Homoeopathy

O’Meara, Susan

doi:10.1136/qhc.11.2.189

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“…12 - 21 Homeopathic medicine and herbal medicine are two distinct and separate branches of complementary medicine. Homeopathy is founded on two major principles.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The potential impact of the use of homeopathic and herbal remedies on monitoring the safety of prescription products

Woodward

2005

Hum Exp Toxicol

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility that adverse reactions and drug interactions arising from the use of homeopathic and herbal medicines could lead to confusion when adverse reactions to conventional medicines are reported. An extensive literature review was conducted on the occurrence of adverse reactions and drug interactions following the use of homeopathic or herbal remedies, and the potential for these to confound adverse event reporting to conventional medicines considered. The survey demonstrates the potential for herbal remedies and homeopathic products, to produce adverse drug reactions or drug interactions, and shows the scope for potential for confusion with those arising from conventional medicines. There is a need for greater awareness that adverse reactions apparently due to a conventional medicine, might in reality be due to a herbal medicine or a drug interaction between a herbal medicine and a conventional drug, particularly when a health professional is unaware of the extent of a patient's selfmedication with alternative therapies.

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“…12 - 21 Homeopathic medicine and herbal medicine are two distinct and separate branches of complementary medicine. Homeopathy is founded on two major principles.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The potential impact of the use of homeopathic and herbal remedies on monitoring the safety of prescription products

Woodward

2005

Hum Exp Toxicol

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“…Whereas only few and sporadic observations are available on the therapeutic efficacy of homeopathic products from the time before the 2 nd World War, numerous clinical studies have appeared since, which are however often unsatisfactory methodically. Evaluating these studies with methods of evidence-based medicine, thus by meta-analyses and systematic reviews did not result in any superiority of homeopathic products over placebo administration after a high degree of international consensus [ 45 ], [ 46 ], [ 47 ], [ 48 ], [ 49 ], [ 50 ], [ 51 ], [ 52 ], [ 53 ], [ 54 ], [ 55 ], [ 56 ], [ 57 ], [ 58 ], [ 59 ], [ 60 ], [ 61 ], [ 62 ], [ 63 ], [ 64 ], [ 65 ], [ 66 ], [ 67 ].…”

Section: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Procedures Of Drug Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

Complementary and alternative drug therapy versus science-oriented medicine

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Hense

et al. 2015

GMS German Medical Science; 13:Doc05; ISSN 1612-3174

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“…Approximately 200 RCTs evaluating the effectiveness of homoeopathy have been carried out, 17 many of which have been reanalysed in systematic reviews. However, RCTs are thought to be most potent in the ‘hierarchy of strength of evidence concerning efficacy of treatment’ 18 .…”

Section: Experimental Evidence: Systematic Reviews Of Rctsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“… Fixed homoeopathy (where the ‘same single agent is used for a group of patients’) 17 Remedies of <12C potency. Remedies of ≥12C potency (refers to the centesimal homoeopathic scale where the dilution factor is 1:100). …”

Section: Reviews Addressing Homoeopathy's Effectiveness For Specific mentioning

confidence: 99%