Homeopath Robert Medhurst has presented a year long series of articles on research validating homeopathy. This time the focus is on Paradoxical Effects of Drugs and Hormesis.

He reports how he once asked a prominent medical scientist and noted critic of Homoeopathy what he’d do if he were given the results of a clinical trial showing that homeopathy actually worked. His response was, “I’d design a different trial.”

From near and far for the last 70 odd years, those working in the area of Homoeopathy have been asked by their medical counterparts to, “Show us your proof!”  That proof has been around for quite some time. In the last 50 or so years there have been lots of trials conducted on these medicines, many done double blind and most, placebo controlled. In some respects it may be wise to look with scepticism at clinical trials themselves, particularly given comments made a while back in the Lancet by Canadian Epidemiologist, David Moher.  He found that in clinical trials done on orthodox drugs, the results in some cases may have been exaggerated by up to 50%. Although there are methodological difficulties involved with clinical trials and homeopathy, in the absence of any other objective measure, clinical trials are probably one of the best indicators we have. This is the first of a number of articles looking at the work that’s been done in this area. Prior to looking at these, I thought it might be useful to explore some of the non-clinical areas that provide some fairly solid proof of a homeopathic effect. Click here to see some of the more notable.

Most doctors and patients tend to take the term suppression for granted. They have only a vague sense of what it means as it applies to medicine—but what is it really and what impact does it have upon health? This great article discusses the phenomenon of suppression and how it lies at the very foundation of the explosion of chronic disease around the globe.

A new Review of Homeopathy Trials is underway, as outlined in the journal Homeopathy.

The authors, Robert T. Mathie, Daniela Hacke, Jürgen Clausen, Ton Nicolai, David S. Riley and Peter Fisher explained that they have classified all randomised controlled trials (RCTs) in homeopathy to date (up to December 2011) into a number of categories including: placebo controlled versus other-than-placebo (OTP) controlled; individualised versus non-individualised homeopathy; peer-reviewed (PR) versus non peer-reviewed (NPR) sources.

For this new review they are focussing on the 263 studies – placebo-controlled, RCT’s (out of a possible 489) studies (63% if which have been Peer Reviewed; and 70% of these PR studies were on non-individualised homeopathy).

The reviewers will undertake a meta-analysis of these studies, focussing on the PR (63%) papers

It is interesting to note that over the years studies of homeopathic treatment (from the whole 263 articles) that the most studied ‘conditions’ have involved Surgery and Anaesthesiology, Allergy and Asthma, Ear Nose and Throat, Musculoskeletal, Mental Disorders and Respiratory Infections.

Experiments conducted at the Institute of HeartMath have found remarkable evidence that the heart’s electromagnetic field can transmit information between people and that the heart has it’s own consciousness. This is why it is so important to treat ourselves holistically, rather than viewing parts of the body and symptoms in isolation. See the full article here.

The authors say: “We have been able to measure an exchange of heart energy between individuals up to 5 feet apart. We have also found that one person’s brain waves can actually synchronize to another person’s heart.

Furthermore, when an individual is generating a coherent heart rhythm, synchronization between that person’s brain waves and another person’s heartbeat is more likely to occur. These findings have intriguing implications, suggesting that individuals in a psychophysiologically coherent state become more aware of the information encoded in the heart fields of those around them.

The results of these experiments have led us to infer that the nervous system acts as an “antenna,” which is tuned to and responds to the electromagnetic fields produced by the hearts of other individuals.”

Research published in the Journal of Acupuncture and Meridian Studies has looked at the effects of combining two different homeopathic remedies – Cholesterinum (Chol) and Natrum Sulphuricum (Nat Sulph) – against cancer.

The researchers from the Cytogenetics and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Department of Zoology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, India showed positive results, with the homeopathic remedies leading to an increase in the activity of key hypertoxicity biomarkers like aspartate (AST), alanine aminotransferases (ALT), alkaline phosphatases (AcP and AlkP), and a decrease in activities of key antioxidant biomarkers like superoxide dismutase (SOD), and catalase (CAT).