Over Forty Wellness Podcast
Over Forty Wellness Podcast
"The Healing Power of Homeopathy" with Dr Manisha Lakhekar
What if your body already contained everything needed to heal itself? Dr. Manisha Lakarkar reveals how homeopathy works with your natural healing processes rather than forcing external cures upon symptoms.
Dr. Manisha, a seasoned homeopathic practitioner with over 15 years of clinical experience, shares the profound principle that guides her practice: "We treat man in disease and not the disease in man." This holistic approach stands in stark contrast to conventional medicine, examining not just physical symptoms but the complete person - their emotions, circumstances, and unique expressions of illness.
The fascinating principle of "like cures like" forms the foundation of homeopathic treatment. Through vivid examples, Dr. Manisha explains how substances that cause symptoms in healthy people can, when properly prepared, stimulate healing in those suffering similar symptoms. She illustrates this with everyday examples like onions causing watery eyes (while Allium Cepa treats similar allergy symptoms) and coffee keeping us awake (while Coffea Cruda treats insomnia).
The most compelling aspect of Dr. Manisha's approach is her commitment to individualization. Where conventional medicine might prescribe identical medications to different patients with the same diagnosis, homeopathy examines each person's unique manifestation of illness. Three patients with headaches might receive three entirely different remedies based on their complete symptom picture, emotional state, and personal circumstances.
For those curious about practical applications, Dr. Manisha recommends keeping several key remedies at home: Arnica 30 for injuries, Cocculus 30 for travel sickness, Cantharis 30 for burns, and Arsenicum 30 for food poisoning. These simple remedies can address common acute conditions effectively and safely.
Ready to explore homeopathy for yourself? Dr. Manisha's message is clear: your body possesses tremendous healing power - homeopathy simply directs it toward healing itself. If you're taking medications for chronic conditions and seeking natural alternatives without side effects, this centuries-old yet continuously evolving system of medicine might be exactly what you're looking for.
In homeopathy we take individualized aspect. We treat man in disease and not the disease in man. Your body. God has created it so beautifully that it has got tremendous healing power in it, so we just need to direct or divert it towards healing itself. So you know there are different, different methodology to do that, but it is worth knowing about homeopathy. Different, different methodology to do that, but it is worth knowing about homeopathy. So if you are taking any medicine for your long-term chronic illnesses and you want to fix it naturally, holistically, without any side effect, you should give a try to your homeopath or any homeopath, and you know it is really worth trying and knowing about this system of medicine.
Vincent Hiscox:, I'm Vincent Hiscox, a health coach, podcaster and storyteller. Welcome to the Over 40 Wellness Podcast. We all have the ability to look better and feel better. Becoming healthy should not be complicated. On this podcast, I talk to health and wellness professionals who share their stories and their expertise so that you can optimize your health. The conversations will inspire and empower you with simple tips that you can optimize your health. The conversations will inspire and empower you with simple tips that you can put into practice to transform the way you feel, Look better and feel better with the Over 40 Wellness Podcast. My guest on the podcast this week is Dr Manisha Lakarkar. Following eight years of study in India, she came to Hong Kong in 2009 and she is now a seasoned homeopathy practitioner with over 15 years of clinical experience.
Vincent Hiscox:Homeopathy is grounded in the principle of like-cures-like and potentiation. It's the second largest system of medicine in the world. India is one of the worldwide centres of homeopathic treatment, where more than 80% of the Indian people regularly use homeopathic treatment. Of the Indian people regularly use homeopathic treatment with its more than 7,000 homeopathic medicines. In the podcast, Dr Manisha shares the story of a father who had crushed his finger and he was advised to have it amputated as gangrene had set in. Instead, he used homeopathy to cure his finger and escaped an amputation. This made him a huge fan of homeopathy and he strongly encouraged Dr Manisha to study it. In the podcast, she shares examples of homeopathic medicines like Kofia Cruda, a homeopathic medicine that relieves sleeplessness and mental hyperactivity, Nux Vomica for headaches and irritability, Arsenic 30 for food poisoning and Arnica 30 for injury.
