tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22604189406070924882024-03-05T04:22:44.151-08:00HOMOEOPATHY ybI welcome your criticism, including harsh criticism, anonymous criticism. If you are not satisfied, pl. do not hesitate to write your comments here. If you are satisfied, pl. discuss with your friends and exchange opinions.ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-71963167150015729892020-08-12T09:49:00.012-07:002020-08-12T10:17:36.839-07:00018 Homoeo Pharma Companies and Hospitals in India, are they not adequately informing Public?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDVqzrfz3CWBnWeeAqH_WjLRPZ3iK9UuWGFrc-ieqhMtarUCe8-dAAvdqVvXd1cvtIkfvvkSWUg3nXjdjEDCcfmhAKad08yU4FAjJZYkxjqbDu1EFRnV2o-tWlmdMZwaSR7UOH4j55sE0/s426/homoeo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="350" data-original-width="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDVqzrfz3CWBnWeeAqH_WjLRPZ3iK9UuWGFrc-ieqhMtarUCe8-dAAvdqVvXd1cvtIkfvvkSWUg3nXjdjEDCcfmhAKad08yU4FAjJZYkxjqbDu1EFRnV2o-tWlmdMZwaSR7UOH4j55sE0/s0/homoeo.jpg" /></a></div><p></p>
<h2>Homoeo medicines for Corona</h2>
<br /><br />Homoeopathic medicines get diluted beyond limits .
<br /><br />Homoeopathic practitioners believe that dilution increases potency (curative power) of the medicines.
<br /><br />Higher potency medicines do not contain medical substances .
<br /><br />Homoeopathic medicines are likely to contain only alcohol , milk sugar or sugar globules.
<br /><br />Medicines should have minimum quantities of medical substances if medicines are to be recognised by the body's Receptors and body's Immune System is to respond either positively or negatively .
<br /><br />Question : What effect homoeopathic medicines will have on body ?
<br /><br />Ans: Small quantities of Alcohol, milk sugar , and sugar globules may not have any serious effect on body . Body's immune system gets neither accelerated nor retarded . There may be some Placebo Effect .
<br /><br />Question : What is Placebo Effect ?
<br /><br />Ans; <a href='https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=31481 ' target='@blank'>https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=31481 </a> . This web page contains a reasonably satisfactory explanation about the placebo effect . There is also a mention about Nocebo Effect , the opposite of Placebo Effect . This article seems to be unbiased.
<br /><br />Question: Some Homeo Pharma Companies are releasing some drugs, claiming them to be cures or preventives for Corona. In release functions , politicians are recommending the homoeopathic medicines and homoeopathic hospitals to people . As ybrao-a-donkey, how will you react to this ?
<br /><br />Ans: People know what they want . People are gullible. 'Once bitten twice shy', will not apply to them .
<br /><br />Question : Allopathic ( Modern medicine ) Pharma Companies are also misleading Governments and Public about their new releases. They are not properly conducting clinical trials or the needed double blind tests. But you are not highlighting their omissions and commissions.
<br /><br />Ans: Modern medicines contain some substances which will have some effect on body , good , bad or something else, whereas homeopathic medicines contain only alcohol , milk sugar , or sugar globules. Hence, except for Placebo Effect or Nocebo effect , or some Faith Cure, they will not have any effect on body .
<br /><br />It is hightime that CCRHINDIA clarifies on this issue and save People of India.
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ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-9271949668112338222018-12-09T05:37:00.000-08:002018-12-11T06:47:51.696-08:00017 Corroborative News Report that questions the unscientific nature of Homoeopathy. Dr. Venkata Raman Ramakrishnan 2015 President of Royal Society, and Business Standard News Report.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">
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<br />I am sad that I am writing this particular blog post very late. But, we have the proverb,"Better late, than never". Here is a News report dated 23rd January 2016, at <a href='https://www.business-standard.com/article/specials/does-homoeopathy-work-116012100791_1.html' target='_blank'>Click here to go to https://www.business-standard.com/article/specials/does-homoeopathy-work-116012100791_1.html</a>, citing a speech by Shri Venkataraman Ramakrishnan, 2015 President of Royal Society, and a Nobel Laurate. He was delivering a lecture titled “On Nobody’s Word: Evidence and Modern Science” at Panjab University in Chandigarh. Business Standard News Report not only quoted Mr. Ramakrishnan's speech, but also made some contacts with the Stakeholders such as Ayush. The Business Standard Report is quite Informative. It is necessary to review it sentence by sentence, so that Indians benefit from an awareness of the Fact that Homoeo Medical System is unscientific, and is better avoidable. My very first post No. 001 at this blog on 5th October 2007 has explained in depth the unscientific nature of homoeopathy. <a href='http://homoeopathyyb.blogspot.com/search/label/001' target='_blank'>Click here to go to my first post http://homoeopathyyb.blogspot.com/search/label/001 </a>.
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<table border='4'><tr><th>Quote from Article</th><th>comments of ybrao a donkey, not intended to be imposed on others</th></tr>
<tr><td>Two weeks ago, Nobel laureate Venkatraman Ramakrishnan reportedly dismissed homoeopathy --along with astrology --as being `harmful and bogus`. </td><td>Though he is right, I wish that he used a softer and less derogatory language. Reason: Sometimes, even science and modern medicine can go wrong.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Ramakrishnan, an Indian-born American and British structural biologist, was delivering a lecture titled `On Nobody’s Word: Evidence and Modern Science` at Panjab University in Chandigarh. </td><td>Govt. of India can arrange similar lectures by him at other places.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hindustan Times quoted him as saying: `No one in chemistry believes in homoeopathy. It works on placebo effect.`</td><td>The 100 million Indians who use homoeopathy do not know the meaning of `placebo effect`. They need to be enlightened.</td></tr>
<tr><td>In his dismissal of the 200-year-old system of medicine, Ramakrishnan questioned a belief system that has a huge following not only in India but across the world. </td><td>Indian Scientists in Indian Organisations such as CSIR, Indian Science Congress should also start questioning.</td></tr>
<tr><td>According to a report in Business Standard, globally, more than 600 million people use homoeopathy; of this, about 100 million are Indians. </td><td>India ranks third in Porno viewing on Net. How can it lag behind in using unscientific medical systems?</td></tr>
<tr><td>In India alone, there are more than 200,000 practitioners of homoeopathy. </td><td>It is their livelihood. We cannot blame them. If they are taught some other skills such as Allopathic medical practice, they can be weaned away from unscientific medical systems.</td></tr>
<tr><td>The AYUSH (ayurveda, yoga, unani, siddha, homoeopathy) ministry, established in 2014, has a dedicated body for research in homoeopathy. </td><td>What they have researched? They ought to start at least now, whether homoeopathic medicines really contain `minimum quantities` of medical substances their labels contain.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Given the high cost of allopathic treatment and the side effects that accompany evidence-based modern medicine, Indians often turn to the scientifically unproven, though mild and relatively inexpensive, homoeopathic treatment that claims to `treat` conditions, ranging from respiratory problems to mental health conditions.</td><td>Modern Allopathic Medical System is also responsible for this state of affairs. Allopathic Medical Practitioners and Hospitals fleece the Patients, like leaches.</td></tr>
