Individualized Holistic Health Care

In the US, 3 to 7% of all hospitalizations are due to Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR). ADRs occur during 10 to 20% of hospitalizations; about 10 to 20% of these ADRs are severe. If countries like USA which has a stringent food and drug administration get millions of patients who suffer adverse drug reaction then the scale of adverse drug reaction in a populous country like India, where controls are  lax and reporting tardy. This would be a similar story in other developing and under-developed nations. The most common categories of drugs withdrawn in the last decade ( Developed Countries) were non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (28%), anti-diabetics (14.28%), anti-obesity (14.28%), antihistamines (14.28%), gastroprokinetic drugs (7.14%), breast cancer and infertility drugs (7.14%), irritable bowel syndrome and constipation drugs (7.14%) and antibiotics (7.14%).  And it takes 3-5 years for a drug to be banned in India after it has been banned in other countries. I...

Man is part of nature; his health is nothing but his being at ease with nature. We   have ended up taking a mechanical view of man, as a result we have ended up treating just the ‘sick’ or dis-eased part/condition of man...like headache, blood pressure, diabetes, sinusitis, psoriasis. And more often than not we are only controlling the disease/condition be it our blood pressure, diabetes, asthma etc. etc. We end up taking medicines that only help us manage our disease better. In the process what we fail to understand is that the sick ‘part’ or the diseased condition is only an expression (we commonly refer to it as a symptom) the organism’s way of calling attention for remedial action.   This symptom is often expressed through the part that is weakest and hence most susceptible to derangement and hence the focus for attention is not the part but the whole living being. A Pill For Every Ill