Homeopathy for Healthy Living with Dr. Mukesh Batra

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:00]It's the so this one is Swami Narayan with the head the head you know Swami Narayan you know who's the man swami he's prayed on all this and then put it on my neck and then this is >> the other one also right >> and this is this is the osha one >> right >> and then this is the guruji one here on my hand here who's another one of my gurus whom I met I spent a lot of time with him in Delhi so there's a conflicts of medicine and spirituality together that makes it special >> I guess But has it happened only after you've kind of you know grown a little older and wiser?

[00:00:34]>> No no no I've always >> you've always I sat in Swami Chin Manandas with him. He got me married at his temple. I used to drive him around when I was a young doctor when I was just 23 years old. And uh then from there I met Sai Babawa. He hugged me. He blessed me. Uh then I went to you know Shirika Sai the temple. I kind of dabbishek over there because I had a free camp for them. So like that you know I have been blessed by I think my of course my practice has got me close to all of them. So so I have to thank homeopathy for everything that I I've got in my life.

[00:01:08]>> Your practice got you close to a whole lot of people in the world. I remember meeting you at your uh at your clinic at Chapati NM Medical Center.

[00:01:18]>> Yeah. Opposite. Yeah, that's right.

[00:01:19]Yeah. Next to that. Yeah.

[00:01:21]>> Next to Wilson College.

[00:01:22]>> That was my first clinic. Still there.

[00:01:24]>> Still there.

[00:01:25]>> Yeah. Hussein has painted my ceiling. I can't get out. I'm my doctors are sitting over there under it. So that was his tribute to me.

[00:01:36]>> I remember that.

[00:01:37]>> Yeah. Long time ago.

[00:01:38]>> Like I remember visiting meeting you somewhere in the mid '9s.

[00:01:43]>> You were with midday also that time. You were with midday. I remember that.

[00:01:47]>> Mid early to mid 90s. I remember visiting.

[00:01:52]>> Good. I'm glad we are still in touch.

[00:01:53]That's great. Uh though I think the first time I met you when I was with the express I joined express uh and you and you had just started writing I think when was the first time you started writing?

[00:02:04]>> I actually wrote my first uh I think my first book came out in ' 82 around 80s 80 and I started writing for uh for mirror I wrote in 1975 that was my first article that came out which got me all the film stars Bollywood stars because Maro Kumar ed and he came to me >> in that mirror magazine. Yeah. Amira magazine Rajanara and yeah he was the editor.

[00:02:26]>> Ah >> so that was my first article 1975 but that was a loan article you know and then I started writing for weekly when Pritish Shandi was the editor. I wrote there for 10 years >> right I remember >> non-stop that was like yeah very popular at the last page I used to you know give prescriptions on postcards you know thousands of them every every week as you know to reply to people with a reply page postcard. It was fun. It was like we're going to start now.

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[00:04:58]Hello and welcome to health live at seniors today. It gives me great pleasure to welcome once again to our forum Dr. MKkesh Batra. U before I invite him to speak let me introduce her. Of course it needs no introduction.

[00:05:13]Uh Dr. Batra as we all know is a pioneer of modern homeopathy in India. He brought standardization and modern technology to a largely informal practice. You know those small goalies that we would get from doctors which were very sweet and one would enjoy them. He brought in the sanitization and he has received the padmashi for the for his contribution to the field of omeati.

[00:05:38]He has 225 clinics across 150 count across 150 cities and 10 countries including London and Dubai and has impacted the lives of over 15 lakh people worldwide. He has authored the very popular book the nation's homeopath how Dr. Batras became the world's largest chain of homeopathic clinics and before I was before we started the session he just mentioned that his next book his 11th is going to be out sometime in August >> in in June >> in June sorry in June uh a prolific speaker having addressed multiple forums uh across the world he has written regular columns in in in in various papers he used to write a column for almost a decade in the illustrated weekly of India. Many of you may remember it. He has uh had one of the longest running television shows on homeopathy and held on dudashan and ZTV in India and in Europe. He has authored several bestselling books as I mentioned on homeopathy and >> people can't hear there. They're typing in that the audible there's no audio.

[00:06:48]Can you just take your technical team to get that right?

[00:06:50]>> Yeah. Yeah, we'll do that >> before we go ahead. So that >> Yeah. Yeah. So he has as I mentioned he has authored several bestseller books on omipathy in multiple languages and uh he used to write a long-standing column in the illustrated weekly of India he had one of the longest television shows on homeati on and health on dudaran and ZTV and um u in in the in around covid he he did some amazing service he ran 191 free clinics uh that offered uh lifetime plea medicines to the work to the needy and he distributed over 1 cr doses to people. These included 20 lakh doses free of cost to the Maharashtra police personnel and their families and sponsored 24 lakh doses across NOS's for distribution to containment areas and 14 lakh doses to the Rotary Club of Bombay.

[00:07:46]containment areas. I remember that word which we is which almost went out of our which came into our vocabulary and went out of our vocabulary now and thankfully so. How are you Dr. Batra?

[00:07:58]>> Super. Absolutely. Just fresh off from the fresh air of New Zealand and uh you know just got off the flight yesterday morning after 27 hour on the aircraft.

[00:08:07]So I'm saying there can be no better example of senior living.

