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Eczema/Dermatitis. Why you should use Homeopathy

Eczema/Dermatitis. Why you should use Homeopathy
“Atopic eczema, also known as atopic dermatitis, is the most common form of eczema. It mainly affects children, but can continue into adulthood. Eczema is a condition that causes the skin to become itchy, red, dry and cracked. It is a long-term, or chronic, condition.

Eczema can be a deeply distressing illness, especially when young babies and infants suffer from the condition. Characteristically, the symptoms are red, dry, scaly skin, with intense itching, which can lead to scratching, and opening up the skin.



THE CONVENTIONAL MEDICAL TREATMENT OF ECZEMA

What becomes immediately obvious, when looking at the NHS Choices website on the treatment of Eczema, there is no effective treatment, and the drugs they outline are known to have serious side effects and adverse reactions.

“Although there is no cure for atopic eczema (my emphasis), treatments can ease the symptoms. Children with atopic eczema normally find their symptoms naturally improve over time.

Medications used to treat atopic eczema most commonly include:
    * emollients - used all the time for dry skin
    * topical corticosteroids - used to reduce swelling and redness during flare-ups

NHS Choices go on to described these ameliorative, not curative treatments, and dressing with ‘dry wraps’, ‘wet wraps’, and ‘occlusive dressing’.

Then BHS Choices mentions other medications “used to ease the symptoms of eczema”:   

  • Antihistamines - for severe itching
  • Oral corticosteroids - for severe symptoms
  • Antibiotics - for infected eczema
  • Topical immunosuppresants, which reduce or suppress your body's immune system, such as pimecrolimus cream and tacrolimus ointment

So, Conventional Medicine not only causes and exacerbates Eczema, it has almost nothing to offer as far as safe or effective treatment is concerned.



There are many homeopathic remedies known to treat Eczema successfully. It is a disease that effects individuals very differently, and these remedy pictures taken from “The Desktop Companion to Physical Pathology”, Roger Morrison, MD, show the 6 most commonly used, and the great variety between them.

Sulphur
The most common remedy for eczema. Tremendous itching (it is hard to give Sulphur when the itching is only of mild severity). Voluptuous itching. Burning itching, Pleasurable itching. Scratching until raw and oozing or until he bleeds. Worse: night, especially waking the patient at night in bed. On becoming heated, especially if heated in bed. In areas where the patient perspires. Bathing. Contact with wool. Better: cold or cold applications.

Arsenicum
Burning pains associated with itching. Must scratch until skin is raw; relieved when skin is raw. When the skin heals over, the itching returns just as intensely. Severe itching without eruption. Neurodermaatitis. Worse: Night. Open Air. Undressing. Better: Heat (opposite most eczema cases). Warm bathing.

Graphites
Dry eczema with thick yellow or honey-like discharge. Excema with deep cracks of the skin. All injuries to skin heal slowly: unhealthy skin. Worse: Night. Heat and from becoming heated in bed.

Mezerium
Intensely itching eczema; intolerable itching. Maddening eruption, often persisting despite allopathing (conventional) medications. Eruptions of scalp with thick, white flakes and pus coming under the scabs. Worse: Night. Heat. Heat of fire. Hot bathing. Touch. Better: Cold air (although patient chilly). Elderly patients.

Petroleum
The eczema is bearly always dry, so dru that it is almost painful: sometimes impels the patient to soak the sry skin in water. For patients who work with their hands using chemicals such as tar, pitch, or oils (eg carpenters, hairdressers). Scratches until bleeding; coldness in the raw spot. Unhealthy skin; wounds fester. Worse: Winter. Cold weather.

Psorinum
Easily confused with Sulphur. Desire to scratch the skin until it bleeds. Eruptions easily progress to suppuration and may be offensive. Worse: Night. Cold. Undresing. Heat of bed. Winter. Bathing. From wool. Better: from warmth. 


Randomised Controlled Tests (RCTs)


In the study of eczema (dermatitis), there have been 3 good clinical studies published. Keil and colleagues from the Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics in Berlin, Germany studied 118 children suffering from atopic eczema. 54 children were treated with homeopathic medicine and 64 children were treated with conventional dermatology drugs. Both groups were followed for a period of 12 months. Children in both groups had their eczema symptoms improve. Disease-related quality of life improved equally in both groups. However, improvement of eczema as observed by physicians was significantly greater in the homeopathic group.

