEVEL OF PHYSIC IN THE FORM OF ENEFFECTUAL URGING FOR STOOL IN CASE OF DIARRHOEA , IN DYSENTRY, IN CONSTIPATION , AS WELL AS IN URINARY SYSTEM IN THE FORM OF INEFFECTUAL URGING FOR URINE AFTER MUCH STRAINING , AFTER PASSAGE OF SMALL STOOL HE FEELS BETTER FOR A WHILE ONLY A LITTLE BIT BUT THEN BURNING FOLLOWS. BY MEANING OF THAT, WHEN THE IRRITABILITY OR THE DISCONTENDE BEHAVIOR OF THE SELF IS EXPRESSED BY THE PERSON, IT DOESN’T GIVES RELIEF OR IF IT GIVES , THEN ONLY FOR SOME HOURS, FOR A WHILE ONLY, BUT AFTER THAT THE FEELING OF DISSATISFACTION ALING WITH GUILT FOLLOWS THAT LEADS HIM TO THINK CONSTANTLY ABOUT THE PARTICULAR AS WELL AS UPCOMING EVENTS, COZ BASICALLY THE NUX VOMICA PERSONALITY CRAVES FROM HIS INSIDE TO BECOME A PERFECTIONIST.

NUX VOMICA DUE TO HIS WEAKNESS , AGGRESIVE BEHAVIOR, TAKES THIS CHARACTERISTIC PARTICULAR AS HIS WEAKNESS, INSTEAD OF HIS STRENGTH. AND THIS CHARACTERISTIC SYMPTOM EXPRESSED IN CASE OF FEVER. HE IS CHILLY , IT IS ALL OVER ACCEPTED BUT THE MENTAL CHARACTERISTIC EXPRESSED IN A WAY LIKE HE CANT RAISE THE COVER FROM HIS BODY DURING THE STAGE OF FEVER. MEANING OF SAYING IS THAT PSYCHE SYMTOMS ARE EXPRESSED OUTWARD PHYSICALLY.

WHILE HE CANT’T EXPRESSED HIS ANGER HE CANT OPEN THE COVER OF HIS EMOTIONS, LIKE THAT HE CANT OPEN THE COVER OVER HIS BODY DURING THE FEVER- THE HEAT STAGE – THE HOT FEELING .
MENTALLY, HE CAN’T EXPRESS THE HOT FEELING – THE REPRESENTATIVE SYMBOL OF ANGER – IRRITABILITY AND SO THAT HIS OUTWARD PHYSICAL EXPRESSION DURING THE STAGE OF FEVER COMES IN A FORM OF EXPRESSION THAT HE CANT RAISE THE COVER OVER HIS BODY .

@ THIS IS THE PSYCHE – PHYSIC RELATIONSHIP. WHATEVER HIDDEN IN THE SUBCONCIOUS – UNCONCIOUS MIND – IN THE PSYCHE OF A PERSON IN HIS INNERMOST ONLY THAT IS EXPRESSED PHYSICALLY OUTWARD.THE ONLY THING NEEDED IS TO RECOGNIZE AND OBSERVE IT.

IN EVERY REMEDIAL PRESCRIPTION IF A PHYSICIAN IS ABLE TO REACH AT THE PSYCHE, AT THE INNERMOST AND IF HE IS ABLE TO CATCH UP THE MAIN THEME OF THE REMEDY , THEN IT WILL MUCH EASIAR FOR HIM TO TREAT THE PATIENT. THE OUTWARDLY EXPRESSED PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS ARE NOT SO NECESSARY TO CONSIDER UPON, BUT IF THE MAIN THEME IS THERE WHICH IS ALWAYS THERE IN EVERY REMEDY , AND IF IT IS CAREFULLY IDENTIFIED AND IF THE PHYSICIAN IS TRULY DEDICATED TOWERDS HIS OBESERVATION AND IF HE IS ABLE TO PERCIEVE CLEARLY THE MENTAL PSYCHE OF THE PATIENT THEN IT WILL BE EASIER FOR HIM TO TREAT COZ THE PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS CAN BE ALTERED ACCRDING TO CONSTITUTION OR ACCORDING TO CIRCUMSTANCES THE PERSON HAS GONE THROUGH AN OTHERWISE ACCORDING TO THE IMMUNITY LEVEL OF A PERSON OR UPON THE CIRCUMSTANCES THE PERSON HAS GONE THROUGH, OR OTHERWISE ACCO. TO THE IMMUNITY LEVEL OF A PERSON OR UPON THE PHYSIOLOGICAL CAPABILITY OF OF HIS VARIOUS SYSTEM TO FUNCTION. THAT’S WHY, IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO CONSIDER THE PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS IMPORTANTLY, BUT THE MAIN CONCERN OF A PHYSICIAN SHOULD BE ON THE PSYCHE AND IF THE THEME IS GRASPED TRULY AND CLEARLY THAN IT WILL BE THE CONSTITUTIONAL TREATMENT.

IN CASE OF COUGH, IRRITATION OF THE PSYCHE, THE CHARACTERISTIC PECULIARITY OF THE NUX VOMICA EXPRESSED IN THE FORM OF IRRITATION OF ALL MUCUS MEMBRANE. ( RESPI )
THOUGH IT IS ACCEPTED THAT N.V. PT IS CHILLY BUT IF HE IS EXPOSED TO THE WARM CLIMATE OR EXTEMELY HOT TEMPARATURE, THE OVERSENSITIVITY IS EXPRESSED IN THE FORM OF HEAT OF THE PSYCHE THE ANGER. SO, THE POSSIBILITY MAY NOT BE DENIED THAT A NUX VOMICA PATIENT DURING THE SEASON MAY BECOME EXTREMELY IRRITABLE AND AGGRESSIVE.

NUX VOMICA PATIENT CANT BE THOUGHT OF WITHOUT IRRITABILITY. CALM TEMPER IS A CONTRADICTION FOR NUX VOMICA PATIENT. IT IS A CHARACTERISTIC OF PULSATILLA.
ALWAYS WANTS / CRAVES HEAT COZ HE IS CHILLY. THAT’S THE ANOTHER ASPECT. BUT WANTS TO REMAIN IN HOT STATE, PHYSIC WISE AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY.

NUX VOMICA’S MOST SYMPTOMS BETTER FROM HEAT BUT THE HEAD SYMPTOMS ARE WORSE FROM HEAT. COZ HEAD IS THE OUTER SCULPTURE/ COVERING FOR BRAIN, FOR PROTECTION OF BRAIN. HE TAKES HI ANGER & HIS PSYCHE AS HIS WEAKNESS THAT’S WHY EVERYTIME HE TRIES TO AVOID THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT AROUSE THE ANGER AND IRRITABILITY. SO INWARDLY HE CANT TOLERATEANGER SYMBOLIC OF HEAT AND THAT IS EXPRESSED IN THE SYMPTOMS NARRATED AS ‘’ NUX VOMICA PATIENT – THE HEAD SYMPTOMS OF WHOSE IS WORSE FROM HEAT ‘’.

EVERY ACTION IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION THAT’S WHY IN CASE OF SPINAL CORD AND VERTEBRAE, OPISTHOTONUS IN DIGESTIVE , INDIGESTION, CONSTIPATION , INEFFECTUAL URGING, PILES, ANTI PERISTALTIC MOVEMENT OF WHOLE INTESTINE, THE WHOLE DIGESTIVE TRACT. MOST OF THE TIME N.V. PATIENT CANT EVEN ABLE TO DECIDE TO WHAT THING OR WHAT ACTIVITY , HE SHOULD GIVE PREFERANCE TO. AND HE WASTS HIS TIME AND THIS MENTAL WORK GIVES HIM TEMPORARY A FEELING OF RELAXATION OR RELIEF. BUT IT REMAINS ONLY FOR FEW HOURS.

THIS PSYCHE SYMPTOM IS EXPRESSED IN THE FORM OF PHYSICAL SYMPTOM – IN THE FORM OF - FEELING BETTER BY PASSING SMALL AMOUNT OF STOOL – ESPECIALLY IN CASE OF DIGESTIVE DISTURBANCES. AS EVERY BODY KNOW THE STOOL IS A WASTE PRODUCT OF THE HUMAN BODY. SO SOMETHING WASTAGE OUT GIVES HIM RELIEF. IT CAN BE CO- RELATED WITH ANOTHER MENTAL SYMPTOM – ANGER EXPRESSED GIVE HIM TEMPORARY RELIEF.

ONE CAN SAY DIGESTIVE SYSTEM, IS A SEAT FOR THE ORIGIN OF HYPOCHONDRIASIS. SO. IF A NUX VOMICA PATIENT IS ALLOWED TO EXPRESS HIS IMAGINATION OR TRULY SAID, IF HIS EMOTIONS, IT GIVES HIM RELIEF IN THE REAL SENSE OF MEANING.

NUX VOMICA HAS TENSION ALL OVER – MENTALLY AS WELL AS PHYSICALLY. SO, IT CAN BE USED TO RELAX THE MUSCULAR TENSION. IN CASE OF RENAL CALCULI, TO DECREASE THE TENSION OF CIRCULAR FIBERS OF TE CANAL, THAT ALLOWS FREELY PASSAGE OF THE STONE AS WELL AS IN GALL STONE ALSO BY DISSOLVING THE STONE.

BASIC DIFFERANCE BETWEEN SULPHUR PATIENT AND NUX VOMICA PATIENT IS THAT SULPHUR HAVING EGO AT ITS EXTREME WHILE NUX HAVING AGGRESIVENESS THAT AT ANY TIME AT ITS EXTREME. EGO IF DIRECTED IN A RIGHT WAY THEN LEADS TO STRENGTH WHILE AGGRESIVENESS ITSELF INDICATES WEAKNESS. PERSON’S EGO – DIRECTED IN RIGHT WAY- LEADS TO SULPHUR PERSON. EGO – IF EXTREME – DIRECTED IN A WRONG WAY – LEADS TO DISTRUCTION – IN CASE OF SULPHUR – THINK ABOUT DISASTROUS FORM OF DISTRUCTION AT FIRST – DESIRE TO PROOVE HIMSELF HIS FIRST STEP WILL BE TO INNOVATE SOMETHING THAT CAN LEAD TO DISASTER – SOMETHING MATERIAL – NEVER BEFORE – BUT WHEN HE WANTS TO INNOVATE A DISTRUCTIVE IDEA IT WOULD BE FIRST MENIFESTED IN THE FORM OF INNOVATION. CAUSE BASIC QUALITY OF A SULPHUR MEDICINE IS STRENGTH.

NOW WHAT ABOUT NUX VOMICA.....?
NO TIME............
LEAVING........
WILL BE BACK SOON.........!!!

KALI CARB - MY ORIGINAL WRITINGS......

2011-12-28T10:58:00.000+05:30

KALI CARB :

CONSERVATIVE , DIPLOMATIC , DOGMATIC – FIXED OPINION , RIGIDITY. SELF RESPECT- NOT EGO , EMOTIONAL STABLENESS , COMPLETE LOGICAL THINKING , STABILITY BETWEEN EMOTIONALISM AND PROFESSIONALISM, BEST MANAGEMENT SKILLS, LESS FACIAL EXPRESSION OF EMOTIONAL WAVES, SELF ESTEEM SO HIGH, REPEATED EXPOSURE TO STRUGGLE AND PASSING SUCCESSFULLY FROM IT INFACT STRENGTHENS HIM.
SELF RESPECT TOWERDS HIM – SELF RESPECT SO HIGH – MORALS – IDEALS THAT NEVER LET A PERSON TO FRUSTRATE EVEN IN THE CIRCUMSTANCES FULL OF STRUGGLE, ADVERSE, ABOUT WHICH NO ONE EVEN CAN THINK TO PASS FROM IT OR EVEN TO FACE IT. ALWAYS READY TO FACE THE ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES. NO MATTER FOR HIM . STRUGGLE AND PASSING FROM IT , INFACT STRENGHTENS HIM .

A FAMILY MAN – RESPONSIBLE – ALWAYS READY TO CONSERVE HIS FAMILY. EVERY DECISIONS ARE DIPLOMATIC. RIGHT DECISION AT THE RIGHT TIME . CLEARITY IN VISION.

NO GREYISH SHADE IN CIRCUMSTANCES FROM HIS POINT OF VIEW. EVERY CICUMSTANCES FOR A KALI CARB PATIENT WETHER BLACK OR WHITE, RIGHT OR WRONG, OR PROPER AND IMPROPER . NO CONFUSION AT THE DECISION LEVEL AND AT THE THOUGHT LEVEL OR SEEING TOWERDS THE CIRCUMSTANCES. COMPLETELY LOGICAL THINKING. COMPLETE STABLENESS BETWEEN LOGICAL AND EMOTIONAL FIELD. STRONG SENSE OF DUTY TO AN INFLEXIBLE , RIGID DEGREE.

THE MAIN THEME OF KALI CARB IS RIGIDITY. IN STARTING PHASE, AT THE YOUNGER AGE, KALI CARB SEEMS RIGID AND INFLEXIBLE BUT THESE CAHRACTERISTIC REMAINS IN THE LATENT PHASE OVER WHICH THE EMOTIONALISM LEADS HIGHER THAT BECOMES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE FREQUENT AGGRASSIVE BEHAVIOR. BUT AS THE TIME PASSES , FROM REPEATED EXPOSURE TO ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES AS WELL AS HARDER STRUGLE TO EXIST MAKES A KALI CARB PATIENT STRONG. FROM THE LATENT PHASE THE RIGIDITY AND INFLEXIBILITY COMES AT THE SURFACE LEVEL AND THERE IS NOTABLE CLEARITY BETWEEN EMOTIONALISM AND PROFESSIONALISM. CLEAR LOGICAL THINKING. A STABLENESS. INFLEXIBLENESS. THAT CANT BE BREAK OR FLEX.

STOIC : COMPLETELY SELF CONTROLLED , UNCOMPLAINING , UNABLE TO BREAK EVEN A TRIVIAL RULE : PROFESSIONALLY AS WELL AS EMOTIONALLY, STRONGLY ATTACHED WITH HOME, RESPONSIBILITY, LOYAL, MORALITY : HIGH

IN KALI CARB, EXCESSIVE MUSCULAR WORK OUT FINALLY LEADS TO FATIGUE WHERE THERE IS NO CAPABILITY FOR A MUSCLE TO RESTRAIN THE OVER WORK LOAD.

KALI HAS EQUALLY STRONG COVERT AND OVERT ANXIETY – SO , SLEEP IS UNREFRESHING : THEY DONT FALL A SLEEP EASILY AND GENERALLY HAVE AN AGGARAVATION AROUND 2-3 AM. THE RUBRIC – DWELLS ON PAST DISAGGREEABLE OCCURANCES WHICH MAY DELAY SLEEP.

SELF ESTEEM OF KALI CARB PATIENT IS SO HIGH THAT HE CANT WANT TO GIVE A CHANCE TO THE DISAGREEABLE CIRCUMSTANCES OR EXPERIENCES IN THE FUTURE TO OCCUR. AND THIS THING MAKES HIM CONSTANTLY CONCIOUS ABOUT HIMSELF ABOUT HIS EXISTANCE AND LEADS TO INSOMNIA.

ONE CAN THINK HERE OR THE THOUGHT HERE MAY ARISE THAT HOW CAN A KALI CARB PATIENT BECOME ANXIUOS IN AN IRRATIONAL WAY WHEN IT IS NARRATED PRIEVIOUSLY AND ALL OVER ESTABLISHED FACT THAT HE IS SO RESPONSIBLE AMONG ALL HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE AND HE HAS COMPLETE LOGICAL THINKING AND CONTROL OVER HIS FACIAL AS WELL AS EMOTIONAL EXPRESSIONS.

TO CLARIFY THE THINGS WE HAVE HERE THE REFERANCES OF CONCEPT OF ANXIETY – A WORK WRITTEN BY DANISH PHILOSOPHER SOREN KIERKEGAARD IN 1844. THE 1981 TRANSLATION OF THIS WORK INTO ENGLISH TRANSLATION THE TITLE AS THE CONCEPT OF ANXIETY. THE ORIGINAL ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF HIS BOOK HAD THE TITLE OF ’THE CONCEPT OF DREAD ’.

ACCORDING TO KIERKEGAARD , ANXIETY IS AN UNFOCUSED FEAR WHERE THERE IS NO OBJECT , NO DIRECTION TO CONCENTRATE UPON OR TO BE ANXIOUS UPON. THE IRRATIONAL THOUGHTS AND FEAR ARISING OUT OF THEM .

HOWEVER, KIERKEGAARD EXPLAINS WITH IT THE ANOTHER ASPECT OF ANXIETY. IN ANXIETY, ONE HAS A COMPLETE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE FROM THE SO MANY OPTIONS, POSSIBILITIES AND THESE INFINITE POSSIBILITIES AND OPTIONS TRIGGERS THE FEAR AND ANXIETY IN ONESELF INFACT THE COMPLETE FREEDOM TO CHOOSE FROM IT BECOMES RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DREADFUL EVENT.

BUT IT HAS TWO ASPECT. THE CHOICE – LOGICALLY – LEADS A PERSON TO THE PATH OF RECOGNITION OR REALIZATION OF ONE’S TRUE IDENTITY. THE CHOICE – ILLOGICALLY – THROWS A PERSON INTO THE VALLEY OF DARKNESS, FROM WHICH IT BECOMES HARD TO COME OUT. BUT OFCOURSE IT DEPENDS UPON THE PERSON WHAT HE WANTS TO DO !

