The Purple Coat Clinic

Dr. Shruti Sridhar

MBBS, MF HOM (UK), MPH (Hungary)

Homeopath, Nutritionist, Childbirth Educator

drshrutisridhar@gmail.com

+91 9096350273

Wakad, Pune

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The Wheat Germ

Dr. Shruti Sridhar

Mar 15, 2019
4 min

The Wheat Germ

In the age of fad diets and more and more people becoming sensitive to food allergens, there is a new trend starting with dieticians spreading the word on embracing our roots and cultural diets. These are supposed to be the foods eaten by our forefathers, native and endemic to region where we came from. In theory, this is how it should be and it is something each of us should be following. If that’s true then why do we today suffer from so many chronic illnesses and intoleran

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Toothache and Homeopathy

Dr. Shruti Sridhar

Jan 8, 2019
2 min

Toothache and Homeopathy

Homeopathy is widely used in various ailments, but it works wonderfully as a pain relief and sometimes even curative in dental issues. 1. Physiological toothache This happens when there is toothache but no pathological condition in the teeth or gums. It happens usually when the surrounding sinuses are inflamed and they put pressure on the teeth causing the pain. Physiological toothache is also seen as a referred pain in migraines and headaches. Dental visits in these cases ar

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Embrace your fever!

Dr. Shruti Sridhar

Apr 6, 2018
6 min

Embrace your fever!

The exclamation point in the title is a literal translation of my feelings and what I would always like to say to my near and dear ones. It took me more than just reading medical books to understand this phenomenon. So folks! It might be a little technical but I assure you that by the time you finish reading this; Fever will be your friend for life. Paracetamol (generic name acetaminophen) is one of the top grossing products of pharmaceutical companies with sales reaching $6.

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The Jenga Effect

Dr. Shruti Sridhar

Mar 18, 2018
2 min

The Jenga Effect

In medicine, we give a lot of importance to something called as cause-effect relationship. For more than a century we are trying to understand the “cause”of diseases. Tobacco causes cancer; herpes virus causes chicken pox; weight-gain causes diabetes etc. The list goes on and on. While this is what is presented to us readers, what they don’t tell us is that not all people who smoke tobacco get cancer and not all people infected with herpes zoster get chicken pox. Confused?? W

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From their perspective

Dr. Shruti Sridhar

Aug 12, 2016
2 min

From their perspective

The room is quiet, except for the intermittent beeping of the heart monitor. A young boy is confined to the hospital bed, barely breathing. He has lost a lot of fluid. The doctor, standing at the foot of the bed, lowers his head in anguish on reading the reports. It’s a resistant strain of E. coli; which means those 5 days of antibiotics has done nothing. He has to start a stronger one soon. The infection is spreading to the blood, he thought. The boy seems delirious, running

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Supporting though fever naturally

Dr. Shruti Sridhar

Aug 3, 2016
3 min

Supporting though fever naturally

This is a follow up to my blog: Embrace your fever! I hope that I have given you compelling arguments to question the use of antipyretics (acetaminophen, aspirin etc.) for treating fever in general. The next question obviously is how to manage fever. 1.Treat the cause Fever is just a symptom and is not the cause. It is a response of the body to any form of stress. This stress could be: physical (undue exertion, over-working, manual labour, sun stroke etc.), psychological (anx

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All you need to know about Dandruff

Dr. Shruti Sridhar

Jul 16, 2016
4 min

All you need to know about Dandruff

Which disorder affects almost 50% of our population and we know nothing about? It’s dandruff. It’s that flaky, powdery substance which behaves like a bad tenant who refuses to vacate the premises despite your many (failed) attempts. Two things have dawned on me during my research into this mystery: Dandruff is much more than just dry, scaly scalp; and We, including doctors, know nothing about how to get rid of it although there are many myths, propagated by the cosmetic indus

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Popping the Emergency Pill

Dr. Shruti Sridhar

Apr 28, 2016
3 min

Popping the Emergency Pill

“We have a tendency to look around at what others are doing and use them as a standard of comparison.” ― Barry Schwartz; The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less. The morning-after pill business has soared in the past few years throughout the world. The CDC reported a 10% increase in the use of morning-after pill in the United States between 2000 and 2010.1 Further, the maximum use was in the age group 20-24 years, with 77% of them having used emergency contraception at least

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Releasing the MSG trap

Dr. Shruti Sridhar

Apr 26, 2016
7 min

Releasing the MSG trap

“A half-truth is the most cowardly of lies.” – Mark Twain Story so far Monosodium glutamate or MSG or Aginomoto is a very commonly used food additive that makes our Pringles® so irresistible, our Chinese food so delicious and our parmesan so savoury. This indescribable taste is called “umami” or the 5th basic taste sense.1 By labeling MSG as a new taste in itself, the food industry has legitimized its use despite the toxicity concerns that emerged in the 1900s. The manufactur

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Asthma and allergies can be cured…..or can it?

Dr. Shruti Sridhar

Apr 7, 2016
3 min

Asthma and allergies can be cured…..or can it?

“Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm”- Hippocrates Allergy or hay fever is the inflammatory reaction of the respiratory system to an allergen. All allergic attacks initially begin as acute episodes of runny nose, watery eyes, itching etc. occurring periodically to one or more allergens. Here, I am excluding anaphylactic (severe) reactions to nuts, eggs etc. which are potentially life threatening. When this condition progresses and becomes more susta

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Dr. Shruti Sridhar

Apr 7, 2016
2 min

Are we outsmarting Darwinism?

Published in Homeopathic Medical Panorama (2016); Vol:22, no: 4 Charles Darwin coined the term “theory of natural selection” which became the basis for understanding evolution. The theory simply states that if you are genetically strong and are able to survive, you will procreate and create a stronger species. Eventually the weaklings will be weeded out making the race more adapted for survival. Not rocket science right? But humans have always been attempting to overpower nat

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