Guest Post Written by Dr. Navneet Bidani (The Author) INTRODUCTION Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) has been an officially recognized illness since 1980 and it may be defined as the development of significant anxiety, fear, helplessness and horror after exposure (experienced or witness) to trauma, defined as an event associated with either actual or threatened death […]
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Guest Post Written by Iman Navab (The Author) INTRODUCTION Both Epidemic and Pandemic refers to the spread of infectious diseases among a population. The term pandemic indicates a far higher number of people affected in much larger geographical area than epidemic. Mortality rate is number of deaths per 1000 individuals per year. Genus epidemicus means that […]
Guest Post Written by Dr. Sayeed Ahmad (The Author) INTRODUCTION Obesity can be best described as the most common nutritional disorder especially in the affluent group of people. But it is now getting fairly common in not-so affluent people also. It is a condition in which excessive accumulation of fat takes place in the body […]
Guest Post Written by Dr. Furqan A Syed (The Author) Introduction Lungs belong to the group of “Vital Life Organs”. Life comes to a sudden end if any one from the Heart, Brain, Liver, Lungs or Blood stops functioning. Of course all the organs are vital in that respect but non-functioning of other organs may […]
Guest Post Written by Uta Mittelstadt (The Author) The alliance between homeopath and patient is a critical one. The homeopath, by way of the homeopathic principles, requires of the patient to share, reveal, and convey in explicit detail the nature of what ails him [1]. The patient needs of the homeopath, in order to feel secure […]
Guest Post Written by Dr. Muhammed Rafeeque (The Author) Introduction There are several health related myths among the public. In common usage, many people consider some normal body functions and even the name of some organs as diseases. For example: Blood Pressure (BP), Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate (ESR), Blood sugar, Cholesterol, Thyroid, Gastric, etc. are considered as names […]
Guest Post Written by Vinton McCabe (The Author) I have been doing a lot of thinking lately about the “placebo effect.” Mostly because I have noticed that the Skeptics—that crazy-quilt of organizations in the English speaking world who are making such a noise on the internet when it comes to something near and dear to my […]
Guest Post Written by Iman Navab (The Author) Bigots [1] In 300 B.C., Hippocrates was accused by his colleagues; he was called dung-eater, because he so carefully took note of the character of the fecal and waste material. In 162 A.D., Galen, who guided the ideas of medical knowledge, was persecuted by the doctors of […]
Guest Post Written by Dr. Syed Furqan Ahmed (The Author) INTRODUCTION Infants are a gift of life to human race, a little one in anguish is the last thing anyone would want to see, but the fact is that these little lovely angels do get sick and very often they require medical intervention to return […]
Guest Post Written by Uta Mittelstadt (The Author) Introduction Patients are increasingly making their own healthcare their own responsibility, and are becoming more selective in what treatment and therapies they use in their recovery from illness. Dissatisfaction with conventional treatment that is indifferent of a holistic view of health, may produce more or less severe side-effects, […]
Guest Post Written by Dr. Saurav Arora (The Author) Title: Research awareness in Homoeopathy: A descriptive opinion based survey to see the prevalent research status Abstract: There has been a gain in momentum in homoeopathic research in last few decades as evident from various research studies and publications. This spurt in research activities aims at clinical, physical, […]
Guest Post Written by Dr. Peter H Kay (The Author) Preamble. In recent years many exciting scientific discoveries have been made that have enabled the development of further beneficial applications of homeopathic remediation. As a consequence, the Homeovitality Micro-DNA therapy system has been developed by the merging of scientific discovery, alternative health care technology and the […]
Guest Post Written by Vaikunthanath Das Kaviraj (The Author) Plants and trees do get sick like we humans do. Then what to do? Take the help of Homeopathy to revive and energise them. Agrohomeopathy is a branch of homeopathy where homeopathic medicines including nosodes and auto-nosodes are used by farmers and gardeners on sick plants and trees and […]
Guest Post Written by Iman Navab (The Author) According to an encyclopedia such as Wikipedia, the science of Astronomy (not to be confused with Astrology) is one of the oldest sciences. Astronomy is a natural science that deals with the study of celestial objects such as stars, planets and galaxies. The field of professional astronomy split […]
Guest Post Written by Debby Bruck, CHom INTRODUCTION The elemental mineral Zinc plays an important role in well being. Studies shows that zinc effects our sense of smell, the skin, the nervous system and mental faculties. Medical research shows zinc as a key element in the treatment of a range of diseases, for example type […]
Guest Post Written by Dr. Rajneesh Kumar Sharma, M.D. Definition Ankylos (Greek), meaning bent It has now come to imply something that restricts motion due to stiffening and may ultimately result in fusion. When the joint loses its mobility and becomes stiff it is said to be ankylosed. Spondylos (Greek), meaning vertebra itis, meaning inflammation […]
Guest Post Written by Dr. Muhammed Rafeeque, BHMS The tongue (Lingua, Glossa) is a muscular organ in the oral cavity that is associated with the function of deglutition, taste and speech. It acts as an easily accessible mirror of the health of a person, and indicates the state of hydration of the body. Some characteristic changes […]
Every month we will have an honour to introduce/feature one or more homeopaths who have a great deal of expertise in homeopathy and people have admired reading their posts. They will share their expertise in the form of guest blog post which would be published at 5 p.m. (Indian Standard Time). August 2012: 1. This […]
Guest Post Written by Dr. Shreya Deshpande, BHMS Hair fall is one of the commonest symptoms with which patients present to us. Sometimes it is an associated symptom of some other major disease symptom or it is the disease per say. I have not observed any age limit for this problem. Rather, the age limit […]
“Ask for Evidence” of Homeopathy because scientific evidence matters It is vital in good decision-making and optimisation of resources In the comment section, enter the following data: Name: Location: Ask/Claim: Your Question Reference: You can ask like 1. Name of the Journals where studies in evidence of homeopathy are published 2. The kind of studies published in […]
SPORTS INJURIES Most of the sports injuries are of traumatic type such as bruise, muscle strain, ligament sprain, fractures, etc. Others include muscle soreness, muscle cramps, stiffness, cuts and abrasions. The effect of these injuries is two-fold. One the cells that made up soft tissues gets damaged and the second is fatigue and weakness. Sometimes […]
Nobel laureates, doctors, scientists, professors and science writers had plenty to say on homeopathy 1. Emil Adolf von Behring (1905) Emil Adolf von Behring (1854–1917) won the first Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine in 1901 for his discovery of the diphtheria antitoxin. Behring wrote: ‘Samuel Hahnemann was right when he took his starting point […]
Billions of pounds pumped in every year but the state and level of health of a UK citizen is not improving. Instead 10,000 people in Britain die each year due to adverse drug reaction and drug intoxication [1]. More and more people are queuing up for NHS. NHS needs reforms What’s wrong? Think about it! […]
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Reblogged from Laughing my socks off …: Two recent and related papers, published in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology and Homeopathy (the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy, the UK’s professional organisation of medically qualified homeopaths), have reconstructed the analysis carried out by the authors of The Lancet’s much vaunted 2005 meta-analysis, on the back […]
