Click to play videoMumbai: Those who swear by homeopathy aren't deterred by the British Medical Association's (BMA's) comment that homeopathy is 'witchcraft' and remedies with no scientific basis to support them.
"I have seen and felt the magic," said businessman Minish Kothari a Rheumatoid arthritis patient.
Accusations by the scientific community have never bothered 41 year Minish Kothari. He was bed ridden till 2004 with severe Rheumatoid arthritis, a disease of the joints, which has no cure in allopathy. The acute pain did not subside, even with seven pain killers a day. He said eight years of homeopathic treatment have cured him completely.
"Today it's like almost 95 per cent okay. Because of the medicines, today I am able to do morning yoga exercise daily, which I couldn't even imagine before," said Kothari.
Allopathic doctors may disagree, but Meena Mehta feels she's the answer to skeptics. In 2001, she had jaundice for a year and abnormally high billirium levels, which resulted in liver cirrhosis and 90 per cent of her liver was damaged. Her daughter told us doctors at a leading hospital in Mumbai said she wouldn't survive beyond a year without a liver transplant that was proving too expensive. Skeptical and unsure, they turned to homeopathy.
"At first we would never believe these sugar pills were anything...they're so small, they never looked like, they had power and they could do something…And then, there could be no harm...no more harm," said Meena Mehta's daughter Bansi.
After four months of medication, Meena's liver enzymes were near normal. Of course, her allopath never accepted those results.
Homeopathy still remains a huge puzzle for scientists world over. Precisely because no one has a logical explanation to why it works. It's the placebo effect, scientists would say but then, a hundred million Indians turn to homeopathy to cure what ails them.
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