Q. 1. Does HOMEOPATHY act slowly?
The notion "Homoeopathy acts slowly?" or " HOMEOPATHY takes long time to show results." is baseless. In acute illnesses if remedy is selected accurately, its effect is almost magical. In chronic illnesses, time taken is relative to the duration of illness.
Q. 2. Why a detailed history is needed for homeopathic treatment?
Long interviews/Detailed history have their use, as HOMEOPATHY wants to go into your deep study, by considering your immediate sufferings, your past illnesses, your hereditary tendencies and family history, your emotional status as a whole - during illness and otherwise, your liking and disliking in food, drink, temperature, weather etc and many more things to select an appropriate remedy to stimulate your immune system as a whole to make you disease- free totally.
Q. 3. I am not having any specific disease. Can I take homeopathic treatment for increasing my immunity level?
Buddy, if you are healthy why do you want medication. BUT, I understand the bottom line of your question and it is the human nature to improve upon the existing condition. If we can demarcate any such parameter by which it can be substantiated that your immunity level has increased, YES, homoeopathy has the potential to do so.
Q. 4. My disease is not yet diagnosed. Can homeopathy help me?
Homoeopathic treatment is based on symptom similarity and is not fully dependent on diagnosis. It can possibly cure you of the impending disease, which is yet to be fully developed by building the immunity as a whole i.e.nipping the evil in the bud.
Q. 5. Is homeopathy a placebo treatment?
Use it and see for yourself.
Q. 6. How much time one should give for treatment of chronic and long-standing problems?
There is no THUMB RULE to know the duration of treatment required. A minimum period of three to six month is generally enough to feel the perceptible difference though the complete restoration may depend on many diverse factors like chronicity of complaints, multiplicity of complaints,severity of complaints, recurrence of complaints, past history, family history, age and individual's response to the treatment, continued physical, mental and psychological stresses etc.
Q. 7. I am scared to take homeopathic treatment as I have heard it aggravates the existing conditions initially. Is it really so?
First of all it is not mandatory to have homeopathic aggravation in all the patients. It depends on the sensitivity of the patients. Even if it happens, it is generally of a very transitory nature and is a good omen to mark the beginning of the improvement
Q. 8. What do you mean by holistic medicine? Is homeopathy a holistic system of medicine?
The term 'Holistic' was coined by General Smuts, putting forward the theory of Holism - the fundamental principle of the universe is the creation of wholes i.e. complete and self contained systems from atom and the cell by evolution of the most complex forms of life and mind. The system of treatment that takes into consideration the mind-body entity as a whole, can be put under the Holistic Medicine. As HOMEOPATHY goes into your deep study, by considering your immediate sufferings, your past illnesses, your hereditary tendencies and family history, your emotional status as a whole - during illness and otherwise, your liking and disliking in food, drink, temperature, weather etc.and many more things to select an appropriate remedy to stimulate your immune system as a whole to make you disease- free totally, in a HOLISTIC WAY.
Q. 9. What does CONSTITUTIONAL HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT mean?
Homeopathy treats " MAN IN DISEASE NOT DISEASES IN MAN". As HOMEOPATHY goes into your deep study, by considering your immediate sufferings,your past illnesses, your hereditary tendencies and family history, your emotional status as a whole - during illness and otherwise, your reactions and behavior while under stress your liking and disliking in food, drink, temperature, weather etc. and many more things which comprise the constitution of the individual to select an appropriate remedy to stimulate immune system as a whole.
Q. 10. When homeopathy is based on symptoms matching, then, what is the need of Lab-investigations ? (Like blood test, x-ray, ultrasound , CT scan, MRI etc).
Lab investigations are needed initially for disease diagnosis to understand the gravity of the illness to know prognosis of the illness to know the course of the illness to evaluate the correctness of the treatment by retesting when clinical relief is already there.
Q. 11. Do homeopathic medicines contain steroids?
Medicines can be checked at any reputed laboratory to rule out the possibility.
Q. 12. Why eliminations and discharges are given so much of importance?
As health is a state of natural balance, eliminations and discharges are the means by which this balance is maintained.
Q. 13. Are the homeopathic medicines really effective in acute conditions?
ANS. 13. You will be surprised to know that homeopathy gained its popularity only because of its ability to show better results in acute conditions and epidemics and history bears its testimony.
Q. 14. Can HOMEOPATHY help in treating addictions like smoking, alcohol, and drug abuse?
YES! Homeopathy can help in treating addictions
- By modifying the craving
- By treating withdrawal symptoms
- By boosting the self-confidence through CONSTITUTIONAL HOMEOPATHIC TREATMENT.
Q. 15. Can HOMEOPATHY help lose or gain weight?
Yes! Homeopathy can not make people thinner who eat cakes all day long. HOMEOPATHY REGULARISES..... It can make someone lose or gain weight who would not normally do so.
Q. 16. Can you cure me of piles, sleeplessness, indigestion, high blood pressure, acidity and arthritis simultaneously or should I go for one disease at a time?
Homeopathy treats MAN IN DISEASE, RATHER THAN DISEASE IN MAN. Homeopathy acts together with body's natural reactions and stimulates the defense mechanism (immunity) which helps in eradicating the diseases. As the immunity level goes up, disease phenomenon as a whole goes down. Improvements can be experienced in different percentages in one/all illnesses.
