Life is all about challenges and our learning to overcome these challenges. Being practitioners of the healing art, struggle is our second name, be it clinical, scientific, philosophical or social. Yes, its true. Thing may seem easy when we enter the system as a student. But as soon as we enter homeopathy as a professional, we are subjected to challenges of clinical and scientific realms. Its very much ok to practice on faith but practicing, preaching and teaching scientific homeopathy is not less than a huge challenge. It is difficult to maintain the balance of scientificity and faith.
We often come across tall claims but not supporting valid evidences. Such situations are tricky – whether to believe them because we have “faith” or to follow the “scientificity” and subject their claims to “methodology”. Amidst this we sometime lose our connect. At times majority of us “accepts” the things “as it is” rather than establish the true “evidence-based medicine”.
If this would have been the scenario, Hahnemann would not have established Homeopathy as a system of medicine. Observations are one aspect of scientific methods; the other aspect is to formulate the right “research question” and follow the methodology of scientific methods. If we retrospectively analyze Hahnemann’s work, we know that his methodology, scientific methods, understanding, analysis of data and presentation of facts (for future research) was ahead of the time. We still have lot to learn, understand and experiment in homeopathy. And this is the right time now when we should understand our science as true practitioners of the healing art, rather than believers of something we never tried to understand. Choice is ours!
Research has never been parted from science and cannot be. Knowingly or unknowingly, we do research but seldom pen down or report it logically. We talk of research, but where to start a research becomes difficult for us. Challenges, issues and learnings, would be our companion in this journey of homeopathy learning. We must start accepting them to make ourselves equipped with latest knowledge, to sharpen our logic and apply our intellectual abilities for betterment. We must be an active part of the evolution so as to upgrade the system and ourselves.
Let us pledge on this world homeopathy day to keep moving forward – with scientific methods, better clinical understanding and aim to strengthen homeopathy from the roots.
— Dr Saurav Arora
(Writeup from the Editorial of latest issue of Research Updates – Homeopathy, a research awareness ejournal by Initiative to Promote Research in Homeopathy. Download your copy now at link https://researchinhomeopathy.org/ejournal/)
Dr. Saurav Arora is an internationally acclaimed medical homeopath, consultant, and independent researcher having 17+ years of experience as a clinician, researcher, and a teacher.
