The Mysterious Pathways of Homoeopathy
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1996 May / Jun Vol V No 3.
Radhika Dasgupta.
One needs sound knowledge in the fields of physics and nuclear sciences to understand the gravity and excellence of his research.
But for the layman, it is enough to understand that Dr RATI RAM SHARMA has been nominated for Nobel prize for Homoeopathy medicine, in recognition of his contribution to the field of homoeopathy.
Till now the World Health Organization has been dismissing Homoeopathy as something "unscientific in spite of the huge amount of evidence of its efficacy throughout the world.
Homoeopaths have been around since 1790, and the white, sweet, small, globules have been doing their work. But the human mind still refused to acknowledge it as a credible medical procedure of healing, simply because no one knew how Homoeopathy cured.
It took 210 years and a Dr Sharma to unravel the mysterious healing processes of Homoeopathy.
He explained," According to Avogadros law, if a substance is dissolved beyond a certain limit, the molecules of that substance no longer exists in the dissolvent. Since Homoeopathic medicines are prepared after dissolving the original medicine beyond the prescribed limit, it was taken that the molecules of the medicine could no longer be present in the final product.
Abridged from an article in-The Sunday Mid-Day dated 31st March 1996 by RADHIKA DASGUPTA.
"So Avagadros law prevented anybody from believing that Homoeopathy could heal. It is because of this that most of the healing done by Homoeopaths was called miracle healing.
Like all curious scientists, Dr Sharma decided to investigate. But the real inspiration came from his wifes eczema which was cured with Homoeopathy. He studied Homoeopathy and in 1981 started experimenting with Homoeopathic remedies. He subsequently wrote a thesis on "Molecular Homoeopathy" and gave Homoeopathy its place as a science that functions on proven theories.
Sharma did his doctorate in nuclear medicine physics from the Royal Post Graduate Medical School in London in a flat seven months, which is record in its own right.
He is now professor and head of the biophysics department in the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in Chandigarh.
Among his other achievements, Dr Sharma has been the recipient of the prestigious Albert Schweitzer Prize, the highest award in complementary medicine with a wider scope of recognition in the field than the Nobel prize.
He will also receive the merit of excellence for his thesis on "Molecular Homoeopathy from the Open International University for complementary medicine in Colombo in December this year.
