Individualized Holistic Health Care

‘Dying To Be Me’ by Anita Moorjani is a fascinating book that describes her recovery from terminal stage lymphoma cancer (she was brought into the hospital comatose with multiple organ failures) after she experienced what she terms a ‘Near Death Experience (NDE)’. In the state of NDE, she discovers the ‘real’ cause of her cancer. This realisation and surrender (letting go!) leads to the realization of her intrinsic worth, and sets off a chain of metabolic reset of her system. As a result she recovers within weeks without a trace of cancer in her body, a miracle in medical terms. The concept of NDE although fascinating is open to debate as the whole explanation given by those who experience it varies and is often saturated with the belief system one is brought up with. Yet, the fact is, that this lady who was reduced to skin and bones recovered within 3-4 weeks, and was declared cancer free. In her state of NDE, Anita becomes aware of what caused her cancer and in this Aha! moment sh...

The modern day conventional medicine system often referred to as ‘Allopathy’ is the most widely practised system in the world. The system has come a long way from its primitive form of being largely experimental to now a regulated and researched backed science. Its role in saving lives is beyond doubt, especially in critical emergencies. Allopathy is an excellent support care system or as someone termed it as ‘sick care system’.  On its flip side, even today with all its advanced research it still controls hypertension, controls diabetes, controls pain...with ever increasing the dosage. 'Control' or 'Management' being the operative word. It is not a curative science. Allopathy or mainstream medicines regularly help to counter, stall or slow down the disease process while the body tries and works out its own chemistry to regain it's original health. However, during the course of the treatment the organisms immunity is weakened and convalesce is often slow and e...

Homeopathic teething products are being investigated in the deaths of 10 babies Homeopathic teething products are being investigated in the deaths of 10 babies Thus screams a headline in a piece written on Science Alert a web news portal. This appears to be another smear campaign to malign homoeopathy a science that has not withstood such relentless battering to malign it but has only grown stronger with time and this is scary for some of the mainstream pharmaceutical lobby who thrives on making the sick sicker. On one hand, they say there is no scientific evidence that homoeopathy works and then, now they claim that it worked adversely?! The sceptics also demand proof of presence of original substance in the ultra-diluted (potentised - in homoeopathy terminology) - so if according to them the original substance is not there then how come it has acted for better or for worse!!! The report in question has also not revealed the composition and the potency of...

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...

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