Nobody really cares to ask about your diet and
your lifestyle and how you're sleeping and how
you're feeling and the emotional load that you've
been carrying all these, you know, past decades.
It's actually about understanding you from day
one. So which goes to say that your psyche, which
is your mental state, affects your neurological
state, which affects your hormones, which affects
your immunological system. It's all interconnected.
Homeopathy, honestly, is much more than just
an alternative system of medicine. It's a part
of what I've been raised with. Patient comes
and tells you, okay, we have eczema. and you
give them something to kind of put on that eczema
and then that's it. Maybe for a day or two or
a week or a month that patient's better but then
a month later the patient's coming back with
either symptoms that are much more worse than
what they came into you with or this disease
has now decided to take some other part of the
body and show itself in another way. We don't
treat the symptoms specifically. We also treat
the emotional aspect behind those symptoms. Most
of our practice is trying to understand the person
behind the disease. It's never just about the
symptom. take something from nature to help treat
the patient. Correct. Snake venom is a very,
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40s Formula. Hi Jasmine, nice to be here. I'm
so happy I get to speak my voice today and have
a nice discussion with you all. We're so happy
to have you here. Rikshin, the first question
I would like to ask you is, if a woman in her
40s walks into your clinic, she's feeling exhausted,
she's overwhelmed and inflamed, what is the first
thing you would look at that conventional medicine
might miss? Okay, so this actually happens more
often than not where I have women walking in
in their 40s. They come in after visiting multiple
gynec clinics. So they've not got the answers
that they're looking for. Someone diagnoses them
as fibroids and then the other gynec's like,
no, it's not fibroids. Maybe it's just a cyst.
And the other guy's like, oh, you know, maybe
it's just some hormonal imbalance. And they're
so confused by the end of it. They don't have
enough answers. And when they come to my clinic,
honestly they walk off with having felt like
they've been heard. And this is something that
is so important for women to feel like, you know,
they get to talk what they actually wish to express
to the doctor. Most of the times, and even recently
from my own experience with my last OBGYN, as
I just delivered, I think they have about five
to 10 minutes to hear you out. And then that's
it. And most of the times you land up leaving
the office thinking, oh my God, I forgot to mention
this. And oh my God, I should have probably said
that. No one inquires about your history, which
you've had, let's say, since the time you started
your menses. or your mother's history or your
family history. Nobody really cares to ask about
your diet and your lifestyle and how you're sleeping
and how you're feeling and the emotional load
that you've been carrying all these, you know,
past decades. And so when they come to me as
a homeopath, we start from the beginning. So
it's not only about the symptoms that you're
feeling today as a 40 -year -old, which could
be your perimenopausal symptoms, which could
be your lethargy, which could be the hormonal
imbalances and the excess of estrogen and the
low progesterone and all of the other... conventional
lab markers that they come with it's actually
about understanding you from day one what you've
been through in this journey starting from your
childhood experiences starting from the relationship
you've had with your siblings with the relationship
you've had with your parents so it's not only
about addressing that superficial layer it's
more like peeling off an onion where you have
layer and layer and layer and you try to dig
deep to see really where did this start from
where did that first emotion start from where
did that first symptom start from and i think
that's what homeopathy is all about it's about
uncovering those layers it's about really going
as deep as you possibly can to understand this
woman and not just her hot flush and not just
you know the fact that she's getting a heavy
menses or clots in her menses it's about understanding
her much deeper than that which i feel no other
therapeutic is really bothering to really go
that deep into It's funny, isn't it? Because
I think a lot of people will just go see a doctor
and it's only the symptom that gets treated.
But what you're saying is it's not just that
symptom. It's going to go all the way back and
not only look at physically what's happening,
but also emotionally and mentally as well. Very
much so. And this is something actually, which
we're very recently now getting research involved
into as well, right? So probably two decades
back, if I told someone, oh, you know, it's because
you were, let's say, abused as a child that you're
now getting your men's. you know early or you
now have pms related symptoms people would be
like you know how how is it possible how the
heck is it possible that this is related to that
but now we have so much research to actually
support that there's a whole stream of medicine
that's come into a place which is known as psycho
neuro endocrino immunology right wow so which
goes to say that your psyche which is your mental
state affects your neurological state which affects
your hormones which affects your immunological
system and so it's all interconnected we are
just bits and pieces kind of you know lego together
we're all functioning as a whole there's a single
energetic force that's going through all of us
from head to toe that's balancing it all out
we can't just treat a toe and not treat your
head we can't you know treat parts and things
you know in bits and pieces it all has to go
in sync with each other and so that's the real
charm of the science okay i need to take a little
step back because i've heard of homeopathy my
mother -in -law raves about it you know she'll
be like i'll take these homeopathy pills you
know but i actually still don't quite understand
what it is so if you had to explain it you know
to a brand newbie what would you say homeopathy
actually is For me, homeopathy, honestly, is
much more than just an alternative system of
medicine. It's a part of what I've been raised
with. My father is also a homeopath. And so me
and my sister were purely raised on homeopathic
remedies. We didn't know anything else in our
entire growing up years. So if I were to just
explain it to somebody else, I would probably
start from the beginning and talk about how it
originated to give you some context. So this
started about more than 200 years ago, where
there was a German physician by the name of Dr.