[00:08:11]>> Right. Absolutely. And you are you know I must just tell to all of you Dr. Batra is an amazing photographer and he's he's an amazing singer as well and I'm going to you know like I did in in in one of the sessions that we had invited him I asked him to sing a song and I'm going to do that again at the end of the session. So but you know you you've you've done stage shows Dr. Batra. So you know this is you should hardly say oh lord.

[00:08:37]>> Oh well >> but you know Dr. Batra is an amazing person. I've I've interacted with him in the in the late 80s when I was a rookie journalist and um more importantly he has touched the lives of so many people as I mentioned you know um I think there's a problem with the audio or is there a problem with my audio uh >> uh no sorry it's audible >> some people can hear and some people can't hear I think some >> people people you all need to adjust your your uh speakers but anyway so u Yeah, over to you Dr. Batra. Thank you for coming here. Those of you who are here, do note that this is advisory in nature. Um, and in case you do have uh a clinical problem, medical problem, you know, uh, as I mentioned, Dr. Batra's clinics are across the country, across the globe. So you can either visit there or meet a medical practitioner, qualified medical practitioner, not one of those people who have those white goalies in their uh you know coat pockets and and handed out. So uh so do that. Uh this is being recorded on 9th May uh 2026. So you do keep track of advancements in uh medical uh science.

[00:09:54]Today we've invited Dr. Batra to speak about a very general issue. He's going to be speaking about homeopathy and you know general uh health but there are a few topics that he's going to be touching on and let me not uh you know waste any more time and invite him uh right away to speak to you. Thank you.

[00:10:15]>> Thank you Praan. It's such it's so lovely to be here on your show after so many years now. I think there's been a gap of almost eight or nine years. I came when I was much younger and I hope that I haven't turned too old even now.

[00:10:27]Uh so but it's lovely being here and always lovely seeing your smiling face over there. Uh thank you for having me.

[00:10:33]I just want to start by just saying first of all you know you just mentioned about homeopaths. I just want to mention that today homeopathy in India is the third largest system of medicine and in the world it's the second largest system of medicine and you know it's something which is uh uh you know which has grown so much uh all over the world according to world health organization. I just want to mention over here that today a qualified homopathic doctor does minimum five and a half years of training in a medical institute which is affiliated with the university. So today you know those old things of reading from books and like you said mitiga and candy doctors no longer stands valid. Today you have to enter into a college which is five and a half years associated with a with a med with a medical university and then of course after that you have to do three years of MD and then you can do one year of fellowship as well. So it's almost a 10-year uh period before you actually start practicing. So I just wanted to put that record straight that when you go to a qualified mopath, you actually go into a to a professional doctor. Coming to today's topic, you know, I thought I I'd kind of in the short time that we have, I thought I'll just stress on, you know, four or five of the commonest problems that I believe in my 50 years of practice that, you know, seniors have. The first problem and the biggest problem occur to me is mobility. You know, I've seen so many people after a particular age, you'll always see that the line for wheelchairs when you're traveling abroad or anywhere else is the longest because there are a lot of old people who are sitting on the chair. Some of them actually are also not wanting to stand in immigration and therefore you know they're still taking the wheelchair even though they don't need one. But mobility is a very big issue and you know people keep saying you know I'll go on holidays when I'm you know collecting enough money when I've retired. But if you have the money and you don't have the health, then you can't really enjoy life at all. So I think the first problem that we need to tackle is mobility. Now how does mobility affect as you grow older? There are two or three common problems that come up. Point number one is backachche.

[00:12:29]You know your back becomes weak over the years. We are sitting in the chair and we are not doing any exercise. We are living too comfortable a life and because of that backachche I would say is the number one problem. uh today that that seniors face and I would say almost everybody who's been 45% and above half of the people at least 50% of them have suffered from a backache some stage of their life and I would say that 32% of all seniors have suffered from back problems which makes them immobile so it's also you know cost the excheer I would say a chronic backache the amount of money that you spend a year on an average and this research has been done on this is 370,000 rupees So a patient spends 370,000 rupees just to get well from a back problem which could have easily been avoided. So that's my first problem is the backachche. The second of course is arthritis. You know there are two kinds of arthritis. There are many kinds but the two commonest kinds. One of them is osteoarthritis which is what happens with wear and tear. It happens in older age group and the other one is rheumatoid arthritis which starts in young age as well. Of course older people can also get it. In rheumatoid arthritis you get disfiguring you know you you lose your movements your fingers become like this and even your toes and in osteoarthritis your knees start wearing out most of the time it's the knee sometimes also the the back and the spine. So u what one has to do really is to make sure that you do some leg extension exercises. So you know your quadricep muscles which are your thigh muscles must become stronger so that the weight of the body does not go down on the knees. So number one is if you're obese and you lose weight. Number two if you do your back you know strengthen exercises and your and your back extension and your thigh extension exercises you'll actually get a lot of relief from it. As far as homeopathy is concerned, I would say that a very simple medicine like Rustotox which is useful for people who get pain especially when they get up from sitting motion when they start walking the pain disappears or it becomes less. It's a very good medicine and the two reasons of the two problems that one faces with arthritis is pain and mobility.

[00:14:42]Stiffness. So when you get stiffness in the joint and you get pain and you can't move then arthritis is a very good homopathic medicine. Of course consult your home doctor before you take it. But it's just to give an example that you can get very good results with it. And it's not necessary that every person who has an an arthritis problem actually has to have a knee replacement. Today lots of people get knee bilateral knee replacements done so easily. But I'm just saying that you should first try homeopathy. Of course, if it doesn't help you, then surgery is an answer. But surgery is not the first option. So just think of homeopathy before you actually think of surgery in cases of osteoarthritis. The third problem for of mobility is fractures. Fractures you know I've seen a lot of young of lot of older people they sleep in the bathroom.

