A Sampling of CAM Therapies and Philosophies
Lillian R. Brazin in The Guide to Complementary and Alternative Medicine on the Internet, 2020
Homeopathy is the British-based medical practice that treats disease by administering minute doses of natural remedies that would produce the symptoms of the disease in a healthy person, based on the principle “like cures like.” The body’s own vital force is stimulated to cure itself. Homeopathy is the opposite of allopathic medicine, the most common form of medical practice in the Western world, wherein diseases are treated with remedies that produce effects different from those caused by the disease itself.Homeopathic Educational Services<http://www.homeopathic.com>
An Overview of Important Endemic Plants and Their Products in Iran
Raymond Cooper, Jeffrey John Deakin in Natural Products of Silk Road Plants, 2020
Apium graveolens (Figure 7.20) is a biennial plant growing up to 0.6 m by 0.3 m. The flowers are hermaphrodite. The plant is self-fertile. It is suitable to grow in light (sandy), medium (loamy), and heavy (clay) soils. It is suitable to grow in the soil with acid, neutral, and basic (alkaline) pH and can grow in saline soils. It can grow in semi-shade (light woodland). It prefers moist soil. It is an aromatic bitter tonic herb that reduces blood pressure, relieves indigestion, stimulates the uterus and is anti-inflammatory. The ripe seeds, herb, and root are aperient, carminative, diuretic, emmenagogue, galactogogue, nervine, stimulant, and tonic. Wild celery is said to be useful in cases of hysteria, promoting restfulness and sleep and diffusing through the system a mild sustaining influence. An essential oil obtained from the plant has a calming effect on the central nervous system. Some of its constituents have anti-spasmodic, sedative, and anticonvulsant actions. A homeopathic remedy is made from the herb. It is used in treating rheumatism and kidney complaints (Zargari, 2014; Mozaffarian, 2011; Plant for a Future; Kooti & Daraei, 2017).
Sarah and Her Otitis Media
John K. Crellin, Fernando Ania in Professionalism and Ethics in Complementary and Alternative Medicine, 2012
Clinical trial support for homeopathic care comes from a 1997 prospective nonrandomized observational study (a surveillance study) that compared the progress of acute otitis media in children treated (1) homeopathically, and (2) with conventional treatment using nasal drops, secrolytics, antipyretics and, in some cases, antibiotics. Various homeopathic single remedies were used (e.g., aconitum, apis mellifica, belladonna, capsicum). For 30.2 percent of patients treated homeopathically and 11.5 percent using conventional therapies, symptoms (pain and fever) improved three hours from initial therapy. Although differences are not statistically significant, the study indicated that homeopathy can be an alternative to conventional therapy.5 The question that is constantly asked of any study is whether it is sound. In this instance the lack of statistical significance is a problem calling for further studies, as do randomized trials that provide ambivalent results.10
Evaluating the effect on asthma quality of life of added reflexology or homeopathy to conventional asthma management – an investigator-blinded, randomised, controlled parallel group study
Published in European Clinical Respiratory Journal, 2020
Ayfer Topcu, Anders Løkke, Leila Eriksen, Lars Peter Nielsen, Ronald Dahl
Patients in the conventional treatment group received usual care of asthma. This treatment was monitored and adjusted as usual by the patient’s general practitioner. Patients in the homeopathy group received homeopathic treatment in addition to usual care of asthma. Homeopathic treatment was performed by a registered homeopath and based on principles for classical homeopathy. The therapist was appointed by the Danish Society of Classical Homeopathy. Homeopathic treatment was decided on an individual basis by the homeopath and prescribed as an oral treatment. Patients received homeopathic product with potency between C30 (dilution by a factor 10030 = 1060) and M10 (dilution by a factor 100010 = 1030). The number of homeopathy sessions attended was 6–12 during 1 year.
Usefulness of classical homeopathy for the prophylaxis of recurrent urinary tract infections in individuals with chronic neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction
Published in The Journal of Spinal Cord Medicine, 2019
Jürgen Pannek, Susanne Pannek-Rademacher, Mohinder S. Jus, Jens Wöllner, Jörg Krebs
Although the exact mode of action needs to be further elucidated, homeopathy is based on stimulating autoregulatory and self-healing processes.21 The homeostasis of any complex system is based on the equilibrium of antagonistic activities of different substances or different receptors for the same substance. This homeostasis may become chronically disrupted. To reverse this condition, it may be necessary to trigger an endogenous therapeutic reaction with a specific pathogenic substance contained in the small doses of a homeopathic remedy.22 The hypotheses regarding the action mechanisms of highly diluted/dynamized solutions include sensitivity to bioelectromagnetic information, participation of water chains in signaling and regulation of bifurcation points of systemic networks.23
Mercurius solubilis attenuates scopolamine-induced memory deficits and enhances the motor coordination in mice
Published in International Journal of Neuroscience, 2018
Simranjeet Kaur, Anudeep Kaur, Gurjit Singh, Rajbir Bhatti
Cognition is a complicated phenomenon involving thought processes that participate in individual registration, encoding, selection, transformation and information retrieval. Cognitive process develops throughout the school life and adolescence, leading to the development of skills such as thought, language, etc. [1–4]. A lack of choices to treat memory impairments in allopathic medicine have shifted focus on to alternative therapies. Homeopathy is now a well-regarded discipline in medicine. Progressive efforts are being made to standardize homeopathic formulations. The homeopathic remedies are prepared by special methods involving a cascade of dilution and thereafter dynamization [5]. Dynamization process, according to Hahnemann, is proposed to have a dilution of more than 50,000 times at each stage [6,7]. Mercurius solubilis is a homeopathic remedy that is found in the naturally occurring ore, cinnabar [8]. The method of preparation of merc sol involves precipitation of mercury with nitric oxide and formation of a gray powder which is dried and treated until it dissolves [9].
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