In a recent study from Germany, 2,722 Swedish and German patients with chronic health problems received homeopathic treatment from doctors trained in homeopathy. Please see full study here.

The participants were monitored over an eight year period.
The researchers stated that the data, “…consistently show substantial health improvements in patients under homeopathic treatment, which persisted through the whole observation period.”
Some of the more interesting observations from the study are:

• One in 2 patients reported a 50% or more improvement in their health
  complaint
• Three in ten patients stopped homeopathic treatment before the end of
  the 8-year period because of major improvements in their health.
• Improvements were more pronounced in those with greater disease severity
  at the beginning of treatment.

Most patients said they would use homeopathy again and recommend it to friends.

Sadly, several organised groups are agressively targetting homeopathy and other complementary therapists on the basis that there is no ‘scientific’ evidence for efficacy. Quite apart from the fact that there is sound evidence (see other news stories), there are some major questions asked about the reliability of the methods being used to test conventional medicine.

In her blog on Pulse, Karine Nohr, says it’s “time to take a reality check on evidence from clinical trials.”

Her article looks at the shortcomings of conventional medicine in terms of its ‘so called’ research evidence: “Critics of the research in complementary medicines need to take heed of the scepticism that is increasingly present regarding ‘evidence’ for orthodox treatments.

“Of course we all want ‘evidence’, but evidence is only as good as the quality of the research, it’s transparency and the absence of bias. 85% of trials are sponsored by the pharmaceutical companies; when comparing drugs, the vast majority show that the sponsoring company’s drugs are more effective than the comparison drug.

If you haven’t already done so, I would urge anybody who puts ‘evidence’ on a pedestal to read ‘Reality Check’ in the BMJ. Ray Moynihan refers to the mounting corroboration that there is a massive positive bias in the publication of trials.”

She also points out that; “In the UK, NICE does not have a legal right of access to unpublished trial results which the industry submits to the regulator and the MHRA is unable to prosecute companies for witholding information, so how can NICE ensure that their recommendations are evidence based?

The problems of selective publication are further explored in the subsequent two articles of the same BMJ, urging greater access and transparency of data, disclosure of unpublished evidence and better quality reporting by the European Medicines Agency, in order to provide more useful information to all.”

Oliver Dowding writes about his experiences and success using homeopathy on the farm. He also comments on dealing with critics of homeopathy. See the full article here.

There is much debate over the efficacy of homoeopathy, how it works and what it does to the recipient patient. If, as claimed by many detractors, disbelievers and outright cynics, homoeopathic success is all in the patient’s mind, how is it that it works so well for animals?

This article is written from the experiences I had in keeping 500 head of dairy livestock for 14 years, whilst managing the farm under organic principles. I was meeting many health challenges that they faced, which we primarily resolved with homoeopathic remedies. The overriding outcome and opinion formed was that cows are not inherent liars or fraudulent creatures! They have no axe to grind, nor a commercial position to maintain or enhance.

Let me start by pointing out that I am not qualified as any sort of medic, nor vet, in the traditional sense of education. Neither I nor my various herdsmen who undertook much of the disease analysis, remedy selection and application, had any formal training in disease management, assessment, or in homoeopathy itself. Everything we did was undertaken as a result of observation of the animal, research using the textbooks available, undertaking on-farm training with established homoeopathic vets, and the use of selected homoeopathic repertories. However, I, like many people, have an avid interest in what works and the observation of real life.

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Please see full article written by Dana Ullman.

In 2004, American physicians wrote over 28 million prescriptions for ADHD (attention deficit hyperactivity syndrome) drugs, and by 2008 alone, this number increased substantially to over 39 million. Despite these scary-high numbers of powerful psychiatric drugs prescribed for our children, the Washington Post reported on a large multi-center federally funded study that “confirmed there were zero long-term differences between children who were continuously medicated and those who were never medicated” (Vedantam, 2009).

Hyperactivity and its related syndromes (ADD: attention deficit disorder; and ADHD: attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) has become Ameri­ca’s #1 childhood psychiatric ailment. One of the common drugs to treat children with ADD and ADHD has been Ritalin, and its use has become so common that some people are calling it “vitamin R.”

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Reprinted from the Homeopathy Heals website.
Foundations of Homeopathy

FACT 1: Hippocrates ‘The Father of Medicine’ of Ancient Greece said there were two Laws of Healing: The Law of Opposites and the Law of Similars. Homeopathy utilises the Law of Similars, orthodox medicine uses the Law of Opposites, e.g. antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, anti-convulsants, anti-hypertensives, anti-depressants, anti-psychotics.

FACT 2: Discovered by German doctor Samuel Hahnemann over 200 years ago, homeopathic medicine is based upon sound scientific principles of the Laws of Nature – unlike medical theories which are constantly changing. Far from being ideas-based, Homeopathy is a completely evidence-based, empirical medicine – a unique concept when it was founded.

FACT 3: In Hahnemann’s first experiment, though perfectly healthy at the time, he found that by giving himself repeated doses of cinchona bark (quinine), he brought on all the symptoms of a malaria attack – fever with heat and chills.

FACT 4: Hahnemann was the first to conduct trials on medicines. He set about discovering the healing properties of plants, metals and minerals by testing them on himself and on healthy volunteers or ‘Provers’, recording all the symptoms that each substance caused. He created a ‘Provers Union’.

FACT 5: After some years of practising, Hahnemann found the tiny doses of substances he was using caused side effects. He experimented by diluting then succussing a substance (shaking through striking the phial a number of times between numerical potencies). The potentised remedy was safer to use on the sick, unwanted side effects disappeared and medicines were more effective.

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