ANXIETY RESULTS FROM THE COMPLETE FREEDOM OF CHOICE. AND MOST OFTEN INFACT ONE CAN SAY KALI CARB PERSON ALWAYS CHOOSE THE FORMER OBJECT FOR THE SELF REALIZATION AND FOR GIVING AN IDEAL IDENTITY TO HIS EXISTENCE WITH THE HELP OF COMPLETE LOGICAL AND RATIONAL THINKING AND THIS THING LEADS HIM OR BECOME RESPONSIBLE FOR THE COMPLAINT OF INSOMNIA AT NIGHT FOR HIM. THE AGGRAVATION PERIOD BECOMES 2-3 A.M. AT NIGHT.

WHEN ANALYZING ANY REMEDY FROM THE PSYCHE POINT OF VIEW, ONE SHOULD BEAR IN THE MIND THAT WE ARE TREATING A PERSON , HIS PHYSIOLOGICAL – ORIGINAL STATE. SO, ONE SHOULD CONSIDER ON THE POSITIVE ASPECT – CHARACTERISTIC – POSITIVE CHARACTERISTIC OF A PERSON COZ, A PERSON HIMSELF WHEN BORNS AS A CHILD ON EARTH, ONLY THE POSITIVE THOUGHTS COMES IN THE CHILD’S MIND. MOST PROBABLY THE CIRCUMSTANCES HE FACES THAT LEADS HIM TO WEAKNESS.

OUR MAIN PURPOSE IN THE HOMEOPATHY IS TO MAKE A PERSON STRONG – EMOTIONALLY AS WELL AS PHYSICALLY. WE MUST ESTABLISH A HARMONIOUS EQUILIBRIUM IN THE MIND AS WELL AS AT THE PHYSIC LEVEL THE STRENGTHEN IMMUNITY. SO THAT HE CAN OVERCOME ANY KIND OF EMOTIONAL ISSUES, ANY KIND OF ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES AND FOR THAT WE HAVE TO AROUSE HIS LATENT PHASE, HIS CHARACTERISTIC POSITIVE ASPECTS. THEN ONLY A PERSON CAN REALIZE HIS TRUE EXISTENCE ON THE EARTH FOR WHICH HE HAS BORN AND THEN ONLY A PURPOSE OR A MISSION OF A TRUE HOMEOPATH OF CURING IN HOLY MANNER CAN BE FULFILLED. OTHERWISE WITHOUT ANY DOUBT IT CAN BE SAID THAT THE ONE WHO CANT REALIZE THIS FACT IS A MONGREL SECT – A CROSS BRID DOG.

THE ANOTHER THING IS SUPPOSE A PHYSICIAN CANT FIND ANY POSITIVE ASPECT IN PERSON IN HIS LATENT PHASE, THEN HE SHOULD HAVE OR I CAN SAY HERE , HE MUST POSSESS THE QUALITY OF INSERTING POSITIVE ASPECTS AND POSITIVE POINT OF VIEW IN A PATIENT’S MIND. HE MUST BE ABLE TO DO THE SAME. AND FOR THAT THE CHIEF REQUIREMENT IS NEEDED NOT ONLY UPTO THE LEVEL OF UNPREJUDICED OBSERVER BUT ALSO HE SHOULD FIRST REALIZE HIMSELF, HE SHOULD BE IN A SOUND STATE OF MIND WHERE THERE SHOULD BE COMPLETE LOGICAL THINKING. NO PLACE FOR ANARCHY OR CHAOS.

HE SHOULD BE INTELLECTUAL ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND AND ANALYZE THE SITUATION OF A PARTICULAR PATIENT NOT MISGUIDED BY THE PREJUDICTION , NOT HAVING ANT BIAS IN HIS MIND AND HAVING GOOD COUNCELLING ABILITY THAT CAN ONLY POSSESSED BY THE SOUND BRAIN . HE SHOULD BE PERFECT FIRST, THEN ONLY HIS PATIENT HE COULD MAKE PERFECT. OTHERWISE FAILURE IN THE SYSTEM OF TREATMENT NAMED HOMEOPATHY MAY NOT BE DENIED .

SURPRISED.........!!!!!!!!!??

SOME POINTS ARE REMAINING. WILL BE MENTIONED SOON.........!!

PULSATILLA - MY OWN, AS PER MY POINT OF VIEW.....!!

2011-12-28T10:46:00.000+05:30

Pulsatilla :

SLUGGISHNESS , COLDNESS
AVERSION TO HEAT : SO THAT TO THE COITION : AVERSION TO MAN
COLDNESS AND STAGNATION : THAT’S WHY VARICOSE VEIN : FEEBLE CIRCULATION : LACK OF HEAT : BLOOD

CIRCULATES : HEAT : SYMBOLIC – STAGNATION IS SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF COLD
DURING METABOLISM HEAT PRODUCED THROUGH OUT THE SYSTEM, HEAT IS NEEDED FOR THE PROCESS OF DIGESTION PATIENT HAS AVERSION TO HEAT. CHILLY PATIENT. SO, ALL SYMPTOMS AGGRAVATES DURING AND AFTER MEAL , AT THE FULL STOMACH , CAN’T BEAR RICH FOOD.

PARTICULARLY, COLD FOOD AMELIORATES BECAUSE CRAVES COLD IN GENERAL.
AVERSION TO OPPOSITE SEX AND DREAD OF HEAT. NO EMOTIONAL WARMNESS IS NEEDED, THAT’S WHY ! WANTS TO REMAIN FREE , LONELY ! THAT’S WHY CRAVES FRESH AIR AND IT AMMELIORATES ALSO. WARMNESS AGGARAVATES IN EVERY FORM EMOTIONALLY AS WELL AS PHYSICALLY. BY MEANING OF THAT , DOESN’T WANT WARMNESS, PSYCHOLOGICALLY OR PHYSICALLY.

HER SKIN IS RED , HOT TO TOUCH AND FLUSHED EASILY BUT TEMPERATURE OF THE BODY REMAINS NORMAL. EVEN CRAVES COLD FRESH AIR. COLD FOOD AND DRINK AMMELIORATES. AND ACCORDING TO HER PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND CONCERNING HER MENTAL PSYCHE SYMPTOMS, THE POSSIBILITY MAY NOT BE DENIED THAT PERHAPS PULSATILLA PATIENT HATES HER LOOK BECAUSE ON SEEING PHYSIC WISE SHE IS A MOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN HAVING RED FLUSHED FACE, MILD, CALM GENTLE, YIELDING DISPOSITION, BLOND HAIR – AMONG ALL THE HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES DURING HER PHYSIOLOGICAL STATE.

BUT WHEN SHE DERANGES TO THE PATHOLOGICAL STATE OR WHEN SHE GOES TOWARD THE PROCESS OF AGEING AND DURING THAT WHOLE PERIOD OF TRANSMISSION FROM PHYSIOLOGICAL TO PATHOLOGICAL STATE ONE CAN NOTICE THAT HER OUTER APPEARANCE CHANGES DRAMATICALLY. HER SKIN WITH THE SENSATION OF ITCHING AND BURNING PROGRESS TO STAGNATION, AND SKIN BECOMES MOTTLED, PURPLISH IN APPEARANCE LIKE THAT OF THE LACHESIS AND THE SYMPTOM OF STAGNATION IN THE FORM OF VARICOSITIES OF VEIN STARTS TO ARISE.

IN PATHOLOGICAL STATE, PULSA PATIENT HAS AN UNUSUALLY VENOUS CONSTITUTION. NOW SEEING FROM THE PSYCHE POINT OF VIEW, PULSA PATIENT BASICALLY LADY, SHE HATES HER LOOK. THIS FEELING REMAINS HIDDEN IN HER INNERMOST SUBCONSCIOUS MIND WHICH CAN’T BE EXPRESSED. IT’S BECOZ HER OUTER LOOK / APPEARANCE, BECOMES RESPONSIBLE FOR MEN, THE OBJECT OF ATTRACTION AND SHE DOESN’T WANT ANY ONE TO BE ATTRACTED TOWERDS HER. COZ SHE HAS AVERSION TO MALE – OPPSITE SEX. AVERSION NOT IN THE SENSE OF HATREDNESS , BUT SHE BECOMES SO NERVOUS IN THE PRESENCE OF OPPOSITE SEX. THAT’S WHY, CAN’T BEAR COITION OR THE MARITAL ENGAGEMENT / RELATION SHIP.

IF SHE GOT MARRIED, SHE BECOMES HIGHLY NERVOUS; A KIND OF NERVOUS FRIGIDITY IS SEEN DURING THE TIME OF COITUS. SEXUAL RELATIONSHIP. BASICALLY SHE WANTS TO REMAIN SINGLE. NOT ATTACHED OR INVOLVED IN THE THE MARITAL RELATIONSHIP. COZ IF SEEN SOCIALLY MARRAIGE ITSELFIS A RELATIONSHIP WHICH DEMANDS SO MUCH RESPONSIBILITY AND THAT TAKE AWAY FREEDOM OF A PERTICULAR PERSON. TO MAINTAIN A HAPPY MARRIED LIFE, ONE SHOULD THINK ABOUT THE PARTENER FIRST , THE FIRST PRIORITY SHOULD BE TOWERD THE FAMILYAND PARTNER AS WELL AS CHILDRENS. THUS A PERSON MAINLY A LADY FEELING OF WHOSE DIVIDES IN SO MANY PERSONS . SHE HAS TO PLAY VARIOUS ROLES AND IN DOING SO , SHE KNOWINGLY OR UNKNOWINGLY BECOMES INDIFFERENT . INFACT TO MAINTAIN A RELATIONSHIP , SHE HAS TO BECOME INDIFFERENT TOWERDS HERSELF . SHE CANT BE SELFISH . SHE HAS TO THINK ABOUT HER FAMILY MEMBERS FIRST AND HER OWN PRIORITY COMES AT LAST. BUT IN THIS WHOLE PROCESS OR IN THIS PHASE OF TRANSITION OF HER LIFE , SHE LOSES GER OWN FREEDOM AND THAT’S NOT ACCEPTABLE BYTHE PULSATILLA PATIENT. SHE LIKES FREEDOM AND THAT IS EXPRESSED IN FORM OF A SYMPTOM – THAT SHE LIKES OPEN AIR, EVERY COMPLAINT OF HER AMELIRATES IN OPEN AIR. WHICH IS A KEY NOTE OF PULSATILLA LADY. SHE WANTS TO REMAIN FREE AND INDIRECTLY IT CAN BE EASILY ASSESSED BY THE ANALYSIS, THAT SHE AVOIDS USUAL FAMILIAR AND MARITAL RELATIONSHIP. SHE FEELS THAT SHE IS NOT CAPABLE TO HANDLE THE RESPONSIBILITIES – BECOMES NERVOUS- THAT MAY COME WITH THE MARRAIGE.

ANOTHER PHASE, PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTIC IS THAT A LADY BECOMES COMPLETE BY MARRAIGE. EVERY ROLE PLAYED BY HER IN HER LIFE COMPLETES BY MARRAIGE. BEFORE MARRAIGE , HER IDENTITY REMAINS UPTO A SISTER, A DAUGHTER BUT AFTER MARRAIGE, A NEW ROLE AS A WOMEN COMES TO PLAY IN HER LIFE. SHE TRANSISTS FROM THE PHASE OF GIRL TO A WOMAN. SHE BECOMES MATURE BY PLAYING A ROLE OF WIFE AND MOTHER. HER WHOLE EXISTANCE ACQUIRE A NEW IDENTITY AS A WIFE, A LIFE PARTNER , AND AS A MOTHER. A KIND OF HARMONIOUS EQUILIBRIUM IS ESTABLISHED/ SETTLED THROUGHT OUT HER ALL SYSTEM. EQULIBRIUM OF PSYCHE BRINGS WITH ITSELF EQULIBRIUM OF ALL SYSTEM AND INDIRECTLY OF THE WHOLE PHYSIC – THE CONSTITUTION – IN WHICH THE MENTAL AS WELL AS PHYSICAL CONSTITUION IS INCLUDED AS WELL.

NOW EQULIBRIUM AND HARMONY ITSELF BRINGS WITH THEM SELVES, A FEELING OF SATISFACTION. HERE I WOULD LIKE TO SAY, SOMETHING ABOUT THE NATURE OF APPETITE OF PULSATILLA . AT THE FULL STOMACH, SHE AGGRAVATES ALL THE COMPLAINTS. EVERYONE KNOWS, GENERALLY WHEN A PERSON FEEL HUNGRY, HE SHOULD BR SATISFIED BY EATING AND HE OR SHE SHOULD BE RELIEVED BY EATING AND AT FULL STOMACH. MOREOVER, IT BECOMES SO MUCH ENJOYABLE AS WELL AS DESIRABLE IF A PERSON GETS/ ACQUIRES, HOT SPICY AND THE FOOD THAT FELT TASTY TO EAT TO SATISFY THE HUNGER. BUT SURPRISINGLY IN CASE OF PULSATILLA IT DOESN’T AT ALL. THE PROCESS TURNS TO A DRAMATIC WAY.

ON CLOSELY OBESERVING, ONE CAN FIND THAT PULSATILLA PATIENT – LADY – USUALLY IN THE STAGE OF HUNGER DOESN’T SATISFY BY EATING. DOESN’T AMELIORATES. INSTEAD ALL HER COMPLAINTS AGGRAVATES BY EATING. ESPECIALLY, BY RICH, SPICY FOOD. WHY ? ITS BECAUSE THE FEELING OF SATISFACTION COMES WITH THE PROCESS OF EATING OF FOOD, AT FULL STOMACH., SHE CANT TOLERATE. THE SATISFACTION OF FULL STOMACH BY THE EATEN FOOD AT THE LEVEL OF PHYSIC IS REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PSYCHE SYMPTOM – THE SATISFIED EMOTIONS AT THE LEVEL OF PSYCHE BY THE MARITAL RELATIONSHIP ( BUT AT THE LOWEST LEVEL ). SHE CANT BEAR COMPLETE HARMONIOUS EMOTIONALISMAND EQUILIBRIZED STATE ( WHICH IS INFACT INCOMPLETE ) AT PSYCHE LEVEL, THAT’S WHY, CANT BEAR THE SATISFIED FEELING AT THE STOMACH. INDIRECTLY IT IS THE EXPRESSION OF A PULSA LADY’S UNCONCIOUS – SUB CONCIOUS MIND THAT MIGHT BE SHE HAS AT THE DEEPER LEVEL, AVERSION TO CHILD, THOUGH IT IS NOT EXPRESSED CLEARLY IN THE DRUG PICTURE OF PULSATILLA. AS HER SLUGGISHNESS, FEEBLENESS AT THE MIND SYMPTOMS EXPRESSED AT THE PHYSIC LEVEL IN THE FORM OF STAGNATION OF CIRCULATORY SYSTEM RESULTING IN VARICOSITIES, HER INNERMOST FEELING OF AVERSION TO CHILD, AVERSION TO COITUS, AVERSION TO MARITAL RELATION SHIP, AVERSION TO SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES, AVERSION TO HER OUTER APPEARANCE – ALL ARE EXPRESSED OUT WARDLY IN VARIOUS SYSTEM, AND THE MAIN SEAT BECOMES THE STOMACH, THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM.

THE WHOLE SITUATION TAKES A TURN TOWERD PATHOLOGY BECOZ OF ONLY ONE REASON.JUST IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE! IT WOULD BE REALLY INTERESTING TO KNOW. ONE CANT EVEN THINK THINK ABOUT THE HIDDEN ASPECT OF PULSATILLA. SINCE SO LONG TIME FROM THE TIME OF HAHNEMANN, THE DRUG PICTURE OF PULSATILLA SHOWS ONLY SLUGGISHNESS, GENTLENESS NAD GENTLE DISPOSITION – NOTHING ELSE.EVERY ONE JUST MEMORIZE THEM WITHOUT THINKING, WHAT’S THE THE REASON BEHIND IT ?

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE NAME OF PLATO ? SOCRATES’S PRIZED STUDENT. INFACT HIS NAME WAS DUE TO HIS BROAD PHYSIC. PLATO WAS HIS NICK NAME! AT THE AGE OF TWENTY, HE DECIDED TO BECOME A DEVOTEE TO PHILOSOPHY. HE WAS NOT ONLY A PHILOSOPHER, BUT ALSO AN IDEALIST AND A RATIONALIST. IN HIS THEORY RELATED TO PLEASURE, HE MENTIONED ABOUT THREE LEVEL OF PLEASURE.

1ST : THE SENSUAL OR PHYSICAL PLEASURE AT THE LOWEST LEVEL OF WHICH SEX IS A GREAT EXAMPLE.

2ND : SENSUOUS OR ESTHETIC PLEASURE , SUCH AS ADMIRING SOMEONE’S BEAUTY OR ENJOYING ONE’S RELATIONSHIP IN MARRAIGE.

