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Effects of homeopathic medicines on polysomnographic sleep of young adults with histories of coffee-related insomnia. Bell IR, Howerter A, Jackson N, Aickin M, Baldwin CM, Bootzin RR. Department of Family and Community Medicine, The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA; Department of Psychiatry, The University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ, USA; Department of Psychology, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA. Sleep Med. 2010 Jul 27.

BACKGROUND: Homeopathy, a common form of alternative medicine worldwide, relies on subjective patient reports for diagnosis and treatment.

Polysomnography offers a modern methodology for evaluating the objective effects of taking homeopathic remedies that clinicians claim exert effects on sleep quality in susceptible individuals.

Animal studies have previously shown changes in non rapid eye movement sleep with certain homeopathic remedies.

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Large-scale application of highly-diluted bacteria for Leptospirosis epidemic control. Bracho G, Varela E, Fernández R, Ordaz B, Marzoa N, Menéndez J, García L, Gilling E, Leyva R, Rufín R, de la Torre R, Solis RL, Batista N, Borrero R, Campa C. Finlay Institute, Ave. 27, La Lisa, Havana City, Cuba. Homeopathy. 2010 Jul;99(3):156-166.

BACKGROUND: Leptospirosis is a zoonotic disease of major importance in the tropics where the incidence peaks in rainy seasons. Natural disasters represent a big challenge to Leptospirosis prevention strategies especially in endemic regions.

Vaccination is an effective option but of reduced effectiveness in emergency situations. Homeoprophylactic interventions might help to control epidemics by using highly-diluted pathogens to induce protection in a short time scale.

We report the results of a very large-scale homeoprophylaxis (HP) intervention against Leptospirosis in a dangerous epidemic situation in three provinces of Cuba in 2007.

See Video by Dr. Gustavo Bracho and read article by Tony Pinkus at Ainsworth’s Pharmacy

See original early reports of these Cuban trials

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*Homeopathy as replacement to antibiotics in the case of Escherichia coli diarrhoea in neonatal piglets. Camerlink I, Ellinger L, Bakker EJ, Lantinga EA (2010). Homeopathy, 99; 57–62.

A research study conducted at the Wageningen University in the Netherlands suggests that homeopathy may be an alternative to antibiotics in neonatal diarrhea of piglets.

The overuse of antibiotics in poultry, beef cattle and swine production poses a serious threat to human health, animal health and the environment. Sustainable alternatives to antibiotics are desperately needed.

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Characteristics of cancer patients using homeopathy compared with those in conventional care: a cross-sectional study. Guethlin C, Walach H, Naumann J, Bartsch HH, Rostock M. Institute for General Practice, Johann-Wolfgang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Ann Oncol. 2010 May;21(5):1094-9.

Homeopathic treatment is sought by cancer patients at a different phase during the course of the disease, which has particular implications for research. However, expectancies toward the benefit of the treatment as well as QoL data are similar.

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Decreased Intensity of Japanese Encephalitis Virus Infection in Chick Chorioallantoic Membrane Under Influence of Ultradiluted Belladonna Extract. American Journal of Infectious Diseases 6 (2): 24-28, 2010.

The homeopathic remedy Belladonna is effective in preventing Japanese Encephalitis (JE), says a  recent study conducted by the Department of Microbiology at the School of Tropical Medicine in Kolkata, the Department of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology at the School of Tropical Medicine in Kolkata, the University of Health Sciences in Kolkata, the Department of Pathology and Microbiology in West Bengal, in collaboration with the the Drug Proving Research Centre of the Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH), and the Government of India in Kolkata, and the Department of AYUSH Ministry of Health in New Delhi.

With thanks to WDDTY 7.7.2010:

In the week that doctors have described homeopathy as ‘nonsense on stilts’, a Nobel prize-winning scientist has made a discovery about the nature of water that suggests the therapy does have a scientific basis.

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