Skepticism regarding homeopathy is based on the belief that there is no evidence to support its efficacy and that any effect is just a placebo because it can’t work according to laws of physics and chemistry. However, when considering all of the facts, there is sufficient evidence to conclude that homeopathy does have biological effects in-vitro and in-vivo and can be a viable therapeutic modal...

The Lancet of August 27, 2005 featured a cluster of articles highly critical of homeopathy which attracted considerable media attention. The media reports echoed The Lancet’s press release: ‘homeopathy is no better than placebo’. The centerpiece was a meta-analysis of clinical trials of homeopathy compared with clinical trials of allopathy (conventional medicine) (1). The first author is Aijing...

The use of homeopathic remedies for the treatment of mastitis is described. The basic principles of homeopathy are discussed, including the simillimum, the minimum dose, the single remedy, the whole person, the vital force, susceptibility, and constitutional treatment. Homeopathic research trials and papers are examined and discussed. The author explains how homeopathy can be incorporated into ...

The study described in this paper aims to compare the efficacies of homeopathy and allopathic therapy for tinnitus of different etiologies and periods of time since onset. It is a retrospective study with a lower reliability than prospective ones, but reaching the same results regarding the Gingko Biloba therapy as the most prospective studies published, respectively its efficacy only in vascul...

How can Randomised Controlled Trials (RCTs) change our beliefs? The fact that they do update prior beliefs to different posterior beliefs is explained by Bayesian philosophy. Crucial points in Bayesian analysis include setting the first prior expectation right and sequential updating of the prior in the light of new evidence. Bayesian analysis depends highly on the evidence included. RCT eviden...