Words: Vishal DUBEY  This is the edited version of the essay that won the Second Prize in ThinkWellness360 Essay Writing Competition 2022 for Homeopathic Medical College Students.  Introduction Over five million people used homeopathy in the year 2012, according to Health Survey Assessment on alternative health therapy usage in the United States. Homeopathy was used by 1.8 per cent of

Words: Shefali GAUTAM This is the edited version of the essay that won the First Prize in ThinkWellness360 Essay Writing Competition 2022 for Homeopathic Medical College Students. Introduction Hippocrates [460-370 BC], the father of medicine, postulated two principles of treating diseases: one, Contraria Contrariis Curantur [Latin], which means opposites may be cured by opposites. This principle teaches us

Words: Dr Joette CALABRESE Well, they’re at it again. And, early this year. News outlets all over are screaming from the rooftops: “Flu Warning. This year will be much worse than others.” Yeah, right. I’m pretty sure they say that every year. In fact, wasn’t last year supposed to be the ‘Winter of Death’? I’m

Words: Dr Sandra GOODMAN I am grateful, flattered and humbled by the invitation from Raj — Dr Rajgopal Nidamboor — to write a special piece for ThinkWellness360, for reaching its one-year milestone: First Anniversary. From the perspective of entering its 28th year of publication, Positive Health PH Online — launched in 1994 to refute the assertion

Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV There are as many opinions on the subject of ‘how to take homeopathic remedies’ as there are homeopaths. Understanding homeopathic posology, or the part of medicine concerned with dosage, is not easy. It really takes years of practice to get a feeling for it. The goal of Dr Samuel Hahnemann, MD,

Words: Dr Muralidhar ACHARYA Ayurveda — Ayur [Sanskrit], meaning, way; veda, knowledge — is the most ancient science of natural health and wellness. It is closely ‘fused’ with the yogic vision of life and consciousness. Health, to use a standard platitude, is not merely the absence of disease, or limited to a few measurable physiological

Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV  Hypericum perforatum [St John’s wort] is one of my ‘favourite’ homeopathic remedies, because when you need it, it doesn’t disappoint you. When you have had that unfortunate mishap, of let’s say shutting your finger in the car door, for example, or dropping a brick on your foot, you know that you

Words: Dr Narayan C DESHPANDE Dr Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, was born to a porcelain painter couple, in Meissen, Saxony, Germany, on April 10, 1755. His birthday, therefore, is fittingly celebrated as World Homeopathy Day, every year, in his honour, and to recognise, no less, the great contribution, also value, of

Words: Dr Narayan C DESHPANDE Wear a mask always. Keep social distance. Wash your hands thoroughly with soap, or sanitiser. All these instructions to avoid COVID-19, a solemn question in point today, are not new. My good old granny was fastidious to a fault, so to speak, about washing hands with soap, as soon as

Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV First the big question. What does it take to be healthy? Or, is it enough just to take a homeopathic remedy? The answer is absolutely not. Health has to be approached from several angles. The first ingredient is nutrition. You can prescribe the best remedies, but if the nutrition is poor