Remembrance: Dr. Sujit Chatterjee

Remembrance: Sujit Chatterjee, BSc, DHMS, HD

(July 24, 1959 – January 9, 2025)

Jay Yasgur, PharmD

Sujit Chatterjee was a Mumbai, Indian homeopath and author who graduated in 1983 from the Gujarat Homoeopathic Medical College (Savli, Gujarat, India). He practiced and taught homoeopathy in Mumbai for 25 years where, as a colleague of Rajan Sankaran, he served as a core faculty member in Sankaran’s organization, ‘The Other Song.’ Sujit organized and taught at the Annual Classical Homeopathic Course for foreign students in Mumbai as well as for other organizations; e.g., West Coast Homeopathic Society (WCHS, a west Canadian homeopathic organization founded in 1995). He was especially adept at treating patients with cancer.

“His contribution to the field of homeopathic research and studies included conducting provings of several remedies, i.e., Chocolate, Camphora, Pipal (Ficus religiosa), Banyan (Ficus indica), and Uranium nitricum. He also acted as the master prover for a recent proving of Dysprosium conducted at ‘The Other Song.’ Sujit is also known for his unique knowledge of converting patient’s understanding into rubrics and his brilliant practical use of the LM potency.” – https://www.wchs.info/index.php/profession/annual-conferences/conference-2016 (accessed March 4, 2026). The British journal, New Homeopath (43:1, Spring 2024, p. 42) published his obituary.

“Dr. Sujit Chatterjee has been a vital part of my journey for decades, serving as a trustee of Homeopathic Research and Charities, a core team member of The Other Song, and a fellow traveler in the fascinating realm of Homeopathy. His unwavering dedication, sincerity, tireless efforts, and pure intentions have been a source of inspiration to all of us in Mumbai. Sujit’s simplicity, humility, honesty, and compassion reflect the qualities of a truly remarkable human being. I fondly recall the study meetings hosted at his home, accompanied by the delightful snacks lovingly prepared by his wife, Kumkum. His presence is deeply missed.” – Dr Rajan Sankaran, email, January 24, 2025.

In an email communication of January 29, 2025, Dr Gaurang Gaikwad offered these comments:

“Doctor Sujit Chatterjee was a very special person, and what impressed me the most was his humbleness, his desire to bring everyone together with much simplicity in his approach.

“As a homeopath, I was very fortunate to spend almost a decade learning from his cases and many other people’s cases. When I was working under his influence in The Other Song (Rajan Sankaran’s group), the thing that impressed me the most was his simplicity. I remember this especially because, when I did a year of studying in Calcutta I found this amazing homeopath, Dr Sunirmal Sarkar in Calcutta, who till then was not much known to the west and to different homeopaths in Mumbai. I worked with doctor Sunirmal Sarkar for a year. I noted down all his very interesting remedies and rare remedies, Indian drugs that he uses. I tried to write a book on it called ’Just You See’ in memory of him. I returned to Mumbai and I spoke about his work to Doctor Sankaran and Doctor Sujit Chatterjee. Chatterjee’s humility showned as he said, ‘Where does he practice, in Kolkata? I will personally go in his clinic.’

“Next year, he went to Calcutta and was sitting in his personal clinic. Doctor Sarkar was quite amazed and, after that, almost every year, he went there. Not just that, he learned these rare remedies, which I was working on and which I wrote a book on. He started using them in his practice. It was fascinating that at his stage of clinical experience he was open to learning from another homeopath and use what he learned.

“The other thing which was very fascinating for me about Doctor Sujit Chatterjee is that he conducted a lot of provings of more well-known remedies like Uranium nitricum. Much of the proving information that he has given about Uranium nitricum I am using in my practice. For example, classically, the remedy is only known for diabetes, but when he proved Uranium nitricum, he found the theme of explosion. He found the idea that it’s beyond Aurum metallicum.

“He told us to use it more often for palliative care, for post-chemotherapy or after radiation treatment. Along with Radium bromatum and Cobaltum, he found Uranium nitricum. And later on, he also came up with the idea of using the entire Actinide series for chemotherapy side effects. I do believe that he was one of the pioneers in this approach. And he used to use a lot of different approaches together. Truly, a lot of my work is definitely inspired by him, along with so many of my other teachers.

“He did provings of Ficus, Ocimum sanctum and many Indian remedies. He is one of the very few homeopaths who has done provings of old Ayurvedic remedies and found a lot of patterns there. Although previously we limited our use of Ocimum sanctum for cold and cough or Ficus for bleeding, after conducting the provings, plant family patterns were identified in both. He was really a contemporary homeopath, bringing many approaches together.

“I also remember the human side of him because, as a very young assistant and trainee, I used to go to different doctors and study and learn from their cases. He probably was one of the only ones who, after taking a case, would get a box of sandwiches and give them to all of us. I remember so fondly eating those sandwiches that his wife would make. This gesture was so special and somehow really defined him as a person.

“Out of so many homeopaths who are so senior, so well known, maybe more popular, many who worked with him remember him as a warm soul who was there for them and who had a humane side to him, who they could sit with, eat food with, and even sometimes, disagree with about his prescriptions. I will give you an example. I remember he took a case, a very interesting case of particular pathology. He found a particular remedy. My own analysis of the case indicated a different remedy, which I suggested to him. Now this is very interesting—after I suggested the remedy, and I was just in my first year assisting and seeing cases with him, he said, ‘I think your suggestion is very interesting,’ and he changed his prescription, ultimately giving the remedy I suggested. Such openness in a master prescriber to a relative neophyte’s recommendation is very rare, and I have worked with some really great homeopaths. I don’t remember anyone else who has done anything close to this. This was yet another incident that really defined him as a person.”

One may go on YouTube to discover some of his work—www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKsfHNbGzio