Irish Homeopaths Serving the Homeopathic Community in Ireland

In 1876, there were no hospitals in Gloucester County. Physicians and surgeons were usually located in villages with industries. Philadelphia had Jefferson College and Hahnemann Hospital for the training of physicians and surgeons. Some physicians were homeopathic physicians.

It always makes me sad when I go to the Brown Bookstore or the pharmacy and see them selling products that do nothing for students' health, save for giving them a walletectomy. The University should have better standards and stop selling medicinal products for which there is no good evidence of efficacy and safety.

The Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Tuesday that investors suing a drug company for securities fraud may rely on its failure to disclose scattered reports of adverse affects from an over-the-counter cold remedy that fell short of statistical significance.

I was insulted by the stance of the March 17 news article "Debate Has No Effect On Homeopathy's Popularity." Just because skeptics are riled that homeopathy doesn't fit their scientific worldview, they don't have license to interfere with my choice of healing modality.

The Kerala High Court has struck down a recent Kerala government order exempting self-learnt homoeopathic practitioners of Malabar region in the state from acquiring recognized qualification and registration for practising homoeopathy. Hearing a petition filed by the Institution of Homoeopath Kerala IHK, an organization of working homoeopathic doctors, the court observed that only qualified doctors of homeopathy can practice the system in Malabar area.

It is not just the fact that the size of the present domestic homeopathy market has been placed around Rs 2,758 crore, but that with a 30 per cent annual increase, it will reach Rs. 4,600 crore in a few years. These figures place India second to France in the ranking of the homeopathy market.

On Friday, March 25 from 12:15pm-1:00pm in the Courthouse-on-the-Square 1896 Room 3rd Floor, Dr. Gerry Veeder will provide a lecture on Dr. Louisa Owsley 1830-1903, a self-taught homeopathic physician.

The recent edition of Alternative and Complementary Therapies features a Natural Standard evidence-based review of Oscillococcinum.

The Homeopathy Plus clinic, based on the NSW central coast, said in an email newsletter yesterday that "with the increasing threat of radioactive contamination from damaged Japanese nuclear reactors, homeopaths continue to alert people to the homeopathic remedies used for either the treatment or prevention of radiation poisoning". The Homeopathy Plus newsletter and clinic are both run by homeopath Fran Sheffield. The claims were dismissed as dangerous rubbish by two medical experts.

For 20 years, Sylvia Valdez of Katy has been sharing information about homeopathic medicine through a group she formed. Her now-grown children were treated with homeopathic medicine starting when she brought her oldest son home from the hospital.

Homeopathy was shown to be 98% effective in the US during the catastrophic Spanish flu pandemic that ravaged the world in 1918. Dr W.A. Pearson, dean of the Hahnemann College in Philadelphia, collected 26,795 cases of influenza treated by homeopathic physicians. The mortality rate was only 1.05% while the rate for conventional medicine was 30%. The homeopathic remedies most frequently used were Gelemium, Bryonia, and Euporium. In Chicago, Dr Frank Wieland stated, "In a plant of 8,000 workers there was only one death. Gelsemium was practically the only homeopathic remedy used, there was no use of either aspirin or vaccination."

The advice to use homeopathic treatments on radiation victims is irresponsible and dangerous. Homeopathic preparations have no active ingredients and are therefore worthless. Homeopathic medicines are often so literally watered-down that they don't contain a single molecule of the original medicine or substance: The patient is drinking nothing but water.

James Compton Burnett 1840 - 1901 is one of the big names in homoeopathy. But he wasn't always passionate about homeopathy. At one time, he was a highly skeptical doctor.

The letters from Brian Cleary, Peter Duddy and John Duddy against the suggestions of Alternatives to the pink stuff HEALTHplus, March 8th are typical of the prejudice resulting from ignorance.

Homeopathic medications help fight viral infections. This has now been confirmed by in-vitro tests conducted at the Dr. Glatthaar Laboratory in Reutlingen, Germany. Researchers infected epithelial and blood cells with cold viruses under controlled laboratory conditions. Cells that were previously treated with certain homeopathically prepared medications were more resistant and released more interferon than untreated cells.

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Homeopathy Not All It's Quacked Up To Be
Miller-McCune.com
Professional skeptic James Randi's offer to pay a million dollars to the maker of any homeopathic remedy that actually works points out the logical fallacies in this branch of 'medicine.' By Peter M. Nardi Vintage homeopathy: In the old green bottles ...

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Homeopathy is the means of treating illness by medications, given in minute doses that might produce in a healthy and balanced person signs or symptom just like those of the ailment. Market Press Release – March 31, 2011 3:55 am – Most likely you've ...

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For centuries the practice of homoeopathy has been ridiculed by real scientists, genuine doctors and other qualified medical practitioners on the grounds that there has never been one jot of evidence to support its efficacy. ...

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While the homeopathy industry in the country clocking a 30 per cent growth rate, the homeopathic clinics in the state seem to have received a shot in the arm, with some of them reporting even 100 per cent growth in the last two years. ...

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