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21 December, 2013

Homeopathy-18: Tendencies, Diathesis, Susceptibility and Predisposition

Homeopathy’s greatness can be understood if one just goes through the Homeopathic Maeria Medica.  One often finds words like TENDENCY, SUSCEPTIBILITY and PREDISPOSITION to a particular disease or condition; also DIATHESIS, which also means the same thing.  When one analyses these deeply and carefully, one realizes more often than not they are chronic and genetic in origin.  When it is said a remedy can cure a tendency, it means that the particular remedy is capable of acting genetically and root out the tendency and disease.  Lots of money is being spent on Genetic Medicine.  But we already have a system which has the ability to tackle genetic conditions.  Is it not wonderful? 

I plan to reproduce from the Homeopathic Materia Medica such tendencies and the remedies that could tackle them, provided the symptoms match.

It is better here to keep in mind,  aphorism 153 of Hahnemann’s Organon of Medicine, which in essence is as follows:

…the MORE STRIKING, SINGULAR, UNCOMMON AND PECULIAR (characteristic) signs and symptoms of the case of disease are chiefly and most solely to be kept in view; for it is MOREPARTICULARLY THESE THAT VERY SIMILAR ONES IN THE LIST OF SYMPTOMS OF THE SELECTED MEDICINE MUST CORRESPOND TO, in order to constitute it the most suitable for effecting the cure. …

So what is a symptom?  What is RARE, UNCOMMON, PECULIAR, MORE STRIKING  and STRANGE is a symptom.  So matching purposes, let us not confuse pathological or clinical symptoms.

Here is the first one:

INCREASED SUSCEPTIBILITY TO COLD-


The remedy for this could be  ACETANILIDUM.  A moment of caution.  This susceptibility or tendency to take cold is there in some other medicines also.  So we have more than one remedy for tackling the Tendency to take cold.

08 August, 2012

Health Tips-49: To Live Long


TO LIVE LONG

  • EAT  MORE VEGETABLES
  • AVOID FAST FOOD
  • DRINK PLENTY OF WATER
  • EAT LESS
  • WALK MORE

27 July, 2012

Health Tips-48: Long-Term Effect of Coffee

I came across the following statement in an article captioned, "Rise above Chronic Fatigue" by Swami Kriyananda in the Chennai edition of The Times of India and thought I would post it here for the benefit of my viewers.  


CAFFEINE IS SAID TO KILL VITAMIN B IN THE BODY.


Actually, during my Homeopathy days, we were taught to advise patients to shun coffee as a powerful stimulant, which interferes with the working of the homeopathy medicine.  Further, Coffee is addictive and could cause sleep disturbances.  Also, cafestol, a substance found in coffee, could trigger the rise of cholesterol.  High coffee consumption could result in loss of bone mineral density. 


Taking paracetamol with coffee could harm your liver.  

But there are people who say that coffee in moderation is actually beneficial.  From my point of view, anything that makes you an addict is bad.

Pranams to Swami Kriyananda and Grateful thanks to The Times of India.

25 July, 2012

Health Tips-47: Food and Energy

Our energy supply depends not primarily upon food and other external causes, but our capacity for smiles, for enthusiasm. People lead “one-horsepower lives” when they forget how to smile, when they overcomplicate their daily ruotine, and clutter their minds with the debris of useless desires and preoccupations – Swami Kriyananda

Excerpt from his article, “Rise above Chronic Fatigue” in The Times of India (date not available)

19 July, 2012

Health Tips-46: Fatigue

... The next time you feel fatigue, do some deep breathing.....  Swami Kriyananda

18 July, 2012

Health Warnings-17: Nail Polish and Diabetes

Nail polishes may increase diabetes risk in women, says a news item in The Times of India of July 18, 2012.  A study has found that phthalates commonly found in moisturisers, nail polishes, soaps, hair sprays and perfumes are endocrine disrupting chemicals and women with higher levels of phthalates in their urine are more likely to have diabetes.


I then searched the Net with the help of Google search engine and came across many interesting and useful articles, which reveal that phthalates could do harm to human beings in many ways.  I am furnishing below links to some of these, which may be of interest to you.


Urinary Phthalate Metabolite Concentrations and Diabetes among Women in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2001-2008 by Tamarra James-Todd, Richard Stahlhut, John D. Meeker, Sheena-Gail Powell, Russ Hauser, Tianyi Huang, Janet Rich-Edwards http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/info%3Adoi/10.1289/ehp.1104717


"Circulating Levels of Phthalate Metabolites Are Associated With Prevalent Diabetes in the Elderly" 
by Dr.P. Monica Lind, Dr.Björn Zethelius and Dr.Lars Lind:
http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/35/7/1519.full


"Phthalates and Metabolism: Exposure Correlates with Obesity and Diabetes in Men"
by Melissa Lee Phillips
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1892143/


Grateful thanks to The Times of India; Environmental Health Perspectives, an Open Access Journal; and Diabetes Care of American Diabetes Association



16 May, 2012

Health Quotes-8:

Health and cheerfulness mutually beget each other - Unknown

11 May, 2012

Health Facts-9: Radiation from Smoking

The radiation from smoking one pack of cigarettes a day is almost equal to that of 2000 chest x-rays - Fact of the Matter, Chennai Times, April 20, 2012.


Grateful thanks to The Times of India.

09 May, 2012

Videos to Watch-2: Animation about diabetes and the body




This short animation (8 minutes and 42 seconds) explains in very easy and simple language how the body works when unaffected by diabetes, with Type 1 diabetes with Type 2 diabetes. I found it quite interesting and useful. You may also like it and benefit by it. It has been so far viewed by 288,206 persons. Grateful thanks to Diabetesukcharity and YouTube.

23 March, 2012

Health News-27: Herbal Medicine for Leucoderma

A herbal medicine to cure Leucoderma has been developed by the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).  The medicine is called LUKOSKIN.  For more details, visit DRDO's website.

Grateful thanks to Tambaram Talk, March 18-24, 2012