Sensation method (Sankaran)

Domain XII · Complementary, energy & biofield · Rajan Sankaran · Mumbai

What it is

The Sensation Method is a school of individualised (classical) homeopathy developed by Rajan Sankaran, a homeopath practising since 1981 and based in Mumbai. Homeopathy itself is an alternative medical system developed in Germany over 200 years ago, built on the ideas that a substance producing…

Format

• Prescription and follow-up. A single remedy is selected from kingdom, subgroup and miasm; follow-up visits judge change. Session length, number and spacing:. (No potencies, preparations or administration are given in this guide.)
• Discovery (any session, especially intake): ask routinely, without judgement, and record. Goal: an accurate picture of all treatments in use. Move on when use is known.

Who practises it, and how they are trained or regulated

• Case-taking. The patient is asked to describe the chief complaint and then to describe it more precisely, and the homeopath asks the patient to elaborate on words that recur (in one published example, a recurring word such as "stabbing"). The homeopath notes the patient's own words and repeated hand gestures, which earlier homeopathic practice tended to overlook.
• Regulatory status: US: homeopathic remedies are regulated as drugs but, under current FDA policy, are not evaluated for safety or effectiveness, and the FTC requires the same evidence standard for their health claims as for other products. UK: there is no legal regulation of homeopathic practitioners; voluntary registers exist. India and other jurisdictions:.

Evidence status, as the guide reports it

• Evidence status: most rigorous trials and systematic reviews find little evidence that homeopathy is effective for any specific condition, and a 2015 Australian assessment found no condition with reliable supporting evidence; no method-specific trials of the Sensation Method are known.

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Is there physical contact? Was it explained beforehand, and do you feel free to say no or stop at any point?
• Does it involve any substance, plant preparation, remedy or supplement? Has your doctor or prescriber been told, especially about any medication you take?
• Does it involve intense or unusual breathing? Have you been told about the medical conditions for which that is not advised?
• Is it a group, retreat or community? How do they respond if someone wants to leave or raises a concern?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• : fear of the practitioner or group; retaliation concerns. Working: the client feels able to act and is protected.
• : the client asking you to endorse or adjust remedies; your own urge to persuade. Working: roles are clear to both of you.
• : escalation of consultations, new practitioners, new symptom labels. Working: fewer reassurance-driven consultations and lower preoccupation.
• : health anxiety triggered by disease-named terms (see 4.8). Working: the client's alarm settles and, where needed, they book a medical review.
• : secrecy, isolation from family, guilt about "doubting" the method. Working: medical review happens; spending and pressure are discussed openly.

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.