Samuel Hanneman. and he was a conventional doctor
you know educated in the regular sense seeing
patients and even 200 years ago he realized that
you know what something's not right i mean we're
just suppressing every symptom that this patient
is coming into treating for so your patient comes
and tells you okay we have eczema and you give
them something to kind of put on that eczema
and then that's it maybe for a day or two or
a week or a month that patient's better but then
a month later the patient's coming back with
either symptoms that are much more worse than
what they came into you with or this disease
has now decided to take some other part of the
body and show itself in another way and so he
realized something's not quite right and that's
when he started really deep diving doing his
research and coming up with this whole new system
of alternative treatment, which was homeopathy
at that time. And there are a couple of pillars
that homeopathy relies on. So the first one being
that we treat every patient as a whole, which
is one of the most important things that we look
at. So a patient coming into us even with a headache
or a migraine or a patient coming to us with
a simple cold and a cough and a fever, we would
like to look at that person as someone who is
individual and who is different from another
person suffering from that same disease. it's
not only about treating a cold in a cuff it's
about treating a cold in a cuff for jasmine which
is very different from treating a cold in a cuff
for amanda which would present itself in a completely
different way so understanding the differences
between each individual and treating that so
one of the main pillars would be that and the
other i would feel main pillar would be to see
the mind behind the body so we don't treat the
symptoms specifically we also treat the emotional
aspect behind those symptoms because we do somewhere
believe that the seat of it all is in the mind
it is that thought which turns into an emotion
which turns into a pathological emotion which
turns into an actual physical pathology and so
somewhere just working on that emotional state
becomes so healing for that physical symptom
as well So is there an element of psychology
in homeopathy? Yes, definitely. We're not trained
psychologists, so I wouldn't call myself that.
But at the same time, most of our practice is
trying to understand the person behind the disease.
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somebody then? So let's say it was a woman who
came in in her 40s and, you know, she's starting
to go through perimenopause, so she's having
the standard type of symptoms, you know, brain
fog. Hot blood. what sort of approach would you
take and what is the treatment that you would
give her so the minute a patient walks into the
cabin it's first about understanding their symptoms
because generally when they go to you know a
doctor that's the first thing they would like
to talk about so we start with that so they feel
like you know we're kind of working on the same
page but then eventually it dwells deep into
much more symptoms so let's say i start off with
the physical complaints but then i ask them okay
besides these symptoms what are the other complaints
that you have unrelated to these symptoms and
so generally they'll come up with okay you know
i've always had an had an upset tummy i have
a lot of bloating or it could be a migraine that
they've had you know from the teenage years so
we start going into these associated complaints
of the body not related to the perimenopausal
symptoms or menopausal that they would come with
then we go into something which we call as generalities
which is basically understanding you from head
to toe which is your appetite what you like to
eat how you eat how often do you eat what are
the things that don't agree with you your intolerances
your allergies how much water do you drink do
you like it cold do you like it room temperature
all of that matters to a homeopath when they're
trying to assess you how well you sleep how many
hours do you sleep are you is it easy for you
to fall asleep or do you wake up multiple times
in the night things like this which differentiate
each and every individual from the other you're
sweating You know, which part of your body do
you sweat more on? The face. Yeah, does it have
a smell? But it's not everyone on the face, right?
Someone will tell me it's just the upper lips.
And some people are like, we only sweat more
on the top part of our body. Yeah, I'm an underboob
situation. So everyone has such unique characteristics.
So it's about picking up all of that then, which
is, as I said, we label it under the generalities.
And then we go into the mind. And so that's when
the two different aspects that I would talk about.
One would be we understand their personality.
So what they are, what they like, their hobbies.
what gives them happiness what gets them angry
what you know how do they show their anger some
people are very quiet with their anger and they
withdraw some people like to express that anger
and you know kind of let it all out so try to
understand that aspect of it and then go into
their entire life situation so starting all the
way as i said from childhood i like to understand
you know how was they raised you know were they
financially you know any stresses were they physically
any stresses what was their relation to their
mother to their father did they feel abandoned
did they feel secure did they feel that kind
of love that parents should display for their
children and then going into their college years
and their friendships their relationships you
know how every single aspect of their life played
a role And most of the times, you know, of course,
a patient would be like, you know, but is this
really relevant? You know, I mean, why are you
getting into all of this? And of course, some
people like to talk about it and they're really
looking for an outlet to really express all of
it. And some women are like, OK, you know what?
I'm not really comfortable, you know, going into
these aspects of my life because I don't feel
it's related, which is when it becomes really
important to explain and understand to this patient
that, OK, you know what? All of this is a buildup
of what eventually has led to these symptoms.
And again, as I said, you know, now research
has really caught up with what we've been trying.
to say for the last two centuries. And so we
now actually have been able to prove as to how
every emotion that they feel early on in life.
And so they call these as adverse childhood experiences,
how they have an impact on a perimenopausal patient
and how it kind of leads to early menarche and
how it leads to PMS disturbances and estrogen
dominance and all of that. I feel like you're
sharing my story, right? Which is to do with,
you know, how you've been treated as a child
by your parents, whether it's physical abuse,
whether it's sexual abuse. whether it's you know
how you've kind of maintained a relationship
with your siblings and all of that has a role
to play in your 40s so it's all kind of interconnected
and so which is why we get into that aspect as
well and then once I kind of have this whole
detailed record of you know everything together
that's when I try to then study the case individualize
this case and you know kind of try to figure
out which substance in nature would be the most
individualistically synchronous with this patient's
symptoms wow you take something from nature to
help treat. The patient. Correct. Yeah, that's
my understanding of homeopathy. Okay, so you
have to understand, my husband's an allopathic
physician. Okay. So definitely in that category,
right? But we do do some lifestyle medicine work
at the clinic that we work at. So a lot of what
you're saying rings very, very true to us. And
as a coach, the coaching approach is very similar
to what you're talking about, where we go deep
into the client's history, the way that they
process information, limiting beliefs, stuff
like that, right? But I would say the biggest
stereotype that I'm familiar with about homeopathy
is that you guys take... like leaves and herbs
and put them in little droppers and divvy them
up based on whatever. So can you clarify when
you get down to the nitty gritties of it, how
do you match up those things for nature? Coming
to how our remedies are made, I think that's
a very big controversial topic. Or just unknown.
