Individualized Holistic Health Care

This android app is based on the book ‘Research in Thermal Materia Medica’ by Dr. Amarsinha Nikam. Many homeopaths consider only Hot, Chilly and Ambithermal remedies based classification done by Gibson Miller (182 remedies) and few other sporadic references.   The app classify 284 remedies as Hot, Towards Hot, Chilly, Towards Chilly and Ambithermal backed by research work that justifies its classification through elaboration of thermal modalities and thermal sensation. The reference to the thermal modalities and sensation will help practitioners to further question elicit and confirm them with the patient and thus arrive at the similimum. The app also guides on the ways to assess and confirm the thermals of the patient and is a valuable tool for students and fresh professionals. This android app available on Google Play Store at $ 20 (Rs.120/-) this is an invaluable tool in the hands of an ardent homeopath.  You can get the app here: https://play.google.com/sto...

But what is meant by health? This we must try to understand. Ordinarily, if we ask a physician what the definition of health is, he will only say that health is the absence of sickness. But this is a negative definition. It is unfortunate that we must define health in terms of illness. Health is a positive thing, a positive state; illness is negative. Health is our nature; illness is an attack on nature. So it is very strange that we must define health in terms of illness. To define the host in terms of the guest is very strange. Health coexists with us; illness comes occasionally. Health accompanies us at birth; illness is a superficial phenomenon. But if we ask a physician to define health, he can only say that health is present when illness is absent. Paracelsus used to say that this interpretation is wrong -- the concept of health needs to be positively defined. But how can we reach a positive definition, an interpretation of the concept of health that will be creative?...

Just successfully completed a workshop on “Classical Homeopathy” that ended with a Practical Test - live case-taking with justification for the remedy selected followed by a Written Test and topped with a Viva…and then a certificate that comes with a feedback note that tells you your strength and areas where improvement is required. The workshop meant for busy practicing homeopaths was held once every two months over the weekend (Saturday 10 am to Sunday 6 pm) which includes case taking at the hospital in the evening, followed by witnessing the consultation process by Dr. Amarsinha Nikam from 12 pm to 7 am, a few hours of rest and then a session and hospital rounds at the 80 bed establishment where one gets to see the patients of varied pathologies, the remedy prescribed and the progress made by them. (Check this link for info on cases seen at the hospital http://individualizedhealthcare.blogspot.in/2012/10/experiencing-sublime-joy-of-homoeopathy.html ) The work...

As incidents of molestations, rapes and other atrocities on women and children get reported in the now omnipresent media the pressure for reactive measures like stronger policing and stringent punishment hoping that this will act as a deterrent.   With the alarmingly increased broken or unstable   families (homes),   banalization of sexuality, addictions , perversions etc calls for a solution that the check, reverse and cure this serious malady affecting the human kind.   Children from unstable and broken homes tend to repeat the same parental script as adults.   Lack of emotional stroke from their parents leads them to seek fulfillment outside their homes and often not the right kind and often it’s late. Religion can play a very important role today in preventing the decadence of   its people.   It needs to reposition itself as being a catalyst that stabilizes the human short-comings through strengthening of the family value structure, its...

    AAAAAAAAACHOooooooooooo! It is raining, damp and moldy...the flu season has set-in.  The virus travels with ease looking for victims with compromised immunity.  People dread to sit next to a sniffling colleagues, co-passengers...they dread the sneeze fearing that they might contract SARS, H1N1(Swine Flu) etc. In India it is not uncommon to see many sneeze freely, some of them seem to derive orgasmic pleasure in the act unmindful and unapologetic to the people around them.   I came across one such passenger during my recent journey from Goa to Pune…and this prompted me to write this piece.    Cupping your hand over your nose and mouth is the most common method followed by us and   it is not the right way to sneeze or cough since the next moment you are most likely to touch the telephone, the door knob, your computer keyboard or even greet a friend with a handshake causing the virus to go viral. To help stop the spread of ger...

This Post invites homoeopaths to share knowledge and clinical experiences of remedies that showed opposite action of High and Low Potencies.  A few such examples are shared here as starters... Here the case of digitalis is very interesting and should find great use in clinical situation: In typical Calcarea Carb children, it would cure diarrhea only in high (200, 1M) potencies but could cure constipation only in 6th potency (Source: Dr.Koppikar’s Clinical Experiences of 70 years in homoeopathy)  Podophyllum high cured diarrhea and was a fine remedy for constipation with whitish (bileless) stools in 6th potency. (Source: Dr.Koppikar’s Clinical Experiences of 70 years in homoeopathy) With Iodium 200, 1000, I have added weight to lean and even emaciated boys and girls.  And Iodium 2x, 3x are the best remedies to help reducing obesity – given 3-4 pills 3 times daily. Of course, these patients are given the usual indicated high potencies of their constitutiona...

When morning spoils the day | Life | Times Crest K ate Middleton was recently hospitalized for a condition called  hyperemesis gravidarum (HG) or severe pregnancy-related morning sickness.  Nausea during pregnancy can be miserable. At at time when many changes are occurring  the condition  is believed to be caused by higher-than normal levels of the pregnancy hormone, human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG.   ,  Some women only feel ill or queasy in the morning, but for some it lasts all day and is even troublesome at night. Discomfort usually eases off by the third or fourth month, but not always. In the 1960's a drug  Thalidomide helped many women find comfort from the condition only to encounter disaster when they delivered. The drug  had disastrous side effects. Babies were born with shortened limbs, blindness, deafness, heart problems and brain damage...over 10,000 of them.  This prompted physicians to be more judicio...