Dr. Prasanta Banerji Homoeopathic Research Foundation

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Results of Treatment of 30288 Malignant Tumour Cases (1990 – 2008)
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Results of treatment of 1132 cases of Lung Cancer, Brain Tumours and Oesophageal Cancers (Aug 2006 – Aug 2007)
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Malignant Tumors chart 2009
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Please find below the list of holidays of the PBHRF Clinic.
 

>> 26th of January [Republic Day]

>> Saraswati Puja

>> Holi

>> Poila Boisakh ( Bengali New Year's Day)

>> 15th of August [Independence Day]

 

Puja Break*

Usually from Sasthi for 2 weeks.

 

Christmas Break *

Usually from the 25th of December till the 1st of January

 

*exact dates are usually put up in the beginning of September each year.

Welcome to our Newsroom—the place to find our latest news releases,published articles and inhouse publications.

 

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In this section you will get an overview of the Banerji Protocol of Treatment, with brief introductions about the general practices, definitions, facts and myths about Homeopathy. Kindly click on the links in the right to browse through the section.

The Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation is an accredited Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (SIRO) by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), Government of India, and has been so since 2003.

The foundation was set up in the year 1993 with the following Board of Trustees:

Dr. Prasanta Banerji, Founder and Managing Trustee.
Dr. Pratip Banerji, Co-Founder and Deputy Managing Trustee
Mrs. Krishna Banerji, Trustee
Dr. Apurba Dey, Trustee
Mr. Ashis Ghosal, Trustee

Since the sad demise of our guiding light, Mrs. Krishna Banerji, on the 11th of September 2006, Mrs. Rinku Banerji has been inducted into her place as Trustee.

Late Smt. Krishna Banerji
Late Smt. Krishna Banerji

Free Facilities

In Kolkata, where the Foundation is headquartered and where its trustees operate as practising homoeopaths, pathological tests, CT Scans, MRIs, ECGs, etc. are conducted and their costs borne by the Foundation with a view to help underprivileged patients.

Morning Clinic

The Ashutosh Mukherjee Road Clinic

Dr. Pratip Banerji at the clinic

This clinic is a fully charitable one. Daily attendance of patients is approximately 300 – 400. This clinic is attended by the Deputy Managing Trustee, Dr. Pratip Banerji. Here, each and every patient is examined personally by him. No consultation fees are charged to any patient. This is done for the purpose of service to the less than privileged, as it is common knowledge that India is a developing nation and needs all the charitable service that can be given.

Pratip Banerji

Co-Founder & Deputy Managing Trustee, PBHRF

Dr. Pratip BanerjiDr Pratip Banerji, the fourth generation homeopath in the family, did his post graduation from London College of Classical Homoeopathy. After post graduation, Pratip was invited to appear before the Board of the British Registrar of Complementary Physicians, which he did. Thereafter he received a letter from the Board asking him to give the address of the place where Pratip would like to set up his practice in the UK, so that the Board could refer patients to him. But Pratip returned to India to set up his own practice in Calcutta to follow the footsteps of his father and serve his countrymen. He further completed his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from the JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth (Deemed University), Udaipur, India.

 

Dr. Pratip Banerji brought scientific approach and international standards to allow verifiability of their research data. The process of data accrual and documentation according to the highest international standards was introduced by him. This has made their research acceptable to the international scientific community. His vision into the future of homeopathy has greatly encouraged the PBHRF in its research collaborations with premier international scientific establishments thus gaining a foothold for homeopathy in the international mainstream medical platform.

 

Keeping in view the family tradition to give medical aid to the under privileged and never to loose contact with one’s grass root, Pratip runs a charitable clinic where patients are treated for free. The charitable clinic is an institution by itself, especially in a developing country like India where 90% of the population is below the poverty line.