<tr><td>The ‘science’ behind it:-- Developed in the late 18th century by German doctor Samuel Hahnemann, homoeopathy is based on two principles, both of which bear little scientific evidence. </td><td>True. This lack of scientific evidence is to be publicised.</td></tr>
<tr><td>One, homoeopathic practitioners believe that `like cures like`, which simply means that a substance that could cause certain symptoms in a healthy person could, in minute doses, relieve the same symptoms in a sick person. </td><td>No proof.</td></tr>
<tr><td>For instance, peeling an onion triggers runny nose and watery eyes --symptoms that are often found in a person suffering from common cold. Homoeopaths claim that such symptoms could be treated by Allium cepa, a medicine prepared from red onions.</td><td>That homoeo medicine Allium cepa contains only alcohol and sugar pills.</td></tr>
<tr><td>The second principle on which homoeopathy works involves diluting a substance --plant, animal material or chemical --rigorously in water or alcohol, so much so that only some or no traces of the actual substance remain. </td><td>If some medical substance is to be treated as `medicine`, the minimum quantity required by human body for cure, is to be defined in 'milligrams'. Even if we hold that `like cures like` is correct, that `like` should be taken at least in the minimum stipulated quantity of weight.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Homoeopathic practitioners, however, believe that the more a substance is diluted, the greater is its power to treat the symptoms.</td><td>Govt./NGOs have to enlighten the Homoeo practitioners.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Is it effective? :-- `Homoeopaths take arsenic compounds and dilute it to such an extent that just a molecule is left. It will not have any effect on you. Your tap water has more arsenic,` Ramakrishnan was quoted as saying. And there is scientific evidence to back his views. </td><td>Even those molecules may not be left in the homoeo bottle, because a few drops of diluted tinctures are sprinkled on sugar pills which may or, may not absorb the molecule.</td></tr>
<tr><td>In 2015, in one of the most extensive studies on homoeopathy to date, the National Health and Medical Research Council in Australia reviewed more than 170 research papers on the alternative system of medicine to conclude that there is no reliable evidence that homoeopathy is effective for treating health conditions. </td><td>This should be publicised both among patients and practitioners.</td></tr>
<tr><td>A 2005 Lancet study found that `the clinical effects of homoeopathy are placebo effects`.</td><td>This needs to be publicised.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Critics often question a basic principle underlying homoeopathy called `water memory`, or the supposed ability of water to remember the shape of the substance it contained, even though none of the molecules may have been left after multiple dilutions. </td><td>No proof of any such `water memory`.</td></tr>
<tr><td>A 2010 report on homoeopathy by the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee said: `We consider the notion that ultra-dilutions can maintain an imprint of substances previously dissolved in them to be scientifically implausible.`</td><td>This is to be publicised regularly.</td></tr>
<tr><td>However, homoeopaths believe that the focus on `water memory` is overblown.</td><td>--</td></tr>
<tr><td>`All homoeopathy is not non-molecular,` says Raj Kumar Manchanda, director-general at the Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, an autonomous organisation under the AYUSH ministry. </td><td>Even if all the Homoeopathy is not non-molecular, Ayush has to define minimum quantity in milligrams of medical substances to be present in homoeo pills/tinctures.</td></tr>
<tr><td>`It is only when, in certain cases, low potencies are not effective that you might have to go for higher potencies. </td><td>Low potencies may not work when they do not contain minimum `milligrams`.</td></tr>
<tr><td>So, seventy to eighty per cent of combinations are as molecular as any other allopathic or ayurvedic or traditional drug. It is only twenty to twenty five per cent that are non-molecular.`</td><td>1x (1/10 dilution), 2x (1/100 dilution), 3x (1/1000) dilution may probably contain some medical substance. For this reason only, Dr. Schuschler who in his Biochemic Remedies preferred 1-2-3x low potencies seems to have succeeded at least partly.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Manchanda --as do others who swear by homoeopathy --cites a study by the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay that found that homoeopathic medicines do contain medicinal molecules in nano sizes even after high dilutions.</td><td>This Study seems to have taken at the instance of some Homoeo practitioner / Homoeo Pharma Company. More studies will be needed. Besides, number of samples tested is also to be taken into consideration.</td></tr>
<tr><td>However, there is little research to suggest whether the medicines really work.</td><td>And, this Research should be independent, so as to be, unbiased.</td></tr>
<tr><td>B Dinesh Kumar, president of the Indian Pharmacological Society.: `Claiming that homoeopathy is therapeutic without research is not right. There is a need for validation of homoeopathy as a system of medicine.`</td><td>Correct.</td></tr>
<tr><td>Limitations:-- Manchanda says that homoeopathy works well in most sub-acute and chronic cases. However, he advises against the use of homoeopathic medicines in acute and life-threatening conditions. </td><td>In non-life-threatening ailments, body's immunity system itself will fight out the ailment. Homoeo pills will not even be catalysts. However, there may be faith-cure (placebo) when patients take homo</td></tr>
<tr><td>Since homoeopathic remedies are believed to stimulate the body’s immune system so that the body heals on its own, in acute cases `the body’s immune mechanism sometimes doesn’t have enough time to react,` says Manchanda.</td><td>Same is the case when a person gets a talisman, or when he-she does not take any medicine at all. A person who does not take any medicine, may die, if his-her body is unable to `wait` till the immunity system is activated.</td></tr>
<tr><td>He even recommends the use of allopathic medicine when the `infection is severe` and following it up with homoeopathy in the long run, since it has no known side-effects.</td><td>Patients may have to follow the minimum-maximum dose, period of allopathic medication, before shifting to homeo which is equal to-- not taking any medicine at all.</td></tr>
<tr><td>It is not that homeopathy is without risks, though. </td><td>Homoeo can be without risks, when the homoeo medicines contain no medical substances at all in such minimum quantities which may produce side effects. Once a homeo-friend challenged me to consume one dram bottle of homeo medicine `glonoine` and frightened me that I shall get great itching, and that my skin will be full of acne/warts, and that I need to take glonoine again to get rid off the itching and the acne. I consumed 2dram glonoine pills, and nothing happened.</td></tr>
<tr><td>In 2009, the US Food and Drug Administration ordered that Zicam, a homeopathic cold remedy, be pulled off the shelves after it found that, in 130 cases, people had reported losing their sense of smell.</td><td>Some homoeo pharma companies seem to add medicines in larger quantities (i.e. non-homoeo-quantities).</td></tr>
<tr><td>According to Manchanda, however, homoeopathic medicines are incapable of causing any damage. </td><td>Because they contain nothing, except alcohol and sugar.</td></tr>
<tr><td>`It is possible that after giving homoeopathic medicine you may not improve, but it is not possible that it will cause any harm,` he adds.
