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

Words: Dr Yusuf Mikail OLATUNJI Moringa oleifera is the popular drumstick tree. It belongs to the moringalea family native to India. It is also found in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, and Africa. The tree, in its completest form, can grow up to a height of 5-10m. Moringa possesses an extremely rich seed, edible leaves, and flowers;

Words: Dr Harisha JANAMARAJU It’s a given, that, since the dawn of time, or civilisation, certain women couldn’t bear children. The sad part was they were ridiculed with spiteful tags and tabs which inferred that infertility was a flaw, a major fault. Worse still, it was only women that had to endure the brunt of

Words: Dr Minati SAHA Kidney stones, or renal calculi, nephrolithiasis, or urolithiasis, are not a contemporary phenomenon. They have been known, or documented, since ancient times. They are called ‘kidney stones’ owing to their distinctive similitude to garden pebbles. They form in the ‘craters’ of the renal accumulating system from metabolic by-products found in the

Words: Dr Anne VERVARKE While everybody is still asking what is going on, it seems like, in the midst of the hypnosis and hysteria, the first and fundamental question is forgotten.This question is: do viruses cause diseases? Do bacteria or other ‘pathogens’ cause diseases? As natural healers we know they don’t; it is the false