Vincent Hiscox:Dr Manisha emphasizes that there are many aspects to consider when she treats the patient, and this comes across clearly in the podcast. It's not just the symptoms. She needs to understand the patient's background in depth, and a rapport with the clients is key in identifying the treatment to be administered to the client. She believes that health is wealth and champions preventative care, sustainable habits and mental well-being as pillars of a vibrant life. Homeopathy in her practice is a comprehensive approach that nurtures physical, mental and spiritual harmony. Her compassionate methodology has transformed countless lives in Hong Kong and beyond. So good afternoon, Dr Manisha. How are you today?
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Good afternoon, Vincent. I'm doing very well.
Vincent Hiscox:Yes, so happy to have you on the podcast.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Thank you so much. I'm so honoured and happy that you have invited me today.
Vincent Hiscox:Yes, and I'm really honoured to be here in your clinic. So we're in your clinic and we're surrounded by lots of homeopathic medicine.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Yes.
Vincent Hiscox:Yes, so just to get the podcast rolling, maybe I know that you were born in India.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Yeah, maybe you could share your story how you came from India to Hong Kong. So I was studying, I was in my internship and I got married to my husband, deepak, and he was working here in Hong Kong in Adidas. So after marriage I came to Hong Kong.
Vincent Hiscox:So it was a marriage that brought you to hong kong yes, okay, great.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:And you know, when you came to hong kong, you had already undergone some training in homeopathy yes, so homeopathy is five and a half year degree course in india, so I was doing my internship at that time, so that time I got married and I came to Hong Kong.
Vincent Hiscox:Great. So you had already finished a large part of your education and you were in the process of doing your internship. Then you got married and then you came to Hong Kong.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:That's right.
Vincent Hiscox:Yeah, absolutely, absolutely fabulous. And how many years ago was that?
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:So that was in 2009.
Vincent Hiscox:So in 2009. So I can do some mathematics now. So that's.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:It's been 15 years 15 years yeah 16 years in Hong Kong.
Vincent Hiscox:Yeah, so I arrived in Hong Kong in 2011. So you were two years in front of me yeah. Okay, maybe you know from the listener's point of view, maybe you could explain what kind of training you had to do to become a homeopathist.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Homeopathy is 200 year old science. It was originated in Germany by Dr Samuel Hanneman in 1790s so it was very famous in Europe. So when India was ruled by Britishers there was one king in Punjab, king Ranjit Singh. So he got sick and some British people introduced some homeopathy medicine for him. He got cured completely with that and that is how homeopathy originated in India. So they bring homeopathy in India after his recovery. So homeopathy is very famous in India and since then it was like people were reading only through books. After that there was two years diploma, but since last few years homeopathy is in the mainstream medicine in India. So we have to study like five and a half year of degree course which is followed by three years of post graduation, so it is eight and a half years of study. So we need to learn all the subjects which Western medicine doctors have to learn and we have to learn three additional subjects which are three homeopathic subjects Materia Medica, organon and Repertree.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:So, it's a full-fledged medical system. So homeopathic doctors are allowed to do government service also in the medical field in India.
Vincent Hiscox:Yeah, and I think you brought up a few very interesting points there. One this started with Ranjit Singh getting cured by homeopathy. Yes, and that today means that India is one of the centres for homeopathic treatment.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Yes, so though homeopathy was originated in Germany, right now it is top in. So India is top in practicing homeopathy right now, Second is Brazil, third is Europe.
Vincent Hiscox:Okay, so even it came from Europe, but now it's India who are leading the way. Let's say yes In homeopathy, yes, yeah and yeah. Remind me again, how much education do you have to do to get to the point where you are now?
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:So total eight and a half years of education.
Vincent Hiscox:Eight and a half years. So let's say I know for regular doctors in the UK I mean friends of mine went through that process Again. That's a very long process. But you have an equally long process in terms of being trained for homeopathy.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Yeah.
Vincent Hiscox:Then the other thing which we brought out the point earlier, but I'll bring it out again, is that India is super important for homeopathy. You know from the point of view of a lot of people in India use homeopathic treatment.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Yes, so 80% of the Indian population, at some or the other time of their life, have taken homeopathy medicine.
Vincent Hiscox:So 80%.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Yeah.
Vincent Hiscox:So that's eight in every 10 people. Yeah, so a large proportion of the population and the population of India is very big have had this treatment, homeopathic treatment and is that treatment?
