CERTIFICATE COURSE IN ADVANCED HOMOEOPATHY

Date: 19th January 14

Name of the Speaker: Dr. R.S. Barve

Topic: Research Methodology

Time: 10.00 am – 5.00 pm

Part 1

Every branch is a science, art like Homeopathy

Research Methodology

Research: re- cherche, chercher-search

·  Careful scientific investigation

·  Art of scientific investigation

·  Systemic effort to gain new knowledge

Methodology:

·  Analysis of principles of procedures, science of studying how research is to be carried out

  • But Ultimate aim is to serve Mankind and Benefit of Patients.

·  Aim of the research should be to do something new what we have not done earlier

·  We have opportunities, but do not want to take advantage of it

·  We have enough literature yet we don’t want to do it

·  So there may be some reason??

  • Or we feel it is difficult many a times or we don’t want to publish our records- that is the problem with Homeopathy we want to hide everything
  • My way of practicing I don’t want to disclose
  • What I give I don’t want to disclose
  • These are not the ideal clinical situations
  • If I am getting result in a particular method I should be open
  • I should not be worried whether it is a classical, non classical whatever it is. It should be driven by the result.
  • If I am getting result with this particular method I should find out why I am getting it, if I am not getting, why I am not getting

All these are the meanings

  • How to do the research???

·  Analysis Principles & procedures

  • Why most of the researches done by the Homeopathic doctors or Homeopaths is rejected & not published, not accepted & not listened is because we don’t follow a methodology & publication & research.
  • See unless you do in a scientific way

·  If I cure 100 cases in my practice, it amounts nothing, unless I categorized it & scientifically show how I do it, the result has to be reproducible.

·  Somebody says I have cured Cancer!!!

OKAY

  • How many cases have you Cured??

·  If I sent you 100 cases out of it than how many cases you can cure it ----- That is what is important

  • One case doesn’t mean anything
  • One can get Spontaneous remission that is what people say, so how you counter than??

·  So you can require a scientific methodology so that whatever you publish is acceptable by scientific community otherwise it remains between you & me. You say I have cured so many cases & you say I have cured so many cases but when we go publish it, no one is ready to publish it.

  • NO one believes it!!
  • And they call it as a Placebo therapy that is what is happening in Britain.
  • There is a great pressure in Britain that Homeopathy should be removed from National Health scheme in Britain because than somebody has proved that it is placebo.

Shown on the TV channel

There is a Panel

1 for Homeopathy & one against Homeopathy

  • The person who was against Homeopathy got a 2drahm bottle of Nux Vom 10M and he asked that Homeopathic Doctor that you call 10M as a very high potency, strong potency than what he did, he gulped that whole bottle of 10M Nux Vom & than see nothing has happened with strongest medicine that is what you do if nothing is happened with strongest medicine, that means your Pathy is what, it’s a placebo.
  • You say 1 DOSE, than a strong dose 1 dose
  • Repetition is so harmful
  • Drinking whole bottle on TV show of Nux Vom 10M & saying nothing happens to me, how you counter this now.
  • Than we call it is our very strong medicine 10M, 50M & that is how it been projected now than they say it is placebo.

The drug which cannot influence symptoms on me, how it cures??!!??

  • But then we require a scientific reasoning to counter it & that we don’t have with us.

àWe don’t know what happens when we take a drug.

àWe still don’t know how our drug acts till than we cannot counter.

  • Now there is a magician.

He is called as James Randy

If you might have heard it

·  He has put an open Challenge of 1 million pounds.

  • He is a magician not a Physician

He is a Magician Challenging Homeopathy putting a Price-

Anyone can win it!!!

1 million pound

  • A person who can proof how Homeopathy acts, how it functions scientifically???
  • Who will justify its action???
  • Who will proof scientifically that it is not a placebo???

It’s an open challenge given!!

  • Those who want to accept it, can accept it.
  • Till date no one has accepted His Challenge.
  • Till now no one has proved it.
  • So no one has won those 1 million pounds till now.
  • Till now no one has been able to show how exactly your drugs act.
  • So do you feel this is not required tomorrow.
  • See when you are practicing tomorrow patient will ask, how your medicine act ?

Than we give vague answers that it is DYNAMIC, it is Spiritual.

  • People are not ready to accept this now-a-days
  • I can show you 100’s of theories how medicines act, right
  • Ultimately scientific community wants EVERYTHING black & white
  • Can you show Vital force!!??
  • What we are referring to is an article by IIT Mumbai—

that higher dilutions retain the original substance

  • Research in Health Science specifically it is the activity to design

RESEARCH IN HEALTH SCIENCES

MEDICAL RESEARCH:

Activity designed to test a given hypothesis, draw conclusions, develop or contribute to generalized increase in knowledge about health, disease, causation, remedy management.

  • Ultimate aim of the medical research should be welfare of the patient & development for science

MOTIVATION:

What makes people to undertake research?

·  To generate new knowledge, improve scientific understanding which is grossly lacking in us

·  Improve medical treatment new methods—

·  Develop evidence based medicine

·  Face challenges & unsolved problems.

·  Find hidden truth, which is not yet discovered

  • INQUISITIVEESS is mother of all researches

·  Now we have Higher purposes & Practical purposes

·  Which we really believe as Homeopaths

·  We as Homeopaths believe whatever Hahnemann as done is the last thing & there is no scope of improvement further

·  Unless we come out of that attitude we will not improve

If you have accepted everything as it is you cannot do research there should be inquisitiveness.

OTHER OBJECTIVES

·  Compulsory work in college, internship.