</td><td>Because homoeo medicines contain nothing but alcohol and sugar. Even talismans do not have side effects.</td></tr></table>
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ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-8385284486630044032017-07-08T04:25:00.002-07:002017-07-08T05:09:53.202-07:00016 Hon. Prime MInister of India Mr. Narendra Modi is performing kayakalpa cikitsa to India, with the help of Ambanis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;" trbidi="on">
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<br />Hon. Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi, seems to be performing 'kAyakalpa cikitsa' (A treatment of total cleansing up of body, the phrase a part of Traditional Indian Medicine 'Ayurveda' (Life Science). For this, he seems to need the help of Shri Mukesh Ambani and his honoured spouse Smt. Nitu Ambani. In Oct. 2014, he inaugurated in a 19 storied building in South Mumbai, on the invitation of Shri Mukesh Ambani. The inauguration speech, and its news can be found at the webpage of Prime Minister of India. Link:-- <a href='http://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/pm-rededicates-sir-h-n-reliance-foundation-hospital-and-research-centre-in-mumbai/' target='_blank'>Click here to go to http://www.pmindia.gov.in/en/news_updates/pm-rededicates-sir-h-n-reliance-foundation-hospital-and-research-centre-in-mumbai/</a>.
<br /><br /><h4>In June 2014, in our blog post No. 015</h4>
<br />we requested our Hon. Prime Minister, to initiate an inquiry to ascertain whether Homoeopathic Medical System is Scientific or Not. At that time, we wrote:
<blockquote>
"...I appeal to Mr. Narendra Modi to appoint a Commission of Enquiry to go into the scientific validity of the homoeopathy as a system of medicine. This is very important because homoeopathic medicines do not contain the medical substances which their labels indicate, owing to excess dilution made under a mistaken impression of creating potencies. The Union Government and the 29 State Governments are spending millions of Rupees for running Homoeo hospitals, clincs, Colleges, Universities and the so-called Research Stations. ..."
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<br /><br />In Oct. 2014, we see this 19 storied building of Ambanis, and a Homoeo Hospital in it. The Comment made by Hon. Prime Minister, in his inauguration speech is very important.
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PM: Just as this hospital has undergone kayakalp (renewal), India too can undergo kayakalp. (renewal).
<br /><br />This Quote is with thanks from the PMindia.gov.in.
</blockquote>
<br /><br />We must know the Scale of charges in this Hospital: This information can be seen at : <a href='https://www.rfhospital.org/tariff.html' target='_blank'>Click here to go to https://www.rfhospital.org/tariff.html</a>
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Room Tariff Schedule
<br /><br />Room Type Room Tariff ICU Tariff Facilities
<br /><br />Economy ` 1,400/- per day ` 4,700/- per day Economy rooms have been designed to accommodate 4 & 5 patients in a room. Each room has:
<br /><br />Economy Plus ` 2,200/- per day ` 5,700/- per day Economy rooms have been designed to accommodate only 3 patients in a room. Each room has:
<br /><br />Twin Sharing ` 3,200/- per day ` 7,750/- per day Twin sharing rooms with provision for:
<br /><br />Deluxe ` 8,000/- per day ` 14,750/- per day Deluxe rooms are self-contained single room with:
<br /><br />Junior-Suite ` 11,000/- per day ` 19,500/- per day Junior-Suite rooms are large single room suite
<br /><br />Grand-Suite ` 15,000/- per day ` 25,250/- per day In Grand-Suite rooms the patient & relative will be provided with extra comfort with the following facilities: Separate rooms for patient’s family
Customized bed head panel
Patient entertainment system
24x7 Wi fi
2-way IP based nurse call system
Specialized Intensive Care Monitoring system enabled
Sofa cum bed
Massage chair
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<br /><br />Now, we shall see the 'diagnostic' charges:
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Diagnostics Charges
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Charges for most common tests are given below. For any other diagnostic charges please call 1800221166.
Cardiology
Test Description OPD/Economy
ECG ` 300/-
Echo with Doppler ` 3,000/-
Portable Echo ` 3,500/-
Stress Test ` 2,000/-
Radiology
Test Description OPD/Economy
X-ray chest - PA view ` 350/-
Mammography
Test Description OPD/Economy
Mammography (Bilateral) ` 2,500/-
Ultrasound
Test Description OPD/Economy
U.S.G. Abdomen ` 1,200/-
U.S.G Pelvis ` 1,000/-
Ultrasonography Kidney and Bladder(KUB) ` 1,200/-
CT Scan
Test Description OPD/Economy
CT abdomen and pelvis ` 4,700/-
CT Brain ` 2,500/-
CT Cardiac ` 12,000/-
Pet CT Scan
Test Description OPD/Economy
Whole Body PET ` 16,500/-
MRI
Test Description OPD/Economy
MRI Brain ` 7,500/-
MRI Abdomen ` 7,500/-
MRI Whole Spine Screening ` 3,500/-
Pathology
Test Description OPD/Economy
BUN ` 220/-
Complete Blood Count ` 270/-
Creatinine ` 240/-
Electrolytes Urine ` 705/-
Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR) ` 180/-
Fasting Blood Sugar ` 160/-
HCV Antibody - Elisa ` 830/-
HDL Cholesterol ` 340/-
HIV I & II - Antibodies (Spot) ` 605/-
Malarial Parasites ` 180/-
Urine Potassium Spot ` 240/-
SGOT ` 270/-
SGPT ` 270/-
Stool routine ` 150/-
Triglycerides ` 330/-
Urine routine ` 140/-
Lipid Profile (Maxi) ` 1,670/-
Liver profile ` 1,460/-
Renal Profile ` 1,360/-
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Emergency charges @ 1.5 times will be charged for diagnostic services performed on Sundays/ Public Holidays/ between 10:00 pm to 7:00 am.
Charges for all diagnostic services will vary according to room type.
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<br /><br /><br /><br /><h5>ybrao-a-donkey's personal views not intended to be imposed on others</h5>
<br /><br />Now, it is very clear for whom this Reliance Trust Hospital is intended. It is not clear what concessions the Government of India, Government of Maharashtra, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, and others are extending to this Great Great Hospital.
<br /><br />No poor person, can obviously enter this 19 floored Charity Hospital. Hail Mr. Mukesh Ambani.
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<br /><br /><h4>A Comment from "http://bombaywalla.org/category/structures/facades/" is worth noting.</h4>
<br />Link to the above: <a href='http://bombaywalla.org/category/structures/facades/' target='_blank'></a>.
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(1925), presently Sir H. N. Reliance Foundation Hospital And Research Centre (2014), New Queen’s Road.
<br /><br />Sir Harkisondas Narotumdas is cross. He cannot fathom how some newbie knight called Sir H. N. Reliance could colonise his 89 year old medical establishment at New Queen’s Road.
<br /><br />Sir Harkisondas has dispatched a letter to Her Majesty for the immediate resolution of this grievous injustice.
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<br /><br />To come back, and continue adding / deleting / modifying.
