Tridosha and Homoeopathy (An Old and Rare Book)

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The first edition of this book was published in New York, U.S.A., in 1951. The background of this book is very interesting. My father used to edit a Journal, "Baroda Homoeopathic Bulletin", published by The Homoeopathic Charitable Dispensary of Baroda. He was the main contributor and in this he used to give some original articles based on Tridosha Homoeopathy. Somehow, this Journal went to the hands of his American friend Mr. Howard Stangle of New York. He requested my father to write a short book explaining the principles of Ayurveda for the American public. He also promised to get this published in America. The result was the book "The Science of Tridosha or The Three Cosmic Elements in Homoeopathy." The book was well received in Western countries as this was a completely new subject to them. The book came to India and some of my father's well-wishers wanted an Indian edition to which my father consented. This Indian edition was exhausted and we all felt the need of another revised edition with more Tridosha analysis of Homoeopathic medicines. As always Shri Kanailal Mukhopadhyay came forward to publish this book and I am very grateful to him for this.

The amalgamation of Homoeopathy and Ayurveda itself is a revolutionary idea. There was a lot of criticism and adverse comments by purists of Homoeopathy as they thought that Homoeopathy was being ruined by such ideas. I am a Homoeopath and a staunch one at that. Still I feel that there is scope for research in this vast field which should not be overlooked. The experience of all the Homoeopaths prescribing by symptom similarity is not only laborious but also an unsuccessful attempt on the part of the common practitioner.

It is the good fortune of readers to have the little known subject of Tridosha first presented to them at the hands of one most proficient to do it. The size and scope of the book are of the author's own wish, it being inten- tional to keep the volume small and without adjunct of case histories. The method used in preparing it, we believe to have been dictated by considerations of other such works of the author's own land, methods followed perhaps by ancient writers in preparing the old aphoristic Upanishads. All further considerations of subject materials, such as commentaries, are left to a future time.

The author, Dr. Bhattacharyya, has been a practising homoeopath in India for thirty years. During this time many thousands of patients have been cured and benefited by him, the success attendant upon the long effort owing chiefly, he feels, to the consistent application of Tridosha to Homoeopathy. His desire now is that the theory of Tridosha will be carefully examined by all who are concerned in the bettering of public health, and that in due time Tridosha will fill its own place in the West. This is the living hope of the scholar who offers it.

How the book came to be written is soon told. Dr. Bhattacharyya edited for some years a journal known as "The Homoeopathic Bulletin", which was published at his charitable dispensary in Baroda, India. In its pages, over the course of its publication, he developed the theory of Tridosha seriatim. Some of the articles fell into the hands of well-wishers in the West. The new strange tenets of old Ayurvedic science could not have failed to rouse attention. Upon communicating our appreciation to him, we were favoured with the following unusual reply: "I am glad my writings have not been a cry in the wilderness and that by some mysterious chance, I have spoken to sympathetic ears.