In Japan, Itamura and Hosoya studied 17 patients with intractable atopic dermatitis. These patients had previously failed conventional dermatological drug therapy. They were then treated with individualized homeopathic medical therapy, in addition to conventional dermatology therapy. The study’s follow-up period was 6 to 31 months. The efficacy of homeopathic medicine was measured by objective assessments of the skin condition and the patients’ own assessments, using a 9 point scale. 1 patient cleared completely, 7 patients partially cleared (=80% better), and 9 patients partially cleared (=50% better). Importantly, 5 of 17 patients (29%) were able to stop the use of topical steroid ointments. (Itamura R, Hosoya R. Homeopathy.  2003: 92; 108-114.)

In an observational study, Witt and colleagues studied 225 children with atopic eczema.  The children were treated with homeopathic medicine and were allowed to also use conventional dermatology drugs. They were followed for 24 months. The severity of eczema in these patients improved and the changes in severity assessment were of large effect size. Reductions in the use of conventional dermatology drugs were observed.  (Witt CM, et.al.  Acta Dermato Venereol.  2009: 89(2); 182-183.

In a randomized, placebo-controlled double-blind trial, Cavalcanti and colleagues studied the effect of homeopathic treatment on itching of hemodialysis patients. Kidney failure patients undergoing dialysis treatment often have severe itching, which is difficult to control. The researchers assessed the role of individualized homeopathic treatment in this situation. Itching was evaluated using a previously published scale. Patients were classified as responders if they had greater than 50% reduction of itching. 20 patients were analyzed. Reduction of itching was statistically significant at every point of observation.

Mousavi and colleagues studied the effectiveness of the homeopathic remedy, Ignatia 30C in the treatment of oral lichen planus, a painful inflammatory dermatological disease. In this single-blind randomized clinical trial, 30 consecutive patients with oral lichen planus were randomized into two groups: one group received homeopathic Ignatia and the other group received placebo. The patients were treated for 4 months. The results showed that the size of the oral sores decreased significantly in favor of the homeopathic Ignatia treated patients. Also, the average pain was significantly lower in the homeopathic Ignatia group. The researchers concluded homeopathic Ignatia has a beneficial effect in the treatment of oral lichen planus in selected patients.  (Mousavi F, et.al.  Homeopathy.  2009: 98, 40-44.)

Pommier, et.al. published a phase III single-blind randomized comparison trial of homeopathic calendula ointment versus trolamine ointment in the prevention of acute radiation dermatitis in women undergoing post-operative radiation treatment for breast cancer. The researchers studied 254 patients. They found that the occurrence of acute radiation dermatitis (grade 2 or higher) was significantly lower.

In an animal model study, de Paula Coelho and colleagues evaluated the homeopathic remedy Dolichos pruriens in the treatment of heat-induced itching in laboratory rats. The researchers found that in this blinded study, homeopathic Dolichos pruriens significantly demonstrated therapeutic effects in the inhibition of itching. The homeopathic remedy had no adverse effects. It is possible that the homeopathic remedy Dolichos pruriens could potentially be useful in humans with generalized itching without an eruption (e.g. “itching of unknown origin”).  (de Paula Coelho C, et.al.  Homeopathy.  2006: 95(3); 136-143.)



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Insomnia and Homeopathy: safer and more effective treatment

Insomnia and Homeopathy: safer and more effective treatment
What is insomnia?
As defined by NHS Choices, Insomnia is difficulty getting to sleep or staying asleep for long enough to feel refreshed the next morning, even though you've had enough opportunity to sleep. It describes the most common symptoms of Insomnia as:
  • difficulty falling asleep
  • waking up during the night
  • waking up early in the morning
  • feeling irritable and tired and finding it difficult to function during the day
Conventional Medical Treatment of Insomnia
Discussing treatment, NHS Choices talk first about discovering if there is any ‘underlying medical condition’ for sleeplessness, and some very simple and sensible self-help, or sleep hygiene measures, such as:
  • establishing fixed times for going to bed and waking up (avoid sleeping in after a poor night's sleep)
  • trying to relax before going to bed
  • maintaining a comfortable sleeping environment (not too hot, cold, noisy or bright)
  • avoiding napping during the day
  • avoiding caffeine, nicotine and alcohol late at night 
  • avoiding exercise within four hours of bedtime (although exercise in the middle of the day is beneficial)
  • avoiding eating a heavy meal late at night
  • avoiding watching or checking the clock throughout the night
  • using the bedroom mainly for sleep and sex if possible
This is all sensible advice, and this is followed by suggestions for the use of Cognitive and behavioural treatments.