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ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-26648235216695011312014-06-09T07:34:00.001-07:002014-06-09T07:34:15.555-07:00015 Mr. Narendra Modi may please order an enquiry into scientific validity of homoeopathyTopics for discussion: 015, Scientific validity, Narendra Modi
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<br><br>A 2012 quote from the website of Shri Narendra Modi, our 2014 Prime Minister:
<br>Link to go to the website of Shri Narendra Modi which contains the original. <a
href='http://narendramodi.in/cm-inaugurates-national-homeopathy-conference-in-gandhinagar'
target='_blank'> Click to go to http://www.narendramodi.in/cm-inaugurates-national-
homeopathy-conference-in-gandhinagar</a>
<blockquote>
CM inaugurates national homeopathy conference in Gandhinagar
CM asks homeopaths to create an atmosphere of trust among people for the homeopathic
treatment
<br><br>Inaugurating the national homeopathy conference in Gandhinagar today Chief
Minister Narendra Modi called upon homeopaths to create an atmosphere of trust among
people for the homeopathic treatment.
<br><br>Even as the homeopathic medicines are affordable and free from side effects,
homeopaths should create awareness regarding it among the people. If the practitioners of
homeopathy themselves lack the faith in homeopathy, people can not have trust on it.
Success stories of homeopathy should properly be put before the people, he suggested.
<br><br>There should not be a question of conflict between allopathy, ayurveda and
homeopathy. All the three systems of treatment have some best things in them, he said.
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<h2 style='background:magenta;'>ybrao-a-donkey's comments</h2>
<br>I appeal to Mr. Narendra Modi to appoint a Commission of Enquiry to go into the
scientific validity of the homoeopathy as a system of medicine. This is very important
because homoeopathic medicines do not contain the medical substances which their labels
indicate, owing to excess dilution made under a mistaken impression of creating potencies.
The Union Government and the 29 State Governments are spending millions of Rupees for
running Homoeo hospitals, clincs, Colleges, Universities and the so-called Research
Stations.
<br>No homoeopathic student/doctor/professor , unfortunately spends a little time on
making an inquiry into the scientific validity of their system of medicine. Every one of
them goes on supporting the potency theory.
<br>When homoeo medicines fail to produce relief/cure, many homoeo doctors simply shift to
prescribing allopathic medicines, without pondering over why they failed to produce the
desired results (they do not bother to know that they are nothing but alcohol, sugar, milk
sugar or some other filler, but definitely not the medical substance).ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-30710847152937708662014-06-04T20:03:00.001-07:002014-06-04T21:19:10.490-07:00014 Can we consider the research by Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga, as scientific?<br><br>Topics for discussion: homoeopathy, Institute of Chemical Technology, Pain Killers, Times of India
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Times of India- India Times.com published a news item dated 9th April 2014 which reported that Homoeopathy is effective in treating arthritis.
<br><br><a href='http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Homoeopathy-pills-as-effective-as-painkillers-finds-study/articleshow/33518170.cms' target='_blank'>Click to go to http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Homoeopathy-pills-as-effective-as-painkillers-finds-study/articleshow/33518170.cms </a>
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Gist of the Research said to have been conducted at Institute of Chemical Technology, Mathunga, Mumbai (रसायन तंत्रज्ञान् संस्था, मुंबई) by Asst. Professor Sadhana Sathaye:--
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...The rodents were arranged in four groups. The first group was healthy and hadn't been biologically engineered to suffer from arthritis like the rest. The second group was given water as a placebo, while the third was given homoeopathic medicines. The last group was given a popular diflofenac painkiller, which is widely used to treat inflammation of tissues among arthritic patients.
<br><br>The allopathic medicines reduced the pain quickly, but by the seventh day, the homoeopathic pills were as effective.
<br><br>By Day 14, the homoeopathic medicines seemed better.
<br><br>Homoeopathic pills could emerge as the treatment of choice for patients with chronic pain.
<br><br>Homoeopathic medicines have no side-effects like allopathic painkillers.
<br><br>In the last five years, many studies have been done to prove the efficacy of homoeopathic pills. Recently, the state government's review of patients suffering from chinkungunya showed that those treated with homoeopathy had done far better than those on allopathic medicines. --Dr B H Shah, administrator of the Maharashtra Council of Homoeopathy.
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<br><br>This news report is not enough. Medical research, unfortunately both in allopathy, and homoeopathy, suffer from researchers' biases.
<br><br>They are tailor made to cater to the needs of those persons/agencies who commission their work and pay for it.
<br><br>Pain killing processes both in allopathy and homoeopathy, need greater explanations. Satisfactory pharmaco-kinetic explanations should be given on how the homoeopathic drugs administered by them reduced the pain.
<br><br>Size of the sample has not been given.
<br><br>ICT has to conduct a placebo controlled double blind trial.
<br><br>ICT should verify and specify, even if be in nanograms or micrograms, the quantum of the medical substance in each dose administered, apart from sugar, alcohol and other fillers used to make up the dose. The unscientific nature of homoeopathy arises from the basic fact that the homoeo medicines are diluted to such an extent that they contain nothing but alcohol, sugar, water except the medical substance. Since the quantity has not been given, we have to presume that alcohol and sugar can be as effective as allopathic pain-killers.
<br><br><a href='http://www.ictmumbai.edu.in' target='_blank'>http://www.ictmumbai.edu.in </a>ICT website should make available a pdf copy of the full-length report, so that public can benefit from their studies.
ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-65972964067522458462013-05-10T00:24:00.000-07:002013-05-10T00:24:32.842-07:00#013 Does homoeopathic Belladona really cure fevers?A commentator wrote at India Study Channel.com.
<blockquote>I am not agree with you Mr. Pramod. Hoemopathic medicines acts like a bullet. A small pill of belladona can reduce fever to the normal much faster than crocin. But the reason for your thought about homeopathy is obvious. People takes homepathic treatment of chronic disease only and no body can cure a chronic pain or any condition within one hour a day. It definitely takes months.</blockquote>
link if you wish to look at it: <a href="http://www.indiastudychannel.com/experts/25839-Do-Homeopathy-medicines-really-work.aspx" target='_blank'>click to go to http://www.indiastudychannel.com/experts/25839-Do-Homeopathy-medicines-really-work.aspx</a>
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<br><b>ybrao a donkey`s views</b>
<br><br>I could not write my comments at that site because I could not find a window/menu. Hence, I am writing here.
<br><br>Homoeopathic Belladona bottles do not really contain Belladona. Reason: excess dilution or mixing with milk sugar. Some times they may contain a 1/million or a 1/billion gm/mg. of Belladona. It will be too insignificant to have real effect on body.
<br><br>The talk of potencies, nuclear fusion, nuclear fission etc. do not stand reason.
<br><br>One retired Homoeopathic Hospital Superintendent printed leaflets which contained a sort of picture of belladona particles in the homoeopathic medicine, may be an examination under a very powerful microscope. The test was said to have been done at Indian Chemical Research Laboratory, Hyderabad. I sentI wrote to Indian Chemical Research Lab., Hyderabad, a few times, but they did not bother to reply. May be some unofficial testing.
<br><br>Hence whatever claims are made for the curative powers of belladona or any other homoeopathic medicine, they do not stand reasoning.
<br><br>Modern Medicine , in exceptionally and absolutely, hopeless life-threatening conditions, may allow relatives of patients to try empiric medicine.
