B.H.M.S., M.B.R.C.P. (Eng.), M.F.Hom. (Mal.), F.A.N. Dr. Kalyan Banerjee M.D. (Hom.), F. I. I. A. H. Homeopathy Under Attack • Legislation against funding • Studies disproving homeopathy works • Lack of Clinical Data – scientifically acceptable data – for the time • Studies in favor of homeopathy – too small • Many studies not devised well – engineered to reach positive conclusions? Homeopathy – Warped in Time? • Texts – written in the 19th Century and early 20th Century • Deviation from texts is generally not accepted • Relic of a science two hundred years old • Elaborate theoretic explanations for everything • Resting on laurels of the Founders Do we need to do anything? • Don’t rise to the bait? • Millions of followers as it is – testament enough? • Today’s science can’t prove it? • We were scientific in the 18th century • Unfair demands being made of homeopathy Clear and Present Danger • Rapidly - losing government funding • Illegal to stop conventional medicines • Negligence filed for choosing alternative medicine • Libel filed for criticizing conventional medicine • Homeopathy left as last and desperate option Latest Tools and Homeopathy • Variations in laboratory tests which define patients suffering – have little mention in the texts • Markers of disease and disease progress are ignored • Inability to use important diagnostic data in prescription • Emerging clinical entities – ill defined in our texts Confounding Variables • Different Remedies for the same case • Difference in use of single or multiple prescription • Difference in potency selection • Difference in repetition of doses • Validation of these differences? • Many ‘philosophies’ Advanced Homeopathy • Roots in Dr. Pareshnath Banerji’s Homeopathic Practice, 1918. • Formalised by Dr. Parimal Banerji, 1976 • 18 million prescriptions served, to date • Several thousand prescriptions served, every day. • Combating emerging clinical entities and understanding the changing faces of the ones we know of already. Advanced Homeopathy - Roots • Explosion of popularity of charitable practice • Need to devise ways of quick prescription • Complete absence of all other medical care in the vicinity • Inability to turn patients away • Compelled to take up serious cases • Handling 2500 cases a day Advanced Homeopathy • Reduces the variables of conventional homeopathy • Simplification of Drug and Potency Selection • Clinical data spread over 91 years utilized • Statistical analysis of different homeopathic medicines at different potencies for a given condition • Gives a specific medicine at a specific potency for given conditions Advanced Homeopathy • Shows that certain proved symptoms of a drug are never cured in patients • Different spheres of action at different potencies of the same drug • Validation of specific symptom groups of particular potencies. • Homeopathic medicines combinations, given in alternation, may significantly improve cure rates for specific conditions. Advanced Homeopathy • Quick Selection of drugs, with known effective potency • Second line of treatment, known to be effective if first line fails • Each stage clinically validated and statistically analyzed • Used in critical care with minimal time loss Constant Evolution • Contributions from botanists, statisticians and physicians • Findings presented at International Forums • Driven by the need to support a rather large patient base • Can continue to contribute to the science in general Thyroid Swelling • Painless, non tender and firm in consistency • No discomfort in deglutition or dysphonia • Mercurius Vivus 200c and Conium Mac 3c, usually once a day each • Average of 30 Thyroid cases seen per day at the Clinic Hepatic Ascites • Rapidly progressing in nature • Severe discomfort for the patient • Bryonia Alba 30c and China 200c, alternated every 2 hours or at a higher frequency • Average of 10 cases of liver disease is seen at the Clinic everyday. Psoriasis • Source of stigma and great physical discomfort • Antimonium Crudum 6c and Arsenic Album 200c greatly improves most cases Psoriasis • One dose each, every day • Alternated twice daily in rapidly progressing cases • Works well in different forms of dermatitis, also • An average of 20 cases of psoriasis seen every day at the Clinic The Struggle Within • Deviating from principles? • May not conform with many ‘hypotheses’ • Conforms with original homeopathic principles • Conditions treated with homeopathy alone, many times over • Worried about homeopathic ‘effects’? Clarification • Advanced Homeopathy is not fail safe • There are a wide variety of protocols that need to be understood, some times for one single illness • Rates of success with patients significantly improved • No deviation from the simple, easily comprehensible principles Advanced Homeopathy • Definitive remedy and potency selection • Definite second line of treatment • Definite basis for repetition of dose and how • Based on clinical information, validated and revalidated. • Only basis are its patients. No theories and hypotheses. ‘If you believed that there is a bond, Between our future and our past, Then try to hold on to what we had, We built ‘em strong, we built to last. This is a mighty town, Built upon solid ground, And everything they tried so hard to kill, We will rebuild.’ - Jimmy Nail Thank you.