Research Shows Homeopathy is Clinically Effective

The following article was written by the National Center for Homeopathy and highlights numbers of positive research studies on homeopathy.

     “There is a growing body of research in support of homeopathy.  The Lancet (9/27/97) published a comprehensive review of 89 double-blind and placebo-controlled studies on homeopathy.  On average, those patients who were given a homeopathic medicine were 2.45 times more likely to expereince a therapeutically beneficial result than those patients given a placebo.
     The British Medical Journal (2/9/91) published a meta-analysis of 107 clinical trials of homeopathy; of the 22 best-quality studies, 15 showed positive results in conditions such as hay fever, influenza, migraine headache, trauma, and duration of delivery.
     A team of researches lead by David Reilly, MD, of Great Britian, has conducted a series of randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trials of exceptional rigor.  The results show homeopathic preparations effective in the treatment of allergic asthma and hay fever (The Lancet 10/16/86), The Lancet 12/10/94).  Their most recent study in the British Medical Journal (8/12/00) showed that hay fever sufferers given a homeopathic preparation had a 28% improvement in nasal air flow compared to placebo.
     The May 1994 issue of Pediatrics published a randomized double-blind clinical trial showing homeopathy effective in the treatment of acute child-hood diarrhea.  This was the first study of homeopathy published in a mainstream peer-reviewed American medical journal.
     A study in an AMA publication, Archives of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery (8/98), found that a homeopathic medicine produced a reduction in symptoms that was equivalent to conventional medicine in the treatment of patients with vertigo.
     The National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine funded a double-blind, placebo-controlled study on the homeopathic treatment of mild traumatic brain injury which found a significant improvement (Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitiation 12/99).”

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