With several alternative cures seeming to make their presence felt in current times, The Goan takes a look at a form of treatment the seems to be finding a following: Homeopathy
The sisters Mini and Bunny joined swimming class when theywere six and four respectively. While elder Mini’s skin could adjust to thechlorinated water, little Bunny’s skin reacted immediately. Her ear lobes gotinfected. But their mother was a firm believer in Homeopathy. She consultedDoctor J P Dhulapkar, a noted Homeopath from Margao, and continued with hisHomeopathic treatment for Bunny for a month without letting her skip swimmingclass. With the medication, Bunny’s ear lobes seemed to get worse but after amonth she got completely cured and thereafter she never had any allergy tochlorinated water. Today, thanks to Homeopathy, both the teenage sisters aregreat swimmers.
Homeopathy is an alternative form of medicine and bothshould have firm belief in Homeopathy – the doctors who practice it as well asthe patients who opt for it. It is not the body that is diseased, but it is themind that is responsible for any disease, so learning more about a person andanalysing his personality leads to curing his illness in Homeopathy. As thescience of mind and body, it offers cure through the treatment of both. “Cureand purify the mind so that the body can heal by itself. I don’t treatdiseases. I treat people,” says Doctor Shreepad Khedekar, consulting Homeopathand the founder of Imperial Clinics in India and Europe.
Doctor Khedekar strongly believes, “Homeopathy is aboutunderstanding ‘Genetic Expression’. More like-minded people should unite tobring Homeopathy to the top of the pedestal and banish the myths about it. Onlya team effort can bring about this change in the mind-set of the people.”
There are some drawbacks that make Homeopathy take the backseat. Due to poor clinical knowledge and lack of conviction in own science,many Homeopaths today have turned into doctors prescribing allopathic drugs,which should not be the case in actuality.
