Doing wonders with homoeopathy

By Aarti Dhar

NEW DELHI, JUNE 2. Always drawn towards the mysterious cause of incurable diseases like leucoderma and cancer, Dr. Mahendra Kabra, a homoeopath based at Jalgoan in Maharashtra, cured his first leucoderma patient successfully in 1987, just three years after he had passed out from the Bombay Homoeopathy Medical College.

Today he claims to have cured over 16,000 patients suffering from leucoderma with 100 per cent success. ``There have been some failures, including drop-outs, but these are negligible,'' he says. There have been no incidents of recurrence of the disease with his patients. It is not surprising then that Dr. Kabra shuttles across 10 cities in India and a clinic in London where a large number of Indians come to him for treatment.

Dr. Kabra still remembers his first patient who was a young man of marriageable age but socially boycotted due to the social stigma attached to the disease. ``When he was completely cured of the dreaded disease, I thought it could be a chance treatment. It was not until I cured many more that I was confident that leucoderma was curable,'' he says.

Dr. Kabra chooses the drug from an ``ocean of medicine'' in homoeopathy. ``There are over 2,500 medicines to be chosen from in homoeopathy and I select 50 for treating my patients. It is basically application of existing drugs that have given me success,'' he says. Choosing the drugs in itself is a challenge for a doctor.

The treatment can take eight months to six years, depending on the nature of the disease and the cost is about Rs. 300 per month, including the cost of drugs. The important aspect of his treatment is that ``there is no external application of medicine, no hospitalisation and no side-effects''. The patients are not even required to follow any diet restrictions except intake of tea, coffee and spices.

Dr. Kabra received the ``Best Scientific Contents Award'' for his paper on leucoderma which he presented at the World Homoeopathic Congress held at Capri in Italy in 1996. In his paper, the doctor said leucoderma was not a skin disease but a defect that arises due to malfunctioning of melanocyte, the cell that produces melanin, the pigment which gives colour to the skin. When melanocytes stop producing melanin, white patches appear due to lack of pigment. The cure to this ailment cannot be achieved through modern medicines but by totally rooting out the cause of the disease, which can be done only through homoeopathy.

There are three constitutional defects within our system which can be classified as psora, syphillis and sycosis and 50 homoeopathic medicines can be used to cure it. The required medicine is given only after studying the symptoms of the patients, he says.

According to Dr. Kabra, more than 2.5 per cent of the country's population is suffering from leucoderma. Dr. Kabra visits London, Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Calcutta, Bhopal, Surat, Pune, Nagpur, Aurangabad and Nasik besides his headquarters at Jalgaon.

Having taken up treatment of leucoderma patients as his ``mission'' in life, Dr. Kabra offers free treatment to 100 girls from poor families from each State. He also intends initiating a special project to help needy women and destitute children.

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