Question....What is the track record of homeopathy retreating serious diseases?
Studies at the University of Vienna in 2005 showed that homeopathy had "substantial significance" in treating patients with COPD or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (1) and severe sepsis a condition which kills 50 percent of patients in hospitals who are inflicted with it. Homeopathic treatment has been found to cut this death rate in half. (2)
Furthermore, the World Health Organization has deemed that childhood diarrhoea represents one of the most serious public health problems in the world today because millions of children die each year as a result of dehydration from diarrhoea. With this concern in mind, three randomized double-blind trials were conducted testing individually chosen homeopathic medicines for children with diarrhoea. One of these studies was published in Paediatrics, (3) and another study was published in another highly respected paediatric medical journal (4). All three of these trials showed a significant benefit from homeopathic treatment when compared with placebo.
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Frass M, Dielacher C, Linkesch M, et al. Influence of potassium dichromate on tracheal secretions in critically ill patients. Chest 2005;127:936-941. (This journal is consider THE most respected journal in respiratory medicine.)
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Frass M, Linkesch M, Banyai S, et al. Adjunctive homeopathic treatment in patients with severe sepsis: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial in an intensive care unit. Homeopathy 2005;94;75-80.
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Jennifer Jacobs, L. Jimenez, Margarita, Stephen Gloyd, Treatment of Acute Childhood Diarrhea with Homeopathic Medicine: A Randomized Clinical Trial in Nicaragua," Pediatrics, May 1994, 93,5:719-25.
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Jacobs J, Jonas WB, Jimenez-Perez M, Crothers D, Homeopathy for Childhood Diarrhea: Combined Results and Meta-Analysis from Three Randomized-Controlled Clinical Trials. Pediatrics Infectious Disease Journal. . 2003;22:229-234
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