Weekly Tip

Anything unwanted is 'side-effect'

• Many people think that 'home remedies' do not have undesirable 'side-effects' and it happens only with Allopathic medicines. This is simply not true.
• Herbal preparations, including herbal teas, when unsuitable, can cause problems and discomfort.
• A traditional remedy that might suit one person may not suit another. It may be to do with the difference in body types, state of health or disease or even weather conditions.
• Sometimes, a wrong herbal or Ayurvedic medicine can play as much or greater havoc as a wrong allopathic medicine, if taken wrongly over a long time period.
• In Ayurveda, one has a complex checklist to administer medicine: For who (what is age, sex, body type -prakrti) and health /disease condition in the person), for what purpose (to fix what?), when (to administer - which hour of the day, after/before eating, bath etc), where (what is the weather condition there), how much, for how to take the medication (as for example, with hot water, milk, butter, ghee etc.)
• I find that many homeopaths do not know about the criticality of 'potency' and give what they think is some kind of 'standard' potency. This too is disastrous. A wrong potency can have a diametrically opposite effect in a person. I have suffered a lot because of this.
• Many a time, other habits, practices, food or medicines that the person takes have a determinant effect on how some remedy works or does not work.
• NEVER, THEREFORE, TAKE ANY REMEDY FOR LONG, PARTICULARLY, IF YOU HAVE SOME PROBLEM. EVEN IF YOU ARE TOLD THAT THE PROBLEM CANNOT BE ASSOCIATED WITH THAT REMEDY, JUST TAKE A BREAK AND CHECK OUT THE EFFECT FOR YOURSELF.