Q. 17. Every time my son takes a cold drink or ice cream, his throat gets affected. Will he ever be able to take these things without getting his throat affected?
Avoiding these things and conditions is good but it is LIVING ON ADJUSTMENTS. Ideally with the homeopathic treatment, your immune status should reach a level where the things and conditions affecting you adversely should not be able to affect you anymore. Only then we can call it a cure. AND YES, that possibility does exist in Homoeopathy though it is a gradual affair and needs perseverance.
Q. 18. I am regularly taking eltroxin for my thyroid problem and my doctor says to continue life long. What can homoeopathy do?
When you are on long term/continued allopathic treatment, sudden withdrawal or stoppage can cause severe rebound phenomenon in some cases. That is why this handing over and taking over from one kind of treatment to another has to be monitored very delicately. As the signs of improvement are showing, gradual reduction of the regular medication is advisable.
Q. 19. I am an asthmatic and taking allopathic medicines and puffs off and on only during my attacks. Do I have to stop them altogether to take homeopathic treatment?
Q. 20. Painkillers are something I can not do without during my migraine attacks. And they don't suit me either. Do you have some substitute in homoeopathy?
Initially you can continue using them 'on as and when required basis". As you go along with the homoeopathic treatment and your immunity starts building up, the requirement of those medicines will gradually go down till you no longer need them anymore.
Q. 21. I am a diabetic. Shouldn't homoeopathic medicines will add on to my sugar load as they are made up of sugar?
As homoeopathy is known for its smallness of doses, the tiny sugar pills taken daily doesn't make much difference because the sugar intake in daily diet is much higher than a few sugar pills.
Q. 22. I am a diabetic. Should I take all the dietary precaution while under homoeopathic treatment?
Yes, you must follow your diet chart as per the diabetic diet.
Q. 23. Is there a cure for heart problem?
ANS. 29. It depends upon the kind of the heart problem, the time given for homoeopathic treatment and the availability of parameters for assessment of improvement.
Q. 24. Can Homoeopathy help me in my sex-related problems?
Sexual functions are like any other biological functions of the body. Homoeopathy deals with these problems like any other by taking into account the MIND_BODY ENTITY as a whole.
Q. 25. Does homoeopathy has any role in female problems like dysmenorrhoea, menstrual irregularities, premenstrual tension, leucorrhoea, menopausal problems etc?
Of course. Female problems are not any different from other bodily problems. Rather homoeopathy has proved itself to be very efficient in dealing these problems.
Q. 26. Can homoeopathy help me in my sterility problem?
Sterility has male and female component. Proper investigations of both the partners is necessary before hand to decide which one needs treatment. And homoeopathy can help both to facilitate pregnancy.
Q. 27. Can homoeopathy help in cancer?
All of us are continually forming cells that are potentially cancerous, but our immune system acts as scavenger that nip these abnormal cells in the bud before they can establish into cancer. And since constitutional homoeopathic treatment is known to enhance the immune system of the person, the role of homoeopathy in cancer can't be denied.
Q. 28. Can homoeopathy help in AIDS?
The very name AIDS suggests that immunity of the individual is deficient. As everyone knows that constitutional homeopathic treatment increases the immunity level, the role of homoeopathy is unquestionable and homeopathic research workers are already doing a lot of research work.
Q. 29. How and why homoeopathy is better than surgery in kidney stones?
Stone formation is just a bye-product of abnormal biochemical functions and only removal of stones is not enough. In bilateral, multiple and recurrent stones, surgical intervention has little to offer in the long run. Surgery is only useful when stone is very large and is causing kidney damage.
Q. 30. Can homeopathy help me in Gall bladder stones? Can surgery be avoided?
As stone formation is just a bye-product of abnormal biochemical functions of the liver, reversal to healthier biochemical functioning not only improves the digestion but stones do get dissolved gradually.
Q. 31. Is the menace of TB / MDR-TB curable by homeopathy?
Yes, Very much. Listen to the expert "Homoeopathy is not only effective in treating the fresh cases of pulmonary tuberculosis but equally effective in treating the Drug resistant cases or patients with advanced pulmonary lesions. When I go through the case histories of my treated TB patients, I find homoeopathy a curative mode of treatment, even in terminal stages of the disease. Dr. K. K. Goyal Project consultant And member scientific committee Govt. Of India, Agra
Q. 32. What is the scope of hernia getting cured under homeopathic treatment?
Hernia of recent origin and relatively not too advanced stands a fair chance of improving. Strangulated hernia in itself is a medical emergency, which requires surgery immediately.
Q. 33. Is there anything like concentration and memory enhancer in homeopathy?
Memory and concentration have been seen to be improving as a part of constitutional homeopathic treatment.
Q. 34. Can homeopathy offer some help in cases of mental retardation?
Prolonged constitutional homeopathic treatment and thorough assessment by experts before treatment and continual monitoring during treatment stand a fair chance of improvement.
Q. 35. Can I undergo surgery or dental procedure during homoeopathic treatment?
If the need is pressing enough. Moreover you can suspend homoeopathic treatment for the time being.
Q. 36. Can HOMOEOPATHY be mixed with other therapies?
YES! In certain cases.
Q. 37. What should I do if some acute emergency comes while I am under constitutional Homoeopathic treatment?
Deal it on as and when basis.