Yes. Our remedies are made from... everything
that you can possibly have around you in nature,
whether it's plants, whether it's animals, whether
it's substances made from animals. We even use
certain compounds made from human cells to make
our remedies. And we use certain minerals and
elements that you find around you. I've heard
of things like snake venom as well. Yes, yes,
yes. Very important for actually treating a lot
of menopausal symptoms. So lachesis, which is
made from a snake venom, is a very, very important
remedy for menopausal women. Would colostrum
come into your... Yes. Okay. Because when you
say human, I was like, I got a human remedy.
We actually use bovine colostrum sometimes for
the kids. Yes. So we use human colostrum as well.
We use remedies made from the umbilical cord,
from placenta. Oh, wow. Did you know I encapsulated
my placenta? You did. I thought about it. I never
did. I did with my eldest, not with the twins.
I didn't have time. And you took it? I took it.
The whole thing? The whole thing. Thoughts? Yeah,
no, I think people do it. I haven't done it personally.
But I know that people do compound the placenta
and they do have it. And it's supposed to be
very, very beneficial for the mother to kind
of, you know. I thought it would help with my
iron. For postpartum as well. And postpartum
depression. I heard that it was good to sort
of, you know. The latter I've heard, yeah, more
evidence for that. But yeah, so our remedies
are made from everything that you could possibly
see or feel around you. And there are more and
more remedies that are coming up into our literature
every other day. day so i would probably believe
we have more than three four thousand remedies
now at our disposal how do you like decide what
remedy is relevant for you know a particular
person because like you said everyone will have
a different reason for feeling different symptoms.
How do you figure out how to connect it and how
does it all work? Like does Jasmine need snake
venom for her cough and cold and I need some
colostrum? Who needs what? This is something
which is known as drug -proving. What's that?
Drug -proving. Okay. So which is basically what
we do is as homeopaths, and so this is how the
literature of all of these remedies has come
up, whereby we give the remedy to healthy people.
before. And so we try to understand the symptoms
that they are eliciting from that remedy. So,
for example, you know, if I were to do the remedy
lachesis, I would take a group of, let's say,
20 to 30 women, try to understand them completely
from their original symptoms of their own characteristic
personality, blah, blah, blah, note everything
down. Then we introduce the remedy lachesis to
them and we see what are the newer symptoms that
are coming up after introducing this remedy.
Then the person who's kind of doing the drug
proving should be knowledgeable enough to understand
which are the new symptoms that have come up
from all of these 25 30 women we accumulate all
of them whether it be you know so for example
some women would be like okay you know after
i started taking lachesis i started developing
this kind of throbbing which came up on the right
side of my head so we know that okay lachesis
has a symptom which is headache more on the right
side more on the temples and so similarly for
every single part of the body we try to derive
these symptoms create a whole list of symptoms
from that which become our database that we base
our prescriptions from so now the next time i
get a patient who comes in and tells me okay
i have a pain which is on the right side of my
temples which comes on it's more in women it's
more in menopausal women i'll be like okay you
know what lachesis did approving of this particular
symptom in a patient so i will then know that
this is to be given for that unfortunately it's
not so simple because i have to then match a
whole group of 25 to 30 symptoms from all of
the 3000 remedies that I have in my database.
And so it's a very skilled art. So it's not only
a science, we call it the art and science of
homeopathy, because it's also an art to be able
to match a picture of a patient to a picture
of a, you know, substance in nature. Because
the only thing that I can think of is, you know,
when you give like a vaccine, and then your body
develops antibodies to help protect you from
that. Is it a similar type? Correct. So actually,
The first vaccine that came out was under the
same principles that homeopathy was trying to
advocate for at that point of time. And so we
believe that there's a very synergistic kind
of a way in which both of them do land up working,
which you're again, you're right. It's very similar.
So let me give you an actual simpler example.
For example, an onion, right? So when you're
cutting an onion, what are the symptoms that
you do land up experiencing? Oh God, tears. Tears,
runny nose, you know, that profuse scurriza burning
in your eyes. So the remedy that we make from
onion is known. is allium sepa and so when a
child has an acute choriza so let's say they
have an acute cold that's coming on which is
a runny nose which is burning of the eyes which
is watering of the eyes we give a remedy allium
sepa and so it's if you understand that's the
kind of effect that we do produce so now with
an onion i mean it was more cutting the onion
but It would be the same thing as taking an onion
and, you know, developing those same symptoms.
We match it to a picture of a child who's experiencing
those same symptoms and then give them that same
remedy. Yeah, I'm just trying to sort of get
the gist of everything. So by taking it, it helps
with the symptom rather than causing more symptoms.
