In Germany, a Heated Debate Over Homeopathy (Copy)

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In 2016, Christian Lübbers met a sobbing 4-year-old girl at his private medical practice in the south of Germany. The ear, nose, and throat physician quickly identified the source of the girl’s problem: acute inflammation of the middle ear. Though the condition is common, this particular visit was unusual. “You have to imagine, the ear canal was basically completely blocked — pus is coming out,” says Lübbers, “and as I was extracting it, I saw that the goop contained more or less intact white pieces.” Some were still the size of about half a Tic Tac. Others had partially dissolved, melded with the pus. He remembers turning to the girl’s parents and asking, “Have you, by any chance, put globuli in the ear?”

Globuli, the German term for tiny white balls comprised of sugar, are the main vehicle for administering homeopathy, a more than 200-year-old practice originally developed by a German physician named Samuel Hahnemann. In his day, Hahnemann experimented with a wide variety of substances that cause illness or symptoms in a healthy person. He believed that these substances — when given to a sick person — could cure the illness or lessen the symptoms that they would otherwise cause in a healthy person. Crucially, most of the time homeopathic products contain no traceable elements of the original substance. Instead, that original substance is diluted with water or alcohol. Practitioners claim that the substance’s “spirit-like power” is stored in water’s “memory.”

Homeopathy became wildly popular during the 19th century. The practice offered an alternative to mainstream medicine, which at the time, included ineffective and harmful treatments, such as bloodletting. Of course, over the past two centuries, the fields of medicine and public health have advanced dramatically. Vaccines, antibiotics, anesthesia, and a host of other interventions have all been rigorously tested and proven to be effective at saving lives and lengthening lifespans. Homeopathy, however, has not developed along similar lines. After a systematic review of 176 individual studies, Australia’s National Health and Medical Research Council found that not a single high-quality study “reported either that homeopathy caused greater health improvements than placebo, or caused health improvements equal to those of another treatment.”

In a 2014 survey, 60 percent of Germans reported trying homeopathy.

And yet reliance upon homeopathy is common, particularly in Europe. In Hahnemann’s native Germany, homeopathic treatments are prescribed by medical doctors, covered by 70 percent of government medical plans, and available in almost every pharmacy. In a 2014 survey, 60 percent of Germans reported trying homeopathy. The country’s homeopathic drug market is worth around $750 million (670 million euros), with consumers paying largely out of pocket. Consultation fees account for hundreds of millions more.

The practice is now at the center of a bitter political discussion, with some legislators, insurers and doctors saying homeopathy should not be included in the public insurance programs that cover most European citizens. In France, the health minister recently announced that she would phase out insurance reimbursement by 2021, following a review of more than 1,000 scientific studies that found no evidence for homeopathy’s effectiveness. In 2018, Austria’s Medical University of Vienna stopped teaching homeopathy to medical students.

But Germany appears likely to continue to support it — in a move that critics say could cause real harm to unwitting patients who forgo other treatments, believing homeopathy will cure them. Not only that, critics say, when homeopathy is covered by insurance, it’s a waste of the contributions the public is mandated to pay. Though physicians and researchers readily admit that homeopathy can yield some benefits by leveraging placebo effects, as well as practitioners’ empathy and listening skills, it’s a hefty sum for medications that have no active ingredients.

“In Germany,” Lübbers says, “we have a system in which we can register ‘sugar balls’ as medicine” and government insurance plans will pay for it. In his view, this represents nothing less than a national scandal.

After extracting the pus and globuli from the ear of his 4-year-old patient, Lübbers explained to the girl’s parents that the pills contain no active agent. At best, they work through a placebo effect, which can’t cure an infection. Upon hearing this, Lübbers says, the parents abandoned their belief in homeopathy and readily accepted his prescription for antibiotics.

Research suggests that the majority of patients are unaware that they’re being treated with sugar. In a 2009 survey in Germany, only 17 percent of respondents knew how homeopathic medicine was produced. The rest believed it to contain some sort of natural active agents. Lübbers says that he encounters this misconception in his office every day. “Roughly three-quarters of the people I tell that homeopathy isn’t natural medicine see their house of cards collapse; their support of homeopathy disintegrates,” he says.

For patients — especially those with undiagnosed diseases — this wrong belief can cause real harm. In Italy, a 7-year-old boy eventually died from encephalitis caused by a common ear infection. He had for a couple of weeks been treated with homeopathy, and, according to Italian media reports, his parents only called an ambulance when he lapsed into a semi-unconscious state. In Germany, a woman received homeopathic and other alternative treatments for her breast cancer for three years before consulting a medical doctor. The doctor confirmed the lump she had was malignant and recommended chemotherapy, but she continued with alternative treatments. The cancer eventually became fatal.

“If you receive these little balls directly from a globuli producer or from a witch, it doesn’t matter,” says Nikil Mukerji, a professor at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, who studies the philosophy of parascience. “You can even throw them over your right shoulder, but be careful,” Mukerji continues jokingly, “that it’s exactly five pieces and that they have the right spin.”

Mukerji says that many people turn to homeopathy after hearing that it “worked” for a friend or a family member. But, he says, it’s all too easy to assume correlation means causation. “If you’ve consulted a homeopath for a strong headache, then chances are — unrelated to what this person does with you — that your headache won’t be as strong the next day,” he says. In this kind of situation, it’s the passage of time that leads to physical improvement, not the sugar balls.

For some patients, the passage of time can exacerbate an underlying health problem. This was true for 4-year-old girl in Lübbers’ clinic. When she returned 2 days later, the antibiotics were working. The pus and tears were gone.

Lübbers has since gone on to become an outspoken homeopathy critic. He joined the Information Network Homeopathy, a loosely linked group of German experts hoping to educate the public about homeopathy, and has retold his story countless times on German radio, in newspapers, and on some of the country’s biggest talk shows. In November, when the government of Bavaria, the second-most populous German state, signed off on a $448,000 study to research whether homeopathy could reduce the use of antibiotics, he penned a scathing article in Zeit Online titled “Globukalypse now!” Since then, the study’s budget has doubled to nearly $900,000.

And yet, for all the passion on both sides of the issue, German Health Minister Jens Spahn said in September 2019 that that topic wasn’t worth fighting over, in part because insurers themselves spend relatively little — approximately $22 million a year — for homeopathic treatments. “I’ve decided on: It’s OK the way it is,” Spahn told reporters in 2019.

In an email to Undark, the health ministry added that it needed to accommodate “a large number of doctors and a wide group within the public who follow an ideological approach that is different from the scientifically-informed, conventional medicine” and act in line with German law.

