Medical science is not much use to homeopathy! The practise of homeopathy has no need for it, and does not rely upon it. Unlike conventional medicine it does not give patients potentially dangerous drugs with harmful side effects. If an illness has symptoms they are studied, and matched with a remedy known to cause similar symptoms. Every remedy is highly diluted so it does not cause patient harm. It can be used with patients to see if it works; if it does, fine; if it doesn't, it does not harm, and the search goes on. This means that there is no need to test remedies for safety, and remedies can be given to patients without risk to their health.
This is how homeopathy has progressed for the last 220+ years.
And it is how homeopathy will continue to progress in future.
In last weeks BBC's 'You and Yours' programme that gratuitously attacked homeopathy for claiming to treat and cure homeopathy, it was stated that there was "no evidence for homeopathy". This is the mantra routinely trotted out by the mainstream media, loyally echoing the message that the conventional medical establishment wants us all to hear. Yet this is untrue.
I read an article recently entitled "Homeopathy is about to be regulated out of existence but science just got in the way". It outlines the many moves being made all over the world by conventional medicine (but focusing on the USA) to regulate and discredit homeopathy. The article focuses on one study undertaken at the University of Florence, Italy, in 2017 which reported on studies that show, unequivocally, that some highly diluted homeopathic remedies do evoke a biological response.
“These studies show that, contrary to previous beliefs, when homeopathic medicines containing metal nanoparticles are progressively diluted and succussed (shaken), highly diluted solutions contains an unexpected amount of the original substance.”
More about this Italian research can be found here. Yet there is much more scientific evidence supporting homeopathy than mentioned in this single study. The fact is that there are now nearly 500 studies that point to the effectiveness of homeopathy as a medical therapy.
Amongst these studies are three on the homeopathic treatment of autism.
Gupta N, et al.
Homoeopathic Medicinal Treatment of Autism.
Indian Journal of Research in Homoeopathy, 2010, 4, 4, 19-28.
An Indian research team set out to investigate the effects of individualised homeopathic treatment in autism spectrum disorders (ASD). 25 children who had been diagnosed with ASD were enrolled in the study. They received individualised homoeopathic treatment and their progress was followed for 18 months. Significant positive & curative response with homoeopathic medicines in subjects with ASD was found, suggesting that homoeopathic medicines can provide relief from abnormal behavioural problems in children presenting with ASD.
Fibert P, et al.
A Comparative Consecutive Case Series of 20 Children With a Diagnosis of ADHD Receiving Homeopathic Treatment, Compared With 10 Children Receiving Usual Care.
Homeopathy, 2016, 105, 194-201.
This UK research compared the clinical effects of individualised homeopathic treatment for 1 year in 20 children diagnosed with ADHD, with standard treatment for 10 children diagnosed with the same condition for 4 months. Parents completed Conners’ Parent Rating Scale, Revised Long Version (CPRS-R:L) and Measure Your Own Medical Outcome Profile (MYMOP) every consultation at baseline and every 4 months, from which DSMIV total scores were extracted.
The use of homeopathy was associated with statistically significant improvements in criminality and anger and improvements in children with a concomitant diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder in treated children over the year.
Praful M Barvalia1, Piyush M Oza1, Amit H Daftary, Vijaya S Patil, Vinita S Agarwal, Ashish R Mehta
Effectiveness of homoeopathic therapeutics in the management of childhood autism disorder
Indian Journal of Research in Homeopathy
The study demonstrated the usefulness of homeopathic treatment in management of neuropsychological dysfunction in childhood autism disorder, which is reflected in significant reduction of hyperactivity, behavioral dysfunction, sensory impairment as well as communication difficulty. This was demonstrated well in psychosocial adaptation of autistic children.
So why did the BBC ignores these studies? Or at least find out about them? Why were they content meekly to trot out conventional medicine's mantra - that there is no evidence for homeopathy?
- Remember, conventional medicine openly admits that it has no treatment for autism.
- Remember, the BBC itself admitted in its programme that there are many 'desperate' parents out there who were looking for effective treatment for their autistic children.
When science confirms the effectiveness of homeopathic treatment, as in the three studies outlined above, the conventional medical establishment will usually dismiss them, saying that such studies are not good enough, that there is something wrong with them. No doubt they would say this about these studies, regardless of their quality.
- Yet should these three studies alone not be sufficient to trigger for further research?
- Moreover, would the case examples outlined in my previous blog not be good enough reason to undertake more research?
What this strongly suggests is that the conventional medical establishment (and their supporters in the BBC) has no interest whatsoever in a cure for autism.......... unless, of course, it is a conventional medical or pharmaceutical cure! And they haven't got one!
This is the third of 4 blogs on the subject of Autism and Homeopathy
- the first blog, which described the hostile attitude of conventional medicine and the BBC towards homeopathy, can be found here.
- the second makes reference to some of the many cases of autistic children who have been treated successfully with homeopathy
- the fourth blog concerns the evidence that conventional medicine not only has no treatment, but is a major cause of autism.
If conventional medicine does not wish to find a cure for Autism, Homeopathy certainly will continue to do so.
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