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Homeopathy: Tinctures or a trick of the mind?
THE INDEPENDENT (UK). Reporter: Jeremy Laurance (Susannah Ireland / The Independent) This week, a Commons committee declared that the NHS should stop funding homeopathy, describing its remedies as no better than a placebo. Jeremy Laurance hears what the patients think. The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital may be under siege but the staff and patients remain…
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Homeopathy-using New Zealanders
Dear Editor, It’s me again, Concerned Citizen. I just cannot let the latest newsletter go by without comment. “What’s grabbed my spleen,” I hear you ask? It’s the story about New Zealanders spruiking the virtues of homeopathy, while they sit comfortably in the waiting rooms of their pill-pushing doctors. Your newsletter reports that 92% of respondents…
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‘Shmucks’ Like Us
Dear Editor, While cruising through the last newsletter I read that homeopathy is “effective, safe, affordable and free of chemical side effects.” Now this comment grabbed my attention immediately, and I would like to make a few comments. I’m a long-standing fan of the traditional medico mob, so I’m not a convert to the mystical…
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First they came for the homeopaths…
Homeopathy Plus! Comment: Carol Boyce draws the title of her article from these famous words of Martin Niemöller, a German pastor of the Hitler years. “First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a communist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak…
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New Zealand Patients Tell Researchers that Homeopathy Works
A New Zealand reported that the use of homoeopathy was ‘thriving’. The researchers gave self-reporting questionnaires at random to patients waiting in their GP’s surgeries. They were asked, among other things: What conditions they had used homoeopathy for, and Whether they believed it had helped. With the survey being conducted in doctor’s waiting rooms, the…
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Little Women Used Homeopathy?
Did you know that the much-loved novel, Little Women, is sprinkled with references to homeopathy? It even plays a pivotal role in the story’s plot. Dana Ullman, in his book The Homeopathic Revolution: Why Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy, tells how author Louisa May Alcott had a deep appreciation for homeopathy that filtered…
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Homeopathic Prevention: Animal Records, Studies and Trials
Just like us, animals are prone to a range of infectious and epidemic diseases. Cows are regularly troubled by mastitis (udder infections); cattle, sheep, goats and pigs catch the highly contagious foot and mouth disease; dogs can be infected with distemper and kennel cough, and cats by feline AIDS and chlamydia. The list goes on…
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Homeopathy: an Introduction
Homeopathy embraces a unique approach to health by stimulating the body’s innate healing capacity rather than using chemicals to suppress symptoms or force specific reactions. This method not only helps the body restore its health but also builds resistance against future issues. Dating back over 2,000 years, homeopathy’s principles can be found in ancient Hippocratic…
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Bird Flu – Are We at Risk?
NOTE: This article was written for the bird flu crisis of 2003-5 but as homeopathy is prescribed against symptoms rather than disease names or virus strains, the information in this article is still relevant for the symptoms of the bird flu, swine flu, or any-other-sort-of-flu. The short answer is, yes. There have been recent reports…
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Homeopathy and the Bird Flu Crisis
NOTE: This article was written for the bird flu crisis of 2003-5 but as homeopathy is prescribed against symptoms rather than disease names or virus strains, the information in this article is still relevant for the symptoms of the bird flu, swine flu, or any-other-sort-of-flu. Could the looming Bird-flu threat meet its match with a…