That law has its roots in the 1950s, when a West German pharmaceutical company created thalidomide, a sedative that became popular among pregnant women because it reduced morning sickness. However, the drug had not been tested for its effects on embryonic development, and in 1960s, thalidomide was found to cause malformed limbs. Globally, over 10,000 children were affected. Ultimately, the German government went on to introduce a new law to regulate the pharmaceutical industry. Known as the Medicinal Products Act — the law stipulates that medicines need to be proven safe and effective before they are allowed on the market.

But lobbyists pushed to exempt homeopathy. Currently, the manufacturers of homeopathic medicine simply need to show that the ingredients in their products do not cause any direct harm. And if a company wants to market a homeopathic medicine for treatment of specific disease, it is sufficient for a group of homeopathic practitioners to attest to the products’ effectiveness based on a handful of case studies. The process is known as “internal consensus” and is one of the most ardently debated aspects of homeopathy.

So far, the German medical establishment has weighed in with mixed messages. In a joint communique from its 2018 federal meeting, the German Medical Association called on the government to reconsider privileges given to alternative medicine, criticizing the industry for operating without any evidence or standards. In the same communique, however, the association listed guidelines on how doctors could earn a professional distinction in homeopathy by training with homeopaths and taking an exam in front of other homeopathic practitioners.

“That’s like saying that unicorn riding is now going to be offered as a special professional distinction, with exams administered by unicorn-riding doctors,” quips Natalie Grams, a physician and head of Information Network Homeopathy.

Grams knows what she’s talking about. As one of roughly 7,000 German physicians also accredited in homeopathy, she used to spend weekends on professional development with other homeopathic practitioners. “Everything was awesome. The patients were satisfied and so was I,” she recalls. As criticism of homeopathy grew, she began writing a book that would present all of the evidence in support of homeopathy. The issue: She found none. In hindsight, she attributes her patients’ improvement to the placebo effect and the benefits of having a caring, unhurried practitioner.

With initial consultation fees of around $220, Grams was able to speak to her patients at length, sometimes for three hours or more. In contrast, doctors like Lübbers deplore the ever more efficient, tight schedule they are expected to follow in order to see all their patients. Primary care physicians in Germany spend, on average, just under eight minutes per patient, according to a systematic review published in the medical journal BMJ Open. In the United States, that figure is above 20 minutes.

Though homeopathic medicines are not as popular in the U.S. as they are in Europe, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that about 5 million adults and 1 million children used homeopathy in 2012. Even though the U.S. Food and Drug Administration attempts to better regulate the market, major retailers like Walmart, CVS, and Walgreens sell homeopathic products that resemble conventional flu and cold medicines and can be found in the same aisle. The Center for Inquiry, a science education nonprofit headquartered in Amherst, New York, has filed lawsuits against Walmart and CVS, accusing them of fraud for their sale and marketing of homeopathic products.

Eventually, Grams began writing a book that would present all of the evidence in support of homeopathy. The issue: She found none.

Matthew Burke, a neurologist at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in Toronto, says the placebo effect could explain why many patients report improvement after taking homeopathic medicines or other products without active ingredients. In these cases, it’s not the medicine that stimulates healing, says Burke. Instead, improvements are driven by other factors, such as prior beliefs, or trust in one’s health care provider. And while some might place their trust in an Ivy League hospital, others might turn to vitamins from the Himalayas or homeopathic globuli.

Studies have shown that the placebo effect is more powerful than previously believed and that it can modulate certain areas of a patient’s brain, making it plausible that a placebo might relieve the symptoms of some conditions, says Burke. And beyond that, “The whole patient interaction — hearing somebody empathizing with them, developing a good therapeutic relationship, relieving some of their anxieties and worries, that’s really important and that’s something that unfortunately we don’t do as much as we should in medicine,” he says.

Both Lübbers and Grams agree that placebo effects are powerful and wish that medical doctors could spend more time with each patient. “As good as our medicine is scientifically,” Lübbers says, mainstream medicine has “completely ignored” the importance of spending clinic time with patients. But, he adds, for no other issue are the facts as crystal clear: Aside from the placebo effect, homeopathic medicines don’t work.

“If we don’t succeed in kicking homeopathy out of medicine and banning it to the kingdom of esoterica,” Lübbers asks, “then how can we even begin to talk about unnecessary back surgeries?”

As he leaves the clinic each day, Lübbers passes a glass cabinet that houses a collection of historic medical devices: pillboxes, a knife for bloodletting, and a mask onto which doctors dropped ether to anaesthetize patients.

Perhaps, someday, Lübbers will be able to lock globuli behind that door, too.

Denise Hruby is a bilingual reporter and editor who covers the climate crisis and environmental crime, politics, and social and human rights issues. Her reporting has appeared in National Geographic, CNN, The Washington Post, The Guardian, the LA Times, Nature, and the BBC.

https://undark.org/2020/03/16/homeopathy-globuli-germany/

Influenzinum CV30 2020 Survey (Copy)

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Producer/director of the Real Immunity film series, Cilla Whatcott, shares her fascinating experience of living on a tiny island in the Pacific where she raised her children in a unique and idyllic environment. Throughout Choosing Real Immunity, she opens up about her own cancer diagnosis that caused her to examine her choices for healing more carefully and choose a path outside of conventional treatment.

What makes people choose the road less traveled? Hear from medical doctors who chose a more natural path after traditional medical school, a homeopath who founded a school, and a Japanese healer whose life was saved by homeopathy.

Our level of consciousness plays a large part in our choices as well as our natural immunity. Learn a distinct system for assessing the level from which we operate and hear from gifted healers about how they relate to their patients. The consciousness of both parents, plus generations gone before, play a distinct role in the health, immunity, and reality for each of us. Hear from Dr. Joe Dispenza as he shares amazing details of how raising children is the fastest route to enlightenment.

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Homeopathy Suggested For COVID-19 Prevention (Copy)

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Daily Guide Network

10/03/2020

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Dr. Michael Kyeremateng

Homeopathic medicine specialist at the C4C Homeopathic Hospital, Dr. Michael Kyeremateng, has suggested the use of homeopathy medicine as a means of preventing Coronavirus (COVID-19).

According to Dr. Kyeremateng, countries like India are using this alternative form of medicine as a preventive tool against the deadly COVID-19.

Dr. Kyeremanteng, who happens to be a product of Indian alternative medicine education, believes that the use of homeopathy medicine by the Government of Ghana will go a long way to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

He said the effectiveness of homeopathic preparations was disputed within medical science but India, which was noted as the hub of Homeopathy, had proven to the world how powerful homeopathic treatments were.

The Indian government’s Ministry of AYUSH, which promotes alternative medicine systems in the country, released a health advisory on January 29 that advocated the use of homeopathy and traditional remedies, such as Indian systems of medicine, to ward off infections of the newly circulating novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).

