Dr. Robbert Van Haselen visit to JIMS Homeo Medical College
Dr Robbert emphasizes that we must concentrate in improving Homoeopathy instead of nurturing much on proving Homoeopathy. He produces a road map to improving Homoeopathy in the following presentation:
Improving the Quality of Clinical Case Reports in Homoeopathy – Education as Key to Success
HH Swamiji visit to JIMS Homeo Medical College
Attitude to take-up new challenges, learning new things with positive approach is a key to success- HH SriSri Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji
It was a wonderful Wednesday, the July 19, 2017, H H Sri Sri Sri Tridandi Srimannarayana Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji extended Mangalasasanams to the students and staff of JIMS Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital.
The day had begun with the showers of blessing in the form of good rain right from the morning. All were eagerly waiting to see Swamiji. Finally the auspicious moment arrived. H H Sri Sri Sri Tridandi Srimannarayana Ramanuja Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji kept his Lotus Feet at our campus at sharp 3pm. H H Sri Sri Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji, H H Srimannarayana Ahobela Swamiji, Mr. Suryanarayana and few other dignitaries were ushered by the Director Dr Arvind Kothe, Principal Dr K Raghuramchandra, members of teaching and non-teaching faculty with students to enter the Auditorium.
The program began in a high note with welcome address by Dr. K. Kalpavali Assit. Professor, Department of Organon of Medicine& Homoeopathic Philosophy, followed by prayer song by Ms Priyanka.
HH SriSri Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji lighted the lamp to dispel the darkness of ignorance from students along with the chorus “ Guru Parampara “ played by A. Shivani, N. Sahithya, S. Vineetha, K. Pragnya of II BHMS.
Ist BHMS student Ms Apporva took blessings from HH SriSriSri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji where as Ms. Hinduja from HH. Srimannarayana Ahobela Swamiji. A floral welcome and fruits as a mark of respect were offered to H H Sri Sri Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji and H H Ahobela Swamiji by Dr. Arvind Kothe and Dr K Raghuramchandra
To mark the occasion Ms Srilatha Yadav spoke on experiences of her stay in the campus for the last two years and recollected the previous visits of Swamiji and the bountiful benefits received by them.
H H Sri Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji blessed everyone present on the occasion and appealed students to take-up challenges, and face them in a positive manner. Swamiji emphasized on the lesson of Life, how life should be, how much enthusiastically a person has to lead his life by facing some problems and finding solution and in learning many new things through the problems. He also spoke about how open a person should be in receiving various kinds of knowledge/learning and how they are important for a person during the time of need.
Swamiji said that the knowledge / learning once gained through facing the problems is useful at any time of the life; maybe it is not useful at that time of learning but will be useful during another instance of life. He gave his own example of learning Russian language during his childhood and its use during the discourse for a group of Russian in India
HH Sri Sri Sri Chinna Jeeyar Swamiji stressed on developing communication skill and advised us how to speak, how to use the language. Swamiji said that our words can break or bridge the relation. He described how well or bad a person could be while using his/her language and words which ought to be spoken appropriately during the need and deed also. With this reference Swamiji spoke about the nature of doctors and he said that the words spoken by a doctor could give positive energy to the patient and his relatives.
Sri Sri Jeeyar Swamiji explained that allopathic doctors treat mostly the physical complaints of patients but homoeopathic doctors take well care of people at their social, mental and emotional levels also. Hence students should attend classes not only for the sake of attendance but also learn from the teachers as well and they should give values to the teachers.
Swamiji told students that learning could be a continuous process and every person should make him ready to learn many new things and to have right attitude and aptitude to give service to the society besides earning their living; and to learn balancing act in order to keep themselves and others survive.
H H Ahobela Swamiji spoke about how a physician could be for the society with few stories and said that how good a doctor should be towards this community. Swamiji advised students not to think of only their earning after completing the course but to nurture the good qualities of a physician by attending the discourse of Philosophy.
In the end Ms Mahek Singh, I BHMS student gave vote of thanks and it was followed by Vaishnava Bhajan, Vaishnav Janatho, sung by II BHMS students.
Dr.Pravas Kumar Pal, Professor Department of Pharmacy ,Dr.K.Kalpavalli, Asst.Professor, Department of Organon of Medicine & Homoeopathic Philosophy JIMS Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital.
Yoga Day 2017
Under the able guidance and blessings of HH Sri Ahobila Ramanuja Jeeyar Swamii and all elders, JIMS Homoeo College celebrated International Yoga Day by all the students of JIMS Homeo College institutions.
Yoga and its Uses :
A:di Sesha, is the first Guru of Yoga(m). He had later taken the form of Pathanjali. He also took form as Ramanuja Acharya to bless us all with Jnana Yogam. That is why, we bow down to Ramanuja Acharya who is also with us here in the form of the deity.
Ultimate Goal of Yoga is to achieve mental stability and concentration. One should be able to sit and concentrate on God, thus achieving the union of the self with HIM. It is said that one should be able to think with ease on the ultimate goal of the self and carry on the journey towards it with the body that is given.na:sagranyassa nayanaha samrutha:sya:ha sunischalaha dhya:ye:tha manasa: de:vam vurovishtabhyaha agrathaha
It is not just mere control over bodily movements that one should strive for, but it is the ability to dive into a mode of dhyanam, to think deeply and actively without loss of focus for as long as you want on the ultimate goal of life
Yoga(m) has to be done only through guidance of right guru.
