Is homeopathy a clinically valuable approach? The bha supplies a list of health professionals and hospitals that practice homeopathy, books on homeopathy, and a magazine. Many methods have been used historically in traditional chinese medicine to treat insomnia, including herbal remedies, acupuncture, acupressure, chinese massage (Tui na), and qi gong. This goes for homeopathy for anxiety, too. They suggested that the nhs stop funding homeopathy. 7,8 The question emerges, then, of how homeopathy could have survived for so many centuries? In retrospect, the recall of cold medicines has given us the opportunity to learn more about other avenues of healing, including homeopathic remedies. Who cares what the true mechanics of homeopathy are if it gets the results? One of the most extensive lines of research in homeopathy was the attempt to utilize high dilutions of substances, known to cause allergy, to prevent or cure the same allergies.
After the pilot studies were carried out on the efficacy of arsenicum album for 2 and 3 months on a total number of 130 odd subjects distributed in two arsenic contaminated villages, namely, ghetugachi and dakshinpanchpota, 96 of them turned up to give their blood and urine samples at 6 months and 65 of them turned up at 1 year. A general weakness of evidence derives from lack of independent confirmation of reported trials and from presence of conflicting results, as in case of homeopathic immunotherapy and of classical homeopathy for urti. The main result was a reduction of asthma attacks after 4 months of therapy, with a significant difference in favor of homeopathy. People use it alongside conventional medicine. The fundamental principles of homeopathy as proving, symptom picture, curing according to the law of similars and the production of homeopathic remedies over the avogadro number by repeated dilution and succussion are explained to have the same frequencies so that the resonance principle can work. In brief, the homeopathic medicine caused a slight but statistically significant worsening during the early phases of treatment than placebo, while at the end of experimenta…
Based on the available evidence, i tend towards the view that homeopathy’s alleged effects are actually produced by placebo responses and the natural return-to-the-mean. Traditional knowledge has been accumulating for over 200 years, but only in past few decades modern research methods such as rct, rigorous observational studies and equivalence studies comparing homeopathy with conventional standard therapies have been applied. As with any therapy, you should work with your health care provider before starting treatment with herbs. We should start from the premise that homeopathy cannot work. Animal studies of chinese and japanese combination herbal remedies used for listeria suggest they may be effective for food poisoning. The greatest evidence homeopathy works is clinical and not sponsored research. Linde et al, impact of study quality on outcome in placebo-controlled trials of homeopathy, j clin epidemiol vol. Vitamins, along with homeopathic and herbal remedies, may also improve symptoms in some individuals. Homeopathy often uses many animal, plant, mineral and synthetic substances in it’s remedies, generally referring to them using latin or faux-latin names, such as arseni…
