Homeopathy stands out in dealing with flu

An article by

Dr Asghar Ali Shah

Homeopathic Physician

Published in The News International on October 12, 2009

The 1918 flu pandemic killed from 50 to 100 million people. About 500 million people, one third of the world’s population at that time, became infected.

Homeopathy was very successful in dealing with the flu pandemic proving its superiority over the conventional medicines. The famous historian Julian Winston writes that perhaps the most recent use of homeopathy in major epidemic was during the influenza pandemic of 1918.

The journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, May 1921, had a detailed article about the use f homeopathy in the flu epidemic. Dr T A McCann, from Dayton, Ohio, reported that 24000 cases of flu treated allopathically had a morality rate of 28.2% while 26000 cases of flu treated homeopathically had a morality rate of 1.05%. This last figure was supported by W A Pearson of Philadelphia who collected 26795 cases of flu treated with homeopathy with the above result.

Swine flu (H1N1) is a viral infection that affects the respiratory tract of pigs. It causes regular outbreaks of influenza in swine throughout the year. Swine flu was first proposed to be a disease related to human influenza during 1918 flu pandemic.

Transmission of the virus from the pigs to humans is not common and whenever it does transmit it usually produces antibodies in the human blood. However in some cases it leads to human influenza.

Symptoms to zoonotic swine flu in humans are similar to those of influenza and of influenza-like illness in general, namely chills, fever, sore throat, muscle pains, severe headache, coughing, weakness and general discomfort, muscle aches.

The victims of influenza general include those who are at 65 or above, chronic health patient women and young children. In the past during flu pandemics most people who succumbed to the disease were healthy young adults.

Complications of swine flu can include pneumonia, bronchitis, sinus infections, ear infections and death. Precautionary measure for the swine flu include:

*Cover your nose and mouth when you cough and sneeze.

*Throw the trash after using it.

*Wash your hands often with soap and water, especially after you cough and sneeze. You can also use alcohol based hand cleaners.

*Avoid touching your eyes, nose, or your mouth. Germs spread this way.

*Try to avoid close contact with sick people.

*Stay home if you’re sick.

There’re fears that swine flu will become major global pandemic. Many countries are planning for major vaccination campaigns. US is testing swine flu vaccine on children and adults. However swine flu vaccine has rise concerns among the people across the world. According to a survey one third of british nurses refused to take swine flu vaccine because of its possible side effects.

The swine flu vaccine contains mercury compounds, which can cause autism in children. Even the scientists who have helped in making the vaccine are reported to have discouraged their family and friends from taking the vaccine. Some companies or groups of people, who have pharmaceutical business, claim that 2009 flu outbreak in humans is due to new strain of influenza a virus, subtype H1N1. It can easily transfer from human to human.

In most cases strains cause only mild symptoms and the infected persons make a full recovery without requiring medical attention and without the use of antiviral medicine.

As the threat of swine flu pandemic is looming large over the world the homeopathic medical community has come together to provide information about the homeopathic treatment f swine flu symptoms.

In homeopathy there’s a concept called genus epidemic. This means if there is an epidemic and you take the symptoms of say 15 ailing people of an area, you will notice a common trend there may be different curative medications for different cases of swine flu.

In Brazil the homeopathic doctors community has collected data on the symptoms of swine flu and homeopathic treatments for the symptoms.

When Japanese encephalitis hit andhra pradesh 10 years ago the government of india distributed among children one million doses of homeopathic medicine that proved effective bulwark against the disease.

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Homoeopathy is useful in treating allergy

An article by

Dr Asghar Ali Shah

Homeopathic Physician

Published in The News International on August 16, 2009

An allergy, also called hypersensitivity, is a reaction to something by our immune system that protects the body from infections, diseases and foreign substances. An allergen is any substance that the body perceives as a threat, triggering a specific chain of events called an allergic cascade.

Substances that often cause reaction are pollen, dust mites, birds, animals, certain food items and insect stings. The reaction may cause symptoms such as sneezing, coughing, runny nose, sore throat, diarrhoea, vomiting, itching, swelling and asthma. Symptoms vary from patient to patient. Although allergies irritate you, they usually wont kill you. However, a severe reaction called anaphylaxis, no doubt, threats life.

Doctors all over the world now follow the homeopathic principle like cures like for treatment of allergies. The process, known as vaccination, involves receiving injections of small amounts of allergens, such as pollen for instance, that are considered to be responsible for your allergy.

Thus an artificial disease similar to the natural disease is intentionally given to the patient and the doses are gradually increased so that the body builds up immunity to the allergens. The injections of vaccines are given over at least three to five years. Discontinuation is based on having minimal symptoms over two consecutive seasons of exposure to the allergens. The immunologists and the allergists are of the view that this method of treatment is more effective than the conventional treatment (in which anti-allergic medicines like Avil, Rigix and other antihistamines are used), which only temporarily suppresses the acute symptoms of the allergies.

Immunology and homoeopathy began in the same year i.e. 1796. Edward Jenner, the father of modern immunology, gave his first smallpox vaccinations at the same time that the German physician Samuel Hahnemann discovered homoeopathy. A vaccine is a biological preparation that improves immunity to a particular disease. It typically contains a small amount of an agent that resembles a microorganism.

The agent stimulates the bodys immune system to recognize the invading agent as foreign, destroy it, and remember it, so that the immune system can more easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it encounters in future. The symptoms associated with an immune system response are often uncomfortable to the individual, but are actually quite necessary. Symptoms such as sneezing, runny nose, fever, coughing, itching, nausea, diarrhoea or shortness of breath are all produced as the immune system tries to fight foreign invaders.

Hahnemann introduced homoeopathy in 1796 in these words: One imitates nature, which sometimes cures chronic diseases by adding another disease, and then uses a drug that is capable of exciting another artificial disease as similar as possible to the natural disease to be cured: Like cures like. This principle states that a disease can be cured by a substance that produces similar symptoms in healthy people.

Hahnemann unlike his contemporary Jenner did not limit the scope of this great discovery to the preparation of certain vaccines only. He went further and started experimenting vaccines on himself. He would select a diluted vaccine and take its repeated doses and then record the symptoms. Slowly and gradually his family, friends and students also joined him in these experiments. Through great sacrifices the hidden properties of diluted medicinal substances were discovered and recorded. Then these records were used in clinics to match the signs and symptoms of patients with the recorded properties of a diluted vaccine. And miraculous results were achieved. Thus a fully mature homeopathic system of medicine was developed by its great German discoverer Dr Hahnemann. Now the homoeopathic materia medica has a record of carefully documented properties of more than seven thousand medicinal substances.

Homoeopathy does not treat allergies by blindly giving one vaccine made from allergens, which apparently caused an allergy, to all the patients suffering from that allergy. It rather carefully individualizes the symptoms of each and every patient and selects the most appropriate and suitable vaccine (homeopathic medicine) for that particular patient. In homoeopathy ten different patients suffering from an allergy caused by same allergen (the mulberry pollen for instance) may receive ten different medicines if their individual symptoms are different.

Homoeopathy during the last two centuries treated millions of people suffering from all sorts of allergies without any side effects. The author himself is a witness to its efficacy and has treated, by the grace of Allah, many stubborn cases of allergies and asthma without any side effects.

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Homeopathy can see to the disease of joints

An article by

Dr Asghar Ali Shah

Homeopathic Physician

Published in The News International on September 09, 2009

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic disease of joints. It affects over one percent of the population and its victims are more women than men. It usually begins in the fifth or sixth decade of life.

This disease often starts from small joints of hands and feet, and latter involves other joints of the body. The patient complains of the inflammatory pain and stiffness of joints, particularly in the morning and after any periods of rest. The next thing the patient complains of is the swelling and loss of function of joints.

It is an autoimmune disease that means that the immune system (natural internal defense), which is responsible for protecting the body from diseases, itself starts damaging the patient’s joints. The medical science has no complete cure for this disorder. Once diagnosed positive, according to allopathic doctors, the patient is supposed to live with it all his life. But that is not so if treated through homeopathic system of medicine, which instead of giving strong chemicals uses patient’s own natural healing power. Moreover, it is affordable and has no side effects.

