Holistic Medicine--My Personal View

Personally speaking, my faith in medicine ( many streams of that ) can be summed up as follows, especially after my Bone Marrow Tranplant at Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, Tamil Nadu.

I have no faith at all in Homeopathy. I have tried it many times. It works mostly ( if at all) as PLACEBO. Placebo effect can be achieved (for example) by me giving my friend plain 'Maida' or 'Atta' tablets and convincing him that they are latest sure-fire drug for say sarcoidosis; and it will work to a certain degree and for some time, if he happens to have faith in me as a Doctor ( if I were one). But the effect will not last.

There is a Scientist in USA who has deposited One Million Dollars in a Bank which is available to any one in the world who proves scientifically that Homeopathy works. One of the TV channels aired a story of that some time ago, which finally concluded that about ten Homeo- Doctors who tried their best, failed to claim the PRIZE !! They just could not prove Homeopathy's efficacy.

Again, I do not believe Ayurveda has any cure for infectious diseases at all. Some ( just some) systemic diseases can have 'palliative' effect with it. No cure. My grandfather tried it for 20 years for Piles as well as for Rheumatism and I personally know that it failed miserably. Massages with Ayurvedic oils 'SEEM" to give relief due to the short term effect of the MASSAGE ITSELF ( massage improves blood circulation). The oils provide nothing but lubrication. Rubbing our skins with bare dry hands will irritate the skin as we all know; hence the oils.

Allopathy works. Yes, Allopathy has serious side effects. But in Allopathy there is this dictum of choosing the better of the TWO EVILS...that is (1) painful side effects or, (2) Death. We all know which to choose, without going to a Medical College.

Holistic medicine is a combination of all above three and some more ( including Prayer,Aroma Therapy, Crystal Therapy, Reiky, Vaasthu, meditation, Yoga, etc).


Even Vaasthu followers claim great medical wonders if we follow their advice, though Vaasthu is mainly about land and buildings and placements of furniture and so on. It is ( foolishly in my view) said to bestowe great mental abilities to even an embryo at conception. The father of, the world famous Bihari boy, who passed M.Sc Physics/Math at age 13, got the brilliant brain as per his father ( in a Televised interview),because the boy was conceived when his mother's head was in the North-East direction.

Prayer has booster effect, provided :- (1) the patient himself prays fervently with full faith, (2) his near & dear ones pray IN HIS PRESENCE, and he aware of it, (3) his friendly groups from his circles, (Church, School & College etc.) pray and he is made to know that they are sincerely praying for his recovery. Some Church members praying for the patient in some place in Timbuktu will have no effect on him. By the same logic when Reiky practitioners say their system can be effective from any distance, that is just too much to digest .

Two unrelated groups of Christian-believer-Scientists had conducted experiments about the effect of prayer on patients' condition, and proved that the patient's conscious awareness that some groups(s) are praying for him had positive booster effect on top of the effects of medicines or surgery. JUST PLAIN PRAYER WITHOUT ingesting say, Chloromycetin will not cure Typhoid. Nor fully blocked cardiac arteries, can be set right with only prayer,without bypass surgery or stent insertion done.

Holistic Medical Practioners are well meaning nice guys but the effectiveness they claim may be too tall. The simple deductive logic is that otherwise Mayo Clinics and Apollo Hospitals and CMC Vellore Hospitals of this world would not continue to exist and prosper.
Tito