Gradual progress in the use of digital networking started with the outbreak of covid 19. Not only technology, but people also started updating themselves with technology. It has become an era of the internet precisely saying google where anything and everything is available be it health, entertainment, or any other sector. A few years back people used to rush to a doctor on seeing a symptom to know what it is, but nowadays they rush to google to ask what disease it might be. The Internet helped in the partial diagnosis of disease along with a possible prescription, effects and side effects of prescribed medication, and many more. As the world was stuck by all means during the beginning of the epidemic of coronavirus, people became more health conscious. Stepping out for even basic needs was emotionally dreadful. Going to hospitals or nearby clinics was frightening as they could contract corona virus with least exposure and no specific medicine was found at that time. It’s at this point of time online consultation took off, as consulting a doctor with in one’s home, made people feel more safe and secure. Gradually getting accustomed to this method of treatment it helped doctors help patients across the globe when door-to-door delivery of medicine services became more accessible. With the search for better treatment for diseases at the time people gradually started looking for options in available allied sciences like homoeopathy, Ayurveda, etc.
What is an online homoeopathic consultation?
A virtual online consultation with a Homoeopathic doctor who has authorised BHMS degree, which may be through text messages phone calls or video call with help of either websites or any applications such as what’s app, IMO, etc, is called an online homoeopathic consultation
Why choose an online homoeopathic consultation?
Homoeopathy is a system of medical science which Treats the patient as a whole component and believes that Elements that can cause disease in a healthy human has the medicinal power to cure the disease in a patient. A homoeopathic doctor takes the case of the patient and analyses the patient as a whole component and treats the disease and also aims at their general well-being.
Homoeopathy works wonders in the treatment of various diseases of different ages of people in areas such as paediatrics, gynaecology, neurology, nephrology, cardiology, etc. There are many success stories in homoeopathy in the case of infertility and also annihilated the suffering of people who had struggled with pain throughout their life.
CAUTION
As the Internet can be compared to a coin that has a head and tail, online consultation has its bane and boon. Consulting doctors seeing advertisements without checking or enquiring about their where about may get cheated or misuse one’s data that is shared during the consultation may happen. Frauds or doctors who are quacks may also take advantage of an online homoeopathic consultation that is not done with a reputed hospital or doctors. There might also be cases where they demand a huge amount of money or try to trap patients by asking about their unnecessary personal data like bank details photos or videos that are not relevant to the case.
Patients need to be very careful in case of online consultation. Before going for an online homoeopathic consultation do a background check or opt for reputed hospitals or doctors or websites for example websites such as www.basilshomeo.com . During an online homoeopathic consultation see to it that you answer only relevant questions that the homoeopathic doctor asks. To Confirm if the doctor is not a quack, ask for their medical council registration number.