The allopathic doctors use a combination of the following treatments in rheumatoid arthritis:

1.Simple pain-killers like paracetamol are used that just treat your feeling of pain.

2.Anti inflammatory drugs, which are commonly used, obviously treat the symptoms of stiffness and swelling but do not affect the process of disease.

3.Disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) are given to the patients of rheumatoid arthritis. These drugs through unable to cure the disease, slow down the process of damage. There’re four or five of these drugs the most frequently used DMARD is methatroxate that has been used for thirty odd years. The experienced rheumatologists avoid prescribing it in every case of its terrible long lasting side effects.

4.Biological response modifiers (BRMs) belong to a relatively new class of drugs. Our body’s immune system normally produces BRMs in small amount in response to infection & disease. Modern laboratory techniques, scientists can produce BRMs in large amount for use in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and other disease, such as cancer and some chronic viral infections.

The medical scientists are experimenting with these chemicals to make our immune system work like it does under homeopathic medicines.

Problem with BRMs is that they are expensive. More-over the scientists are also worried about the extent of the potential damage the BRMs cause as side effects. Our bodies naturally produce thousands of substances including the BRMs and they know best how to utilize them most appropriately against diseases to keep us healthy and strong. A dose of homeopathic medicine, properly individualized according to the symptoms of a particular patient, triggers a natural healing process in that patient and can permanently cure his chronic conditions like rheumatoid arthritis or hepatitis etc without any side effects.

The writer has treated, by the grace of ALLAH many patients from rheumatoid arthritis, which were labeled as incurable, I remember a 65-year old patient, who was running a private school, had suffered from great pain in one of his knees. His son happened to be a doctor and got him examined by renowned orthopedic surgeons. The specialists’ unanimous opinion was that the affected knee must be replaced by an artificial one. The patient was planning for the replacement when the idea of trying homeopathic treatment came to his mind. This writer treated him and with ALLAH’s blessing he did not have the knee replacement.

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Homeopathy can save the day for the kidney patients

An article by

Dr Asghar Ali Shah

Homeopathic Physician

Published in The News International on December 06, 2009

Although the number of dialysis centers is increasing in many regions of Pakistan, most patients stop treatment of cost constraints. Dialysis is not a permanent solution. It is rather an interim arrangement to keep alive the patient whose kidneys stop functioning.

Kidney transplantation is better option but not only about 5 percent patients receive transplantation. The shortage of donors is a universal problem, and paid organ donation accounts for 70 percent of all transplantations in Pakistan.

Most kidney diseases attack the tiny units inside the kidneys called nephrons causing them to loose their filtering capacity. Damage to the nephrons con happen quickly but most kidney diseases destroy them slow and silently. Kidneys have to separate urea, mineral salts, toxins and other waste products form the blood. The actual removal wastes occur in nephrons. Each kidney has about a million nephrons.

Kidneys are located nearly at the bottom of the rib cage in the right and left sides of the back. The left kidney lies a little higher than the right kidney lies a little higher then the right kidney. Kidneys are bean shared, about four inches long and two and a half inches wide. Although the body is equipped with two kidneys, you can function one reasonably healthy kidney if the other is damaged or removed.

Some people are born with only one kidney but can still lead normal, healthy lives. Every year thousands of people donate one of their kidneys for transplantation to members of their families or friends.

The kidneys are highly sophisticated reprocessing machines. Every day a person’s kidney process about 200 quarts of blood to sift out about 2 quarts of waste products and extra water. The wastes and extra water become urine; like the kidneys also converse water, salts, and electrolytes.

There are more than 100 disorders that can lead to progressive destruction of the kidneys. Diabetes is the most common cause of kidney failure, accounting for more than 40 percent of new cases. If glucose stays in the blood instead of breaking down it can act like a poison. Damage to the nephrons from unused glucose in the blood is called diabetic kidney disease.

High blood pressure plays a major role in rapid progression of kidney problems in people with diabetes. High blood pressure can damage the small blood vessels in the kidneys. The damaged vessels are thus unable to filter wastes from the blood properly.