Of course, of course. So in a diseased person
who already has the symptoms and the right remedy
is given, it'll help in alleviating those symptoms
as well. But not in the way that we want to suppress
the symptom, right? So that's the big difference
when it comes... to conventional medicine and
you know any kind of alternative medicine where
we're not really working against the body we're
working with the body so even let's say for a
cold cuff and a fever when i mean so and i work
a lot with kids so you know parents will often
be like you know what giving the homeopathic
is it the same thing as giving a ibgesic or a
grosin or you know something like that and so
it doesn't work the same way because my aim is
not to reduce the fever or my aim is not to simply
get rid of the choriza and get rid of the cuff
it's to help the body in actually doing what
it's trying to do anyways which is get rid of
the fever and get rid of the cold in the cuff
but it's just more of an immune support and so
similarly for women in their 40s when i do land
up giving the remedies and they ask me you know
what's it supposed to do you know is it supposed
to act like the estrogen or the progesterone
or the you know hormonal replacement therapies
or things like that it doesn't work that way
because again the whole aim is to balance out
the body once the body is in balance once the
body is in sync once the cells really are communicating
better with each other automatically a lot of
the symptoms symptoms get managed and come under
control. I mean, that is very similar to what
we tell clients in our clinic as well regarding
metabolic health, right? So it's like, well,
when will I lose this amount of weight? It's
like, well, once you actually balance your body
composition where you have enough muscle and
your body fat's under control, then the other
things will try to take care of themselves. I
feel like that holistic approach is so similar
even across different disciplines. Exactly, and
your mind, body, and soul has to be in a certain
sync, right? And so I feel like even when women
come in, right, and we see that a lot more, for
example, in India, where a woman would come in
with these perimenopausal, menopausal symptoms
and, you know, we would discuss all of it. And
eventually while talking to her, you realize
that, you know what, this woman has suppressed
every emotion she could possibly feel, starting
from the way her mother -in -law treated her
to the way that her husband didn't speak up for
her. And, you know, now her kids, you know, kind
of walked all over her and, you know, she's lost
her ambition or she's lost. you know everything
else that she kind of valued in life and explaining
that aspect to her and you know asking her to
change her emotions and her thoughts and you
know belief systems around it and standing up
for herself you know speaking up for herself
all of that in you know sync with homeopathy
works beautifully and which is why you know when
you're dealing with anything it has to be a work
on every single layer of this woman. What would
you say to people then who think that homeopathy
is a placebo or a sugar -coated pill? like what
how would you respond to that unfortunately uh
pharma is a bully and pharma has bullied homeopathy
for the last couple of decades and there have
been all sorts of articles you know that come
out in all sorts of media about you know how
homeopathy doesn't work and you know blah blah
blah luckily for us because we've invested a
lot into research and so now even in india for
example we have a huge government body that's
only dedicated to doing research in homeopathy
there's a whole government wing called ayush
that's come into picture that's supporting alternative
medicine and so similarly there are many other
institutions all over that are working very hard
on trying to prove alternative medicine and you
know how it works we have enough in more scientific
papers now to show them and to tell them that
okay you know what we've done this study we've
done placebo control we've done double blind
we've done single blind we've done every single,
you know, scientific requirement that there is.
And in all of these studies, we've gone on to
go and show that, okay, homeopathy has shown
better results. So I myself did a study on autism
back in India for my PhD, where we did a whole
placebo controlled study. So half the kids were
given homeopathy, half the kids were not given
homeopathy. And we saw a substantial improvement
in these kids with autism and their symptoms
in the group that was given homeopathy as compared
to the placebo group. So we do have enough science
that's backing us up. We do have a lot of studies
that have been done on animals. I work, as I
said, a lot with kids. You can't do, you know,
homeopathy works because, you know, homeopathy
doesn't work because it's a sugar pill on kids.
I mean, you can see the improvement. With a dog
who has cancer, when you see that tumor regressing
after homeopathy, you can see that. There's no
way you can say that, okay, you know what, it
was a placebo effect that came onto this dog
or a placebo effect that came onto an animal.
So I feel like those things really go on to prove
and, you know, support. all the work that a lot
of the homeopaths have been doing for the last
couple of centuries. And that would be my answer
to them, you know, to really actually dig deep
and not simply go on to what media is trying
to tell you. Unfortunately, alternative medicine,
herbs, homeopathy, they can't be patented. So
because of that, there's a lot of backlash that
we land up facing. And unfortunately, it is what
it is. It'll never be big bucks, right? So therefore,
it'll never have that kind of clout behind it.
Exactly, exactly. Are there limits of homeopathy?
So you just mentioned cancer in terms of tumor
regression in dogs. Are there limits where you
would say this probably is beyond the scope of
homeopathy? I do feel like in any kind of an
emergency medicine. accidents, you know, where
surgeries are required. Massive blood loss. Yes,
exactly. So when you need to go, you need to
go. But I feel like for a lot of chronic diseases,
I feel like that's where alternative medicine
really shines, right? Or for example, even with
kids, when I'm working with kids and, you know,
parents don't want to keep drugging them, they
don't want to give the nebulization and they
don't want to, you know, kind of do the steroids
for the eczema and things like that. Again, that's
where homeopathy really, really shines as a first
line of treatment, I would say, as compared to,
you know, trying to take... other medications
into the picture. Is there receptivity for that
in Singapore? Because I feel like in the US,
there is more distrust of big pharma. There's
more distrust of the medical industry. In Singapore,
I feel the opposite is true. I feel that medical
authority reigns supreme here. So how do you
find that homeopathy is received by families,
individuals? So I feel like... I feel like I
while I would feel like expats do land up being
the crux of my practice. And so, you know, people
again, you know, Indians, we are hugely believers
of alternative medicine, homeopathy, Ayurveda,
even for that matter, Europeans, and I have Brazilians
as my patients, and you know, Russians and Ukrainians,
and you know, Americans, exactly a lot of Britishers,
you know, who do kind of have that trust in homeopathy.
