Individualized Holistic Health Care

I nterplanetary travel may become a sudden reality sometime in the near future. Just as the early explorers who dared to journey across oceans and continents to discover new places we can foresee a lot of people traveling to explore the unknown frontier in search of another habitable planet. Few enterprising organization and individuals have already started accepting bookings for interplanetary travel. Studies conducted so far indicate that interplanetary travel lowers the immunity of humans to the point that we could fall prey to infections that will kill us. Research has shown that a special fly – Drosophila born and raised in space, which share many fundamentals of the immune system with mammals such as mice and human—had their immune system seriously weakened by microgravity in space, just as seen in astronauts traveling into space. Among astronauts space and extraterrestrial environment is known to have caused many symptoms/disorders. Disruption of gastrointes...

Meet my first Guru who reignited my latent passion in nature consonant medicine. Fr. M. Britto Joseph s.j. a Jesuit Priest, belonging to the Madurai Province, is credited with evangelizing and proselytizing Naturopathy and Homoeopathy in India. Affordable and safe health-care has always been a need and it still continues to be a necessity for the majority of the population (middle-class and rural) in India, a country where  major share of one’s earning is spent on housing and food, savings are meager, often liquidated by medical and hospitalization expenses.  Families often end up in huge debt.   A country that enjoys a rich heritage medicine system in the form of Ayurveda and Naturopathy is today a victim of lifestyle diseases that is only burdening the existing inadequate health-care facilities in India.   It is against this background we can come to appreciate the value of Fr. Britto’s mission. Fr. Britto has done a yeoman service through his mis...

Year 2025 ‘Shooting Star’ is on its first ever inter-galactic expedition. Two years later, the spacecraft encounters a black hole and the galactic flux causes a major malfunction and it loses contact with the base station.  With all controls lost, it is free floating – aimless, perhaps directed by the forces of the Universe.   Until eventually, one day, the craft along with the crew and passengers are rescued by the inhabitants of a distant planet, Carbonium, more than 1500 light years away, beyond the Orion nebula.   Read on and be a part of the survivors’ exciting discovery of a new life form and their amazing medical science.   Would they ever return to planet Earth? Find out!  Click to get your copy: The Future Was Always Here! Follow @vally_mendonca Tweet #TFWAH

It took us some time locating the place. The many locals and shops within few kilometers radius looked amused when we asked them for the address of Butterfly Park.  They never heard of it and probably couldn’t imagine that something like this exists in Goa. Southern Birdwing Butterfly - Largest in India The Butterfly Conservatory of Goa is an altruistic project initiated by wife-husband team – Dr. Jyoti Heblekar, a Homeopath  & Yashodan alias Rohit Heblekar  to ward off rampant cutting of hills surrounding their dwelling at Pisgal Priol, near  Ponda, Goa.  They wanted to retain the scenic view around so they decided to set-up the conservatory. We were captivated by the sheer natural un-sculpted greenery around.  The sound of rustling leaves, the burbling water flowing down narrow streams, the chirping birds, all orchestrated to make blissful music. As Rohit took us around  he asked us “Do you know why we don’t see any butterf...

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?...