People whose kidney disease becomes worse may need to urinate more often or less often, feel tired lose their appitite or experience nausea and vomiting, have swelling in their hands or feet, feel itchy or numb, get drowsy or have trouble concentrating, have darkened skin and have muscle cramps.

Serious health problems occur when people have less than 25 percent of their kidney function.

Dialysis is not the curative procedure for chronic renal failure but instead it keeps a person alive by performing the crucial functions of the kidneys. Homeopathy on the other hand by the grace of ALLAH a complete healing system that can bring relief of the most troublesome renal disease.

Homeopathy works exceptionally well in the kidney diseases when administered wisely. It stimulates one’s immune system, which in turns repairs the damaged kidneys. Patient’s kidney-function starts improving under the homeopathic treatment. And as the kidneys start working properly the bio-chemistry becomes normal naturally.

Homeopathy works silently and goes deep into your immune system. And not only repairs the damaged kidneys but helps in maintaining the blood pressure and sugar level as well.

The writer also had the opportunity by the grace of ALLAH to treat many patients suffering from different types of kidney diseases. I remember a young man who was having dialysis regularly when he started the homeopathic treatment. After a month when he went for the dialysis his routine blood test showed that his urea and certinine levels were absolutely normal. He was sent back by the doctors informing he did not need dialysis anymore. Imagine the happiness and excitement of the parents who were trying to find such a donor to save the life of their son. Such pleasant moments give deep satisfaction to a physician.

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Interferon is not your last resort

An article by

Dr Asghar Ali Shah

Homeopathic Physician

Published in The News International on April 3, 2009

One of every 12 people on our planet is affected by hepatitis B or C. It is estimated that 4,110 people die daily of hepatitis that is now recognized as one of the top healthcare problems.

Many researchers believe that this situation is a result of the indiscriminate use of the antibiotics. Anti-malarial drugs and pain killers. They are of the view that the usage of these medicines has rendered our immune system venerable to the infections caused by the viral hepatitis.

These days the medicine industry has only one answer to the viral hepatitis and that is a course of interferon injections. Medical researchers have been inserted in interferons since their role in the immune process was first noticed by two Japanese scientists nagano and kojima in1954. Interferons (IFNs) are natural proteins produced by the cells of the immune system of our bodies in response to challenges by foreign agents such as viruses, parasites and tumour cells. Intrferon assist the immune response by inhibiting viral replication within hosts cells, activating natural killer cells and inducing the resistance of host cells to viral infection.

Just as their natural function, interferons have antiviral, antiseptic and anti cancerous properties. When administered as drugs. But majority of the hepatitis patients do not respond to their infertion therapy. The tiny minority, which responds to it, usually develops long lasting side effects and they may also become resistant to the therapy in future. So bring the only treatment in the allopathic system is no justification for exposing millions of sufferers to the hazards of this therapy.

Our bodies naturally produce thousands of substances including Interferons and know best how to utilize them most appropriately against the attacks of interferons and other aliments to keep us healthy & strong. A dose of homeopathic medicine properly individualized according to the symptoms of a particular patient, triggers a natural healing process in that patient and can permanently cure his chronic conditions like hepatitis B or C.

Let me illustrate the point by giving details of three hepatitis C cases I dealt with recently.

1. Mrs. Farhan mir of Lahore developed hepatitis C and of course she was very much worried. Her gastroenterologist advised her to start the course of injections but she doubted their efficacy and was also afraid of the side effects. Her sister in Sialkot asked her to try the homeopathic treatment. When I took her detailed symptoms I found that she was morbidly anxious about the health and education of her children. She was unable to digest the dairy products and always gnawing hunger at 11 am she had two deliveries through cesarean section. She was not very sensitive to cold and also had hot burning feet. She frequently felt nausea and dry mouth. She had a long history of frequently taking pain killers for her headaches and body aches.

