Dr. Pratibha Yadav — (Gold medalist) Homoeopathic Physician

The story is usually similar. A child on their fifth course of antibiotics this year. An adult carrying antacids everywhere for three years. A young woman told her periods will regularise if she simply takes hormone tablets indefinitely. Someone whose eczema clears with a steroid cream and returns the week it stops.

None of those treatments are wrong — they control symptoms, and sometimes that is exactly what is needed. But when a problem keeps coming back, controlling the symptom is not the same as changing the tendency behind it. Homoeopathy works at that second level, which is slower, quieter, and far more satisfying when it works.

Ujjivan Homoeopathy was set up around one practical idea: give the patient enough time to be understood properly. The first consultation takes about 60 minutes because the remedy that will help you is hidden in the details — what makes your pain worse, what time of day your symptoms peak, how you sleep, what you crave, how you respond to stress, what ran in your family. No questionnaire captures that. A conversation does.

Ujjivan means ‘Revival’, ‘Bringing back to life’. It is an ambitious name for a small clinic, and it is meant as a standard to be held to rather than a promise to be made.