Prasanta Banerji

Founder & Managing Trustee, PBHRF

Dr. Prasanta BanerjiDr. Prasanta Banerji is famed for establishing 'The Banerji Protocol' of treatment. A protocol that has brought lucidity and user friendliness into a treatment form using ultra dilutional medicines. He made the treatment form easy to learn and practice and this has allowed replicability in science. It is due to his sole efforts in this respect, that the modern scientific establishment has recognized and accepted the 'The Banerji Protocols' of treatment using ultra-dilutional medicines into mainstream healthcare.

Dr. Prasanta Banerji is a consultant physician educated at the Mihijam Institute of Homeopathy Medical College and Hospital (MIHMCH), received Institute Fellowship in 1956, runs a clinic having an average daily attendance of 1000-1200 patients, with a team of doctors.

Dr. Prasanta Banerji has been an Honorary Advisor to the Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, as a member of a key advisory group of experts, and also of an apex committee. Dr. Banerji has also been a Member of the Program Advisory Committee for the National Cancer Control Programme of the Goverment of India's Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Scientific Papers published:

  1. Paper entitled “Cytotoxic effects of ultra-diluted remedies on breast cancer cells” published in the International Journal of Oncology, DOI: 10.3892/ijo_00000512, July 23 2009, paper jointly authored byMoshe Frenkel, Bal Mukund Mishra, Subrata Sen, Peiying Yang, Alison Pawlus, Luis Vence, Aimee Leblanc, Lorenzo Cohen, Pratip Banerji and Prasanta Banerji
  2. Paper entitled “A protocol of ultradiluted medicines for application in space missions and extraterrestrial settlements” has been accepted for publication in the prestigious space journal Acta Astronautica published by Elsevier B.V., United Kingdom, in March 2009, paper jointly authored by Banerji Pratip and Banerji Prasanta…accepted for publication…in process.
  3. Paper entitled “Cancer patients treated with The Banerji Protocols utilizing homoeopathic medicine: A Best Case Series Program of the National Cancer Institute USA”., Prasanta Banerji, Donald R. Campbell and Pratip Banerji;Oncology Reports 20: 69-74, 2008.
  4. Paper entitled “Ruta 6 selectively induces cell death in brain cancer cells but proliferation in normal peripheral blood lymphocytes: A novel treatment for human brain cancer.” published in the International Journal of Oncology, in October 2003, paper jointly authored by Pathak S and Multani AS (Department of Molecular Genetics, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, USA.) Banerji Pratip and Banerji Prasanta.
  5. A Paper Entitled “Intracranial Cysticercosis: An effective treatment with alternative medicines” published in “In Vivo” of the International Institute of Anticancer Research. Volume 15, Issue No. 2, 2001.


Invited Lectures in International Symposia:

New Brunswick, USA June 2007: Presented an invited paper at The Rutgers University Symposium on Lunar Settlements entitled, “Possible Use Of Ultra-Diluted Medicines For Health Problems During Lunar Missions.

Papers/Posters presented in Scientific Conferences and Meetings:

  1. Buffalo – USA: Full day seminar, homeopaths and students about Homeopathy and Cancer at Daemen College and Himalayan Institute, Amherst, 29th October 2011, entitled,”The Banerji Protocol: Simplifying Homeopathy”
  2. Buffalo – USA: Faculty Forum, by special invitation at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York, USA, on the 26th October 2011 entitled,”“The Banerji Protocols: The Regression Of Malignant Tumours by a Non-invasive and Non-toxic Oral Medical Approach”
  3. Toronto – Canada: Canadian Homeopathic Conference Toronto, Ontario, Canada, invited speaker, 22nd of October 2011, entitled, ““The Banerji Protocols: The Regression Of Malignant Tumours by a Non-invasive and Non-toxic Oral Medical Approach”
  4. Tsukuba – Japan: JPHMA Homoeopathy International Charity Conference on 8, 9 and 10 October 2011, invited speaker, presentation entitled, ““The Banerji Protocols: The Regression Of Malignant Tumours by a Non-invasive and Non-toxic Oral Medical Approach”
  5. Tokyo – Japan: 2 day practical workshop course and teaching seminar for physicians and at the College of Holistic Homeopathy (CHhom), Tokyo, entitled, “The Banerji Protocols: Simplifying Homeopathy”.
  6. Nagpur, 17th July 2011 – invited and delivered lecture entitled “The Banerji Protocols: Homeopathy of the 21st Century” at the seminar of Lokmath Knowledge Series organized by Lokmath group of News Paper.
  7. 27th February 2011, Ranchi – invited and delivered lecture entitled “ Immunotherapy with Banerji Protocols” at the seminar on New perspectives in Homeopathic practice organized by SBL.
  8. Spain, Zaragoza, Prescribo Homeopatia – conference organized by Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Zaragoza invited speaker on 6th November, 2010, presented oral presentation entitled “Banerji Protocols: Research Projects and articles published”.
  9. Madrid – Spain , AEFHOM (Asociacion Espanola de Farmacenticos Homeopatas) at the Fundacion Instituto Homeopatico Y Hospited de San Jose, on 5th November 2010 invited speaker, presented oral presentation entitled : “ Immunotherapy with Banerji Protocols”.
  10. Portugal, October 2010, two days (30th & 31st October, 2010) teaching seminar for homeopathic doctors at Escola De Medicinas Alternativas e Complimentares (EMAC) Oporto, Portugal entitled “ The Banerji Protocols: Simplifying Homeopathy”.
  11. Spain, invited speaker on 29th October, 2010, presented oral presentation entitled, “The Banerji Protocols: Homeopathy of the 21st Century” at the opening ceremony of the Master in Natural Medicine at The University of Santiago De Compostela (USC), Spain.
  12. Singapore, The BIT’s 3rd Annual World Cancer Congress 2010: invited speaker, 22nd to 25th June 2010, presented oral presentation entitled, “The Banerji Protocols: Disease-Specific Ultra-diluted Medicines for the Treatment of Lung Cancer”.
  13. Singapore, The BIT’s 3rd Annual World Cancer Congress 2010: invited speaker, 22nd to 25th June 2010, presented oral presentation entitled, “The Banerji Protocols: Disease-Specific Ultra-dilute Medicines for the Treatment of Brain Tumors”.
  14. New York, November 2009: invited speaker at the Society of Integrative Oncology’s conference, Revitalizing Cancer Care: Comprehensive Interdisciplinary Programs and Whole Systems Research, November 12 - 13, 2009, at The New York Academy of Medicine, New York. Presented paper entitled, “The Banerji Protocols: Disease-Specific Homeopathic Medicines for Primary Treatment of Cancer”
  15. Madrid, Spain, 1st November 2009: invited speaker at scientific conference organized by D’Salud “The Banerji Protocols: A review of the use of it in daily practice”.
  16. Madrid, Spain, 31st October 2009: 1 day theoretical course for physicians and pharmacists (BOIRON) at the Conference Center, entitled “The Banerji Protocols: A review of the use of it in daily practice”.
  17. Madrid, Spain, 30th October 2009: 1 day theoretical course for physicians and pharmacists (AEFHOM) at the Homeopathic Hospital, entitled “The Banerji Protocols: Simplifying Homeopathy”.
  18. Tokyo, Japan, July 2009: 3 days practical workshop course and teaching seminar for physicians at the Royal Academy of Homeopathy Tokyo, entitled, “The Banerji Protocols: Simplifying Homeopathy”.
  19. May 2009: Poster Presentation entitled “Treatment of primary malignant gliomas and meningiomas with ruta/calc phos” – at The 3rd Quadrennial Meeting of the World Federation of Neuro-Oncology, jointly with the 6th Meeting of the Asian Society for Neuro-Oncology (ASNO) at Yokohama, Japan.
  20. January 2009: Invited lecture entitled, “Contemporary thoughts, needs and the Sublimation of Homeopathy” at the SBL, Scientific Seminar, by Dr. Prasanta and Dr. Pratip Banerji.
