The use of dynamized substances in agriculture, especially on plants, has been growing fast. Diseases or physiological disorders are not considered merely the results action physiopathological agents and abiotic factors, but a consequence loss homeostasis organism. Notions proper to homeopathy used several areas agriculture. Although effective have observed both academic field milieus, too much...

This congress was organized by the Psycho-Somatic Medicine outpatient clinic of S. Carlo Borromeo’s Hospital in Milan, and S.I.R.I.U.M. (International Society for Research, Integration and Humanization in Medicine) to promote knowledge about CAM within S. Carlo Borromeo Hospital and other health centers. CAM was introduced in Lombardia with a regional council resolution in 2000. In his opening ...

INTRODUCTION A new programme of systematic reviews of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in homeopathy will distinguish important attributes of RCT records, including: placebo controlled versus other-than-placebo (OTP) controlled; individualised versus non-individualised homeopathy; peer-reviewed (PR) versus non peer-reviewed (NPR) sources. AIMS (a) To outline the methods used to search and ...

OBJECTIVE To use scientific methods to evaluate 2 claims made by practitioners of alternative medicine. DESIGN A placebo-controlled, double-blind study of homeopathy in children with warts, and a cohort study of the influence of lunar phases on postoperative outcome in surgical patients. SETTING Outpatients of a dermatology department (homeopathy study) and inpatients evaluated at an anesth...

Homeopathic medicine is based on the two principles that ‘like cures like’ and that the potency of substances increases in proportion to their dilution. In November 2009 the UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee heard evidence on homeopathy, with several witnesses arguing that homeopathic practice is ‘unethical, unreliable and pointless’. Although this increasing scepticism about the...

Homeopathy has a long history of successfully treating women and their health problems and is the preferred healthcare option chosen by a growing number of women. Gentle, fast, noninvasive, non-addictive and safe, homeopathy is the perfect option for the treatment of women’s healthcare problems. A number of studies have shown that women make up between 64 and 80% of the clientele visiting homeo...

Objective: Cerebral palsy (CP) is a static encephalopathy. In addition to motor developmental delay, most patients have speech and social developmental delay. Recently, complementary medicine like homeopathy has been used in the treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders. This study has been conducted to determine the effect of adding homeopathic treatment to rehabilitation on speech and social ...

Milgrom’s article was certainly the most amusing, uplifting and revealing bit of alternative fiction I have read for a very long time. Amusing because the arguments of the authors are truly funny. I am on the top of the ‘Big Pharma’ iceberg trying to crush homeopathy!?! Why would ‘Big Pharm’ bother? Homeopathy only amounts to 0.006% of the total National Health Service (NHS) budget, as Milgrom ...

BACKGROUND Mortality in patients with severe sepsis remains high despite the development of several therapeutic strategies. The aim of this randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was to evaluate whether homeopathy is able to influence long-term outcome in critically ill patients suffering from severe sepsis. METHODS Seventy patients with severe sepsis received homeopathic treatmen...