World Homoeopathic Day on April 10, birthday of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann

It's World Homoeopathic Day on April 10, birthday of Dr. Samuel Hahnemann

Homoeopathy as the world literally means is ‘Homoeo' means similar, and ‘pathy' means suffering ; originally a German word and coined by the father of homoeopathic medicine, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, whose birth anniversary happens to be on April 10.

Dr.Hahnemann, a physician himself who sought to think differently had observed that if there is a substance which produces a set of symptoms in an individual when given to the same patient in a more refined, diluted and dynamised form gets rid of the disease and the similar symptoms that patient is suffering from. That is what homoeopathy is based on i.e ‘Let likes be treated by likes'. The homoeopathic medicines wake up the slumbered immune system into activity through the similar symptoms. The better part of this system is that there are no side effects of the medicine.

We celebrate a number of world awareness days. We also spend a lot for SMSs and phone calls to greet our friends on such days. Now, April 10th, the birthday of our master Dr Samuel Hahnemann. It should be celebrated as "World Homoeopathy Day".

Lets put our hands together and be prepared to celebrate the world homoeopathy day 2011. We can make this day more successful by organising free homeopathic medical camps and public awareness camps.

With Warm Regards
Dr. K. C. Biswal,
Founder & CEO

IIT scientists said the homeopathic medicines work on the principle of nanotechnology.

MUMBAI: Six months after the British Medical Association rubbished homeopathy as witchcraft with no scientific basis, IIT scientists have said the sweet white pills work on the principle of nanotechnology.

Homeopathic pills containing naturally occurring metals such as gold, copper and iron retain their potency even when diluted to a nanometre or one-billionth of a metre, states the IIT-Bombay research published in the latest issue of 'Homeopathy', a peer-reviewed journal from reputed medical publishing firm Elsevier.

IIT-B's chemical engineering department bought homeopathic pills from neighbourhood shops, prepared highly diluted solutions and checked these under powerful electron microscopes to find nanoparticles of the original metal.rnrn''Certain highly diluted homeopathic remedies made from metals still contain measurable amounts of the starting material, even at extreme dilutions of 1 part in 10 raised to 400 parts (200C),'' said Dr Jayesh Bellare from the scientific team.rnrnHis student, Prashant Chikramane, presented the homeopathy paper titled, 'Extreme homeopathic dilutions retain starting materials: A nanoparticulate perspective', as part of his doctoral thesis.

"Homeopathy has been a conundrum for modern medicine. Its practitioners maintained that homeopathic pills got more potent on dilution, but they could never explain the mechanism scientifically enough for the modern scientists,'' said Bellare.

Source:
IIT-B team shows how homeopathy works - The Times of India
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/IIT-B-team-shows-how-homeopathy-works/articleshow/7108579.cms#ixzz18TUyUgtz

Extreme homeopathic dilutions retain starting materials: A nanoparticulate perspective

Homeopathy is controversial because medicines in high potencies such as 30c and 200c involve huge dilution factors (10 to the power 60 and 10 to the power 400 respectively) which are many orders of magnitude greater than Avogadro's number, so that theoretically there should be no measurable remnants of the starting materials.

No hypothesis which predicts the retention of properties of starting materials has been proposed nor has any physical entity been shown to exist in these high potency medicines. Using market samples of metal-derived medicines from reputable manufacturers, we have demonstrated for the first time by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), electron diffraction and chemical analysis by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES), the presence of physical entities in these extreme dilutions, in the form of nanoparticles of the starting metals and their aggregates.

