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VOL: V I ISSUE: 7 I JULY 2010
Coping With
Ovarian Cysts
3
Affirm & Succeed
5
All About Folic Acid
6
Stop Smoking With Homeopathy
LOOK WHO’S TALKING!
FIRST-HAND ACCOUNTS FROM OUR PATIENTS
Mom’s Delight
Hair Appeal
I started my treatment at Dr Batra's, three
years ago. I had a problem of irregular
periods and difficulty in conceiving. I was
diagnosed as a case of polycystic ovaries at
Dr Batra's. With the treatment, my problem
has been completely treated. I have now
conceived; am eight weeks pregnant.
Thanks to Dr Batra's and Dr Shaheena and
Dr Imran, it's really been a miracle. My
dreams have finally come true after almost
ten years… of my long wait. Hats off to
Dr Batra's!
Dr Saurabh Kalra is one of the finest doctors
at Dr Batra's Clinic. His guidance and
medication helped in stopping my hair fall.
Earlier, my hair used to fall in their hundreds,
but after taking medicines and hair
treatment under Dr Kalra’s care, the hair fall
stopped dramatically. Now, I have healthy
hair. Thanks a lot, Doctor!
—Meena Kochhar, Gurgoan
— J Pinto, Mumbai
Pain Relief
Fixation Placated
I had been suffering from severe neck and
shoulder pain, along with numbness in my
fingers from many years, before my treatment
at Dr Batra's began. After a year's time, my
neck and shoulder pain have reduced to a
great extent.
I started my treatment for OCD [Obsessive
Compulsive Disorder] at Dr Batra's, some
time ago. The rate of improvement is almost
70 per cent now. Besides this, my other
problems like throat irritation and piles have
also improved a good deal.
I am satisfied and happy with the treatment
given by Dr Smitha Shinde, and the
courteous service of the Clinic Staff.
I am thankful to Dr Vaishali and Dr Batra's
for their wonderful treatment.
— Pinky Yadav, Mumbai
— V Nalini, Mumbai
Allergy Calmed
I have been undergoing homeopathic treatment at Dr Batra's for the past two years for my skin
[allergy and itching] problem. I met many doctors, but in vain. At last, after seeing an
advertisement in the newspaper, I consulted Dr Batra's. Under the care of Dr Vijay Bansode, I felt
all right within a year's time. After completion of my treatment, I now have a perfectly normal
skin. I am very grateful to Dr Vijay and Dr Batra's.
— Swarnalatha, Thane
2 I JULY 2010
WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED
Affirm & Succeed
O
ur mind is connected with our body the
most. Whatever we do for our mind
reflects in the body. For example, if we think
negatively, our body suffers from stress. If we
think positively, our body relaxes and
becomes more immune to illnesses, or
disease states.
It is the quality of our thoughts that results in
what kind of health and general bodily
conditions we have. So, it is important to
watch and change our feelings into positive
thoughts because our health and also wellbeing depends on them.
Like how meditation gives our mind a break
and prevents it from overworking, positive
affirmations are extremely useful, because
the constant repetition of a positive phrase
will convince our mind of good feelings that
we are experiencing. This is a shaped
situation, all right, but it helps to convince
our mind of our present reality. When we
affirm, it starts showing in our thoughts, and
also our life.
The mind-body connection explains the
relationship that exists between our mental
processes and bodily states, or processes.
When we nurture our mind with good
thoughts, our focus improves and the work
we do will reflect good quality. It's like
reading a good book and deriving joy and
positive direction from it.
Many of us live in a dream world, hoping to
fulfil our dreams and leading a great life. You
may have noticed that such people are
always getting what they wish for; they are
considered “lucky,” because everything they
want comes their way.
This happens because they are closely
aligned to who they really are. You could do
this too. It's not difficult — so long as you
nurture your mind and body with positive,
affirmative thoughts that you too can, no
more, no less.
As motivational guru, Denis Waitley, rightly
said, “Our limitations and success will be
based, most often, on your own expectations
for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon,
the body acts upon.”
