Homeopathy gaining ground among masses

An article by
Dr Asghar Ali Shah
Homeopathic Physician
Published in The News International on January 06, 2011

At present more than 1,100,000 homeopathic doctors are treating about 1.5 billion people worldwide. Homeopathic medicines are widely prescribed by physicians in U.S., Europe and Asia.
It has also been observed that sales of homeopathic medicines are witnessing an increase of 20 to 35 per cent each year. Doctors, scientists, researchers, corporations and the general public all have been contributing to accelerated expansion in the homeopathic products.
Public is now involved in boasting the benefits of homeopathy by demanding better treatment from all physicians. Homeopathy is fast becoming popular in the world.
These achievements by homeopathy were undoubtedly due to the harmful nature of allopathic remedies compared to the non-toxic nature of homeopathic remedies. Chemical drugs are dangerous as for example medicines used for treating a cancerous tumor certainly disturb other systems of the body. Similar is the case for allopathic medicines for other ailments.
Homeopathy, however, works equally well both for viruses and bacterial infections. It has proved its effectiveness in times of epidemics. For example, during the 1830’s cholera epidemics in Europe homeopathic doctors had 80 per cent recovery rate of their patients. Whereas conventional doctors achieved only 50% recovery rate.
Homeopathy treats the whole person and not just the part and herein lies its success. Mind and body influence each other and imbalance in one system causes imbalance in the other. Many a time allopathic doctors fail to either diagnose the disease or they diagnose it wrongly. In both the cases the patient continued to suffer. One of such patients, Syed Hussnain, once told me his story in the following words:
“My digestion is very weak with no appetite. I also suffer from blurred vision, illusion and delusion. I have fear of the unknown, anxiety and aversion to work. I do not sleep at night and have pains, aches and frequent urination at night. I cannot apprehend things and have forgetful memory. All these complaints aggravate after lying down on the bed. My health condition has put me in a very embarrassing position. Only slow walking gives me relief. I visited an international standard hospital in the immediate vicinity of my residence. I have the facility of annual complete medical check up on the expense of my office. There an eye specialist has examined my eyes first. Then I have gone to the cardiac specialist and have had my heart examined. I have also been to the neurologist. I have had my chest examined. I have been physically examined from head to foot, and they wrote in their reports good luck, this gentleman has no disease.”
Syed Hussnain asked if I am not sick, what do all these symptoms mean? My reply was that these symptoms are the language of nature, depicting internal nature of your sickness.
Many a time patients say all my medical test reports are clear but I am sick. Here homeopathy replies, “An individual’s medical diagnosis is not as important as his or her symptoms as everyone experiences illness in his or her own way.” Homeopathy defined good health as the balance of a person’s psychological, mental and emotional aspects.
Most practitioners of allopathic medicine attempt to treat an illness by targeting the affected part of the body. They identify the causative agent of the illness, such as a virus or bacteria and treat it. Conventional doctors usually tend to be more aggressive in the usage of medicine.
Remedy should be chosen that treat the whole person and not just the part. Homeopathy can alleviate almost any health problem. This may seem strange to grasp all the disorder by one remedy, but as you know every single tiny function of our body operates as a WHOLE, all of the time. You cannot treat one thing without affecting the rest.

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Homeopathy can give results in no time

An article by
Dr Asghar Ali Shah
Homeopathic Physician
Published in The News International on April 01, 2013

Statistics reject the notion that homeopathy is a slow-acting method of treatment. Experiences of many generations of homeopaths during the last 200 years confirm that in all sorts of emergencies homeopathy proved to be a first-aid par excellence. Be it trauma or heart attack results show that the right homeopathic medicine works like magic.
At the height of homeopathy’s popularity Penicillin the first antibiotic was discovered. It was hailed as a wonder drug and sort of cure-all magic pill which temporarily eclipsed homeopathy’s popularity. But after 50 years of extensive use and abuse of the antibiotics the medical scientists are seriously concerned about the irreversible damage caused by them to the immune system. And now pro-biotics and natural alternatives like homeopathy, which boost the immunity, are becoming more popular.
The expert analysts believe that homeopathy has stood the test of time while the conventional medicines failed to deliver. Even newer stronger antibiotics have become ineffective as the bacteria becomes resistant to them. And this all takes its toll on our immune system. The medical scientists have started realizing that they had rejoiced too soon after the discovery of the antibiotics.
The homeopathic system of medicine deals with human disease on specific principles, known as the “Law of Similars” which can be very well explained in a simple example of onion. While peeling an onion one experiences running of nose and red and watery eyes. The liquid present in numerous layers of onion is released while peeling the onion. This liquid comes in contact with the air, and affects the eyes and the nose of the person handling the onion and also of those around him. The symptoms thus produced are very similar to allergic rhinitis, hay fever and sinusitis. So onion (scientific name: Allium cepa) in diluted form becomes one of the homeopathic medicines for the same conditions it can produce in healthy and normal persons.
Homeopathic system of medicine was introduced in the world by a German physician Dr. Hahnemann (1755 to 1843). And later on one of his students Dr Honigbeger of Romania brought homeopathy for the first time in the sub-continent during Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s (1780-1839) time.
Some 50 years after its discovery in Germany in 1798 the homeopathic system of medicine found in America an extremely fertile land for its growth and propagation in the rest of the world. At the end of the nineteenth century there were many full-fledged homeopathic hospitals across America with in-patient and out-patient wards and thousands of renowned physicians and surgeons had converted to homeopathy.
Homeopathy helped the gynecologists and surgeons working in these hospitals avoid surgeries which were otherwise considered necessary to save the patients’ life. And the cases where surgery was actually needed recovered marvelously through homeopathy after the operations.
Here is an excerpt from David Armstrong and Elizabeth Metzger’s wonderful research work on health reform movements, titled ‘The Great American Medicine Show’:
“In spite of conventional medicine’s attack, homeopathy enjoyed enormous popularity in America from the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth century, particularly in the urban areas of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and the Midwest. Homeopathy enjoyed an upswing during the three devastating cholera epidemics of the nineteenth century, when statistics showed that homeopathically treated patients suffered fewer deaths than those treated in the allopathic hospitals. Some life insurance companies even offered a ten percent discount to homeopathic patients in the belief that they lived longer. By 1900, there were 22 homeopathic medical colleges in the United States and more than 15,000 homeopathic practitioners, about one-sixth of the American medical profession.”
It’s a pity that still in some under developed countries a mere matriculate is allowed to practice the medical science of future that is homeopathy.

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