HOMEOPATHY – A GREAT PALLIATIVE

Far too many cases of terminal illnesses will find the patient suffering agonies of pain. The agony is such that in a large number of such cases the patient with his near relatives would wish that euthanasia were legal. Homeopathy can provide relief from pain and reduce suffering in most such cases – that too without any of the harmful side effects of pain killers associated with traditional treatment and at an infinitesimal fraction of the cost of traditional pain killers.
But these doctors will never let you use them. On the one hand they equate homeopathy with witchcraft, while on the other hand they are so afraid of homeopathy that they banish all homeopathic medicines from their hospitals. They will threaten the patients with dire consequences, and will go to the extent of abandoning him, should he seek their advice for trying a homeopathic medicine.
If homeopathy is witchcraft then why should they be afraid? They can let the patient take homeopathic medicines side by side and if his pain is reduced or eliminated, it should be a cause for celebration.
Bollywood icon Amitabh Bachchan was in the news recently due to a diagnosis of liver cirrhosis. I have seen a patient suffering with it. It happens to be most torturous of the cancers. To begin with there are dietary restrictions as the patient cannot digest fats and spices. This is followed by shooting pains in the liver, abdomen and a swelling in the legs with many other complications.
There is no known cure as yet. But homeopathy can do wonders to give the patient a peaceful tranquil life till he survives. It can also help him live normally to a very large extent instead of an incapacitated life which traditional medicine will surely force him into.
Bur if that course is followed none makes money. Traditional treatments will require frequent hospitalizations and a lot of pathological tests at a huge cost to the patient. Fear of sure death lurching in his mind, the patient will willingly pay. He will be thankful for the pain inflicted during these tests under a false notion that all that was being done to increase his life by a few more days.
Alas! He will die anyway and all that treatment will only serve to increase his suffering irrespective of how many thousands or millions he adds to the bank balance of his physicians and surgeons. Furthermore, because of the adverse publicity given to homeopathy and the fear of these same physicians, the patient will never think of trying homeopathy.