Aditya Homoeopathic Hospital- World's first homeopathic hospital admitting emergency, acute & life threatening cases

One weekend in October 2012, I was invited by Dr Amarsinha Nikam, M.D. Homoeopath to experience the joy of homoeopathy at his 100 bed Aditya HomoeopathicHospital and Healing Centre, Pimpri, Pune. By the end of the day, I had to qualify his quote ‘the joy of homoeopathy’ with the word ‘sublime’.

This visit led to a close friendship and deeper understanding and learning the great science and art of cure - homoeopathy. What followed was an internship of over 2 years where I had the opportunity to sit alongside Dr Nikam every Saturday-Sunday and takedown detailed case history and witness his approach to prescribing. Like a true guru, he gave it all. At the consultation table, he allowed his interns to suggest their remedy along with the reasons. He would then give us his choice and express this thought process and validate it by referring it to the materia medica.

Here is a doctor who dared to start a homoeopathic hospital that not just treats emergencies but ‘Critical Emergencies’ one of the kinds that requires the remedy to be right the first time, a situation where the choice of the remedy decides the life or death of the patient. Critical emergencies give you a few minutes to an hour to hit the right remedy. Just one single dose in 30C potency is all that the patient gets. Live cases such as severe acute pancreatitis, Myocardial Infarction, Tripple Vessel Disease, Congestive Cardiac Failure compounded with a host of other chronic disorders are part of the daily repertoire here. 

And now this is what makes the honour, all of these emergencies are managed without oxygen, saline drips, and other paraphernalia that accompanies a typical critical emergency  – what is termed as ICU or ICCU, not even a homoeopathic mother tincture. This requires guts and it comes from a deep conviction in the science of homoeopathy.

And then there were Cancer cases some in the fourth stage, requiring no pain killers, calm and serene aided by the Similimum.

During the rounds, Dr Nikam shared the case papers of each bed (97% occupancy at point of time) and I saw written on the top right corner of each case paper a single-dose prescription of 30c or 200c in the case of a nosode. This is evidence of homoeopathy in its pristine form.  According to Dr Nikam, if the science has to gain the status or recognition as a mainstream medical system more and more homoeopaths need to set up such hospitals that treat ‘critical emergencies’ along with chronic ailments.  It is about the time that the various ‘schools of homoeopathy’ subject their approach to the real test – treating critical emergencies the way Master Hahnemann taught us, it is only then that homoeopathy will reach the pinnacle.

Dr Nikam has authored many books and one his book 'Vital Force Is Oxygen' needs special mention. In this book published in December 2009, he argues that Oxygen is nothing but vital energy and he goes on to explain its role in cellular and mitochondrial health. This study propounded by him now stands validated with the 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly awarded to William G. Kaelin Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability. The Nobel winner concludes that Oxygen shapes physiology and pathology.

A visit to Aditya Homoeopathic Hospital is capable of stirring every homoeopath from being an arm-chair practitioner to being equipped for real-time action.

May this tribe proliferate. God Bless!

A stray thought:
A prophet is not accepted in his home-town

Being new to the place I had to make enquiries for direction as I reached the town…most people were not aware of this hospital, they thought I was asking for Aditya Birla Hospital a high-end super-speciality hospital in the area.  I also observed that there were not many local patients…there were patients from Mumbai, Bangalore and other remote places of India.