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Homeopathy helps 70% of patients with chronic diseases.

A recent study shows that homeopathic treatment of acute respiratory and ear complaints is just as effective as conventional treatment, with less side effects and quicker response with homeopathy.

What is Homeopathy?

Homeopathy is a system of medicine that is based on the Law of Similars.
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Controlled Trial of Homoeopathic Treatment of Osteoarthritis

M. Shipley, H. Berry, G. Broster, et al.

January 15, 1983

by M. Shipley

The following study was "well done" according to conventional scientific standards. From a homeopathic standpoint however, the study is flawed. This study did not individualize the homeopathic medicine nor compensate for the lack of it.

Lancet, 97-98.

This study compared the results of an unindividualized remedy for osteoarthritis with a conventional drug and a placebo without admission criteria that would permit use of an unindividualized homeopathic medicine. (See Effect of Homoeopathic Treatment on Fibrositis BMJ 1989, in our "mainstream journals" section.) The homeopathic medicine was not found to be more effective than placebo.

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