20 years ago: British Homoeopathic Journal, July 1984

Land, S.T.

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“…According to Hoover [28] and Shepherd [38] the mortality rate during that epidemic was 5-16% among patients treated with homeopathy and 54-90% among patients treated conventionally. Homeopathy was also used in the 1854 epidemic in London [28,29,[39][40][41] once again with significant reduction of mortality rates.…”

Section: Evidences Of the Efficacy Of Homeopathy In Epidemic Diseasesmentioning

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Homeopathy: a preventive approach to medicine?

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2021

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By applying the principle of therapeutic similarity, homeopathy seeks to stimulate the organism to react against its own disturbs. For homeopathic medicines to awaken effective homeostasis responses they must be individualized, this means that they must be chosen according to their similarity to the set of characteristic symptoms in patients. In this way, by aiming at decreasing individual susceptibility predisposing to disease, homeopathic medicines have healing and preventive effects in many human illnesses. On the other hand, homeopathic medicines may have specific indications in the treatment and prevention of epidemic diseases provided they are also chosen according to the particular set of symptoms peculiar to a given epidemic, viz. the so-called ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã…â€œepidemic geniusÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã‚Â, as historical examples show. This update paper discusses the epistemological foundations of HahnemannÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s homeopathy as a preventive medical approach, the scientific evidences supporting its clinical application and the minimum requirements to employ it both therapeutically and preventively in epidemics.

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Section: Evidences Of the Efficacy Of Homeopathy In Epidemic Diseasesmentioning

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Homeopathy: a preventive approach to medicine?

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“…Those remarks notwithstanding, it should be admitted that the studies that used individualized remedies (symptom-based GE) for the treatment and prevention of epidemic diseases (homeoprophylaxis) are much more consistent, exhibit better methodological design and scientific documentation than the ones that performed isoprophylaxis, from the careful reports of Hahnemann of series of cases and prevention (scarlet fever, typhus, remittent fevers, cholera) [21-23, 25, 26, 37] to the more recent therapeutic and preventive protocols (influenza, cholera, dengue) [38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45].…”

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Isoprophylaxis is neither homeoprophylaxis nor homeopathic immunization, but isopathic immunization unsupported by the homeopathic epistemological model: A response to Golden

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Homeopathy might be employed for the prevention of epidemic diseases (homeoprophylaxis) provided remedies are selected on an individual basis in compliance with the â€˜principle of symptom-based similitudeâ€™ and according to the totality of symptoms peculiar to a given epidemic (remedy of the â€˜epidemic geniusâ€™ or â€˜genus epidemicus), as countless examples in the literature show. The use of nosodes for the prevention of epidemic diseases (isoprophylaxis), i.e., selected based on the â€˜principle of etiological identityâ€™ with full neglect of symptom-based individualization and pathogenetic trials, is not supported by the homeopathic epistemological model. As long as there are no reliable scientific evidences attesting to its efficacy and safety, â€˜isopathic immunizationâ€™ might not be indicated as a regular replacement of classical immunization, as it would mean a transgression of the bioethical principles of beneficence and non-maleficence. Although many homeopathic practitioners systematically indicate that practice, it is condemned by homeopathic institutions worldwide. In this article, I elaborate on epistemological, ethical and scientific features of these disparate approaches to prophylaxis, which I had summarily addressed in a previous review.

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20 years ago: British Homoeopathic Journal, July 1984

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Homeopathy: a preventive approach to medicine?

Homeopathy: a preventive approach to medicine?

Isoprophylaxis is neither homeoprophylaxis nor homeopathic immunization, but isopathic immunization unsupported by the homeopathic epistemological model: A response to Golden

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