3RD : UPPERMOST AND HIGHEST LEVEL, THE IDEAL PLEASURE IS THE PLEASURE OF MIND. A HARMONIOUS EQUILIBRIUM THROUGH OUT THE SYSTEM. THE EXAMPLE COULD BE PLATONIC LOVE. INTELLECTUAL LOVE FOR THE ANOTHER PERSON UNSULLIED BY PHYSICAL INVOLVEMENT.

SHE REMAINS DISSATISFIED COZ SHE HAS NO WANTING FOR THE LOWEST LEVEL OF PLEASURE. HER IDEAL ARE SO MUCH HIGHER THAT HER THOUGHT OF ACCEPTING THE LOWEST LEVEL OF SATISFACTION NAUSEATES HER. SHE BELIEVES IN PLATONIC LOVE. AND THAT’S WHY, IF SHE GETS A PARTNER WHO SATISFY HER NEED OF PLATONIC LOVE, WHO UNDERSTANDS HER INTELECTUALLY AND IF HER PARTNER CONSENTS HER AND AND IF THE SUFFICIENT TIME IS ALLOWED TO MAKE THE MARITAL RELATIONSHIP MATURE THEN THE PATHOLOGICAL STATE OR TRULY SAID THE PROGRESSION OF A PULSATILLA LADY TOWERDS THE PATHOLOGICAL STATE CAN BE PREVENTED. BUT THE ONLY REQUIREMENT NEEDED HERE IS THAT HER PARENTS MUST BE A DEEP BELIEVER IN PLATONIC LOVE. THE RESULTING PAIR WILL BE THE IDEAL AMONG THE WHOLE UNIVERSE. SATISFACTION THROUGH APPETITE OR HEART IS MORTAL, THE IMMORTALITY RESIDES IN THE BRAIN, THE PLATONIC LOVE WHERE THERE IS NO PLACE FOR PHYSICAL NEED , NO PLACE FOR HEARTLY EMOTION ONLY THE ADMIRATION OF ONES THOUGHTS.

WHEN A CHILD COMES ON THIS EARTH, HE HAS NO THOUGHTS IN HIS MIND. AS THE AGE ADVANCES HER THOUGHTS ARE STARTS TO COMPILLED IN THE BRAIN. THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND THE FAMILY ENVIRONMENT AS WELL AS SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT PLAYES A MAIN ROLE IN THE COMPILATION OF THOUGHTS. CHIEFLY PARENTS .BECOZ OF DIRECTLY TRANSMISSION OF HEREDITORY CHARACTERISTIC IN THE CHILD. IF THE PARENTS ARE OF HIGH IDEALS THEN OBVIOUSLY THE CHILD WILL BE. AND THE COMPILATION OF HIGHEST IDEALS WILL RUN IN THE FAMILIES AND IF NOT THEN VICE VERSA.

GENERALLY, SHE WANTS LIGHT CLOTHINGS. WANTS TO WEAR A THIN DRESS. MUCH CLOTHING AGGRAVATES. EVEN WEAR THIN DRESS DURING THE WINTERY MONTHS. WOOLEN CLOTHES – SHE HATES. WARMNESS ARISING FROM THAT – PHYSICAL WARMNESS – SHE DOESN’T LIKE – TRIES TO AVOID. COZ SHE DOESN’T WANT TO REMAIN UPTO THE LEVEL OF PHYSIC. HER HIGHEST IDEALS ALWAYS LEADS HER TO THINK BEYOND THE PHYSICAL LEVEL. THAT’S WHY LOOK IS NOT IMPORTANT FOR PULSATILLA PATIENT. SHE CRAVES FREEDOM THAT IS EXPRESSED IN THE FORM OF HER LIKING OF LIGHT, THIN CLOTHING, AND HER DISLIKING FOR THE WARM WOOLEN CLOTHES SHOWS HER LOVE FOR THE INTELLECTUALITY, IN WHICH THERE IS NO PLACE FOR THE PHYSICAL NEED OR EMOTIONAL WARMNESS.

AS A LADY SHE NEEDS / WANTS A PARTNER WHO CAN SEE HER NOT AS A WOMEN OR A LADY BUT AS A PERSON , AS A HUMAN BEING, WHO CAN LOVE HER HIGHER MORALS, HER VIRTUES OF HONESTLY, HER CONSCIENCE. BUT WHEN SHE FAILS TO GET SUCH A PARTNER, SHE TAKES HER FAMINITY AND THE ORGANS RELATED TO HER FEMINISM AS HER WEAKNESS. THIS IS EXPRESSED IN THE PATHOLOGICAL FORM IN THE FORM OF A SYMPTOM – UTERINE DEBILITY AND MOST SYMPTOMS ASSOCIATED WITH UTERINE TROUBLE AND MENSTRUAL IRREGULIARITIES.

IN TODAYS’S SOCIETY, PEOPLE ARE LESS CONCERNED TOWERD DEVELOPING THEIR INNER VIRTUES AND TOWERDS CONCENTRATING UPON THEIR MORALS AND CONSCIENCE. THE REASON IS AN INCREASED NUMBERS OF ADVERSE CIRCUMSTANCES, COMPLICATED LIFE AND ALL THE RELATIONSHIPS, PEOPLE BELIEVES TO RESIDE IN A SINGLE FAMILY, THE DECREASED EMOTIONALISED ATTACHMENT WITH ONE ANOTHER AS WELL AS LESS PROVIDENCE OF QUALITY TIME FOR THE FAMILY AND FEELING OF LONLINESS, SEARCHING FOR FRIENDS ON VIRTUAL WORLD FOR SATISFYING OR OVERCOME THE EMOTIONAL HUNGER – THAT IN THE SENSE DOESN’T LEAD TO THE PURPOSE OF FULFILLING THE EMOTIONAL NEED BUT INSTEAD IT LEADS THE ONE TO LONLINESS, WHERE THERE ARE CHANCES THAT THE ONE MAY BECOME A VICTIM OF DECEPTION, CHEATING. DAY BY DAY THE FEELING BECOMES INTENSE IN A PERSON THAT EVERYONE WITH WHOM HE CAME IN CONTACT OR ACQUIENTED WITH, ALL WERE FRAUD, AND LASTLY HE BECOMES DISAPPOINTED AND FEELING OF MISLEAD BECOMES INTENSE.

REPEATED EXPOSURE OR ONE CAN SAY EXPERIENCES OF THIS KIND OF DECEPTION FORCES HIM TO THINK IN A LOGICAL WAY, INFACT NOT TRULY IN LOGICAL WAY, BUT A WAY MOST OFTEN HE CHOOSES IS OF SELFISHNESS, WHERE THERE IS LITTLE PLACE FOR EMOTIONALISM TO EXIST AND MORE THINKING ABOUT ONE’S OWN BENEFIT AT THE COST OF OTHERS.

RESULTANT EFFECT WILL BE THE PERSON, WITH THE ADVANCEMENT OF DAYS LEANS TOWERDS MORE AND MORE PRACTICALITY, EMOTIONALISM SETS AT THE LOWEST LEVEL, INFACT NO PLACE REMAINS THERE FOR THE SAME, THE PERSON THINKS FOR HIS OWN BENEFIT, AND HIS THOUGHTS REMAINS UPTO THE LEVEL OF HIMSELF- THE ENTIRE MENTALITY CHANGES JUST BECOZ PAST DECIETFUL EXPERIENCES. A NORMAL PERSON FALLS FROM THE HIGHT OF EMOTIONALISM TO THE HOLLOW/ PIT OF THE SELFISHNESS. OBVIOSLY ! AND WHEN SUCH KIND OF PERSON COMES IN CONTACT WITH PULSATILLA LADY, OBVIOUSLY BECOZ OF PAST EXPERIENCES AND DUE TO DERANGEMENT IN WHOLE PERSONALITY, HIS THOUGHTS WILL REMAIN LIMITED UPTO HIMSELF, A LOWER CATEGORY OF THINKING ONE CAN SAY FOR WHICH INFACT THE PERSON IS NOT RESPONSIBLE BUT THE ADVERSE CICUMSTANCES ARE THERE TO EXIST FROM WHICH HE HAS GONE THROUGH IN PAST, THAT LEADED HIM TO THE PATH OF SELFISHNESS THOUGH UNWANTED BY HIS INNERMOST, HE WILL TRY TO GET PLEASURE FROM THE LOWEST LEVEL, FROM THE PHYSIC LEVEL, COZ DONT HAVE TRUST OVER THE MENTALITY AND EMOTIONALISM OF THE OTHERS AND HERE THE CONTROVERSY STARTS FOR THE PULSATILLA LADY.

THE POOR PULSATILLA WHOSE CONSCIENCE AND MORALS ARE SO HIGHER AND A KIND OF IDEAL FOR ANY ONE, EVEN FOR AN UNACQUIENTED ONE, THAN HOW CAN SHE CULTIVETE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THAT PARTICULAR PERSON OF OPPOSITE SEX WHO WANTS A COMPANIONSHIP ? OBVIOSLY NOT ! THINKING OF CULTIVATION OF SUCH RELATIONSHIP MAKES HER TO FEEL NERVOUS AND THOUGHT OF IT MAKES HER UNCOMFORTABLE WHEN FACING THE PERSON. AND THAT’S WHY THE SYMPTOM OF AVERSION TO MARRAIGE BECOMES A STRONG KEY NOTE IN PULSATILLA DRUG PICTURE.

PULSATILLA PATIENT DOESN’T HAVE INTEREST IN LOWER KIND OF PLEASURE. THE PLEASURE AT THE LOWEST LEVEL IS ACEIVED BY SATISFYING THE HUNGER AND THIRST. THE PHYSICAL NEED IN THE SENSE OF SAYING. SO PHYSICALLY IT IS SEEN THAT MOSTLY THERE IS ABSENCE OF CRAVING OR ONE CAN SAY DESIRE TO DRINK OR TO EAT.

COLDNESS IS REPRESENTATIVE SYMBOL OF CALMNESS . CALMNESS IN THE SENSE OF EQUILIBRIUM OF MIND AT THE LEVEL OF PSYCHE, IN THOUGHTS, IN MORALITY, IN THE HUMAN CONSCIENCE. NO PLACE FOR ANARCHY, CHAOS AND ACCORDING TO THE EXPLANATION OF PLEASURE GIVEN BY THE PLATO, IT RANKS HIGHEST AMONG ALL. THAT’S WHY, SATISFACTION OF THE PHYSICAL APPETITE WHETHER IN THE FORM OF DIGESTIVE HUNGER OR IN THE FORM OF SEXUAL DESIRE OR NEED PULSATILLA DOESNT SHOW ANY INTEREST IN IT. INFACT IT IS INDDED OPPOSITE TO HER MORALS. SO OBVIOUSLY, THE CRAVING FOR FOOD AND DRING WILL BE ABSENT PHYSICALLY. THE REASON LIES IN THE PSYCHE AS DISCUSSED ABOVE.

THE ANOTHER KEYNOTE OF PULSATILLA IS CHANGEBILITY. THE SYMPTOMS EVER CHANGING, RAPIDLY SHIFT FROM ONE PALCE TO ANOTHER PLACE, FROM ONE POINT OT ANOTHER POINT AT PHYSICAL LEVEL, IN EVERY COMPLAINT , IN EVERY SYSTEM OF HUMAN BODY. NOW, LET US THINK A WHILE FOR IT. FOR EVERY PERSON CHANGE IS NECESARY TO SURVIVE, TO MAINTAIN THE EXISTANCE, ACOORDING TO DARWIN’S THEORY OF SPECIES. HE HAS TO MAINTAIN AN ADPTATION WITH THE EVER CHANGING CICUMSTANCES AND ENVIRONMENT AROUND HIMSELF TO SUSTAIN HIS LIFE. IN CASE OF PULSATILLA IT IS REPRESENTED BY YEILDING DISPOSITION AS WELL AS IT BECOMES NECESSARY FOR HER TO MAINTAIN A HARMONIOUS EQUILIBRIUM FOR WHICH PULSATILLA CRAVES AND THE PECULIARITY LAID DOWN AT THE LEVEL OF PSYCHE IS IS EXPRESSED AT THE PHYSIC LEVEL IN THE FORM OF CHANGEABILITY OF EVERY SYMPTOMS.

AT HER YOUNGER AGE, BEFORE THE PUBERTY, BASICALLY IT IS SEEN THAT IN PULSATILLA CHILD, MATURITY LEVEL IS PROPORTIONATELY HIGHER THAN HER AGE. CHILD CRAVES SYMPATHY AND LACK OF SYMPATHY FROM PARENTS RESULTS IN INSECURITY, THE SYMPTOMS OF WHICH ARE MENIFESTED AS THUMB SUCKING,NOCTURNAL ENURESIS, FINDS SUBTITUTE IN A TEDDY BEAR FOR SUPPORT.

SULPHUR - AS PER MY OWN OPINION, THE HIDDEN ASPECT THAT IS NEVER UNCOVERED BEFORE, MY OWN WRITING..........!

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Sulphur :

Great antipsoric . The chief / main miasm responsible for the origin of disease in human being and that’s why vast category of symptomatology is found under the drug picture of sulphur and it contains likeliness with all the disease complaints mostly all the complaints from head to foot - from inner to outwards, from above down ward and from deeper psyche to outward at the surface level upto the skin are found under the name of heading sulphur. The great and marked symptoms of hypochondriasis and symptoms arising from imagination at its extreme level is the the main interesting aspect of sulphur to read .

Philosophical mania : can’t gather thoughts, but intellectually high

Pathological sulphur patient from ego :

Generally intellect higher than that of the scietist, unusually uses brain much but can’t give them a proper way. Can’t establish a harmonious equilibrium due to extreme level of ego. Ego in a sulphhur patient is obvious because of his higher intellectual level, because of his hobbies, his various fondings, his extraordinary passion toward reading and writing , to go deeper as possible, in every issue and pationately get involve in it. But ego plays a role of hurdle in this whole process. He thinks that others are not intellectual enough to understand his mentality, his higher ideals, his thoughts , his knowledge, that he has gained through out his life. He suffers from a kind of superiority complex. And remains that’s why, dissatisfied from each and every person acquiented with him.

The disatisfaction arising from this, provokes anxiety and becomes responsible for the origin of stress. The resultant efect comes in the form of imagination- beyound the limitation – where there is no logical thinking, difficulty of applying knowledge, a chaos, anarchy- results that end with hypochondriasis.

An extreme level of hypochondriacal symptoms – cause here in case of sulphur – there is no limitation of knowledge and no defect at the intellectual level. That’s why the imagination arises here – sulphur that imgines is of extreme degree – beyond the limits – one can say beyond the level of sky and he himself and his own thoughts leads him to a path of darkness , a mysterious world, an unimaginable blue world of imagination same as that of the flame of a burning elemental sulphur, his own internal burning pain of his mind, not of his heart, and as it is of the firing of mind, same as that of the pleasure of the mind which is called the highest pleasure in the whole universe menifested by plato, results in the highest degree of burning with blue flame, the symbol of frustration arising out of extreme anger, that leads to distruction of his own self. His volcanic hunger for knowledge explodes with the highest temprature, his ego leads him to the path walking upon which he reaches at that place where there is possibility of entrance only but no door or allowance for the exit, inspite of having high analytical abilities, except with the help of a good homeopathic prescriber. His own knowledge combined with his uncontrolled anger and unmanaged egoish behavior takes him to such a slippery place where it becomes easy for the one to slide and go down but it becomes, one can say, really harder if not impossible to come out. The needed thing is only acceptance of one’s own weakness and fragility that is obviously absent in case of sulphur. Cause there is no stair case to return from this slippery board to come out. At this mysterious place full of misinterpretation and bias about himself, his own existance is ruined.

Another aspect of sulphur is also to be considered upon. Basically in a physiological state, in the condition of sound mind, in case of psychical harmonious equilibrium sulphur becomes an inventor. Most of our scientists and great names in the field of science are sulphur like albert einstain , newton, galilio, who all have invented something new, that where never before for the benefit of mankind , they all were infact sulphur person, not the patients. ( person is a living human being , patient is a deranged form of human being ).

Sulphur we can say is a kind of benovelant person , who is gifted unusually by God, the unusually higher level of intellectuality and thinking process . to gain knowledge is passion for sulphur. he has good grasping power, having the good ability to go deeper into the subject and can catch the basic concept of a theory or a formula, can easily reach upto the essence of a subject, above all also he is having an appretiative communication skill becoz of his vast and deep knowledge and because of that having possessed with the ability of including easy referances, various examples, and quotes between the lines, that in the sense makes a lecture interesting to listen and easy to understand and memorize. So in case of educational field, a sulphur person attached with, he can establish himself as a lecturer or profesor, most favorite of all among the students , the lecture of whose student cant afford to miss, even cant affrod to think also. Any kind of boring subject , sulphur has the ability to make it interesting by giving infinite referances as well as his teaching method or technique he can make so simple and easy that the student can throughly grasp the subject. This becomes possible only due to his passion towerd reading. So if thought in that way , sulphur if doesnt become an inventor then he himself is able to gift the society an inventor by his noble thoughts and deeds.