2. Abdul ghani, a 62 year old man from vehari, had his blood tests done as a part of requirement for his job visa for the UAE. It was a shock for him to discover that he was suffering from hepatitis C. He was convinced by his well wishers to get the homeopathic treatment. I took his symptoms and discovered that he was a very cool minded person. He had mild diabetes and was unable to digest oily food. His eyesight was getting weaker and weaker. He had a great craving for milk. He always suffered from flatulent stomach and became very tired after little exertion.

3. Mrs. Tassaduq Razaq Kiani, a 38 year old woman from Rawalpindi was asked by her doctor to get her blood tested. And as a result showed that she was having hepatitis C. She opted for the homeopathic treatment. Her symptoms showed that she was very sensitive to cold and heat. Her symptoms always got aggravated after washing clothes. Both her parents had diabetes. She frequently complained for vomiting and diarrhea. She had poor assimilation.

All these three persons were suffering from the same disease that is hepatitis C. But they showed different subjective and objective symptoms. Three different homeopathic medicines which best suited their individual symptoms were given to them and within a few months by the grace of ALLAH they were no more hepatitis C patients.

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Homeopathy Can Carry the Day for Asthmatics

An article by

Dr Asghar Ali Shah

Homeopathic Physician

Published in The News International on March 06, 2010

The world has so far failed to wipe out the old-age disease of asthma. According to the findings of World Health Organization, this planet hosts as many as 300 million patients, 10 million of whom live in Pakistan.

Asthma causes more than 250,000 premature deaths every year. Efforts to control this chronic disease have witnessed only five percent success in Asia.

Asthma causes airways the tube that carry air in and out of your lungs to become sore and swollen. Children having smaller airways than adults are prone to worse affects.

When the airways react, during an asthmatic attack, the muscles around them tighten. This causes the airways to shrink, thus less air floes to the lungs. The swelling can also worsen, making the airways even narrower. Cells in the airways may make more mucus than normal. Mucus is a sticky, thick liquid that can further narrow the airways.

This can result asthma symptoms. Asthma causes recurring periods of wheezing chest tightness, shortness of breath and coughing. The coughing often occurs at night or early in the morning.

Factors leading to asthma attacks are called triggers. People can eliminate the possibility of this fatal disease by keeping these triggers away from them. Any home can be full of triggers like extreme temperatures, humidity, mold, dust mites, second hand smoke, cockroaches, cats and dogs etc. Other aasthma triggers may be air pollution, different imbalanced foods, respiaratory infections, even physical exertion and mental stress and pollens.

A pollen count over 1500 per cubic meter of air is considered to be a very high level. If it crosses 5000 per cubic meter, it indicates an emergency condition for people sensitive to paper mulberry. Unfortunately, each year Islamabad sees the worst pollen counts ever recorded in the world.

A research conducted by medical scientists at the University of Glasgow, the Europe’s largest medical school indicates that those patients given an exceedingly small homeopathic dose of whatever substance to which they are most allergic can provide significant relief within the first week of treatment.

Homeopathy tries to cure this disease instead of trying to provide symptomatic relief.

A homeopath not only records the symptoms of disease but also studies the physical and psychological characteristics of the patient, his past medical history along with his family history. Of special interest to a homeopath is the history of suppression of any skin disease.

It is often, though not necessarily always, observed by homeopaths that when a right medicine is given, the asthma disappears but the old eczema, if it were there originally reappears for some time, before disappearing for good. This reappearance of old symptoms is seen as a reversal of disease process and is considered a very good prognostic sign by homeopaths.

In children asthma is often preceded by eczema. The allopathic doctors have also observed this fact and medical textbooks recorded that the children often ‘move out’ of eczema and move into asthma without known scientific correlation between these two phenomena. Homeopaths believe that the suppression of eczema with skin ointments does not cure the disease or sensitivity of the person, it merely drives it further ‘inwards’.

An e-mail message this writer received from the mother of an asthmatic child who got rid of inhalers after taking the homeopathic treatment, is worth reading.

“Dear doctor the last winter was the first cold season in my seven year old son Zeeshan’s life during which he was not nebulized. Moreover he was not given even a single puff of the inhalers Alhamdulillah. We could not believe that homeopathic treatment could be so effective. His child specialist has told us that after thirteen years of age hopefully he’ll grow out of asthma. We are so happy that the homeopathic treatment has given him so much relief. Thanks for your efforts.

