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| Hpathy Ezine - April, 2004 | |||||
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Dr. Sunil Anand<-- Interviewed by Elaine Lewis |
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We are truly fortunate to have with us today Dr. Sunil Anand from India, a close associate of Dr. Rajan Sankaran. Sunil, can you tell us about your homeopathic practice? Hi Elaine, I would be happy to. I have a practice that comprises of a fair mix of children and adults. I have re-located to Pune which is a city 200 kms from Mumbai. I have a practice in Mumbai as well which is managed by two assistant doctors and I supervise that clinic once a fortnight. The location of my clinic is in a cosmopolitan area which gets me patients from the corporate families. What is interesting is that it is in a suburb of Pune and so close to the countryside. This also gets me many references of families of farmers who speak only the local dialect, which in turn made me learn the same. This was tough initially but what is pleasing now is that the methods we follow can be used even with patients who have no idea of the English language and one can still retain the purity of the same method and get results. I see one new case every morning, five days a week. In emergencies and urgent requests from doctors or fellow homeopaths, I accomodate an extra case in the day. Most new cases are seen in the morning session only, as I am most alert then and a first session can take from two to three hours. The follow ups are taken in the evening session. The cases are generally recorded, with consent, on video; so are the follow-ups. These help me to review the cases later and also use them for lectures at the homeopathic college in Pune where I teach and also while conducting seminars in India and in foreign countries. The college where I teach is a degree course and also has a P.G. Department for courses in M.D. Homeopathy. This gives me a chance to interact with students, interns and post-grads which I find very satisfying and stimulating. The same college has an O.P.D. (Out Patient) where I conduct two O.P.D.'s. One is pediatric (as I see a lot of children and have given several lectures and seminars on Pediatric Homeopathy) and the other is a general one. As this college is on the other side of the city I get to tap patients and referals from that part which makes it easier for some of them to see me here due to my clinic being a long distance away. It also gives me the opportunity to see patients from a lower strata of society and verify that the same methods can be succesfully used with them as well. Seeing patients in a college is a challenge as there are the allopathic doctors who are monitoring some of your cases and one sees acutes as well as pathological cases that one would not see so readily in a private practice. One also has the advantage to admit those patients who need close obseravtion and these are mostly done by the post-graduate doctors along with a regular R.M.O. You are most welcome to come and visit our work here. My work with a large number of patients in the O.P.D. made me realize the importance of first hand observations which are often, according to me, the clue or key to the inner depths of the case, especially where one has to make a quick, yet accurate, prescription due to the large numbers. This method I have named Subjective Homeopathy as it deals with actions, mannerisms and choice of expressions frequently used by patients which in turn lead us to their inner core if followed diligently. This is what I do besides having fort-nightly meetings with the members of our group including Rajan, which they have been kind enough to keep on days which follow my visits into Mumbai. We also conduct various courses in homeopathy from Mumbai and Pune. The details of that could be had from our web site www.homeopathyindia.org but you probably have visited this site. Sunil, (puff-puff, pant-pant, gasp!), I can't keep up with you! We Americans don't do this much work in a day! (In fact, we hire the country of India to do our work for us!) But, let me ask you a question, does your college have a snack bar? No, actually, I am fascinated by what you call Subjective Homeopathy, can you give us some examples? Sure. These six cases are presented here in a condensed format from the original so that the reader can get a glimpse of the recent case taking methods that we follow. All these cases are either yet being followed up without any change in remedy which is being repeated as and when it is required. Some of them are from the O.P.D. and few from my private practice. 1. Case of Agaricus - Eight year old boy with cerebral palsy and convulsions This boy besides the regular features of a spastic child had severe lack of co-ordination. But what was very characteristic was that to keep him busy while the interview was going on, the mother gave him a coin to play with. In contrast to the poor co-ordination at all levels I was surprised to see him spinning the coin with comparitive ease repeatedly. Also the boy had no concept of danger. One of the attendants would always be by his side at all times. The reason being that he had run out in the past on the road oblivious of the fact that he may get run over. Based on these two main observations I gave him Agaricus 1M which was repeated frequently keeping the advanced pathology in mind. (children have very good vitality and depending on the case and requirement, in my experience do well on repeated high doses when needed) and he responded very well. The rubrics chosen after a search were- Gesture makes, involuntary motions of the hands, winding a ball
as if If I could ask a question, you said it was odd that such an uncoordinated child was capable of spinning a coin with expert control; yet, I didn't notice that you picked a rubric for this observation. I noticed that you chose a rubric for the palsy--the incoordination, the uncontrolled gestures; and you chose the "runs about in dangerous places" rubric, which we know goes for Agar., but, I didn't see a rubric for the super-control he exhibits with the coin. Is that somehow a mere polarity of the lack of control, and hence, not a separate symptom? Elaine, in fact the rubric taken indicates the need to have precise rhythm like the winding of a ball ( closest to the spinning of a coin) in spite of incoordination at all other levels. This I have seen as one of the main contradictions in Agaricus and hence that rubric becomes that much more important. Its like the grotesque dancing at one level as against the expression of eloquent poetry, both aspects seen in the same remedy.
This girl was busy playing with a game that required her to fit blocks of different shapes. This was happening and being observed while her mother was narrating the child’s symptoms to me. After playing the game the way it was meant to be played, she got restless and created her own version of the game by turning the board around and creating one pattern of design after the other with those blocks. Soon she graduated into assembling and reassembling at a very rapid speed a completely new design. Based on these I chose for her Coffea 1M based on the rubrics- Activity, creative The pregnancy history later confirmed that the mother too must have been in the state of Coffea when she described her intense fear of death due to the pains of labor. This is a known symptom of the remedy. This only further confirmed the remedy to me. Her septic tonsils cured very rapidly. |
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