This happens only when a sulphur succeds in his career. And if he gets a path to walk upon where in future he can establish something that he had desired . it’s a sulphur person who has throughly grasped the gained and read knowledge and who is perfectly capable of its practical application. He has complete realization of himself , totally aware of his limitations, and boundries and also having the strenght to cross the limitation. There is no anarchy, chaos, but a state of harmonious equilibrium. Yes, but due to over work may be during the prolonged hours of working, due to tiredness, the filthy habits may be noted. But it only remains upto the working hours. Because sulphur has a characteristic to be throughly engrossed in all those activities he is realted with. At the time of working, during his reading or working hours, he becomes totally detached from the surroundings, wants to remain in a close room, alone, doesnt want to be disturbed by anyone. He is so passionate and dedicated toward his work. While working hours his whole concentration is only upon the work, most often a new kind of invention in the form of physical material, chemical experiments, or otherwise deeply engrossed in finding some new philosophical idea or thought during his hours of philosophical and extraordinary reading of books.

He is likewise a hungry person who has hunger for knowledge, hunger to invent something that never before hunger to know the hidden truth of life, hunger to know various secrets and mystries remained undiscovered, hunger to establish some principle or some rules or a formula because of which he can remain , infact his memory or one can say his existance may be remembered by the others. He truly craves from his heart to remain memorable on the earth after his death. He craves through out his life to be a graet man. A great man , whose deeds are remembered by the people , who has done something for the benefit of mankind, or who has opened the hidden doors of infinity where before him , no one has reached. He wants , truly craves, to know and open mystries hidden in knowledge. This is the sulphur personality. As shiny and as crystally, outwardly as well as inwardly, same that of the crude form of sulphur. Yellowish, shiny, crystalized form of sulphur.

Now see this aspect from the symbolic representation. May be said doctrine of signature at some level, but as we know , in homeopathy , even hahnemann has said that it should not be given so much importance to consider upon doctrine of signature. Because in most of the cases, it is not as reliable as that of the totality of symptoms to find out the similimum. Most oftenly, it is not necessary that a particular crude form of a drug, the symptom of its outer apperance is menisted in a person every time and if menifested then also it is not necessary that they are due to the drug’s outer apperance or one can say the outer characteristic of a subsatence, they may be due to the particular tensdency of a person or due to the susceptibility of a person towrds the particlar disease or relates with the constitution.

That’s why doctrine of signature is not reliable for the selection of similimum. It is somewhat illogical and irrational kind of priscrption, the complete cure cant be established by it, only the possibility of palliation or medicinal aggaravation may result from this kind of treatment cause it has no basis upon the psyche, only the outer physical symtomatic totality is considered while prescribing and it it not so much important to prescribe upon the general symptom. The expectation of complete and rational healing can not be fullfilled by such practice. For the succesful prescribing , the physician should consider first the symptoms of psyche, which is the root basic cause and only annihilation of that cause can bring the cure in holy manner. Now coming upon the main point where the discussion was stopped for a while. For every homeopathic physician, our main purpose is to concentrate basically on psyche, on centre, that governs the whole system, the whole human body, dynamic in nature. Now, seeing upon the elemental sulphur, the outer apperance of crude sulphur. Sulphur is basically, bright, sparkling , yellow color, crystallised and on exposure to sunlight, it shines like yellow diamond. Now, as we knoe, yellow color- from the point of view of color representation – is symbole of shine, brightness, sun. The brightness of sun, yellow color, is indirectly expressed at the psyche level of sulphur person (kindly note that we are not talking here about the sulphur person – a deranged form,. We are here for this time atleast upto some paras , concerning with the sulphur person – the human being)

Sulphur having in his inside a hunger- for knowledge, but one interesting aspect of sulphur we are going to discuss here. Sulphur – the elemental sulphur is found mostly in the volcanoes. The planet Jupiter having its moon – Io – the colot of this moon , bright yellow, mixed with orange colored hue is due to the elemental sulphur, found in the active volcanos upon it. Most of the volcano upon earth are the source for the elemental sulphur. Infact native sulphur itself is produced by the geological processes on the earth alone. Concerning this fact in mind, the yellow color as well as the native place of elemental sulphur – the volcanic place and other geological process – if the symbolic representation of symptoms is established then one can easily assess the reason behind the sulphur person’s hunger for knowledge, which is obviously of volcanic type – excessive – if takes a right turn then can be productive ( same as seen in sulphur person – an innovator ) as seen in case of more fruitful soil production by the spreading of lava of volcano after the volcanic process or may become distructive ( e.g. hypochondriac, philosophical mania as seen in sulphur patient, in which the intellectual level is higher same as that of the sulphur person, but he uses it in the distructive form. Sulphur patient is also an innovator but he is directed in a wrong way due to his uncontrolled ego, and unmanaged imagination ) and ends in the distruction of mankind, the nature. In case of volcano – distruction of nature, erosion of land ( talking about the elemental sulphur ) and in homeopathy the volcanic hunger of knowledge of a sulphur person can become fruitful, innnovative while this same volcanic hunger of sulphur patient – a deraged form – ends with the distruction of his own nature, his own inherited characteristic and this distruction itself menifest in the deranged person in the form of extreme degree of hypochondriacal thoughts , self contempt, thinking controversies as well as philosophical mania. The psyche derangement – a kind of distruction of sulphur patient because of his own thoughts- then progress at the physical level at outer surface, in the form of eruption and various skin menifestation at the outer layer of the physic. Same situation of the distruction and erosion of land by volcano – the distruction of the outer surface of earth and that is menifested in the sulphur as symtomatology of psoric miasm.

This is the true menifestation of or one can say it as a true evidence of the disease progression from centre to periphery- from inward to outward.

In simple words , if one wants to describe the situation of sulphur person then it can be easily compared with a two edged sword. His hunger for knowledge may take him in a risky zone where it becomes so much hazardous for him to come out. Due to his egoish behaviour , it becomes a kind of responsible job for ihm to maintain a harmonious equilibrium between his thoughts and emotions sulphur being a human obviously has to face the hazards and adverse circumstances in a routine life. While facing the situation the possibility may not be denied that the particular situation may arouse the ego of a sulphur patient because basically he is highly egoish among all the persons that suites to his extra ordinary intellect and higher knowledge also. But if the ego crosses its limits, if it goes beyond the limitation then the resultant situation arise will be of two edged sword where his knowledge may put himself in danger and he may damage his own existance and the factor responsible for his own distruction, , becoz of which his existance is ruined will be his knowledge , his higher intellectual level. Here I would like to add one more thing. As all we know from our ancient times, from the discovery of our system of treatment – homeopathy- that psora is the basic root cause of the disease and sulphur is the greatest antipasoric . all the symptoms of psora will generally remain upto the superficial level. And there will be no pathological changes or deeper progression of disease. Only the disturbance at the level of psyche will be expressed at the outer superficial surface of the physic of a human being – that we call skin – we will find under the psoric miasm and more the superficial symptom – the resultant process of cure will be prompt and rapid.

Also we know the hering’s law of cure. According to it, the innermost organs – the last affected one will be restored first – will be cured first and the superficial surface – the skin - the symptoms of which will be restored or cured last. Because commonly the symptoms of disease progresses from out ward to inward meaning of that the symptoms will progress from outward to inward, meaning of that the symptoms will progress from outer to inner – not the disease itself. That’s why, generally if thought logically, psoric miasm is so easy to treat among all because only the distrubance at the psyche level and its symptoms will remain upto the level of superficial in every system and that we find nder sulphur. Mostly and prominently the skin symptoms – the most marked eruption of every kind – that becomes guiding symptoms for sulphur and it forms a basis for the easy prescription for any healthy learned physician. Also it is a great head of anti psoric, that’s why a vast range of symptoms one can find under the heading . it becomes the most frequently used medicine among all the homeopathic medicine. Because no other miasm weather we take the example of syphilis or sycotic, no one have such huge collection of symptoms. Both the miasm – sycosis and syphilis – having symptoms under the title of pathology no marked and notable symptoms as that of the psoric miasm.

In treating the miasm – psoric miasm is treated and will follow the process of annihilation of disease at last and in case sulphur – only the psoric miasm is prominent – no evidence or mixing of other miasm - no other chance of any complication- that’s why though it is believed that sulphur is a deep acting and frequently prescribed but hard one to treat due to its skin menifestation , but considering this fact in mind , it can be said without ant doubt that sulphur is a person that is so easy to trat among all in whole society. The only requirement needed is he should have a right direction to apply his knowledge. It can be done easily by his family circumstances and his beloved ones, but suppose if it is not possible than a homeopathic prescriber can do it by playing a role of councellor . the remedy sulphur will annihilate the internal , deeper conflicts in the psyche of a person and as the duration of action of a sulphur dose is 60 days. That is comparatively of long duration and obviously person of today’s are expecting for the prompt relief, so in this case, during the period of action of a sulphur dose, homeopath must play a role of counceller – however only if he wants good results and ofcourse money also ! necessary if taken lightly !

To neutralize the emotional issues of a person, so that atleast during the action period of sulphur patient can overcome his emotional issues at some level and feel satisfied and the process towerds the annihilation of disease can be enhanced.

Now, lets take a break ! as we know that sulphur is a greatest antipsoric having wide range of symptomatology, obviously one cant read it at once. However for sulphur person – god knows ! if here, suppose a sulphur is reding this, he will find it disinteresting and he may put this book aside also, because of his egoish behaviour saying that this is a fruitless, hopeless book. Not having any information. Even the writer is an immature, having no intellect , talks and writes the foolish things, no scientific base here is given , this para is such a bore- who the hell has established this auther as a writer ?

How can such people get chance in their career without having any intellectual abilities ( kindly note that such thoughts will remain upto this para only- for sulphur person. After that he will also find this book so much interesting because he himself will have analysed his characteristic and that will satisfy his hunger, his volcano of knowledge and I am damn sure that he will put this book at the top of his book shelf and it will be his most favorite book ever read. )and who the hell accepts or allows the permission to publish such books ? the raw material – I..I...the raw material of such books....bloody hell ... who the hell .... the rascals... ( represents extreme ego – the best example of two edged sword – dear sulphur – kindly pay attention ! yup ! its your analysis and be sure that it will remain interesting for you ! so, don’t stop reading ! just go on ! you are too much nearer about to find your characteristics ! yeah ! its your characteristic dont take it as your weakness. Make them your strenght. )

What they think in their mind ? they crave popularity....bloody cheap...do hell with their cheap thinking and do hell with their work !this .. I mean....they call it work ? this is a garbage, bloody ....i’’ll say...throw. I said somebody just throw away from my sight....rascals....! bloody hell.....( waits for a while and takes rest and goes to philosophy. After sometime the reaction will be ..just read ! and note the differance )

How could I come along to purchase this kind of book ? how can i ? I ? me ? myself ? how can I see my self at such a lower level that I am purchasing this kind of books and even upto this kind of books and even upto this time, i read it also , what the fish ? how could even a thought came in mind ? how can I be so deranged ? ( with frustration and extreme anger infact peak level of anger arising from the extreme ego and superiorism – bias in his mind that he is beyond the others, his intellect beyond the others, the ordinaries – misinterpretation that he is having extra ordinary knowledge and possessed with unusual intellect. ) where I am ? and at which direction I am going ? my path ....such deranged. How can it be possible....no way ! but I mean to say how ? I have the intellect that is unusual... my reading, my thoughts....no one will find any where...how can i be such ordinary...and how can I read such ordinary books ? it doesn’t suits me , my ethics ? where they are.....where are they...( shouts ), my knowledge , such a deranged level of mine ? how can I accept ! no way....I am not gonna deranged .....the bloody....rascals....the public is deranged , the whole society...bull shit....bloody hell....the system is deranged ! ( will throw away the book far from his eye sight angrily)

Indirectly he can change his future by his intellect coz his basic quality and characteristic is to know the mysterious things, and upto this time only the universe – about which no one has shown even a curiosity to know – even the scientists also. The level of sulphur is much higher than that of the scientist. Because he is possessed with unusual kind of imagination and due to its vast range of knowledge and higher intellect – he can go easily deeper to discover any mystery. And logically, imagination provides a plat form for any kind of new discovery. To discovery or invent any thing the first necessary requirement is that it should be first build up in the mind of a person, through imagination. In case of sulphur , due to knowledge imagination mostly goes in a logical way, he is a person who is having an unusual combination of logical as well as imaginary thinking but it must be directed in a right way – the calmness – equilibrium - harmony is necessary for it. As the age of sulphur person advances, his all neuronal centres are activated day by day – related with the function and sensation e.g. memory, concentration, imagination, logical thinking, and his all cognitive functions – the ability of which increases. Obviously cause he will want his inner knowledge to open infront of the outer world, for the benefit of mankind. Where there will be no place for selfishness, no expectation to be memorable by people. Cause at that time, he will have crossed all the limitations and one will find the sulphur person in a state where there will be no place for lower category – in the form of thoughts because at that time, the material things doesn’t matter for the sulphur. He will have pleasure of his soul. And the one who can identify his soul, he has no need to identify any thing . and nothing is greater than the soul except that of the god. And further more, god is himself representative of a soul and soul is representative of god. So sulphur will find himself in a state of god. Who can do much for the benefit of mankind, no one can do that. Only sulphur has the ability to open the mysterious words of universe.

Any innovation can only be possible in the situation of harmonious equilirium wether it is done by an innovator or distructor. In case of sulphur both person and patient having calm state of mind. so both are able for some new invention never before. But the differance here lies is that the sulphur person uses it for the benefit , for the purpose of benovalence , while sulphur patient uses the product for the distruction : e.g. ( albert einstain and saddam hussain respectively ).