Dr Mukesh Batra
Founder & Chairman
DBPHCPL
CASE OF THE MONTH
Tress Returns
M
allikarjun first visited our
Malleswaram Clinic with a vexed
expression, if not annoyance. He was
distressed with his problem alopecia areata,
an auto-immune disorder, in which the body
attacks its own hair roots, causing hair loss
in patches.
The origin of his complaint was traced to
December 2008. It first started off as a small
patch in his beard. Initially, he “brushed it
aside,” thinking that it was allergy. He also
blamed it on kali-mehendi/dye, or “quack”
medication, that did not help him. Over a
period of time, his hair loss worsened — it
spread rapidly all over his scalp. He began
to use conventional treatment, but
without relief.
It was at this point that he turned to
homeopathy — on a friend's suggestion.
Since he did not know much about
homeopathy, he was wary of the results. “But,
why not try,” he thought.
A detailed case analysis revealed that
Mallikarjun was ambitious and irritable by
nature. Being a businessman, he had high
stress levels. Apart from this, for a practical
and fastidious person, he frequently indulged
and took comfort in stimulants.
He was counselled about his problem and
informed that there was no quick-fix, and
that patience would help. He was prescribed
Nux Vomica 200C, based on his emotional
and physical symptoms. He was also advised
to practice stress-relieving techniques.
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Before Treatment
After Treatment
As the treatment progressed, the patches
stopped expanding further. Mallikarjun
began to gradually get his hair back. He now
began to develop faith, or belief, in
homeopathy. He is grateful to Dr Batra's for
giving him “hair-rising,” excellent results,
and for bringing about a positive change in
his life.
Case handled by
Dr Sachin Patil
Malleswaram Clinic,
DBPHCPL
TABLE TALK
All About Folic Acid
F
olic acid is a B-complex vitamin. Your
body needs it to produce red blood cells.
Folic acid also plays a key role in the
metabolism of the amino acid, methionine. If
there is a lack of B-complex vitamins
particularly folic acid, homocysteine [an
amino acid in the blood] can accumulate
and make blood cholesterol levels rise
dangerously high. High homocysteine levels
are strongly linked with the development of
osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, heart
attacks, and strokes.
Folic acid deficiency can cause mental
illness. Folic acid deficit can also reduce food
absorption and decrease our defence against
many diseases. The villi, which line our small
intestines, absorb nutrients from food. The
rapid turnover of these cells requires large
amounts of folic acid.
Folic acid is most easily destroyed by light
and heat; so, vegetables should be stored in
the fridge and cooked for as short a time as
possible. Whole grains, rather than their
refined equivalents, should be eaten on a
daily basis.
The synthesis of folic acid is reduced by
alcohol, the contraceptive pill, conventional
medications [e.g., aspirin], zinc deficiency,
and vitamin B-2 [riboflavin] deficiency.
Vitamin B-12 [cobalamin] deficiency also
causes folic acid to be trapped — it cannot be
used by the body. Infection with
Helicobacter pylori also seems to have an
unhelpful effect on the absorption of
folic acid.
It is suggested that every woman who is
thinking of pregnancy, or is in the first
trimester of pregnancy, takes a daily
supplement of 400 microgram [mcg] of folic
acid and also eats a folate-rich diet to reduce
her baby's risk of getting some types of
birth defects.
Sources Of Folic Acid
Leafy green vegetables — e.g., raw
spinach peas, corn, cauliflower, green
pepper, beetroot, mustard greens, and
lady's finger.
Fruits such as strawberries, honeydew, or
cantaloupe, melons, bananas, pineapple,
papaya, oranges, and raspberries.
Almonds, cashew nuts, peanuts, and
walnuts.
Liver
Freshly squeezed orange juice
Sprouted seeds, sesame seeds, and
soybean
Whole grains, and yeast extract.
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SMOKING AND HOMEOPATHY
Stop Smoking
With Homeopathy
A
ccording to the World Health
Organisation [WHO], smoking leads
to nearly three million deaths across the
globe, every year. In the United States alone,
over 420,000 people die of smoking-related
causes annually.
