Sunday
December 25 2005 08:54 IST
Deviating
from the trend of rejecting homeopathy
treatment and medicine as mere placebos, the World Health
Organisation (WHO)
has declared that homeopathy is the second-most used medical
system
internationally.
"Clinical trials have proved that this
method of treatment has been
successful if the practitioners have taken into account
the individual
holistic nature of the patient before opting for homeopathy," says
Dr T N
Sreedhara Kurup, Assistant Director In-Charge of the
Central Research
Institute for Homeopathy.
Different patients will receive different treatments
for the same disease
making it difficult to conduct randomised control trials,
he said. "
Homeopathy is that stream of medicine, which prescribes
medicines suitable
to the individual and the cost of treatment is affordable
when compared to
Allopathy. Besides, it is claimed that homeopathic medicines
are devoid of
any harmful side-effects," says Dr Ravi M Nair,
a homeopathy specialist.
About 500 million people rely on homeopathy treatment
in the world. As a system
of medicine, it draws support from hundreds of thousands
of doctors, teaching
institutions and universities where homeopathy is taught.
Research centres and manufacturing units with focus
on developing newer
drugs for treatment of diseases provide ample proof that
homeopathic
medicines are not mere placebos, Nair said.
Modern medicine and research too have arrived at a premise
that many
diseases have their origin in genes. It was 200 years
ago that Samuel
Hahnemann started working on this concept to evolve a
mode of treatment
based on the individual requirements called homeopathy,
he said.
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