Bronchial Asthma (An Integrated Approach) An Old and Rare Book

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It was the last Sunday of June, 1987. With my students and colleagues I was enjoying my usual participation in the monthly symposium of our Association of Hahnemannian Homoeopathy. At that time my sincere student Dr. Dilip Bhattacharya posed a proposition very emotionally. He referred to page 34 of Homoeo Sathi, 1st edition (my Bengali book on homoeopathic philosophy) where I expressed the necessity of writing a homoeopathy-oriented Practice of Medicine. He requested me earnestly to guide them in this respect and the gathering echoed in the same breath. So a sample topic was chosen and that was Bronchial Asthma. The present booklet is the outcome of that lecture which I delivered to them on that occasion.

Relevantly enough, I like to emphasise here the importance of intergrated approach correlating the pre-clinical and para-clinical aspects of medicine with our homoeopathic subject. All the recent medical advances and also the fundamental homoeopathic principles need to be harmoniously blended. If this is not done, glaring deficiencies and broad gaps of knowledge would exist and our approach in treating different diseases would be half-hearted and confusing. We may fail to understand the miasmatic background of a case as also its curability. As a result a proper plan of treatment cannot be made and the whole course of treatment would turn to be irregular, whimsical, chaotic and fruitless leading in some cases to even pseudo and unhomoeopathic practice. If a proper integration be possible, our approach in treating various diseases may be standardised, though prescriptions may vary in some cases due to variations in interpretation, observation, evaluation and synthesis of the case. With this aim in view I am presenting herewith the model of bronchial asthma as an example. I think we should try to integrate our knowledge in this way in all medical, medico-surgical and surgical diseases.

Intentionally I have not named here any homoeopathic medicine whatsoever because a true totalistic and integrated approach and not the superficial approach of therapeutics was my concern. A few illustrative cases are also presented herewith. Before I conclude, I earnestly request my learned readers to take a fruitful attempt, jointly or individually, to write a new textbook of medicine incorporating all modern concepts and recent developments in medicine along with the basic principles and concepts of homoeopathy.