Alternative Medicine in India

Why people practising alternative medicine (hakims, babas, ayurvedic medicine, homeopath, quackery, unani, reki etc.) still flourish in India and other countries?
About 70 % of India’s population lives away from cities and they depend on the above medical man for their health problems.
First they are easily available (no waiting list)
They know their patients and their habits
Charges are very nominal
Read this true story.
In Mumbai a newly married couple was staying along with the boy’s widowed mother. Son used to go away for duty from 6 am to 6 pm and used to come back dead tired. The old lady along with her daughter-in-law were working as helping hands in the near by flats and they were staying like friends.
This way days and months passed off but the lady did not conceive. She consulted a near by doctor but no result. After some time she went to a famous gynecologist and had to spend 12 thousand rupees for different tests and consultations but that too did not bear any fruit. The relationship between d’inlaw and old lady became strained.At this time another widowed friend who had a similar problem with her d’inlaw came to their rescue and advised the young lady to go to a particular Hakim.
She paid only 25 rupees to the old fragile Hakim and after listening to her story, yjr Hakim's only advice was to send the old lady for three months on pilgrimage and nothing else!! And after 3 months when she retruned back home, the old lady was excited to know that her d’inlaw has become pregnant!!

What went wrong with our modern medicine??
The present day medical men don’t have patience to take a good history, nor the time, neither the analytical mind to give a solution to a patients problem, are most of them interested like any one in the society to earn a few quick buck.
What the Hakim could gather is like this: The lady was sleeping with her m’inlaw, husband used to sleep alone. Sexual activities were infrequent plus she was sharing some chavanpras with the old lady which probably contained some hormones which was preventing the ovulation. Once the old lady was out there was more congenial atmosphere in the house plus the tin of chavanpras also went out with the m’inlaw.

So doctor : Please consider your patients as human being not as a number in your clinic. Most of the non communicable diseases can be prevented or cured by simple common sense medicines not by imported machines or drugs.

More stories next time.

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