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How to get rid of piles for good

An article by

Dr Asghar Ali Shah

Homeopathic Physician

Published in The News International on 23rd September, 2010

Piles or hemorrhoids are one of the common diseases human beings suffer from most of times. It is estimated that one of every five persons is hit by piles. 

Most of the patients suffer in silence rather than discussing it with their doctors. Most people will get a hemorrhoid flare-up at some point in their lives.

Technically speaking the pressure on the walls of the rectum weakens the muscles that support the hemorrhoid vessels and these become enlarged, lose their support resulting in a sac-like protrusion inside or outside the rectal canal, called hemorrhoids.

Internal hemorrhoids are usually not painful and many people are not even aware that they actually suffer from them. Internal hemorrhoids, however, may bleed when irritated. Untreated internal hemorrhoids can lead to severe forms of hemorrhoids.

External hemorrhoids are those that occur outside the anal canal. They are sometimes painful, and often accompanied by swelling and irritation. The most common causes of piles, fissures and fistulas are chronic constipation, chronic diarrhea, cirrhosis of the liver, constipation, fecal straining, pregnancy, low-fiber diet and the history of piles in the family.

An anal fissure is a tear in the anus causing a painful linear ulcer at margin of the anus. An anal fissure may cause itching pain or bleeding. In adults, fissures may be caused by constipation, the passing of large, hard stools, prolonged diarrhea or by decreased blood flow to the area. Most fissures get healed spontaneously and may not require any treatment.

If you are suffering from hemorrhoids then you are recommended to avoid sitting in the toilet for too long and do not strain or hold your breath during the bowel movement. It is better not to put off going to the toilet when you feel the urge and you should get into the habit of cleaning your bowels at the same time every day. If you have long hours at a desk, take a break every now and then and walk around for five minutes. Make sure you get some exercise in your lunch break as well.

There are a number of treatments that can help relieve the symptoms of piles, but there is no real cure. When a disease persists despite different treatments then it means the cause has been driven deep inside the body by the earlier allopathic treatments.

The patients first reaction is to buy the well known hemorrhoidal creams. Unfortunately these only provide temporary relief by reducing pain and causing the hemorrhoids to become less swollen. It does not treat the cause of hemorrhoids. In some cases the hemorrhoids may subside temporarily but return after a few months with more severe pain and bleeding. They do not however change the conditions inside the human body that allow hemorrhoids develop and grow.

The condition of hemorrhoids tends to get worse with time and over the years. Hence safe, gentle, and effective treatment for hemorrhoids is suggested as soon as the symptoms are felt. Surgery dose not target the root causes like genetic tendencies, habitual constipation etc. Whereas homeopathic medicines go deep at the root cause and can even modify the genetic tendencies thus reducing chances of relapse and recurrence of the condition significantly.

Homeopathic medicines are very effective in the management of piles, fistulas and fissures and the symptoms associated with it such as pain, bleeding, itching, etc. The point to be emphasized is that the relief of symptoms is obtained very gently and without invasion or surgery of any kind.

Mr. Niazi was referred to me by one of my old patients. He was suffering from a fistula in the rectum. The surgeon had tried twice to root out the fistula. He had cut off a large chunk of flesh near his anus.

The wound did not heal even in a months time, though the surgeon was regularly dressing the wound. There was large wound at the anus which was raw and running there was continuous great pain in the wound.

After the homeopathic treatment the discharge from the fistula stopped within four days and the wound was improved by the grace of Allah. Mr. Niazi since then is perfectly all right.

Homeopathic treatment cures the piles by shrinking and reabsorbing hemorrhoids back into the body. It promotes the better blood flow and strengthens and rebuilds the weakened veins.

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Let’s see how cancer grows

An article by
Dr Asghar Ali Shah 
Homeopathic Physician 
Published in The News International on July 05, 2011


Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Pakistan. About one million new cancer cases are reported each year across the globe. In 2007, it claimed lives of about 7.6 million people.


