{"title":"Commentary to the Madingley scenarios: anticipated presentation—‘Find my way’","authors":"D Eskinazi","doi":"10.1054/homp.1999.0371","DOIUrl":"10.1054/homp.1999.0371","url":null,"abstract":"De®ne substantive important issues (eg nature of homeopathic signal=information, packaging of the signal, delivery and transduction). Explore the commonality between homeopathy and other health care systems. Choose the most appropriate partners anywhere in the world (made possible by global information and global connections) to address speci®c issues. Address the research issues de®ned above through this unique, perhaps every shifting, combination of necessary expertise. Evaluate the bene®ts of homeopathy versus side effects-riddled pharmaceuticals in old age, to help rede®ning old age as a resource instead of a problem. Estimate homeopathy's impact on shortand longterm cost and sustainability of health care.","PeriodicalId":100201,"journal":{"name":"British Homoeopathic Journal","volume":"89 ","pages":"Page S9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1054/homp.1999.0371","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125835353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of acupuncture and homeopathy: prospective documentation. Interim results","authors":"H Walach , C Güthlin","doi":"10.1054/homp.1999.0377","DOIUrl":"10.1054/homp.1999.0377","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Objective: To evaluate the overall effectiveness in general practice of homeopathy and acupuncture, and to estimate costs.</p><p>Method: Prospective documentation of all patients insured with an insurance company who are provided with free treatment of acupuncture and homeopathy. 4000 patients treated by acupuncture and 1000 patients by homeopathy will be enrolled. All patients will be followed up from the beginning of treatment for another 4 years. Doctors will provide data on each visit (diagnosis, treatment, change of symptoms, etc.), patients will fill in questionnaires at the beginning and at the end of treatment, as well as each year after the end of treatment (complaints, current treatment, general health status as measured by the MOS-SF 36). Insurance data on workdays lost will be provided by the insurance company.</p><p>Results: Data acquisition and entry is continuing. Up to now data from the first questionnaire of 1453 patients have been entered and 951 patients have returned the follow-up questionnaire. Doctors’ ratings of the change of the main diagnosis shows improvement of around 80% with only 2% deteriorated. This impression is vindicated by the patients’ follow-up questionnaire. 36% patients rated the therapy as efficacious, 47% as partially efficacious. Quality of life as measured by the SF 36 questionnaire improved significantly in all dimensions. Data on workdays off will be presented.</p><p>Conclusion: Homeopathy and acupuncture are clinically effective in a variety of medical problems.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100201,"journal":{"name":"British Homoeopathic Journal","volume":"89 ","pages":"Pages S31-S34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1054/homp.1999.0377","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21778109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Magic of signs: a non-local interpretation of homeopathy","authors":"H Walach","doi":"10.1054/homp.1999.0413","DOIUrl":"10.1054/homp.1999.0413","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Among homeopaths the common idea about a working hypothesis for homeopathic effects seems to be that, during the potentization process, ‘information’ or ‘energy’ is being preserved or even enhanced in homeopathic remedies. The organism is said to be able to pick up this information, which in turn will stimulate the organism into a self-healing response. According to this view the decisive element of homeopathic therapy is the remedy which locally contains and conveys this information. I question this view for empirical and theoretical reasons. Empirical research has shown a repetitive pattern, in fundamental and clinical research alike: there are many anomalies in high-dilution research and clinical homeopathic trials which will set any observing researcher thinking. But no single paradigm has proved stable enough in order to produce repeatable results independent of the researcher. I conclude that the database is too weak and contradictory to substantiate a local interpretation of homeopathy, in which the remedy is endowed with causal-informational content irrespective of the circumstances. I propose a non-local interpretation to understand the anomalies along the lines of Jung's notion of synchronicity and make some predictions following this analysis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100201,"journal":{"name":"British Homoeopathic Journal","volume":"89 3","pages":"Pages 127-140"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1054/homp.1999.0413","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21778686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effectiveness in provings and clinical trials","authors":"F Dellmour","doi":"10.1054/homp.1999.0421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1054/homp.1999.0421","url":null,"abstract":"The European Committee for Homeopathy (ECH) sub-committee of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission has recently started to develop monographs of homeopathic remedies for the European Pharmacopoeia. But the precursors, the German and other Homeopathic Pharmacopoeias, also contain