September 2, 2010

Do You Need Toe Nail Fungus Medication?

Toe nail fungus medication is often a private matter. For this reason you do not have the sounding board of friends and/or family to bounce the pros and cons of medication off of. If you have a severe case of toe fungus, then by all means consult your doctor. However, you may want to skip the typical toe nail fungus medication that your doctor will prescribe if your case is not all that severe or if you have not tested out a few home remedies and over the counter treatments first.

Why would you want to avoid taking a pill, which seems so much simpler in the end? Because the current toe nail fungus medication in prescription form does a little more damage to your body than the toe nail fungus in general. It’s rarely a good idea to take medication when the treatment is worse than the disease. A rare exception might be chemotherapy treatments for cancer patients. Since fungus isn’t quite as devastating, in most cases, as cancer it’s probably better to save the medications for more persistent and resilient cases.

So what can you do other than take toe nail fungus medication? There are actually quite a few excellent topical treatments you can try at home. Many of these are available in your kitchen cabinet, some are available in stores, and other homeopathic treatments are generally available in either specialty shops that cater to clients interested in holistic healing.

What are some of these miracle alternatives to toe nail fungus medication? Glad you asked. One of the most commonly used (and believed to be most effective) holistic treatment for toe nail fungus is tea tree oil. You can either use products that have tea tree oil in them or place two or three drops of tea tree oil on your toe nails 3 times a day until the problem is completely gone. Direct application is much more effective though some people are more sensitive to pure tea tree oil than when it is diluted in soaps and/or lotions.

Pau d’Arco is another great toe nail fungus medication alternative. This can be used in the form of a tea that is ingested or a soak for your feet. This works as nature’s form of an antibacterial and anti fungal treatment that works wonders without the side effects of the toe nail fungus medication that is typically prescribed by doctors.

You will also find a nice selection of topical treatments specifically designed to work as a type of toe nail fungus medication if you travel many holistic or homeopathic websites or visit their stores. You should be sure to follow the instructions on all homeopathic medications carefully and discuss them with your doctor. There is always the potential for interactions with other medications and/or treatments you are going through if even if they are unrelated to toe nail fungus. Doing this may very well eliminate the slightest hint of a need for toe nail fungus medication.

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September 1, 2010

How Yoga and Homeopathy Are Two Complementary Sciences to Relieve Patients of Their Sufferings?

As I always say, the naturalism should be the way of life. Among various natural methods of living, yoga and homeopathy are the ways of living. As regular and nutritious eating is the way of life to remain healthy, yoga and homeopathy are the ways that need to be inculcated in everyday life to avoid harsh effects of unnatural things and maintain harmony.

 It is a myth that yoga should be done only by people who have some or the other problems related to their spine. “Yogah Chittavrutti Nirodhah” (Yoga is the way to balance and control our mind and various tendencies). We all have some or the other fallacies. Yoga teaches us how to gain control over these fallacies and cultivate better things in order to lead a happy and healthy life. As I keep saying in my blogs, no one can be happy without perfect health. Then why strive for things those deteriorate our health? If even after attaining those things, we will not be happy due to ill-health, what’s the value such things have?

 Yoga is not just postures and exercise. Definitely these postures and exercise are important but one should realize why Yogasanas like Shavasana and Yoga-Mudra are included in them. These are the postures that give us complete harmony with oneself and utter relaxation from our worries. To be frank, relief from stress is the true way to attain perfect health. You seek whatever treatment, whatever costly strategies to alternate your health-status; you will not be successful in your attempt unless you win over stress and/or use it positively to do better.

 Similarly, homeopathy is the science that entails how every individual is different from the rest, how a single treatment or remedy may fail to elicit effective cure in day to day maladies because of differences in the symptoms and personalities of these patients. Homeopathy is no doubt a difficult science and one must master the art of comprehending the patient’s personality and treat individually. But certainly when this is aptly done, the patient is relieved of his suffering tenderly yet completely.

 What happens when both these sciences are joined together?

 Many of my patients ask me why you send us some of the Yoga postures or stress about Pranayama when you send us prescriptions. Many times when patients do not know about asanas, I send them the URLs and related things about the asanas which I believe will make their suffering nil along with homeopathic medicines. Some of the examples are here-

 (1)   In patients of lumbar spondylosis or cervical spondylosis, I have found that when the homeopathic remedies like Lachnanthes, Paris q, Hypericum, kali carb or Rhus tox ameliorate the pain and suffering, the asanas like Pavan-muktaasana, dhanuraasana, paschimottanasana, etc help in faster relief.

(2)   In obesity patients, when I prescribe constitutional medicines to the patients, the asanas like Yoga-mudra, Vajra-asana, Uttanapaad-asana, Leg-cycling and rotation pose, etc help a great deal. Moreover I have observed that people who find it difficult to control hunger spells, Yoga help them find control over their binge eating, which obviously leads to weight loss.

(3)   In patients with recurrent allergies, along with constitutional medicines and medicines like Lemna minor, Sabadilla, Pothos, Senega, Ipecac or Pulsatilla, different yoga postures offer lasting relief. Also Pranayama helps a great deal in preventing future attacks.

 These are just very few of the examples that I daily encounter. Most importantly, when taken and done under expert supervision, both Yoga and homeopathy do not lead to side effects. Changing your lifestyle while inculcating such habits may not be easy but it is certainly not impossible. Rather, once you change yourself to this, you will never fall back in the trap of unnatural things those drain away your natural energy and immunity!

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August 31, 2010

History of Homeopathy

Doctor Samuel Hahnemann was a German scholar and physician. He was born in 1755 and died in 1843.  He is the Father of Homeopathic Medicine. He was not happy of the methods and treatment of the medical practices of his time.

He was against the medical practices of the day by using methods like bloodletting, vomiting and the use of toxic chemicals. As a result of his unhappiness, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann gave up his medical practice.

Personal Research & Experiments

He wished to gather a good knowledge of homeopathy treatment and the relative effects of such treatment.  He spent a good number of hours and time in translating medical texts.  He took keen interest in the works of William Cullen’s “Materia Medica”, and translated the text into the German language.

In the course of his studies and experiments, Hahnemann was impressed with the properties and curing propensities of quinine containing bark known as, “cinchona bark”.  During his time, malaria was a serious disease.  It was being treated with the medication, “quinine”.

He conducted experiments on himself by consuming daily a few grams of the bark for a couple of days. Soon he began to develop symptoms of malaria setting in. He was convinced and concluded that, a “medication” or “drug” will have to produce “similar symptoms of a disease” in a healthy individual which are “similar to the disease”. Thus, the maxim and the” principle of Similia Similibus Curentur” came to be.

In this manner of administrating the quinine containing bark, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann proved to himself that, a certain herbal drug or substance can work by the reason that such drug duplicates a body’s defense symptom and instinct to get rid of the disease.

Homeopathy Schools & Popularity

The earliest homeopathy school in the Unites States of America was founded in the 1800s. By the 1900s it became very popular. During this time, a number of severe diseases like, scarlet fever, yellow fever, typhoid and other ailments were treated with good successful results.

The history and growth of homeopathy has come a long way. It has made good gains among the public by the beginning of the 19th century. Today, the public show greater interest in holistic treatment and natural medicine.

Homeopathic remedies have grown in popularity not only for its efficacy, but also because it is affordable. As more people realize the potential harm drugs can cause, many will turn to natural ways to heal their ailments.

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