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:is it still the classical treatment that was introduced a few hundred years ago?
Vincent Hiscox:Means cannot say classical Means. What do you mean by that? I mean, is it the same sort of the same methods of treating now that were introduced a few hundred years ago, or is it evolving in time? That's my question.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Yeah. So homeopathy, what it was there 200 years back, every day it is getting better and better. More medicines are getting added to it. More researches are happening in homeopathy too. But no thought or no fact or no medicine whatever has proved that time have never discarded in homeopathy till date. Say, for example, in western medicine they will prove some medicine, after some time they will say oh, it has got so many side effects, it has this problem, it has that problem, so it is discarded. And then something else, the new generation medicine will come. But in homeopathy till date not even one medicine have been discarded. What was proved 200 years back, we are using that till today. And new, new medicines are being practiced. Say for example, dr samuel hanneman when he was practicing homeopathy he was using 200 medicines in homeopathy. Now we have over 7,800 medicines in homeopathy. So you see, the research is being going on. New medicines are getting proven in homeopathy and we are getting advanced.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:But the basic laws of homeopathy, they are fixed. The seven cardinal principles of homeopathy, they are fixed. So homeopathy is a natural science, it's holistic. So whatever is natural, it is mathematical. Whatever is natural, the base will not change because it is very, you know, it is like a mathematics right, it is scientific. So the seven cardinal principles of homeopathy, what was there today? Also, it is true principles or homeopathy.
Vincent Hiscox:What was there today? Also, it is true. Yeah, great, I. I really, I really appreciate what you're explaining there. It started off with just 200 medicines yeah and now medicines are added regularly, continually, and now you say it's up to 7800, so the let's say the potential cures from homeopathy. It's growing in time. So when there are new things which are discovered in homeopathy, then they're added to the medicines that you can prescribe for your clients.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Correct.
Vincent Hiscox:Yeah, so it means that, but how do you keep track on 7800 medicines?
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Yeah, that is difficult. You know, study is never-ending. So homeopathy is like an ocean. You know how much you explore, you will get new, new pearls, new, new treasure. It is like that. So it's fun. It's fun to learn. It is challenging though. So you know, since childhood.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Let me tell you a story. Since childhood, I always knew that I wanted to become a doctor. I always knew that, to be very exact, I wanted to be a surgeon. But my father was the one because of whom I am in homeopathy today. Because, see, in my entire life, since childhood, I have never taken any western medicine in my life.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Not because I was reluctant, my father was a huge fan of homeopathy. Why? Because he met with an accident and he got seriously injured with his ring finger and it was like a crushed injury. So that finger was so bad, so much painful, and then he was given courses of courses of antibiotics, two, three, four times, and then it was not getting better from. It went from bad to worst. So then he went to some another doctor, like surgeon, and surgeon suggested it is getting gangrenous, you need to do surgery for this, it need to be amputed. So you know, he was working as a cashier in bank. You can imagine, you know, counting money with the amputated finger. It's kind of handicap, right. So he never wanted to undergo surgery.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:So someone suggested him why don't you try homeopathy? So you know, like an last option. So my father was like okay, because nothing was helping. So he tried and he went to some homeopathy doctor. He prescribed him some globules, some sweet pills, some tincture to apply and to his surprise his pain started reducing and any person will get scared. So my father was like no, no see, if you become a surgeon you would have cut my hand, but if you become a homeopath you will save the people. So I was not really happy with the idea Because, you know, it was not fascinating for me to become a homeopath. But then, because of his insistence, so I was like, okay, let's try. So I was really not happy. But over the period of time, as I learned it, I studied it and as I started getting result, I started seeing, you know, miraculous improvements in the patients. Now I love it. So now almost I'm passionate about it right, right, the super story, super story.
Vincent Hiscox:So your father, from his experience, he saw the benefit from it. So he said I'm sorry, my daughter, you're not going in that direction. I will prefer you go in this direction. Yes, which for you at the beginning was, you weren't so sure about it, but then, ok, you followed the advice of your father and I mean the story that you shared was, yeah, it's almost a miraculous story. I mean, typically when you hear about people with a gangrene, then it's the usual thing that you think of is amputation. Amputation is the, let's say, the standard practice for gangrene. But in his case that was beginning in his finger and the actual homeopathy that he took actually cured that. So you have a kind of a, let's say, it's your foundation story that came from your father and that gave you then the impetus to start, even if it was against your will at the beginning, but later. I mean, what would you say now?
