Anushka Sharma's Re-Post On Homeopathy Sparks Backlash, The Liver Doc Calls Her 'Illiterate Celeb'

Actor Anushka Sharma’s endorsement of homeopathy has sparked a long-running debate around the alternative medical system, drawing strong reactions from both supporters and critics on social media.

The discussion began after Anushka Sharma shared a video featuring homeopathic physician Rajan Sankaran in conversation with entrepreneur Namita Thapar. In her post, the actor credited homeopathy and Sankaran with influencing her personal health journey.
“Homeopathy played an important role in my life and Dr Rajan Sankaran has been a key part of that journey. I deeply value his insights on health and mindful living,” Sharma wrote.

The video focused on the role of homeopathy within modern healthcare and argued for cooperation between different medical

systems rather than competition. During the discussion, Sankaran said homeopathy should be viewed as part of a broader treatment ecosystem and acknowledged that every medical system has limitations. “Homeopathy doesn’t treat conditions, it treats people. By treating people it heals them. By healing the human, their pathology also heals. Homeopathy can treat everybody. But can it cure everybody? Like every system it has limitations. Because modern medicine does not have long-term solutions, multiple solutions for multiple sclerosis, allergies eczema, so these are all illnesses for which I would say even modern medical doctors refer their patients for homeopathy. We are living in an era of integrated medicine. We are not here to prove the superiority or inferiority. It’s not either or anymore . We need to know the strengths and limitations of each system,” he said.

Hepatologist Cyriac Abby Philips, widely known online as The Liver Doc, who has been one of homeopathy’s most vocal critics, slammed the video shared by Anushka Sharma and took aim at all three public figures associated with it. Referring to Rajan Sankaran, Namita Thapar and Anushka Sharma, he described them as a “triangle of shame.” “Supplement Seller – Legalized Quack – Illiterate Celeb,” he wrote.

The hepatologist reiterated his long-standing position on homeopathy, arguing that its remedies do not contain active medicinal ingredients. “Homeopathy is ‘medicine’ made of water, alcohol, and sugar. So you’re paying premium prices for fancy sugar pills containing precisely no medicine at all,” he wrote.