Homeopathy: An Evidence Based Approach

by: continuum wellness - March 10th, 2010   Filed under: healing philosophy, health care, holistic medicine, homeopathic proving, Homeopathy, integrative medicine Add Comment

The following article comes from the Indian homeopath Dr. Anil Singhal, MD (Homeo)

Practicing evidence based homeopathy

Evidence based practice (EBP) revolves around improved patient outcomes. Health professionals use the best evidence possible to make clinical decisions for individual patients. It involves complex and conscientious decision making based on the available evidence, and also on patient characteristics, situations, and preferences.

EBP recognizes that health care is individualized and ever changing. Finally, I would say EBP is the formalization of the care process based on requirements of individual patient. This individualization is practiced by homeopathic physicians for the last 200 years.

Homeopathy is a system of therapeutics founded in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann on the principle that “like cures like”. Homeopathy, since its inception, has been used to treat a wide range of illnesses based on individualisation or in a way EBP. Hahnemann was the first person who advocated this strongly. (more…)

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Homeopathy – What’s Your Story?

by: continuum wellness - August 14th, 2008   Filed under: healing, healing philosophy, Health, health beliefs, healthy mind, holistic, homeopathic proving, Homeopathy, nutrition 1 Comment

by Catherine Carter

It is common to hear or read about the power of story these days. It comes up regularly in therapy groups. I read an article where a photographer spoke of the story that each photographed piece has.

Story is powerful, as we are all unique. It is stupendous that while 99% or more of us is just like everyone else there is this minuscule part that makes us all different. We feel separate from one another, even though ultimately we are all one.

The power of story is also evident in homeopathy. Homeopathy is not “new age” medicine, though some co-opt it. Homeopathic remedies have been used in a number of ways. However in its essence and pure form, the healing art of Homeopathy has always been about story and meaning.

Personally, I find power in consistency. I find reassurance and a palpable substance in it. Let’s say a proving was done of a homeopathic remedy, a polychrest. I didn’t put polychrest in my glossary page, but it means a remedy of many uses. These remedies have been used extensively for hundreds of years now and the essential properties are the same, even if today we repeat the experiment. How cool.

One’s personal story in homeopathy ties your personal view, presentation, thoughts and way of seeing the world into a pattern that resonates with another, similar part of nature. You have heard how sometimes one may feel so alone? Isn’t it wonderful to know that on a deep soul and pattern level that one is not alone? In sharing your story with a homeopath and finding your particular remedy, that is where the journey of story takes you, from isolation to oneness.

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A Double-Blind Trial of a Homeopathic Proving

by: continuum wellness - March 7th, 2008   Filed under: alternative medicine, calendula, complementary medicine, healing philosophy, homeopathic proving, Homeopathy, placebo, Uncategorized Add Comment

A double-blind, randomized, homeopathic pathogenetic trial with healthy persons: comparing two high potencies.

Möllinger H, Schneider R, Löffel M, Walach H.

Health Center Sokrates, Güttingen, Switzerland.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: According to homeopathic theory, symptoms provoked by the homeopathic remedy in a pathogenetic trial (PT) make up the remedy picture serving as the basis for the homeopathic treatment. Little is known whether the symptoms produced by the remedy differ from symptoms produced by placebo. This is because both homeopathic remedy and placebo also produce so-called unspecific effects due to psychological reasons. We therefore explore the distinctiveness of homeopathic symptoms and placebo symptoms. DESIGN: A three-armed, randomized PT pilot study. SETTING: A blinded materia medica expert identifies symptoms with regard to their number and specificity. PARTICIPANTS: 21 healthy homeopathic practitioners note symptoms produced after remedy intake. INTERVENTIONS: Patients are randomly assigned to receive either (1) Calendula officinalis, (2) Ferrum muriaticum, or (3) placebo. After a seven-day baseline symptoms recording period, proving substances are taken until symptoms occur. In daily supervision phone calls, symptoms are verified by the supervisor. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE: Total number of symptoms produced and number of specific symptoms produced. OUTLOOK: The results showed that both remedies ‘produced’ significantly more symptoms than placebo. With regard to the specificity, the Calendula officinalis group displayed more remedy-specific symptoms than placebo. However, in the Ferrum muriaticum group more Calendula symptoms than placebo were also recorded.

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