The Beginning

It all started at the age of 17. I started practicing homoeopathy. It just happened. No divine inspiration, but maybe divine intervention. It came naturally. It was fun and fun keeps you going until ...

Homoeopathy became a part my life. A gift of life. Gratitude for a gift came to be the driving force for my efforts. It is the little things in life which give the deciding impetus. My father, Dr. Santosh Kumar Roy, showed me (us), in small doses, the power and grace of homoeopathy. A magical world full of wonders. He was a born story-teller. That’s how I learned homoeopathy from his passionately told tales of healing. In India, even today, people with the most severe diseases do go to a homoeopath. In those days I went to the villages and treated all kinds of cases – cholera, typhoid, encephalitis, rheumatism, asthma. Very soon the desire to gather and structure all the important knowledge gained took hold of me. Success did not come that easy any more as in the early days of fun where God, unknown to me, had taken over. God steps aside and you have to work hard. My father always said you need a good repertory to be successful. I soon saw the need for a truly good repertory. A long road lay before me.

That has been the basis of the inspiration to build up a practically oriented and reliable work.

About Ravi Roy

Ravi Roy, DHMS, was born on April 28, 1950 into a homeopathic family in India. Ravi Roy has over 40 years of experience in the field of homoeopathy. Under the tutelage of his renowned father, Dr. S. K. Roy, he started practicing homoeopathy at the age of 17 in the villages of India. At that early age, the experiences of treating some of the most severe diseases positively marked his life. He came to Germany in 1976 to study the works of Hahnemann in the original language. He is married to Carola Lage-Roy, heilpraktikerin, homoeopath, and discoverer of the Chakraflower Essences. Together they have written over 30 books on Homoeopathy, some translated into seven languages. Their two best sellers Homoeopathic Family Home-Care and Homoeopathic Travellers Guide are also available in English. In 1980 he offered the first comprehensive course in homoeopathy in German-speaking countries and since then has been teaching homoeopathy. His self-study course in Homoeopathy in the German language comprises of over 3.500 pages and CD’s. In 2003, Dr. Roy founded *Surya*, a non-profit homoeopathic association which among other things publishes the Surya Journal. Since 2005 he has also directed the Asthanga Homoeopathic Project in India.