Everyone talks about the major health
dangers of tobacco use. However, for most
smokers, kicking the habit for the good is the
hardest challenge they face. To quit smoking
successfully, people need a “to-do-comewhat-may” strategy, tons of patience, and
psychosocial support. In other words, it boils
down to the power of one's will — where
there's a will, there's always a way… to
quit smoking.
Smoker's Cough
The walls of our airway [trachea] secrete
mucous. This keeps the air moist and warm.
The surface of the walls is lined with tiny
hairs; these move like grass on a meadow.
They help to “stir” dust and foreign bodies
away from the lungs to be coughed or sneezed
out of the airway. In smokers, the hairs
become paralysed by nicotine — so, the
particles remain in the lungs. This creates
the perfect “soil” for viruses and bacteria to
cause infection and produce excessive
amounts of mucous.
Addiction
Tobacco is a powerfully addictive drug,
where the smoker quickly develops a
tolerance for nicotine. Like any other drug
6 I JULY 2010
addiction, users experience withdrawal
symptoms — when they stop using nicotine.
These include sleeplessness, irritability,
anxiety, and depression. This is the bugbear
for any remedial measure and/or
intervention.
Healing with Homeopathy
Homeopathy can help increase one's will
power, ease and beat one's craving for
nicotine and also relieve withdrawal
symptoms, safely and gently — without the
dangerous side-effects of anti-smoking
conventional medications, nicotine patches,
or other popular smoking deterrents.
Conventional smoking deterrents have been
linked with difficulty in breathing, cold
sweat, fainting, flushing, sleep disorders,
heart palpitations, and visual disturbances.
They'll be around a lot longer to thank
homeopathy for it.
SMOKING AND HOMEOPATHY
Two homeopathic remedies that are often
used to kick the tobacco habit are Tabacum
and Caladium. Tabacum is primarily
“homeopathic” tobacco. It is, in other words,
“diluted,” or “micro-dose” tobacco. It relates
to the “likes cure likes” principle — the
motto of homeopathy — “what can cause
can cure, and vice versa.” Tabacum reduces
the craving for nicotine, while Caladium
eases the yearning for it. Nux Vomica is used
for the “go-getter” types who “go over the
top” with everything in their lives. They are
as much addicted to tobacco as socialising.
Nux Vomica can also ease both irritability
and sleeplessness during tobacco
withdrawal.
For the best and the most profound results, a
professional homeopathic physician, who
can “zero-in” on a “customised” remedy for
the individual [because each of us is different
and unique], and not just the addiction
problem, should be consulted.
How It Works
The unique benefits that homeopathic
medicines provide is that they strengthen the
person's overall mindset and constitution, so
that they are not only less physically addicted
to tobacco, but they also feel stronger
emotionally, and less socially addicted to
what smoking represents for them.
Homeopathy is keyed to the individualised,
or customised approach, where a remedy is
selected on the basis of one’s personality,
temperament, sensitivities, sensibilities, and
idiosyncrasies. It has the potential to
reinforce them physically and
psychologically, help them tide over the
problem of addiction, and to also giving up
the smoking habit for the good.
Fact-File
Smoke Signals
Cigarette, cigar, pipe-smoking, and
tobacco use, are so devastating that
cessation of the habit is always the first
step of any programme to improve
one's health — this is suggested to be
more important than vitamins, diet, or
exercise.
Around six million people may die
each year worldwide starting from
2010, because of smoking and
tobacco-related diseases,
according to WHO [World Health
Organisation].
Tobacco use may kill one billion
people worldwide in the 21st
century, if current smoking trends
continue.
6.6 billion people are on this planet
of which 1.3 billion are smokers.
66 per cent of all smokers live in
just 15 countries.
1.8 billion young people aged
between 10 and 24 smoke
cigarettes.
More than 85 per cent of these
young smokers live in the
developing countries.