The advice then moves on to sleeping medication “if the symptoms are particularly severe” or to “help ease short-term insomnia”. However it supplies a warning here.

“.... doctors are usually reluctant to prescribe sleeping tablets as they relieve symptoms but don't treat the cause of your insomnia. If you have long-term insomnia, sleeping tablets are unlikely to help. Your doctor may consider referring you to a clinical psychologist to discuss other approaches to treatment”.

It goes on to say that sleeping pills can cause a feeling that you are ‘hungover’, and drowsiness during the day. The drugs mentioned are as follows:
  • Benzodiazepine Drugs. These drugs, which include Valium, Librium and Atavan, have a long history of very serious adverse reactions, and their use is now supposed to be heavily restricted. One of the main problems was dependence or addiction, and they should not be prescribed for more than 4 weeks, but apparently often are. People who have taken Benzodiazepines have reported blackouts, epileptic seizures, memory loss, brain damage, insomnia (!) and personality change. A fuller description of the serious dangers of Benzodiazepine drugs can be read here.
  • More modern ‘Z medicines’, such as Zopiclone, Zolpidem and Zalepion, which NHS Choices suggest are similar to the Benzodiazepines, and it is stated that they are unlikely to work if Benzodiazepines fail to do so.
  • Melatonin (Circadin), which NHS Choices states cause adverse reactions such as irritability, dizziness, migraines, constipation, stomach pain and weight gain. Moreover, a study on Melatonin, which revisited a number of small studies, was reported in the British Medical Journal in 2006 (332: 385-8). It found that the drug did not do much to help establish a healthy sleep cycle.
More recent studies have suggested that sleeping medication can triple the risk of death (British Medical Journal, 2012; 2: e000850, reported in ‘What Doctor’s Don’t Tell You’, July 2012 and June 2013), and that it can increase the risk of fatal pneumonia by half again (What Doctor’s Don’t Tell you, February 2013). Canadian research found that the risk of death increased by 40% when patients were taking sleeping pills (Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 2010; 55: 558-67).



Whilst Homeopathy would also look at the kind of self-help measures mentioned above, and try to find if there is an ‘underlying cause’ of the insomnia, treatment is much more straightforward, and uses a variety of remedies. A useful description of some of these remedies, together with useful tips to get a good night’s sleep, is found on the Homeopathy Plus website (click here to read in full), with the main remedy descriptions being reproduced here

Arsenicum Album (Ars)
Key Symptoms: Those who need Arsenicum will nearly always be anxious and restless. Anxiety, fear, or worry prevents sleep. Frequent starting or jumping which wakens from sleep. Sleeplessness from physical exertion. Worse for: after midnight. Better for: warmth; warm drinks.
Supporting Symptoms: Disturbed, anxious and restless sleep. Lying awake with restlessness, tossing and turning. Cannot lie still in bed – has to get up and wander around from restlessness. Going from bed to bed to try and sleep. Can only sleep with head raised. Hard to fall asleep after waking.

Coffea Cruda (Coff)
Key Symptoms: Coffee is well known for producing sleeplessness but because of homeopathy’s ‘like treats like’ effect, it will relieve insomnia when given in crude, or especially homeopathic form. The type of symptoms it relieves are those produced by coffee. They are: sleeplessness from rapid thoughts or an active mind; constant flow of ideas; physical restlessness; nervous energy; excitement. Can also be used to counteract the effects of a caffeinated product that has been taken too close to bed-time. Worse for: surprises; strong emotions; narcotics.
Supporting Symptoms: Unable to sleep from the excitement of a surprise, or good or bad news. Palpitation with sleeplessness. Waking with every sound. Waking from frequent starting. Sleeplessness from an itching anus. Minor pains seems intolerable.

Gelsemium Sempervirens (Gels)
Key Symptoms: Sleeplessness from anticipatory anxiety. Dull, drowsy mind – hard to think yet difficult to go to sleep. Insomnia from exhaustion. Hard to get fully asleep. Worse for: bad news; thinking about problems.
Supporting Symptoms: Yawning with tiredness. Sleeplessness with teething. Sleeplessness from itching on head, face, neck, and shoulders. Sleeplessness during delirium tremens (withdrawal from alcohol).