<br><br>Empiric experimentations with herbal/folk/some other medicines which have some substances plants/animal products/chemicals/vaccines etc. stand some reason. The problem with homoeopathic medicines is, they do not contain anything except alcohol, milk sugar and other bases.ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-25243086505200046142013-05-09T23:57:00.001-07:002013-05-09T23:57:47.498-07:00#012 Better to stop this waste of millionsIndia is a poor country.
<br><br>In that poor country Andhra Pradesh is one poor State.
<br><br>It has a flourishing IT software industry at Hyderabad. But it does not mean that people are rich.
<br><br>Andhra Pradesh State Government in collusion with Private Hospital owners started a sort of Health Insurance Scheme (health care) called ″ArOgya ShrI″. In the name of providing super-speciality modern medical care, private hospitals have already started swindling public money, by submitting fictitious bills, grossly overcharging bills.
<br><br>The Homoeopathy Hospital lobby, how can they lag behind? Can't?
<br><br>Many Andhra Pradesh Government Officials too have a foolish fad for homoeopathy, simply because they do not care to verify whether homoeopathic medicines contain real medical substances. Owing to excess dilution in the name of potencies, the contents of bottles and packets do not actually contain the substances which the labels profess.
<br><br>Cost of production of homoeopathic medicines must be very low as only alcohol or milk sugar are used as base, for dropping/mixing dilutions with them. Then, why super-speciality high-cost treatment becomes necessary?
<br><br>Homoeopathy claims that it is poorman`s medical system. Does it need Government reimbursements?
<br><br>The Andhra Pradesh State Government is already on the brink of becoming bankrupt, owing to excess borrowings and large budget deficit.
<br><br>Better, they review their decision.ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-71828500386289169212012-03-19T09:22:00.001-07:002014-06-04T22:14:12.653-07:00011 Gandhiji disbelieved homoeopathy in his later yearsGandhiji wrote in his notes on 9th Feb. 1922. Collected Works vol. 26.<br /><br /><blockquote>Non-co--operation is not allopathic treatment, it is homoeopathic. The patient does not taste the drops given to him. He is sometimes even incredulous, but if the homoeopathy are to be trusted, the tasteless drops or the tiny pills of homoeopathy are far more potent than ounce doses or choking pills of allopathy. </blockquote><br /><br /></p>
<p><br />Gandhiji wrote to Jamnalal Bajaj on 16th April 1933. Source: Collected Works Vo. 60.<br /><br />
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I have your letter. I do not have much faith in Homoeopathy. But for that you should not postpone your going to a hill-station. I like your idea of going to Almora. There is a good Homoeopath even there. For your ailment, other than the mountain air, milk, butter, fruit, wheat roti and vegetables, you will hardly need any medicine.<br /></blockquote>
<br /></p><p><br />Gandhiji wrote to one Mr. Titus on 28th April 1933.<br /><br /><blockquote>
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You have missed my point about ‘Allopathic’ and ‘Homoeo- pathic’. Personally I would prefer Homoeopathy any day to Allo- pathy. Only I have no personal experience of its efficacy and I have told you so. Perhaps if you have confidence in yourself, and if you can really spare time from the daily work for attending to Homoeopathic remedies, so far as I am concerned I do not mind your trying them. You may discuss this thing with Narandas and if you are interested in the simple treatment of diseases I would like you to understand Dr. Sharma’s system. He has great confidence in his own method and if his experiments in the Ashram succeed it will be a great gain.</blockquote>
<br /><br /></p><p><br />Gandhiji wrote to Gangabehn Vaidya on 5th June 1936. Source: Collected Works Vol. 69.<br /><blockquote>Tell Jugatram[2] to consult a homoeopath. Homoeopathy has not won my faith, but it helped Devdas and a medical specialist[3] whom we met here is all praise for it. In any case it will do no harm, and may do some good.</blockquote><br /><br /></p>
<p><br />Gandhiji wrote to Sardar Vallabhai Patel on :14.9.1941.<br />Source: Collected Works Volume 81.<br /><br />
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Do not worry about anything just now. Your health must mend completely. If homoeopathy helps you, I will begin to have some faith in it. I have never been able to put any faith in it. I entrusted a case to a homoeopath but there was no result. It was Tari’s[2]. But this is only by the way. I do wish homeopathy benefits you. I have heard much about it. Das[3] believed in it, and so did Motilalji and Gurudev. Does not our Lakshmidas also believe in it? But finally everybody takes refuge in allopathy. All this is beside the point, but let it be. We are concerned only with the result.<br /></blockquote><br /><br /></p><p><br /><b>ybrems</b><br />This view was somewhat neutral about homoeopathy. But it is clear that Gandhiji was res ult-conscious.<br /><br /></p><p><br />Gandhiji wrote to Guljarilal Nanda, former Home Minister of India. Date: 27.5.1944. This seems to be Gandhiji's last letter on homoeopathy.<br /><br /><blockquote>CHI. GULZARILAL,<br />I read your letter to Pyarelal. Dr. Das visits me from time to time. Dr. Chugh has not impressed me, Dr. Das has. He does not propose to administer any medicine to me. By all means bring over anyone you like from among the names that you suggest. I wish I could have faith in homoeopathy and biochemic medicines, but I don’t. Now I am thinking of taking allopathic drugs to get rid of the hook-worms and the amoebae. Your work seems to be going on well. Can one say that you have completely recovered?<br /></blockquote><br /><br /></p><p><br /><b>ybrems</b><br />summary of all the above: Gandhiji didn't have full confidence in homoeopathy. He was not averse to OTHERS trying homoeopathy, but he himself wanted to take allopathic treatment to get rid of his hook-worms and amoebae. <br /><br />If these are the facts, how is it that homoeopathic Companies are advertising that Gandhiji approved homoeopathy?ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-76546647532686162482012-01-23T10:25:00.000-08:002018-12-09T04:56:15.929-08:00009 Did Mahatma Gandhi believe in homoeopathy or allopathy?<img src='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-xA8-_9WPjmc/U49MlkxF5GI/AAAAAAAACd8/xh1tqP2T9yU/s128/dandimarch.jpeg' style='height:25em;'></img>
<br />Did Mahatma Gandhi believe in effectiveness of Homoeopathy? I doubt. Had he lived longer after independence without being assassinated, he would have probably found out the truth and enlightened Indians.
Gandhiji wrote to Gulzarilal Nanda (our acting Prime Minister when Jawaharlal Nehru and Lal Bahadur Sastri died).- date: May 27, 1944.Source: Volume 84. Complete Works of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhiserve.org has it. LTRC.iiit.ac.in has it.
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[After May 27, 1944]<br /> CHI. GULZARILAL,
<br />"... I read your letter to Pyarelal. Dr. Das visits me from time to time. Dr. Chugh has not impressed me, Dr. Das has. He does not propose to administer any medicine to me. By all means bring over anyone you like from among the names that you suggest. I wish I could have faith in homoeopathy and biochemic medicines, but I don’t. Now I am thinking of taking allopathic drugs to get rid of the hook-worms and the amoebae. Your work seems to be going on well. Can one say that you have completely recovered? ..."