This includes the use of a homeopathic preparation called Arsenicum album 30C and two drops of sesame oil in each nostril each morning for prevention and Unani medicines (treatments based on the teachings of Hippocrates and Galen) to mitigate symptoms of COVID-19 infection.

India’s government has promoted pseudoscientific homeopathic practices in its effort to prevent the spread of the mysterious new COVID-19, which has killed over 100 people.

The step taken by the Indian government, according to Dr. Kyeremanteng, a graduate of the College of Practical Homeopathy with Licentiate in Homeopathic Medicine from London in the United Kingdom, was worth emulating and the best way to prevent COVID-19 from spreading.

The 2019-nCoV has killed more than 3500 people and infected over 105,000 according to reports – the majority in mainland China.

India is not currently among the countries dealing with cases of the virus, dubbed 2019-nCoVA, which includes the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia and South Korea.

By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/homeopathy-susggested-for-covid-19-prevention/ar-BB10ZwL1

Homeopathy and Coronavirus. A proposal by Pr. Vithoulkas (Copy)

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Homeopathy and Coronavirus. A proposal by Pr. Vithoulkas

26/03/2020

Dear readers,
below you may find a text by Prof. Vithoulkas about the “Advantage of Homeopathy” and his ideas concerning a trial for Homeopathy.

Also you can find the answer of Prof. Vithoulkas regarding the paper of Rajan Sankaran (https://homeopathyplus.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Homeopathy-for-Coronavirus-Covid-19-Infection-Dr-Aditya-Kasariyans-and-Dr-Rajan-Sankaran.pdf)_about Covid-19  and his views about genus epidemicus.

The advantage of Homeopathy

The advantage of Homeopathy lies in the fact that the diagnosis of the indicated remedy is based on the individual symptoms not in the pathology.
This pandemic is a great opportunity for homeopathy to show the advantage we have over other systems of medicine. Why?
Because conventional medicine has to wait until they have found the cause for the pathology before they can start treating a case.

On the contrary, in homeopathy we take in to consideration the response of the organism to the causative factor (the totality of the symptoms) in order to start the treatment.

Therefore the intervention can be immediate. The totality of symptoms for each patient become the guiding signs for finding the indicated remedy.

Therefore a homeopath can prescribe a remedy with the first manifestation of symptoms and in this way, “preventing” the full development of the pathology (state of pneumonia).

This type of “preventing” has been misinterpreted by some homeopaths who think that we, homeopaths, also have remedies that will be acting like a “vaccine” ! This is a totally wrong perception, homeopathy cannot provide “preventive” remedies with the kind of effectiveness a vaccine may have.

If the right remedy is given in an organism under a minor stress, like when we get a common cold or a simple flu, the organism will reset instantly and will not develop in to a bronchitis or pneumonia. In such a case, a dose of Aconitum or of Arsenicum will work in many cases of simple flu, especially Arsenicum, will act if the body feels very cold. This experience most probably prompted AYUSH to declare the use of Arsenicum. In a way we can say from experience that these two remedies are the genus epidemicus for common colds or simple flu virus, as they will prevent in many cases the further development of the flu going to the deeper parts of the respiratory track.

But for this Covid-19 things are different. This virus acts very strangely as it develops very slowly in the beginning and if finds a weakened immune system, proceeds fast in to destroying the lungs, by creating pulmonary fibrosis, a state that the patient has such dyspnea as if is drowning in water.

That is why I have said that we must be careful in to declaring a remedy, as genus epidemicus.

I have received several proposals so far from several homeopathic centres proposing a different remedy each time that ask to declare it as the genus epidemicus, but there is no substantiation for any of them, except for the proposal of AYUSH that, as I said, is based on past experience of many years but with simple viruses.

It is a pity that no one from the almost two thousands diploma holders of the IACH has received and treated any confirmed case, therefore the detailed information we need in homeopathy in order to make a differential diagnosis is missing.

For all the above reasons we should be reserved in giving out to the public information about the treatment of Covid-19 that is not substantiated. Each one of us we must continue to investigate and try to help our immediate environment.

Prof. George Vithoulkas

19.03.2020

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/homeopathy-and-coronavirus-a-proposal-by-pr-vithoulkas/

Homeopathy Suggested For COVID-19 Prevention (Copy)

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Daily Guide Network

10/03/2020

© Provided by Daily Guide Network

Dr. Michael Kyeremateng

Homeopathic medicine specialist at the C4C Homeopathic Hospital, Dr. Michael Kyeremateng, has suggested the use of homeopathy medicine as a means of preventing Coronavirus (COVID-19).

According to Dr. Kyeremateng, countries like India are using this alternative form of medicine as a preventive tool against the deadly COVID-19.

Dr. Kyeremanteng, who happens to be a product of Indian alternative medicine education, believes that the use of homeopathy medicine by the Government of Ghana will go a long way to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

He said the effectiveness of homeopathic preparations was disputed within medical science but India, which was noted as the hub of Homeopathy, had proven to the world how powerful homeopathic treatments were.

The Indian government’s Ministry of AYUSH, which promotes alternative medicine systems in the country, released a health advisory on January 29 that advocated the use of homeopathy and traditional remedies, such as Indian systems of medicine, to ward off infections of the newly circulating novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).

This includes the use of a homeopathic preparation called Arsenicum album 30C and two drops of sesame oil in each nostril each morning for prevention and Unani medicines (treatments based on the teachings of Hippocrates and Galen) to mitigate symptoms of COVID-19 infection.

India’s government has promoted pseudoscientific homeopathic practices in its effort to prevent the spread of the mysterious new COVID-19, which has killed over 100 people.

The step taken by the Indian government, according to Dr. Kyeremanteng, a graduate of the College of Practical Homeopathy with Licentiate in Homeopathic Medicine from London in the United Kingdom, was worth emulating and the best way to prevent COVID-19 from spreading.

The 2019-nCoV has killed more than 3500 people and infected over 105,000 according to reports – the majority in mainland China.

India is not currently among the countries dealing with cases of the virus, dubbed 2019-nCoVA, which includes the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia and South Korea.

By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/homeopathy-susggested-for-covid-19-prevention/ar-BB10ZwL1

Homeopathy Suggested For COVID-19 Prevention (Copy)

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Daily Guide Network

10/03/2020

© Provided by Daily Guide Network

Dr. Michael Kyeremateng

Homeopathic medicine specialist at the C4C Homeopathic Hospital, Dr. Michael Kyeremateng, has suggested the use of homeopathy medicine as a means of preventing Coronavirus (COVID-19).

According to Dr. Kyeremateng, countries like India are using this alternative form of medicine as a preventive tool against the deadly COVID-19.

