Right food and exercise, right friends and relationships and spiritual orientation would ensure a healthy life, said Rajan Sankaran, renowned homoeopath, on Friday.
Delivering a lecture on ‘Health and homoeopathy, a holistic approach’ at the Thiagarajar College of Engineering here, Dr. Rajan explained how a person’s attitude towards his body and life determined the health status.
Homoeopathy, he said, was more than mere medicines and it sought to encourage holistic living. A life driven by the ambition to make more money made a person forget its meaning.
“Instead of giving so much importance for the body, turn within to realise the meaning of life. To experience peace, do not indulge in the mind,” he said. Homoeopathy was extremely scientific and its procedures were more definite and accurate.
Comparing modern medicine with homoeopathy, Dr. Rajan said that though allopathy had made tremendous progress it did not have long-term treatment for most of the illnesses. But homoeopathy’s approach was different as it adopted holistic treatment instead of specialised treatment.
Above all, it did not have any side-effects.
“It looks at the human body as one. The body suffers and heals as a whole,” he said. To understand the manifestations of an illness, the homoeopath tried to understand the patient’s mind first. While doing so, he took into consideration the axis formed by different systems of the body.
Dr. Rajan said that stress was not created by an external situation but how an individual perceived and responded to it.
He prescribed homoeopathy as the best system for children as they openly exhibited symptoms of illness against adults’ tendency to hide them. It was not an isolated system but holistic. “It allows the body to heal by itself.”
Karumuttu T. Kannan, correspondent, presided over the event.