[00:15:29]You know bathroom falls are among the commonest and that's why I recommend that people always have a mat they have a dry area where they can dry themselves. You know I myself got rid of my tub not because of anything else but it's one reason of you know step stepping in and stepping out. I had a jacuzzi in my bathroom. I said I could I shouldn't have it. I just you know got rid of it and I just have a flat surface now because falls in the bathroom especially at night when you wake up to go to the toilet is very very common. So fractures is a very you know another reason where a lot of pain and suffering happens in older people. A lot of these are avoidable by taking these precautions that I said and then there's a very simple homopathic medicine called symphitum. Symphitum is called bone knit. It actually research has shown that it heals the fracture much faster than it normally does. So keeping these two medicines in mind Restto and uh symphitum for mobility and patients where there where there's lack of mobility uh it'll help you a lot. So this is the first problem that I wanted to talk about which is mobility. So Prauman can I go to the next one then?

[00:16:34]>> Yes please please go ahead.

[00:16:35]>> Okay. So the second problem that I want to talk about is what is today become a major problem in the world today and that is called AMR. So AMR is you know antimicrobial resistance. What happens is that today antibiotics which are actually very good do not work because we self treat ourselves. So what happens is because we have acute problems and because we go to the pharmacist we go go and buy online and we buy even antibiotics without a prescription you know because even things that we don't need and we start self-feeding ourselves. So when we actually need it then it does not work.

[00:17:09]So we become immune to to antibiotics which are actually very useful. Now two of the commonest problems that we find happening in older age is in the cases of respiratory ailments in men. You find a lot of older men dying because the antibiotics which should have worked don't work with them when they need them. And the second is in the case of women is UTI. So urinary tract infections again in the case of women and a lot of them then you know it doesn't get controlled because the antibiotics don't work. So the best way to do again is to make sure that you're using homeopathy in the early stages so that you you don't have to depend on on on antibiotics for every little thing and you save the antibiotics when it is really needed and when it actually will work. So I think that's uh you know the other thing because you know today I think uh you know there are more than four lakh people who die every every year only of AMR and these are all avoidable avoidable sessions avoidable you know deaths. So taking care of yourself when the acute episode happens rather than just taking an antibiotic too quickly and you know without any any any reason uh is something that will also help you. So the second part I'm saying is is is AMR uh which is also very common. The third of course is uh today mental and emotional illnesses. You know we are all suffering from loneliness, social isolation. Today uh the family is broken as a unit. Today the young people are going out. They're leaving old people alone. I'm saying I have worked for so many years with an old age home and I see the loneliness and the suffering that they have. Sometimes there's a lack of communication. They don't have people to listen. They don't have anybody to talk to. So just smiling at them, telling them hello, talking to them and you know a research was done in Harvard and they actually showed there's actual course in on happiness. And they said that the best thing that one can do to to stay happy is to is to foster healthy relationships over years. So you'll find that very often in older people one of the partners dies and you know then suddenly there's a there's a gap in communication. there's a gap in in uh in a relationship and uh you know the children have moved out, there's nobody to talk to, there's nobody to actually you know so having a a close group of friends and making sure now whether it's the Lions Club, whether it's the Rotary Club, whether it's your own group, your your local group of people with whom you can interact and you know communicate with is very important. So talking to people, communicating with people will actually keep you happier. And if you have a happy state of mind, it's unlikely then that you're you'll have also physical problems. So you know there's a saying which actually says that whatever is you know when you have a suppression in the mind it has an expression of the body. So what is what is you know contained in your mind whether you've got anxiety, whether you've got stress, whether you've got depression, it'll come out in some form or the other in the physical manner. You may get allergies, you may get am asma, you may get bronchitis, you may get chronic backachches, you may get high blood pressure, you may get diabetes.

[00:20:15]But the reason for that could be an emotional core. So in homeopathy we try to identify what is this emotional core and then we treat accordingly. So this is also good to know that every time when you go to your homopathic doctor for consultation even of a physical problem, please talk to him about your mental condition and your social conditioning as well. That's very very important. Finally I come to the fourth point which I think is equally important today and that is lifestyle disorders.