Dr. Kyeremanteng, who happens to be a product of Indian alternative medicine education, believes that the use of homeopathy medicine by the Government of Ghana will go a long way to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

He said the effectiveness of homeopathic preparations was disputed within medical science but India, which was noted as the hub of Homeopathy, had proven to the world how powerful homeopathic treatments were.

The Indian government’s Ministry of AYUSH, which promotes alternative medicine systems in the country, released a health advisory on January 29 that advocated the use of homeopathy and traditional remedies, such as Indian systems of medicine, to ward off infections of the newly circulating novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV).

This includes the use of a homeopathic preparation called Arsenicum album 30C and two drops of sesame oil in each nostril each morning for prevention and Unani medicines (treatments based on the teachings of Hippocrates and Galen) to mitigate symptoms of COVID-19 infection.

India’s government has promoted pseudoscientific homeopathic practices in its effort to prevent the spread of the mysterious new COVID-19, which has killed over 100 people.

The step taken by the Indian government, according to Dr. Kyeremanteng, a graduate of the College of Practical Homeopathy with Licentiate in Homeopathic Medicine from London in the United Kingdom, was worth emulating and the best way to prevent COVID-19 from spreading.

The 2019-nCoV has killed more than 3500 people and infected over 105,000 according to reports – the majority in mainland China.

India is not currently among the countries dealing with cases of the virus, dubbed 2019-nCoVA, which includes the U.S., Canada, Japan, Australia and South Korea.

By Jamila Akweley Okertchiri

https://www.msn.com/en-xl/news/other/homeopathy-susggested-for-covid-19-prevention/ar-BB10ZwL1

4 At-Home Homeopathic Treatments article from GOOP.com (Copy)

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https://goop.com/wellness/health/4-at-home-homeopathic-treatments/

4 At-Home Homeopathic Treatments

In some countries outside the United States, homeopathic remedies are the first line of defense against ailment, from the common cold to bruising to muscle pain. And since they offer such a gentle but effective path to healing, they’re a great starting point for anyone dipping their toes into alternative medicine—that, and the fact that they’re easy to find, safe to self-treat, and inexpensive. Dr. Ellen Kamhi, a long-time herbalist and holistic nurse (she also leads incredible trips that explore ancient healing arts in indigenous cultures), has been treating illnesses big and small with homeopathics for more than 40 years. Below, her favorite go-to treatments and the essential ingredients for an at-home homeopathy first-aid kit.

A Q&A with Dr. Ellen Kamhi

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What is homeopathic medicine?

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The term homeopathic medicine refers to a group of remedies based on the work of Samuel Hahnemann, a German physician who is considered the father of homeopathy.

Hahnemann founded homeopathy in the late 1700s, and today, an estimated 500 million people worldwide receive homeopathic treatment; in Britain, homeopathy enjoys royal patronage. Homeopathy is now practiced according to two differing concepts: In classical homeopathy, only one single-component remedy is prescribed at a time, in a potency specifically adjusted to the patient; the physician waits to see the results before prescribing anything further. In complex homeopathy, a prescription may involve multiple substances given at the same time. This is more of a broad ‘shot-gun’ approach, and is often used to deal with acute situations, such as an upset stomach, rather than a deeper ongoing issue, such as chronic digestive difficulties.

Homeopathy functions on the premise of “like cures like”—a concept very foreign to conventional medicine. In this concept a homeopathic remedy is used for an individual who is exhibiting the symptoms that the remedy would actually cause in a healthy person. For example, in healthy individuals, cutting an onion often elicits a response that involves a runny nose and tears. Therefore, the homeopath would use a homeopathic preparation of onion (Allium Cepa) for an individual who is exhibiting these symptoms, even though it may be caused by a mild allergy or respiratory condition.

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How is homeopathy different from herbal medicine?

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Homeopathy is completely different than herbal medicine. Homeopathic remedies often use an herb as the starting material, but some remedies also use a mineral or other substance as the starting material. An example is the homeopathic remedy Carbo vegetabilis (Carbo veg.), which is prepared using charcoal and is used to help digestive issues such as indigestion and intestinal gas, as well as other health complaints.

In herbal medicine, the actual plant is the medicine. The amount of plant material can be identified, measured and analyzed in the herbal preparation.

In homeopathy, the original substance is diluted many times and succussed (shaken) through a complex preparation process. Most practitioners use premade homeopathic remedies that are either sold in their office or in pharmacies, or health food stores, though they can also be made by hand. In homeopathy, the end product contains “energy,” but no molecules of the original substance due to the dilution process. The fact that homeopathics function on an energetic basis is a major reason that so many naysayers claim quackery, despite countless clinical studies proving otherwise. The mechanism of action that gives homeopathics their power is complex, and experts are now studying quantum physics and the science of non-locality to more completely understand how homeopathics work.

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Are there any ailments that respond particularly well to homeopathic treatment? Vice versa?

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Homeopathy is used around the world for every kind of health imbalance. Mixed homeopathics really shine when it comes to first-aid home remedies, such as stopping a cold or flu in its tracks, or for mild traumatic injuries.

Classical homeopathy administered by an experienced practitioner can make a big difference in deep-seeded, long-term chronic health challenges. It’s been known to assist in a protocol to heal and reverse arthritis, and it’s also helpful with mental health issues like depression.

When you consider life-threatening diseases such as cancer, knowledgeable practitioners may use homeopathy in concert with conventional medicine. Homeopathic medicine can be used as a palliative adjunct, particularly to counter the side effects such as nausea of conventional treatments like chemotherapy.

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What should a patient expect at a consultation with a homeopathic doctor?

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Many health providers offer consultations in homeopathic remedies. They may be an M.D., D.O., chiropractor, herbalist, nurse, or other kind of practitioner. If the provider is offering single-dose constitutional homeopathy, the patient will be interviewed extensively, usually for over 2 hours, to allow the provider to determine the one remedy that would help to balance a chronic, ongoing situation. If the patient seeks help with an acute condition, and the practitioner is offering a complex homochord (a blended remedy that takes more of a shotgun approach at treatment), the recommendation will be based on the immediate condition. An acute recommendation can typically be made very quickly.

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How can you find a homeopath, and are there tricks to identifying a good one?

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There are various homeopathic societies that many professional homeopaths may belong to, such as the North American Society of Homeopaths. They can be contacted to find a homeopath in your area, and anyone on their registry will have gone through extensive certification to be recognized. Asking friends and family for recommendations is another good way to go.

Homeopathic remedies are typically very affordable, and many minor ailments can be self-treated. Homeopathy has a high safety record, with a very low rate of adverse effects.

One possible side effect is called aggravation—it can happen if someone’s particularly sensitive or if the incorrect remedy is mistakenly chosen. Symptoms of aggravation could be a runny nose or a temporary rash.

