Is Homeopathy More Effective Now Than a Hundred Years Ago?

Abstract

During the past century, the amount of information about homeopathic medicines has grown dramatically. However, the recent coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic has shown that homeopathic practitioners do not use more medicines than a century ago and they seem to use less symptoms to find the proper medicine. This could be explained by the fact that the more than a hundred years old repertory was flawed from the beginning and that more information in the repertory leads the practitioner astray in an increasingly complex labyrinth of data.This can be resolved by applying modern data management techniques based on systematic collection of treatment data and statistical analysis of the data. Homeopathic practitioners should collect these data avoiding bias. This requires additional training of practitioners, which should also result in a higher scientific level of homeopathic practice and increasingly effective treatment as the database grows.

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“…A COVID-19 data collection project initiated by the Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis (LMHI) and the database of the American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH) was described previously in this journal. 6 In the past 25 years, several qualitative and quantitative analyses of clinical homeopathic case collections were performed, for instance, group consensus meetings with retrospective analysis of best cases of specific medicines. 7 One of the most important discussion topics in this case was causality: did the therapy really cause the cure?…”

“…A COVID-19 data collection project initiated by the Liga Medicorum Homeopathica Internationalis (LMHI) and the database of the American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH) was described previously in this journal. 6…”