Seminars
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1996 Jul / Aug Vol V No 4.
Vishpala Parthasarathy.
Seminar Reports.
IIHP Guntur Seminar July 96
A one day State Level Seminar on Diabetes was organized by the (IIHP) Indian Institute of Homoeopathic Physicians, A P State Branch on 21-7-1996, at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.
Charing the Scientific Session, Dr M Kutumba Rao of Vijaywada emphasized that Homoeopaths treat the Diabetic and not diabetes. Hence there was vast scope for individualization and treatment.
Noted Diabetologist of Guntur Dr P Raghava detailed the causes, course and complications of the disease and opined that 4 to 8 percent of Diabetic causes in urbanites is due to stress and strain of modern life. He disclosed that efforts were on the treat the disease in developed countries by way of Pancreatic Cell transplantation and also to find out suitable vaccine.
Guest speaker from Bombay Dr Prabhakar Shetty, detailed through audiovisuals, his experiences in treating diabetic Gangrene foot cases with a synthetic approach of combining insulin therapy, surgery and Homoeo therapy which helped at least 2000 cases over the past decade. When amputation is the only resort even with insulin therapy in Allopathy, combining Homoeo therapy with drugs like Ars-alb, Sulphuric-acid, Acetic-acid, Anthrax, Thyroidinum, and mother tinctures like Calendula, Echinacea and Paeonia yielded excellent results said Dr Shetty.
Dr T Viswanath (Anakapalle) and Dr S K M Sastry (Ramagundam) opined that the miasmatic approach and constitutional therapy will certainly keep the disease under control if not completely cure. Dr Sastry analyzed 30 most common symptoms of diabetes with the help of repertorisation and said Sulphur, Phosphorus, Lycopodium, Ars-alb, Merc-sol were the top 5 remedies that covered the maximum number of rubrics and scored more marks, and hence are frequently useful in the disease.
Dr Rohini (Hyderabad) highlighted a study on 200 diabetics treated at the Government Homoeo Hospital, Hyderabad recently and stressed on Sulphur as the leading remedy.