I feel like the locals are very pharma minded,
you are absolutely right there. But at the same
time, I feel like they do believe in TCM right
so then again I'm very happy if they're doing
some alternative medicine you know or they're
taking it in some or the other way I mean it's
not only about you know okay you have to take
homeopathy it's just about really addressing
those issues from a different standpoint as compared
to suppressing them I mean I feel like even if
you're okay with doing TCM I'm very happy I'm
very happy if you want to do your acupuncture
I'm very happy you know if you want to do your
functional medicine or whatever it is because
they're all eventually working towards the same
goal But it's just about really understanding
your body predominantly. I feel like as long
as you're open to doing that, which again, post
-COVID, I feel like there was a whole boom and
people thought, okay, you know what, alternative
medicine is coming back. People are relying more
on your echinacea and your other herbs, you know,
to kind of help you with your colds and cuffs
and things like that. But I feel like it's gone
back, you know, because I still feel like for
conditions, for example, like cancer, even though
in the last couple of decades, you know, the
treatment's been more or less, you know, around
chemotherapy and radiation. and you know surgery
and you know now i think people really need to
change their mind shift a little bit and be like
okay you know what why did i get cancer why did
that cell go undetected in my body that my immune
system was supposed to you know kill and clear
out of the system you know what really went wrong
was i really so emotionally unavailable at that
point of time was, you know, that sense of loneliness
so strong in my body at that point of time that,
you know, this cancer cell absolutely thought
of thriving in a body like mine. And so I feel
like that introspection really needs to come
in for everything, whether it be cancer, whether
it be menopause, whether it be, you know, hormonal
imbalances. And you see that more often than
not, right? That there is that emotional, you
know, thing that's kind of deep seated behind
every disease. Amanda, you know how people always
ask us, what supplements do you actually take?
Yeah, it's like they think there's some magical
midlife stack that'll just fix everything. Exactly.
And while there's no magic, I do like things
that are intentional and well -formulated like
the Longevity Bundle from Avea Life. It's one
of the few supplements I'd actually recommend.
NMN for cellular energy, booster with antioxidants
to support recovery and stress, and a collagen
activator because joints and skin need some love
too. Honestly, it's just smart. Three products
that support how we live. How do you determine
whether it's lifestyle, their gut, their hormones,
their emotional well -being, or do you just think
it's like an overlap of everything when it comes
to... finding the root cause of what's going
on i generally find it's an overlap i would so
homeopathy is not very big on testing as functional
medicine is so while we do of course we would
love to look at your lab reports and we would
love to see you know where you're standing metabolically
I feel like it's a lot about really understanding
a little bit more deeper than that. And so I
would technically work on everything. My advice
to the patient at the end of a consult would
not only be, okay, take this medicine and go
home. It would always be, okay, you know what,
let's work on this. Let's work on, you know,
your diet. Are you exercising? You know, where's
that going? Or your emotions, your relationships
with your partner, your relationships with your
children, you know, how is that going? Your supplements,
okay, you know what, maybe we should start taking
an omega. Maybe we should, you know, introduce
a vitamin. d3 things like that so i feel like
it has to be an overall approach when you're
coming to any kind of an holistic practitioner
where you're not only just you know because i
feel like at the end of the day if i'm giving
you medicine i'm working like a conventional
doctor where you know i expect that that's going
to just work on you and then that's it but that
same lifestyle that kind of created this disease
has to be changed if you really want to get better
you have to look at you know what food you're
eating you have to change a lot of things around
your life to to feel that way and so yeah are
there any therapies that work well with homeopathy
so homeopathy is luckily one of those systems
that works well with everything and so for example
even when women come in for example you know
who have diabetes and you know who've been on
medications for the last decade and they always
ask you know can i take homeopathy along with
the medications that i'm taking along with the
metformin or along with the insulin homeopathy
can be taken with everything because it doesn't
work on the same plane that any of the other
modalities work the plane that homeopathy really
works in as i explained is the energetic plane
so for us it's about balancing that energy in
the body using our medications so a metformin
will work on a very physiological plane whereas
for us it's working on that whole energetic plane
so whether it's functional medicine and whether
it's supplements, whether it's acupuncture, whether
it's, you know, TCM or Ayurveda, homeopathy can
be taken together and works very well for everything
because it's working on a very different plane.
It's doing its own thing, you know, no matter
whatever else you're taking. That was my question.
It was Ayurveda. Yes. So like... Is there any,
so Ayurveda, my understanding is kind of there's
three different typologies, right? You're a pitta
or a kapha. Well, you know more than me. I have
no idea what it is. Only because I went and did
an Ayurvedic medicine consultation when I was
in Sri Lanka. Okay. And they said I was a pitta
anyway. But is there any such typology in homeopathy
where you kind of divide people into categories
based on a kind of cluster of symptoms? So there
are, and we call them as myisms in homeopathy.
Myisms? Myisms, yeah. So basically it's about...
you're a psoric myosin or you're a psychotic
myosin. I hope I'm not a psychotic myosin. That
does not sound like a place I need to be. Yeah.
So broadly, they're just these three myosins.
So a psoric would be more of a functional level
kind of a symptom. So let's say you have an age
or you have a little bit of an ache and pain.