[00:20:38]So today you know what has happened is that modern medicine has done well to control acute problems. So like now we have antibiotics and we've got you know so many ways to to control acute problems but chronic problems which are called NCDS which are non-communicable disorders but still there's no answer for that in in modern medicine. So these lifestyle problems are things which actually are better controlled with homopathic medicine. Now whether it is diabetes, whether it's high blood pressure, whether it's cholesterol and whether it's obesity, these are some of the common you know problems that you get as lifestyle problems, these are things which are correct you know corrected through holistic medicine. So homeopathy being holistic mind and body medicine you know the problem of the physical problem is actually in the mind and homeopathy looks at it as a holistic in a holistic manner and that is why you can actually get a solution for these problems which are long-lasting rather than just suppressing symptoms and just controlling the pain or just controlling the the symptoms that you know uh that present themselves. So here what I would say is that do consult homopathic doctor. You need what is called a constitutional medicine. It is according to the personality of a person. It is it is related with with you as a person and not the disease. So homopathy treats the person not the disease. And therefore there may be 100 medicines for migraine but the one that will suit you is something which is different. So if you're getting a headache with nausea it may be a separate medicine. If you're getting headache with sunlight is a separate medicine. If you're getting a headache with noise and gets aggravated with that, it could be a separate medicine. So you need to car you know identify all of this and then find the right medicine. So there is no kind of an OTC medicine and a specific medicine for in homeopathy for uh NCDS. You have to get into a proper uh prescription with a qualified homopathy doctor. What I'd like to add here now are four or five basic points on how to kind of avoid NCDS. Like I mentioned that these are actually lifestyle disorders. Now lifestyle disorders are not something which happens today is the journey is the whole pattern of the way you lead your that you led your life over the years while the end cause is today but it happened because you led your life in a particular manner. Therefore what it needs is a change in lifestyle and it has to happen at an early stage. It cannot happen when you are 60 70 years old. It has to happen when you are much younger and actually you know the the good habits are inculcated in childhood not even in youth. So if we can get these habits and we can you know sustain them over a period of time. A lot of the problems in old age will be avoided. Now what are the things that we can do? The first thing is sleep. Always sleep well. When I was doing research for one of my books that I wrote with Ashwin Sangei 13 steps to bloody good health. The first chapter that I wrote was on sleep. I thought of sleep because I said number one is that it's the first chapter if people can go through it then I know that my book is is properly written uh just as a joke and secondly I said that I when I researched I found that more than 90% of people in India are not getting the right kind of sleep either in terms of hours quantity or in terms of quality so please understand that the quality of sleep is equally important as well so it's very important to actually get good sleep and if you sleep well your body rests and it heals itself. So the first thing to do and after you're a particular age always sleep you know pattern keeps going down.

[00:23:57]So you have hopic medicine like pacifa for example we have with Dr. Bas we have sleep gummies which are very good and they help you they have melotonin natural melatonin it helps you to actually sleep well. So sleep is something that one should always look at as the first thing. The second thing is movement. I spoke about it earlier also but today they say that you know sitting is a new smoking because today we are sitting for long hours so getting up making some movement you know I just addressed a group of of school principles and I said that every time when you have a break why don't you just allow children to just get up and move around or just actually move the hands you know and things like that will actually make sure that you're not sitting for 4 hours and 5 hours at one time. So a lot of problems that come today come because we're not moving enough. So you know the the 10,000 steps every day you know and alternating the steps with with strength exercises because what is important is that after a particular age the muscle starts wasting. So you may lose weight but you need to strengthen your your your muscles as well. So you need to do weight training you need to do strength you know muscle training as well maybe on alternate days. So these kind of things you don't have to go to the gym, you can do it at home. So these kind of things will make you actually you know tougher, better to face uh the world as you grow older.

[00:25:21]The third of course is nutrition. They say food is everything and they say you know food is medicine which is absolutely true. Uh so if you eat well you will actually be healthier and there's less chance of you're actually getting. So today what's happening is we are all eating processed foods. You know going back to the Indian thali where you had a little bit of everything and home homecooked food and we realized that during co as well one of the biggest messages that all doctors gave is please have gakana you know have fresh food and make it every day and with every meal have home meal rather than getting processed food from outside. So processed food actually leads to cancer.

[00:25:59]It gives you very unhealthy habits. It leads to a lot of disorders. So checking your nutrition and making sure that you eat right is again very very important particularly as you grow older. And the last point over there is of course positive thinking. You know like I said a lot of us get negative as we grow older. We say now we we very active. Now we are sitting at home now we are just watching OTT. We are sitting before a TV. Uh we have nobody to come and visit us. We are not going out. I've seen a lot of people they stop socializing.

[00:26:28]they don't go out at all and their their core friend circle also keeps you know uh dividing and getting getting lost. So it's very important to work towards good relationships and it's very important to have positive thinking. So if your mind is alert and if your mind is positive there are less chances of you falling sick. So I think these are the four basic uh problems that I wanted to talk about today very briefly. Number one is mobility. Number two is AMR. Number two is uh you know mental and emotional problems you know emotional problems, isolation, social isolations, anxiety, depression in old age and finally lifestyle disorders which are called NCDS like chronic problems. So I hope this covers the whole gamut of of uh you know very briefly the whole gamut and and yet extensively.

[00:27:21]>> Thank you very much doctor. Thank you very much for uh for a very detailed and and yet you know you touched upon various points uh that were there in this short time. Uh to all of you here uh I we've received a few comments requesting for the the names of the medicines etc. Now as you all know the takeaways are published on on Monday and we would have the names of all the medicines there. What we'll do is we will we will uh because we have a a doctor who specializes in alipathic medicines we will run the article by uh Dr. Batra's team to ensure that the medicine names are right and u we will have it published on Monday evening. Uh Dr. there are quite a few questions can I uh start them >> certainly.

[00:28:14]So um uh so there's a question from Mr. Bha who's 69. He just wants to know which is the homeopathic medicine one must have from a young age to stop major illnesses in the old age.