  21. November 2008 : Poster Presentation entitled “A Community – Based Protocol for Brain Tumour Treatment: Ruta and Calc Phos – at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Society of Neuro-Oncology at Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, by Prasanta Banerji, Pratip Banerji along with Dr. Barbara Sarter of the USC at Las Vegas.
  22. November 2008, Poster Presentation entitled, “Homeopathic Protocol to Retard Progression of Chronic Renal Failure” by Prasanta Banerji, Pratip Banerji along with Dr. Barbara Sarter of the USC at Puerto Rico.
  23. Valladolid, Spain, November 2008: 3 days theoretical course for physicians at the Medicine University of Valladolid, entitled “The Banerji Protocols: Simplifying Homeopathy”.
  24. Barcelona, Spain, November 2008: 3 days practical workshop course for physicians at the Colegio Oficial de Médicos de Barcelona COMB (Medical Association), entitled, “The Banerji Protocols: Simplifying Homeopathy”.
  25. Tenerife Island, Spain, November 2008: 3 days teaching seminar at Colegio Oficial Médicos de Santa Cruz, entitled “The Banerji Protocols: Simplifying Homeopathy”.
  26. Kos, Greece, October 2008: 8th International Conference of Anticancer Research: MainSpeakers allotted 20 minutes for presentation entitled, “The Banerji Protocols: The Regression Of Malignant Tumours By A Non-Invasive And Non-Toxic Oral Medical Approach”.
  27. Madrid, Spain, September 2008: IV Congreso Internacional de Medicinas Naturale: Invited Speakers allotted 1 hour 15 minutes for presentation entitled, “The Banerji Protocols: A Necessity for the Progress of Homeopathy”.
  28. Valladolid, Spain, May 2008: III Congreso Nacional de Homeopatia, at the Facultad de Medicina de Valladolid: Invited Speakers allotted 1 hour 30 minutes for presentation entitled, “The Banerji Protocols: Simplifying Homeopathy for the betterment of suffering humanity”.
  29. Toronto, Canada May 2007: Poster Presentation at the American Society of Microbiology’s 107th Annual General Meeting entitled. “Bitter Orange may be used to treat patients with Anti-Fungal Drug Resistant Candida Infection.”
  30. Poster presentation on preventive medicine for brain tumors at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuro-Oncology at Orlando, USA, in November 2006.
  31. June 2006: Poster presentation abstracts accepted by the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), for presentation at the 12th International Congress for Infectious Diseases (ICID), Lisbon, Portugal, entitled: “Antifungal activities of bitter orange on resistant Candida spp.”
  32. June 2006: Poster presentation abstracts accepted by the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID), for presentation at the 12th International Congress for Infectious Diseases (ICID), Lisbon, Portugal, entitled: “Reactivity of different Salmonella antigens with alcoholic extracts of different plants”.
  33. Mumbai Feb 2006: Presented at the 25th Annual Convention Of The Indian Association For Cancer Research & Silver Jubilee Symposium On Molecular Profiling And Cancer Management a paper entitled “Regression of malignant tumours following a new method of treatment utilizing homeopathic medicines”.
  34. Corfu, Greece, 2004: Invited speaker at the 5th International Conference of Anticancer Research.
  35. New Delhi 2001: Indian Science Congress – Millennium 2001: Presented co-authored paper entitled: “Malignant Tumors: A Homeopathic Approach”.
  36. New Delhi 2001: Indian Science Congress – Millennium 2001: the theme paper of the conference entitled: “Homeopathic treatment of Tuberculosis”.
  37. Arlington, VA, USA 2000: Comprehensive Cancer Care 2000. Presented 2 papers, one on the regression of malignant tumors by homeopathic medicines, and gave another presentation on behalf of the National Cancer Institute on their “Best Case Series”.
  38. In July 1999, presented “Best Case Series” on cancer before the Cancer Advisory Panel Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAPCAM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda. Presentation was accepted by the panel “…tumour regressions were very striking and unusual…”
  39. Attiki, Greece, 1997: Presented paper on regression of Bronchogenic Carcinomas by homeopathic medicine.
  40. Corfu, Greece, 1995: Invited speaker at the 5th International Conference of Anticancer Research, “Regression of Brain Tumour by Medicine”
  41. Presented papers at International Conferences in Athens, 1977; Hamburg, 1979; Acapulco, 1980; Rio de Janeiro, 1986; Athens, 1988; Cologne, 1991; Cordoba, 1992; etc


