DO HOMEOPATHIC DRUGS CONTAIN STEROIDS ?

The answer is a definite '‘NO'’.
When appropriate Homeopathic medicines act fast & help acute conditions, people often ask or feel that the physicians are using steroids in the garb of Homoeopathy for quick results.
First of all, can steroid cure all the conditions? No, it will give only a palliative relief for the time being. Also, if you take steroids for a long time, it would induce puffiness of face ‘moon face’, excessive body hair, osteoporosis, weight increase etc. You can’t find in a single patient using Homeopathic drugs any of the above symptoms of steroid drugs. We don’t use any steroidal drugs since it is against the law of Homeopathy. i.e. steroid suppresses the immune mechanism where as Homeopathy stimulates the immune mechanism for expelling the disease.
The commonly performed test to find out steroids is the "Colorimetric Method test" which gives a false positive result for any reducing sugar & aldehyde. As you know, most homoeopaths use lactose as a base for holding the pills, containing the homeopathic remedy, together in the powders. The pills themselves are made of cane sugar, a reducing sugar. Moreover, almost all Homeopathic remedies have alcohol as a diluting agent. One can see how Homeopathic remedies, either as pills, powders or in alcohol, are likely to give a false positive test for steroids if this method is used. The best test to find out if the medicine contains steroids is the "Liberman Buchard" test, Thin Layer Chromatography Method & a UV Absorption Method. This method helps in differentiating & finding out if the substance indeed contains steroids.
Thus it is clear that before accepting a claim that the tested medicine does contain a steroid, one must find out what testing procedures were used to eliminate the possibility of a misleading result. Unsubstantiated allegations against any doctor or system of medicine are most unfair and damaging to his professional integrity and indeed to the profession.
Homeopathic medicines are completely safe and non-addictive. They can be used without any anxiety by anyone, including small babies, children, pregnant women, breast-feeding mothers, the elderly, and the chronically ill.