-------------- Dr. Mahetar

Antibiotics May Make Us Fat

2011-12-27T19:59:00.000+05:30

The obesity epidemic is rampant,
and there are many reasons for this big fat
problem. Although asking if antibiotics make us fat
may initially sound like some type of joke, recent
articles in Scientific American and Science magazine
shows that some researchers are taking it seriously. Actually, evidence suggesting that antibiotics may make people fat is old (but forgotten and
ignored) knowledge. As far back as 1955,
research published in a leading nutrition journal
showed that weight gain may be linked to
prolonged antibiotic usage.(1) It is well-known that farmers supply livestock with
frequent doses of antibiotics in the guise of
"preventing disease," but it is also widely known
that prolonged antibiotic usage causes such
disruption in the digestive tracts of these animals
and that the food that they eat is not properly assimilated, leading to significant weight gain. Normal bacteria in the gut help animals (and
humans) metabolize fat, but the deficiency of
these normal bacteria, caused by antibiotic
usage, disrupts proper fat metabolism, leading
to weight gain. The farmers benefit from being able to sell fatter and heavier meat, even though
meat quality is significantly compromised. An article in the December 16, 2009, issue of
Scientific American expresses serious concern that
antibiotics kill off many important microbes
essential for human life.(2) The Scientific American
has even chosen the word "extinction" to refer to
the disappearance of certain important bacteria that are killed off by antibiotics. This article reports some impacts from antibiotic
usage are short term, but other impacts are much
more long-lasting and deleterious. Martin Blaser, a
professor of microbiology and chair of the
Department of Medicine at New York University
Langone Medical Center in New York City, notes, "the [antibiotic resistance] selection can persist for
years and possibly permanently." The gastric
Helicobacter pylori bacteria (commonly referred to
as "H. pylori"), for example, have been facing
eradication in the U.S. and other developed
countries in large part as a result of widespread antibiotic use. Although the demise of these
bacteria has some medical benefits, including a
decrease in the incidence of ulcers and gastric
cancer, its reduced population can also increase the
risk for various reflux diseases by upsetting the
regulation of hormones and pH levels. However, even more serious problems result from
killing off of the H. pylori. Blaser and Stanley
Falkow, of the Department of Microbiology and
Immunology at Stanford School of Medicine, note,
"H. pylori-positive individuals have lower risks of
childhood asthma, allergic rhinitis and skin allergies than those without H. pylori." These scientists also
posited that the bacteria's role in mediating the
hormone ghrelin, which helps regulate fat
development and hunger, might also "be
contributing to the current epidemics of early-life
obesity, type 2 diabetes and related metabolic syndromes." Blaser wonders, "If [H. pylori is]
disappearing...might there be other things that are
disappearing?" He worries that many other, less
well-known or understood microbial species and
even certain metabolic pathways might also be on
their way out due to antibiotic use. Science magazine has just published on March 4,
2010, other important research that observed
similar phenomena as Blaser.(3) Researchers at
Cornell, Emory, and the University of Colorado have
found that gut microbiota determines how food is
digested and fat is stored in the body. They too noted that antibiotics disrupt certain bacteria in the
gut that can lead to obesity as well as to increased
inflammatory processes that can cause metabolic
syndrome, a serious condition that can lead to high
blood pressure, high cholesterol levels, and a
higher risk for developing diabetes and heart disease. The uniquely American obsession with eradicating
germs is also creating other problems, not just
obesity. A study published in the December 9,
2009, issue of the journal Proceedings of the Royal
Society B: Biological Sciences, is the first to
investigate whether microbial exposures early in life affect inflammatory processes related to
diseases in adulthood.(4) Remarkably, the
Northwestern study suggests exposure to
infectious microbes in childhood may actually
protect youngsters from developing serious
illnesses, including cardiovascular diseases, when they grow into adults. "Contrary to assumptions related to earlier studies,
our research suggests that ultra-clean, ultra-
hygienic environments early in life may contribute
to higher levels of inflammation as an adult, which
in turn increases risks for a wide range of
diseases," states Thomas McDade, lead author of the study. "Medication-related weight gain has become far
more important over the past decade as obesity
increases in prevalence and more people are taking
medications for chronic illnesses,"(5) says
Lawrence Cheskin, M.D., Director of the Johns
Hopkins Weight Management Center. Ultimately, microbial flora in the digestive tract plays
a role in converting nutrients into calories. Reduced
variations in microbiota composition are found in
obese humans and mice. Didier Raoult, MD, PhD, full professor at Marseille
School of Medicine, has found that the microbiota
from an obese mouse confers an obese trait when
transferred to a mouse.(6) Dr. Raoult further asserts
that there is a large body of experimental evidence
and empirical data in the food industry showing that both antibiotics, which modify the gut
microbiota, can act as growth promoters,
increasing the size and weight of animals. He
therefore concludes that the current obesity
pandemic in humans may be caused, in part, by
antibiotic treatments. This review of the literature on antibiotics and
weight gain does not necessarily mean that a single
round of antibiotics will make someone fat.
However, it is increasingly common for people to
take multiple rounds of antibiotics for recurrent
infections and long-term usage of antibiotics to treat acne and various other diseases, such as Lyme
Disease. It may be to question what short-term and
long-term problems result from repeated antibiotic
usage. While repeated courses of antibiotics may
sometimes lead to weight gain, there is also a case
that can be made that some people experience
deleterious weight loss as a result of diarrhea
caused by antibiotics. This type of weight loss is
rarely considered beneficial to the person's health because many important nutrients are excreted
with the diarrhea, and this weight loss may be just
as deleterious to the person's health as weight gain
can. In any case, antibiotics kill off the pathogenic
bacteria as well as many of the important and
beneficial bacteria in our bodies. Because health depends upon a complex web of life,
pharmaceutical agents such as antibiotics that
simplify this inner ecosystem weaken the web,
thereby creating a wide variety of possible
acute and chronic diseases. Even many serious diseases, such as breast cancer, have been found to
have significantly increased incidence based on the
degrees of higher usage of these drugs. (7) It is
indeed important and even vital for health that
people respect inner microbial life and reduce
antibiotic usage. Considering Alternatives to Antibiotics Ultimately, health and medical professionals as well
as the general public have to consider using
various alternatives to antibiotics whenever
possible. The good news is that we will ALL benefit
from such actions, and further, that there IS a body
of evidence to show that some alternatives are effective. When skeptics say that there is no
evidence that alternative or homeopathic
treatments are effective for infectious diseases, they
are simply showing their ignorance of history and
of modern clinical research (sadly, this ignorance
does not seem to stop some skeptics, who I prefer to call "deniers", from trying to provide
misinformation). A little known fact of history is that the primary
reason that homeopathic medicine became so
popular in the 19th century was its remarkable
results in treating people suffering from the
infectious disease epidemics that raged at the
time.(8)(9) Epidemics of cholera, scarlet fever, typhoid, and yellow fever were rampant and killed
large numbers of people who became ill with them.
And yet, death rates in homeopathic hospitals were
commonly one-half or even one-eighth of the
death rates in the conventional medical hospitals
(at the turn of the 20th century, there were over 100 homeopathic hospitals in the US, at least one in
every large population center). Today, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the
American Academy of Family Physicians no longer
recommend antibiotics as routine when treating
children with an ear infection.(10) In fact, they
assert that a viable option is to AVOID
ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS during the first 72 hours. Because ear infections represent the most common
reason that children seek medical attention,
knowing about the alternatives to antibiotic usage
is essential. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled
study prescribed individualized homeopathic
medicines or placebo to 75 children.(11) There
were 19.9 percent more treatment failures in
children given a placebo. Diary scores showed a
significant decrease in symptoms at 24 and 64 hours after treatment in favor of those given a
homeopathic medicine. What was particularly
impressive about these results was that
improvement from homeopathic medicines
occurred rapidly, within the first day of treatment. Another study that also provided evidence of rapid
resolution of ear infection in children given a
homeopathic medicine was a trial of 230 children.
(12) These children were given an individually
chosen homeopathic medicine. If pain reduction
was not sufficient after just six hours, another individually-chosen homeopathic medicine was
prescribed. The researchers found that 39 percent
of patients experienced sufficient pain reduction in
the first six hours and another 33 percent after just
12 hours. This improvement was 2.4 times faster
than in children prescribed a placebo (the speed of improvement for patients given a placebo was
determined by an earlier meta-analysis of those
children given a placebo in a conventional medical
treatment trial). A study was conducted with 499 children between
18 months and four years of age who had had at
least five bouts of acute rhinopharyngitis (cold and
sore throat) in 1999 and who had consulted a
physician in 2000 either for preventive treatment or
for treatment of a current episode.(13) A post-hoc analysis was conducted of these children, 268 of
whom were treated by a homeopathic MD and 231
who were treated by a non-homeopathic MD. The
researchers evaluated the children who had
received at least one homeopathic medicine but no
antibiotics and compared them with those children who were treated with antibiotics but no
homeopathic medicines. The researchers found that the children prescribed
a homeopathic medicine were significantly more
likely to experience a positive result of treatment
compared with those children prescribed an
antibiotic (the number of episodes of acute
rhinopharyngitis: 2.71 vs. 3.97, P<0.001). The researchers also found that the children given a
homeopathic medicine had significantly fewer
complications and a higher quality of life. Further,
the study found that the parents of the children
given the homeopathic medicine had significantly
less sick-leave days than the parents of children given an antibiotic (9.5 percent vs. 31.6 percent;
P<0.001). Research has also shown that homeopathic
medicines can be real lifesavers for people with
serious, even life-threatening infections, such as
severe sepsis. The incidence of severe sepsis in the
United States is between 70,000 to 300,000
patients per year. Septic shock often leads to death in-between 40 percent -- 90 percent of cases. At a University of Vienna hospital, 70 patients with
severe sepsis were enrolled in a randomized
double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial,
measuring survival rates at 30 days and at 180
days.(14) Those patients given a homeopathic
medicine were prescribed it in the 200C potency only (in 12 hour intervals during their hospital
stay). The survival rate at day 30 was 81.8 percent
for homeopathic patients and 67.7percent for
those given a placebo. At day 180, 75.8 percent of
homeopathic patients survived but only 50.0
percent of the placebo patients survived (p=0.043). One patient was saved for every four who were
treated. The researchers concluded that homeopathy may
be a useful addition with long-term benefit for
severely septic patients. Today's medicine needs alternatives to
antibiotic treatment and, more than ever, we
need an integrative model of medicine that
brings together the best of conventional
medicine and the variety of natural therapeutic
interventions. Welcome to the 21st century!

Nobel Prize Winner Luc Montagnier Supports Science of Homeopathy

2011-12-27T19:42:00.000+05:30

Dr. Luc Montagnier, the French
virologist who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for
discovering the AIDS virus, has surprised the
scientific community with his strong support for
homeopathic medicine. In a remarkable interview published in Science
magazine of December 24, 2010, (1) Professor Luc
Montagnier, has expressed support for the often
maligned and misunderstood medical specialty of
homeopathic medicine. Although homeopathy has
persisted for 200+ years throughout the world and has been the leading alternative treatment method
used by physicians in Europe, (2) most
conventional physicians and scientists have
expressed skepticism about its efficacy due to the
extremely small doses of medicines used. Most clinical research conducted on homeopathic
medicines that has been published in peer-review
journals have shown positive clinical results,(3, 4)
especially in the treatment of respiratory allergies
(5, 6), influenza, (7) fibromyalgia, (8, 9) rheumatoid
arthritis, (10) childhood diarrhea, (11) post- surgical abdominal surgery recovery, (12) attention
deficit disorder, (13) and reduction in the side
effects of conventional cancer treatments. (14) In
addition to clinical trials, several hundred basic
science studies have confirmed the biological
activity of homeopathic medicines. One type of basic science trials, called in vitro studies, found 67
experiments (1/3 of them replications) and nearly
3/4 of all replications were positive. (15, 16) In addition to the wide variety of basic science
evidence and clinical research, further evidence for
homeopathy resides in the fact that they gained
widespread popularity in the U.S. and Europe
during the 19th century due to the impressive
results people experienced in the treatment of epidemics that raged during that time, including
cholera, typhoid, yellow fever, scarlet fever, and
influenza. Montagnier, who is also founder and president of
the World Foundation for AIDS Research and
Prevention, asserted, "I can't say that homeopathy
is right in everything. What I can say now is that the
high dilutions (used in homeopathy) are right. High
dilutions of something are not nothing. They are water structures which mimic the original
molecules." Here, Montagnier is making reference to his
experimental research that confirms one of the
controversial features of homeopathic medicine
that uses doses of substances that undergo
sequential dilution with vigorous shaking in-
between each dilution. Although it is common for modern-day scientists to assume that none of the
original molecules remain in solution, Montagnier's
research (and other of many of his colleagues) has
verified that electromagnetic signals of the original
medicine remains in the water and has dramatic
biological effects. Montagnier has just taken a new position at
Jiaotong University in Shanghai, China (this
university is often referred to as "China's MIT"),
where he will work in a new institute bearing his
name. This work focuses on a new scientific
movement at the crossroads of physics, biology, and medicine: the phenomenon of electromagnetic
waves produced by DNA in water. He and his team
will study both the theoretical basis and the
possible applications in medicine. Montagnier's new research is investigating the
electromagnetic waves that he says emanate from
the highly diluted DNA of various pathogens.
Montagnier asserts, "What we have found is that
DNA produces structural changes in water, which
persist at very high dilutions, and which lead to resonant electromagnetic signals that we can
measure. Not all DNA produces signals that we can
detect with our device. The high-intensity signals
come from bacterial and viral DNA." Montagnier affirms that these new observations will
lead to novel treatments for many common chronic
diseases, including but not limited to autism,
Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and
multiple sclerosis. Montagnier first wrote about his findings in 2009,
(17) and then, in mid-2010, he spoke at a
prestigious meeting of fellow Nobelists where he
expressed interest in homeopathy and the
implications of this system of medicine. (18) French retirement laws do not allow Montagnier,
who is 78 years of age, to work at a public institute,
thereby limiting access to research funding.
Montagnier acknowledges that getting research
funds from Big Pharma and certain other
conventional research funding agencies is unlikely due to the atmosphere of antagonism to
homeopathy and natural treatment options. Support from Another Nobel
Prize winner Montagnier's new research evokes memories one
of the most sensational stories in French science,
often referred to as the 'Benveniste affair.' A highly
respected immunologist Dr. Jacques Benveniste.,
who died in 2004, conducted a study which was
replicated in three other university laboratories and that was published in Nature (19). Benveniste and
other researchers used extremely diluted doses of
substances that created an effect on a type of white
blood cell called basophils. Although Benveniste's work was supposedly
debunked, (20) Montagnier considers Benveniste a
"modern Galileo" who was far ahead of his day and
time and who was attacked for investigating a
medical and scientific subject that orthodoxy had
mistakenly overlooked and even demonized. In addition to Benveniste and Montagnier is the
weighty opinion of Brian Josephson, Ph.D., who,
like Montagnier, is a Nobel Prize-winning scientist. Responding to an article on homeopathy in New
Scientist, Josephson wrote: Regarding your comments on claims made for
homeopathy: criticisms centered around the
vanishingly small number of solute molecules
present in a solution after it has been repeatedly
diluted are beside the point, since advocates of
homeopathic remedies attribute their effects not to molecules present in the water, but to modifications
of the water's structure. Simple-minded analysis may suggest that water,
being a fluid, cannot have a structure of the kind
that such a picture would demand. But cases such
as that of liquid crystals, which while flowing like an
ordinary fluid can maintain an ordered structure
over macroscopic distances, show the limitations of such ways of thinking. There have not, to the best
of my knowledge, been any refutations of
homeopathy that remain valid after this particular
point is taken into account. A related topic is the phenomenon, claimed by
Jacques Benveniste's colleague Yolene Thomas and
by others to be well established experimentally,
known as "memory of water." If valid, this would
be of greater significance than homeopathy itself,
and it attests to the limited vision of the modern scientific community that, far from hastening to test
such claims, the only response has been to dismiss
them out of hand. (21) Following his comments Josephson, who is an
emeritus professor of Cambridge University in
England, was asked by New Scientist editors how
he became an advocate of unconventional ideas.
He responded: I went to a conference where the French
immunologist Jacques Benveniste was talking for
the first time about his discovery that water has a
'memory' of compounds that were once dissolved
in it -- which might explain how homeopathy
works. His findings provoked irrationally strong reactions from scientists, and I was struck by how
badly he was treated. (22) Josephson went on to describe how many
scientists today suffer from "pathological disbelief;"
that is, they maintain an unscientific attitude that is
embodied by the statement "even if it were true I
wouldn't believe it." Even more recently, Josephson wryly responded to
the chronic ignorance of homeopathy by its
skeptics saying, "The idea that water can have a
memory can be readily refuted by any one of a
number of easily understood, invalid arguments." In the new interview in Science, Montagnier also
expressed real concern about the unscientific
atmosphere that presently exists on certain
unconventional subjects such as homeopathy, "I
am told that some people have reproduced
Benveniste's results, but they are afraid to publish it because of the intellectual terror from people who
don't understand it." Montagnier concluded the interview when asked if
he is concerned that he is drifting into
pseudoscience, he replied adamantly: "No, because
it's not pseudoscience. It's not quackery. These are
real phenomena which deserve further study." The Misinformation That
Skeptics Spread It is remarkable enough that many skeptics of
homeopathy actually say that there is "no research"
that has shows that homeopathic medicines work.
Such statements are clearly false, and yet, such
assertions are common on the Internet and even in
some peer-review articles. Just a little bit of searching can uncover many high quality studies
that have been published in highly respected
medical and scientific journals, including the Lancet,
BMJ, Pediatrics, Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal,
Chest and many others. Although some of these
same journals have also published research with negative results to homeopathy, there is simply
much more research that shows a positive rather
than negative effect. Misstatements and misinformation on homeopathy
are predictable because this system of medicine
provides a viable and significant threat to economic
interests in medicine, let alone to the very
philosophy and worldview of biomedicine. It is
therefore not surprising that the British Medical Association had the sheer audacity to refer to
homeopathy as "witchcraft." It is quite predictable
that when one goes on a witch hunt, one inevitable
finds "witches," especially when there are certain
benefits to demonizing a potential competitor
(homeopathy plays a much larger and more competitive role in Europe than it does in the USA). Skeptics of homeopathy also have long asserted
that homeopathic medicines have "nothing" in
them because they are diluted too much. However,
new research conducted at the respected Indian
Institutes of Technology has confirmed the
presence of "nanoparticles" of the starting materials even at extremely high dilutions.
Researchers have demonstrated by Transmission
Electron Microscopy (TEM), electron diffraction and
chemical analysis by Inductively Coupled Plasma-
Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES), the
presence of physical entities in these extreme dilutions. (24) In the light of this research, it can
now be asserted that anyone who says or suggests
that there is "nothing" in homeopathic medicines is
either simply uninformed or is not being honest. Because the researchers received confirmation of
the existence of nanoparticles at two different
homeopathic high potencies (30C and 200C) and
because they tested four different medicines
(Zincum met./zinc; Aurum met. /gold; Stannum
met./tin; and Cuprum met./copper), the researchers concluded that this study provides "concrete
evidence." Although skeptics of homeopathy may assume that
homeopathic doses are still too small to have any
biological action, such assumptions have also been
proven wrong. The multi-disciplinary field of small
dose effects is called "hormesis," and
approximately 1,000 studies from a wide variety of scientific specialties have confirmed significant and
sometimes substantial biological effects from
extremely small doses of certain substances on
certain biological systems. A special issue of the peer-review journal, Human
and Experimental Toxicology (July 2010), devoted
itself to the interface between hormesis and
homeopathy. (25) The articles in this issue verify
the power of homeopathic doses of various
substances. In closing, it should be noted that skepticism of any
subject is important to the evolution of science and
medicine. However, as noted above by Nobelist
Brian Josephson, many scientists have a
"pathological disbelief" in certain subjects that
ultimately create an unhealthy and unscientific attitude blocks real truth and real science.
Skepticism is at its best when its advocates do not
try to cut off research or close down conversation
of a subject but instead explore possible new (or
old) ways to understand and verify strange but
compelling phenomena. We all have this challenge as we explore and evaluate the biological and
clinical effects of homeopathic medicines.

