Medical Issues : Private hospitals in India adopt alternate therapies.

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Dear Friends, I don't believe in integrated medicine. A hotch potch of various therapies is the same "sickness maintainence" that we are seeing now. It can only palliate and cannot lead to a cure. But at the present juncture such news should be welcome. At least it will make the medical community consider referring cases to alternate healers instead of keeping them alive on mechanical devices. Such cross referrals are not rare in India. Around 13 years ago a neigbour of mine in the terminal stages of cancer was referred to homeopathy by Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad. The person lived another six years cursing himself for not seeking alternate help earlier. A colleague of mine was similiarly referred to ayurveda by a Calcutta Cancer Hospital doctor. He is alive, all the parameters are normal now, but terribly weakened by the repeated chemotherapy and radiation. He does not like meeting me as that reminds him how I had

implored him to go for alternative treatment right from the very beginning. The doctors will ask you to go for other systems when you are in the last stages of Cancer or AIDS. Is it not better to take the decision early in life? It may save you a lot of trouble later in life. I know, because I too sail in the same boat. Regards, Jagannath. Alternative therapy comes of age in private hospitals Yoga Rangatia/ New Delhi http://www.dailypioneer.com/indexn12.asp?main_variable=NATION & file_name=nt1%2Etxt & counter_img=1 The Government may be slow in giving indigenous systems of medicine its due, but hospitals in private sector have gone two steps ahead with integrating the traditional and modern systems of medicine. "We did extensive research with homoeopathy for critical care. We found homoeopathy useful for post-surgery keloid, hiccups and even pain management," said Dr Rachna Singh, head of integrated medicines at Escorts Heart Institute. She did extensive research for three years before starting a homoeopathy OPD. "I look at about seven critical cases every day," Dr Singh said.

At Indian Spinal Injuries Centre, acupuncture is offered as a treatment choice for spinal inuries, including slip disc. "Acupuncture has shown to be very effective for chronic back ache, slip disc, migraine. After spinal surgery, many patients experience problem of bladder control. With acupuncture, these have been cured whereas earlier they relied on catheter," said Dr OP Chabra, an allopathic doctor, who has taken to acupuncture practice at the Centre. Earlier, at Vidya Sagar Institute of Mental Health (VIMHANS) he helped introduce acupuncture for psychiatric care. "Modern medicine has no treatment for migraine, but with acupuncture we have cured most chronic cases," he added. Even Safdurjung Hospital has an ayurveda department and Ram Manohar Lohia have unani medicines department. Yoga is routinely prescribed in leading cardiac treatment centres. "This interface is inevitable. Modern medicine is excellent for controlling acute conditions, but it is also picking the best from other systems for chronic ailments, where allopathy has limitations," said Dr VN Pandey, ayurveda expert and former director of Central Council for Research in Ayurveda and Sidha. "We have shown good results with skin and respiratory ailments, especially for children. Instead of giving them steroids, we treat them with homoeopathy. After cardiac surgery, patients are helped with homoeopathy. So much antibiotics

have already been given to the patients that doctors and patients opt for homoeopathy," Dr Singh said. While the progressive among the allopathic are amenable to referring chronic cases for traditional medicine, others fall prey to underlining rivalry between the modern and classical systems. "Allopathy doctors are either ignorant or have a bias against the traditional system. Patients are not referred by them to acupuncture, rather the patient tries out acupuncture as a last resort," said Dr Chabra. He suggests medical students be taught basics of all systems of medicine in their course to develop critical view of medicine. Lack of resources is stifling the development of the indigenous systems. "There has been a serious neglect of Indian system of medicine. The Government only allocates three per cent of its health budget to these systems. Lack of resources means the scientific input for growth of the indigenous system is lagging behind," Dr Pandey felt. To unleash the potential of traditional medicines, the Government can learn from China. Students of medicine are trained in allopathy and traditional Chinese medicine. Little wonder, the Chinese have captured the growing multi-billion herbal drugs medicine. "Our ideal is not

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[Guest guest]

Dear Jagannath

 

What do you mean by integrated medicine?

