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Individualized Homeopathic Medicines in the Treatment of Tinea Corporis: Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial. 个体化顺势疗法药物治疗体癣:双盲、随机、安慰剂对照试验。
IF 1.7 4区 医学
Homeopathy Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1750799
Bakibillah Laskar, Swapan Paul, Abhijit Chattopadhyay, Avaranjika Karuppusamy, Dharshna Balamurugan, Puja Bhakta, Sourav Das, Siddhartha Pal, Navin Kumar Singh, Munmun Koley, Subhranil Saha
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引用次数: 2
Searching for the Genus Epidemicus in Chinese Patients: Findings from the Clificol COVID-19 Clinical Case Registry. 在中国患者中寻找流行病学属:来自cliicol COVID-19临床病例登记处的发现。
IF 1.7 4区 医学
Homeopathy Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1750380
Alexander Tournier, Yvonne Fok, Robbert van Haselen, Aaron To
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引用次数: 2
Transition and Evolution in Homeopathy Research. 顺势疗法研究的转变与发展。
IF 1.2 4区 医学
Homeopathy Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Epub Date: 2023-01-23 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1760101
Robert T Mathie
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引用次数: 0
Contributing Reviewers in 2022. 2022年投稿审稿人。
IF 1.7 4区 医学
Homeopathy Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1760385
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The In-Vitro Effect of Homeopathically Prepared Rubus idaeus and 680 nm Laser Irradiation on Cervical Cancer Cells. 顺势疗法制备的山楂与680 nm激光照射对宫颈癌细胞的体外作用。
IF 1.7 4区 医学
Homeopathy Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1747683
Kelley S Joubert, Blassan P George, Radmila Razlog, Heidi Abrahamse
{"title":"The In-Vitro Effect of Homeopathically Prepared Rubus idaeus and 680 nm Laser Irradiation on Cervical Cancer Cells.","authors":"Kelley S Joubert,&nbsp;Blassan P George,&nbsp;Radmila Razlog,&nbsp;Heidi Abrahamse","doi":"10.1055/s-0042-1747683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1747683","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong> Cervical cancer (CC) is the second leading cancer in women and is the most common in those aged 15 to 44 years. Medicinal plant extracts have been used as homeopathic preparations for health benefits. <i>Rubus idaeus</i> (<i>RI</i>) <i>is</i> used to treat disorders of the female genital tract and produces cytotoxic effects. However, the use of homeopathically prepared <i>RI</i> in combination with low level laser therapy has not previously been explored.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong> The study aims to investigate the in-vitro effects of homeopathically prepared <i>RI</i> alone and in combination as a potential photosensitizer with Low-level laser irradiation (LLLI) at fluencies of 5, 10, and 15 J/cm<sup>2</sup>.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong> HeLa CC cells were treated with <i>RI</i> (D3, D6, and 30cH homeopathic preparations). Cells were then treated with <i>RI</i> IC<sub>50</sub> and 680 nm laser diode at 5, 10, and 15 J/cm<sup>2</sup> fluencies, and the results compared with untreated control cells. Trypan blue viability, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) cytotoxicity, and adenosine triphosphate (ATP) proliferation assays were used to analyze the cellular dose-responses along with inverted microscopy, Hoechst staining and Annexin-V/PI staining.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong> <i>RI</i> D3 alone demonstrated an ability to reduce cellular viability to 59% and also to reduce ATP levels. The subsequent combined treatment protocol of <i>RI</i> D3 with all fluencies of laser demonstrated an increase in cellular ATP and increased LDH levels compared with the control.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong> The increased ATP and LDH levels observed in the combined treatment protocol of 680 nm laser and <i>RI</i> D3 at fluencies of 5, 10 and 15 J/cm<sup>2</sup>, show that the Warburg effect might have been induced in the CC cells - an increase in glucose uptake and the preferential production of lactate, even in the presence of oxygen. More research, including work on other cell lines, needs to be conducted to identify if <i>RI</i> and perhaps a different wavelength of laser irradiation could have potential in inducing cell death in cancer cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":13227,"journal":{"name":"Homeopathy","volume":"112 1","pages":"50-56"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10563713","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
Homeopathic Treatment in Patients with COVID-19: Analysis of Clinical Evolution and Comparison between Cases in 2020 and 2021. 顺势疗法治疗新冠肺炎患者:2020年与2021年临床演变及病例对比分析
IF 1.7 4区 医学
Homeopathy Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1749447
Fernanda Maria Simões da Costa Fujino, Ana Amélia Campos Claro Olandim, Jennifer Anne Coggan, Antonio Deusany de Carvalho Junior, Adriana de Queiroz Soares Bufalo, Eduardo Nishimiya Takeyama, Soraya Cristina Sant'Ana, Vagner Doja Barnabé, Nilson Roberti Benites