Scientific proof that Homeopathy works

2011-12-27T19:09:00.000+05:30

Most scientists would state
categorically that homeopathy is a scientific
impossibility. Who would disagree, as the
explanation that is currently provided to support
homeopathy makes very little sense. How is it
possible that a solution that contains no chemical atoms causes a biological reaction? All of our basic
understanding of science screams out that this is
patently impossible. But what if all that we have been taught at school,
at university and at work is in fact only part of the
truth. What if there was a missing part of our
education that provides the missing link that makes
subjects such as homeopathy scientifically obvious.
What if there is much more to our body than simply chemicals. It took me two years of research to uncover this
hidden area of science. Once I did, the scientific
explanation for many controversial areas of
science, including homeopathy, became
uncontroversial. What I am about to teach you
about homeopathy is just one of the many areas of science that have been hidden from us which are
finally exposed in my book, Blinded by Science www.blindedbyscience.co.uk If we look at homeopathy from a completely
different area of science other than chemistry then
we can begin to understand how homeopathy
really works. It is just like one of those intellectual
games that people play, where the answer is so
obvious once you know it, but impossible if you don't Take the following puzzle: You are in front of three light switches only one of
which turns on a light in the adjacent room. You
only have two attempts to find out which of the
three switches work. Without being able to see the
effect of the switches it is impossible to know which
of them work, it is a mathematical impossibility. However, by using a different area of science, the
solution is incredibly simple. The answer lies with
the heat generated from the light and not the light
itself. If you turn on a switch and then turn it off
again and go and feel if the light is hotter then in
two attempts you will know exactly which of the light switches turns on the light. Now if we turn back to homeopathy, we have to
look at it from the same idea and say that the idea
that chemicals are the issue is irrelevant to solving
the problem. It is not the chemicals in the solution that cause a
biological change but the vibrations that emanated
from the chemicals, which have an affect. The
massive missing part of our education is simply the
concept of "vibrations" and everything that they
affect. In the puzzle above, the light caused the bulb to heat up through vibrations and so two
ideas were working at the same time, light and
heat. The same is true with every aspect of our
body, it works on two levels, a chemical one and a
vibrational one, they go hand in hand, one does
not work without the other. As every electron vibrates uniquely and everything
is made up of electrons then it is incontrovertible to
state that everything vibrates, absolutely
everything. So if everything vibrates, it would seem
fairly logical that one vibration must affect another.
Just take sound as an example, a choir all singing together sounds very different from a school
playground. The same thing happens in our body, you get
choirs in parts of our body where it is healthy
vibrationally and noisy playgrounds where our
body's organs are malfunctioning causing
vibrational disharmony and sickness. This idea is hugely controversial as it contradicts
everything that we have been taught. The tragedy
however, is that science has proven it to be true in
thousands of different studies, but has not
promoted is as it implies that pharmaceutical drugs
are not the only cure in town. So if vibrations are the answer what about the big
idea that is put forward by homeopaths that is it
also to do with the concept that water has some
sort of a memory to provide evidence that
homeopathy works scientifically. This is total nonsense and provides yet more
ammunition to everyone who wants to dismiss a
perfectly sensible area of science as pseudo-
science. WATER DOES NOT HAVE A MEMORY. Of
course it doesn't. Water has amazing functions but
memory is not one of them. Water has the amazing property that enables it to
change its vibrational pattern to the chemical or
environment in which it is in. This is an incredibly
important point and one that needs to be
remembered, water is a chameleon, adapting itself
to its environment vibrationally. As an example, in one experiment, if you treated a
cup of water with a specific vibrational frequency
the water would change itself to that specific
vibration and it would stay like that forever. It
would only change if it came across a different
vibration. This vibrated water if ingested directly and instantly
affects our body's biological functions. Depending
on the vibrational frequency of the water, different
illnesses can be treated. I have not included the specific scientific
experiments here that prove all of the ideas I have
outlined, but you can look them up for free on my
website at www.blindedbyscience.co.uk in the bibliography section on the website. The conclusion from my research is that if you add
a chemical into a solution and then remove all
traces of that chemical from the solution, the
specific chemical vibrational remains which has the
same biological affect as if the chemical were still in
the water. The body recognises the new vibration and reacts accordingly. This idea has radical implications for our health as it
means that not only do we have to question the
water that we drink but also our environment in
which we live which is saturated with man made
vibrations from all of the electronic machinery that
we use in our every day lives. What damage are they in fact doing to our health? So hopefully, in these few paragraphs I have
shown that it is scientifically logical for homeopathic
treatments to work, through the properties of
vibrations. The problem that I have, however, is
this: how do homeopathic treatments work when
they are in solid pill form. For this I do not have the answers. I can only confirm that homeopathy is a
very simple science in principle when it is in a
solution and should be embraced by the scientific
community.

Matthew Silverstone

2011-12-27T11:57:00.001+05:30

Homeopathic medicine is at present
one of the leading alternative therapies practiced
by physicians in Europe (particularly France,
Germany, UK, and Italy) and Asia (especially on the
Indian subcontinent)(EU Commission, 1997;
Prasad, 2007). Since homeopathy's development as a medical specialty in the early 1800s, it has been a
leading alternative to orthodox medicine
internationally, and it has posed an ongoing threat
to the scientific, philosophical, and economics of
conventional medical care. The homeopathic approach to healing maintains a
deep respect for symptoms of illness as important
defenses of a person's immune and defense
system. While conventional medicine often tends to
assume that symptoms are something "wrong"
with the person that need to be treated, inhibited, suppressed, or biochemically manipulated,
homeopaths tend to assume that symptoms are
important defenses of the organism that are most
effectively resolved when treatments nurture,
nourish, or mimic the symptoms in order to initiate
a healing process. Ultimately, these two different approaches to healing people have led to various
conflicts. It is common, for instance, for homeopaths to
question the alleged "scientific" studies that
conventional drugs are "effective" as treatments
because of concern that many of these treatments
tend to suppress symptoms or disrupt the complex
inner ecology of the body and create much more serious illness. Just as opiate drugs of the 19th
century gave the guise of healing, homeopaths
contend that many modern-day drugs provide
blessed short-term relief but create immune
dysfunction, mental illness, and other chronic
disease processes in its wake. Further, the fact that most people today are prescribed multiple drugs
concurrently, despite the fact that clinical research is
rarely conducted showing the safety or efficacy of
such practices, forces us all to question how
scientific modern medicine truly is. Homeopaths contend that increased rates of
cancer, heart disease, chronic fatigue, and
various chronic diseases for increasingly
younger people may result from conventional
medicine's suppression of symptoms and
disease processes. It is therefore no surprise that conventional physicians and Big Pharma have a
long and dark history of working together to
attack homeopathy and homeopaths. The antagonism against homeopathy began when
the highly respected Saxon physician Samuel
Hahnemann, MD, first developed the system in the
early 1800s. Hahnemann was a translator of
leading medical and pharmacology texts and the
author of the leading textbook used by pharmacists of his day. Despite Hahnemann's high stature in medicine,
pharmacology, and chemistry, his strong critique of
conventional medicine led to personal attacks
against him by orthodox physicians as well as by
the apothecaries (the drug makers of that time)
who were philosophically and economically threatened by Hahnemann's work. When
homeopathy arrived in America in 1825, it grew
rapidly due to its widely recognized success in
treating infectious disease epidemics that raged in
the early and mid-1800s. Then, when the American
Institute of Homeopathy became the first national medical organization in 1844, a rival organization
developed that proposed to stop the growth of
homeopathy (Rothstein, 1985, p. 232). That
organization called itself the American Medical
Association. Paul Starr's Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Social
Transformation of American Medicine,
acknowledged the stature that homeopathy
achieved in America in the mid-and later 19th
century: "Because homeopathy was simultaneously philosophical and
experimental, it seemed to many people to be
more rather than less scientific than orthodox
medicine" (p. 97). U.S. President William McKinley even dedicated a
special monument to Dr. Hahnemann in
Washington, DC, in 1900, which still stands today as
the only monument in America's capital to the
deeds of a physician. However, because of the economic, philosophical,
and scientific threat that the paradigm and practice
of homeopathy represents, the vitriol and
antagonism still exists. It is therefore enlightening
to expose the disinformation that is spread about
homeopathy and then understand WHO is leading this disinformation campaign (the second-part of
this article will name names and discuss two
individuals, one from the USA and one from the UK,
who are presently leaders in the campaign against
homeopathy). The Myths Spread about Homeopathy Like other propagandists, the homeopathy deniers
seek to create disinformation by using three
straightforward techniques. First, the homeopathy
deniers make a simple false accusation, a lie, and
repeat it constantly and consistently in an attempt
to make it a new "truth". Second, this repetition is then done within the context of some legitimizing
element. In the case of the homeopathy deniers,
that element is a corruption of normal science, an
analysis of scientific evidence that creates reasons
(excuses) to exclude high quality studies that
show positive results (even those studies that have been published in leading conventional medical
journals), and a mis-use of the concept of
skepticism. The homeopathy deniers ignore or
downplay the substantial body of evidence from
basic science and clinical research, from outcome
studies, from cost-effectiveness studies, and from epidemiological evidence, and only quote from
those studies that verify their own point of view,
rather than reviewing the entire body of evidence. The third component of the technique is to sell the
lie to a vulnerable population in an attempt to have
repetition from that group. In the case of the
homeopathy deniers, the vulnerable groups are
often young students of science, who are
enamored with the language and elitism of their newly learned craft, but who lack the deep
understanding and experience to realize that they
are being "used" by the deniers. The homeopathy
deniers also play on the fears of those older and
established scientists and physicians and who are
led to believe that "if homeopathy is true, then everything about modern medicine and science is
false." This over-simplification of reality is
commonly repeated. However, just as quantum
physics does not "disprove" all of physics, but
rather, it extends our capability to understand and predict events on extremely small and extremely
large systems. Likewise, homeopathy does not
disprove all of modern pharmacology but extends our understanding of the use of extremely small
doses of medicinal agents to elicit healing
responses. History is replete with orthodox medicine and
science being steadfastly resistant to different
systems of medicine and paradigms of healing.
Although , the average physician and scientist
tends to be threatened by new ideas, a common
attribute of leading physicians and scientists is a certain openness and humility due to the common
and even expected evolution of knowledge. It should be acknowledged upfront that
homeopathic practitioners, patients, and users of
these natural medicines are often surprised and
amazed at the results they experience in the
treatment of themselves, children, infants, animals,
and even plants. In my observations over the past 40 years, most people are skeptical about
homeopathy until they try it and see for
themselves...and there are then good reasons that
tens of millions of people all over the world use and
rely upon these natural medicines for a wide range
of acute and chronic ailments. That said, the challenge is not just trying homeopathy, but first
learning something about it so that you can use it
correctly and effectively. Sadly, however, the homeopathy deniers tend to
spread disinformation about homeopathy,
including the following myths: Myth #1: "There is no research that shows that
homeopathic medicines work." Such statements are a creative use of statistics, or
what might be called "lies, damn lies, and statistics."
Actually, most clinical research studies conducted
with homeopathic medicines show a positive
outcome. However, if "creative statisticians"
evaluate only the smaller number of large studies, a positive result is less likely, not because
homeopathy doesn't work, but because these
larger studies tend to dispense only ONE
homeopathic medicine for everyone in the study,
without any degree of individualized treatment that
is typical of the homeopathic method.[1] To claim that homeopathic medicines do not work using
only these studies is as illogical as to say that
antibiotics are ineffective just because they do not
cure for every viral, fungal, or bacterial infection. Myth #2: "The research studies showing that
homeopathic medicines work are 'poorly
conducted studies'." Wrong! Studies showing the efficacy of
homeopathic medicines have been published in the
Lancet, the British Medical Journal, Pediatrics,
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, Cochrane
Reports, Chest (the publication of the British Society
of Rheumatology), Cancer (the journal of the American Cancer Society), Journal of Clinical
Oncology (journal of the Society of Clinical
Oncology), Human Toxicology, European Journal of
Pediatrics, Archives in Facial Plastic Surgery,
Archives of Otolaryngology -- Head and Neck
Surgery, Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, and many more.[2] ALL of these studies were randomized,
double-blind, and placebo controlled. Further,
because of bias against homeopathy, these studies
have been scrutinized rigorously, perhaps even
more rigorously than is usual. The weak response from the homeopathy deniers
is that the above studies are "cherry-picked." Well,
it seems that there are a lot of "cherries" (clinical
studies that verify the efficacy of homeopathic
medicines). Also, numerous of the above leading
medical journals have published meta-analyzes of clinical trials on specific diseases and have shown
that homeopathic medicines have significantly
more benefits than does a placebo. And further, the
deniers erroneously equate the "negative" studies
evidence that the whole system of homeopathy
does not work, when, in fact, these studies are usually of a preliminary nature that explored the
use of one or a small handful of remedies for a
specific condition. Ironically, the one review of research that the
homeopathic deniers most commonly assert as
strong evidence that there's no difference between
homeopathic medicines and placebo (Shang et al,
2005) has been shown to be bad or certainly
inadequate science (Walach, et al, 2005; Fisher, 2006; Rutten, 2009, Rutten and Stolper, 2008;
Ludtke and Rutten, 2008). Myth #3: "12C is like one drop in the entire
Atlantic Ocean." Pure fantasy (and fuzzy math)! In fact, the 12C dose
requires 12 test tubes, and 1% of the solution is
drawn from each of the 12 test tubes. It is also very
typical for the "deniers" of homeopathy to assert
with a straight face that the making of a single
homeopathic medicine requires more water than exists on the planet. It seems that the skeptics are
so fundamentalist in their point of view that they
consciously or unconsciously mis-assume that the
dilutions used in homeopathy grow
proportionately with each dilution; they assume
that each dilution requires 10 or 100 times more water with each dilution -- which they don't, and
even the most elementary articles and books on
homeopathy affirm this fact. Sadly (and strangely),
most of the skeptics of homeopathy seem to read
each other's misinformation on homeopathy and
have a propensity to spin the reality of what homeopathy is in ways that misconstrue it. Myth #4: "There is nothing in a homeopathic
medicine. It is just water." Ignorance and direct disinformation. First, a large
number of homeopathic medicines that are sold in
health food stores and pharmacies are what are
called "low potencies," that is, small or very small
doses of medicines, most of which are in a similar
dose to which certain powerful hormones and immune cells circulate in our body. Second, using
samples of six different medicines made from
minerals, scientists at the Department of
Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology
have consistently confirmed that the starting
substance is still present in the form of nanoparticles of the starting minerals even when
the medicine has undergone hundreds of serial
dilutions--with vigorous shaking in-between each
dilution, as per the homeopathic method
(Chikramane, Suresh, Bellare, 2010).[3] Further,
leading chemistry and physics journals have published other research to confirm that there are
differences between water and "homeopathic
water" (Elia and Niccoli, 1999; Elia, Napoli, Niccoli, et
al, 2008; Rey, 2003) Myth #5: "If we do not presently understand
how homeopathic medicines work, then, they
cannot work. It's witchcraft." Lame on face value. How many more times in
history do scientists and others need before they
realize that we do not understand a lot of nature's
mysteries, but our lack of understanding does not
mean that the mysteries are not real. Calling
homeopathy "witchcraft" clearly is someone's fear of what they do not know or understand, and a
common observation from history is that whenever
one goes on a witchhunt, a witch is found (one
way or another). The fact that there is a small but
significant body of basic sciences research that has
shown physical and biological effects from homeopathic medicines tends to be ignored
(Endler, Thieves, Reich, et al 2010; Witt, Bluth,
Albrecht, et al, 2007). To publish in peer-reviewed
scientific journals is not a common practice from
witches (or warlocks). Dr. Karol Sikora is a respected oncologist and
dean of the University of Buckingham medical
school (in England). Sikora has expressed
serious concern about the "Stalinist repression"
that certain skeptics of homeopathic and
alternative medicines engage (Sikora, 2009). Sikora has harshly criticized "armchair
physicians" and others who seem to have little
or no experience in using these treatments with
real patients. One other critical piece of evidence to show and
even prove the unscientific attitude of the
homeopathy deniers is that they now wish to close
off all discussion of the efficacy of homeopathic
medicines (Baum and Ernst, 2009). These medical
fundamentalist actually discourage keeping an open mind about homeopathy. One must question
this unscientific attitude that select antagonists to
homeopathy embody...and one must even wonder
why they maintain such a position. The second part of this article will provide further
specific evidence of the unscientific attitude and
actions from those individuals and organizations
who are leading the campaign against
homeopathy. A leading antagonist to homeopathy
from the US and another from the UK will discussed in order to shed light on this important debate in
health care. Stay tuned to find out who they are and
why they maintain their point of view.

my article in DB lifeline on 17th nov 2011 ... અપરિચિતોથી અપસેટ

2011-11-20T11:17:00.000+05:30

દરેક સંદિગ્ધ પરિસ્થિતિ પોતાની સાથે અનંત શકયતાઓનાં દ્વાર ખોલે છે પરંતુ શકયતાઓના એ વિકલ્પો હંમેશાં વ્યકિતની તરફેણમાં નીવડે તેવા સત્ય અને શ્રેષ્ઠ જ હોય તેવી સુરિ ાત બાંહેધરી મળવી લગભગ અશકય હોવાથી વ્યકિત અનિિશ્ચતતા, વ્યગ્રતા અને હતાશાની ન ઉકેલી શકાય તેવી ગૂંચવણમાં અટવાતી રહે છે! વિકલ્પોની પસંદગી અંગેની આ અનિર્ણયાત્મકતામાંથી જ બીજ રોપાય છે સોશિયલ અ"ંગ્ઝાઇટી નામની સમસ્યાના...!!