 

Love and Light

 

Jane

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

I don't believe in integrated medicine.

[Guest guest]

I don't believe in integrated medicine.

 

I don't either...

 

I think this is a word the poison pushers use to baffle the patients.

With so much about alternative methods out there, the system needs to

deceive their base by semantics. So make a word work then use the word

to let patients 'think' they are getting some sort of better care.

 

How can one poison a plant and feed it at the same time? That, in

essence, is the integrated medicine gig imho.

 

Beth

 

Jane MacRoss wrote:

 

Dear Jagannath

 

What do you mean by integrated medicine?

 

Love and Light

 

Jane

 

 

Dear Friends,

 

I don't believe in integrated medicine.

[Guest guest]

Dear Jane,

 

For the past many years private hospitals in India have been loosing

patients to alternative therapies. They also know that many of their

patients are also taking other medicines. To them all this is a loss

of revenue. Therefore they are mooting their case for integrated

medicine i.e. combining allopathy, ayurveda, homeopathy, reiki etc.

So it means you have chemotherapy for cancer and ayurveda for

tackling the side effects and so on. But in effect this remains

allopathy as the same reductionist philosophy is in use. These

hospitals have in house ayurveds and homeopaths who do at their

bidding.

 

I loved your comments on the mad hatters and dentists. In other

groups people are mad at dentists for using mercury as fillings and

they should be.

 

Regards,

Jagannath.

 

, " Jane MacRoss "

<HIGHFIELD@H...> wrote:

>

> Dear Jagannath

>

> What do you mean by integrated medicine?

>

> Love and Light

>

> Jane

>

> Dear Friends,

>

> I don't believe in integrated medicine.

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks Jag

 

I understand your principle however sometimes one can successfully use many ways to heal people and it depends on who and why these multiple methods are chosen - sometimes speed is of the essence - a pill under the tongue and a pressure point can achieve more together than either alone.

 

I used to be so "one eyed" for homeopathy and to have this resistance to all other forms of treatment broken down I saw many other methods work well in different ways, expansion takes many forms.

 

Love and Light

 

 

Jane

 

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jagchat01

Dear Jane,For the past many years private hospitals in India have been loosing patients to alternative therapies. They also know that many of their patients are also taking other medicines. To them all this is a loss of revenue. Therefore they are mooting their case for integrated medicine i.e. combining allopathy, ayurveda, homeopathy, reiki etc. So it means you have chemotherapy for cancer and ayurveda for tackling the side effects and so on. But in effect this remains allopathy as the same reductionist philosophy is in use. These hospitals have in house ayurveds and homeopaths who do at their bidding.I loved your comments on the mad hatters and dentists. In other groups people are mad at dentists for using mercury as fillings and they should be.Regards,Jagannath.

[Guest guest]

How can we poison a plant and feed it too?

 

 

Exactly Beth. I will use this similie.

 

Thanks,

Jag.

[Guest guest]

What I feel is non medicine cures like accupressure and reiki etc.

can be used alongside others. Like we can always do yoga, pranayama

with almost any therapy. But if we are taking other medicines it

will certainly interfere. Homeopaths get very irritated because any

other medicine would affect the total symptomatic picture.

 

You also know that biochemic remedies and mother tinctures are

sometimes resorted to by homeopaths. Likewise the use of mud bath,

sweat bath etc of naturopathy could only contribute towards ones

welfare. But fasting and all would require a doctors advice.

 

Regards,

Jag.

 

, " Jane MacRoss "

<HIGHFIELD@H...> wrote:

>

> Thanks Jag

>

> I understand your principle however sometimes one can successfully

use many ways to heal people and it depends on who and why these

multiple methods are chosen - sometimes speed is of the essence - a

pill under the tongue and a pressure point can achieve more together

than either alone.