Psoric. Psychotic would be more of an overgrowth,
right? So any kind of cells that are multiplying,
whether it is, you know, ovarian cyst or whether
it is, you know, a lipoma or diabetes for that
matter. right for example when you're when you
don't have enough insulin you know cells in the
body so you kind of decrease or increase in the
number of cells that could kind of clump together
we call that psychotic and syphilitic myosin
which would be the most destructive myosin would
be you know conditions and diseases where there
would be actually you know hardcore necrosis
for example or you know tissues dying or cancer
for that matter it's end stage and things like
that would go into the whole syphilitic myosin
so we would broadly classify them into that those
myosins but it's not something that we actively
use when we're prescribing or it's not something
at least i actively use when prescribing so that's
more of kind of like a foundational knowledge
for you and then you draw from all those things
okay for me i think the most important thing
is just talking right so you just talk to your
client and you just talk and talk and talk to
a point where you know you really where they
really realize you know a lot of the things in
their life because no one really spoken to them
that way or no one's really asked them those
kind of questions and so women in their 40s would
come in and i'd be like you know could you explain
you know describe yourself you know to me or
give me a little idea of who you are as a person
and they'd be like oh my god i haven't really
thought about this And, you know, you're now
in your 40s and, you know, you don't really still
know who you are because no one's really asked
those questions to you or you haven't really
taken out the time or got the time to really
think about it yourself. Yeah. Which is just
quite surprising for them as well because it's
a big realization that, oh, my God. So you've
mentioned that you work with children as well.
Do you find there's patterns that might be repeating
between sort of mothers and their kids? oh yes
a hundred percent a hundred percent and so mothers
see that very often again when i ask them that
question right and so let's say a mother would
get me a child and the child has you know extreme
amounts of anxiety and i'd be like okay you know
could you describe your pregnancy to me a little
bit and she'd be like oh my god it was an ivf
baby and you know we were always worried what's
gonna happen and you know just something as simple
as that you know that pattern of of what the
mother felt during her pregnancy passes on to
the child and the child kind of you know then
develops a similar state yeah and so a hundred
percent a hundred percent and i have to bring
up the article that just came out that i posted
about the other day the one about how mothers
who exercise and lift weights in pregnancy their
kids have better muscle tone at birth and more
muscle development in their first five years
of life i mean that's that's real talk right
yeah so you know what what happens utero doesn't
go unnoticed in those early years of life is
the whole point in fact i was just going through
another study that i was researching for this
talk where it was done in singapore where they
found out that the mother's mental state and
her happiness levels when she was in her 36 or
38 weeks of pregnancy actually impacted how the
kids felt when they were seven years old yes
i saw that that that's part of my that was that
came up in research for my book yes I mean, there's
more and more in utero research that now we have
launched. And we've been taking those symptoms
in homeopathy for the last two centuries where
we always ask a mother who comes in for a consult
for a child, how was your state during pregnancy?
How were you physically? How were you emotionally?
Because more often than not, it's transmitted.
And most of the times, moms land up feeling guilty
when you ask that question. They're like, oh
my God, did I do something wrong? Is it because
of me that my child is like that? But it's not
that. It's just about more understanding that
state of the mother. during that point of time
it's funny you say that because I was in the
UK while I was pregnant with my first child my
husband was here in Singapore and I did have
this sort of constant state of anxiety a little
bit you know is the baby going to come early
you know what's going to happen and actually
my eldest son sometimes he has these tendencies
to feel Like, he's got a bit of, I mean, it's
not crazy, it's nothing serious, but, you know,
he does have these tendencies. And I feel bad.
I'm like, oh, shit, was it my fault? You know,
like, does he feel this way because of the way
I felt during that part of my pregnancy? But
then I look at the twins and I was here, you
know, I felt, I mean, other than feeling huge,
I felt large. And their mindset is completely
different. Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it? It is.
And I noticed that for my two kids now as well,
right? Because you're always anxious for your
first one, I feel. I noticed that the elder one's
always a little more anxious with their personality
as compared to my younger one now, who's just
two months. But I can see that she's very zen
and she's very calm and she's got her own, you
know, thing going. She doesn't need me too much.
And I'm like, OK, you know what? Maybe it does
matter, you know, your state of mind for sure.
And you see it. Absolutely. I think there's definitely
truth in that. Like I said, physical, physiological,
psychological. I definitely see that. Are there
any gentle remedies that you can recommend to
women in general that they should be taking?
For example, like we are, you know, like women
should be taking creatine. They should probably
be taking vitamin D3 or some magnesium. Yeah,
omegas. Yeah, omegas. Is there anything like
that? in homeopathy homeopathic medicine is that
right yeah that you would say to women you know
like this most of us should be taking it yeah
while homeopathy as i said is individualistic
so again you're not i would love it if you know
i would understand a patient before you know
they would start taking anything and everything
there are many over -the -counter remedies now
available for everything right so for hot flushes
or for menopause we do have certain combination
remedies which wouldn't be just one homeopathic
remedy but probably they've noticed okay these
10 remedies really work very well on women with
these particular symptoms and so they kind of
combine them and package them and you know kind
of market it for that and they do work i would
say they would work on about 50 to 60 percent
of the women taking it So it would be a good
chance to take. But at the same time, it wouldn't
work for some. And then they would have that
impression, oh, homeopathy doesn't work. And
that's where it sucks, right? Because then you're
like, OK, you know what? Maybe you just needed
something other than those 10 remedies from the
other, you know, 3000 remedies we have. So while
it's always better to get that individualistic
prescription, there are many remedies that are
very good for conditions, you know, around hormone
balancing or around the perimenopause, menopause
stage in women. Separately, for example, I was
in Guardian. And they've got these lollipops.
They're like the homeopathy ones. They're Australian
company. I don't know what else is in there.
There are homeopathy remedies, which they've
put in the lollipops for kids. And so they've
made it for travel sickness, for cold, for fever.
I have not seen that. I mean, I've not been in
a Guardian lately, I guess. I went in there.
