Catholic Priest Awarded Doctorate for Alternative Medicines

Bhopal: A Catholic priest was conferred on Doctor of Philosophy (Ph D) for his pioneering work on the use of alternative medicines against the background of globalization.

Governor of Madhya Pradesh Om Prakash Kohli conferred the degree on Father Shaji E Stanislaus, a priest of Bhopal Archdiocese, during a convocation held at Bharkatullah University Campus on February 6.

The priest’s thesis titled, “The Role of Alternative Medicines in the Treatment of Patients: A Sociological Study in Bhopal,” is a unique work as he is not from any medical background, says his guide Professor Arvind Chauhan, head of department of sociology in the university.

“Alternative medicines are effective cure for all the diseases including cancer,”,the priest told mattersindia.com adding, “unfortunately, they have not got the much needed support to promote unlike the allopathic medicines.”

“My effort was to reinventing the use of alternative medicines, i.e, our traditional times tested medicines when people face so much of difficulty in getting proper treatment in good allopathic hospitals.

“One of the best parts of alternative medicines is they are available easily and cost effective. They have no side effect unlike in the case of allopathic medicines,” he explains.

“Most cases, people rush to allopathic treatment ignoring readily available alternative medicines for quick relief. Even though, they get quick relief, it is a fact that regular use of allopathic medicines gradually leads to multiple side effects,” he adds.

The priest’s research found that women preferred alternative medicinal practices to allopathic medicinal practices as they are cost effective, easily available and also have no side effect unlike allopathic medicines.”

Alternative medicines go to the root cause of a disease and cure it but take time for healing. Allopathic medicines, on the other hand, treat only the symptoms, he adds.

Globalization, the priest adds, too has adversely affected the use of alternative medicine as there was no sustained effort to promote the use of alternative medicines which used to be the traditional medicines of the country for thousands of years.

Surprisingly, the priest adds, ‘many of the European countries now began to use alternative medicines as complementary alternative medicines (CAM) in their hospitals for effective cure.

There they go for allopathic treatment for emergency cases including operations and then go for further treatment with CAM.

“We need to get back to our roots (alternative medicines) to protect the health of our families and the society”, emphasis the priest.

Smart fellah. I haven’t taken meds for years, may be the oldest freeper posting. Gym daily, organic foods, no wheat or other gluten, lotsa steak, bacon, fish, eggs, tons of veggies, salads galore. Nutritional supplements galore. Avoid sugar. Have had good experiences with acupuncture, abysmal experiences with allopathic medicine, doctors are historically NOT my friends.

In fact, a friendly MD told me decades ago that I’d better not be in an accident because they’d kill me trying to save my life. All anesthetics, including novocaine, are far far too strong for my system.. My dentist gives me 1/4 “prescribed” dose and can do a root canal, I’ll dance out of the office and go shopping afterwards…no pain meds for residual pain.

I really don’t think I’m exceptional. I just ask a lot of questions because I don’t like that drugged feeling. Many people are probably as sensitive as I am but don’t dare question their docs, accept all those stupid unnecessary side effects. I believe that side effects, if they occur, are symptoms of poisoning and the drug should be tossed in the garbage immediately. If your doc prescribes a drug to counteract the side effects of the first drug, you’re on a very slippery slope leading, perhaps, to death. Walk out of his/her office immediately and seek some other kind of treatment.

My current MD is from Nigeria, may be the best MD I’ve ever had because HE LISTENS TO ME…plus he’s quite smart about alternative remedies. AND he goes to my gym.

I do realize that some day far in the future, I may actually need an allopathic drug to save my life. Since I’m ancient already, I’ll decide then whether to take it.

All of which pertains to the extraordinary cost of health/death care in this country. Wish the Donald would authorize alternative therapies that would cut the healthcare budget by billions and make seniors and younger citizens healthier.

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