About
A physician who wanted the principles made plain.
Dr. Shefali Naidu’s path runs through a homoeopathic college in Nagpur, consulting rooms in Wardha, the civil services examinations, and a book written so that doubt could be met with a fair explanation.
Once a sceptic herself, she became convinced of homoeopathy through real clinical work. She reads Hahnemann closely, and she has gone back to the roots of the science with a wish to understand it rather than to advertise it. Patients in different states of India have consulted her in person and online.
The book grew from that same impulse. While talking with patients she felt how much doubt still surrounds the basic tenets. She spent about two years setting those principles down for a general reader, including the limits of what homoeopathy should claim.
“I have befriended the failures, defended the goals, envisioned the future and motivated the soul.”
Education
2004–2010
Bachelor of Homoeopathic Medicine and Surgery
Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik. The degree was taken at Antarbharti Homoeopathic Medical College, Nagpur.
Clinical research
Postgraduate diploma
A postgraduate diploma in Clinical Research, dated 2009 on the book and associated on her public profile with Zefe Labs. A diploma in the same field is also recorded with AECRT, Nagpur.
2024
Medical Neuroscience
A certificate from Duke University, issued in March 2024.
Registration
2015
Maharashtra Council of Homoeopathy
Registered as a homoeopathic physician.
2020
Central Council of Homoeopathy
Registration as a homoeopathic physician, as listed on her public profile.
A parallel preparation
Alongside clinical work she sat the civil services examinations. She cleared the prelims of the Maharashtra Public Service Commission four times in a row from 2012. In the Union Public Service Commission examination she cleared both the preliminary and main stages and reached the interview. She was also selected for administrative studies at the State Institute for Administrative Careers, Mumbai.
Now
She lives in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The clinic she built in Wardha was later entrusted to another homoeopathic physician. Her present hope is pure research on the roots of homoeopathy, continuing the clarification begun in the book.