For survival purposes, all living organisms rely on an ability to transform and interconvert a diverse set of organic and inorganic compounds in order to utilize them as a source of energy and as their structural building blocks. The presence of these crucial building molecules, the “primary metabolites” (amino acids, fatty acids, nucleosides, and sugars) can be considered synonymous with “life” since they are ubiquitous among all organisms. (more…)

A “paradigm shift” in drug discovery occurred in the early 19th century, marked by the isolation of pure bioactive entities from medicinal plants, beginning with the isoquinoline alkaloid, morphine. The purification of plant drug molecules such as atropine, cocaine, codeine, digitoxin, and quinine, later in the same century, proved to be significant not only for the extensive medicinal uses of these isolates, (more…)

Recently, natural products chemistry has undergone explosive growth due to advances in isolation techniques, synthetic and biosynthetic approaches as well as spectroscopic and chromatographic methods. (more…)

Get educated. Read as much information as you can on any drug before taking it. Learn the possible dangers and weigh them against the potential benefits. Ask your doctor and pharmacist about their experiences with patients who have used this medication. Find out whether to take the drug with meals or on an empty stomach, side effects to watch for, and what to do in case of an adverse reaction. (more…)

Calcarea Phosphorica is a compound of calcium and phosphorus, and thus a very profoundly effective remedy. It has been commonly used in the biochemic system of medicines, although it needs to be used with extreme care. Calcarea Phosphorica is described to be the friendliest treatment of women. Many of its symptoms happen to be the common symptoms of day-to-day diseases of women. Calcarea Phosphorica must always be kept in mind. With the onset of puberty, young girls are subject to a variety of problems, (more…)

No doubt, Calcarea Sulph is well known for the treatment of epilepsy, but Calcarea Arsenica is also an important remedy. It comes next to Calcarea Sulph. About Calcarea Arsenica, Dr. Kent is of the opinion that it can cure epilepsy completely. In my opinion, every kind of epilepsy is not curable. Epilepsy which is secondary to the structural deformity of the head needs to be treated surgically. (more…)

Many people have or have had experiencing several allergies symptoms at some point in their lives. Sneezing symptoms, itchiness, and runny nose are some of the most common symptoms of an allergy attack.

Taking antihistamines can be an affordable and effective alleviation of symptoms of an allergy attack. (more…)

Cadmium Sulph is a profoundly effective homoeopathic remedy. Its patients do not like to do any physical or mental work. They hate doing anything. Sulphur patients are also lethargic. They keep planning to become rich but do nothing to attain their goals. The Opium patient also remains in his imaginary world and thinks about the same way, but does not want to move himself or do any kind of work. (more…)

Alumen is the common alum, which is used to control bleeding from any wound. It is famous for clumping together the suspended particles in a solution (colloids). However, it cannot clump suspended matter in air or in gas. The venom of several kinds of snakes acts similarly on the blood. The clots/clumps thus formed, precipitate heart attack by blocking the blood vessels of the heart. (more…)

Homoeopathy was founded by Dr. Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann who was born in Saxony in 1755 AD. He loved to learn languages and in fact attained proficiency in eight of them. At the age of 12, he had started teaching Greek. Thus, he became a language teacher at a very young age. He began his medical studies in Leipzig, Austria, and then he went to Vienna and Erlangen. (more…)