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Homeopathy: Overview of Human Clinical Trials
A number of large-scale studies designed to evaluate the huge amount of homeopathic literature have been conducted, especially in the last 10 years. Organisations and institutes of great international prestige and importance have dealt with the issue of homeopathy. All of them have concluded that homeopathy possesses therapeutic efficacy. The characteristics of these studies are briefly summari...
متن کاملClinical trials of classical homeopathy: reflections on appropriate research designs.
The growing popularity of complementary medicine has been accompanied by a call for controlled clinical studies to examine the efficacy and validity of its various methods. The difficulties encountered in applying the evaluation methods of conventional medicine to complementary medicine are the result of the different paradigms underlying these two methods of medicine, and the differences in th...
متن کاملThe methodological quality of randomized controlled trials of homeopathy, herbal medicines and acupuncture.
BACKGROUND To investigate the methodological quality of randomized controlled trials in three areas of complementary medicine. METHODS The methodological quality of 207 randomized trials collected for five previously published systematic reviews on homeopathy, herbal medicine (Hypericum for depression, Echinacea for common cold), and acupuncture (for asthma and chronic headache) was assessed ...
متن کاملThe conclusions on the effectiveness of homeopathy highly depend on the set of analyzed trials.
OBJECTIVE Shang's recently published meta-analysis on homeopathic remedies (Lancet) based its main conclusion on a subset of eight larger trials out of 21 high quality trials (out of 110 included trials). We performed a sensitivity analysis on various other meaningful trial subsets of all high quality trials. STUDY DESIGN Subsets were defined according to sample size, type of homeopathy, type...
متن کاملP150: Homeopathy and Anxiety
Numerous therapeutics for prevention and treatment of anxiety have been suggested but many people select alternative medicine such as homeopathy. Homeopathy is an old system of medicine which is used as an effective treatment in both acute and chronic medical and psychological conditions. The ''Homeopathy'' term is a Greek word that means similar disease. Homeopathy has a holistic approach to t...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.302.6782.960