Ignatia Amara (Ign)
Key Symptoms: Intense, repeated yawning or frequent sighing. Sleeplessness from a recent disappointment or grief.
Supporting Symptoms: Waking easily from sleep. Waking from the jerking of a limb. Itching of arms with yawning. Yawning produces tears in the eyes or threatens to dislocate jaw. Child wakes from sleep with screaming and trembling after being reprimanded before bedtime. Worse for: Coffee.

Lycopodium clavatum (Lyc)
Key Symptoms: Waking from hunger – must get up and eat. Restless sleep and anxious dreams with frequent waking. Feeling unrefreshed in morning.
Supporting Symptoms: Unable to get comfortable in any position. Falling asleep late and waking early. Sleepy all day and sleepless at night from an active mind. Children who sleep all day and cry all night. Child wakes terrified with screaming – seems not to recognise anyone (sleep terrors).

Nux Vomica (Nux-v)
Key Symptoms: Frequent yawning. Irritability from loss of sleep. Falling asleep before normal bedtime and then waking at 3–4am. Waking at 3-4am with alert and active mind and then falling asleep as daylight approaches only to then wake with difficulty, feeling tired, weak, and not wanting to get up. Worse for: stimulants and narcotics
Supporting Symptoms: Sleeplessness from the excessive consumption of coffee, alcohol, or drugs (therapeutic or recreational). Tendency to lie on back with arms under head. Sleeplessness from mental strain and stress or excessive study. Drowsy after meals an in early evening. Grogginess on waking in morning. Weeping and talking in sleep.

Passiflora Incarnata (Pass)
Key Symptoms: Restlessness, exhaustion, and sleeplessness.
Supporting Symptoms: Restless sleeplessness from excessive work. Sleeplessness with exhaustion. Insomnia of infants and the aged. Convulsions with sleeplessness.
Other Comments: Has a long history of use in herbal medicine where its homeopathic effect in the treatment of insomnia has also been exploited. It is effective in either herbal doses or homeopathic potencies.

Phosphorus (Phos)
Key Symptoms: Short naps with frequent waking. Frequent waking from feeling too hot. Sleeplessness from excitement or anxiety.
Supporting Symptoms: Sleeplessness in old people. Sleepless before midnight. Sleepy all day, sleepless and restless at night. Sleeplessness with sensation of bubbling in blood. Worse for: lying on left side.

Sulphur (Sulph)
Key Symptoms: Waking between 2 – 5am and unable to go back to sleep. Difficulty in falling asleep from itchiness of skin or perspiration. Drowsy by day and sleepless at night. Worse for: becoming hot; atmospheric changes.
Supporting Symptoms: Wakes up singing from happy dreams. Waking at night from a rush of blood to the head. Sudden waking from sleep. Constant flow of thoughts that prevent sleep. Sleep disturbed by headache. Better for: dry, warm weather.

Whilst these remedies can be safely taken on a first-aid basis, if the remedy description fits the patient symptoms, assistance from the qualified Homeopathy should be sought in of serious or long-term insomnia.

Randomised Controlled Tests

The Homeopathy Research Institute undertook a review of the research evidence supporting the use of homeopathy to treat insomnia if their newsletter, dated Summer 2010. It is available at this link. Their conclusions were as follows:

“Homeopaths often treat insomnia, however, there is currently a lack of high-quality sufficiently powered studies assessing the effectiveness of either homeopathic medicines or treatment by a homeopath for this condition. There is a need for further well-conducted clinical trials of treatment by a homeopath in order to examine fully the clinical and cost effectiveness of the therapeutic system of homeopathy in the management of insomnia”.

However, this research, on Chronic Primary Insomnia, came to the following conclusion:

“The homeopathic simillimum treatment of primary insomnia was effective, compared to placebo. Homeopathy is a viable treatment modality for this condition and further research is justified.



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Arthritis: safer and more effective treatment with Homeopathy

Arthritis: safer and more effective treatment with Homeopathy
If you suffer from Arthritic pain, and you are looking for medical treatment, it is advisable first to compare and contrast conventional medical treatment with alternative treatment, such as Homeopathy. Perhaps the fundamental difference between the two is that whilst conventional medicine works by providing patients with pain relief through painkilling drugs, Homeopathy seeks to deal with the underlying condition that is causing the pain.
Conventional Medical Treatment
NHS Choices http://www.nhs.uk/Pages/HomePage.aspx says that "osteoarthritis cannot be cured, but treatment can ease your symptoms and prevent them from affecting your everyday life”. It recommends exercise and weight loss. However, it is clear that the main conventional treatment for arthritis are pain-killing drugs. It says that “the aim of rheumatoid arthritis treatment is to reduce inflammation in the joints, relieve pain, prevent or slow joint damage, reduce disability and provide support to help you live as active a life as possible”.

