The Bug Paradox & Homeopathy

The wheel has turned full circle — in spite of advances in conventional medicine. Call it the growing paradox of flu and other viral illnesses, or what you may. Homeopathy has a lot to offer, in the prevention and treatment of such illnesses — without the fear of ‘drug-resistance.’

- Dr Rajgopal Nidamboor

There is a famous story of a patient who went to his doctor because he had flu, and the doctor wrote out a prescription for him in his usual hard-to-decipher handwriting. The patient put it in his pocket, but forgot to get the tablets from the pharmacist. Every morning, for two years, he showed it to the conductor as a train pass. It got him twice into the movies, once each into the soccer stadium and the symphony. He got a raise at work by showing it as a note from his boss too. One day, he mislaid it. His daughter picked it up, played it on the piano and won a scholarship to the school of music.

Jokes apart, influenza, or flu, is more than something we all dread — thanks to its innate ability to rumble and quiver our health — not to speak of its lethargic after-effects. The flu virus is spread by inhaling droplets that have been coughed, or sneezed, by an infected individual, or by having direct contact with the person’s secretions. In addition, handling household articles that have been in contact with an infected person may occasionally spread the illness. However this may be, influenza is different from common cold. It is caused by a distinctly different virus; it also produces symptoms that are often relentless. It affects our cells much deeper down in the respiratory tract, unlike the cold virus.

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