A wonderful research article was recently published in the journal ‘Homeopathy’ (Volume 99, Issue 1, January 2010, Pages 57-62 Special Issue: Biological models of homeopathy Part 2) showing homeopathic success in the treatment of piglets against E coli.

The study in question was a double blind random controlled trial (RCT) of 52 sows who were randonly treated with Coli 30K or placebo and who subsequently gave birth to 525 piglets.

The study showed that there was a reduction in the incidence of E.Coli diarrhoea. (Results showed that the placebo group had over six times more diarrhoea than the homeopathically treated group (P < 0.0001). The research also showed that the mean duration of diarrhoea was different for both groups, 1.86 days on average in the placebo group compared to 1.3 days in the Coli 30K group. This is important in farming terms as the difference of half a day can make large differences in the overall performance of piglets.

The owner of the farm where the experiment was carried out initially quite sceptical about homeopathy. However, after the experiment he decided to apply Coli 30K to all sows. Since then E.Coli diarrhoea has hardly occurred.

The authors state that “Advantages at farm level (of E.Coli 30K homeopathic remedy) are ease of application of the treatment by the farmer and cost reduction. These advantages and the positive results from this study make the homeopathic agent Coli 30K an attractive potential alternative in the prevention of E.Coli diarrhoea.”

So, given the double blind RCT structure of the trial – the ‘gold standard’ of science, does this research indicate that homeopathy works, double blind RCTs don’t work – or that ickle piggies tell great big porkies?

For more information, see Hpathy.

Please click on this link to see a short clip on how homeopathy has helped children with autism.

You are probably now aware that homeopathy is undergoing yet more criticism form the Bad Science lobby and various non-medically trained journalists.

Please help by writing to your MP (it’s ever so easy) and asking him/her to sign an early day motion. I have copied the letter I have sent to Michael Spicer, my MP, at the bottom of this article. Please use it and edit it as appropriate to write to your own MP or Spicer if he is your MP.

There has been a terrible miscarriage of justice here, and as patients we can expose this to our MPs.

Now is the time to act. David Tredinnick who has put forward the EDM has spoken several times in favour of homeopathy & complimentary therapy.

Click here to see if your MP has already signed EDM 908

http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=40517&SESSION=903

Click here to ask your MP to sign EDM 908

http://www.writetothem.com/

Please feel free to use this letter.

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A new study, just published in the International Journal of Oncology, reveals that homeopathic remedies have a beneficial effect on breast cancer cells.

The study, which was done in Houston Texas, shows that certain homeopathic remedies have preferentially elevated cytotoxic (killing) effects on breast cancer cells – compared with cells derived from normal breast epithelium.

The team of researchers commented that the homeopathic remedies appeared to have similar activity to the activity of paclitaxel (Taxol), the most commonly used chemotherapeutic drug for breast cancer, without the toxic effect on the normal cells.

The experiments were conducted in triplicate and repeated at least twice for each remedy.  The homeopathic medicines tested included:  Carcinosin, 30C; Conium maculatum, 3C; Phytolacca decandra, 200C and Thuja occidentalis, 30C. The most effective remedies were found to be Carcinosin and Phytolacca.

The researchers concluded, “the ultra-diluted natural homeopathic remedies investigated in this study offer the promise of being effective preventive and/or therapeutic agents for breast cancer and worthy of further study.”

This is the first scientific study that investigated the effect of homeopathic remedies on breast cancer cells.

Dana Ullman, one of the best known writers on homeopathy stated: “This study raises the exciting possibility of a window of therapeutic opportunity for preferentially eliminating breast cancer cells with minimal damage to the surrounding normal mammary tissue by using homeopathic remedies”.

For more information, see the National Center for Biotechnology Information site.

This is a blog entry by Carol Boye on February 27th, 2010. See her site here.

As predicted the media produced the expected snow – every national paper, every TV channel ran the story along similar lines: “Homeopathy should not be funded on the NHS, say MPs”.  The Mail and Telegraph ran stories on Sunday night, which was interesting since the Science and Technology Committee were adamant that details of the report should not be released to the public until after 11am Monday.  Bloggers had already written detailed posts directly quoting the report and published them at precisely 11am.  Leaked?  Surely not,

The Guardian at least waited till Monday to report: “Stop funding homeopathy, MPs urge”.

And so it went on.  Anyone reading the news might have imagined that there had been an in depth investigation of the matter in parliament.

But who are these MPs doing the urging, and how does the Science and Technology Committee work?

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