For
any ailment, my first instinct is to consult an allopathic doctor.
During 2007, I had depression. Instead of turning to a witch doctor,
or some naturopathy, I decided to visit a psychiatrist. He prescribed
allopathic drugs to handle the initial situation and subsequently
other methods. Other methods did not include the one that involves
twisting your body in various angles. I could have messed up my life
had I not thought from a scientific angle.
Recently, when
I was affected with COVID, I got tested when the first symptom became
too obvious to ignore. On being tested positive, I got myself treated
through Allopathy. I just wondered why I never get influenced by any
other system of medicine in any illness, and I traced it back to the
influence of my Father.
He was not a highly educated
person. But had a great mind to understand that only Allopathic
medicine treatment is based on an examination, testing and researched
medicines. When he had a partial paralysis, he trusted only
Allopathy. When I had a severe problem with liver jaundice, he did
not rely on native medicine but only on Allopathy, and for this, he
sold whatever little assets he had. The same was the case when my
eldest brother (late) had a kidney failure. He decided to go in for
dialysis and understood by reading what a cadaver transplant was. He
believed only Allopathy could cure. We would be taken to the
corporation dispensary or to a private doctor even for common fever,
but no other form of medicine was given.
I came to know
about Ayurveda and Allopathy only after the age of 15. By that time,
I had learned about X-rays, blood reports, surgery, great leaders of
the World/India, systems of governance, fundamental rights, etc.
Influenced by my Father, till she breathed her last, my mother too
relied only on Allopathy.
I learned the importance
of reading books from my Father. Similarly, the genuineness of
Allopathy was drilled into my mind and heart by him. Thus, when I
write `Allopathy is the only form of medicine that can be
proved/disproved with facts, based on results of an experiment, and
these results can be validated across the world', it is something
that has been imbibed into me from the cradle you could say.