I live in a Guardian. I picked up a box. And
now every time my son opens up the cupboard and
he sees these lollipops, he's like... I mean,
I've got a cough. I'm like, no, you don't have
a cough. You haven't coughed all day. Now all
of a sudden you've got a cough. Oh, that's band
-aids in my house. It's like, my daughter will
be like, you see this little mark? I need a band
-aid. I'm like, that's a freckle. You were born
with a freckle. Are they like Paw Patrol ones
or something? All different. I made the mistake
of getting all the cool ones. Right, a woman
comes to you. She's flatlined. She's got no energy,
no libido, no, you know, like no desire really
in life. you know, obviously you'll sit there,
you'll go through her sort of mental wellbeing,
her emotional wellbeing. Is there anything else
that you would recommend to her to do? I feel
like... it would start with a homeopathic remedy
definitely is what I would ask her to start on
and then what happens is a lot of the things
change after the remedy so they often ask me
okay what do we expect you know after we take
a remedy you know are we expecting you know the
next month my menses are going to be regular
are we expecting this are we expecting that and
so I feel like every remedy again has a very
different reaction on every single person based
on their constitution so what happens is let's
say a woman like this you know walks into the
clinic there could be one woman who would take
that remedy and would you know suddenly realize
what's been wrong in her life and rectify that
right so for example you know women come from
let's say a really bad marriage you know husbands
you know just never been available for her one
woman would get up and be like okay you know
what this is not working out for me i need a
divorce wow so There are these extreme reactions
that can come out. Or there could be another
woman who would be like, you know what? Okay,
it's okay the way he is. I'm going to accept
the way he is and I'm going to, you know, kind
of go on with it. But I'm not going to let it
affect me. Yes. You know, so I'm going to build
that strength around myself. So there could be
these completely different reactions that come
about with the exact same remedy. So it all depends
on, again, you know, your constitution and how
you are. But it works towards trying to make
a better life for yourself. ahead to a point
where you know eventually the symptoms that you
came to me for will improve so i would have women
you know would come in and tell me okay you know
what we i spoke up to my husband you know saying
that you know the mother -in -law situation is
not working out too well for me we need to move
out of the house and so now in the next two three
months they're going to try to move out of the
house and you know find a space for themselves
this woman now feels like you know she's she's
got that strength to go through these kind of
important decisions in her life automatically
a lot of her pms symptoms got better automatically
you know the clots started disappearing of course
the remedies do have an action on the you know
hormonal balancing and so they're working towards
that but mentally also it has a very huge role
to play so it's almost like a caution you might
get divorced do you have any special case studies
you can share with us where you know someone's
come in for nothing else worked yeah like they
tried everything you know but you managed to
figure out it wasn't what they thought it was
it was something else and how did you help them
so i feel like lot of these uh unique kind of
cases do come on right and so for example when
a woman comes in with her hormonal imbalance
and so probably i could discuss a case of a 41
year old woman who had come to me and she came
to me after visiting three gynecs and she was
you know she came across to me as a very closed
a very uh you know skeptical person and so sometimes
people do walk in with that because they're like
okay you know we don't know what we're getting
into or we don't know what she's gonna ask me
or you know how it's gonna be And so she was
just, you know, disgruntled with the way she'd
been kind of treated with the last three gynecs.
And she spoke about all her poor experiences
with them. We discussed all of that. She told
me her symptoms, which are again, very similar,
right? So fatigue, I don't feel like getting
up. I have two kids, you know, but the entire
day, you know, I'm groggy and I'm sleepy. I need
to take a nap, you know, every afternoon to feel
a little alert and things like that. And so we
went through all of that. And then I was like,
okay, you know, besides all of this, tell me
something else that you've been experiencing.
And so she's like, you know, since the time I
was in my... teenagers we I experienced a lot
of acne and I'd been given a lot of you know
antibiotics and the creams and the hormones for
all of that and It immediately clicked me at
that point of time that this lady is experiencing
most of this because her gut is imbalanced for
the last couple of decades. So all of these medications
that you take for simple things like acne on
your skin go on to disrupt your gut. The gut
then again goes on to disrupt your hormones.
So it's like a whole cascade of events, you know,
that, you know, it's one after the other after
the other. And then again, I spoke about her
emotions and it was that same, you know, story
of a woman who's never kind of, you know, done
anything for herself, given her entire life to
her family. And you see that more often than
not. even in this day and age, right? Absolutely,
yes. Yeah, and so, I mean, we spoke about all
of that. And then we were like, okay, you know
what, let's make a plan. Let's start off with
these remedies, you know, these protocols. So
I sometimes give multiple remedies to work on
different aspects of their lives. So I do land
up giving progesterone as a homeopathic remedy,
which is very different from taking progesterone
as a conventional. When you say is progesterone
as a homeopathic remedy, is that something in
nature that helps to increase naturally or is
it something else? It's actually made from progesterone.
but it's not got progesterone so none of our
remedies ever have the actual particle of the
substance in it we try to extract the energy
from that substance in the process of making
the does it come from humans or animals or it
comes it comes from humans it comes from humans
so it works it would work in the same way that
you would expect a conventional progesterone
to work of course not with the same intensity
so it's not like i'm going to give it to you
and you know your menses are going to get better
in the next month or two but at the same time
it slowly stimulates the body to produce the
progesterone okay so it's not like an exogenous
it's like it's an antagonist in a sense yes so
it's actually helping the body balance things
out with that and so we i try to give that as
remedy i gave her sepia so sepia is a remedy
we make from cuttlefish and it's excellent for
you know women around this age who have absolutely
so we also call it the washer woman's remedy
where you know it's like this woman who's just
completely her garden you know it's completely
lost you know a lot of her will she's become
indifferent to her situation she's become indifferent
to her surroundings a lot of the hormonal imbalance
completely lost that drive and yes lost that
joy but she used to be a very you know she used
to be one of those women who used to be great
at tennis and badminton and you know all of those
things early on in life and you know very energetic
and very physically you know kind of had movement
as a huge part of her life but now suddenly she's
lost you know the energy to do all of that and
so sepia becomes a great remedy for patients
like that and so i started on sepia we did you
know the homeopathic version of the progesterone
and Within two months, she was like, okay, my
clots have gone. My menses are so much better.