Cancer grows out of normal cells in the body. Normal cells multiply when the body needs them, and die when the body doesn’t need them. Cancer appears to occur when the growth of cells in the body is out of control and cells divide too quickly. It can also occur when cells forget how to die.

A key characteristic of cancer cells is their greatly prolonged life span compared to that of normal cells. Not only do cancer cells not die when they are supposed to, they also fail to develop the specialized functions of their normal counterparts.

Masses of cancer cells may become like parasites, developing their own network of blood vessels to siphon nourishment away from the body’s main blood supply. It is this process that, if remains unchecked, eventually leads to the formation of a tumour - a swelling caused by the abnormal growth of cells. If the tumour invades adjacent normal tissue or spreads through lymph vessels or the blood vessels to other normal tissues, this is considered malignant.

Some cancers may not have any symptoms at all. In certain cancers, such as pancreatic cancer, symptoms often do not start until the disease has reached an advanced stage. Nevertheless chills, fatigue, fever, night sweats and weight loss may be the common symptoms in most of the cancer patients.

There are more than 200 types of cancers but five major groups are used to classify the type of cancer.

Carcinoma: cancer that begins in the skin or in tissues.
Sarcoma: cancer that begins in bone, cartilage, fat, muscle, blood vessels, or other connective or supportive tissue.
Leukemia: cancer that starts in blood-forming tissue such as the bone marrow and causes a large number of abnormal blood cells to be produced and enter the blood.
Lymphoma and myeloma: cancer that begins in the cells of the immune system.
Central nervous system: cancers that begin in the tissues of the brain and spinal cord.

Conventional treatment options for cancer are not associated only with side effects, but the cancer can recur elsewhere and can be more malignant and violent. For example if a woman has had cancer in one breast, why should cancer then appear in the other breast, which unfortunately happens all too frequently?

Moreover chemotherapy weakens our immune system and results in hair loss, nausea, fatigue, and vomiting.

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Sciatica: surgery, painkillers give no relief

An article by
Dr Asghar Ali Shah
Homeopathic Physician
Published in The News International on September 15, 2011

Dysfunction of Sciatic nerve is commonly called sciatica . The pain is usually a shooting pain, like electric shock. It can also burn like fire or tingle much like the feeling when leg goes to sleep. The pain can range from slightly annoying to totally unbearable. Some people have pain in one part of the leg and numbness in another part of the same leg. The affected leg may feel weak.
Sciatica occurs most frequently in people between 30 and 50 years of age. The vast majority of patients get better and find pain relief usually within a few weeks or months without any surgical or non-surgical treatment.
The sciatic nerve starts in the lower spine and runs down the back of each leg. It controls the muscles of the back, knee and lower leg. It provides sensation to the back of the thigh, part of the lower leg and the sole of the foot.
Mr Shahzad Cheema of Gujranwala, whom I successfully treated, was a sciatica patient. He used to feel severe back pain that extended to hips and feet. Sometime this electric shock like pain became so severe that he came out of his bed. Before coming to me, he had visited many professor doctors, who were considered to be authority on the subject. On each visit, many tests - MRI, CT SCAN etc were done and very strong medicines were given but permanent relief remained a distant dream for him.
Almost all doctors Cheema visited advised him surgery, but he had two fears: (i) every surgeon asked for an affidavit before the surgery procedure that the hospital/surgeon would have no responsibility for any mishap and (ii) there is no guarantee for permanent cure. Moreover possible complications include paralysis of the legs during the surgical operation. Most of the patients tend to keep themselves away from surgery in view of these fears. Unfortunately, however, they continue to use painkillers.
Mr Cheema also did not opt for the surgery. But he developed a new life threatening disease: Hepatitis C. Doctors guessed that it was due to the heavy dosage of painkillers he used for relief from sciatica pain.
During the allopathic treatment, many of the patients get mastery on the whole human anatomy and physiology. This medical terminology helps them explain the disease to the next doctor and so on. However, not only their problem persists, but they also suffer more disorders as side effects of different medicines.
The patient is told that Sciatica is generally caused by the compression of lumbar nerves L4 or L5 or sacral nerves S1, S2, or S3, or by compression of the sciatic nerve itself. Pelvic injury or Tumors may also cause sciatica. Trauma to the spine such as from a car accident may also lead to sciatica pain. This palmistry or the medical jargon can only frighten you or convince you for surgery but cannot give you permanent relief.
On the other hand this does not happen with the homeopathic treatment that is based on the ground reality. After studying all the reports and tests a homeopathic doctor gets the symptoms of the patient and finds out what is unusual or strange with the sufferer.
Unlike the allopathic system of medicine that may have the same painkiller for every patient, regardless of different causes of their suffering, in homeopathic system of medicine each patient of sciatica is individualized and a different medicine is prescribed.
For instance some patients experience intense pains along sciatic nerve where pains alternate with numbness extending to the toes. Some patients feel better while sitting in a chair. Some patients feel pain on the left side, which is relieved by motion. Or pains become worse at night while lying on affected side. For some pain is aggravated by motion. A few get relief by lying down. Still there are some patients who feel straining and lifting pains on getting wet and it becomes worse while taking rest and gets relieved by motion. With heat and rubbing the patient feels better. A few patients explain their pains, like cramps, as if the parts were screwed in a vise. It is worse on the right side and at night, and tends to be paroxysmal; relieved by warmth and rest and aggravated by motion. The nerves around the hip joint suffer most severely.
In Homeopathy each such case is studied and treated differently. Moreover, the patient has no fear of suffering from side effects of homeopathic medicines.