One billion men and about 250
million women use tobacco, in
some form, every day, around the
world.
7 I JULY 2010
PCOS AND HOMEOPATHY
Coping With
Ovarian Cysts
A
woman is a born multi-tasker,
homemaker, wife, mother, and
professional. She steps into any of these roles
effortlessly; she also tends to attend to
everyone's needs. Well, in order to perform
her duties, she tends to sometimes neglect
her own health and well-being.
Women's disorders are soaring at an alarming
rate; today, they range from simple menstrual
disturbances and infertility to malignancies.
A frequently encountered complaint
currently on the rise is polycystic
ovarian disease.
Many women, who have Polycystic Ovary
Syndrome, or PCOS, have limited success in
treating the problem through conventional
medication.
PCOS is the leading cause of infertility; it is
also the most common hormonal disorder
among women of reproductive age. It affects
about five per cent of all women.
Coping With Complexity
Coping with PCOS is complicated; it is also a
painful challenge. From the many
embarrassing symptoms to difficulty in
conceiving, women with PCOS often feel
that they are all alone. Hormonal changes
are the hallmark of this disease; almost every
body system can be affected. Some women
may have irregular ovulation or
menstruation, increased hair growth in odd
places, or excessive effects of masculinising
hormones and weight problems.
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The exact cause is not known. Research
suggests that the prime cause could be
insulin-resistance diabetes, which leads to
hormonal imbalance, causing disruption of
normal menstruation. The adrenal gland is
also said to produce more testosterone in
PCOS. This increased level may prevent
ovulation and produce symptoms related to
the disorder. Polycystic ovary disorder has
been linked to a number of health
complications, including Type-2 diabetes,
cardiovascular [heart] disease and
endometrial cancer. The earlier you begin to
monitor PCOS, the sooner you can manage
symptoms.
Conventional treatment of PCOS aims at
restoration of the normal menstrual cycle,
fertility, lowering of insulin levels, treatment
of excessive hair growth and prevention of
endometrial cancer, dietary therapy and/or
use of contraceptive pills. The downside is
they provide only temporary relief, besides
leading to dependency without eliminating
the problem from the root.
In recent times, researchers have shown that
alternative treatments, like homeopathy,
offer better results when compared to
conventional treatment.
PCOS AND HOMEOPATHY
Healing With Homeopathy
Homeopathy corrects imbalances in the
body and brings about harmony, without the
risk of side-effects.
It also helps avoid the use of surgical
procedures, while bringing about
regularisation of the menstrual cycle, and
increasing the chances of conception or
preventing recurrence.
In a clinical trial of 36 women suffering from
PCOS, fitting the mental picture of the
homeopathic remedy, Pulsatilla 30C, 32 had
complete disappearance of symptoms of
PCOS, followed by the production of normal
ovulating follicles.
A further 4 of the 36 became asymptomatic
[Source: Sanchez-Resendiz J, GuzmanGomez F, “Polycystic Ovary Syndrome,”
Boletin, Mexicano de Homeopatica, 30,
1997, 11-15].
By the way, the homeopathic medicine
Calcarea Flouricum is evidenced to dissolve
cysts, while Apis Mellifica is indicated as a
general remedy in PCOS.
However, it is imperative to speak to a
professional homeopathic physician for the
best, tangible, long-term results.
Self-Help
Along with medications, the following
dietary recommendations are useful
in PCOS.
Eating carbohydrate alone, as many
of us do, may not be a good idea.
Instead, combine them with proteins
and/or moderate fat intake
Try to select foods with lower
glycaemic index, as they cause a
slower rise in blood sugar [Example,
bran, bread, cereals]
Drink at least 10-12 glasses of water;
keep yourself well hydrated
Limit foods high in saturated and
transfats [i.e., red meat, whole milk,
dairy, butter and stick margarine,
chicken skin, fat/fried foods,
rich dessert]
Select monounsaturated fats [olive
oil, canola oil, nuts] and omega-3
fats [fatty fish, such as salmon and
bluefish, flaxseed, nuts]
Exercise, under the guidance of a
trainer, on a regular basis
A calcium supplement [1,000 mg]
fortified with folic acid [400 mcg] is
recommended
Homeopathic treatment depends
upon one's personality, unique
nature of symptoms and/or
characteristics and also one's overall
constitution, and not just looking at
the disorder in isolation.
