Homeopathy Research

The existence of high quality research evidence supporting homeopathy is irrefutable: 

  • Individualized homeopathic treatment has been shown to be more efficacious than placebo in a systematic review and meta-analysis of placebo-controlled trials i.e. the most rigorous form of scientific evidence available (Mathie et al., 2014)1
  • A large-scale, high quality, observational study involving over 8,000 patients and over 800 doctors has shown the benefits of homeopathy for musculoskeletal disorders; sleep, anxiety and depressive disorders and upper respiratory tract infections: under real-world conditions patients treated by GPs certified in homeopathy were found to have similar clinical outcomes to patients using conventional medicine alone, but with reduced use of conventional drugs and at 20% lower overall cost (Grimaldi-Bensouda L, et al. 2011)2
  • Recent high-quality studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of homeopathy in the treatment of specific medical conditions in humans, for example in premenstrual syndrome (Yakir et al. 2019)3; chronic asthma (Qutubuddin et al. 2019)4; insomnia (Michael et al. 2019)5 and plantar fasciitis (Shahid et al. 2022)6;
  • Homeopathy has been found to be effective for prevention of seroma formation after mastectomy in cancer patients (Lotan et al, 2020)7
  • Homeopathic medicines have been shown to have biological effects in plant models, for example in double-blind placebo-controlled experiments on Arsenic-stressed duckweed (Jäger et al., 2010, Ücker et al., 2022)8,9
  • Experiments have demonstrated that homeopathic medicines have biological effects in animal models, for example homeopathic Thyroxine has been shown to inhibit amphibian metamorphosis in experiments replicated by multiple independent research teams (Harrer, 2013)10

References

  1. Mathie RT et al. Randomised placebo-controlled trials of individualized homeopathic treatment: systematic review and meta-analysis. Systematic Reviews, 2014; 3: 142

  2. Grimaldi-Bensouda L, et al. Benchmarking the burden of 100 diseases: results of a nationwide representa-tive survey within general practices. BMJ Open, 2011; 1: e000215
  3. Yakir M, Klein-Laansma CT, Kreitler S, Brzezinski A, Oberbaum M, Vithoulkas G, Bentwich Z. A placebo-controlled double-blind randomized trial with individualized homeopathic treatment using a symptom cluster approach in women with premenstrual syndrome. Homeopathy. 2019;108:256-269.
  4. Qutubuddin M et al. Efficacy of individualized homeopathy in bronchial asthma in adults: Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, clinical trial in the context of usual care. Advances in Integrative Medicine, 2019; 6(2): 58–65
  5. Michael J, et al. Efficacy of individualized homeopathic treatment of insomnia: Double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial. Complementary Therapies in Medicine; 43: 53–59.
  6. Shahid S et al. Efficacy of Individualized Homeopathic Medicines in Plantar Fasciitis: Double-blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Clinical Trial. Homeopathy. 2022 Feb;111(1):22-30
  7. Lotan, A.M. et al. Arnica montana and Bellis perennis for seroma reduction following mastectomy and immediate breast reconstruction: randomized, doubleblind, placebo- controlled trial. Eur J Plast Surg. 2020; 43, 285–294).
  8. Jäger T et al. Effects of homeopathic arsenicum album, nosode, and gibberellic acid preparations on the growth rate of arsenic-impaired duckweed (Lemna gibba L.). ScientificWorldJournal. 2010 Nov 4;10:2112-29
  9. Ücker A et al. Critical Evaluation of Specific Efficacy of Preparations Produced According to European Pharmacopeia Monograph 2371. Biomedicines. 2022 Feb 25;10(3):552.
  10. Harrer B. Replication of an experiment on extremely diluted thyroxine and highland amphibians. Homeopathy, 2013; 102(1):25-303.