Dear Sister Joyoti,

Namaskar. I fully sympathise with you and your plight as I too have gone through
a lot of suffering in life. Only I found out that it was modern science that had
led me to a state of limbo and made me face death for seventeen long years. It
was an extremely horrid time I assure you.

When I decided to go off drugs and search for alternate methods of healing I was
termed a lunatic by everyone and my doctors washed their hands off me, probably
with relief, as they could do little to help. I was suffering from multiple
sclerosis, suicidal depression, mood swings/disorders, panic disorder,
intractable insomnia, asthma, irritable bowel and an ischaemic heart. Quite a
mouthful don't you think? Today I am leading a near normal life and even trying
to reach out to help others. My erstwhile allopathic doctors look at me with awe
surprised that I was able to pull out of that crisis. All this was thanks to a
homoeopath who still treats me on the net.

The problems I am left with now are a result of nearly 30 years of using
allopathic drugs. This condition is known as iatrogenic illness (I hope I have
got the term right) and is the name given to illnesses resulting from side
effects of allopathic drugs, injections and vaccinations. But I am still
fighting and Sri Ramakrishna willing I will be out of the woods.

Today it is widely recognised that many of the chronic diseases we all suffer
from today are a result of allopathic intervention. I have given this example
before but I give it again now;

Imagine the body to be a very delicate and costly machine. To save it from harm
and ensure that it runs smoothly the maker has installed some in built warning
signals; a red lamp that blinks, a siren, a delicate fuse and so on. This
machine falls into the hands of an untrained mechanic. When the machine
developes an internal error, the red light blinks. The mechanic hammers the
light so that it stops blinking. When the siren wails, he shuts it out. And when
the delicate fuse blows off he replaces it with a heavy duty one. The defective
machine still goes on working and the mechanic is happy that he has "fixed" the
problem. Then one day the machine splutters and dies out. The mechanic is
surprised that "in spite of the best care" the machine has failed.

Allopathy, or modern medicine, tries to suppress symptoms without going to the
root cause of the disease. When the symptoms are suppressed the body continues
to work but the person feels very uneasy. The doctor assures him that everything
is all right as he displays no symptoms. Ultimately the patient comes down with
diseases such as diabetes, cancer, immune deficiency etc which have no cure in
allopathy. So the scientists start tinkering ever more with genes, stem cells
not knowing that even those attempts will bring only temporary relief and lead
the patient to even greater agony.

These are only the physical side effects of suppression. The mental agony the
patient faces can only be known by the sufferer (like you and me). The law of
cure is within outward as the body, or the vital force (prana) always tries to
throw the disease out. Suppression drives the disease deep into the body
affecting the internal organs and the mind. Today the very immune system is at
risk as evident by the rising cases of AIDS, Tuberculosis etc. Mentally too
depression, insomnia, inability to handle stress, suicidal tendencies,
irrational and intemperate behaviour are very commonplace in todays world
serviced by scientific medicine.

Modern medicine follows the reductionist system dividing the physical body into
its constituent parts or cells. In the process it loses sight of the patient.
The cardiologist is very happy to replace a valve, the oncologist feels great
satisfaction in removing a cancerous growth, the endocrinologist keeps blood
sugar at bay with insulin all without observing the patient as a whole or
whether they are contributing towards a cure. They are more interested in
"disease management" as they have come to realise that allopathic principles do
not hold out hopes of a cure. When the patient ultimately breathes his last they
assure the relatives that they "have done their best". They are too short
sighted to notice the agony of the patient or study the long term effects of
their treatment. They declare war on the body without trying to help the person
involved. Modern medicine has become like fast food, very easy to cook, good to
eat but dangerous for health.

Today a parallel movement, which already exists, is drawing the attention of
patients with seemingly incurable diseases. These methods like yoga, ayurveda,
homoeopathy, naturopathy treats the patient and not just the disease. The
miracles are there for all to see and even the allopaths acknowledge the
benefits. Appolo group of Hospitals, super speciality hospitals in India, now
refer incurable patients often in their last stages, to these doctors. I have
personally seen the prescription of a terminal cancer patient containing the
remarks, "Refered to homoeopathy". These hospitals are now opening alternate
medicine departments and appointing yoga trainers. Recently the Mumbai
Municipality have opened ayurvedic clinics at all of its 164 hospitals in
Mumbai. Conscientious allopaths, Dr Deepak Chopra, MD, to name one, are
denouncing further "advances" and reputed oncologists are studying the role of
karma in disease. The Govt of India is waking up and sprucing up its ayurvedic
and
homoeopathy medical colleges. It has recently announced the opening of 14 new
ayurvedic colleges all over India. The outlay for alternative medicine research
has been increased manifold and a Council for Alternative Medicine has been
formed.

Human disease is now no longer being seen as a local individualised physical
malady alone. Not only are the mental, emotional, spiritual and social aspects
being studied but even the inter relationship of human disease on environment
and other species is being studied with great interest. This system is being
termed eco-medicine where methods by which nature and all its inhabitants can
live in harmony and thus eradicate disease both at the micro and macro level are
being studied. This study holds great hope and has already noted the effects of
human illness on society and environment whereby a vicious cycle has been
formed.

I wish to end with the words of Hahnemann, "Cure is restoring a person his
former state of health both mental and physical, by assisting nature and based
on methods that are fully comprehensible and easily understood."

So Joyoti, the fight against modern medicine is not a fight of religion against
science but a fight between science and an anomaly that tries to project itself
as a science.

If you are willing I would request you to kindly contact me off the list so that
I can help you fight your disease. As a brother it is my solemn duty to do so.

Love & regards,
Jagannath.