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HELLO DOCTOR
A Blemish Eased
I was suffering from psoriasis for over 10 years. The
problem increased over a period of time — it took a big toll
on my life. I could no longer mingle with friends and others
due to embarrassment. I tried various treatments, but
everything failed. In my search for long-term results, I
turned up at Dr Batra's Jaipur Clinic. Soon after the
treatment began, the patches stopped spreading, and as
the treatment continued — they disappeared completely,
much to my own surprise. It's been few years now; there
has been no recurrence. I thank Dr Deepa Sharma for
helping me get rid of this embarrassment. Many thanks to
Dr Batra's Homeopathy.
Before Treatment
— Purnima Singh, Jaipur Clinic
After Treatment
COLLARS UP
A Stain Scoured
Before Treatment
After Treatment
10 I JULY 2010
Master Pushkar's parents were at their wits' ends when they
visited us at our Secunderabad Clinic. Pushkar was suffering
from white patches [vitiligo] on his legs and arms. They were
spreading rapidly. Knowing that conventional treatment
offered no more than temporary results, they came to us in
search of long-term relief. Pushkar was put under
Dr Deviprasad's clinical expertise, who after detailed case
analysis and history prescribed him Calcarea Phosphoricum
200C, based on his lean stature, stubbornness and desire
for travel.
As the treatment progressed, the patches stopped spreading.
Better still, they slowly disappeared… much to his and his
parents' delight.
HEALTH QUIZ
1. The medical name of cancer of
blood is
a. Anaemia
b. Leukaemia
c. Polycythaemia
d. None of the above
5. The pigment which gives colour to
the skin
a. Carotene
b. Melanin
c. Hypoxanthine
d. None of the above
2. W h a t a r e y o u i f y o u a r e
short-sighted?
a. Myopic
b. Presbyopic
c. Hypermetropic
d. None of the above
6.
8. A person with severe unresponsive
seborrhoeic dermatitis should be
tested for
a. HIV
b. Zinc deficiency
c. Tinea
d. All of the above
bbba-
Leukaemia
Malassezia
Melanin
True
Answers:
2.
4.
6.
8.
4. The vestigial organ in the body is
a. Skin
b. Liver
c. Spleen
d. Appendix
7. Obesity can cause polycystic
ovaries
a. True
b. False
c. Don't know
c. None of the above
1.
3.
5.
7.
3. The yeast of which genus is
implicated as cause of seborrhoeic
dermatitis [seborrhoeic eczema]
a. Candida
b. Malassezia
c. Ascomycetes
d. Saccharomyces
EEG stands for
a. Electroencephalogram
b. Electrocardiogram
c. Electro-convulsive therapy
d. None of the above
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adad-
Myopic
Appendix
Electroencephalogram
All of the above
ENDNOTES
Monsoon: Self-Care
Maintain good personal hygiene; eat a
balanced diet, preferably light, warm
food, like brown rice, oats and wheat
Avoid eating at kiosks, because not all
of them follow good hygiene
Drink boiled, or UV-filtered, water
Avoid far too spicy food; it can annoy
your gastrointestinal tract
Keep your body well hydrated, because
many of us tend to drink less water
during monsoon
Avoid chilled drinks and refrigerated
foods; they can trigger respiratory
problems and cause gastric irritation
Wash your hands frequently [also, feet;
twice daily] with soap and pat them dry
Avoid salads and raw vegetables when
you eat out — they may carry diseasecausing germs.
Sleep well; relax physically and
mentally
Medical Mystery
quiz 55
1. Smoking is addictive; it causes many health problems
a. True
b. False
2. Folic acid is required to produce red blood cells in the body
a. True
b. False
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