Book Review
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 1998 Mar / Apr VOL VII NO 2.
Reviewed by
Dr Sumit Chatterjee
Title: High Dilution Pharmacology and Homoeopathy
Author: Nirmal C Sukul
Publishers: A. Sukul, Shyambati. Santiniketan -731235 West Bengal
Edition: 1st published 1997
Pages: 109
Price: Rs 105/-
Even after 200 years of Homoeopathy, where prejudiced views still continue to plague its progress and acceptance as a scientific system, it is heartening to note that a number of researchers around the world have not only accepted it, but have gone beyond just practicing and preaching its authenticity, by trying to prove its status in science.
The author, a professor of Zoology at Viswa-Bharati University, Santiniketan, has been conducting research in Parasitology, Neuropharmacology and Homoeopathy. He also practices Homoeopathy in his spare time, and has been doing so for more than 3 decades. This book is the outcome of many years of painstaking and pioneering research, of many original publications and talks delivered at international conferences.
The book contains a number of experimental evidences as well as theoretical conclusions to demonstrate the physical basis of potentized drugs, reasons behind their specificity and the increased strength of high potencies, also the evidences and reasons behind the effectiveness of potentized drugs only through the oral route [and not parenteral].
The mode of action of Homoeopathic drugs upon the natural defense mechanism and a detailed discussion of the same with regard to specific diseases [asthma, fever, etc.], the probable site/plane of action of the miasms, homoeopathic aggravation and return of old symptoms- all have been explained from extensive references into current scientific literature.
Another interesting feature is that the potentized drugs used in their research have been prepared by sonication [at20 kHz for 30 sec using an ultrasonic homogenizer]. This way the potencies have been found to be more effective.
This book is not only recommended for those with a research bent of mind but also for every sincere Homoeopath, who is at his wits end to satisfactorily answer his corner- school skeptics about the whys and hows of Homoeopathic potencies influencing the human system. He can perhaps just present them with one of the copies of this book!