Prashant Satish Chikramane,1
Akkihebbal K. Suresh,1,2
Jayesh Ramesh Bellare,1,2
Shantaram Govind Kane,1

1. Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, Adi Shankaracharya Marg, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, Maharashtra, India

2. Department of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, Adi Shankaracharya Marg, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, Maharashtra, India

Source :
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WXX-518T4YP-3&_user=10&_coverDate=10%2F31%2F2010&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=browse&_origin=browse&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=a3db0372718ee97b89c5e0e5c84be515

Dr. D. P. Rastogi Is No More - The Similibis Team Convey Heartfelt Condolences

I am deeply grieved at the passing away of Dr. D. P. Rastogi. He was a gem in Indian Homeopathy and all his life remained in the field of homeopathy. He made a remarkable contribution to the homeopathic fraternity. The passing away of Dr. D. P. Rastogi is a great loss not only for his family and friends but also for the whole homeopathic faculty of the country. For all of us in homeopathic life he was a role model.

I convey my heartfelt condolences to all his family members.

Dr. K. C. Biswal,
Director, Similibis.com

Easy way to maintain happy life in stressful conditions

Our life is a rare valuable gift of nature. It is the divine blessing. Accept the life as it is. Life is precious as it gives you opportunity to live and grow as a human being. So live every moment of your life fully.

Life is beautiful and it seems beautiful if you understand it and learn to manage it. It gives you choice of letting things happen or turning the circumstances favorable by sensible discretion. Organize your life with self control, discipline and healthy lifestyle. This little investment of self discipline and healthy life style will grow in such a way that it will fill your life with happiness.

Learn to live stress free. Every one’s life has moments of happiness and sadness, good health and sickness. Take the ups and downs of life in positive spirit. Be alert to identify risk and take sensible steps to minimize them. Fear of bad will only make your life miserable and will hinder your enjoyment of good time. If something happens, face it and again take sensible steps to minimize damage and early recovery. If you want to enjoy game of life, do not be scared of losing, just play with true spirit.

Learn to live in present. Sometimes we waste precious moments of life by brooding about past or worrying about future. The value of past is to learn from it and grow. Future is nothing but outcome of our present thinking and living. Present is life. Live the moments of present to best of your ability and enjoy them at your best. Poorly lived present will soon become bad past.

Whatever happens in life is not by accident but by combination of some factors. Some of these are under our control and some are not. Do not create stress for yourself by worrying about uncontrollable factors but manage circumstances by bringing about positive change in controllable factors. For example growing age is not under our control but being prepared for comfortable old age by healthy living, sensible planning and adjustment to changing circumstances can make your life smooth and pleasant.

Good health is very helpful for a meaningful and happy life. But good health does not come automatically. It requires understanding of causes of sickness. Neither getting too much worried about sickness nor being casual about health is good. One can live healthy life by minimizing sickness causing factors and improving health promoting factors. Make yoga and meditation part of your life. Organized life & good lifestyle goes a long way in giving you good health.

In every person’s life two aspects play very crucial role. One is family & social relations and other is vocation or profession. One can create a happy life by nurturing them in one’s life. Both require good management to help them grow as a strong support system in life. Human relations require good communication and mutual acceptance. One should be sensitive to read the chemistry of relationship and take appropriate measures to avoid any strain in them. Vocation or profession too require careful selection and planning to be a strong support. Your profession can help you financially, socially and can also give you psychological satisfaction.

What to do in difficult and ‘not so happy’ circumstances?

• First of all, prevention is better than cure.
  
• So try to manage life to minimize such state. But if it still occurs, you can still find a way out.
• In stressful / anxious moments, do not try to avoid it and do not imagine dangerous outcome. This will only increase your anxiety and hinder your ability to find a solution.
• Think about the possible solutions.
• Take professional help.
• Be solution oriented in place of being problem oriented.
• Do not give up or get disheartened. Have faith and pray.
• Work on solution with strong belief.
• As a long term measure, give your life a meaning, a purpose.
• This will motivate you to keep going even in difficult times.

Life need not be a bed of roses but it can be a pleasant experience even with ups and downs. It has its certainty with element of uncertainty. By managing life to avoid major difficulties and by enduring difficult times, one can grow as a stronger human being, mature and capable. And that is the completeness of life.

Homeopathy Arsenic 30 preventive for H1N1 flu, says CCRH

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