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<br /><h5>ybrao-a-donkey's observations:</h5>
<br />I am happy that Gandhiji did not believe in homoeopathy and biogchemic remedies.<br /><br />Gandhiji was said to be an ardent fan of nature cure. He wrote a small book also about it, which I read it in my boyhood. I am unable to trace it now. Did he lose his faith in nature cure by 1944?<br /><br />There are some quotes in circulation which suggest that Gandhiji supported homoeo. Here is one such quote:
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"... Homeopathy cures a larger percentage of cases than any other method of treatment, and is beyond all doubt safer, more economical, and the most complete medical science. -- Mahatma Gandhi + his photo, along with the photos of Einstein, Mark Twain, Yehudi Menuhin, and David Beckham. "
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<br /><br />This quote, I got, at http://thevitalforce.net/pages/testimonials.html. They are using it as a testimonial. There are also other homoeo sites using the quote. We have to check up when Gandhiji said that.
<br /><br />To continue adding / deleting / editing.ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-72248374782824076992011-07-19T09:15:00.000-07:002011-07-19T09:51:34.929-07:00Where does the harm come from so called 'potencies'?I quote from an opinion of Royal E. S. Hayes of Waterbury, CT<br />Homeopathic Recorder, 1949.<br /><br /><blockquote><br />A rational conclusion, fertilized by unfortunate experiences, has grown up from an intuitive one that, except in rare instances, the attempt to teach homeopathy to patients has done and will do more harm than good. Lay prescribing has set back the progress of a number of my patients and interfered with the orderly development of vitality. As a watcher over the life of each of my patients, I would rather have one take an aspirin or a laxative, if purely fortuitous and confessed, than to let him try to play with homeopathic remedies. As Kent says the effects of crude drugs soon wears off, but the unwise use of potencies can impress a new and incurable miasm on the vital economy and complicate the older ones. Another calamity is the untimely use of remedies.</blockquote><br /><br /><b>My comments as a lay blogger</b><br /><br />1. Homoeopathic preparations are said to be harmless, as per the well-established beliefs. This seems to be true because they do not contain any medical substances left in the amalgam of diluted extracts and alcohol -or- mixture of milk sugar and powder of the substance. Use of dilutions / quantity-reduced powder-mixtures<br />will be as good as -- or as bad as not using any medicine at all. This is true in both the cases of layman's use and licensed doctor's use. The absence of a substance in a potency in a homeopathic medicine does not vanish, simply because it is prescribed by a qualified homoeopath.<br /><br />2. Then, how was it that Kent opined that unwise use of potencies could impress a new and incurable miasm (miasma) on the vital economy and complicate the older ones? Do potencies carry miasms?<br />The 1913 Webster Dictionary defined Miasma as under:--<br /><br /><blockquote><br />Miasm = Miasma.<br />Miasma<br />Miasma Mi*as"ma, n.; pl. Miasmata. [NL., fr. Gr. ?<br /> defilement, fr. ? to pollute.]<br /> Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made<br /> noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious<br /> effluvia; malaria.<br /> [1913 Webster]<br /> <br /> -- From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48<br /><br />miasma<br /> n 1: an unwholesome atmosphere; "the novel spun a miasma of<br /> death and decay" [syn: miasma, miasm]<br /> 2: unhealthy vapors rising from the ground or other sources;<br /> "the miasma of the marshes"; "a miasma of cigar smoke" [syn:<br /> miasma, miasm]<br /> <br /> -- From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)<br /><br />47 Moby Thesaurus words for "miasma":<br /> BO, afterdamp, bad breath, bad smell, blackdamp, body odor, breath,<br /> chokedamp, cloud, coal gas, damp, effluvium, exhalation, exhaust,<br /> exhaust gas, fetid air, fetidity, fetidness, fetor, firedamp,<br /> flatus, fluid, foul breath, foul odor, frowst, fume, graveolence,<br /> halitosis, malaria, malodor, mephitis, nidor, noxious stench,<br /> offensive odor, puff of smoke, reek, reeking, rotten smell, smoke,<br /> smudge, steam, stench, stench of decay, stink, vapor, volatile,<br /> water vapor<br /> - -- From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0<br /></blockquote><br /><br />Why should the alcohol-dissolved-sugar/milk-sugar particles carry infectious particles and germs? This seems to be a vague-threat by Kent, blindly accepted by Mr. Hayes. If sugar pills and dilutions carry infectious particles or germs, then homoeopathic medicines should be worse than their allopathic counterparts which are blasted day-in and day-out by homoeopathic physicians. <br /><br />If homoeopathic medicines carry infectious particles and germs, in case owing to a judgement of error, if a qualified homoeopath competent or incompetent prescribes such medicines, the damage will be as dangerous as lay prescribing (modern terms: self-medication).<br /><br />Another line of Dr. Hayes from the same article, reads as under:--<br /><blockquote>Moreover, orderly work requires the finest consideration as to sequences, an art unattainable by any except the full time student practitioner. </blockquote><br /><br />Is a Doctor's work an art or a science? Is prescribing an art or science? Why Dr. Hayes was calling sequencing an art? An art becomes a thing of individual skill and trait. <br /><br />'Art' when used in its purest sense, cannot be acquired or taught. There may be exceptions. Sciences on the other hand are systematized knowledge bases. Sciences can be taught without forming their 'scientific base'.<br />(to continue).ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-39846900720633948782011-05-07T21:56:00.000-07:002011-05-07T21:56:02.610-07:00What is wrong with the Indian Corporate CEOs?<table border='4'><tr><td bgcolor='#099099'><br />
News reports indicate that a survey conducted by the Assocham (Association of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry) has revealed that 40% of the C.E.O.s of Indian Corporates consult homoeopathic physicians.<br />
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C.E.O.s of Indian Corporates are flush with wealth. <br />
Why should they consult homoeopaths?<br />
It is not, definitely, the cheapness of the homoeopathic treatment which pulls them towards itself.<br />
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Probably because : The Intensive Care Units of the Five Star Corporate Hospitals handle patients like cargo in Chicago O'hare Airport.<br />
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Probably because : The C.E.O. has to remain shackled to his bed for several weeks (till he dies), without visiting his club or the golf course or the billiards table or his bewitching mistress of the #2 account or #3 account.<br />
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Probably because : Relatives will be lurking around him with a faint or font hope that he may reveal the pins and passwords of his secret accounts with foreign banks.<br />
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Consulting a homoeopath does not normally result in hospitalisation. The C.E.O. can conveniently gulp down the sweet sugar pills in his Cabin without leaving his Company's premises. <br />
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But the poor , otherwise extremely efficient / intelligent C.E.O. does not know that he was exposing his body to the risk/peril of not receiving any treatment at all. This is because the so-called-potentized homoeopathic medicines do not contain the medicinal substances. The homoeopathic physicians do not tell their patients that the medicines administered by them may not contain any medicinal substance except alcohol and sugar/milk sugar.<br />
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The Homoeopaths do the samething - which the C.E.O.s and their Companies do to the consumers who buy their products. What is it?<br />
It is : "CONCEALMENT. CONCEAL AS MUCH AS YOU CAN".ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-72957298539324592562009-10-07T10:11:00.000-07:002009-10-07T10:11:35.814-07:00#007 WORLD CLASS POSITIVE HOMOEOPATHYMany TV channels in our area carry marquees shouting at the roof top canvassing for "world class positive homoeopathy. They promise to cure numerous diseases ranging from diabetes to orthopaedic problems.<br />
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What is "world class"? Nobody can define. Anybody can claim that the goods and services they sell are of world class. <br />
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What is "positive"? Homoeopathy is positive in the sense that it administers as medicine the same substance which caused the symptoms. It does not need an adjective "positive", because the phrase 'positive homoeopathy' leads to an inference about 'negative homoeopathy'. <br />
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Homoeopathy, if we go by its basic principles, do not make use of names of diseases such as diabetes. Only symptoms exist. No disease names. Negative homoeopathy arises when doctors and hospitals promise to negate diseases.<br />
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The real ineffectiveness of homoeo does not arise from its positive nature or from using disease names. The homoeopathic drugs become disfunctional because they do not contain the medicinal substances which the labels claim to contain. This is due to excessive dilution.<br />
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<strong>SUMMARY:</strong> Beware of claims of phrases like "world class" and "positive homoeopathy".ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-77595069329808896912009-09-29T11:17:00.000-07:002014-06-04T08:13:58.387-07:00#006 EPOCH MAKING JUDGEMENT<A HREF='http://www.thehindu.com/2009/09/29/stories/2009092956201800.htm'>The Hindu Newspaper</a> published page 18 news report on the 29th Sept. 2009.<br /><br />
<strong>Title: INDIAN-ORIGIN COUPLE JAILED FOR MANSLAUGHTER OF BABY.</strong> <br /><br /><strong>Where</strong>: Melbourne, Australia.<br /><strong>Convicted persons</strong>: Thomas Sam, a College Lecturer in Homoeopathy. His wife: Manju.