[00:28:27]>> Just stay young forever. I'm saying there's there's no medicine. What we should do is you should just like I said if you follow that path which I told you of good health and fitness there's no need for you. I mean you age very gracefully and very well. You know all the all the problems that happen you know happened because of bad habits in childhood and today we are not even correcting it you know uh and today unfortunately what happens is that even food has become become an emotional substitute. So what happens is parents don't have time with their children and therefore what we say is we say you know and what are we doing instead of giving time to our kids we are you know substituting it with with food and we think that food is an emotional substitute for love it is not and it cannot be so if you live if you live live a good lifestyle if you live lead all the things that I told you right from day one I'm saying this is not something that you can do uh in in in terms of uh something which happens over one night. So you can't wake up at 70 and then say now I've got to be fit. I'm saying you got to wake up much earlier and start is is the journey that is important and then you get a good end result.

[00:29:36]>> Right. Um Dr. We have quite a few similar questions on different subjects.

[00:29:40]Madu Gupta asks gallbladder stones homeopathic medic.

[00:29:46]>> So yes they can and also no. The answer is really yes or no. Yes, because it depends on the size and the positioning of the gallbladder because you know I mean of the stone because you know if the size is very large it can actually cause obstruction and then you can get what is called obstructive jaundice which is not a good thing to get and then you'll have to have an emergency operation. So in that case it is better to have an elective operation rather than to have an emergency operation.

[00:30:07]Having said that there are lots of patients who come to us with gallstones and especially women and you know you find a lot of them are also overweight and with homopathic medicine we have very good homeopathic medicine to actually dissolve gallstones again there's no specific medicine you have to consult hopic doctor but if it's a if it's a minor stone not very big and you know it can actually dissolve with homopathic medicine and you don't need to get your gallbladder out >> and a single A segle asks is there any medicine for homeopathic medicine for tenitis.

[00:30:39]Yes, there is very often you know so tenitis tenitis is something to do with the with the ears middle ears and you start getting noising in your ear you know it's like a humming it can be very very irritating and I know some people who have actually you know got desperate with it because it's that bad but there are very good homopathic medicines and again I'm saying you need to consult a homopathic doctor uh it can come under control and just one day it just disappears suddenly I'm saying even a problem like titus which you had for so many years it can disappear with homopathic medicine so don't get disappointed do do try it and do consult a doctor.

[00:31:12]>> Doctor, you mentioned about consulting homeopathic doctor. Now we we do know that in the case of alopathic medicine, there's a doctor who is an MD and there's a specialization etc. Now what is it in the case of homeopathy? What you know what are the what are the degrees that one must look for to to be sure that a doctor is specialized? Is there a specialization which which is there? What is that?

[00:31:36]>> Yeah. So very good question. So, so the first thing is that with the basic specialization is called BHMS that is bachelor in homeopathic medicine and surgery. Now, this is what I mentioned in the beginning is a 5 and a half year course. So, but some of the older doctors like me it was not there. So, they were called LCH you know DHMS and all that. But today the standardized thing is BHMS Bachelor of Home Medicine and Surgery. This is a five and a half year post. So your homeopathic doctor has to be BHMS. That's number one.

[00:32:03]Number two is after that you could have done an MD. So you'll get BHMS MD. Now MD could have been done in different diseases. You can do MD in psychiatry.

[00:32:11]You can do MD in pediatrics. You can do MD in some subject. So you become an MD doctor as well. That means you're super qualified to deal with that as well. And now you know we have a tab with the Mumbai University for last many years and we have a fellowship course in dermatology and now we have started one in oncology which is cancer. So that's a one-year course again. So if you do that then you get a fellowship as well. So getting a fellowship in dermatology or getting a fellowship in uh in cancer treatment uh actually you know then gives you a super qualification of uh of a super specialization what you can actually look forward in these doctors.

[00:32:47]>> I hope that answered your question.

[00:32:48]>> Yeah and this MD is is from the homopathic point of view not from the point of view.

[00:32:53]>> Yes it's from the homopathic point of view but it is with the super specialization of a particular disorder.

[00:32:57]Like I said you could be MD in pediatrics. So you're actually then a pediatric doctor who is I mean a homopathic doctor who deals with with child problems >> and how many homeopathic hospitals colleges are there in the country?

[00:33:12]>> Oh I think more than 100 >> well more than 175 you know all over and all of them are affiliated with the university now >> and getting getting them is as difficult as getting into a regular medical. It is now it is now very difficult but but some of them private colleges are there where you pay a donation and you can get in which is still still there but uh other than that uh yeah but you know about I think 300,000 home doctors pass out every year now so and and and you know is the largest number of uh the largest sorry the the total number of homeic doctors today in the country are 300,000 and about 20,000 doctors pass out every year so it's still the largest number of homeic doctors in the in India, >> right? Thank you. Thank you. This this kind of explains things. Uh this is a question from Sunita Warma who's 69. She has tingling in her legs and hands and pain in the in the feet. She doesn't have diabetes. Uh what would your advice be?

[00:34:14]>> So normally it could be just a a nutritional deficiency. Very often it is either you know anemia or it is it is B12. So first thing is just get it tested by a simple blood test and if it is deficient then just take it. That's all you know just take a a neutrautical tablet for some time it'll disappear.

[00:34:32]>> Like I said it's normally a a deficiency of of B12 and sometimes of blood sugar which he said she doesn't have. So so it's more likely to be a nutritional deficiency.

[00:34:43]>> And Praandan asks whether there's any medicine for acidity and gas.