To be able to think about ‘who you are’ is the right deed to do. Depending on the guru you approach, the ‘who you are’ question can get you answers such as ‘body (sariram)’, ‘the self that resides in the body (a:thma)’, ‘union of the self with God’ ..
Positive thinking begins with the way you dress. You should always tie up your hair, otherwise thoughts are not stable, take bath and eat, be in the company of good people, seek refuge of a good teacher, aim for greater lo:kams. Our vedic way of life propagates all this in the form of Prathasmaraneeyam.
One day Workshop on Homoeopathic Pharmacy : Quality Control
On 5th June, 2017 at 10.00 am.
Resource Person:
DR. PRAKASH JOSHI,
Former Dy. Director,
Homoeopathic Pharmacopoeia Laboratory, Govt. of India
Technical Advisor, Medisynth, Mumbai, India
10.00-10.30 A.M – Inaugural Session
10.30A.M -1P.M – Quality control and standardization of Raw materials,
In process QC and finished product with special emphasis on; Methods of sampling, Moisture content, Specific gravity, Optical rotation and Specific rotation.
2.00 – 4.00 P.M. – Chromatography (TLC, HPTLC, HPLC, Paper Chromatography),
Spectroscopy and NMR
4.00-5.00 P.M. – Industrial Pharmacy and H.P.L.
ASSINGENMENT: Students were advised to go through chapters of Industrial Pharmacy, HPL, Quality Control, Laboratory methods and other related topics.
ROLE OF STUDENTS: Students were active throughout the day during the sessions. They maintained the discipline, interacted with the Resource Person by clarifying their doubts and sharing their views on the concerned field of Pharmacy.
Session I :
Dr Prakash Joshi emphasized morphological and microscopic studies of raw plant and animal drug materials and showed the significance of part used with evidence. He then explained on the:
- Diverse therapeutic use of plants referring the active principles of crataegus, aconite, equiseteum etc.
- Knowledge of adulterants.
- Six major points regarding plant material for drug preparation.
- Identification of Genera and species.
- Morphological and organoleptic evaluation.
- Purity and free from admixture.
- Methods of cultivation and its devices.
- Suitable methods of collection and storage.
- Study of constituents.
- Pharmacognostic evaluation of drugs.
- Physicochemical standardization of mother tincture.
- Detection of active principles in medicinal plants.
- Unscientific collection and substitution/ adulteration of herbal raw material from wild sources.
- General research protocol for development of plant drugs.
- Research methodology for quality evaluation of herbal drugs.
He explained about GMP, its definition, need, maintenance, authorities, requirements, scope and validation. He also discussed – how to achieve factory hygiene.
Session II :
Dr Joshi explained in details about the chromatography, TLC, HPTLC, HPLC, Paper chromatography, spectroscopy and NMR. He described procedure of chromatography with chemical and other parameters for identifying raw material with suitable examples like microscopic examination of hydrastis, berberis, chemical examination of hydrastis etc… He showed microscopic features of different plants and there differentiation.
He emphasized on the use of different pharmacopoeia and their importance with various examples. He further discussed on the following topics;
Raw material testing, standard specimen, U.V. spectrophotometer, polarimeter, percolation, pH meter, determination of total solids and alcohol content.
Session III:
Dr Joshi narrated about standard for imported drugs and drugs for manufacture and sale referring the importance of D&C Rule 85E conditions for grant /renewal of license in form 25C, labeling and packing and homeopathic medicine, name of medicines with potency as per pharmacopoeia. Batch/lot number, manufacturing license number.
He mentioned about prohibition of quantity of alcohol percentage not more than 12% and 450 ml of bottle; 5yr expiry date is under review with the Govt. of India.
He appraised about the Production area and layout of GMP installed factory.
The session ended with interactive session involving students and staff regarding various practices in the subject of pharmacy in particular and homoeopathy in general.
Workshop on Homoeopathic Drug Pathogenetic Trials at JIMS Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Hyderabad
Homoeopathic Drug Pathogenetic Trials is a unique concept of testing the action of Drug Substance on Healthy individual for the treatment of sick in Homoeopathic system of medicine and Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy over the years have devised the proving Protocol which is highly acclaimed by the international community of Homoeopaths observed Dr.Anil Khurana Deputy Director General Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy, Ministry of AYUSH, Govt .of India, while inaugurating the workshop on Homoeopathic Drug Pathogenetic Trials at JIMS Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Hyderabad held on 6th May 2017. Dr.Arvind Kothe Director JIMS Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital Presided over the function.
While appreciating the excellent infrastructure and the environment for higher learning at JIMS Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital, Dr.Anil Khurana has assured to provide Necessary technical support to the institution to promote Research.
Dr. Anil Khurana in his address highlighted on the Problems encountered in Hahnemann proving, history of Evolution of drug proving to Double blind with inclusion of Lab investigations, development of CCRH Protocol – institutional protocol published in British Homoeopathic Journal, Major changes from 1987 to new protocol 2010 – age, doses, scale, washout period, potency quota, compared studies of both the old and new protocols, the placebo symptoms and proving symptoms produced from various quota potencies,etc
Dr. Pritha Mehra Research officer (H) Central Council for Research in Homoeopathy,during her address presented the latest protocol with changes in inclusion and exclusion criteria,process of drug proving,safety assessment – serious adverse events, adverse event, adverse drug reactions, its management and reporting,date collection, processing, analysis (unblinding) and management.
Dr.K.Kalpavalli the in charge of the Drug Proving Unit presented the activities related to Drug Pathogenetic trials at JIMS Homoeopathic Medical College & Hospital.