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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This week, a Commons committee declared that the NHS should stop funding homeopathy, describing its remedies as no better than a placebo. Jeremy Laurance hears what the patients think

Friday, 26 February 2010 The Independent

The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital may be under siege but the staff and patients remain relaxed. There has been no run on Gelsemium, the homeopathic remedy of choice for people paralysed by fear, in the pharmacy. Indeed, the only sign of trouble is the poster affixed to a pillar in the third floor waiting area alongside the stall selling Tick Tock redbush tea – the kind Precious Ramotswe drinks in The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. “Save NHS homeopathy”, it says. Another poster urges supporters to join a lobby of parliament. Long before MPs from the cross party Commons committee on science and technology gave the thumbs down to homeopathy on Monday, people here knew what was coming. The remedies worked no better than a placebo, the committee said, and the NHS should cease funding.

It was a withering verdict but the hospital remains undaunted.

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Swiss research shows significant distinction between the homeopathic remedy Aconitum and placebo.
Here is news of a successful new study conducted in Switzerland by Piltan D, Rist L, Simões-Wüst P, Saller R (2009): Test of a homeopathic dilution of Aconitum napellus. A clinical, randomized, double-blind, controlled crossover study in healthy volunteers. Forschende Komplementärmedizin, 16:168-73.

The research has significantly demonstrated a distinction between the proving symptoms of Aconitum napellus 30c and a placebo. Published in an academic journal, it has found a clear difference between the reported short-term reactions of randomly selected healthy subjects towards Aconitum napellus C30 and towards placebo. The crossover design with intra-individual comparisons proved to be adequate to recognise the study preparations and for the statistical analysis of a small population sample.

To read the abstract, please click here.