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Can homeopathic treatments coexist with conventional treatments?

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Homeopathic treatments blend excellently with conventional pharmaceuticals and other conventional treatments. They can be extremely helpful to counteract the negative side effects of conventional interventions.

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Any quick-fixes that we should all have in our medicine cabinets?

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The four treatments are good basics to get started with, and really emphasize the areas where homeopathy shines:

#1: FOR FLUOscillococcinum

Oscillococcinum has been shown in clinical trials to help reduce the severity and shorten the duration of flu-like symptoms (1, 2). It works rapidly, with 63 percent of patients showing “complete resolution” or “clear improvement” at 48 hours.*1 In a double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, the recovery rate within 48 hours of treatment was significantly greater in the group that received the active drug than in the placebo group.†2 Unlike other flu medicines, Oscillococcinum does not cause drowsiness or interact with other medications. It’s available at most pharmacies, natural food stores, and supermarkets. It works best when taken early, so I recommend keeping a bottle in your medicine cabinet and taking it at the first signs of flu-like symptoms.

*Versus 48% in the placebo group, P=0.003; †P=0.03.

#2: BRUISES, PAIN, SWELLINGArnica

Arnica is a common homeopathic remedy that can make a black-and-blue mark disappear before your eyes, as well as reduce swelling. I used it constantly for my children, now 41 and 38, when they had a sports ‘mishap’. There are several published studies that show arnica to be very effective for pain and swelling (3, 4, 5, 6). It can be taken as an oral homeopathic or as a topical cream.

#3: TRAUMAGelsemium, Hypericum, and Arnica

The combination of three single remedies, gelsemium (for headaches and flu with muscle pain), hypericum (helpful for nerve injury—known as St. John’s Wort in herbal medicine), and arnica (see above), is something people should keep on hand for any kind of trauma. It’s particularly great for surgeries that are planned in advance. Take one pellet of each daily for three days before the incident, and then take three pellets of each three times per day for one week following the incident. Clinically, I’ve seen this combination reduce suffering because there’s less swelling and less inflammation.

#4: GRIEF & EMOTIONAL UPSETIgnatia amara

Ignatia amara can be a wonderful support during times of loss. It applies for all kinds of loss, from ended relationships, loss of a job, a move, and even the loss of a friend or family member. I always recommend that patients take ignatia on the weekends, because there’s one potential side effect. Often we stuff the feelings of a loss under the surface—if you take ignatia, as part of the release process, you may experience revisiting the deep grief that was often not addressed during the time of the loss event. Ignatia may bring all those feelings back up to the surface, so you can release it, find resolution, and then move on. Therefore, it may be useful to take it when you have a bit of time and space to face emotional release.

A HOMEOPATHIC FIRST-AID KIT

If you’re ready to go all-in, Ellen recommends equipping every home with a homeopathic first aid kit, which should include a quick and easy reference guide like the one below.

COLD & FLUSymptomsTreatmentCold And Fever (with Sudden Onset)Aconitum NapellusCoughSpongia TostaRunny NoseAllium CepaCough (with Mucus In Chest)Antimonium TartaricumDry Cough And Arthritis PainBryonia AlbaFever And InflammationFerrum PhosphoricumCough And Runny NoseHepar Sulphuris Calcareum Pulsatilla NigricansSore ThroatMercurius VivusCough And Sore ThroatPhosphorus

SWELLING & IRRITATIONSymptomsTreatmentBites, Stings, And SwellingApis MellificaBruising And Muscle SorenessArnica MontanaFever And InflammationBelladonnaBladder IrritationCantharisBites, Stings, And Minor Puncture WoundsLedum Palustre  ArthritisRhus ToxicodendronSprains And TendonitisRuta GraveolensRashes And EczemaSulphur

CRAMPS & SORENESSSymptomsTreatmentTeethingCalcarea PhosphoricaTeething And IrritabilityChamomillaMenstrual CrampsMagnesia Phosphorica

UPSET STOMACHSymptomsTreatmentDiarrheaArsenicum AlbumNauseaCarbo VegetabilisNausea And VomitingIpecacuanhaIndigestion And NauseaNux VomicaDiarrhea With VomitingVeratrum Album

Ellen Kamhi, PhD, RN, AHG, AHN-BC, The Natural Nurse®, is an author, radio host and medical school instructor. She offers online courses in Natural Health Career Counselling, and specific topics in Natural Health Care.

(1) Papp R, Schuback G, Beck E, et al. Oscillococcinum in patients with influenza-like syndromes: a placebo-controlled, double-blind evaluation. Br Homeopath J. 1998;87:69-76.

(2) Ferley JP, Zmirou D, D’Adhemar D, Balducci F. A controlled evaluation of a homeopathic preparation in the treatment of influenza-like syndromes. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 1989;27:329-335.

(3) Otto Knuesel, Michel Weber and Andy Suter. “Arnica montana gel in osteoarthritis of the knee: An open, multicenter clinical trial” Advances in Therapy Volume 19, Number 5, 209-218, DOI: 10.1007/BF02850361, 2002.

(4) Robertson A, Suryanarayanan R, Banerjee A. “Homeopathic Arnica montana for post-tonsillectomy analgesia: a randomised placebo control trial.” Homeopathy Jan; 96(1):17-21, 2007.

(5) R. Widrig, A. Suter, R. Saller & J. Melzer. “Choosing between NSAID and arnica for topical treatment of hand osteoarthritis in a randomised, double-blind study”. Rheumatology International 27 (6): 585-91, 2007.

(6) Seeley BM, Denton AB, Ahn MS, Maas CS. “Effect of homeopathic Arnica montana on bruising in face-lifts: results of a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial.” Archives of Facial Plastic Surgery Jan-Feb; 8(1):54-9, 2006.

The views expressed in this article intend to highlight alternative studies and induce conversation. They are the views of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of goop, and are for informational purposes only, even if and to the extent that this article features the advice of physicians and medical practitioners. This article is not, nor is it intended to be, a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and should never be relied upon for specific medical advice.
A previous version of this article stated that in most countries outside the United States, homeopathic remedies are the first line of defense against ailment, from the common cold to bruising to muscle pain. It has been updated that in some countries, homeopathics are a first line of defense.

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By Katherine Lewin

| September 29

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As the spread of COVID-19 has slowed its burn through the Navajo Nation, several Indigenous filmmakers and creators have managed to complete part of the production of a documentary. Its focus is even more relevant in today's modern pandemic life: the striking parallels between homeopathy and traditional Navajo healing practices and how homeopathy could be used as another mode of healing on the reservation.

Hózhóogo Iiná—Homeopathy for Indigenous America, directed and produced by Leahn Cox and funded by donations to GoFundMe and a John Pinto Grant from the New Mexico Film Office, is both a personal and professional endeavor.

