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FAQ

  • What conditions most successfully treated with homeopathy?
    • Homeopathy treats almost all conditions successfully. Homeopathy is a system of medicine that is capable providing health to people and cure disease. Allergies, Asthama, IBS, Skin conditions, most of the Chronic conditions are just some conditions that can be successfully treated using homeopathy. You can go though our website for more details.

  • Can I give immunization with Homeopathy for my child?
    • Yes. It is called as Homeoprophylaxis (HP). The method itself is over 200 years old, and has considerable clinical and research experience to support its claims. The use of HP was first described by Dr Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, in 1801. He used the remedy Belladonna 30 to successfully treat patients with the disease Scarlet Fever, but fortuitously found that the remedy also helped to prevent the disease. He then used HP to prevent such diseases as Cholera and Typhoid. In the decades following, many leading homeopaths used HP to prevent a variety of infectious diseases, mainly in acute epidemic situations.

  • Can you cure Diabetes?
    • If Diabetes is developed in the initial phase especially in the younger age group between 30 years to 50 years, due to life style issues, Homeopathy with its life style interventions can control the condition successfully. In cases where the Diabetes has been there for a long time Homeopathy works as supportive and helps in avoiding the complications of Diabetes.

  • What are the homeopathic solutions in Cancer treatments?
    • Cancer is the uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells in the body. Cancer grows out of normal cells in the body. Normal cells multiply when the body needs them, and die when the body doesn't need them. Cancer appears to occur when the growth of cells in the body is out of control and cells divide too quickly. There are different approaches in homeopathy in dealing with Cancer; one approach is to target the cancer cells itself; next approach to help in healing patient’s eliminative channels like kidneys, liver, lymphatic system, etc and strengthen cell detoxification; and homeopathic remedies assisting the body in addressing and resolving the energy that underlies the tumor, it can result in complete remission of the tumor. Many a times the medicines act as an anti oxidant.

      Importantly Homeopathy is very good for cancers in advanced stages in a supportive role, to relieve pain, improve overall health sleep and digestion. Homeopathy helps in reducing the side-effects of chemotherapy.

  • How successful in treating liver conditions?
    • Homeopathy is very successful in treating the liver conditions. Basically liver is an organ which by itself corrects in case of inflammations, by diet, and rest. This is further aided and treated by the use of appropriate Homeopathic medicines. There had been very good numbers of cases successfully treated in Liver Cirrhosis, Hepatitis by Homeopathy. Gall bladders stones are also helped by disintegrating the stones and dissolving. In case of Gall bladder stone the patient is advised to seek immediate medical help if they develop acute symptoms.

  • Do I drink coffee with Homeopathy?
    • People with certain nature like bilious constitutions and if the remedy a person is taking is antidoted by coffee then it is best to avoid coffee. Otherwise having coffee occasionally is fine. The homeopathic medicine prepared from coffee is called Coffea.

  • Can I have alcohol with Homeopathy?
    • Alcohol on social drinking is fine. The time taken between taking the Homeopathic medicine and alcohol should be about 2 hours.

  • How long one should take Homeopathic medicines?
    • The specialty of homeopathy is long term treatments in chronic conditions. These chronic conditions would have developed over a period of few years. So in such cases the treatments may need from 6 months to 2 years. Acute conditions need medicines for about 7 days. In an acute condition the changes happen within 24 hours, and if no changes have happened in 48 hours you need to get in touch with your physician.

  • What are advantages of homeopathy?
    • It is safe, easy to take. The approach is in making one understand their own body and health so its role in preventive medicine is very good. It is also cost effective.

  • Does homeopathy give same white pills for all illness?
    • White pills are globules made of sugar of milk. They absorb the medicine and transmit into the tongue the route of action. It is basically the vehicle where different medicines are added. Labeling in Homeopathy is important as otherwise the Homeopathy doctor himself can’t identify. In homeopathy there are white pills of different sizes available but they are acting as a medium for the administration of different medicines.

  • Do homeopathic medicines have steroids?
    • No. One of the old methods of detecting the presence of steroid is COLORIMETRIC METHOD using tetrazolim blue salts. Almost all steroids show UV absorption between 235 and 240 nm in dehydrated alcohol or methanol in a clear solution. A complete spectrum of this solution is taken between 400 NM and 200 NM on a suitable spectrophotometer, if any steroid is present, it will show maximum at 240 NM. This is the right method of testing to confirm the presence of steroids and no Homoeopathic medicines will show positive reaction.

  • Are there any diet restrictions during homeopathy treatment?
    • Diet restrictions are different for each case and are based on the condition. For example a patient with recurrent gastritis is put on bland diet so as not to irritate the already irritated mucous membranes of the stomach. Once recovered he can go back to normal diet. Similarly we advice to avoid citrus fruits in patients with irritable throat conditions.

