Homeopaths in Dubai
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00:00Living and working in a metropolitan city such as Dubai can be stressful.
00:12It is not uncommon to see people in the Emirates suffer from stress-related ailments, often
00:17caused by bad lifestyle choices.
00:20Unfortunately, it is not easy to find a cure for such ailments.
00:24Some people are therefore trying out homeopathy as an alternative means of fighting off stress
00:28and other diseases.
00:30Homeopathy is a system of complementary medicine that is gaining popularity in the UAE.
00:35Initially, there was serious skepticism about this form of medicine, but there are now people
00:39using it as the first choice in treatment.
00:42For the last few years, homeopathy has been in Dubai.
00:44It is based on the principle of like-cure-likes, which is basically similar to the vaccination
00:50therapy.
00:51It helps to build immunity against known and unknown allergens.
00:54This is basically the fundamental of homeopathy.
00:56Homeopathy was created in 1796 by German physician Samuel Hahnemann, who treated ailments
01:01by administering small doses of natural substances that, in larger amounts, would produce symptoms
01:06of the same ailment.
01:08It is claimed that millions of people, including presidents and celebrities, use homeopathy.
01:12I treated myself for a bout of UTI that wasn't getting cured any other way.
01:19I started googling about homeopathy and what it can do for me as far as curing my UTI.
01:28I used this remedy called Staphysagria, and all I had to do was one pill.
01:37It was Staphysagria 200C, and it was one pill twice a day.
01:44On the second day, the UTI that's gotten my kidneys painful, like it got really tender,
01:51actually got cured.
01:52Definitely, there is a significant improvement.
01:56The hair loss has stopped, and the volume of hair is quite good, and I can feel the
02:02difference.
02:03Honestly, I didn't try any traditional treatment, but when I came here, the effect is definitely
02:10good, and it's a long-term effect.
02:15Maybe the traditional treatment is short-term, and probably it doesn't have a long effect.
02:21But at Dr. Batra's, I did two years' treatment completely, and it has really helped me a lot.
02:30It's different from the traditional medicine, because traditional medicine tries to kill
02:36the bacteria.
02:38What homopathy does is, it tries to build up immunity.
02:40So it's completely different.
02:43While traditional medicine is based on opposites, homopathy is based on likes.
02:47For example, if you are cutting onions, and your eyes start watering, then I could make
02:52a homopathic medicine from onion called Allium sepa, which would be very good for running
02:57of the nose and watering of the eyes, and one of the good medicines for colds.
03:01So it actually works on the theory of likes, while allopathy works on the theory of opposites.
03:07The beauty of this is that homopathy is very personalized, and it's individualized.
03:11So what I give you for cold could be different from what I'm giving somebody else for cold.
03:16So my job as a doctor is to ensure that I go properly to your entire constitution to
03:23see including your social causes, your environmental causes, emotional problems, and then try to
03:28find a medicine for you.
03:29For homopathy, there is no side effects, and that is the best part of the medication.
03:34So only thing you have to maintain the diet to have the results positive, and there are
03:41no side effects.
03:42With homopathy, you can't really go wrong, because if you take a wrong remedy, it just
03:47doesn't affect you.
03:49It doesn't heal you.
03:50It doesn't cure you, and that's why you need to go on to the next remedy and try that out.
03:57There are symptoms for each illness that you have to go through.
04:02So say you have a headache that stems right from the bottom of your neck, or a headache
04:11between your eyes.
04:12So each of those symptoms will give you a different remedy.
04:16So you just need to pair up a remedy to your symptoms.
04:20While practitioners and patients claim that it has no side effects, and it's a better
04:24remedy than modern and traditional forms of medicine, the majority of medical practitioners
04:29remain skeptical with homopathy.
04:31Airish Iden-Belieza for Gulf News.