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Now I love it Now.
Vincent Hiscox:you love it.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Now I feel really blessed that I'm a homeopath and I really feel I'm the chosen one.
Vincent Hiscox:Right, so now you feel like you're the chosen one.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:So I can do surgeries now without even using the scalpel, only with homeopathic pills.
Vincent Hiscox:Great, so you can do surgery without using the scalpels. Tremendous. So that brings us very neatly on to my next question how is it you assist people? How do you help people with what you can administer with your homeopathic treatment?
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Okay. So homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine where we are administering highly dilute substance in the form of remedies which we give either in the form of liquid or in the form of pills. So, according to WHO, homeopathy is world's second largest system of medicine. So many people use homeopathy all over the world. So homeopathy is being practiced in 123, over 123 countries all over the world. Total, 45% of the US population use homeopathy. Out of 42 countries. In Europe, 40 countries uses homeopathy. So in India also it is very, very popular. So homeopathy is based on seven cardinal principles and homeopathy is based on a law called as similia similibus curantur. So what is the meaning of this? Like cures, like. So let me give you an example. So, for example, all of you must have cut onion. So when you cut onion, what is the experience of a person? Person starts getting watery eyes, maybe some sneezing, maybe some watery discharge from the nose. He feel irritated, he feel redness of the face, little bit sweating, perspiration starts coming. So these kind of symptoms happen when you are cutting onion right. So we have a medicine in homeopathy called as Allium Sepa, which is a very good medicine for hay fever or flu or cough or cold or choriza. You see the similar symptom. So like cures, like, so you know how similar things can be used to treat your problems. So let's take an another example of coffee. So when a person is working or studying or you know doing his things, and he wants to be alert, he is feeling very sleepy. So they like to have coffee. So coffee will make you feel energized, alert, not so sleepy. So like awake, feeling palpitation, the heartbeat raises, you know, you feel very, you know energy in the body. So that is what the effect of coffee is. So coffee is used in the crude form to you know, help you to get over from your sleepiness. But in homeopathy we have a medicine prepared from coffee bean, called as coffee cruda, which is given to those people who are not able to sleep. So for sleeplessness you give coffee cruda. You see, when you cut onion you are getting that problem. But when you use allium sepa, which is prepared from the onion, when you give it in the form of homeopathic pill, it will cure those kind of symptoms. So it is a symptom-based medicine.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Then the second very interesting thing in homeopathy is individualization. So, for example, according to WHO, health is not merely the absence of symptom but it is a complete physical, emotional and social well-being of a person. That means if you want that person should be healthy, that person should be better emotionally also, socially also. But then do we really ask this aspect to our patients when they come to us? But in homeopathy we really follow the definition of WHO, that is, you should deal or you should heal your patient with like mentally, emotionally and socially also, and that is how we use the approach of individualization. So what is the meaning of individualization? That means, for example, if three people having headache go to the western doctor, all of them will get painkiller for that headache, or maybe they will do some investigation, will try to understand what is the diagnosis behind and give painkiller, but the medicine will be same. If three people have fever, maybe they will get the same Panadol for all the three people.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:But in homeopathy if three people with headache come to me, right, if first person come and he's complaining about headache, he's saying, doctor, I have headache in this temple region. My headache is throbbing kind of headache. You know, doctor, I went to that outside and it was so sunny, it was like I got exposed to sunlight and now I am, you know, getting this throbbing kind of headache. I'm not able to tolerate anything. I cannot tolerate light, no one should disturb me and please give me something to make me better as soon as possible. So this person is so impatient and saying as soon as possible, I want to get better. Maybe I will prescribe this person the remedy called as Belladonna. It's a plant based remedy, belladonna.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Another girl came to me. So this person's body language, his energy, his entry in my clinic, his dramatism and his impatience guided me to prescribe Belladonna to this person because of his energy, like violent energy. But other lady came, very silently, she's sitting. Then she took an appointment very nicely with the assistant. She come sit in the corner. When her number came she entered. She is looking down.