Homeopathy in Hospitals - Need for Integration - Dr J G Paraki.

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Monday, July 31, 2006 Feedback | Helpdesk | Login http://www.pharmabiz.com/article/detnews.asp?articleid=11362 & sectionid=46To print: Click here or Select File and then Print from your browser's menu Features Homeopathy in Hospitals - Need for Integration Tuesday, October 23, 2001 11:16 IST Dr Jayanth G ParakiThe nature of chronic diseases is a central study of homoeopathic pathology. To understand the nature of pathological phenomena the healer must study its

causes and effects in living beings. Samuel Hahnemann (Founder of Homoeopathy) raises the subject of causation in the very first paragraph of the Introduction of the Organon of the Healing Art. As long as humanity walked this earth we have been exposed as individuals and groups to illnesses of physical as well as moral causes. As individuals we face our own personal ethical struggles and moral crises. At the same time, we are exposed as groups to collective ethical struggles and moral crises that are greater than the individual. The individual must come to terms with his or her own illusions, and the loves and hates based on them in an ethical manner. We must also come to terms with society in general in an ethical manner that promotes harmony in the greater community. We are exposed to the dangers of our uncertain physical world as individuals and collective groups. The Earth is a world fraught with difficulties and physical dangers and no one can tell when

we may be injured or fall extremely ill. Natural calamities, loss of food and shelter, extreme climatic conditions, or infectious diseases of acute or chronic nature may strike at any time. The moral and ethical causes rise from the soul, intellect and emotional disposition while physical dangers are found in our worldly environments. For this reason, Boenninghausen (homoeopath) noted that there are inner and outer causations as well as acute and chronic diseases. Since the time of Hippocrates the human condition has been one of rapid urbanization and population growth accompanied by an increase in the complexity of human disease states. Today there has been a so-called decrease of many infectious diseases while there is an increase of the rate of cancer, heart attacks, diabetes, and other chronic states. This increase of chronic states is directly related to improper nutrition, chemical abuse, suppression, and the great stress of life in our modern western

societies. Studies have shown that Asian countries like Japan that took on rapid Westernization of diet and lifestyles experience an increase in number of such diseases. This phenomenon is so well documented that these illnesses are called "diseases of civilization". What Hahnemann witnessed in his day is only the beginning when compared to the state of affairs in the year 2001. Another important aspect of Hahnemann theories is the overall negative effect of centuries of misguided medical interventions, and toxic medicines, and suppressive treatments. Hippocrates taught the use of single remedies in small doses but immediately after his death his son and grandson started selling "Hippocratic Mixtures". By the time of the Greco-roman school the careful work of the pre-Socratic naturalist-healers was lost to the proliferation of new invasive systems based on theory rather than clinical observations. The suppression syndrome plays a large role in

homoeopathic pathology and includes the individual, affected groups, as well as humanity as a whole due to inheritance. It is interesting to note that Samuel Hahnemann was an Allopathic physician by initial training. In "Allopathy; A Word of Warning to All Sick Persons [1831], Hahnemann carefully recorded the effects of the abuse of drugs and invasive treatments on the human organism. The Founder refers to this text in the footnote to aphorism 74 of the 6th edition of the Organon. The pool of vitality innate to the constitution of the human being is a precious reservoir of adaptation energy. The draining of the human vitality and spirit through drugging, invasive testing, and unneeded surgical interventions are major side effects of orthodox medicine. This quality of human life cannot be measured in the laboratory yet without vitality there is no life. In Allopathy, A Word of Warning, Hahnemann writes: "For, by the force of medicine to transfer

the patient from one chronic disease into another and worse malady of different appearance, and then as is usually done, to imagine that this took place accidentally, and that the physician was perfectly innocent of the appearance of this new sad state, is to delude oneself, and cannot be termed curing, nor restoring the health, but deceiving and ruining patients". Samuel Hahnemann was an exceedingly brave and honest man. His sense of astute observation enabled him to discover the magical healing potency inherent in Homeopathy. He had seen the damage done by the allopathic philosophy in his early career and renounced the practice of medicine to become its critic at great personal costs. He became a Hippocratic naturopath rather than practice orthodox medicine and felt many people were better of without a doctor than with one. For this reason, he once said that less persons would die "had they been left to nature, and kept away from that old pernicious art". Today we are in a position to carry forward from where he had to stop. The diagnosis of disease, monitoring of progress of treatment and scientific study is favored by Allopathy while the ability to heal chronic diseases is more in homeopathy. It is therefore critical that a holistic scientific integration of Allopathy with Homeopathy be attempted in hospitals to securely establish the benefits of homeopathy. About the author: The author is consultant in holistic and alternative medicine and is director of Clinic for Holistic Healing, Bangalore.ion of Allopathy with Homeopathy be attempted in hospitals to securely establish the benefits of homeopathy. About the author: The author is consultant in holistic and alternative medicine and is director of Clinic for Holistic Healing, Bangalore. "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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