There is a fundamental question how homeopathy works. Part of the problem with thus question is that the context within which it is asked needs to be specified. We live in a world dominated by the Western Scientific and Philosophical Tradition, which conditions our approach to Medical Science as well as all other sciences. But this is also a tradition in which there are strong currents of heres...

The third of these assumptions is now all but forgotten (I suspect that homeopaths feel embarrassed by its overt incorrectness), but despite the fact that the two other axioms also fly in the face of science, they still form the basis of homeopathy today. Initially Hahnemann was remarkably successful, and homeopathy conquered much of the world 2. With hindsight, this early popularity probably a...

Homeopathy one of the allied branch of medical science which has shown several miracles in treating various rare cases, was originated from the Greek terminology “Homoios” which means “Similar” and “Pathos” means suffering or sickness(1). The basic law of homeopathy is the law of similar (2).Its basic tenets introduced by Paracelsus and Hippocrates, and codified into a medical science in 1789 b...

The third of these assumptions is now all but forgotten (I suspect that homeopaths feel embarrassed by its overt incorrectness), but despite the fact that the two other axioms also fly in the face of science, they still form the basis of homeopathy today. Initially Hahnemann was remarkably successful, and homeopathy conquered much of the world 2. With hindsight, this early popularity probably a...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Individualized homeopathy is the most controversial form of this therapy. This review aims to summarize the actual state of clinical efficacy research on individualized homeopathy. METHODS Electronic databases as well as other sources were searched for possibly relevant studies. Randomized or quasirandomized controlled clinical trials comparing an individualized homeo...

Correspond Homeopath E-mail: mich Received 3 A January 200 Background: Mortality in patients with severe sepsis remains high despite the development of several therapeutic strategies. The aim of this randomized, doubleblind, 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...

The clinical studies on the effectiveness of homeopathy in respiratory allergy (18 randomized trials and 9 observational studies) are described. The literature of common immunologic disorders including also upper respiratory tract infections (URTI) and otorhinolaryngology (reported in part 1), is evaluated and discussed. Most of initial evidence-based research was addressed to the question of w...

INTRODUCTION The Health Technology Assessment report on effectiveness, cost-effectiveness and appropriateness of homeopathy was compiled on behalf of the Swiss Federal Office for Public Health (BAG) within the framework of the 'Program of Evaluation of Complementary Medicine (PEK)'. MATERIALS AND METHODS Databases accessible by Internet were systematically searched, complemented by manual sea...