Offered by Dr Nandita Shah and Michael Zelnick

Homeopathy in the understanding of Dr Nandita Shah

Homeopathy, a system of medicine developed by Samuel Hahnemann, (Germany) is based on the principle of like cures like. It is sort of like presenting your body with a mirror to reflect it's own disease. The awareness thus produced at the subconscious level initiates the body's own healing process.
The initial interview is long and is aimed at understanding the root of the illness, which helps in the selection of the remedy. The remedy is chosen for the individual, and not for the disease. The remedy is catalyst for healing at a deeper level.
Experience tells that though homeopathy is very effective in bringing about a positive change in the health of the individual this process can be speeded up many-fold, when the patient is willing to take responsibility for his own healing process instead of relying solely on the therapist and remedy, and we try to encourage this in our practice.

Peas vs Pills
Dr Nandita Shah regularly gives workshops called Peas vs Pills about how each one of us can take responsibility for our own health instead of relying on doctors. The main focus of her work is food that heals. She also does individual consultations with people who would like to heal themselves through diet rather than take medicine.
Nature’s wisdom surpasses that of any doctor. Learn how you can PREVENT and CURE most illness’, including heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, asthma, cancer, digestive problems, menstrual and menopausal problems, joint pains and backaches, psychological problems and more just by:

1. Understanding what your body is trying to tell you and responding accordingly.
2. Understanding what would be the healthy diet for a human being and learning how to prepare tasteful, healthy meals that heal.
3. Understanding your role in the design of the universe.

Homeopathy in the understanding of Michael Zelnick

Two principles discovered by Samuel Hahnemann nearly three hundred years ago form the basis of Homeopathy.
The first of these, most simply expressed as, "Like cures like." stemmed from Hahnemann's observation that a substance which produces a certain syndrome when administered to a healthy individual will act curatively when administered to an individual displaying a sufficiently similar set of symptoms which have arisen as the result of pathology.
A physician, Hahnemann had observed with despair the effects of much contemporary prescribing which, he felt, often produced more disastrous effects than the illness it was supposed to treat. His search for a means of preparing medicinal substances in a way that would render them safe while not compromising their efficacy as healing agents led to the process known as "potentization", the second basic principle of Homeopathy. Various hypotheses have been advanced to explain the underlying physics of potentization, none with total success. The process appears to liberate the subtle energy inherent in the starting material and it is this energy, rather than the material substance of the starting material, which is transferred to the patient via the homeopathic remedy. However the process actually works, potentization yields remedies which are totally non-toxic and free of side effects (even though the original substance from which a given remedy was prepared may have been a most virulent poison) and which, their action being energetic rather than material, are able to act directly at the causal level of disease.
Homeopathic treatment begins with a case taking interview which ordinarily takes between one and a half and two hours. The homeopath then attempts to match the "picture" of the patient elicited in the interview with a known "remedy picture" and to administer the "most similar" remedy. A well chosen homeopathic remedy acts to right the energetic disbalance which is the underlying cause of an illness rather than by merely suppressing its symptoms. Homeopathy thus opens the possibility of genuine cure for many conditions for which ordinary medical practice can, at best, offer only temporary relief.