We worked on her gut. So again, colostrum becomes
a very good remedy I use for gut repair as well.
But we also have certain remedies that we make
from, which would act as homeopathic probiotics,
I would say. So we make them from the stool samples
of healthy people. And so we try to extract the
bacteria from that, make certain homeopathic
remedies from those. I think they're going to
start doing that in the NHS. Did you see that
article? Oh, really? No, I did not. Yes, in the
UK. going to start doing poo pills, you know,
from healthy people to get their healthy gut
microbiome. And that's one of the fastest ways
to, you know, replenish everything that you've
lost down there. It's just important, right?
But then they do need to help that gut bacteria
to thrive, right? So then they need to make changes.
Yes, the environment in which your gut is needs
to change, right? Otherwise, it's like putting
it in and getting it out. It needs to be able
to stick and it needs to be able to absorb, you
know, that's what we need to do. So I was going
to say, did she get back to sports? to know I
have to know if movement was like reintroduced
to her life yes so she definitely started her
exercises again she's like okay I've started
you know two times a week I've started doing
my little walks and slow and steady I feel like
everything has to be slow and steady you know
it's not about you know one of those results
that I want where you know in 15 days everything's
back to square one because then in most cases
those cases relapse and we don't want the woman
to go back into that we want a very nice steady
you know improvement day by day month by month
cycle by cycle you know going up to a point where
you know she feels like you know she's ready
for life again okay so from the perspective of
a nominivore I can see that they would be open
to any type of strategy remedy what about a vegan
now how would they feel or have you ever come
across someone who's like absolutely not we're
not gonna be using any animal based products
Or do you just not tell them? I mean, I'm just,
you know, like wondering what's the process behind
that? Yeah, so I mean, I feel like luckily I
haven't faced that. But if I were to, I feel
like I would probably just want to explain to
them how the remedies are made. And so while,
of course, it starts off coming up from an animal,
what they're taking in is more, as I said, you
know, the energetic aspect of that element and
not really an animal product itself. I mean,
unfortunately. if it's the remedy that fits,
it's the remedy that fits, right? And I can,
you know, come up with, you know, another remedy
that could be a partial fit, but it wouldn't
do the same job. And so if they were insistent
on that, I could, of course, you know, kind of
try to go through my, you know, repertoire again
and be like, okay, you know, maybe we could make
this change and that change, but I wouldn't be
too happy doing it. And I would probably try
to convince them to, you know, be a little bit
more on board around that. Well, like you said,
if there's no actual element of the original
source item, then I guess it technically... would
be vegan. I don't know. Vegans, feel free to
comment on this episode. Let us know what you
think. Right. It's been absolutely incredible
having you here and finding out about homeopathy.
Honestly, I had... Yeah, you can tell neither
of us have experienced it. So this is so helpful.
I mean, obviously, like I've seen the lollipops
and, you know, I've heard about it because my
mother -in -law is a big fan and I just never
really understood it. So it's really interesting
and fascinating to see that, you know, that it's
not just a symptom. symptom addresser you know
it looks at everything it looks at the whole
body which is amazing and obviously something
that we're well behind because we do believe
you know that everything is interconnected it's
not just going to be the one thing but before
we go we do have one final question we do want
to ask you and it's the question we ask all of
our guests and that is what's your 40s formula
what would you say to women who are in their
40s who need to find a way to thrive and and
you know get joy out of their life what mantra
what slogan what piece of advice would you give
to them I would probably tell them to start feeling
again because I feel like a lot of us have lost,
you know, that ability to really feel every emotion
that we're going through in life. And most of
the times we just brush off so much that, you
know, that's going on in life because there's
so much of running and running and running that
we kind of keep doing. So it probably asks them
to start feeling again, you know, to start feeling
what, who they are, you know, what they want
to do, how they want to live, you know, and then
plan their life based on that, you know, make
decisions for themselves and... just not give
a fuck about everything else that's been around
and just feel what they want to do. And, you
know, kind of, cause I feel like a happy woman
can make her entire family so happy. A family
thrives, the society thrives, you know, the community
thrives, but it's all about feeling. It's all
about feeling what you really want to do. It's
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conversations with inspiring guests. Bye. everything
been otherwise otherwise good I just feel like
I've got a little bit of a pregnancy brain so
I've got my notes I was like okay I don't want
to forget words and I don't want to forget I
empathize so much that was seriously my craziest
season yeah it happened to me with my first one
as well I mean I just blank out right and then
you know I've got perimenopause brain every now
and again so i might forget yeah so no worries
but luckily you know this is not live this is
pre -recorded although we will be doing a live
one yeah we are doing a live episode in august
exciting so that's going to be interesting so
we'll see how that comes along but um yeah luckily
if there's any time that you need to pause take
a breather you can Yeah, we're happy to do that.
But I think we're just planning on keeping it
just fun and, you know, just conversational,
right? So I don't want to... It is. It's nothing
there where we're going to be like, trick question.
Yeah, exactly. We're like, yeah, we're going
to hammer you on this. No, that's fine.