Cox is a member of the Navajo Nation who grew up in Gallup, though she now lives and works in Santa Fe. Her upbringing as a Diné woman and her experience and education in homeopathy and other healing arts drove her to start the project, which she plans to screen in chapter houses across the Navajo Nation, as well as in Albuquerque and border towns.

"I definitely have had interest in bringing homeopathy and making it more available in places with limited access to these types of alternative resources, particularly now in the Navajo Nation," Cox tells SFR. "I have been trying to offer [homeopathy] where I live, where I'm from, and to family members. But there's so much confusion and so that's one reason the film, I think, could put it in terms of understanding it in the sense of talking about ancient Indigenous knowledge."

Read more

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The GoFundMe has raised $2,475 of a $20,000 goal. The state grant named after a late Navajo senator gave the project $5,000, which has funded the bulk of the work. Cox aims to raise at least another $5,000 to pay for an animator for a portion of Hózhóogo Iiná. She also hopes to turn it into a larger project where she explores the use of homeopathy in other Indigenous communities across North America.

Germans developed homeopathic medicine over 200 years ago, and based it on two main premises: that a disease can be cured by a substance that produces similar symptoms in healthy people and that the lower the dose of the medication, the greater its effectiveness, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. The medicines used in homeopathy come from plants, animals and minerals.

The fundamentals of homeopathy tie in neatly with Navajo traditional healing practices, Cox says.

"Homeopathy is about this vibrational signature of substances in the environment and you take it and inspire your own vitality to heal," Cox says. "So through ancient knowledge you have…this understanding there's an inner spirit form in our environment and that when you really understand that you use that knowledge for healing."

Cox interviews several people in Hózhóogo Iiná to get the connection across to viewers. Donald Denetdeal, one of the interviewees, is also the primary consultant for the project on the Navajo holistic perspective. Denetdeal is a retired professor of Navajo Studies from Diné College. In the documentary, he discusses the Navajo idea that an inner spirit existing within everything in nature is what's doing the healing, just as homeopathy recognizes an energy form in plants and other elements.

But Hózhóogo Iiná is about more than just the parallels between the two healing modalities, one formed many thousands of miles away and another here in the Southwest. The documentary intends to explore, in a practical way, the potential of the use of homeopathy on the Navajo Nation as well as to increase Indigenous peoples' interest in their own traditional healing.

"In this time of increasing health inequality and especially now, in quarantine, we have had to start thinking of utilizing the wisdom of our heritage when it comes to healing our communities," says project photographer and editor Dax Thomas, whose heritage is of Acoma and Laguna pueblos and who now lives and works in Laguna Pueblo.

"With homeopathy there is an inherent respect for nature and a holistic perspective that is certainly compatible with our traditional methods of healing. It could provide safe and effective solutions, especially in our rural areas where there are less options and a primary reliance on [Indian Health Service]. It supports self sufficiency—as we return to healing with nature around us—using
herbs, prayers."

As the spread of COVID-19 has slowed its burn through the Navajo Nation, several Indigenous filmmakers and creators have managed to complete part of the production of a documentary. (Copy)

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Healing Modality

Through pandemic, Indigenous creators film documentary about the parallels of homeopathy and traditional methods for holistic healing on Navajo Nation Donald Denetdeal is the primary consultant for the documentary on the Navajo holistic perspective of healing. | Jai Antonio

By Katherine Lewin

| September 29

Help keep local journalism fighting for you. Donate today to Friends of the Reporter.

 

As the spread of COVID-19 has slowed its burn through the Navajo Nation, several Indigenous filmmakers and creators have managed to complete part of the production of a documentary. Its focus is even more relevant in today's modern pandemic life: the striking parallels between homeopathy and traditional Navajo healing practices and how homeopathy could be used as another mode of healing on the reservation.

Hózhóogo Iiná—Homeopathy for Indigenous America, directed and produced by Leahn Cox and funded by donations to GoFundMe and a John Pinto Grant from the New Mexico Film Office, is both a personal and professional endeavor.

Cox is a member of the Navajo Nation who grew up in Gallup, though she now lives and works in Santa Fe. Her upbringing as a Diné woman and her experience and education in homeopathy and other healing arts drove her to start the project, which she plans to screen in chapter houses across the Navajo Nation, as well as in Albuquerque and border towns.

"I definitely have had interest in bringing homeopathy and making it more available in places with limited access to these types of alternative resources, particularly now in the Navajo Nation," Cox tells SFR. "I have been trying to offer [homeopathy] where I live, where I'm from, and to family members. But there's so much confusion and so that's one reason the film, I think, could put it in terms of understanding it in the sense of talking about ancient Indigenous knowledge."

Read more

x

The GoFundMe has raised $2,475 of a $20,000 goal. The state grant named after a late Navajo senator gave the project $5,000, which has funded the bulk of the work. Cox aims to raise at least another $5,000 to pay for an animator for a portion of Hózhóogo Iiná. She also hopes to turn it into a larger project where she explores the use of homeopathy in other Indigenous communities across North America.

Germans developed homeopathic medicine over 200 years ago, and based it on two main premises: that a disease can be cured by a substance that produces similar symptoms in healthy people and that the lower the dose of the medication, the greater its effectiveness, according to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health. The medicines used in homeopathy come from plants, animals and minerals.

The fundamentals of homeopathy tie in neatly with Navajo traditional healing practices, Cox says.

"Homeopathy is about this vibrational signature of substances in the environment and you take it and inspire your own vitality to heal," Cox says. "So through ancient knowledge you have…this understanding there's an inner spirit form in our environment and that when you really understand that you use that knowledge for healing."

Cox interviews several people in Hózhóogo Iiná to get the connection across to viewers. Donald Denetdeal, one of the interviewees, is also the primary consultant for the project on the Navajo holistic perspective. Denetdeal is a retired professor of Navajo Studies from Diné College. In the documentary, he discusses the Navajo idea that an inner spirit existing within everything in nature is what's doing the healing, just as homeopathy recognizes an energy form in plants and other elements.

But Hózhóogo Iiná is about more than just the parallels between the two healing modalities, one formed many thousands of miles away and another here in the Southwest. The documentary intends to explore, in a practical way, the potential of the use of homeopathy on the Navajo Nation as well as to increase Indigenous peoples' interest in their own traditional healing.

"In this time of increasing health inequality and especially now, in quarantine, we have had to start thinking of utilizing the wisdom of our heritage when it comes to healing our communities," says project photographer and editor Dax Thomas, whose heritage is of Acoma and Laguna pueblos and who now lives and works in Laguna Pueblo.

