The Foundation for Homeopathic Research is all set to celebrate the Bicentenary year of Homeopathy in 1993.

We have our own set of arguments against the controversial article in The Lancet (August, 2005), which suggested that homeopathy equals placebo. I do not want to add my voice in defense of homeopathy but would like to share my thoughts on another perspective. The recent debate calls for more introspection and a preventive plan of action, rather than remonstration.

Thinking twice before opting for homeopathy? Dr. Rajesh Shah answers all your frequently springing doubts.

Homeopathy (=homeopathy) is an alternative method of treatment, based on the nature's Law of Cure, namely 'like cures like'. The truth of this law was discovered by a German scientist Dr Samuel experimentally in 1796, and has been verified experimentally and clinically for 200 years.

After futile visits to numerous doctors in Canada ant the United States of relief from acute allergies. James Ravenda of Toronto turned to a Mumbai homoeopath couple. Dr. Rajesh and Rupal Shah. Astonishingly, he was completely cured of the disease in just two months. Equally dramatic was the recovery of Alberto Frank of Germany from a rare skin disease called lichen planus, a year after opting for Shah's prescriptions. The doctor couple in their mid-thirties have a roaring practice in India, in their clinic and in cyberspace. Although they have hundreds of patients abroad, they have met very few of them. The patients simply clicked on Dr Shah's website.

Three months ago, when computer freak Dr Rajesh Shah got his Internet connection in Bombay, he began cruising to see what people were chatting about on the network that links the globe's computers. He started with 'A'. Some 324 people were discussing Amitabh Bachchan, reel-life's cure for all ills.

In Dr Rajesh Shah's 5,000 sq ft clinic in Chembur, Mumbai, a team of nine doctors divide their time between treating visiting patients and chatting on the internet. Nowadays, they spend more and more time in front of the computer screen and their boss is not complaining. After all, they help run a global clinic in a combined offline-online format. And they're winning more and more converts to their chosen practice, homeopathy.

MUMBAI: The tiny, white homoeopathic pills could be as effective as allopathic painkillers, says a new research from the city's premier research institute.

The research was done in the Institute of Chemical Technology, formerly called the University Department of Chemical Technology, in Matunga, along with homoeopathic specialist Dr Rajesh Shah.