Published Monographs:

  1. 2006: The Banerji Protocol ~ A new method of treatment of brain tumors with Ruta and Calcarea Phosphorica ~ Prasanta and Pratip Banerji

Popular Lectures delivered:

  1. Houston, 15th July 2008: Was invited by The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Integrative Medicine Program, to deliver a Special Lecture entitled: “Banerji Protocol” of Cancer Treatment with Ultradilutional Doses of Homeopathic Medicines: “National Cancer Institute Best Case Series” Program Validated Case Reports and Ongoing Experimental Studies,
  2. New Jersey, June 2007: Was invited to a seminar specially organised for them by the Central NJ Brain Tumor Support Group and presented on the regression of brain tumors.
  3. April, 2007: Was invited to a seminar specially organised for them by Brain Cancer Support group in Madrid, Spain and presented on the regression of brain tumors.
  4. Were invited to give a presentation on the treatment of brain tumors by the University of Southern California which took place at the University of Southern California, Zilkha Neurogenetics Institute, Herklotz Seminar Room, 112, U.S.C. Keck School of Medicine in November 2006.
  5. Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey, 2005: Presented at a seminar specially organised for them.


Experience with cancer

  • Is in practice for the last 55 years.
  • Consults only at the Elgin Road Clinic and sees approximately 50 to 60 cancer cases a day over and above his general practice. This is done with the help of a team of very able assistant physicians.
  • Of these 50 to 60 cases, 25 to 30 would be new cases.








Prasanta Banerji

Founder & Managing Trustee, PBHRF

Dr. Prasanta BanerjiPRASANTA is the second son of Pareshnath Banerji. He passed his I.SC from Vidyasagar College, Kolkata and then studied in the INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY, Mihijam. After getting his fellowship from the Institute in 1956 he became a full-fledged doctor and practiced in his father’s clinic at MIHIJAM, Bihar. Around 1958 it occurred to him that a wider field would give him more scope to utilize his knowledge of Homoeopathy all over the country and benefit the teeming millions to avail of the opportunities for cheaper means of treatment for the cure of their illness. He thought of Calcutta as a venue for his practice. Prasanta Banerji migrated to Kolkata in the year 1958 and established a clinic. By 1986, the pressure of work made it a necessity for him to establish a second clinic.

 

Dr. Prasanta Banerji inculcated the same prescription form as introduced by his father Dr. Pareshnath, modified and improved it into a concrete treatment form bringing lucidity and user friendliness in homeopathy. He made homeopathy easier to learn and practice thus demystifying it. This allowed replicability in the science. It is due to his sole efforts in this respect, that the modern scientific establishment has finally recognized and accepted the Banerji protocol of treatment using homeopathic medicines into mainstream healthcare.

 

Dr. Prasanta Banerji is Honorary Advisor to the Hon’ble Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and is also on the Programme Advisory Committee (PAC) for National Cancer Control Programme (NCCP), Government of India.

The aim of the PBH Research Foundation is to establish “The Banerji Protocol’ as a scientific and effective mode of medicine. This Foundation offers comprehensive health care as well as gives scientific establishment to bring the treatment form to its rightful position as the medicine of the masses.

The PBHRFThe Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation is located in the heart of the busy city of Kolkata, India.