The main drugs used by conventional medicine to treat arthritis are:
  • Painkillers, such as Paracetamol and Codeine
NHS Choices says that pain killers “reduce pain rather than inflammation and are used to control the symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis”. This means that they treat the pain, but not the underlying condition.
  • Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs
NHS Choices says this of NSAID drugs. “NSAIDs help relieve pain and stiffness whilst also reducing inflammation. However, they will not slow down the progress of rheumatoid arthritis”.

NHS Choices goes on to say that NSAID can increase the risk of serious stomach problems, such as bleeding internally. “Taking an NSAID can break down the lining that protects against damage from acids in the stomach”.

Yet it is also true, as the NHS Choices website admits, that one type of NSAID, Cox-2 inhibitors, also have the potential to cause heart attacks and strokes. And it adds that if you take NSAIDs you will ‘almost certainly’ have to take more drugs, such as a PPI drugs to reduce the risk of damage to your stomach lining.
  • Corticosteroids
NHS Choices admits that this drug can have serious side effects, including weight gain, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, thinning of skin, and can worsen diabetes, glaucoma. Therefore, they are only used on a short-term basis. The website says that long-term use of corticosteroids has been associated with an over-stimulation of the adrenal glands, producing Cushing’s Syndrome, hyperglycaemia, diabetes, muscle weakness, skin atrophy and thinness.

Homeopathy uses many remedies for people suffering with arthritis, and related illnesses. As is normal with Homeopathy, the correct remedy for any individual is based upon a remedy that best matches the symptoms of that individual. The main remedies used, with a brief description of the kind of symptoms they are used for, are as follows:
  • Rhus Tox
Perhaps the main remedy used for rheumatism, with pain and stiffness. Pain and stiffness causing patient to shift and stretch. Restless in bed. Worse in morning, upon rising; at night; evening, with over-exertion; for cold, damp weather; sitting for a long time. Better for heat, continued gentle motion.
  • Causticum
There is joint pains and deformity; remedy in advance, deformative arthritis. Stiffness can be so severe the patients feels as if the joint is paralyzed. Cracking joints.
  • Arnica
Great soreness all over. Even the bed feels too hard. Feels as if bruised or beaten. Must move constantly to relieve pain.
  • Aurum Met
Serious or advanced rheumatism with marked stiffness. Rheumatism with stiffness or spasms on chest wall. Severe spasm or tearing pains. Pains described as ‘paralytic’. Wandering arthritis; moving from spot to spot.
  • Bryonia
Excrutiating pains, often stitching pains. Patient is averse to being examined or moved. Fears to move yet feels restless. Worse, slightest motion. Jarring. From cold, especially cold, dry weather. Better, heat, pressure, lying still, lying on painful side.

(These brief remedy descriptions have been taken from Roger Morrison, Desktop Companion to Physical Pathology. Hahnemann Clinic Publishing. 1998).

Note. There are at least 141 remedies contained in the Homeopathic Materia Medica (Synthesis) for the single rubric “General, Inflammation, Joints”, and many more for related conditions.