[00:34:50]>> Yes. Again a lot of it does is is associated with uh you know with the kind of food that you eat. It's also associated with overweight. So, one can actually keep it down. By reducing overweight, a lot of the acidity will disappear. It's also related with mental stress. If you eat your food too fast, if you don't chew properly, uh you're likely to get acid. If you're having spicy food for example or if you have an ulcer, the chances of of of getting you know acidity are more. So, the kind of food that you eat and the way you eat is very important. Mopathy has very very good medicines. I would say very simplest medicine is actually Nakomica which is you just take Noxomica 30 at bedtime before you sleep just one dose and in a few days your acidity will actually disappear you'll feel much much better and as far as gas is concerned there's a very good biochemic medicine called nitrum sal you take namol 6x two tablets again two three times a day and you'll be able to pass wind or burp very easily it will not trouble you so uh that's the solution >> right this is a question from Arup Dev Rama who asked does alpha provide help in tension and sleep.

[00:35:59]>> So alpha alpha is actually homopathic medicine which is actually good for digestion. So it it's very good for digestion is good for absorption of food. It's not necessarily good for sleep like I said for sleep you get other medicine like pifllora like we've just made uh gummies as well sleep gummies which are very good which have natural meltinine in it. So there are other you know better solutions for sleep rather than alpha alpha. Alpha alpha is a very good digestive tonic >> right. Sumita asks is there any way to strengthen uh one's nails?

[00:36:33]>> Yes you can take uh you can take salisha 6x. Again it's a biochemic medicine. So if you've got if your nails are little cracked and you know you're getting these lines and ridges it'll help to get rid of it. So Salisha 6X is a good medicine for that.

[00:36:47]>> U Dr. Can you just explain the difference between homeopathic and biochemic medicines?

[00:36:52]>> Yeah. So you know homopathic medicines are those which are dilutions which are made by you know the question the process of potentization. Uh and they are the classical homopathy medicines.

[00:37:03]As far as the biochemics are concerned they are like the homopathy vitamins. So those are the those are the salts. So these are the 12 salts that sushiler kind of who was a follower of of Hanaman you know kind of you know uh recommended to supplement homopathic medicines. So it's like a supplementary treatment. So biochemics are supplementary treatments.

[00:37:25]They're like the homopathic vitamins and homopathy is the pure original kind of constitutional treatment which Hanaman founded.

[00:37:35]>> Right. Thanks. There's a question from Deepika. She says can we take fracture medicines uh Russ talks without consulting a doctor what is the dose for 65 years of age I guess >> so luckily in hopathy there's no dosage because it's not chemical medicine and rusttox is not the medicine for fracture I mentioned symphitum is the medicine for fracture and it helps the it's called boneate because it helps healing of bones so you can take it on your own of course you don't want mal union of med of the of the fraction you know to also consult an or orthopedic doctor.

[00:38:09]But if you take home medicine with the plaster or whatever you've done you know if at all you need it you'll find that the bone heals faster. So the medicine is symphum not restro >> and can you take homeopathic medicines along with the alopathic medicines? Yes, you can because uh today a lot of problems are like I said chronic and a lot of people who come to us are already on alopathic medicines and so they taking you know medicines for a long time for NCDS particularly and if you suddenly stop them then you know they can get into problems because there's a lot of drug dependency. Now if you want to stop alopathic medicine you have to do it very gradually. So you can actually take alopathy and opathy together. You have to gradually you know bring your alopathic uh taper your alopathic medicine over a period of sometimes months and sometimes even years and then depend only on opathy >> right and u u I'm sorry a lot of questions for medicines >> yeah I know it's all uh for cough and chest congestion uh what would you advise >> again I'm saying there are you know it depends on what is the kind of cough and there are so many medicines for cough it's so difficult But if it's because of the throat for example then I would say herself is a good medicine.

[00:39:24]A lot of the cough comes from throat. So and you know what is an equivalent of paracetamol because paracetamol is something which now people have if they have slightly feverish or if there's a there's slight pain and instead of having you know a painkiller they just have a paracetamol for paras inflation.

[00:39:44]So that's that's that's the problem that homopathy has very few OTC medicines. So there's no specific for a painkiller.

[00:39:50]Depends on what are the kind of symptoms that you have. So if you got throbbing pain then it will be berodona. If you have something else which is better by pressure then it may be bria. So depending on the kind of pain that you have and the location where it is and what makes it better or worse the medicine will be different.

[00:40:07]>> Dr. We have a a lady Shobha Shivastav. She is a numerologist based in Delhi and she's just sent a message. Thank you so much Dr. Patra. I'm under your treatment for the last 20 years for arthritis and I'm fine and managing my knee pain well and so she's very grateful.

[00:40:26]>> Thank you. I'm so happy to hear that.

[00:40:27]There nothing better for a doctor to hear his patient saying that you know she's she's doing so well and thank you for trusting us with your health >> all over the years. and she does a session on uh numerology for us. Uh >> wonderful. She's based in Delhi. Um Mr. Narendra Sha asked what is the solution for frequent urination in the in the night? He he specifically mentioned for ladies but you could also mention >> so you know so number one is there are two common reasons you know of course it can have been even otherwise but there are two common reasons. Number one is diabetes. So if you're diabetic then obviously you have to treat your diabetes and keep it under control. Your night urination will come down. Number two is it can also be anxiety. So especially if it's a woman as you're saying and if there is some stress at home uh so then medicine like Khalifa 6X will actually help and the third of course it can be any irritation of the bladder but again the irritation of the bladder which is called a you know an irritable bladder syndrome you know can again be controlled with karifos and homeopathic medicines which are anti-anxiety medicines rather than anything else >> right um there's the question from Katy Daranchi some doctors advise that if a bio FC is done on a tumor cancer on on tumor cancer spreads and some say that's not true any homeopathic medicine for uh for constipation and seniors unrelated but I guess uh there must be the reason why she's asking this >> so there are two separate questions you know one was cancer and one was uh you know doing biopsy for tumors and some people believe that you know touching a tumor and cutting it up it can get worse but you know I mean I am of the belief that anywhere where you've a proven record. You cannot kind of you know fool around with life. So whatever works and what has been clinically proven should always be your first choice of medicine. So I'm I'm saying that what needs to be done needs to be done. Sometimes with it you can extend your life, you can save your life. If you cut out the cancer in time, the chances that whatever few years of life are left, you will still lead a good life. So in some cases it is required and therefore I I I don't agree that you know one should not one should just leave it alone. Now that's one point.

