To the Editor

While going through Dr. Manish Bhatia’s review of Dr. Prafull Vijayakar’s book “The end of myasmption of miasm” in Links, Volume 17. 1. 2004 (Asian edition issue 3/2004), the first impression it gave to me, to my students and to my other colleagues was that Dr. Manish Bhatia has attempted to review a book which is intellectually far beyond his capacity, like “Waaman” opining on “Viraat”. I do not know whether the editorial board invited him to write the review or whether it was a suo moto review of the book.

Homeopathy has been labelled as pseudo science since the time of Dr. S. Hahnemann. Please refer to the preface of “Theory of Chronic disease”, where Hahnemann says: “My whole theory has been rejected just because I could not provide them conclusive proof”. Dr. S. Hahnemann has never been acknowledged by medical science. He and his followers were and are ridiculed the world over; we must not forget this.

Dr. P. Vijayakar has successfully proved the missing links. I have known him to be the first homeopath who could say that miasms are nothing but the defense of the body, and are only three in number.

Scientifically he could say in his book that there cannot be a fourth, fifth, sixth or any more miasms. How and why is this so? The answer to this is the total content of the book. In his book Dr. Prafull Vijayakar reiterates time and again that what Hahnemann has said was utterly scientific. The immunologist in Hahnemann can be seen in Aphorism 74 and many other aphorisms of “Organon”. This § 74 is the basis of the book “The end of myasmption of miasms” which says: “… in order to maintain life against these inimical and destructive attacks, it must produce a revolution in the organism, and either deprive some part of its irritability and sensibility, or exalt these to an excessive degree, cause dilation or contraction, relaxation or induration or even total destruction of certain parts … in order to preserve the organism from complete destruction of life by the ever-renewed, hostile assaults of such destructive forces”.

After 200 years advanced medical science confirms this. (See Robin's Textbook of Pathology, 7th edition, Chapter 1.) Is this a small event? It is extremely unfortunate that the reviewer has overlooked this motto of the book and made the remarks in the “Waaman” manner about “Viraat” author Dr. Prafull Vijayakar, remarks such as “… Dr. Vijayakar moves away from the whole man … Dr. Vijayakar has woven some more hypothesis… his new approach towards miasm is pseudo-scientific”.

The overall impression the reviewer gives us is that he consistently fails to understand the spirit and soul behind the content of the book.