Category: Homeopathy

With thanks to the Daily Telepgraph 22.6.09:

Aconite, gelsemiun, ignatia… just a few things you might want to have handy when Andy Murray steps out at Wimbledon this week.

For these homeopathic remedies can be helpful if, in respective order, you’re feeling anxious and fearful, suffering pre-match nerves in the stands at Centre Court or, worse still, concerned that you might be grief-stricken when the umpire calls game, set and match. read this entry »

Edmund Becket, Lord Grimthorpe was an enthusiastic and ardent devotee of homeopathy, and he wrote to The Times in 1888 to protest against the prejudice of the allopathic physicians in dismissing Kenneth Millican, which resulted in a month long battle of words in The Times, and the whole affair was written up in John Henry Clarke’s Odium medicum and homeopathy. read this entry »

With thanks to the Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health 13.5.09:

Complementary healthcare should be offered ‘free, as of right’ on the NHS, a former government minister told the Prince’s Foundation for Integrated Health.

Calling for governments across the UK to act, Peter Hain, the former Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, praised a pilot scheme in the province that allowed GPs to refer patients for complementary therapies funded by the health service. read this entry »

With thanks to The International Times 5.6.09:

Syed Mahboob Alam, a doctor working towards his doctoral degree under the supervision of former Chairman of the University of Karachi (KU) Pharmacognosy Department Dr Mansoor Ahmed, has discovered that various types of cancer could be treated by administering herbal medicines to the patients in the homeopathic system.

It was usually perceived before this research that there was no cure for cancer in allopathic or homeopathic system of medicine. read this entry »

With thanks to Scoop Sci Tech 4.6.09:

The New Zealand Council of Homeopaths (NZCH) welcomes a survey of the use of Homeopathic medicines that reported 92% of people who have taken Homeopathic remedies experienced a positive effect.

The study published in the New Zealand Medical Journal surveyed 124 people in Doctors’ surgeries [1]. Of these 65% said they had used homeopathic remedies with 92% reported experiencing a positive result. These findings confirm the results from studies conducted overseas (2,3,4). read this entry »

With thanks to The Irish Times.com:

Switzerland became the first country in Europe to enshrine complementary medicine into its constitution when more than 67 per cent of national voters opted in favour of a new constitutional article on complementary medicine last week.

That result, which followed a public campaign, will now make it more likely that certain complementary therapies will be re-instated into the basic health insurance scheme available to all Swiss citizens. read this entry »

With thanks to Natural News:

Homeopathic clinics in Kenya, Tanzania, Botswana and Ethiopia and Ghana are bringing homeopathy’s healing medicines to the suffering in Africa. Treating malaria and AIDS, these clinic and others like them are staffed by selfless healers and are in need of our support.

Over 23 million Africans are living with HIV/AIDS, including two millions new HIV infections recorded in 2007. In Tanzania, a person dies of malaria every three minutes. This is over 200, 000 deaths a year and this figure is growing. read this entry »

Charles Darwin, who consulted homeopaths himself, said

“I care more about Drosera than the origin of all the species in the world. But I will not publish on Drosera till next year, for I am frightened & astounded at my results.”

“I declare it is a certain fact, that one organ is so sensitive to touch that a weight of ^1/78,000 of a grain (ie seventy-eight times less weight than that, viz 1„1000 of a grain, which will move the best chemical balance) suffices to cause conspicuous movement.

“Is it not curious that a plant sh^d be far more sensitive to a touch than any nerve in the human body! Yet I am perfectly sure that this is true.” (equivalent to a 7th homeopathic decimal dilution). read this entry »

With thanks to NurseZone.com:

More hospitals than ever are now offering complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) modalities in addition to traditional medical care, according to a recent report from the American Hospital Association (AHA). read this entry »

With thanks to Addenbrooke’s 20.2.09 (it was only a matter of time before scientists discover homeopathy works - like cures like after all!):

World first desensitisation therapy is ‘cure’ for severe peanut allergy

A group of children with peanut allergy no longer have to worry about severe immune reactions after taking part in the world’s first successful peanut desensitisation programme. read this entry »