Homeopathy had No Place in Pharmacy: Canadian Pharmacist

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32. There are literally hundreds of peer reviewed papers plus a "discovery" by a Nobel Laureate

scientist Professor Luc Montagnier with an article quote about that just below this comment. Of course what the professor discovered had already been discovered two hundred years ago, but he was able to demonstrate that it was in fact true: http://www.naturalnews.com/029940_homeopathy_scientist.html

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"Until Montagnier's research, the bulk of mainstream doctors and scientist had maintained that there was no scientific way that multiple dilutions used in homeopathy could possibly work. In part, such views stemmed from lack of understanding. In larger part, such views likely stemmed from a desire to stem the rising popularity of homeopathy and eliminate it as a competition to mainstream medicine - much the same as happened in the United States a century ago.

One of the foundations of homeopathy maintains that the potency of a substance is increased with its dilution. Montagnier discovered that solutions containing the DNA of viruses and bacteria "could emit low frequency radio waves" and that such waves influence molecules around them, turning them into organized structures. The molecules in turn emit waves and Montagnier found that the waves remain in the water even after it has been diluted many times. To a lay person, that may not mean much, but to a scientist is highly suggests that homeopathy may have a scientific basis."

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If you understand Quantum Phyisics, you might understand how homeopathic remedies work.

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TI: The similia principle as a therapeutic strategy: a research program on stimulation of self-defense in disordered mammalian cells.
AU: Van-Wijk-R; Wiegant-FA
SO: Altern-Ther-Health-Med. 1997 Mar; 3(2): 33-8
ISSN: 1078-6791
PY: 1997
LA: ENGLISH
AB: The similia principle is considered to be the essence of homeopathy. This article describes a research program for study of the similia principle in cultured mammalian cells. This systematic program with its rather simple research model was set up ultimately to contribute to the design of studies of the similia principle with more complex organisms such as humans. With respect to application of the similia principle, the concepts of self-defense and self-recovery are central. At the cellular level, self-defense and recovery largely depend on the availability of proteins with a cell-protective function, most notably, stress or heat shock proteins. To study the similia principle, we use four lines of research to examine the processes of self-defense. First, stimulation of self-defense in disturbed and disordered cells is studied by using low doses of an agent homologous or identical to the disturbing agent. The second line of research deals with the specificity of this stimulation: Is cellular self-defense after exposure to toxicant A also effectively stimulated in an analogous or heterologous way by low doses of other toxicants such as B or C? The third line of research involves the duration of low-dose sensitivity of disordered cells for homologous stimulations, in particular, the desensitization of cells toward these homologous stimulations. The fourth line of research deals with whether-according to the similia principle-the state of desensitization can be overruled by heterologous condition(s) that induce an analogous pattern of protector proteins (ie, a pattern closely resembling the damage-induced pattern) and thus effectively stimulate cellular defense and recovery.
AN: 97215640
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THE MAIN PROBLEM IS GETTING TO THE TRUTH WHEN BIG PROFITS ARE INVOLVED. AS IN POLITICS, the same is true with BIG PHARMA. Money rules. Most "studies" are performed by the chemical/pharmaceutical companies who like old man John Rockefeller, do not want homeopathic remedies as competition for dollars.

Of course you can look here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23290875

Then there is the matter of funding. Most homeopathic remedies cost pennies, compared to the cost of petrochemical/ coal tar based drugs. How to get funding when profits are so tiny?

Here's what the BRITISH HOMEOPATHIC ORGANIZATION has to say about that topic:

http://www.britishhomeopathic.org/evidence/

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The body of evidence that exists shows that much more investigation is required – 44% of all the randomised controlled trials carried out have been positive, 5% negative and 47% inconclusive. Unfortunately, homeopathy does not attract large amounts of funding. More funding is required to conduct high quality trials using suitable research methods. At present, for example, only 63 of the 188 RCT papers have studied classical, individualised homeopathy; each of the other 125 RCT papers has investigated the effect of one selected homeopathic medicine.

For a more in-depth review of the entire evidence base, including the negative and inconclusive trials, visit the research section of the Faculty of Homeopathy website.