The area that the research foundation uses for its office is located in the premises of 10/3/1 A Elgin Road, Kolkata 700020, India, which houses the clinic of Dr. Prasanta Banerji and Dr. Pratip Banerji.

Our team consists of the principal doctors, very able, fully qualified assistant physicians – who help the principal doctors to deal with the large volume of patients, office executives and data entry personnel – who are the essential for the documentation and administration of the clinics, medicine compounders - and other staff i.e. Cleaners, Security etc. Each play their role and are essential to the functioning of the institution.

Satellite Clinic

Since 1993, the Foundation has consciously endeavoured to extend homoeopathic treatment facilities to underprivileged people in rural and semi-urban areas outside Kolkata – by encouraging trained homoeopaths attached to the clinic to practice and attend patients on fixed days of the week, during fixed hours in these areas. The opening of these clinics has helped spread awareness about homoeopathy, and also brought proper homoeopathic treatment facilities closer to people, who have really needed them – mainly on account of their low costs. Moreover, patients living in areas near these clinics who earlier used to go to Kolkata for treatment by the Foundation’s homoeopaths, have also been greatly benefited.

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Homeopathy as a system of medicine is only about two hundred years old. Of these two hundred years, the Banerji family has been associated with it for over hundred and fifty years.

Homeopathy was a phenomenon started in Germany by Samuel Christian Friedrich Hahnemann. It came to India in 1810 with the German missionaries who treated the poor charitably and converted many to Christianity. About mid- 1800, Bengal had a “Renaissance d'art”, literature and culture and great intellectuals like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya, Abanindranath Tagore and Swami Vivekananda. They helped transform the Indian civilization to great heights and awaken the Indian Freedom movement with their writings, speech and debates. These intellectuals were also the beneficiaries of the early homeopathic medicinal treatments brought to India.

 

Pundit Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820-1891)

Pundit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar- Pundit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, Sanskrit scholar, educator, reformer, writer and philanthropist from Bengal, was considered to be one of the greatest intellectuals and activists of the nineteenth century. He was born in the Banerji family at the village of Birsingha in Midnapore district of Bengal.

Vidyasagar suffered from intense migraine headaches and was treated in Kolkata by homeopathic medicines prescribed by Babu Rajen Dutta, an aristocrat who studied homeopathy from the Germans and the French, following Hahnemann’s ideology. Vidyasagar was so impressed by the results that he persuaded his brother, Ishan Chandra, to take an interest in this treatment form, and take up the learning of homeopathy and treat the very poor of their village as a charitable enterprise. He believed that in the field of social reform, the poor and downtrodden needed medical aid for cure of their illnesses and at a cheaper cost. He was convinced that homeopathy was the answer.

 


Ishan Chandra (unknown -1903)

ISHAN CHANDRA, youngest brother of Pundit Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar took interest in the learning of homeopathy and supported his elder brother to spread this mode of treatment. His interest in homeopathy spurred him to study the science. Thereafter he started a charitable practice for the socially less-than-privileged and practiced it till his death in 1903.

 

Dr. Pareshnath Banerji  (1891 – 1971)

Ishan Chandra’s son PARESH NATH BANERJI started homeopathic practice at Mihijam, a quiet village in the state of Bihar in India. He was a saintly man and his name and fame attracted patients of neighboring villages and gradually spread all over India and even outside the country so much so that he was known as “RISHI” (the sage) as he embodied the qualities of a saint for his honesty, humanity and above all his feeling for the less-than-privileged and the downtrodden in Mihijam and the rest of the Indian populace.

His patients included such notable names such as Presidents Rajendra Prasad, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. The fame of Pareshnath spread throughout India and the neighboring countries.

Research in Homeopathy and the introduction of Homeopathic medicinal mixtures in India are due to the Late Dr. Pareshnath Banerji of Mihijam, a nephew of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar, the social reformer and educationist.