<br /><strong>Baby manslaughtered</strong>: Gloria, nine month old baby of theirs.<br /><strong>Quantum of sentence:</strong>Husband six years; wife four years. (Maximum permissible punishment as per law 25 years.<br /><strong>Nature of manslaughter</strong>: Criminal neglegence leading to death.<br />
<strong>Brief details of the events:</strong> <br />*Baby suffered from <strong>eczema</strong>.<br />*Father gave homeopathic treatment.<br />*Child drifted from treatable condition to death.<br />*Father continued to persist with the homoeopathic treatment. Mother deferred to his wishes.<br />*A nurse observed deterioration of the child's condition.<br />*The father did not care to consult a conventional physician or a skin specialist.<br />*Father consulted practiotioners of natural medicine. In the mean time, the child's black hair turned white.<br />*The child's infection entered her blood. It was too late. The parents rushed her to a hospital. Emergency treatment did not help.<br />
<strong>JUDGE'S OBSERVATION</strong><br />"THOMAS SAM WAS ARROGANT IN HIS APPROACH OF TREATMENT AND PREFERRED HOMOEOPATHY AND HIS WIFE MANJU DEFERRED TO HER HUSBAND WHICH UNFORTUNATELY LED TO (THE) CHILD'S DEATH.<br /><br /><strong>BLOGGER'S VIEWS</strong><br />This judgement is an epoch-making judgement. <br /><br />*Homoeopathic College lecturers and physicians do not know that the medicines they administer do not contain any medical substance and consequently the patients are left to the mercy of the internal curative powers of the body. If the body's natural resistance and curative powers awaken before the patient dies, a cure takes place. This, the homoeopathic practitioners triumpet as their success.<br /><br />*The District Collectors and Ministers in India distribute doses of homoeopathic drugs, for prevention of swine flu, bird flu etc., little knowing that the so called potencies do not contain any medical substances at all.<br /><br />*A person who wears a talisman and a patient who consumes homoeo medicines get the same benefit.ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-64642949939251923592009-08-18T21:39:00.000-07:002009-08-18T21:58:20.778-07:00#005 Homoeopathy cannot prevent or cure Swine fluThe Homoeopathic practitioners in India claim success in preventing/curing Swine flu (H1N1 virus), which is spreading fast.<br /><br />The homoeopathic system of medicine is unscientific. The drugs made using the method of trituration and succusion founded by Samuel Hahneman, do not work because they do not contain the basic substances of the medicines, whose labels they carry. Excessive dilution in the potentisation is the reason for the absence of the medicinal substances in the homoeopathic preparations.<br /><br />Those who consume homoeopathic drugs under the impression that they will work, will have the same effect as those who use no medication at all.<br /><br />The homoeopathic medical practitioners do not have time or inclination to verify whether the homoeopathic preparations sold by pharmaceutical companies do really have any substances. Their minds do not think in a rationalistic way. Consequently, they mislead people about the curative powers of homoeopathy and make a living.<br /><br />Governments spend money on homoeopathic colleges, hospitals and medicines without proper investigation and swindle millions.ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-50846616979608208652009-02-15T22:14:00.000-08:002009-02-15T22:24:19.689-08:00#004 NEW HOMOEO COLLEGES IN UTTAR PRADESHThe Uttar Pradesh Government indicated in its 2008-09 Budget, that it would be setting up two new Homoeopathic Colleges in the State. The funds will go into the drains because the scientific base of the Homoeo has not been proved. Every year, the two Colleges will manufacture scores of B.H.M.S. and D.H.M.S. doctors to thrive on the gullible public as if the existing allopathic doctors are not enough.ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-26556814944089465272007-11-08T01:54:00.000-08:002009-02-15T22:08:07.124-08:00#003 HOMOEO AND HIV AIDSHIV AIDS is a serious problem. The following link contains a newsreport dated Nov. 8, 2007 in which N.A.R.I. (National Aids Research Institute) and Shri N.K. Ganguly, I.C.M.R (Indian Council of Medical Research) have claimed that a homoeopathic medicine was found to be very effective against HIV/AIDS.<br /><br /><A HREF='http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20071107/815520.html'>http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/India/20071107/815520.html</A><br /><br /><strong>INTERPRETATIONS, OBSERVATIONS</strong><br />As mentioned in my first post (#100), first of all the scientific basis of homoeopathy is to be proved beyond doubt. Basically, homoeopathic medicines do not contain the substances named on the label because dilution with alcohol/milk sugar is extended to abnormal levels resulting in non-existence of the medical substance.<br /><br />In the circumstances, if a claim is made that a particular homoeo medicine cures HIV/AIDS, we have to presume that no medicine is administered at all except base fillers like alcohol, milk-sugar. This will mean that <strong>human body's self defence mechanisms themselves cure HIV/AIDS</strong> naturally. The homoeo medicines can then only have a placebo effect.ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-91440617333662960142007-10-05T07:45:00.000-07:002009-02-15T22:05:56.483-08:00#002, HOMOEOPATHY AND HIGH POTENCIESHere I furnish below a link to Dr. Rati Ram Sarma's blog.<br /><br /><A HREF='http://highpotencyhomoeomedicines.blogspot.com/2007/09/efficacy-of-high-potency.html'>http://highpotencyhomoeomedicines.blogspot.com/2007/09/efficacy-of-high-potency.html</A><br /><br />I do not support the ideas expressed therein. But we have to read both sides of an argument, before an opinion can be formed. Hence, I welcome your reading it. <br /><br /><B>WORD OF CAUTION:There seems to be lot of publicity material at the blog. One will have to cross-check and verify facts with utmost caution.</b>ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2260418940607092488.post-51907098632689052132007-10-05T07:27:00.000-07:002018-12-09T05:32:15.422-08:00001 HOMOEOPATHY IS UNSCIENTIFIC<img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYRz3jsjDqg2OuGXm1x6c9W8E6CLXaNVvfMiY2bmLM-l_YhEY3NU1CUgibp2sWN4_BhKuNT6O0uZuvvB-B641QackDi6Y5-Pz6eykIMnhtiUQmrazt7aNEzQBG3h6dfMqopdXT3zZ7OKw/s640-Ic42/hahnemann.jpg' style='height:30em;'></img>In my personal life, I have worked as a Homoeopathic Compounder for an year, before doing other jobs. After that, I have, tried homoeopathic medicines in my family, and with my friends for about 20 years. During these 21 years, I found that results were wayward. Of course, supporters of Homoeopathy can always give numerous reasons for 'unreliability' of Homoeopathic medicines. But, the single most important reason, which occurs to my mind, for considering homoeo medicines as just equivalent to some talismans obtained from witch doctors, is:- the homoeo medicines do not contain the medical substances, which their labels contain. For example, one drachm pills of 'Natrum Mur' may not contain Sodium Chloride at all. Reason: Excess dilution / mixing up with milk sugar, during the process of succusion / trituration, the processes used in making homoeo medicines, in the name of creating potencies.