"With homeopathy there is an inherent respect for nature and a holistic perspective that is certainly compatible with our traditional methods of healing. It could provide safe and effective solutions, especially in our rural areas where there are less options and a primary reliance on [Indian Health Service]. It supports self sufficiency—as we return to healing with nature around us—using
herbs, prayers."

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Homeopathy and Coronavirus. A proposal by Pr. Vithoulkas

26/03/2020

Dear readers,
below you may find a text by Prof. Vithoulkas about the “Advantage of Homeopathy” and his ideas concerning a trial for Homeopathy.

Also you can find the answer of Prof. Vithoulkas regarding the paper of Rajan Sankaran (https://homeopathyplus.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Homeopathy-for-Coronavirus-Covid-19-Infection-Dr-Aditya-Kasariyans-and-Dr-Rajan-Sankaran.pdf)_about Covid-19  and his views about genus epidemicus.

The advantage of Homeopathy

The advantage of Homeopathy lies in the fact that the diagnosis of the indicated remedy is based on the individual symptoms not in the pathology.
This pandemic is a great opportunity for homeopathy to show the advantage we have over other systems of medicine. Why?
Because conventional medicine has to wait until they have found the cause for the pathology before they can start treating a case.

On the contrary, in homeopathy we take in to consideration the response of the organism to the causative factor (the totality of the symptoms) in order to start the treatment.

Therefore the intervention can be immediate. The totality of symptoms for each patient become the guiding signs for finding the indicated remedy.

Therefore a homeopath can prescribe a remedy with the first manifestation of symptoms and in this way, “preventing” the full development of the pathology (state of pneumonia).

This type of “preventing” has been misinterpreted by some homeopaths who think that we, homeopaths, also have remedies that will be acting like a “vaccine” ! This is a totally wrong perception, homeopathy cannot provide “preventive” remedies with the kind of effectiveness a vaccine may have.

If the right remedy is given in an organism under a minor stress, like when we get a common cold or a simple flu, the organism will reset instantly and will not develop in to a bronchitis or pneumonia. In such a case, a dose of Aconitum or of Arsenicum will work in many cases of simple flu, especially Arsenicum, will act if the body feels very cold. This experience most probably prompted AYUSH to declare the use of Arsenicum. In a way we can say from experience that these two remedies are the genus epidemicus for common colds or simple flu virus, as they will prevent in many cases the further development of the flu going to the deeper parts of the respiratory track.

But for this Covid-19 things are different. This virus acts very strangely as it develops very slowly in the beginning and if finds a weakened immune system, proceeds fast in to destroying the lungs, by creating pulmonary fibrosis, a state that the patient has such dyspnea as if is drowning in water.

That is why I have said that we must be careful in to declaring a remedy, as genus epidemicus.

I have received several proposals so far from several homeopathic centres proposing a different remedy each time that ask to declare it as the genus epidemicus, but there is no substantiation for any of them, except for the proposal of AYUSH that, as I said, is based on past experience of many years but with simple viruses.

It is a pity that no one from the almost two thousands diploma holders of the IACH has received and treated any confirmed case, therefore the detailed information we need in homeopathy in order to make a differential diagnosis is missing.

For all the above reasons we should be reserved in giving out to the public information about the treatment of Covid-19 that is not substantiated. Each one of us we must continue to investigate and try to help our immediate environment.

Prof. George Vithoulkas

19.03.2020

http://www.defenddemocracy.press/homeopathy-and-coronavirus-a-proposal-by-pr-vithoulkas/

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Z Gesundh Wiss. 2020 Jun 5 : 1–4.

doi: 10.1007/s10389-020-01305-z [Epub ahead of print]

PMCID: PMC7272237

PMID: 32837839

Homeopathy combat against coronavirus disease (Covid-19)

D. Kalliantas,1,2 M. Kallianta,3 and Ch. S. Karagianni1

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Abstract

Aim

Today, humanity is living through the third serious coronavirus outbreak in less than 20 years, following SARS in 2002–2003 and MERS in 2012. While the final cost on human lives and world economy remains unpredictable, the timely identification of a suitable treatment and the development of an effective vaccine remain a significant challenge and will still require time. The aim of this study is to show that the global collective effort to control the coronavirus pandemic (Covid 19) should also consider alternative therapeutic methods, and national health systems should quickly endorse the validity of proven homeopathic treatments in this war against coronavirus disease.

Subject and methods

With the help of mathematics, we will show that the fundamental therapeutic law on which homeopathy is founded can be proved.

Results

The mathematical proof of the law of similarity justifies perfectly the use of ultra - high diluted succussed solution products as major tools in the daily practices of homeopathy.

Conclusion

It is now time to end prejudice and adopt in this fight against Covid-19 alternative therapeutic techniques and practices that historically have proven effective in corresponding situations.

Keywords: Coronavirus, Covid-19, Infectious disease, Laws, Homeopathy, Pneumonia

Introduction

On the 29th of December 2019 a number of cases with unknown origin pneumonia were admitted to the hospital of Wuhan, in China. This was caused by a novel betacoronavirus, named as coronavirus (2019-nCoV) (Shajeea et al. 2020; Huang et al. 2020). It is an acute infectious disease mainly impacting the respiratory system, which has been found for the first time in human beings (WHO 2020).

Symptoms of Covid-19 are similar to other viral upper respiratory illnesses. Three major severity level phases characterize the coronavirus disease: a mild phase with upper respiratory symptoms, non-severe pneumonia, and severe pneumonia complicated by acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The main systemic and respiratory symptoms caused by Covid-19 infection are dependent on the age of the patient and the status of the patient’s immune system (Wang et al. 2020a, b, c). The main systemic disorders are fever, cough, fatigue, sputum production, headache, haemoptysis, acute cardiac injuries, hypoxemia, dyspnoea, lymphopenia, and diarrhea. On the other hand, the main respiratory disorders are rhinorrhoea, sneezing, sore throat, pneumonia, ground-glass opacities, RNAaemia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (Hussin and Siddappa 2020). The novelty of the virus rests in its unpredictable strange behavior, although in the early stages of the infection it develops very slowly and behaves like the common viruses; if it finds a weakened immune system, it proceeds severely fast, destroying the lungs, by creating pulmonary fibrosis. At this state the patient has a level of dyspnea as if he is drowning in water. At present, there are no specific antiviral drugs or vaccine against Covid-19 infection for potential therapy of humans. The only option available is using broad-spectrum antiviral drugs, HIV-protease inhibitors that could attenuate virus infection and chloroquine, which has been shown to control the 2019-n Co V infection in vitro (Lu 2020; Chen et al. 2020; Wang et al. 2020a, b, c; Toots et al. 2019). Anti-inflammatory drugs (such as hormones and other molecules), as well as Chinese traditional medicines, such as ShuFengJieDu capsules and Lianhuaqingwen capsules, have also been used (Ji et al. 2020; Ding et al. 2017). All of the drug options come from experience in treating SARS, MERS, or some other new influenza viruses previously, and are aiming to address active symptoms. These drugs above may prove helpful, but their efficacy needs to be further confirmed. The research methodology with regard to traditional or other medicines which are needed in this pandemic is mentioned by others (Lu 2020; Wang et al. 2020a, b, c; Zhang et al. 2020).

