Dr Namitha RAJENDRAN P C responds to ThinkWellness360 questionnaire. Why and how did you think of becoming a doctor? When I was a child my mother often took me to a renowned homeopath, Dr Karthiyayini Sreedharan, in Bangalore [now Bengaluru], for growth-related health issues. The good doctor’s compassion, juxtaposed by a barrage of advice about
Words: Niharika SAPRA This is the edited version of the essay that won the Third Prize in ThinkWellness360 Essay Writing Competition 2022 for Homeopathic Medical College Students. It was the foresight of Dr Samuel Hahnemann, MD, the founder of homeopathy, that ushered in a ground-breaking upshot: ‘treat the patient with the disease, not just the disease in isolation.’ Modern medicine
Words: Dr Ambika P NAYAK There are three support systems of life as elucidated in Ayurveda literature — aahaara [food], nidra [sleep] and brahmacharya [self-discipline]. The objective of food is to maintain a healthy body and mind through nourishment. This sets the precedence to treatment — as is the relevant concern, according to Ayurveda, so
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR The Celestine Prophecy was sociologist James Redfield’s first book. And, you wouldn’t believe it, thanks to his superb use of words and craft. The testimony? Over ten million copies of Redfield’s maiden effort would have sold in the US alone. What’s more, for a spiritual novel, capitalising on Americans’ search for
Words: Dr David J HAWES Anyone who has raised children, or grown up with siblings knows there are some bumpy times in a child’s life. When the smallest upset causes a major tantrum. Or, when it’s close to impossible to get them out the door on time for school. Or, when your adorable angel acts
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR We live in ‘a pill for every ill’ society. Most people today have been ‘coached’ through print and other media to accept the idea that pharmaceutical, or conventional, drugs are the best, or, perhaps, the only answer to most medical problems, or issues. Our drug-inclined society has also been taught to
Words: Dr Richard FIRSHEIN Recent medical research indicates that specific antioxidants, such as lutein, can lower the risk of eye disease, and prevent macular degeneration, cataracts, and glaucoma from occurring. Macular degeneration is a process that obstructs vision by damaging the fragile capillaries in the eye. It is the leading cause of blindness among people
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Philosophers aver that conscious awareness cannot exist in the presence of any disconnect with our ‘latent’ unconscious. This is because nothing can relate to our conscious awareness if it did not emanate from the unconscious plane of our consciousness. In other words, when there is some sort of ‘off-putting’ disengagement with
Words: Dr Deborah OLENEV If some billionaire were to offer me a million dollars as a gift, or knowledge, of the bowel nosodes, as an alternate reward, I would say keep your million dollars, but give me knowledge of the bowel nosodes. This may be one of the philosopher’s stones that the alchemists were searching
Words: Dr Rajgopal NIDAMBOOR Constipation is a common digestive disorder. It is the classical outcome of wrong eating habits and sedentary lifestyle. The problem is most often under-diagnosed, since most folks prefer to try a lot of unwanted medications, rather than report for treatment. What’s more, the belief that constipation leads to accumulation of toxins