  • Is it safe to take homeopathic medicines during pregnancy?
    • Pregnant ladies can take homeopathic medicines safely.

  • Is Homeopathy a scientific system of medicine?
    • Yes. The careful study of action of Homeopathic medicines on Healthy Human beings is known as provings. It is the provings of medicines that form the scientific basis of Homeopathy. A good homeopath is someone who has devoted many years of study to his subject. What might appear as a flash of intuitive brilliance is usually an insight born of intense study.

  • Do Homeopathic 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, the Homoeopathic medicines are made up of simple substances like herbs and plants. They are dispensed in pills or powders made of lactose. These medicines do not produce any side effects.

  • My child falls sick very often. Do Homeopathic medicines help in improving immunity?
    • Yes, homoeopathic medicines help in clearing the acute symptoms. At the same time few courses of medicines are planned to improve immunity. In a period of three months one can see considerable improvement in the immunity of children.

  • Does Homeopathic medicines help arrest Hair fall?
    • Yes, the medicines arrest hair fall and helps in growth of hair. The first way to stop hair loss is to give proper attention to its cause. As Homeopathy addresses th root cause of the problem it is prved very successful in Hair Fall. The main causes of hair loss is stress, dandruff, scalp infections, illnesses like Typhoid, Jaundice, over use of strong Shampoos and hair dyes. Massaging hair with Arnica Oil along with constitutional Homoeopathic treatment helps.

  • Can allergies be treated in Homeopathy?
    • Homoeopathy most successfully helps in 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 change in our environment, the Homeopath helps the patient in improving the immunity of the person so he is able to overcome the allergies under such circumstances.

  • Can Allopathic and Homeopathic medicines be taken together?
    • Homeopathic medicines can be safely taken along with other allopathic medicines like high blood pressure and diabetes medicines. In conditions where allopathic medicines cannot be withdrawn immediately, it can be continued together with Homoeopathic medicines and later withdrawn when the general level of health improves. Any withdrawal of medicines should be under the physician’s guidance.

  • What kind of diseases can Homeopathy treat?
    • Homeopathy does not treat diseases per se as the physician does not concentrate his treatment on diseases like Arthritis, Cancer, and Bronchitis etc. That is he does not treat specifically a part of the body. He looks at the patient in a complete manner and treats in all aspects mental, emotional and physical. The homeopath regards each patient as a unique individual and treats. This way the root cause of disease is addressed and the cure is complete.

  • Do Homeopathic Physicians treat mental and emotional diseases?
    • Homeopathy deals with the complete person who naturally includes thought and feeling disorders as well as physical problems. There are well proved effective medications to simple psychiatric condition. The patient experiences no side effects and the condition is almost completely removed. In chronic natured mental disease like Schizophrenia, Obsessive compulsive disorders effective supportive treatments are planned. Deep emotional problems such as suicidal tendencies, depression, suppressed anger and addiction to drugs, smoking and alcohol can be radically modified by correct homeopathic treatment

  • Can Homeopathy treat bacterial infection?
    • Homeopathy has a distinguished record of successfully treating severe bacterial infections. Indeed, bacterial sore throats and bladder infections present no special problem to the homeopath. Like a conventional doctor, he would obtain a culture before and after treatment to monitor progress.

  • Homeopathic treatment in infants and children is believed to prevent a lot of colds and coughs. Is it true?
    • Yes. Infants troubled with colic, teething and ear problems have benefited from the correct homeopathic remedy. Also, bed wetter’s and children with night terrors have been cured. In both children and adults who get frequent colds, the exact homeopathic remedy can so raise the general level of health as to make colds difficult to catch.

  • Is it true that homeopathic medicines take long to act?
    • The notion “Homoeopathy acts slowly” or “Homoeopathy takes long time to show results” are baseless. In acute illnesses if remedy is selected accurately, its effect is almost magical. In conditions like loose motions and colds and coughs, it is effective with few doses in couple of hours. In chronic illnesses, time taken is relative to the duration of illness. A person who is generally weak and exhausted will take longer to respond to medicines. In certain acute illness the medicine will act in minutes. In chronic conditions the effects are slow to appear. For example – a child with acute ear pain will drop of to sleep after well-selected Homoeopathic dose. On the other hand, conditions like Goiter will take a longer time to respond.

  • Homeopathy first aggravates the disease and then improves?
    • It is a general belief and is not true. It does not happen to all cases and also not always, if the chosen remedy matches the patient’s need. But if repeated more than the need, often increases the complaints, but it would subside on its own as soon as the medicine is withdrawn. Sometimes, a patient who is dependent on some other medicines, for example, steroids, stops them, then he gets the original disease symptoms, and considers that the disease has aggravated