[00:42:32]The second point as far as constipation is concerned. I'm glad you mention it because it's a very common problem with with old people because as you grow older the paristatic movement of the intestines become slower and once you get that then you do not get you're not able to pass your stools or the stools become very hard and sometimes then it gives rise to piles and fishes because you know you have to keep straining as stool. So you know again using medicines like alumina is a very good medicine for stools which are you know very constipation which happens particularly from using aluminum vessels or cooking and aluminum vessels which a lot of families do even today. uh soap that plus nakwamica. So again depending on the symptoms yes it can it can be helped but it's really a chronic problem and it's it's not so easy to treat >> right u there's a question from mina goel doctor so again you know I don't know what is the reason but first of all you should do a x-ray because I presume means heel right it's a it's a heel so one of the common commonest problems which I found in my practice of pain in the heels is something called a calccanous spur. So a simple X-ray will show you whether you have a calccanous spur that mean there's a calcium growth over there you get pain. So one simple reason is that you have to have a padding on your heel. So if you just take a soft padding and then just put it on your heel and every time when you get up and you put your foot down you will not get the pain and other than that then there are hopic medicines called arena diaderma which you use in low potency which will help to dissolve the calcane spur over a period of time.

[00:44:10]>> Right. Uh Dr. Vashari Ja asks uh will homeopathy also help in oncology. You mentioned about uh fellowship for oncology but does that help?

[00:44:22]>> Yes of course like I said we have a course at Dr. Batra's academy with entire tied up with the Mumbai University MUS and we've just introduced that course on it's a one-year course on oncology. So it'll actually teach you very properly how to how to treat cancer patients and what kind of cancer patients can be treated with homopathy and what cannot be and therefore what are the kind of homopathic medicine that you should use and there's a full program for it. I mean it's worth it you know because today a lot of you know people who are suffering from cancer don't have an option. So this will actually if you're a doctor and you take this program uh it's an online program for one year and you have to come to Bombay I think for 3 days to appear for an for a personal exam as well with specialists >> right uh Katy Danchi asked a question which I'm not very sure is relevant but does have having sugar in our diet increase chances of cancer she asks but you know you could perhaps just answer this question as a doctor >> well uh it's again controversial I'm saying not really They say that cancer is the biggest it kind of flares up. So if you don't have have sugar then a lot of your problems are sorted out. You know I'm saying everything under under control and in moderation is okay. I would just say that for uticaria parish asked a question for uticaria do we have a cure?

[00:45:38]>> Yes. Again it's a chronic problem and it's often an allergy. Uh so I have seen two or three common reasons for it.

[00:45:44]Number one is of course mental stress.

[00:45:46]So you've got to again take holistic medicine for it. uh because because of stress you can get it. Number two, it's an allergy of some kind of food. So you have to identify what it is. Sometimes it can also be housemite. It can also be something in your in your bed you know.

[00:45:59]So you have to actually identify it and then eliminate it. And that's what you can do. The third I've seen is it's also very very common in cases of high protein. So whenever if you're taking too much of dal and you cut out protein or non-vegetarian food, a lot of your of your articia will come down. And finally, I've also seen it particularly in children as a result of roundworm infestation. So deworming the child if the child has got articaria even an adult is good to regularly deworm yourself because sometimes you can get worms from your cook you know especially when they go to the g and come back. So always deworm them before you start you know allowing them to cook your meals.

[00:46:37]So I think these are and of course homeopathically also there's a medicine called artica urans which is very specific for articaria and also natamal 6x in biochemic but these help but again you need to do holistic uh treatment for it >> right um there's a question from deepa about medicines for osteoporosis >> again you know there's a caleria for 6x which is homopathic and biocomic medicine there's a calcia force is homopathic as well plus is biochemic I'm saying taking that will help you to to improve your osteoporosis for sure.

[00:47:10]>> And uh Jim asks for fracture, can we take rescue remedy?

[00:47:14]>> No, not really. Rescue remedy is is more like a pepup. It's more like uh you know increasing your activity level when you're low and when your blood sugar is low and when you know feeling not up to it. It kind of it's a pickup in that sense. So you need to actually use it for as as a pickup medicine. It's a very good medicine but good for pickup.

[00:47:36]>> And doctor for diabetes what is the medicine that you should you can one can take.

[00:47:40]>> So again diabetes is a kind of a you know a chronic problem and again it's of different types. So type one is of course very difficult to treat because uh it happens in young people as well and type two is what we really talking about which is lifestyle related which is type two diabetes and today of course now you know India is going to be the world capital of diabetes very soon. So we have the largest number of diabetics in the world and again it's the kind of food that we are taking is the kind of lifestyle that we we so by having proper lifestyle you can actually manage diabetes very very well in there's a research that was done in homeopathy many years ago in in in Athens in in Greece which actually showed that when you used only oral anti diabetic medicines the control was 47%.

