I just found this article discussing the use of homeopathic remedies in the emergency room. Quite interesting and promising. Could we eventually move towards a more inclusive and accepting view of homeopathy in the traditional hospital?
http://www.camresearch.net/showabstract.php?pmid=16425109
Also, on the forums at Hpathy.com, there's a heated debate about the use of combination remedies and combination potencies that poses a hypothetical question about choosing homeopathics in life-or-death situations and details many homeopaths' views. Check it out and leave me a comment on what you're thinking.
http://www.hpathy.com/homeopathyforums/forum_posts.asp?TID=4674&PN=1&TPN=1
Be well.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
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Was recently looking around in Pub Med and found the following article. Seems that "emergency homeopathy" could definately be a successful adjunct to contemporary healthcare methods in cases where one's health is seriously threatened.
1: Homeopathy. 2005 Apr;94(2):75-80.
Adjunctive homeopathic treatment in patients with severe sepsis: a randomized,
double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in an intensive care unit.
Frass M, Linkesch M, Banyai S, Resch G, Dielacher C, Lobl T, Endler C, Haidvogl
M, Muchitsch I, Schuster E.
BACKGROUND: Mortality in patients with severe sepsis remains high despite the
development of several therapeutic strategies. The aim of this randomized,
double-blind, placebo-controlled trial was to evaluate whether homeopathy is
able to influence long-term outcome in critically ill patients suffering from
severe sepsis. METHODS: Seventy patients with severe sepsis received homeopathic
treatment (n = 35) or placebo (n = 35). Five globules in a potency of 200c were
given at 12h interval during the stay at the intensive care unit. Survival after
a 30 and 180 days was recorded. RESULTS: Three patients (2 homeopathy, 1
placebo) were excluded from the analyses because of incomplete data. All these
patients survived. Baseline characteristics including age, sex, BMI, prior
conditions, APACHE II score, signs of sepsis, number of organ failures, need for
mechanical ventilation, need for vasopressors or veno-venous hemofiltration, and
laboratory parameters were not significantly different between groups. On day
30, there was non-statistically significantly trend of survival in favour of
homeopathy (verum 81.8%, placebo 67.7%, P= 0.19). On day 180, survival was
statistically significantly higher with verum homeopathy (75.8% vs 50.0%, P =
0.043). No adverse effects were observed. CONCLUSIONS: Our data suggest that
homeopathic treatment may be a useful additional therapeutic measure with a
long-term benefit for severely septic patients admitted to the intensive care
unit. A constraint to wider application of this method is the limited number of
trained homeopaths.
PMID: 15892486 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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