 


Dr. Prasanta Banerji

Dr. Prasanta BanerjiBorn in Jamalpur, Bihar, on October 17, 1933, Prasanta is the second son of Pareshnath Banerji. As a student he assisted his father to cope with the huge number of patients who came for treatment every day to the Mihijam. He passed his I.Sc from Vidyasagar College, Calcutta and then he studied in the INSTITUTE OF HOMOEOPATHY, Mihijam. After getting his fellowship from the Institute in 1956 he became a full-fledged doctor and practised in his father’s clinic at MIHIJAM, Bihar. Around 1958 it occurred to him that a wider field would give him more scope to utilise his knowledge of Homoeopathy all over the country and benefit the teeming millions to avail of the opportunities for cheaper means of treatment for the cure of their illness. He thought of Calcutta as a venue for his practice. Dr. Prasanta Banerji migrated to Calcutta in the year 1958 and established a clinic in Kolkata. By 1986, the pressure of work made it a necessity to establish a second clinic.

Dr. Prasanta Banerji inculcated the same prescription form as introduced by his father Dr. Pareshnath, modified and improved it into a concrete treatment form bringing lucidity and user friendliness in homeopathy.

The long family experience with millions of clinical trials and the use of modern diagnostic tools such as detailed blood examinations, X-rays, CAT Scans, MRI techniques further helped the treatments of Prasanta Banerji. He standardized the techniques and medicinal applications for particular ailments with fixed ingredients and doses and started keeping detailed records of the patients and their treatments. He found very positive results in the cure and remission of brain, stomach and esophagus tumors with homeopathic treatments without any invasive process such as surgery.

 


Dr. Pratip Banerji

Dr. Pratip BanerjiPratip Banerji, the fourth generation homeopath of the family, is the only son of Dr. Prasanta Banerji. Pratip took an active interest in Homeopathy since adolescence. He was born in 1964, January 16 in Mihijam, Bihar, India. He did his BHMS (CU) from the D. N. De Homeopathic Degree College and Hospital, Calcutta – placed 2nd in the University with Honours in Pathology and Materia Medica. Pratip did his Post Graduation from the London College of Classical Homeopathy, and was awarded PG.LCCH with Diploma in Teachers Training. After post graduation, Pratip was invited to appear before the Board of the British Registrar of Complementary Physicians, which he did. Thereafter he received a letter from the Board asking him to give the address of the place where Pratip would like to set up his practice in the UK, so that the Board could refer patients to him. But Pratip returned to India to set up his practice in Calcutta to follow the footsteps of his father and serve his countrymen.

 

He further completed his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) from the JRN Rajasthan Vidyapeeth (Deemed University), Udaipur, India.

 

Deputy Managing Trustee of the PBHR Foundation, Pratip has presented and co authored many scientific papers in various international conferences along with his father Prasanta Banerji. He has set up his own practice in Kolkata and also runs a charitable clinic, started by his father, Prasanta Banerji. The clinic is an institution by itself, especially in a developing country like India where 90% of the population are below the poverty line.

 

The PBHRFIn interaction with the masses of patients the Drs. Prasanta and Pratip Banerji often came across people who are grossly under privileged. These patients are quite incapable of treating themselves to expensive investigative devices like CT scans, MRIs, ECG or even a comparatively reasonable test like a blood test. In aid of such people and also for the sake of accuracy in the treatment, it was decided to finance these pathological tests. Thus in 1992, Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation was set up.

Dr. Prasanta and Pratip Banerji floated the Homeopathic Research Foundation called Prasanta Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation (PBHRF) dedicated to their patients in the year 1993. The PBHRF uses the modern day scientific approach to find trends, cures, effects and behavior of various diseases.

The aim of this foundation is to establish Homeopathy as a scientific and effective mode of Medicine. This Foundation offers comprehensive health care as well as scientific establishment to bring Homeopathy to its rightful position as the medicine of the masses.