 October 2007 Ann Fonfa was at a meeting in Brazil (Cochrane Colloquium) and met a man from the French Ministry of Health. His focus was to better understand Osteopathy, of which he sounded quite suspicious. "I told him that DOs gradute from Medical school and practice just like MDs in the United States, and are fully covered by insurance. I asked him about Homeopathy and he said they graduated Medical school and were fully qualified physicians in France". So is it ideology or science that makes the US so suspicious and resistant to Homeopathy (and of course vice versa in France)? March 2007 from the NCI Office of Complementary and Alternative Medicine Annual Report FY2005: NCI Best Case Series (BCS) Program. Of those therapies that have been submitted, the following have completed the NCI BCS Program review and been found to warrant NCI-initiated research: Homeopathic therapy of cancer as practiced by Prasanta Banerji, D.Ht., (P. Banerji Homeopathic Research Foundation, Calcutta, India) The following information is from a brochure created by the Society of Homeopaths: Homeopathy is an effective and scientific system of healing which assists the natural tendency of the body to heal itself. It recognizes that all symptoms of ill health are expressions of disharmony within the whole person and that it is the patient who needs treatment not the disease. In 1796, a German doctor, Samuel Hahnemann, discovered a different approach to the cure of the sick which he called homeopathy (from the Greek work meaning "similar suffering"). Like Hippocrates two thousand years earlier he realized that there were two ways of treating ill health, the way of opposites and the way of similars. Take for example, a case of insomnia. The way of opposites (conventional medicine or allopathy), is to treat this by giving a drug to bring on artificial sleep. This frequently involves the use of large or regular does of drugs which can sometimes cause 'side'effects or addiction. The way of similars, the homeopathic way, is to give the patient a minute dose of a substance, such as coffee, which in large doses causes sleeplessness in a healthy person. Perhaps surprisingly this will enable the patient to sleep naturally. Homeopathic remedies cannot cause 'side' effects and you cannot become addicted to them. This is because only a very minute amount of the active ingredient is used in a specially prepared form. Homeopathy remedies work by stimulating the body's own healing power. This stimulus will assist your own system to clear itself of any expressions of imbalance. The aim is to get you to a level of health so that eventually you will need infrequent treatment. |
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| An article from the Nat'l Ctr. for Homeopathy | | | Traumeel S Cancer J, 2001 | ||
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| Dr.Ramakrishnan with Catherine R. Coulter Homeopathic Plussing Homeopathic Treatment of Radiation-induced Itching Homeopathy as Supportive Care in Cancer Trifolium pratense for Breast Disease:Case Series Homeopathic Substances Examined in Breast/Prostate Cells | | | Chemical Communications, 11/01 Water May Retain a Memory of Substances | ||
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| in English | | | Manual of Homeopathic Principles, Therapeutics & Materia Medica Principles & Practice of Homeopathy Encyclopedia of Medicinal Plants | ||
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| Institute for Traditional Acupuncture & Herbology | | | LINK to resource for homeopathic remedies | ||
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| From a January 2006 email | | | No Am Res Conf on Complementary & Integrative Medicine, May, 2006 | ||
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| LINK to site on homeopathy and cancer "I am a homeopath and my family has a history of cancer. Intrigued and inspired by Hansi and Canova, I have tested homeopathic preparations on family and friends with cancer and have prepared homeopathic formula for cancer" | | | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, in press October 2008 | ||
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| Annals of Internal Medicine,10/03 Does Homeopathy Work? Critial Overview, Part II References: A Critical Overview of Homeopathy Letter #1 RE: A Critical Overview of Homeopathy Letter #2: A Critical Overview of Homeopathy Letter #3: A Critical Overview of Homeopathy Reply from Author: A Critical Overview of Homeopathy | | | LINK to distributor of PEKKANA and SanPharma Natural Homeopathic & Spagyric Medications (for practitioners) | ||
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| Complementary Therapies in Medicine, May 2007 | | | Frequently asked questions a link | ||
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| Homeopathy. 2008 Jul;97(3):114-21 | |||||
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