Yes to Dr Nik Omar
A British Journalist
Courtesy From Wings of Gold
Malaysian Airline Inflight Magazine
The waiting room of Dr Nik Omar's clinic is busy. A school
boy whose asthma cleared up within a day of taking homeopathic remedy has come
back for some medicine to treat cold. A young woman is waiting for pregnancy
check up and to start a course of medicine for any easy birth. A man whose
sever migraines vanished after been treated by Dr Nik six months ago has
dropped in to pick up a repeat prescription.
For them, there is no question that homeopathy
works. Like many of Dr Nik's patients, they show little concern about how or
why it is effective. Only a few of the people in his waiting room say that they
have come because homeopathy uses natural substances. More stress the fact that
it is cheap. One elderly man, partially paralysed and walking with a stick,
says that since his last heart attack, there is nothing more his doctor can do
for him, homeopathy is his last hope.
Dr Nik Omar does not fit the stereotype
of dedicated healer quietly pioneering his art. He is too bullish. Both his
colleagues and his rivals acknowledge his tremendous energy. All recognize that
he, more than anyone, is responsible for raising homeopathy medicine profile in
Malaysia.
Dr Nik has written hundreds of articles
about his work. He is an active member of the international homeopathic
community. In 1979 he set up his own version of French medical volunteer
force, Medecine Sans Forntiers. He called his, Homeopathic
Doctors Without Barriers. He says that his mission in life is to bring
homeopathic medicine to every Malaysian man, woman and child.
Dr Nik has training in both conventional and
homeopathic medicine. He studied both subjects for five years at Pakistan
Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Lahore, before going to Britain to
train at London School of Chiropody, University College Hospital.
Homeopathy and acupuncture has always been his
primary interest. When he returned to Malaysia in 1977, it was homeopathic
practice, not a chiropody clinic, that he set up in his home town of Kota
Bharu.
Currently, he is conducting a study of infertility with
homeopathy medicine, which has brought one of his most celebrated successes. He
tells of a couple who had been married for 12 years without having children
until in desperation, they came to him." They have tried everything from
faith healing to intensive tests at local hospital," he says, "
within only three months of counseling and homeopathic medications, the woman's
pregnancy was confirmed."
Dr Nik prepares his own medicines from
ingredients imported from Europe and the States. That he has any results at all
seem miraculous. The dosages are tiny and natural.
Dr Nik does not, however, dismiss the need for
conventional treatment. " No system of medicine has the right to claim it
can cure everything, "he says." If someone's appendix is about to
bust, they must have surgery. But if a disease is caught early enough, and
treated with homeopathy treatment, then surgery would became almost
redundant."
Despite the claims being made by Dr Nik and
numerous other homeopathic doctors in Malaysia and else where, homeopathy has
yet to be welcomes by the orthodox medical establishment with open arms. For
him, the proof of the pudding is in the patients.
- Malaysian Airline magazine, January 1996 -
Please Note:
Prof Nik Omar is considered as one of the best homeopathic
and acupuncturist in Malaysia.