·  Mandatory circular work in M.P, PhD

·  To do publications which will benefit to get higher academic post

·  Name & status symbol

  • We do compulsory research- So imagine the quality of research.
  • Many a times we copy & complete the journal from seniors
  • We do Mandatory work
  • My Guide wants 250 pages of thesis

- So heading changes, matter remains the same

  • Guide hardly takes pain to read a Single page also
  • This is not only in Homeopathy, this happens everywhere
  • Half of the Government funding goes in repetitive research work

Somebody doing a particular work

  • E.g.: Synthesis of Nano-particles using : plants is a Research

Somebody doing using gold

So same idea

Somebody doing with silver

Somebody doing with copper

  • Idea is same, everyone will say I have published 1 paper & everyone gets recognition doing something new

Same thing is done by everyone

  • Other purpose of research is to do publications
  • If you want to be head of the department you want to have Publications because the Committee will ask you how many research papers have you published it?
  • In University format you have to write:

How many International papers you have submitted?

Also how many National papers have submit?

Presentation & Research work is again compulsory for getting academic post

Lastly Name & Fame I have published so many papers- I am Scientific

Causal Links in the Research- Teaching- Practice- Triangle.

What should be the purpose of Research?

  • Research should be practice oriented than

only it has some meaning.

  • Research should be practice oriented than

only it has some meaning.

  • Theoretical research with has no utility in practice, it doesn’t help anyone & whatever you learn from practice should be put into research.
  • So it is 2 way

Also most important whatever you do in practice should be taught

So most of the times what is taught are not practiced.

  • So the one freshly passed out doesn’t know how to practice because he is give high understanding of morals, Values & what is classical & what is ideal, when he comes to the practice, he finds totally new world because whatever is taught is never practiced.
  • Practice is something shown as different.
  • So there has to be a perfect Understanding whatever you teach should be seen in practice.
  • And your practice has to lead to research and that research should help both things teaching also as well as practice.
  • When all these things will come together you will have a good research and a good practice & a scientific development
  • Whenever we look at Research, we look at this person

LOUIS PASTURE:

  • He is one the scientist who is praised by Hahnemann himself.
  • Research laboratories are sacred domains, temples of future, wealth, and well-being.
  • Science should be way of life
  • Now we may have research whether Homeopathy is vaccination or not but if we read Organon Louis Pasture was praised for his vaccine for small pox & Hahnemann has written he has done a greatest thing for a mankind.
  • So does not mean that Hahnemann was against Vaccination.
  • So why we say that Vaccination is Non-Homeopathy –read in Organon Hahnemann has praised so much this person for Vaccination.
  • So we have lost many opportunities in the history if you go- The 1st person even before development of microscope to think of Viruses & bacteria was Hahnemann.
  • He predicted Vibrio as a Virus may be- it is not virus but he thought it is a Virus that is causing epidemics of Diarrhea- that is cholera.
  • So the world did not know the cause of Cholera & Hahnemann knew the cause of Cholera as a Micro-organism.
  • So who should be the frontiers in the Pathology & the Microbiology?
  • Should be the Homeopaths & today we are thinking we don’t need to study & then we are criticizing that is not the cause of disease & than we say it is the material cause of the disease & if that is not the cause of disease than why Hahnemann thought of Vibrio’s as the cause. He never said only Dynamic Influence.
  • He specifically said vibrio is the cause of Cholera in spite of not having a microscope.
  • So Hahnemann was “Open” we are not today & we say cause is what Miasm, Cause is susceptibility but not Vibrio’s.
  • But can you have Cholera without Vibrio
  • Can you have Typhoid without Salmonella??
  • Can you have Tuberculosis without bacteria?
  • Then why not ACCEPT it
  • We don’t want to but it doesn’t fit into our Organon definition than we can say is the exciting cause of the disease

Date: 19th January 14

Name of the Speaker: Dr. R.S. Barve

Topic : Research Methodology

Time: 10.00 am – 5.00 pm

Part 2

  • Your susceptibility & Miasms can be fundamental causes.
  • Organisms are Exciting cause
  • Even 200 years back the motive of research was to generate wealth even the person like Louis Pasture
  • Unless you have this motive people will not fund you
  • Unless your research generates the fund people will not fund you

Types of Research:

·  Laboratory Research

·  Clinical Research

·  Theoretical Research

·  Quantitative Research

·  Qualitative Research

·  Library Research: means you have to go through literature

  • Whatever is published & you are deriving your research out of it without, actually work yourself- You are doing through references.
  • All these types have their places.
  • No research is inferior.
  • Laboratory Research— Always better because you are showing the world in front of you.
  • Clinical research: We all should work on it.
  • Fundamental research is always important.

LOGIC IN ORGANON

CONFusion

Inductive Logic Deductive Logic

This is the basis not only for Homeopathy but for Modern medicine also. They use the same Terminology.

  • So the basic research is: Investigation of basic Principles.

e.g.: Law of Similars.

Theory of Potentization is the basic Principle.

  • Basic research will have its application through the Pathy.
  • So what you doing are observing the events.
  • Drawing the Conclusions out of it.
  • Making a Theory out of it.
  • So from Natural examples which Hahnemann saw he came on LAW OF SIMILARS—that is INDUCTION--Inductive Logic
  • Once you form a law out of Principle than you apply to Practice is Deductive Logic
  • So this logic is a part of Research work
  • So Fundamental research always leads to Development of new theories that is why it is important.

This is what we were taught

Basic Research

·  Particular ----- General

·  Person ----- repeated

(Clinical Trials)

·  Observations ----- phenomenon ----- data collection -----analysis ----- conclusion

·  Induction logic

Applied research

·  Deductive logic

·  Solving problems employing well known & accepted theories & Principles.

·  Study specific Cases