Book Review
NATIONAL JOURNAL OF HOMOEOPATHY 2002 Mar / Apr VOL 4 NO 2.
Reviewed by
Dr Padmaja Pai-Shenoy,Mumbai
Biochemistry:The Inorganic Salts
32, Rasikpark Society, Near Anandwadi, P O Ghodsar, Ahmedabad-380 050. Gujarat
Author: Dr Babubhai Shah
Price: 65/-
First Edition: June 2002
Pages: 100
This is Dr Babubhai Shah’s first book. His vast experience in Homoeopathy has been gained by working, from 1971, in several medical centres - private, government and charitable.
The book is 100 pages, divided into Part I-dealing with general information about the Twelve tissue Remedies, preparation, potency, dose, repitition and combinations. Part II deals with each remedy in detail; also given is the Calc-phos baby, Nat-mur baby, Silicea baby and Nat-phos baby. He has given a Table of Birth Salts - viz Birth Salt of Zodiac sign: Aries is eg Kali-phos; Pisces is Ferr-phos.
Part-III deals with inorganic salts - viz Alumina, Ant-crud viz 24 salts found in the human body in very minute forms.
Part IV has remedies listed for specific pathology viz Dropsy has Kali-mur, Nat-mur, Nat-sulph, Epilepsy has Kali-mur and Silicea. He has covered 50 such specific ailments-from Abscess to Worms. Part V and Part VI is a ready reckoner of remedies and modalities for few specific ailments.
A fairly comprehensive book, where an obvious effort has been made to make it simple and complete. The print is easy on the eye though a lot of errors in language and grammar. But we suggest, in future, he does take extra effort over proof reading, important for a text-book.
Scattered advertisements, unusual for a medical text-book,
detracts from the concept of a text book.
All in all a commendable first effort.