સોશિયલ અ"ંગ્ઝાઇટી અર્થાત્ સામાજિક પ્રસંગો, અૌપચારિક મુલાકાતો કે જાહેર સ્થળોએ ઉપસ્થિત રહેવા સમયે અન્ય અપરિચિતોની હાજરીમાં મૂંઝવણ, વ્યગ્રતા અને અનુચિત રૂપથી મૂલ્યાંકિત થઇને અન્યોની નજરે શરમિંદા થવાનો કે માનહાનિનો તદ્દન અકારણ અને અર્થહીન ડર. અન્યોને પ્રભાવિત કરવાથી અતિ અપે ાાની સાથોસાથ ની ામતા તરફી સંશય સોશિયલ અ"ંગ્ઝાઇટી માટે કારણભૂત છે. સોશિયલ અ"ંગ્ઝાઇટીથી પીડિત વ્યકિત પોતાના કુટુંબીજનો તથા અમુક ગાઢમિત્રો સાથે સરળતાથી લાગણીઓનું આદાનપ્રદાન અને અભિવ્યકિત કરી શકે, પરંતુ સમૂહમાં જાહેર પ્રસંગોએ અપરિચિતોની હાજરી સંપૂર્ણપણે વાકેફ હોવા છતાં પણ જાહેર પ્રસંગોએ અજાણ્યા લોકોની હાજરીમાં અત્યંત ડર, ચિંતા, તણાવ અને લઘુતાગ્રંથિની ભાવના અનુભવે છે. વાસ્તવમાં આવા પ્રસંગોએ ઉદ્ભવતી અનંત શકયતાઓની અનિિશ્ચતતા તથા વિચારોની અનિર્ણયાત્મકતાને કારણે તેમની લાગણીઓમાં બેકાબૂ બની જઇને અસ્તિત્વહીન કાલ્પનિક ખ્યાલો તરફ દોરવાઇ જાય છે જે તેમના માટે ડર અને વ્યગ્રતાનું નિમિત બને છે.

આ સમસ્યાથી પીડિત વ્યકિત વકતવ્ય આપવાના સમયે અથવા તો કયારેક માત્ર અૌપચારિક વાતચીત દરમિયાન પણ અત્યંત ગભરાઇ કે થોથવાઇ જાય છે. વાતચીત દરમિયાન અન્ય લોકો સતત પોતાનું નિરી ાણ કરી રાા છે તેવા કાલ્પનિક ભયથી તેઓ વ્યગ્ર બની જાય છે. અપરિચિતો સમ ા અભિવ્યકિત સમયે તેઓ સંપૂર્ણપણે મુકત હોવા છતાં કમનસીબે વિચારોની અસ્પષ્ટતાને કારણે અભિવ્યકિત સાથે તાદાત્મ્ય સાધવું કે તેમના માટે પડકારરૂપ બની જાય છે. કોઇપણ અજાણી, અૌપચારિક મુલાકાત દરમિયાન ઉદ્ભવતા અંગેના અર્થહીન અને અતાર્કિક વિચારોના વમળમાં અટવાઇને તેઓ અસુર ાાથી પીડાવા લાગે છે. વાતચીત કે વકતવ્ય દરમિયાન તેમના હાથપગમાં ધ્રુજારી અને સમગ્ર શરીર પરસેવે રેબઝેબ થઇ જાય છે. હૃદયના ધબકારા વધી જાય છે અને બોલતી વખતે ગળુ સુકાતું હોય તેવો ભાસ થાય છે. વાતચીત દરમિયાન થતી નાની અમથી ભૂલ પણ તેમના આત્મવિશ્વાસને હચમચાવી નાખે છે. વિચારોની અરાજકતાથી આવી વ્યકિતઓ માટે અન્યો સાથે આંખોમાં આંખ પરોવીને આત્મવિશ્વાસથી વાતચીત કરવી એ જાણે કે એક સપનું બની જાય છે!

સોશિયલ અ"ંગ્ઝાઇટીની આ પ્રકારની માનસિક સમસ્યામાં હોમિયોપથીની મદદથી વ્યકિતનો આત્મવિશ્વાસ અને પ્રત્યેની સન્માનની વૃત્તિ ક્રમશ: વધુ ને વધુ સુદઢ બનાવી શકાય છે. હોમિયોપથીની દવાઓ સંપૂર્ણપણે આડઅસર વિનાની હોવા ઉપરાંત કે નો ગુણધર્મ ધરાવતી નથી.

Philosophy of Plato - A Short Description

2011-11-11T13:03:00.000+05:30

Plato

Plato (437-347) was Socrates’ prized student. From a wealthy and powerful family, his actual name was Aristocles -- Plato was a nickname, referring to his broad physique. When he was about twenty, he came under Socrates’ spell and decided to devote himself to philosophy. Devastated by Socrates’ death, he wandered around Greece and the Mediterranean and was taken by pirates. His friends raised money to ransom him from slavery, but when he was released without it, they bought him a small property called Academus to start a school -- the Academy, founded in 386.

The Academy was more like Pythagorus’ community -- a sort of quasi-religious fraternity, where rich young men studied mathematics, astronomy, law, and, of course, philosophy. It was free, depending entirely on donations. True to his ideals, Plato also permitted women to attend! The Academy would become the center of Greek learning for almost a millennium.

Plato can be understood as idealistic and rationalistic, much like Pythagorus but much less mystical. He divides reality into two: On the one hand we have ontos, idea or ideal. This is ultimate reality, permanent, eternal, spiritual. On the other hand, there’s phenomena, which is a manifestation of the ideal. Phenomena are appearances -- things as they seem to us -- and are associated with matter, time, and space.

Phenomena are illusions which decay and die. Ideals are unchanging, perfect. Phenomena are definitely inferior to Ideals! The idea of a triangle -- the defining mathematics of it, the form or essence of it -- is eternal. Any individual triangle, the triangles of the day-to-day experiential world, are never quite perfect: They may be a little crooked, or the lines a little thick, or the angles not quite right.... They only approximate that perfect triangle, the ideal triangle.

If it seems strange to talk about ideas or ideals as somehow more real than the world of our experiences, consider science. The law of gravity, 1+1=2, “magnets attract iron,” E=mc2, and so on -- these are universals, not true for one day in one small location, but true forever and everywhere! If you believe that there is order in the universe, that nature has laws, you believe in ideas!

Ideas are available to us through thought, while phenomena are available to us through our senses. So, naturally, thought is a vastly superior means to get to the truth. This is what makes Plato a rationalist, as opposed to an empiricist, in epistemology.

Senses can only give you information about the ever-changing and imperfect world of phenomena, and so can only provide you with implications about ultimate reality, not reality itself. Reason goes straight to the idea. You “remember,” or intuitively recognize the truth, as Socrates suggested in the dialog Meno.

According to Plato, the phenomenal world strives to become ideal, perfect, complete. Ideals are, in that sense, a motivating force. In fact, he identifies the ideal with God and perfect goodness. God creates the world out of materia (raw material, matter) and shapes it according to his “plan” or “blueprint” -- ideas or the ideal. If the world is not perfect, it is not because of God or the ideals, but because the raw materials were not perfect. I think you can see why the early Christian church made Plato an honorary Christian, even though he died three and a half centuries before Christ!

Plato applies the same dichotomy to human beings: There’s the body, which is material, mortal, and “moved” (a victim of causation). Then there’s the soul, which is ideal, immortal, and “unmoved” (enjoying free will).

The soul includes reason, of course, as well as self-awareness and moral sense. Plato says the soul will always choose to do good, if it recognizes what is good. This is a similar conception of good and bad as the Buddhists have: Rather than bad being sin, it is considered a matter of ignorance. So, someone who does something bad requires education, not punishment.

The soul is drawn to the good, the ideal, and so is drawn to God. We gradually move closer and closer to God through reincarnation as well as in our individual lives. Our ethical goal in life is resemblance to God, to come closer to the pure world of ideas and ideal, to liberate ourselves from matter, time, and space, and to become more real in this deeper sense. Our goal is, in other words, self-realization.

Plato talks about three levels of pleasure. First is sensual or physical pleasure, of which sex is a great example. A second level is sensuous or esthetic pleasure, such as admiring someone’s beauty, or enjoying one’s relationship in marriage. But the highest level is ideal pleasure, the pleasures of the mind. Here the example would be Platonic love, intellectual love for another person unsullied by physical involvement.

Paralleling these three levels of pleasure are three souls. We have one soul called appetite, which is mortal and comes from the gut. The second soul is called spirit or courage. It is also mortal, and lives in the heart. The third soul is reason. It is immortal and resides in the brain. The three are strung together by the cerebrospinal canal.

Plato is fond of analogies. Appetite, he says, is like a wild horse, very powerful, but likes to go its own way. Spirit is like a thoroughbred, refined, well trained, directed power. And reason is the charioteer, goal-directed, steering both horses according to his will.

Other analogies abound, especially in Plato’s greatest work, The Republic. In The Republic, he designs (through Socrates) a society in order to discover the meaning of justice. Along the way, he compares elements of his society (a utopia, Greek for “no place”) to the three souls: The peasants are the foundation of the society. They till the soil and produce goods, i.e. take care of society’s basic appetites. The warriors represent the spirit and courage of the society. And the philosopher kings guide the society, as reason guides our lives.

Before you assume that we are just looking at a Greek version of the Indian caste system, please note: Everyone’s children are raised together and membership in one of the three levels of society is based on talents, not on one’s birth parents! And Plato includes women as men’s equals in this system.
I leave you with a few quotes:

"Wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder."

"...(I)f you ask what is the good of education in general, the answer is easy; that education makes good men, and that good men act nobly."

"(I) do to others as I would they should do to me."

"Our object in the construction of the State is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."

Aude sapere - dare to be wise

2011-11-08T11:44:00.001+05:30

The word philosophy comes from the Greek
φιλοσοφία (philosophia), which, quite
literally, means “love of wisdom“. In a broad
sense, it is the task of understanding
fundamental truths about ourselves, and the
world in which we live. Most people live
their lives without occupying themselves
with deep philosophical problems. Yet, every
one of us has a philosophy, for it is a way of
looking at the world and distinguishing
right from wrong.
Many great minds throughout history have
labored with more complex issues and the
construction and analysis of reasons and
arguments. Immanuel Kant was one of
them. The quote “sapere aude, incipe” is
from the Latin poet Horaz, and Kant used it
in his famous essay on answering the
question, “What is enlightenment”, written
in 1784:
Enlightenment is man’s release from his self-
inflicted tutelage. Tutelage is man’s inability
to use his own understanding without the
guidance of another. Such tutelage is self-
imposed if its cause is not lack of
intelligence, but rather a lack of
determination and courage to use one’s
intelligence, without being guided by
another.
Have courage to use your own reason! That
is the motto of enlightenment.
With this critical maxim, Kant was one
of the most important thinkers of the
“Age of Enlightenment“. During 18th
century, philosophy and the
development of the natural sciences
had a deep influence on medicine. They
gave stimulus to the first “modern“
approaches in medicine, which
included a reorientation of pathology,
the beginning of experimental
physiology and clinical medicine, to
name a few.
Hahnemann lived during the Age of
Enlightenment. He was obviously familiar
with Kant‘s writings and possibly felt
inspired by him. Kant wrote:
“No matter how hard we try, we are
therefore never going to know what the
world is like per se, but only how it presents
itself from a human perspective.“
Like Kant, Hahnemann also refused to
speculate about the essential nature of
things, beyond our sense perceptions: “The
physician can never see the spiritual being,
the vital force, that creates the disease, and
he never needs to see it. In order to cure, he
only needs to ascertain and perceive its
morbid effects… The unprejudiced observer
– well aware of the futility of transcendental
speculations which can receive no
confirmation from experience – be his
powers of penetration ever so great, takes
note of nothing in every individual disease,
except the changes in the health of the body
and of the mind (morbid phenomena,
accidents, symptoms) which can be
perceived externally by means of the senses,
… and which represent the disease in its
whole extent, and together form the true
and only conceivable portrait of the
disease.“
Hahnemann founded his medical philosophy
on vitalism, naturalism, and humanism. He
set standards for the homeopathic
profession, providing a detailed and
analytical description of the homeopathic
theory and its practical application in the
Organon.
Sapere aude was the battle cry of the Age
of Enlightenment, and the slogan
Hahnemann used as a subtitle for the
Organon since its second edition. Medical
enlightenment, based on Kant, can be
defined as man’s release from his self-
inflicted tutelage with regard to things that
are related to his mental, emotional, and
physical well-being.
In medicine also, a great difficulty lies in
motivating people to emancipate
themselves. Kant rightfully lamented: “It is so
easy not to be of age. If I have a book that
understands for me, a pastor who has a
conscience for me, a physician who decides
my diet, and so forth, I need not trouble
myself. I need not think, if I can only pay –
others will easily undertake the irksome
work for me.“ The ‘step to competence’,
Kant opines, ‘is held to be very dangerous,
by the far greater portion of mankind’.
Almost 300 years after the beginning of the
Age of Enlightenment, orthodox medicine
still remains based on a mechanistic
approach, it being neither logical, based on
facts, nor demonstrably true. Despite
sophisticated diagnostic techniques and
achievements in first aid and surgery, it
remains in the dark, in the true curative
treatment of diseases. The negative effects
from the dependency on drugs, their side
effects and toxicity, as well as the
suppressive effects of palliation, often
outweigh the benefits. Hahnemann already
complained that more patients die of their
medical treatment, than of their disease.
Considering the horrifically bleak medical
philosophy and practice in his time, it is not
surprising that he was dissatisfied with his
inability to provide effective medical
treatment, and sought a rational healing
system.
The patient’s self-inflicted tutelage is often
due to laziness, or due to the lack of
resolution and courage. But it is also
frequently based on lack of political
freedom, social or intellectual inhibitions, or
other restrictions imposed by society.
Maybe it is a good idea to give our patients
a copy of the Organon, to motivate them to
shake off their immaturity, as Hahnemann
did. Everybody should be able to live a
healthy life by virtue of his own
understanding. Dare to be wise. Begin
now!

My article dyspeptic headache in DB LIFELINE at the date of 3rd nov , 2011

2011-11-05T11:32:00.000+05:30

ડો. શબાના મહેતર

હોમિયોપથી

ભેજવાળા વાતાવરણમાં સૂર્યપ્રકાશનો અભાવ અને રોજિંદી કાર્યશૈલીમાં આરામ કરવાની માનસિકતાના પરિણામે પાચનતંત્રને લગતી સમસ્યાઓ થતી રહે છે. તેમાં સૌથી વધુ પીડા આપતી સમસ્યા એટલે જ ડિસ્પેપ્ટિક હેડેક જેને ગેસ્ટિ્રક હેડેક તરીકે પણ ઓળખવામાં આવે છે.

વાસ્તવમાં પાચનની ક્રિયામાં ઉદ્ભવતા વિ ોપના પરિણામે ઉત્પન્ન થતા ગેસના ઊઘ્ર્વગમનથી થતી મસ્તકની પીડાને ડિસ્પેપ્ટિક હેડેક કહેવાય છે. રોજ-બરોજના વધુ પડતા ચરબીયુકત તીખા-તળેલા પદાર્થનું સેવન, ખોરાકમાં રેસાનું અપૂરતું પ્રમાણ, ભોજનના સમયગાળાની અનિિશ્ચતતા, બેઠાડુ જીવન, વ્યાયામ પરત્વે બેદરકારી, ટાઇફોઇડ જેવા રોગોની આફટર ઇફેકટ, વાયુશામક અૌષધોનો અતિરેક, કેફી પદાર્થોનું બંધાણ, વ્યવસાયલ ાી કે અન્ય કારણોસર અપે ાાઓની અપૂર્તિથી ઉદ્ભવતો સ્ટ્રેસ કે ડિપ્રેશન વગેરે પરિબળો પાચનતંત્રની નિયમિતતા ખોરવી દે છે અને ડિસ્પેપ્ટિક હેડેક માટે નિમિત્ત બને છે. ડિસ્પેપ્ટિક હેડેકમાં અમુક સમયમાં અંતરાલ પર વારંવાર થતો માથાનો દુખાવો થી માંડીને અત્યંત તીવ્ર સ્વરૂપ ધારણ કરતો હોય છે. સાથોસાથ જમ્યા પછી પેટમાં થતો ગેસનો ભરાવો, ચૂંકો આવવી, ખાટા-કડવા કે આરોગેલ ખોરાકના ઓડકાર, છાતીમાં બળતરા, ઉબકા, ખોરાક પ્રત્યે અરુચિ જેવા અપચાને સંલગ્ન લ ાણો સંકળાયેલાં હોય છે. સહન ન થઇ શકે એ પ્રકારે અત્યંત તીવ્ર સ્વરૂપ ધારણ કરતા ડિસ્પેપ્ટિક હેડેકનું મહદંશે એકવાર લીધેલો ખોરાક વોમિટિંગ મારફતે બહાર નીકળી જાય ત્યારબાદ શમન થઇ જાય છે.

ડિસ્પેપ્ટિક હેડેકની આ લા ાણિકતાના પરિણામે ઘણાખરા કિસ્સામાં વ્યકિત તેને માઇગ્રેન અર્થાત્ આધાશીશીનો દુખાવો ગણી લે છે અને પરિણામે ની ઉકિત અનુસાર અનેક અૌષધિય ઉપચારો કરવા છતાં આ સમસ્યાથી છુટકારો ન મળતાં આખરે પરિસ્થિતિ સાથે સમાધાન સાધી કમને જીવનશૈલીના ભાગ સ્વરૂપે સ્વીકારે છે. પાચનતંત્ર અંગેની આ પ્રકારની પરેશાની અને માથાના દુખાવાના ભયને લીધે ડિસ્પેપ્ટિક હેડેકથી પીડિત વ્યકિતઓ શું ખાવું અને શું ન ખાવુંની મૂંઝવણમાં પિસાતા રહે છે. ખોરાક પરત્વેની અરુચિના પરિણામ સ્વરૂપ શરીરમાં પોષણની ઊણપ સર્જાતા રોગપ્રતિકારકતંત્ર નબળું બને છે. આમ, સાવ સામાન્ય લાગતી ડિસ્પેપ્ટિક હેડેકની સમસ્યા પરો ારૂપથી સંપૂર્ણ સ્વાસ્થ્ય માટે ખતરારૂપ બની રહે છે. આ સમસ્યાના બચાવ માટે ની ભાવનાયુકત હકારાત્મક માનસિક અભિગમ અપનાવી સ્ટ્રેસને શકય તેટલો દૂર રાખવો. વાયુશામક અૌષધોનો અતિરેક ટાળવો. આહારમાં બટાકા, કોબીજ, ફલાવર, વાલ-વટાણા જેવા વાયુ ઉત્પન્ન કરતા પદાર્થોને બદલે રેસાયુકત સાત્ત્વિક ખોરાક લેવો. પુષ્કળ પાણી પીવું અને વ્યાયામ કરવો.