<br /><br />(Originally posted in my Healthyb.blogspot.com, sometime back. Now brought here, as exclusive treatment is being given to Homoeopathy).<br /><br /><P style='color:blue; text-decoration:underline'>HOMOEOPATHY (HOMEOPATHY), A GIFT OR A BANE?<br /><br /><P>Homoeopathy was founded by Samuel Hahnemann in 1776 (same year as American Independence). <br />Dr. Hans Burch Gram introduced in NewYork, in 1825. History of American Homoeopathy can be found at homoeocases.org.<br /><br />The birth anniversary of Samuel Hahnemann was celebrated recently (April 10), worldwide.<br /><br />Basic principle of working of homoeo<br /><br />"Similia similibus curentur - let likes be treated by likes". To simply, the implication means:<br />If a person consumes a substance X, it induces a,b,c,d symptoms. Persons suffering from a,b,c,d symptoms can cure themselves by the consuming the substance X.<br /><br /><P style='color:red; text-decoration:underline'>Are there any conditions attached?<br /><br /><P>(According to homoeopaths)<br /><br />For getting results, the substance is to be consumed in homoeopathic doses (minute quantities) and not in crude doses (normal quantities like 100 mg or 1 gram.). When the quantity of substance is reduced, the curative power (potency) of the medicine increases.<br /><br /><P STYLE='COLOR:RED; text-decoration:underline'>How the homoeopathic medicines are made?<br /><br /><P>Made by using the methods of succusion and trituration as recommended by Hahnemann.<br /><br /><P style='color:red; text_decoration:underline'>What is succusion?<br /><br /><P>Succusion is shaking. The substance is mixed in alcohol and the container is shaken.<br /><br /><P style='color:red; text_decoration:underline'>What is trituration?<br /><br /><P>Trituration is grinding into powder. The substance is mixed with milk sugar (base) and ground in mortars.<br /><br /><P style='color:red; text_decoration:underline'>How potencies are made?<br /><br /><P>Potencies are made by reducing the substance of medicine and increasing the base (alcohol or milk-sugar). There are three common potency types.<br /><br /><P>DECENNIAL POTENCIES ( X POTENCIES)<br /><br />Quantity of substance goes down by degrees of 10.<br />1 X (Pronounced one ex) = 1/10<br />2 X = 1/100.<br />3 X = 1/1000 6 X = 1/1000000 12X = 1/100000000000<br />(See the number of 0s)<br /><br />For making 1 gram of 1 X of medicine, take .1 gram of substance and .9 grams of alcohol. Shake specified number of times as fixed by Hahnemann. Total will be 1 gram. . <br /><br />For making 1 gram of 2 X : -- take .1 gram of 1 X and .9 grams of alcohol. Shake. Total will be 1 gram of 2 X.<br /><br /><br /><P>CENTI POTENCIES ( C POTECIES)<br />1 c, 2 c, 30 c, 200 c etc. In practice, the suffix C is omitted. Simply numbers are mentioned.<br /><br />1 C: 1 gm. of dilution will contain .01 gm. of substance, and .99 gm. of alcohol.<br /><br />or<br />.01 gm. of substance and .99 gm. of milk sugar.<br /><br /><P style='color:red; text-decoration:underline'>How much can a 200 power homoeo medicine may contain the medicine?<br /><br /><P>The succusion or trituration is done in 200 instalments or stages. <br />The medicine content in one gram of total dilution:<br />1/10 to the power of 200 zeros grams of the substance. Remaining will be alcohol.<br /><br />If 4 or 5 drops of this alcoholic dilution is sprinkled on one dram of sugar pills, how much substance of medicine does one sugar pill contain? Probably, nothing.<br /><br /><P style='color:red; text_decoration:underline'>Give a more clearer example?<br /><br /><P>If a cashew cookie biscuit is distributed to the 6000 million people on this planet Earth breaking into small pieces, how much cashew does one person get? How many people will get cashew? How many will get wheat flour? Will that small quantity of cashew satiate the hunger?<br /><br /><br /><P style='color:red; text_decoration:underline'>Should not a minimum quantity of substance be required to start curing?
<br /><br /><h4>POTENTISATION IS DELUSIVE AND IMAGINARY</h4>
<br /><P>Homoeopathy says that no substance need actually be present. Potentisation takes place with the succusion (shaking) and trituration (grinding).<br /><br /><P style='color:red; text-decoration:underline'>How is it that some people who are being treated with homoeo are getting cured?<br /><br /><P>If a person is given pills from a bottle labelled "Natrum Mur", the pills do not contain the chemical Natrum Mur (Sodium Chloride). He will be consuming only sugar pills and alcohol. When no medicine is consumed, man's cure depends on the changes he makes in his diet, his natural self curative abilities and the white blood corpucles, internal enzymes, changes he made in his diet, physio-exercises done etc. <br /><br />He may have a faith cure or placebo or some psychological changes.<br /><br /><P style='color:red; text_decoration:underline'>Do randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies prove Homoeopathy?<br /><br /><P>The studies belong to stage 2. The suspicion is on the stage 1 itself existence of the advertised medicine apart from alcohol. It is about existence of the "medicine" name of which the label mentions.ybr (alias ybrao a donkey)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13635995478285822763noreply@blogger.com2