Randomised Controlled Tests (RCTs) on Homeopathic Remedies

Whereas the main proof for the effectiveness of Homeopathy are the patients who once suffered from this condition, and there are several RCT trials that have looked into the use of homeopathy for people suffering with arthritis, and similar diseases.
  • A critical examination of the evidence for the use of individualised Homeopathic treatment in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
  • Homeopathic therapy in rheumatoid arthritis: evaluation of double-blind clinical therapeutic trial
  • http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1429952/?tool=pmcentrez_
  • Abstract. Twenty-three patients with rheumatoid arthritis on orthodox first-line anti-inflammatory treatment plus homeopathy were compared wtih a similar group of twenty-three patients on orthodox first-line treatment plus an inert preparation. There was a significant improvement in subjective pain, articular index, stiffness and grip strength in those patients receiving homeopathic remedies whereas there was no significant change in the patients who received placebo. Two physicians were involved in prescribing for the patients and there were no significant differences in the results which they obtained. No side effects were observed with the homeopathic remedies.
  • Bell IR, Lewis DA, Brooks AJ, Schwartz GE, Lewis SE, Walsh BT, Baldwin CM. Improved clinical status in fibromyalgia patients treated with individualized homeopathic remedies versus placebo. 
  • Rheumatology (Oxford). 2004 May;43(5):577-82. 
  • 53 people suffering from fibromyalgia took part in this trial, comparing individualised homeopathic treatment to placebo. The levels of tender points and tender point pain as well as quality of life, mood and general health were assessed by the practitioners and subjects involved in the trial. 3 months after commencing treatment, all parameters were found to be improved by the use of homoeopathy when compared to placebo.
  • Fisher P., Greenwood A, Huskisson EC, Turner P and Belon P.  Effect of Homeopathic Treatment on Fibrositis. 
  • British Medical Journal, 5 August, 1989, 299, 365-366. 
  • Patients using Rhus tox 6C three times daily in a double blind placebo controlled crossover trial found significant relief with the medicine over the placebo.
  • Fisher P. An Experimental Double-blind Clinical Trial method in Homoeopathy- Use of a Limited Range of Remedies to Treat Fibrositis. 
  • British Homoeopathic Journal, 1986, July, 75, 3, 142-7. 
  • 24 subjects suffering from fibrositis were treated for the condition for 3 months with Arnica, Bryonia or Rhus tox, depending upon the similarity between the individuals’ symptoms and the clinical picture for the remedy. Using scores for pain, number of tender spots, and sleep quality to determine the response to the therapy, these remedies produced a statistically significant improvement, but only when the remedy was well indicated.
  • Gibson RG, Gibson SL, MacNeill AD, Gray GH, Dick WC, Buchanan WW. Salicylates and Homoeopathy in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
  • British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 1978, 6, 5, 391-395. 
  • In this study, carried out at the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital, 41 people suffering from rheumatoid arthritis were treated with enteric coated aspirin and 54 people suffering from the same condition were treated with individualised homeopathic treatment. The results of the two forms of therapy were compared at the end of the trial and it was found that those on homeopathic treatment did considerably better than those on aspirin. In addition, 16 of the 41 people taking aspirin during the trial experienced side effects while those taking homeopathics experienced no side effects.
  • Gibson RG, Gibson SL. Homeopathic Therapy in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Evaluation by Double Blind Clinical Therapeutic Trial.
  • Br J. Clin. Pharmac. 9, 1980, 453-459. 
  • 46 patients using a number of different homeopathic medicines, prescribed according to homeopathic principles, were given this medicine or a placebo with their normal anti-arthritic drug. The trial was carried out blind and significant results were achieved with the homeopathic medicine over the placebo in all areas measured.
  • Gmnunder R, Kissling R. The Efficacy of homeopathy in the treatment of chronic low back pain compared to standardized physiotherapy. 
  • Zeitschrift für Orthopädie und ihre Grenzgebiete, 2002 Sep-Oct;140, 5, 503-8. 
  • In this controlled, randomised, prospective study, 43 people suffering from chronic low back pain were treated for two months either by homeopathy or by standardised physiotherapy. Assessment based on the initial and final clinical investigations, an Oswestry questionnaire, and visual analog scale, found that the most successful method of treatment was homeopathy.
  • Shealy CN, Thomlinson PR, Cox RH, Bormeyer V. Osteoarthritis Pain: A Comparison of Homoeopathy and Acetaminophen.
  • American Journal of Pain Management, 8, 3, July 1998, 89-91. 
  • In this trial, 65 sufferers of osteoarthritis (OA) were split into 2 groups, and through a double blinding process were given either a homeopathic medicine or Acetaminophen, a commonly prescribed drug for pain relief in OA. Researchers found that homoeopathy provided a level of pain relief that was superior to Acetaminophen, and produced no adverse reactions.
  • Labrecque G., Guilleminot J. Effect of Bryonia on Experimental Arthritis in Rats. 
  • Berlin Journal of Research in Homoeopathy, 1, 3, 1991, 169, (Congress Report Poster). 
  • In this study, 35 male rats suffering from arthritis were treated with placebo or 4X, 4C or 9C potencies of homeopathic Bryonia for 15 days and assessed at various stages using grip strength body weight as assessment criteria. At the end of the treatment period, all of the Bryonia potencies had improved the condition when compared to placebo, with Bryonia 4C providing the best outcomes.

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