ડિસ્પેપ્ટિક હેડેક માટે હોમિયોપથીમાં નકસવોમિક, લાયકોપોડિયમ, સેપિયા, નેટ્ટમફોસ વગેરે દવાઓ ઉપલબ્ધ છે, જે ડોકટરની સલાહ મુજબ જ લેવી.

A short description about some German, Latine and Hebrew terms used in the Homeopathic literature

2011-09-27T11:56:00.000+05:30

some words used in the literature
of Homeopathy:
Latin words
Aude sapare: Dare to be wise.
Cito toto edjento: It was the motto of
Asclepiades, which means: speedily safely
and agreeably.
Materia pecans: Material cause of the
diseases.
Materia medica: Medical material
Novum organum scientiarum: It is the work
of Lord Bacon (written in 1620). It means
new organ of logical works.
Reine arzneimittellehre: Materia medica pura
Insuratio magma: It is the work of Bacon. It
means great instauration.
Fragmenta de veribus medicamentorum
positivus: published by Dr Hahnemann in
1805. It means fragmentary observations
relative to the positive powers of medicines.
Similia similibus curantur: It means like
cures like (let like be treated by like)
Prima causa morbi: Primary cause of the
disease.
Psora: It means itch (also used in Greek)
Repertorium (0r repertire) The word
repertory is originated from this word. It
means an inventory, a table or a
compendium where the information is so
arranged that is easy to find.
Rubrica: The word rubric is taken from
Rubrica. It means heading, a guiding rule.
Tolle causm: Remove the cause.
Non inutilis vixi: Not lived in vain. It is the
inscription on Hahnemann's grave.
Vis medicatrix naturae: The healing power
of nature.
Organum: Organ or tool.
Greek words
Organon: It was Aristotle who used this
word for the first time. It means instrument
of work, a method of scientific investigation.
Homoeos: It means similar.
Pathos: It means suffering.
Miasma: It means heavy vaporous
exhalations, noxious influences, polluted
material, putrid vegetable matter etc.
Psora agria: It is the Greek word for psora.
Psora: Means itch (also used in Latin)
German words
Beruf: This word was used by Hahnemann
in the first aphorism of organon. It means
mission.
Organon der Rationelien Heilkunde: It was
the title given to the first edition of Organon.
It means Organon of rational art of healing.
Reine arzneimittellehre: It means pure
medicinal teachings. It is the German title for
Materia medica pura.
Die chronischen karnleit: Chronic diseases.
Medicamens au globule: It means medicine
of the globules. It was the name given to 50
millesimal potency.
Medicamens a la goultte: It means medicines
of the drop. It was the name given to
Centesimal potency.
Heikunde der erfahrung: Medicine of
experience published in 1805. It is
considered as the forerunner of Organon.
Mongrel sects: Means cross breed dogs. This
word was used by Hahnemann to criticize
those homeopaths who use palliation to
avoid looking for the correct remedy(foot
note to 149).
Hebrew word
Psorat: It means a groove or fault. Psora is
originated from this word.

વેર વાળે વર્ષાઋતુ ગેસ્ટિ્રક ફલૂ ! My Aricle in yesterday's life line ( DB )

2011-09-16T18:18:00.000+05:30

શીષર્કમાં શબ્દ હોવા છતાં રસપ્રદ બાબત એ છે કે ઉપરોકત સમસ્યાને ફલૂ કે ઇન્ફલુએન્ઝા સાથે સ્નાનસૂતકનો પણ સંબંધ નથી.

વાસ્તવમાં ગેસ્ટિ્રક ફલૂ નામક આ સમસ્યા તેના નામ પ્રમાણે વિશેષત: જઠર અને નાના આંતરડામાં વિવિધ પ્રકારના વિષાણુ અર્થાત્ વાઇરસના ચેપ લાગવાથી ઉદ્ભવે છે. રોટાવાઇરસ, નોરોવાઇરસ, એડેનોવાઇરસ વગેરે જેવા વિવિધ પ્રકારો ધરાવતા આ વિષાણુઓ ખાસ કરીને દૂષિત પાણી અને ખોરાકના માઘ્યમ દ્વારા એકથી બીજી વ્યકિતમાં પસાર થઇ વ્યાપક સ્વરૂપ ધારણ કરે છે.

ગેસ્ટિ્રક ફલૂની આ સમસયા ટૂંકાગાળાની અને સિઝનલ તરીકે ઓળખાવી શકાય જે ખાસ કરીને ચોમાસાની ઋતુમાં વધુ જોવા મળે છે. ઊબકા, ઊલટી અને તીવ્ર માત્રામાં પાતળા પાણી જેવા ઝાડા એ આ પ્રકારના વાઇરલ ઇન્ફેકશનનું મુખ્ય લ ાણ છે. ડાયેરિયા અને વોમિટિંગની સાથોસાથ પેટમાં ચૂંક આવવી, છાતીમાં બળતરા કે એસિડિટી, ખોરાક પ્રત્યે અરુચિ વગેરે લ ાણો ¼શ્યમાન થવા લાગે છે. ઉપરાંત કયારેક ઝીણો તાવ, માથાનો દુખાવો તથા ડિ-હાઇડ્રેશનથી નબળાઇ, ચક્કર જેવાં લ ાણો ગેસ્ટિ્રક ફલૂની સમસ્યાને વરવું સ્વરૂપ આપી દે છે. કેટલાક કેસમાં વોમિટિંગને લીધે જઠરનો સમગ્ર ખોરાક બહાર નીકળી ગયો હોવા છતાં પણ પરિસ્થિતિ કાબૂમાં ન રહેતાં પિત્તની ઊલટીઓ ચાલુ રહેતી હોય છે.

ગેસ્ટિ્રક ફલૂની સમસ્યાથી બચવા માટે દૂષિત પાણી અને વાસી ખોરાકનો ઉપયોગ સદંતર ટાળવો. બજારમાં ઉપલબ્ધ બિનઆરોગ્યપ્રદ વાસી ખોરાકને બદલે ધેર યોગ્ય રીતે રાંધીને તૈયાર થયેલા તાજો આહાર લેવો. હાથની સ્વરછતા જાળવી રાખવી. ગેસ્ટિ્રક ફલૂ ચેપી સમસ્યા હોવાથી નબળી રોગપ્રતિકારકતા ધરાવતા વ્યકિતઓએ શકય બને ત્યાં સુધી માર્કેટ, મોલ, થિયેટર કે શોપિંગ સેન્ટર જેવી ભીડભાડવાળી જગ્યાઓથી દૂર રહેવું.

આ સમસ્યાથી પીડિત વ્યકિતઓએ ઓછામાં ઓછો ૨૪ કલાક પૂરતો સંપૂર્ણ આરામ લેવો. તદુપરાંત તેમણે પોતાની ચમચી, છરી, વાટકી, થાળી, ડિશ, ટોવેલ, સાબુ અને ટૂથબ્રશનો અન્યને વપરાશ કરવા ન દેવો હિતાવહ રહેશે. શરીરમાં પાણીનું પ્રમાણ યોગ્ય રૂપથી જાળવી રાખવા માટે વિકલ્પ તરીકે લીલા નાળિયેર પાણીનો ઉપયોગ કરવો. દૂધ તથા અન્ય ડેરી પ્રોડકટ્સ જેમ કે આઇસક્રીમ, ચીઝ, પનીર અને વધુ પડતી ચરબીયુકત, ચીખો-તળેલો ખોરાક તથા માંસાહારનો ત્યાગ કરવો.

ગેસ્ટિ્રક ફલૂની સમસ્યા માટે લ ાણોની મહત્તમ સામ્યતા અનુસાર હોમિયોપેથીની આર્સેનિકમ, ઇપિકાક, નકસવોમિકા, રશટો ા, યુપેટોરિયમ વગેરે જેવી દવાઓ ઉપયોગમાં લઇ શકાય. અત્રે ખાસ ઉલ્લેખનીય છે કે વર્ષાઋતુમાં ઉદ્ભવતા ગેસ્ટિ્રક ફલૂના કેસમાં લ ાણોની તીવ્રતા મહત્તમ હોવાથી દવાઓનું એટલે કે ઝડપી પુનરાવર્નન આવશ્યક બની રહેતું હોવાથી નિષ્ણાત હોમિયોપેથ ડોકટરની સલાહ લેવી ઇરછનીય છે. આ ઉપરાંત ઉપરોકત કોઇપણ દવા લેતાં પહેલાં હોમિયોપેથનું માર્ગદર્શન અચૂક લેવું.

My Article In Jankalyan ( The Most Famous Magazine In Gujarati Language ) In The Month Of June 2011

2011-08-20T22:11:00.000+05:30

My Article In Jankalyan ( The Most Famous Magazine In Gujarati Language ) In The Month Of June 2010

2011-08-20T22:08:00.000+05:30

My Article In Jankalyan ( The Most Famous Magazine In Gujarati Language )

2011-08-20T22:03:00.000+05:30

My Article In Jankalyan ( The Most Famous Magazine In Gujarati Language ) In The Month Of Nov-Dec 2009

2011-08-20T22:00:00.000+05:30

My Article In Jankalyan ( The Most Famous Magazine In Gujarati Language ) In The Month Of April 2009

2011-08-20T21:54:00.001+05:30

My article in DB lifeline DATE : 4th August 2011

2011-08-04T18:18:00.000+05:30

બીમારીઓની બીક! હાયપોકોન્ડિ્રઆસિસ

આરોગ્ય ટકાવવાની લાયમાં માનવી એ સનાતન સત્ય ભૂલી ગયો કે આરોગ્ય અંગે નિિશ્ચત રહીને બેફિકરાઇથી જીવવાની ક્ષમતા હોવી એ જ સાચી તંદુરસ્તી છે! પરિણામે રોગોને ટાળવાની અતિ તીવ્ર ઇરછા જયારે બીમારીનું સ્વરૂપ ધારણ કરી લે છે ત્યારે ઉદ્ભવે છે હાયપોકોન્ડિ્રઆસિસની સમસ્યા! શારીરિકરૂપે તદ્દન સામાન્ય ગણાય તેવાં ચિહ્નના અર્થઘટનોના પરિણામે મનમાં ગંભીર બીમારી અંગેના કાલ્પનિક ખ્યાલોથી ઉદ્ભવતી બીક એટલે હાયપોકોન્ડિ્રઆસિસ.

તબીબી ¼ષ્ટિએ સાવ સામાન્ય ગણાતી તાવ, શરદી, ખાંસી, માથાનો દુખાવો કે શરીરની સામાન્ય કળતર જેવી તેમની ફરિયાદને જયાં સુધી કોઇ ગંભીર રોગનું સમર્થન ન મળે ત્યાં સુધી તેઓને સંતોષ થતો નથી. શરીરમાં થતા નાના અમથા ફેરફારને પણ તેઓ કોઇ મોટી અગમ્ય ક્ષતિ કે રોગનું ચિહ્ન ગણીને સતત તણાવગ્રસ્ત અને ચિંતાતુર રાા કરે છે. કાલ્પનિક બીમારીના ભયજનક વિચારથી શરૂ થતી આ સમસ્યા ક્રમશ: કલ્પનાશીલતાની દરેક સીમારેખા પાર કરીને એક એવા મુકામ પર પહોંચે છે જયાં બિલકુલ અવાસ્તવિક વિચારો વ્યકિતના મગજ પર કાબૂ મેળવી લે છે. પરિણામે દર્દી પોતાની બીમારીને સૌથી અલગ માને છે એટલું જ નહીં પોતાની બીમારી માટે આસપાસના અન્ય વ્યકિતઓને જવાબદાર ઠેરવે છે. તેના મનમાં નિરંતર ભવિષ્ય અંગેના અવાસ્તવિક ખ્યાલો ઉદ્ભવતા હોય છે. તેથી તેઓ પોતાની આસપાસ બનતી સામાન્ય ઘટનાઓને પણ ભવિષ્યમાં થનાર કોઇ અમંગળના સંકેતરૂપ ગણીને પોતાના વિચારો સાથે સાંકળી લેતા હોય છે. હાયપોકોન્ડિ્રઆક વ્યકિતઓ પોતે શંકાશીલ હોવાનો કદાપિ સ્વીકાર કરતી નથી અને આસપાસ બનતી દરેક ઘટનાઓ, વસ્તુઓ અને વ્યકિતઓ પર શંકા-કુશંકા દર્શાવ્યા કરે છે. આ જ કારણસર તબીબ દ્વારા થતા નિદાનને પણ તેઓ અર્થહીન સમજે છે. પોતે જાતે જ ઇન્ટરનેર કે અન્ય પ્રચાર-પ્રસાર માઘ્યમો પર પોતાના રોગની શોધ શરૂ કરી દે છે જે અંતહીન હોય છે!

હાયપોકોન્ડિ્રઆક વ્યકિતની ઉપરોકત પરિસ્થિતિ માટે ભૂતકાળની કે અજાગ્રત મનની વિસંવાદિતા જવાબદાર હોતી નથી. માનસિક વિષાદનાં મૂળિયાં વર્તમાનની જ પ્રતિકૂળતા અને હતાશામાં રોપાયેલાં હોય છે. હાયપોકોન્ડિ્રઆસિસની સારવારમાં કાઉન્સેલિંગની પ્રક્રિયા અગત્યનો ભાગ ભજવતી હોવા છતાં રસપ્રદ વાત એ છે કે હાયપોકોન્ડિ્રઆક વ્યકિતઓ મનોચિકિત્સાનો આશરો લેવાનું નકારે છે. ઉલ્લેખનીય છે કે વર્તમાનમાં તણાવગ્રસ્ત યુગમાં જયારે હાયપોકોન્ડિ્રઆસિસ માત્ર એક સમસ્યા ન રહેતાં પોતાની નિષ્ફળતાઓના અપરાધબોજથી છુટકારો મેળવવા માટે સુષુપ્ત રહસ્યોને જાણવાની પ્રબળ જિજ્ઞાસા ધરાવતી કલ્પનાશીલ પર્સનાલિટી તરીકેનું સ્થાન લઇ રાું છે. સમગ્ર વ્યકિતત્વની સારવારના આ પ્રકારના કેસમાં હોમિયોપથી સારો વિકલ્પ બની રહે છે.

ઇગ્નેશિયા, આર્સેનિક, નેટ્ટમમ્યુર, નકસવોમિકા, સલ્ફર, લાયકોપોડિયમ જેવી હોમિયોપેથિક દવાઓની મદદથી કલ્પનાઓથી નીપજતી હાયપોકોન્ડિ્રઆસિસની આ સમસ્યાથી દર્દીને અવશ્યપણે મુકત કરીને તેના સમગ્ર વ્યકિતત્વને હકારાત્મક અને સર્જનશીલ બનાવી શકાય છે.

The rain.........of thoughts also!

2011-07-07T19:42:00.002+05:30

Starting of Monsoon.........season's first rain....a feeling of freshness! Cloudy weather and blowing of cold wind along with rain falling...what an atmosphere! Surprisingly, in morning I was reading about the subject of mood swings during the season of monsoon. There was mentioned that monsoon brings along with it the symptoms of depression, gloomyness and a kind of blueness in the mood and behavior of a person because of lack of sunlight during the day time and disturbances in the routine work due to constant damp weather. It's a kind of seasonal affective disorder, they said. But honestly, I was not agree with it. May be because of lack of research to support the theory or what so ever.....
But logically how can rain provoke the feeling of depression in a human being when everyone knows that it freshens the whole nature, sounds somewhat awkward!
Anyway, each person in this world has it's own view, according to the experiences he has gone through. so every one should be respected for their opinion and so for the case, no one should be criticized.
The only thing is what a person feels is only entirely depends upon and related with one sentence. And it's ' what he or she may wants to feel!'. The simple but a non deniable truth is, it's the person himself who creates the variation and alteration of feelings for himself. Regardless of the circumstances, if one wants to be stressed, he will remain stressed and if one wants to enjoy, no one will be there to prohibit him! That's why, seasonal affective disorders remain specific for a few group of people!
Anyway, the discussion may take a long time.......may be there is no end at all.....so, think for a while....may be next time!

My Article In Jankalyan in it's issue of June, 2011.

2011-07-07T18:34:00.002+05:30

Recently, my article regarding the subject of geriatrics titled ' Vasmi nathi Vruddhavastha '- has been published by Jankalyan in the issue of June, 2011.