{"title":"Homeopathic Treatment in Patients with COVID-19: Analysis of Clinical Evolution and Comparison between Cases in 2020 and 2021.","authors":"Fernanda Maria Simões da Costa Fujino,&nbsp;Ana Amélia Campos Claro Olandim,&nbsp;Jennifer Anne Coggan,&nbsp;Antonio Deusany de Carvalho Junior,&nbsp;Adriana de Queiroz Soares Bufalo,&nbsp;Eduardo Nishimiya Takeyama,&nbsp;Soraya Cristina Sant'Ana,&nbsp;Vagner Doja Barnabé,&nbsp;Nilson Roberti Benites","doi":"10.1055/s-0042-1749447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1749447","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong> The manifestations of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can result in several prognoses and lead patients to look for appropriate complementary or alternative treatment options according to their personal situation and available health care. Patients with mild symptoms or those who have not yet reached the maximum severity of their condition are those who seek outpatient care, where homeopathic treatment might be considered, given the well documented history of this medical system in several epidemics in the past.</p><p><strong>Objective: </strong> The aim of this study was to compare the homeopathic treatment used for symptomatic cases of COVID-19 in March and April 2020 with cases treated in March and April 2021.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong> This is a retrospective observational study based on the analysis of the medical records of symptomatic COVID-19 patients treated on an outpatient basis with homeopathy at the Hahnemanniano George Galvão Institute in São Paulo, Brazil. We analyzed 54 cases, divided into two samples (27 cases in each year), similar in relation to age, gender and origin of the patients.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong> The development was distinct in the 2 years, with improvement of symptoms after 3 days of the first homeopathic prescription in 2020 whilst in 2021 the improvement occurred from the sixth day onward. The most frequently prescribed homeopathic medicine also differed in the two samples (<i>Antimonium tartaricum</i> in 2020; <i>Arsenicum album</i> in 2021), which indicates the different disease characteristics at these two moments of the epidemic.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong> In 2020, the symptomatology of the cases was mainly acute and the main medicine was <i>Antimonium tartaricum</i>. By comparison, in 2021 a greater interference from individuals' previous chronic miasmatic disease may explain the change in the main medicines used that year, with <i>Arsenicum album</i> being the most prescribed in the cases studied.</p>","PeriodicalId":13227,"journal":{"name":"Homeopathy","volume":"112 1","pages":"3-11"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9136352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
HRI Online 2022: Leading International Experts Illustrate the Positive Impact of Increased Collaboration in Homeopathy Research. HRI在线2022:领先的国际专家说明顺势疗法研究合作增加的积极影响。
IF 1.7 4区 医学
Homeopathy Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1757770
E Rachel Roberts, José E Eizayaga, Esther T van der Werf, Alexander L Tournier
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引用次数: 1
Homeopathic Eupatorium perfoliatum in the Treatment of COVID-19. 顺势疗法叶柄泽兰治疗COVID-19。
IF 1.7 4区 医学
Homeopathy Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1755363
Diego Tomassone
{"title":"Homeopathic Eupatorium perfoliatum in the Treatment of COVID-19.","authors":"Diego Tomassone","doi":"10.1055/s-0042-1755363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1755363","url":null,"abstract":"I am writing this letter to share my homeopathic clinical experience in Italy, according to my detailed observations from December 2019 to April 2022 in the treatment of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), and consequently to commend the unicist homeopathic approach I took in treating more than 1,000 cases. From December 2019, when severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was not yet noted, I received in my outpatient clinic several cases of “strange flu” which, in some cases and in a few days, degenerated into pulmonary infection. As usual, I treated the first cases individually, looking for the most similar unitary remedy, because it is well known that individual unicist therapy is always the best solution to any problem, as masterfully expressed by Dr. Hahnemann (§ 153,154,155,273).1 As I treated the individual cases, in a few weeks I began to notice a certain similarity in the symptomatology that each of them presented. After deepening my consideration of the Materia Medica and the Repertory in the context of the bythen identified COVID-19, I decided to study in depth this symptomatology to see if it was possible to find the “genusepidemicus”of thedisease, as taughtbyDr.Hahnemann (§ 99–103, paragraphs never modified in the various editions),2–6 and in perfect agreement with the logic of homeopathy proposed by Stuart Close: exact observation, correct interpretation, rational explanation and scientific construction.7 When repertorizing with the help of the software “Complete Dynamics Master Edition”, the “key symptoms” I found most frequently were essentially always those concerning the 20 rubrics shown in ►Fig. 1, in which the remedy Eupatorium perfoliatum emerges strongly, whatever