In our present work, we will focus upon the logical structure and benefits of homeopathy as a therapeutic system suitable to cope with this pandemic.

Methods

With the help of mathematics, we will show that the fundamental therapeutic law on which homeopathy is founded can be proved.

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Results and discussion

Homeopathy is a natural therapy method and an experimental science. It exploits a main property of nature, that of self-similarity on a change of scale. The term self-similarity is used to show that similarity between the disease and the substantces which under the same conditions present similar behavior must be full and lead to a mathematical identity.

Homeopathy, as a healing method, is based on the Hippocratic ΄΄Similia Similibus Curentur΄΄ therapeutic law. The physician relies on the wholeness of symptoms revealed during the entire evolution of the infection, and prescribes an ultra - high diluted succussed solution product which has been proven to heal similar conditions. This is a great advantage in this timing while Covid-19 disease is in rapid devemopment, because the diagnosis of the indicated ultra-high diluted succussed solution product is based on individual symptoms (if these are very characteristic) or on the totality of symptoms, and not in the pathology.

Established medicine has to wait until the cause for the pathology is found, whereas in homeopathy we take into consideration the response of the organism to the causative factor (the totality of the symptoms) in order to start the treatment. Therefore, the intervention can be immediate and very helpful for the patient.

The totality of symptoms for each patient become the guiding signs for finding the indicated remedy. In that way we can prescribe an ultra high - diluted succussed solution product with the first manifestation of symptoms, preventing the full development of the pathology. Let us not forget that the basic principle is that there are not diseases but patients, and that every patient is a special case. Homeopathic ultra - high diluted succussed medicinal products which are used as remedies come from nature (of plant, animal, mineral nosode origin etc.), naturally manufactured (trituration, dilution, succussion) and with an infinite storage time. They present reverse self-similarity properties with almost all known diseases. Also, as we have demonstrated in our previous work, the physical features — size and granularity — of solid raw starting materials to prepare these ultra high diluted succussed solution products are strongly affected by trituration in lactose, before turning them into homeopathic solutions, and in the final triturated step the materials are transformed into micro/nano scale (Kalliantas et al. 2018; Kalliantas et al. 2017). The validation of the Hippocratic idea that a substance which may cause symptoms to a healthy person can also cure these symptoms was carried out for the first time by S. Hahnemann with Cortex Peruvian fever tree bark. He called this work “drug proving” and he was the first to lay the foundations of the experimental medicine long before the birth of Claude Bernard (Kalliantas 2008).

Let us see how this reasoning–practice can be depicted on a mathematical level theoretically. The value of this footprint helps the logic of documentation–foundation that runs through homeopathy. Let E and E’ be the patient and the prover (a healthy person on whom a homeopathic remedy is tested for effectiveness) respectively.

Patient E.

A = Dynamic operator of the pathogenic cause.

χi = Symptom or symptoms of physical disease which correspond to the alterations of the biochemical kinetics of the organism after the action of A.

χ0 = the normal biochemical kinetics of the organism.

The term “operator” means a symbol, which, when being applied to a function, is transformed into another.

Prover E’.

C = Dynamic operator of the under-examination pathogenic substance.

x′ι

= Symptom or symptoms of the prover which correspond to alterations of the biochemical kinetics of the organism after the action of C.

χ′0

= the normal biochemical kinetics of the prover.

According to the above statement, the patient, before becoming ill, was healthy, and a pathogenic cause had an effect on him. The action of A upon E gives us symptoms. Therefore, it could be said that the symptom or symptoms are the result of the action A and its development on x0 of E. Then, it could be considered that:

xi=Ax0.

1

Here A can be considered to transform x0 into xi (disturbed metabolism). Similarly, if

x′ι

is the same symptom or symptoms in the prover as those of the patient, then this is a result of the C’s action, which is the dynamics of the under-examination pathogenic substance inχ′0, which is the normal biochemical kinetics of the prover.

Then we have

xi′=Cx0′

2

Here C again can be considered to transform x′0 into x′i. Since the patient and the prover are human beings with similar functions (there are no identical organisms), the relationship which connects their biochemical kinetics can take place with the help of an operator, such as B.

Then we have

xi′=Bxi

3

x0′=Bx0

4

Therefore

xi′=Cx0′

2

So (3)

⇒(1)x′i=BAx0

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From (4)

⇒x′0=Bx0⇒x0=B−1x′0

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and (5)

⇒x′i=(BAB−1)x′0

and

x′i=Cx′0x′i=(BAB−1)x′0}=>Cx′0=(BAB−1)x′0C=BAB−1

It can be observed that the “operators” C and A which correspondingly represent the dynamics of the pathogenic substance and the dynamics of the pathogenic factor are interrelated with an affine transformation.

The operator B is used to connect two biochemical kinetics, the patient and the prover, in an equality relationship. It could also be noticed that in the equation of operators C = BAB−1, B is presented as the product of itself with its opposite.

Homeopathy is an individualized system of therapy, therefore there is no possibility that one remedy will cure all cases of a specific pathology. However, from the afore-mentioned symptoms, both respiratory and systemic, professional homeopathic physicians could use homeopathic ultra - high diluted succussed solution products in the early stages of pathology such as Aconitum napellus or Arcenicum Album or Eupatorium perfoliatum or Gelsemium or Ipecacuana, in the later stages Bryonia or Phosphorus as the main drugs, and in the final stages Antimonium Tartaricum or Baptisia or Camphor Officinalis. (Vithoulkas 1997; Ghegas 2000; Allen 1995; Boericke 1990; Schroyens 1993). All the ultra - high diluted succussed solution product doses can be given to patients in 200c or 1 M potencies without using any other medications.

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Conclusion

Today, it is imperative that ever-safe medicinal products such as homeopathic ultra - high diluted succussed solutions are tested in this pandemic. Epidemiological research has to be carried out to include homeopathic treatment and compare it to established treatments. Patients should be assigned randomly in two different groups of at least 200–400 individuals, and receive respectively established and homeopathic treatment. The evaluation of the results from both groups could reveal which group has a superior outcome in survival, general health conditions, etc., and to what extent.

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Conflict of interest

The authors declare that they have no financial or other conflicts of interest in relation to this research and its publication.

Competing interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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