prescriptions which are not in accordance with the original materia medica. Therefore the homeopathic monographs urgently need careful examination, to improve and standardise the manufacture of homeopathic remedies in accordance with the materia medica.","PeriodicalId":100201,"journal":{"name":"British Homoeopathic Journal","volume":"89 ","pages":"Page S66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1054/homp.1999.0421","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72203536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical application of homeopathic podiatry as used at The Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital (RLHH)","authors":"MT Khan , MT Khan","doi":"10.1054/homp.1999.0392","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1054/homp.1999.0392","url":null,"abstract":"It is acknowledged that a number of podiatric disorders seen in foot clinics are relieved only in the short term by traditional treatments, necessitating regular attendance every few weeks. Some chronic conditions do not respond to traditional treatments. The chemical and surgical treatments commonly used in podiatric practice are invasive and can cause pain or discomfort, especially from post-operative complications of surgery. Some treatments are contraindicated for patients who are at risk, eg diabetics and the elderly. Whilst homeopathy has numerous medicines indicated for conditions affecting the skin, bones and nails, the prognosis is in ̄uenced in weight-bearing areas by the effects of friction and pressure on the lesion and by biomechanical factors which may predispose or contribute to the problem. Subsequently, there is a need for a non-invasive, painless method of treatment, which would be therapeutic rather than palliative.","PeriodicalId":100201,"journal":{"name":"British Homoeopathic Journal","volume":"89 ","pages":"Page S53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1054/homp.1999.0392","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72217872","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arnica 30x after knee surgery","authors":"J Wilkens , R Lüdtke","doi":"10.1054/homp.1999.0427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1054/homp.1999.0427","url":null,"abstract":"Objective In three randomised double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trials the efficacy of homeopathic Arnica after knee surgery was evaluated. The indications were simple knee arthroscopy for diagnostic purposes implantation of artificial knee joints and rupture of cruciate ligaments. The primary outcome parameter was swelling, secondary outcome criteria: pain, drainage fluid.","PeriodicalId":100201,"journal":{"name":"British Homoeopathic Journal","volume":"89 ","pages":"Page S72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1054/homp.1999.0427","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72218406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical outcome audit: Bristol Homoeopathic Hospital","authors":"D Spence","doi":"10.1054/homp.1999.0384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1054/homp.1999.0384","url":null,"abstract":"The study was initiated to evaluate the effectiveness of homeopathy in the real world of medical practice and thereby to assess the clinical impact of homeopathic intervention in a large group of patients receiv-ing treatment in the secondary care sector of the state health system in the United Kingdom.","PeriodicalId":100201,"journal":{"name":"British Homoeopathic Journal","volume":"89 ","pages":"Page S44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1054/homp.1999.0384","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72218534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New homeopathic approach to neoplastic diseases: from cell destruction to carcinogen-induced apoptosis","authors":"H Montfort","doi":"10.1054/homp.1999.0394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1054/homp.1999.0394","url":null,"abstract":"Neoplastic diseases are among the most frequent conditions emerging at the end of this century. Orthodox non-surgical approach, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, have variable results but many adverse affects that limit their use. Every day more patients decided against such treatment and choose alternatives, mainly the homeopathic and herbal ± nutrition approach to ®nd a cure or delay the fatal outcome. A sincere opinion or appropriate reference is our obligation to patients.","PeriodicalId":100201,"journal":{"name":"British Homoeopathic Journal","volume":"89 ","pages":"Pages S55-S56"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1054/homp.1999.0394","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72257448","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of homeopathic potencies: growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in potentised CuSO4 dilutions","authors":"A Fleisbach, V Fejfar, J Spranger","doi":"10.1054/homp.1999.0420","DOIUrl":"10.1054/homp.1999.0420","url":null,"abstract":"Objective Development of a test system for homeopathic reme-dies. This purpose is linked to our main aim to find a biological system where an effect of potentised sub-stances is detectable — up to the ‘critical’ concentration of 6 (cid:2) 10 –23 and even beyond.","PeriodicalId":100201,"journal":{"name":"British Homoeopathic Journal","volume":"89 ","pages":"Page S65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1054/homp.1999.0420","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134381096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}