Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Sore throat is a common problem in children. It may, ironically, not be as simple as it looks on the surface. While viruses cause a majority of throat infections, bacteria are no less to blame. Just think of it: a mild irritation, or a more serious infection, such as laryngitis, may

Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH It’s difficult, but also exciting, to believe that ThinkWellness360 is one-year-old. Time flies, yes. As I now reflect on the past year, I realise that it has been my privilege to create in words a comprehensive selection of articles on the many fascinating aspects of classical homeopathy. All my articles, through

Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV We have all witnessed the scare, also excitement, over the swine flu epidemic. I want to say a few things about it from the homeopathic perspective. There was a fear that the swine flu epidemic could turn into a pandemic, or worldwide epidemic, of the proportions that the world experienced in the Spanish

Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH Disease is a result of a morbific stimulus which resonates with the particular level of susceptibility [predisposition] of the organism. The stimulus, or exciting, cause may be a microorganism, chemical, emotion, vaccination, etc., but without a strong susceptibility to the morbific agent, disease is not produced. That is, there must be

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Homeopathy places a natural ‘firewall’ within our systems. It makes us better equipped to fend intruders, or beat them naturally, without the fear of unwanted ripple-, or side-effects, in our system. Homeopathy suggests that bacteria, or viruses, are not, in actuality, the only cause of disease, or illness. Such microorganisms actually

Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH If you are living in a part of the world that is consistently challenged by its weather, you understand the burning desire to get out of the house and into the luscious environment brought forth by the coming of temperate days. Children are already enthusiastically awaiting temperatures that are conducive to

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Headaches are as old as civilisation. Our ancients, perhaps, believed that certain spirits were to blame for headaches, including insanity and epilepsy [fits]. It is contended that William Harvey — the first physician to discover the function of the heart and circulation of blood — recommended trepanation, or the process of

Words: Dr Barbara ETCOVITCH It was right from the late 1700s up until the early 1800s that Sir Isaac Newton promoted the definition of the universe as being made up of solid objects. Newtonian physics was extended into the 19th century to describe a universe composed of fundamental building blocks called atoms. Atoms were thought

Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR First things, first. Most people think that homeopathy is simple; some folks, likewise, think it is complex. It is best to recall the wise words of Sir John Weir, the great Scottish physician and homeopath — you’d have seen him portrayed in the award-winning Netflix series, Crown — to the British