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The Purple Coat Clinic
Integrative Medicine; Holistic Wellbeing


Bedwetting
Bedwetting or passing urine in the middle of the night is quite a common issue in children. There are two cases commonly seen: one where...
Shruti Sridhar
Sep 13, 20192 min read


Let your kids explore
The new parenting mantra seems to be “never keep your kids idle”. There is always a constant need to engage kids. One occupational...
Shruti Sridhar
Sep 6, 20193 min read


Aggressive behaviors in toddlers and children
Aggressive behaviors are not uncommon in toddlers and children and the aggressive spectrum can range from having mild resistance to frank...
Shruti Sridhar
Aug 22, 20192 min read


Tips to kick the flu naturally
Well, the flu season is here! Although monsoons are beautiful and romantic, one cannot help but fall sick more often in this weather. And...
Shruti Sridhar
Aug 9, 20193 min read


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...
Shruti Sridhar
Mar 15, 20194 min read


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....
Shruti Sridhar
Jan 8, 20192 min read


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....
Shruti Sridhar
Apr 6, 20186 min read


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...
Shruti Sridhar
Apr 5, 20182 min read


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...
Shruti Sridhar
Mar 18, 20182 min read


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...
Shruti Sridhar
Aug 13, 20162 min read


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...
Shruti Sridhar
Aug 4, 20163 min read


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...
Shruti Sridhar
Jul 16, 20164 min read


The Popeye myth
Iron = spinach = Popeye = strength That’s all we know about this fundamental element which is abundantly present in almost all life...
Shruti Sridhar
Jun 9, 20165 min read


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...
Shruti Sridhar
Apr 28, 20164 min read


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...
Shruti Sridhar
Apr 8, 20163 min read
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...
Shruti Sridhar
Apr 8, 20162 min read
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