FAQs

Yes. The careful testing of homoeopathic medicines on healthy human beings is known as proving. This step forms the scientific basis for homoeopathy. The mark of a good homoeopath is in the number of years he or she has devoted to the study to this subject. What might appear as a flash of intuitive brilliance is usually an insight born of intense study.

Do homoeopathic medicines cause side effects?

No, homoeopathic medicines cause no side effects. Homoeopathic medicines are not given for a particular condition. The medicine is given based on the totality of symptoms of the patient. Further, homoeopathic medicines are made up of simple substances like herbs. They are dispensed as pills or powders made of lactose. These medicines do not produce any side effects.

My child falls sick very often. Do homoeopathic medicines help in improving immunity?

Yes, homoeopathic medicines help in clearing acute symptoms. Long-term medicines are available to improve immunity. This is normally for a period of three months.

Can homoeopathic medicines help arrest hair fall?

Yes, medicines help a lot in hair fall and in the growth of hair. The first way to stop hair loss is to give proper attention to it. The main causes of hair loss are stress, dandruff, scalp infections, illnesses like typhoid, jaundice, and the over use of strong shampoos and hair dyes. Massaging hair with Arnica Oil along with constitutional homoeopathic treatment helps.

Can allergies be treated in Homoeopathy?

Homoeopathy is highly successful for allergic conditions. In every patient, the root cause of the problem is identified and treated. If the allergy is produced by simple substances like house mite or dust, which cannot be totally eliminated from the environment, medicines are given to improve the person’s immunity so that he or she can overcome the allergies.

Can allopathic and homoeopathic medicines be taken together?

In conditions where medicines cannot be withdrawn, both can be continued simultaneously and later withdrawn when the general level of health improves. Before discontinuing any medicine, the physician should be consulted.

What kind of diseases can homoeopathy treat?

Homoeopathy involves treating the person as a whole and not specific parts of the body or symptoms. Whatever is the condition or disease, the homoeopath concentrates on complete cure where all aspects – mental, emotional and physical- are taken into account. The homoeopath regards each patient as a unique individual. This way the root cause is addressed and the cure is complete.

Does homoeopathy have cure for mental and emotional diseases?

Homoeopathy deals with the complete person and that includes thought and feeling disorders as well as physical problems. There are well-established effective medications to simple psychiatric conditions. The patient experiences no side effects and the condition is almost completely removed. In chronic mental diseases, like schizophrenia and obsessive compulsive disorders, effective supportive treatments are available. Deep emotional problems such as suicidal tendencies, depression, suppressed anger and addiction to drugs, smoking and alcohol can be radically modified by correct homoeopathic treatment

Can homoeopathy treat bacterial infections?

Homoeopathy has a distinguished record of successfully treating severe bacterial infections. Indeed, bacterial sore throats and bladder infections present no special problem to the homoeopath. Like a conventional doctor, he would obtain a culture before and after treatment to monitor progress.

Homoeopathic treatment in infants and children is believed to prevent colds and coughs. Is it true?

Yes. Clear benefits are seen in infants troubled with colic, teething and ear problems. Also, bed-wetting and children with night terrors have been cured. In both children and adults who get frequent colds, the exact homoeopathic remedy can so raise the general level of health so that the person does not catch a cold.

Is it true that homoeopathic medicines take long to act?

The notion, “homoeopathy acts slowly” or “homoeopathy takes a long time to show results” are baseless. In acute illnesses, if the remedy is selected accurately, its effect is almost magical. In conditions like loose motions and colds and coughs, a few doses for a couple hours can be effective. In chronic illnesses, the time it takes to cure is relative to the duration of illness. A person who is generally weak and exhausted takes longer to respond to medicines. In certain acute illness, the medicine acts in minutes. In chronic conditions, the effect could be slow to appear. For example, a child with acute ear pain would get immediate relief after a well-selected homoeopathic dose. On the other hand, conditions like goitre would take a longer time to respond.