Frequently Asked Questions

Homeopathy, a therapeutic system used for over 250 years, works on the principle that ‘like cures like’ — an illness is treated with a substance which could produce similar symptoms in a healthy person. However, medicines are given in highly diluted forms and are therefore extremely safe and have no side-effects.

It is a holistic system of treatment. It aims to treat the whole person, rather than just the physical symptoms.

It is a myth. It does not happen to all cases and always, if the chosen remedy matches the patient’s need. But if repeated more than the need or the potency is too high, often increases the complaints, but it would subside on its own as soon as the medicine is withdrawn.

Sometimes, a patient who is dependent on some other medicines, for example, steroids, stops them, then he gets the original disease symptoms, and considers that the disease has aggravated.

Avoid putting anything in your mouth for half-an-hour before or after taking your medicine. This is because medicines get absorbed from the inner linings of the mouth. Substances usually leave a coating in the oral cavity and also an odor. This may hinder the absorption of the medicine. You may, however drink water.
It is also advisable to avoid strong substances while taking remedies because these may antidote the remedy prescribed.
Strong household cleaners and other such chemical products may actually have a poisoning effect on the body.
Handling medicines can inactivate them; therefore, avoid touching the remedies. It is best to tip 4 pills into the lid of the container and then tip the medicine into your mouth. If the pills are touched or dropped, they should not be returned to the container. Otherwise your remedy will lose its ability to do its job.
Remedies should be stored away from strong light, strong temperature variations and strong smells.

Homeopathy is NOT slow acting. This myth is popular, because most of the people approaching us have a long history of chronic ailments, and hence the treatment takes time. Since homeopathy offers a much better alternative than allopathy in such ailments, it is believed that it is slow acting. Homeopathy is, in fact, FAST and RAPID in Action in acute conditions.

Most of our medicines are prepared in an alcohol base. The white sugar globules or pills are only a medium or vehicle for the transport of the medicine into the body. These doubts arise in people who use homeopathic medicines for the first time. It is the medicine (in liquid form) that acts on the patient.

No, homeopathic medicines do not have any side effects, as they are administered in minute doses and do not have a chemical or mechanical effect on the body.

The term ‘side effects’ of a medicine comes from modern pharmaceuticals. These drugs are aimed at one area of the body such as the cardiovascular system, the gut, the kidneys, etc. Though they have a primary area of action, they also affect other areas of the body. If these other affects are undesirable, they are known as adverse side effects. Streptomycin, an excellent antibiotic, has been known to cause deafness. The deafness is an adverse side effect.

Homeopathic remedies are not employed against one particular area or organ of the body. The remedy is chosen because it matches as closely as possible the totality of symptoms of the patient. Side effects, such as tissue destruction, do not occur under homeopathy.

Yes, it is totally safe for children. It can also be safely administered to pregnant females.

Yes, diabetics can take pills because the amount of sugar present is very minute. Also, medicines can be administered in distilled water, thereby avoiding pills.

Yes, it is effective and efficient in acute conditions and in emergencies. The right remedy, the right potency and the right dose can have amazing action in acute diseases.

Yes, it is a fact that medicines are first tested or proved on healthy human beings of both males and females. The effects are recorded and a compendium of the symptoms and signs is prepared. Using these compendia as references, a physician selects a remedy to be given to a patient.

Like any other system of medicine, homeopathy has its own limitations. By homoeopathy any ailment acute or chronic, local or general can be treated except diseases where surgery is unavoidable. Furthermore, we may note that many surgical diseases are treatable by homeopathic remedies to a great extant like enlarged tonsils, kidney stones, appendicitis, warts, piles, fissures, fistula and so on.

They are useful only to understand whether the case can respond to homeopathy or not and to decide the prognosis which can only be decided after an exhaustive case taking. These are also necessary to assess the progress in the case.