[00:48:25]And when you added homopathy to it then you got a 97% control. So actually in the case of diabetes if you take alopathy and hopathy together your chances of controlling diabetes is is much higher. So that's something that you should always think of and then you can gradually taper down your oral anti- you know diabetic medicines and and then depend onopathy. But again I'm saying a lot of it is lifestyle related. So again if you correct your diet and you correct your exercise the chances are that you will not need any medication.

[00:48:54]>> And what about things like you know diabetic foot and varicose veins etc. are these also treatable under under homopathy.

[00:49:04]So diabetic foot you know it's not very easy because you know one of the problems of of diabetes is to get gangarine you know because you don't you can't feel it your sensation gets lost and there that's why we say diabetics should never walk bare feet they should always be careful because if a little bit your foot gets cut you can get infected and then you don't feel it until it becomes you know too late there are hopic medicines we've got a lot of cases like this where we use medicine like cel for example for diabetic foot and for gangrine and patients become all right but let me say that you know gangrine actually something you can't risk because it can kill you and you sometimes you lose a limb to totally so you have to do amputation. So in the early stages yes if you find it very quickly yes but otherwise I mean one cannot take a chance and again prevention is better than cure in such cases.

[00:49:52]uh doctor what about the the magic drug that is being you know being spoken about by everybody about for losing weight which is OMIC and and and you know Mangaro uh and and now various Indian variants of them that are coming out uh what is your recommendation or is is there is there a homeopathic uh alternative to these? So there is we have actually a a kind of an online portal called BRIM and we have a we have a psych psychologist we have a trainer we have a nutritionist we have a homopathic doctor we have an MD doctor as well an endocrinologist who kind of deals with it so what I'm trying to say that it's actually a holistic treatment and it has to be everything together you know because you need to be motivated as well in case of uh in case of diabetes to actually lose weight if you're overweight so in only if you've got morbid obesity that means if you're really grossly grossly overweight then this will help you and it's perhaps recommended as well but again you should do it under medical supervision. Lots of people are just taking them on their own and it's got a lot of side effects. So you can get lose motions, you can get you know uh loss of appetite uh you can start getting depression and anxiety with it as well. So it's not good to self treat but in certain cases it it works well.

[00:51:08]>> Dr. One last question which is there which is not a question which is received from people but you know we have a lot of doctors who come in every week and one of the one of the a lot a lot of people ask them about homeopathic uh you know ayurveetic cures and most of the doctors say that well we do we do not know and you know and and the general suggestion made is that are there clinical trials which are ahead now are these are do you have clinical trials for homeopathy.

[00:51:39]>> Yes, we have them. We don't have them for all the medicines. We don't have them for all the but for a lot of them we have even the government of India is now conducting clinical trials also has been part of as well and internationally also lots of clinical trials have already been conducted in homeopathy all over the world to prove the efficacy of homopathy in certain disorders particularly in rheumatoid arthritis in ama and many other disorders as well including mental health.

[00:52:02]And the other thing which is spoken is that there are a few countries where homeopathy is banned.

[00:52:09]Is that >> so that's not that that's not true. It's not banned but people think it's a placebo effect. So somewhere uh you know there are restrictions of it of its use like for example in Europe because you can determine the quantity of the medicine up to say 6C potency then you're allowed to prescribe that but if you go higher potencies like what we are using in India they don't allow it because then they say there's no material substance it cannot be determined so so that's the challenge but otherwise it's not actually banned in any country it's just that uh maybe there's less funding for it uh in some countries but Like I said in in more than 100 countries it's legally practiced uh you know with government support and insurance pays for it. I'm saying we have we have for example clinics in Dubai uh all our patients are covered under medical insurance. The medical insurance pays for their treatment.

[00:52:59]>> And what is it in India?

[00:53:01]>> In India unfortunately uh it pays for it but it only pays for hospitalization and you know in hopy we don't have hospitalization. We have more OPD clinics. So but if you are in a hospital under aruvedic treatment for example then you can get re reimbured under Aayush.

[00:53:19]Thank you uh Dr. Batra for uh for asking all the questions uh answering all the questions and you've been very candid.

[00:53:26]I've asked you some you know not so uh medically uh inclined questions as well.

[00:53:31]But you know when you have Dr. in the house. How can I not ask you to do a sign off by just humming a uh humming or or singing an interesting song because you are such a an accomplished uh singer and we can't let you go without singing a song.

[00:53:48]>> Well, other than just sing two lines of the Kishor Kumar song which is one of my favorites which is actually what we all want our world to be and which is what I also hope for my grandchildren. So, Fore!

[00:54:03]Foreign! Foreign!

[00:54:26]Thank you very much. Fantastic with with the amazing wish that you've you know in the in the lyrics and uh you know may you uh have an amazing uh uh life Dr. for being and and and thank you very much again for being here and we would love to have you again perhaps not after such a long gap uh uh thank you once again and we're looking forward to your book.

[00:54:49]>> Thank you Praan. Thank you and thank you everybody else for kind of logging in.

[00:54:52]So wonderful to have you here. Thank you for this opportunity. God bless.

[00:54:56]>> Thank you very much. Bye.