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Then how much I am asking her question that much. Only she is answering what is your problem? Okay, I have headache. What is the problem? What has gone wrong in your life? So then I know, okay, she undergone breakup with her boyfriend and now she is feeling sad, she's feeling depressed, she's not talking with anyone, she's not lying consolation, she just don't want any sympathy from anyone. She's crying alone, she don't want to talk with anyone and constantly she's suffering from this headache. So problem is headache. But look at the presentation, look at the way patient coming to you, how he is telling you the case, what is the causation behind? And to this number two patient I might prescribe the remedy named nitramuriatricum. So see, the energy is low. So I need to understand what kind of medicine can cover the whole person, person as a whole.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Now the third person came to me and he is a businessman. He has a lot of deadlines to finish. He is working day and night. He needs to finish the task. He needs to get it done from the colleagues also. And now he is getting this headache. And to overcome that work or to you know, sustain with that work, this person is constantly drinking stimulants like tea or coffee, or maybe he's smoking a lot and he's not sleeping at night properly and he's getting headache.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Now. So to this third person who is getting disturbed very much, he don't want disturbance at all. He want to take rest completely. He don't want to talk with anyone. It wants to take rest completely. He don't want to talk with anyone. It's like a curfew kind of environment. And when he's coming to me also he's not liking how many questions I'm asking to this. He's like I have headache, why can't you just give me medicine for headache? Why you need to ask me so many questions, this kind of irritability this third person is showing me so I might prescribe him the medicine called as Nux Vomica. So you see, this is individualization. Three different cases of headache end up having three different medicine from three different kingdom, but the headache is same. So homeopathy treats man in the disease and not the disease in man. So it's an individualistic approach in homeopathy.
Vincent Hiscox:Yeah, absolutely fabulous, and thank you so much for sharing those stories. And I think in the sharing of those stories, you bring out the point very eloquently that you know, first of all, it's individualized, yes. Second, it's the whole person, and you don't just look at you, what is the symptom, you look at the story behind the symptom and you take everything together and it's that, with your knowledge of the different medicines that you've got at your disposal you've got 7,800 of them that you can, you can choose for that person. In that circumstance, with showing those symptoms, you can then prescribe to them what you believe is going to be the treatment. I'll just follow up on that From how that affects them. What kind of time period would they expect to see some good results? I know that's a very pointed question. Is that something you can answer?
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Yes. So when a patient comes to us we need to categorize that patient whether this person is suffering from acute problem or chronic problem, or surgical problem or one-sided disease or mental illness. So it's a classification of the disease. When we are talking about acute illness, if the person is suffering from fever, I can't say you know it will take time, you need to. You know have 8 or 10 days. No, in fever you expect results from few hours to 1 day or 2 days at most In chronic cases, depending on since how long is the problem, how much complicated is the case, what kind of medicine this person has taken.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Because when they have suppressed their case, like suppress their problem a lot with western medicine, then it takes longer period of time. When in the beginning only they come to a homeopathy doctor, comparatively the time period is faster. So you know the time period for healing varies from case to case, whether it is acute case, chronic case. How muchication, how much is the age of the person, how is the environment in the family? Sometimes, you know the family people also is sometimes so many anxiety is there that will also cause negative effect on that person's healing. So time period of healing really varies from patient to patient.
Vincent Hiscox:Yeah, and also the other thing, the other thing that you brought out there which is interesting. It depends on what's going on in their life, what's going on in their environment. When a patient comes in to see you, you have to be asking a lot of questions, not just about what are the symptoms, but everything around it.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Yes.
Vincent Hiscox:Is that a fair way to say it?
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Correct. So, for example, if someone is suffering from diabetes since last 10 years, someone is suffering from PCOD since last five years. So when the disease is taking so long to be there in your body or it is taking so long and you are suffering from so long, so body also. Because homeopathy is natural, it is stimulating your own healing energies. So it is your body which is healing you, it's not the medicine. Medicine is a aid, so your, when your body is healing, it will take the natural time what a body should take. So it's like that If a baby has to be born, it has to take nine months and nine days. That is a natural time period. So it is like that.
Vincent Hiscox:Yeah, yeah.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:But still, on the basis of my experience, usually I am able to tell them in how long they will be fine, right With your experience where you've been doing this for so long.