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Migraine: Only great men stand their ground

An article by
Dr Asghar Ali Shah
Homeopathic Physician
Published in The News International on February 21, 2010

Migraine has a typical set of symptoms usually characterized by severe pain on one or both sides of the head. There are a number of factors that can trigger this pain through the exact cause is not known yet.
Migraine has a tendency to run in families, which shows the possibility of being inherited through genes. The scientists have observed that during an attack of the disease there’s inflammation and dilation of the blood vessels in the head causing disturbance of blood flow and thus leading to pain.
This neurological disorder affects almost eighteen percent of females and six percent of the males the world over. The onset is usually gradual. The pain peaks and then subsides and usually lasts 4 to 72 hours in adults and 1 to 48 hours in children. The frequency of attack is extremely variable, from a few in a lifetime to several in a week, the average in a month. And the pain also varies greatly in intensity.
Famous people are no different than ordinary unknown souls when it comes to Migraines, but it is encouraging that this disease could not stop them from performing remarkable acts that left indelible imprint on history. Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte and many other world famous people and philosophers suffered from Migraine headaches.
The majority of patients, however lose their hands when faced with sever headaches. Let me share with you two cases ordinary patients. Mrs. Akram kiani, a housewife, complained that she was hit by headache before, during and after her periods. And then she remained Migraine free for two weeks every month. These Migraine attacks had incapacitated her for the last 15 years. When I first saw her she had experienced six severe headaches the month before, each lasting one to two days.
She felt isolated form everything during her terrible headaches and used panadol tablets every 4 to 4 hours to manage the pain. She became extremely sensitive to light, noise, and movement. Mrs. Kiyani’s headaches made her very angry and she couldn’t stand to have even her family members around.
An allopathic doctor brought another patient Mrs. Hassan in her forties, and a lecturer, to me five months ago. She could neither sleep at night nor could walk for two hundred meters at a stretch. She had stopped breakfast because she simply could not eat in the morning.
Having being disappointed by various treatments, she had started thinking of taking her life. Both these patients were treated homeopathically and gradually recovered completely. Homeopathic medicines are natural and made from any substance in nature you think of. A dose of carefully selected carefully selected homeopathic medicine according to the symptoms can relieve the patient, by the grace of Allah, ordeal forever.
In allopathic system the doctors give two different kind of medicine to mitigate the sufferings of a patient. These are pain relieving and preventive medicine, which reduce the severity and frequency of migraines.
Homeopathy treats this disease by individualizing the symptoms of a particular patient. These are over 5000 medicines to choose from and if well selected they can serve the purpose.

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