An Appeal.

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Dear Doctors,

 

Namaskar. I am not exactly a person who has no knowledge of medicine. I had

studied hard to become a doctor. The fact that I was an asthmatic put paid to my

dreams, I must thank God for that !! But my medical intuition led me to study

other modes of treatment and I also came into contact with various doctors who

are on very friendly terms with me. It is my perfunctory knowledge of alternate

medicine that permits me to undertake this discussion with you all.

 

Sadly my interaction with various groups makes it amply clear that alternate

medicine is not yet prepared to become mainstream because of utter neglect over

the years. Therefore it becomes imperative that these magnificient systems

should stay in the shadow of allopathy (a term devised by Hahnemann, I admit)

for some more years to come. However the problem is that the doctors do not have

the confidence that their science can emerge as an alternate to modern medicine.

This attitude will allow the principles of modern medicine to dominate and

commandeer the future of alternate medicine.

 

I am also sad at the talk of integrated medicine. As a patient who has

experienced the ravages of disease in full flow, unlike the doctors, I fully

realise that such attempts will lead to anything but cure. The resultant mellee

will be very similiar to the concept of " disease management " as is being

practiced today in the name of medicine, or even worse because disease is not a

static entity, it is dynamic.

 

While all this is very good, we must not forget that we are progressively

declining as far as humanity is concerned. Today we have juvenile diabetes,

juveline heart disorders, juvenile mental illness and other infantile genetic

disorders spreading like the cholera and small pox epidemics of yore. Only those

diseases killed instantly but the present disorder forces one to lead an

incomplete life like a polio struck child. On the otherhand we have warnings of

cancers, dementia, parkinsons, alzheimers spreading alarmingly at the other end

of the spectrum. We also face a steep decline in morality and values and also

emerging perversions which cannot be viewed as separate from these disorders.

The scene doesn't look too good. I think we may have been better off if there

would have been no medical system at all.

 

As has been rightly mentioned, any form of medicine would have evolved like

modern medicine had they been given the chance. I see nothing wrong with that

because all the other systems have spirituality and ethics as a base unlike

modern medicine which began by denying the existence of anything beyond matter

and beyond the senses. As an Indian brought up on value based education I find

modern medicine utterly disgusting. I'm sure there are still people like me

around the globe. The deluge of mails I have received since I have started my

campaign on the net bears ample testimony to that.

 

What I appeal to you is that use allopathic diagnostic tools if required, there

is no harm in that, but please PLEASE do not allow the basic principles of your

own system to be diluted in the name of integrated medicine. If you do that you

may lead a comfortable life on earth (as long as the present civillisation

exists, that is) but both providence and posterity will not forgive your

mistake. I find it very difficult to understand that if foreigners like Svoboda,

Attreya, and Frawley (I suppose he is Vamadeva too) can have such a wonderful

conceptual hold on the principles then why can't the Indian doctors master them

? Is it so difficult ? The physicians of India were mostly farmers but they

could master the nuances of the science. Why can't we?

 

There is talk of the benefits of synthetic drugs derived from the plant species.

Of the benefits of radiation, of chemotherapy, of genetic tinkering, of

vaccinations, of antibiotics, of blood/serum transfusions. Let me tell you that

all these methods are frought with grave dangers and can make even acute

diseases hereditory. As alternate medicine practitioners can you really permit

future generations to suffer just for temporary palliation? Suppressive

treatment has never done anybody any good and it never will.

 

I think the distractors of alternate medicine should ask God to let them be

reborn as patients to suffer the torture of modern medicine so that they can

really understand what I am trying to convey. Nothing less will do. As I said

earlier, I too wish that my father had been a homeopath so that I would not have

had to lead such a traumatic life. I too could have been very comfortable with a

well paid MNC job and touring the world, just as my younger brother whom I have

fenced with homeopathy from a very early age. However I don't really mind. I may

have suffered a lot but I have the satisfaction of being nearer to my God in the

process.

 

It is very difficult to understand disease and also what modern medicine is

without being a patient in their hands. Really difficult.

 

Respectfully yours,

Jagannath.

 

 

 

 

 

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