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No government could do better for the health of its citizens than to support and expand the use of homeopathy on its national health care insurance program. By providing homeopathic services the NHS would also reduce the cost of the services it provides. My personal experience of homeopathic treatment over more than 15 years is that it has been so successful, so safe, so satisfying and so inexpensive that it is now my primary form of medicine. I have not had to use anti-biotics or any of the other conventional drugs which are commonly prescribed for all sorts of conditions… Read more »
It is good to (finally) read some intelligent and experienced comments on the use of homeopathy in health care. I am board certified in two medical specialties and find that homeopathy is extremely useful in a wide range of medical conditions. Not only is it an effective first-line approach to many acute infectious conditions, but it offers extremely safe options in chronic inflammatory conditions as well. Utilizing homeopathy, in practice, is a bit more complicated than conventional medicine and requires much more study. It appears to work a lot better when it is individualized. Thank you for providing this insightful… Read more »
Thank Dr. Sikorski, for sharing your perspective and experience with homeopathy. Like you, I also started with great skepticism. I remained so for about 10 years, gathering data, mostly for my own satisfaction with evidence. It has now been 35 years of my using homeopathy in general family medical practice. The issue is not about whether it “makes sense” theoretically, but whether the empirical data, and not simply anecdotal information, is strong enough. With thousands of cases like yours published in hundreds of journals, of patients treated by well trained physicians and surgeons may not be evidence from the highest… Read more »
Thank you Dr Sikorski for your testimonial. I can attest to the value of homeopathy in my own practice for treatment of a wide range of acute and chronic conditions. This article raises an important question about how modern medicine has reached the point where it does not trust firsthand experience as a source of valid evidence. We see this scenario play itself out over and over. A critic who dismisses homeopathy on scientific grounds subsequently embraces it after personally experiencing its benefits. Those so-called scientific grounds often turn out to be nothing more than a form of prejudice. How… Read more »
Excellent article supporting more not less Homeopathy within the NHS. I also find Homeopathy is invaluable for people who cannot tolerate drugs in general and those with immunity and energy drain problems.
There is/are no alleged medicines in a drop of the alleged medicines diluted in billions of drops of water. Therefore, the alleged benefits are only placebo effects and that too are only temporary.