counting or method proposed by the software one chooses to use (Böenninghausenmethod, standard or simple counting, etc.), always highly repertorized, as can be seen in ►Fig. 1.8 Prescribing the remedy Eupatorium perfoliatum 30C from the very first cases, according to Hahnemann’s dictates that are indicated in the sixth edition of the “Organon of Medicine”, I was able to verify not only the goodness of this repertorization, but also the effectiveness of the remedyeven for the rubric “Smell; Loss of, wanting”, where it is not included as an elective remedy. In the course of 2020, I searched the homeopathicmedical literature to see if there had been any other proposals from other homeopaths, and I first came across the Indian Government's proposal for using Arsenicum album,9 and Dr. Bhatia's analysis of a series of elective remedies in which Eupatorium perfoliatumwas also included in people who presented with symptoms that were not severe.10 I subsequently read other papers, none of which however mentioned Eupatorium perfoliatum, and none gave precise indications on the use of a single remedy, at least in the early stageswhere no severe respiratory symptoms were present.11–15 Fig. 1 Repertorization of the most common COVID-19 symptoms found in my ","PeriodicalId":13227,"journal":{"name":"Homeopathy","volume":"112 1","pages":"70-72"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9122312","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 2
The Evolution of Miasm Theory and Its Relevance to Homeopathic Prescribing. 瘴气理论的演变及其与顺势疗法处方的关联。
IF 1.7 4区 医学
Homeopathy Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1751257
George Vithoulkas, Dmitry Chabanov
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引用次数: 2
Test of a Homeopathic Algorithm for COVID-19: the Importance of a Broad Perspective. COVID-19顺势疗法算法的测试:广阔视角的重要性。
IF 1.7 4区 医学
Homeopathy Pub Date : 2023-02-01 DOI: 10.1055/s-0042-1746196
Anjali Miglani, Raj Kumar Manchanda, Amrit Kalsi, Prabhjeet Kaur, Beenu Saini, Amit Arora, Cheshta Nagrath, Jithesh Thavarayil Kannoth, Ram Kumar Kudiyarasu, Rahul Vardaan, Smita Brahmachari, Ankit Gupta, Shelly Arora, Shirin Balan, Kavita Sharma, Malaya Kumar Ray, Anu Chawla, Manjula Ghuliani, Anurag Pandey, Philippa Fibert, Lex Rutten
{"title":"Test of a Homeopathic Algorithm for COVID-19: the Importance of a Broad Perspective.","authors":"Anjali Miglani,&nbsp;Raj Kumar Manchanda,&nbsp;Amrit Kalsi,&nbsp;Prabhjeet Kaur,&nbsp;Beenu Saini,&nbsp;Amit Arora,&nbsp;Cheshta Nagrath,&nbsp;Jithesh Thavarayil Kannoth,&nbsp;Ram Kumar Kudiyarasu,&nbsp;Rahul Vardaan,&nbsp;Smita Brahmachari,&nbsp;Ankit Gupta,&nbsp;Shelly Arora,&nbsp;Shirin Balan,&nbsp;Kavita Sharma,&nbsp;Malaya Kumar Ray,&nbsp;Anu Chawla,&nbsp;Manjula Ghuliani,&nbsp;Anurag Pandey,&nbsp;Philippa Fibert,&nbsp;Lex Rutten","doi":"10.1055/s-0042-1746196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0042-1746196","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong> Most of the symptoms of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are covered by large repertory rubrics and hence many remedies have been proposed as \"genus epidemicus\". The aim of this study was to combine the information from various data collections to prepare a COVID-19 Bayesian mini-repertory/an algorithm-based application (app) and test it.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong> In July 2021, 1,161 COVID-19 cases from 100 practitioners globally were combined. These data were used to calculate \"condition-confined\" likelihood ratios (LRs) for 59 symptoms of COVID-19. Out of these, 35 symptoms of the 11 medicines that had at least 20 cases each were considered. The information was entered in a spreadsheet (algorithm) to calculate combined LRs of specific combinations of symptoms. The algorithm contained the medicines <i>Arsenicum album</i>, <i>Belladonna</i>, <i>Bryonia alba</i>, <i>Camphora</i>, <i>Gelsemium sempervirens</i>, <i>Hepar sulphuris</i>, <i>Mercurius solubilis</i>, <i>Nux vomica</i>, <i>Phosphorus</i>, <i>Pulsatilla</i> and <i>Rhus toxicodendron</i>. To test concordance, the doctors were then invited to re-enter the symptoms of their cases into this algorithm.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong> The algorithm was re-tested on 358 cases, and concordance was seen in 288 cases. On analysis of the data, bias was noticed in the <i>Merc</i> group, which was therefore excluded from the algorithm. The remaining 10 medicines, representing 81.8% of all cases, were included in the preparation of the next version of the homeopathic mini-repertory and app.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong> The Bayesian mini-repertory and app is based on qualitative clinical experiences of various doctors in COVID-19 and gives indications for specific medicines for common COVID-19 symptoms. It is freely available [English: https://hpra.co.uk/; Spanish: https://hpra.co.uk/es ] for further testing and utilization by the profession.</p>","PeriodicalId":13227,"journal":{"name":"Homeopathy","volume":"112 1","pages":"22-29"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"9120752","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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