Dr. Luc Montagnier, the French virologist who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the AIDS virus, has surprised the scientific community with his strong support for homeopathic medicine (taken from an article by Dana Ullman on the Natural News website).

In a remarkable interview published in Science magazine of December 24, 2010, (1) Professor Luc Montagnier, has expressed support for the often maligned and misunderstood medical specialty of homeopathic medicine. Although homeopathy has persisted for 200+ years throughout the world and has been the leading alternative treatment method used by physicians in Europe, (2) most conventional physicians and scientists have expressed skepticism about its efficacy due to the extremely small doses of medicines used.

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There isn’t much to read here but what wonderful evidence of homeopathic provision in Gujarat. Please click here.

The Swiss people have voted five Complementary Medical Therapies back onto the Swiss Health system for ‘paid for health therapies’.

Previously taken off the list of therapies accepted as ‘insurable health costs’ by the Swiss Government, these five therapies are now back on the list after two thirds of the population voted in their favour.

The five therapies are homeopathy, herbal medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Holistic medicine (“This method looks holistically at the body, life force, soul and spirit. Care involves a holistic treatment with natural substances as well as conventional medical drugs.”), and Neural Therapy (based on the theory that trauma can produce long-standing disturbances in the electrochemical function of tissues. Treatment tries to affect the nervous system with injections of local anaesthetics.”).

These therapies will be ‘re-imbursable’ from 2012 and will be officially “on test” – to prove their worth – until 2017.

A spokesperson from the Federation of Swiss Societies of Complementary Medicine, Hansueli Albonico said “” I really welcome this move towards the international arena. I see this as a great opportunity. In Germany, for example, the medical profession has been engaged in a dialogue for the past decade on pluralism in medicine and applying different methods – always with a view to effectiveness, appropriateness and efficiency…… We need a shift away from methods used for testing effectiveness, such as are appropriate for drugs, to studies that show the overall benefit provided by these [complementary] methods”

The head of communications from the Swiss Interior Ministry explained, “Until now we have not been able to prove fully that these five therapies are efficient, cost-effective and suitable. Some do it more than others. The goal of these six years is to fill in the gaps for those that don’t manage to [meet these criteria] or do so only partially. We’ll see what happens, we cannot prejudge the results.”

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Aluminum toxicity is the most important factor limiting the growth of plants in acid soils. A study has recently been carried out to evaluate the influence of homeopathic preparations Alumina and Calc Carb on the germination and vigor of lettuce seeds subjected to toxic levels of aluminum in paper-solution. The statistical design was entirely randomised and the results showed a significant dfference in germination speed and radicle length between the samples treated with homeopathic preparations and the controls. In conclusion, Alumina and Calc Carb had significant effect on the vigor of lettuce seeds subjected to stress conditions. To read the full report, click here.

Aluminium toxicity can also be a factor in human ill health. Aluminium can accumulate in our bodies from cooking pans, municipal water supplies, some foods, anti-inflammatory products and pain-killers. It can contibute to Alzheimers and general memory loss, gastrointestinal disturbance, poor calcium absorption, bone problems, decreased liver and kidney fuction, dizziness and aching muscles.

Article by Dana Ullman in The Huffington Post. Please click here for the full report.

Fibromyalgia is a chronic ailment without a known cause and without a safe, effective conventional medical treatment. However, several studies published in leading medical journals have found outstanding results from homeopathic treatment.

Well-designed high quality scientific studies published in the British Medical Journal and in Rheumatology (the journal of the British Society for Rheumatology) have confirmed the real benefits of homeopathic medicines as distinct from a placebo.

The study found that 50 percent of patients given a homeopathic medicine experienced a 25 percent or greater improvement in tender point pain on examination, whereas only 15 percent of those who were given a placebo experienced a similar degree of improvement. After four months, the homeopathic patients also rated the “helpfulness of the treatment” significantly greater than did those who were given a placebo. It is therefore not surprising that the study also showed that the average number of remedies recommended by the homeopaths was substantially higher to those in the placebo group as compared with the real treatment group.

The good news for fibromyalgia patients who receive homeopathic medicines is that these remedies are not known to cause direct drug interactions with any conventional drugs the patient may be taking. The pharmaceutical lobby decries homeopathy for its lack of effect: the problem for them is that if one unfathomable homeopathic treatment works, their argument is in tatters. Patients are also spared some of the conventional drug artillery used to limit symptoms. Further, because people with fibromyalgia tend to have distinct and unusual symptoms, this situation actually makes it easier for homeopaths to treat them successfully.

Other advantages homeopathy has over conventional drug therapies are lower cost and the avoidance of the usual GI, headache and CNS side effects as well as reactions that can be life threatening.