Radhe Shyam Pareek

Radhe Shyam Pareek is a homeopathic physician from Agra who has practised for more than sixty years. He was named for the Padma Shri in 2024 in the field of medicine, from Uttar Pradesh ^[1].

Physician and teacher

He was born on 25 March 1933 and graduated from the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital in 1956 ^[2]. He is the senior-most member of the International Homeopathic Medical League, an association of medically qualified homeopaths ^[2]. According to his citation, he has seen more than 23 lakh patients over his career ^[2].

Since 1960 he has presented his work in more than 20 countries, and his books have been translated into German, Russian and Italian ^[2]. Doctors from Europe attend his training seminars in Agra, and for two decades he has taught some 500 European doctors a year at seminars abroad ^[2].

Charitable work

Pareek founded the Sevakunj Mission Hospital at Poiya Ghat in Agra; it looks after 40 adopted villages, providing free health care, immunisation and awareness programmes ^[2]. He also runs free dispensaries at Govardhan, Radha Kund and Agra, where for 35 years he has seen patients each week, many of them monks and ascetics of the Braj region ^[2]. His foundation supports 100 widows at Radha Kund with monthly rations, and he has adopted a school for children of leprosy patients in Agra ^[2].

In 2012 Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Agra, awarded him an honorary DSc ^[2].