OBJECTIVE To explore the characteristics of patients and their gender influences concerning the use of homeopathic medicine, visiting both homeopathic and conventional medicine (allopathic) clinics. METHODS This cross sectional study was carried out on 200 patients who attended private and public homeopathic and allopathic clinics or hospitals in Karachi using a pre-tested self-administered q...

Background: Infertility as a crisis in the life of infertile couples led to difficulty in accepting and using treatment. This review aims at studying the forms of complementary medicine and its impact on infertile. Materials and Methods: Study overview, the present internet search at time scales from 1999 to 2013 databases iranian and international iranmedex, EMBASE, Uptodate, Scopus, Science- ...

Cough is a frequent symptom associated to upper respiratory tract infections (URTIs) and, although being self-limiting, it might deeply affect the quality of life. Homeopathic products are often employed by patients to treat cough, but the evidence on their efficacy is scarce. Thus, we tested the efficacy of a homeopathic syrup in treating cough arising from URTIs with a randomized, double blin...

BACKGROUND Homeopathy is often sought by patients with depression. In classical homeopathy, the treatment consists of two main elements: the case history and the prescription of an individually selected homeopathic remedy. Previous data suggest that individualized homeopathic Q-potencies were not inferior to the antidepressant fluoxetine in a sample of patients with moderate to severe depressio...

BACKGROUND Irritable bowel syndrome is a chronic condition with no known cure. Many sufferers seek complementary and alternative medicine including homeopathic treatment. However there is much controversy as to the effectiveness of homeopathic treatment. This three-armed study seeks to explore the effectiveness of individualised homeopathic treatment plus usual care compared to both an attentio...

results each group comprised 27 students; eventually, 26 in the homeopathic and 21 in the placebo group were followed up. there was no significant difference between the groups for either pain intensity (adjusted difference: -0.44; 95% ci: -1.43 to 0.54) or any other outcomes. compared with the baseline scores, statistically significant improvements were observed in pain intensity (p = 0.021) a...

Considering the positive results of homeopathic therapy of bovine mastitis, the presented study should evaluate the effects of two standardized homeopathic methods in sub-clinical mastitis using a prospective randomized double-blind placebo control study design. A number of 124 dairy cows from 17 herds with increased somatic cell count were selected and randomly associated to 5 treatment groups...