Is there any evidence that homeopathy actually works?
Monday, January 4th, 2010 at
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The best "research" for homeopathy is the success of practitioners and healing of patients. "Scientific" studies and research are often manipulated to meet an end. I’ve not trusted them for years. The best information, and most reliable, I have gotten on any healing practice is from practitioners who are trusted and the patients they have helped.
We’ve used homeopathy successfully on many occasions. That’s all the proof I need that it works. It’s a whole lot cheaper than MDs and pharmaceuticals too, with no ill effects. So, I’d try another homeopathic treatment if needed without reservation.
Yale University professor, Dr. David Katz, uses homeopathy remedies at the Integrative Medicine Centers in Conn, so homeopathy must be benefiting patients there.
Homoeopathy work on the principal that they use only natural sources. As the active ingredient in this natural sources is available in small dose, it take longer to be effective. But it is considered as better as the body is not overwhelm by manufactured active ingredients and allow body to adjusted to the chemical. However, since it is not regulated, it is up to the user to determine the trustee’s of individual practitioner.
A study was published in the Lanclet (leading British Medical Journal) around 2005 and the allopaths were crowing because it supposedly "proved" that it was no more effective than a placebo. That study has been very well scrutinized and found to be flawed in design and execution.
It violated the basic principles of homeopathy in that all subjects were given the same remedy, same dose for the study period. Right there it was not classical homeopathy which strictly adheres to INDIVIDUAL choice of remedy and close monitoring by the practitioner as to effect and when a dosage should be increased or changed. Because of those principles homeopathy does not lend itself to the "scientific" analysis done on allopathic drugs where all subjects are given one drug, one dosage for a set amount of time.
I seem to remember it had something to do with the common cold for pete’s sake. Homeopathy doesn’t have a "cure" for cancer either. I expect we humans will come up for something to deal with those things about the time we establish that there is life on other planets.
Shortly after its inception homeopathic remedies were used with animals. Herds or groups of sheep or cattle were sucessfully treated with one remedy at one dosage. Can allopaths explain the placebo in that usage? Groups of people were treated when there were outbreaks of cholera, etc. and statistically the results of homeopathic remedies was significantly higher than people treated with the then traditional therapies.
YES!!!!
Before 1929 ALL doctore were homeopaths. Then the Gov. The medical establishment and the Pharmaceutical manufacturers got together and decided to change to a chemically based medical system. It took until around 1960 for the homeopaths to die off. Before then you heard people telling you Dr. so and so is agood doctor. Yo almost never hear that of PCP now a days. They tried to cure the body where the MD’s of today treat symptoms and keep you on drugs to control the symptoms. The drugs cause new symptoms and so on. It is not uncommon to see a patient on10 drugs that began with one problem.
No. None. Nothing besides uninformed anecdotal evidence- there has NEVER been one single controlled experiment that has proven it to have ANY effect whatsoever. It is placebo effect, wishful thinking, and the body’s own defenses acting ovet time. Sorry, gang, but it’s like astrology- if you believe in it, then it might affect you, despite being a pseudoscience based on delusion.
Most of homeopathic cures are anecdotal.
One should look at cases where it fails to get the correct picture.
I have seen many cases where it failed to produce any result. The explanation always was,’you came too late’.