Vincent Hiscox:Now you know, by talking to the person and I would imagine the consultation is very it's a very rounded consultation that's going to take some time because you really have to get to the sort of not just the root cause, but you have to understand the person very well. Then, with that and with your experience, then you can say, okay, this is the medicine which I think is the one that's good for you, and in my belief, it's going to take this much time. Another question just springs into my mind Do you get, for some of your sort of clients that come to see you, maybe you prescribe something and then they come back and say it's not working as well as I think it should be. Are you then able to prescribe something different for them? I don't say it's usual, but is that something that you do?
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Sometimes it will happen that the first medicine, what we give, is not working for the patient, because in homeopathy so many different aspects you are considering in a case.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:So sometimes patients don't know exactly what is homeopathy, what I need to tell. Sometimes it's not that they don't want to tell, but sometimes they don't know what to tell. Sometimes the person is secretive or sometimes people are reserved. Sometimes they are suspicious that why should I open this much personal data to this doctor so they don't know that this personal data of yours, or the stress, tension, anxiety, worry, fears, whatever going on in your life, it is very important for me to know and to prescribe you. But they are not that free on the first time and they will not reveal the data. So that is why there can happen, it can happen, that I'm not able to find out the correct remedy in the very first consultation. So when they come second time, third time, then I know okay, this point was missing. Or then they add some more information, they get comfortable with me and then I am able to, you know, change next time the medicine for them and then it starts working. So it happens usually.
Vincent Hiscox:Right, so it don't say it happens every time, but it can happen.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Can it?
Vincent Hiscox:can happen and of course it depends on the individual.
Vincent Hiscox:If the individual is very open and is very clear and understands you know what the problem they've got, then that allows you to go more quickly to the solution, where, if they withhold information, then it makes it more difficult.
Vincent Hiscox:And you know, I really thank you so much for for that explanation. And I think, from the listener's point of view, they've got a good idea of because you've given some case studies in there Very good. You didn't mention any names, which is perfect, and so from a listener's point of view, they can listen to that and think, oh yeah, I've got something that I would like to fix and then, if they want to, they can come and see you or go to another homeopathist to see if they can fix that problem. And I think that's, you know, it's absolutely great. So my follow-up question from that is how would you advise people to help themselves? So you get somebody coming in and they come in usually for a particular problem, but then when you talk to them and you do a very in-depth sort of talk to them, what are the kind of things that you would be advising them to do to improve their overall health?
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Definitely diet plays a very major role, that their diet has to be good. You can't be coming to me with weight of 120 kilos and eating McDonald's all the time and expecting me that I should be the one to fix your obesity, and wholly on my shoulder, cannot right. So definitely with good medicine, you have to follow your diet. Regular exercise is advised to them. So if any exciting factors which is causing problem to them, say for, for example, if a person is suffering from spondylosis or cervical pain, I will definitely tell them not to have. You know too much of your mobile phone and your laptop. So you know these kind of exciting factors, factors which will hamper your health, those things you have to remove from your life, those general advices we give. But at the same time you know, as I told you, that human being, the definition human being, is body plus mind plus spirit. So I always advise people that nothing in your life is more important than your life itself. So whatever mental issues or whatever things, so person you know, think they. They fall sick because this person is doing this to me. Environment in the family is not good. There is so much politics at my workplace. You know my children doesn't listen to me. My mother-in-law is so abusive, my husband is, you know, very dominating and he doesn't appreciate me and all those things. So diseases doesn't happen, because whatever happening to us it is your reaction to the situation. So always try to understand. When you understand yourself mentally, emotionally, when you respect your own self, when you start loving your own self, when you you know you are not bothered by the surrounding so much, you start feeling happier and healthier. So, along with other things like diet, exercise, yoga, their daily routine and all I usually do counseling on their personal life, depending on case and how, the environment, because usually they share they do share the personal information with me. So I understand the ipr, that is, I understand their family status very well. So I do some counseling and give advices on that time that way also so that they can help themselves. And if we talk about helping yourself, so you know homeopathy, though, as I said, there are 7800 medicines in homeopathy, but there are certain basic medicines in homeopathy which if you keep at home maybe three, four, five medicines also if you keep at home you can really use them as a first aid kit. It can be used by children also my kid, you know.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:My mother-in-law called one day and she's saying where is your mother, aditya, where is your mother, I have so much back pain. And my, my son, he was only 10 year old at that time and he was like, oh nani, oh daddy, what? What problem you have? You have back pain. Yeah, I was working in a garden so I was sitting down bending and you know, I was cutting some weed and I now I cannot just stand. So he, my 10 year old, is telling my mother-in-law, take rustox, you will be fine. And you know what he. She really took it and her back pain was better and she called me next day. He was like, oh my god, he gave me medicine and I'm fine. I'm like, wow, wow, that's good.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:So you see, some simple, simple tips. If you know, you can help yourself. So as a homeopath, I understand that my responsibility is not just to give the medicine and cure the patients, but also to educate people about homeopathy. So for that purpose, we conduct basic homeopathy classes in our clinic and in that we teach them to use some basic homeopathic remedies at your home. Say, for example, a very common issue in ladies. They will say you know, doctor, my kid will not eat breakfast in the morning because he is very scared that he will vomit in his school bus. So so many children have this problem of car sickness or travel sickness, or many adults also have this problem. So if you know this medicine cocculus 30, you start taking 2-3 pills of this cocculus 30 15 minutes before your travel and you will see you will travel smoothly, doesn't matter how much long distance. If you feel little bit more nausea you can take one more dose when you are in the vehicle. So this is a simple trick, simple technique, but you can use. So if you get the medicine, you just keep it with you or in your purse. Also, you can help yourself.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:So many of us, all of us almost have got injury some or the other time of their life. If you just have a small knowledge, little knowledge of how beautifully Arnica 30 works for all kind of your injuries, you can take it at home. So you just keep in your like first aid kit this Arnica 30. Doesn't matter what kind of injury any cut, burn, bruises, anything you can take start taking arnica two to three times a day. You will see, within two to three days you will start feeling so much better and the pain reduces with arnica just in few minutes. So many ladies or helpers who are working in kitchen. They will get burn injuries so many times in the kitchen. So if you take cantharis 30, as soon as the burn happens, it will not only reduce your pain within 15 minutes but it will also help not to get any blister after burn. So it works so beautifully.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:You go for traveling and then you have this food poisoning issue so many times, nausea, vomiting, because you are eating out. The timings are not good, you are drinking something outside and because of that there is food poisoning issue so many times and nausea, vomiting, because you are eating out. The timings are not good, you are drinking something outside and because of that there is food poisoning. Whole trip is gone bad at that time. If you just keep this simple medicine arsenic 30 with you, then you can, you know, smoothly enjoy your trip and you can really enjoy all kind of food. So I educate my clients like this. So whenever they come to me they are going for traveling. So I will advise, you know, to keep two, three medicines like this with them so that they can help themselves also.
Vincent Hiscox:Yeah, super, super answer. So, as you were talking there, I mean I just wanted to summarize that because it was very important. So one is the usual things that people should do, I mean you should be eating a good diet, you should be exercising, you shouldn't have sort of mental stresses. But then the other very strong message that you passed was that people should keep at home a kind of a first aid kit. And that first aid kit it doesn't, you know, it can be for medicines which are the sort of classical things that you need in a first aid kit. You know, you cut yourself. You usually have a plaster to go over the cut. So, as you said, if somebody is suffering from a trauma then you give them some Arnica. And as you said, that I remember back to when my children were growing up and that was something we had in the cupboard all the time.
Vincent Hiscox:So that was the first thing to come out. Get that, anika, out. So the other message which you passed very well is that it's possible to get a kind of first aid kit of homeopathic medicine and I know this because I came to your talk and with that first aid kit, then you've got something where you can do first aid, and first aid means what it says first aid, the first thing that you do. If it then becomes a recurring problem, if it becomes a chronic problem, of course, then you need to go to the doctor, of course, then you need to go to the doctor, then people can come and consult you and you can get something which is maybe treating at a deeper level for those people. Absolutely, great, absolutely.
