A person who does not have knowledge of a particular System of Medicine but practices in that System is a Quack and a mere pretender to medical knowledge or skill, or to put it differently, a Charlatan.
Homoeopaths has permissionto practice in HOMOEOPATHY ONLY, he was under a statutory duty not to enter the field of any other System of Medicine as,admittedly, he was not qualified in the other system,
Allopathy, to be precise. He trespassed into a prohibited field and was liable to be prosecuted under Section 15(3) of the Indian Medical Council Act, 1956. His conduct amounted to an actionable negligence particularly as the duty of care indicated by this Court
Merely because the Anatomy and Physiology are similar, it does not mean that a person having studied one System of Medicine can claim to treat the patient by drugs of another System which he might not have studied at any stage. No doubt, study of Physiology and Anatomy is common in all Systems of Medicines and the students belonging to different Systems of Medicines may be taught physiology and Anatomy together, but so far as the study of drugs is concerned; the pharmacology of all systems is entirely different.
Download the judgment : www.homeobook.com/pdf/supreme-court-homeopathy-allopathy.pdf
Thanks to Dr Jalam SIngh Rathore for providing the judgment copy
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Dear friends, supreme court verdict is a wellcome news for we all homoeopaths.Though our homoeopaty is ablest system of medicine but most of homoeopath graduates are leaning to allopathy.coz our institutions has to take much blame for this.they just worry about getting passed in council inspections and for that they do lot of dummy work n show yes they got all infra structure to run a institution.but they lack very knowledgable an rollmodel teaching staff..In much of the institutions lectures were having total apathy for homoeopathy and they even donno basics of homoeopathy.Many a times lecture practices allopathy at night in his clinic and he come in morng to class to teah homoeopathy!!!! then a student under such institutions how can we expect he come out f colege n practice homoeopathy? they are the very responsible persons.yes ofcourse students too least bothered about system they wanna earn money as soon from the very day they earn a degree. we too can earn from homoeopathy.but our lack of knwledge doesnt yield the money.so they turn to easy system allopathy.
I wish to know if homoeopaths are legally allowed to prescribe/give over the counter drugs like paracetamole etc,
Not permitted
Dear Sir / Madam,
My daughter is studid in BHMS course ,kindly let us know her scope of jobs after BHMS ,
Kind regards,
Dilip Patil
Link : http://www.similima.com/ppt/what-after-BHMS.pdf
What about the doctors who r in mhu.they r treating minor ailments in allopathy and they r also treating patients in opd in concered with the m.o i/c in c.h.cs.
We don’t want Allopathic Medicines to practice. Our patients doesn’t need it. Patients are reaching to Homoeopaths because of their aversion to Allopathic medicines and when they are faithless in Allopathic Medicines. Who is in need of such a verdict? Turn back to keralite Homoeopaths, how confident they are in their system and study from Keral Homeopathic patients how much faith they are having in Homoeopathy.
allowing allo practice will not definitely ruin our homoeopathic knowledge but surly add more stars to our way of practice thereby saving more ill peoples and lives.