Vincent Hiscox:And I think that you know you've shared I'm so happy you've shared so many nice stories. Then, from a listener's point of view, they should be able to listen to that and think, yeah, maybe that's something that is good for me. And also, what I like is that you were explaining it from sort of first principles. It's not something complex, it's something that's very simple, and I thank you so much for that. So just bringing it back around to yourself now. So here we are. We're at your clinic, you know I can see all the different medicines around and where do you see from your business point of view? Where do you see your future? You know if you were saying in terms of your development and where you would like to go in the future. What are your sort of future plans? That's my question.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Yes, I started from a very small clinic in Hungham because my son was two years old and I wanted to take care of him properly. So I started at a very small place. It was not very convenient, location-wise also, but somehow I really got very good response there, only because of my results. So when my son become six year old I shifted to Chimsa Choe, like central area of Hong Kong, and here I have this clinic which I think I'm getting very good response. So I have these classes where I teach basic homeopathy. Then I have a one yearyear course in homeopathy which we are doing with collaboration of UK College of Homeopathy and I do seminars, I do free talks to spread homeopathy to you know, make people aware about homeopathy. So you also know, recently I have joined BNI so that people know this internationally also. So business point of view, my target is to spread homeopathy in Asian countries like China, japan, thailand, malaysia, because homeopathy is already famous in India, europe and USA. So my target would be to spread it more in Asian countries.
Vincent Hiscox:Yeah, so you're talking about education, but it's not education sort of okay, I'll make sure that the people in Hong Kong are getting a good education. It's something that you're thinking much wider than that. You're looking at the East Asian sort of area in general where you can spread the knowledge that you've built up for yourself in that area. And already you know you're doing that already in Hong Kong with the different things that you do with the courses, the one year course, so that's happening. So really it's like an education. You, you will help people to help themselves by educating them to actually understand homeopathy and actually to treat themselves.
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:Yes. So you know there are different systems of medicine which people know, like allopathy is there? Isopathy is there? Antipathy is there? Unani medicine is there? Physiotherapy is there? Chinese medicine is there? Antipathy is there? Unani medicine is there? Physiotherapy is there? Chinese medicine is there. So homeopathy is also there. So I just want people to know that there is one more form of system which is really, really worth knowing, and I think I really take this responsibility to spread about homeopathy in these Asian countries, to spread about homeopathy in these Asian countries.
Vincent Hiscox:Yeah, yeah, absolutely great. So you know, it's something where you've seen very good results from it and you want to share this message with as many people as possible. And that goes beyond the sort of geographical boundaries of where you are. That goes, you know, much wider than that. And, yeah, and I thank you, I thank you so much for that. So we're coming towards the end of the podcast now and I mean I'm sure we could carry on talking about what it is you do and what you're planning to do, but you've got the opportunity now to share a key message with the listeners. So, if you've got a key message and you've already been given lots of key messages all the way through the discussion what would be your key message for the listener?
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:My key message to my listeners would be that in homeopathy we take individualized aspect. We treat man in disease and not the disease in man, your body. God has created it so beautifully that it has got tremendous healing power in it, so we just need to direct or divert it towards healing itself. So you know there are different, different methodology to do that, but it is worth knowing about homeopathy. So if you are taking any medicine for your long term chronic illnesses and you want to fix it naturally, holistically, without any side effect, you should give it a try to your homeopath or any homeopath, and you know it is really worth trying and knowing about this system of medicine.
Vincent Hiscox:I would say Super message and I really like the way that you're not selfish about this. You say go to any homeopath and they can help you. So the really important question now how do people get in touch with you?
Dr Manisha Lakhekar:So we have our own clinic in Chimsa Choe. We have our website, wwwdrmanishaelcom. You can visit. We have our clinic number. You can WhatsApp us. We have our Facebook page. You can reach out from the Facebook page. We have Instagram, so you can reach out through all these mediums.
Vincent Hiscox:Absolutely great. So I'll get all of those from you and we'll put all of that into the show notes. So I'd just like to say, Dr Manisha, thank you so much. I've really enjoyed our talk together and I've learned so much.
Vincent Hiscox:so thank you very much thank you so much, thank you super podcast with dr manisha with several takeaways, and here are my takeaways. Number one homeopathy is the second largest system of medicine in the world. Number two it's grounded in the principle of like cures like. Number three there are more than 7,000 homeopathic medicines available. Number four medical cures are individualized following in-depth consultations. Number five treating a patient is not just treating the symptoms. Understanding the patient's background and building rapport is key.
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