Blinded proving trial published in peer-review journal

[Dana Ullman, MPH]

Dear Friends,

The Journal of Psychopharmacology is the journal of the British
Association for Psychopharmacology, and they just published the below
article:

Journal of Psychopharmacology, Vol. 22, No. 5, 543-552 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0269881108091259
http://jop.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/22/5/543

Homeopathic pathogenetic trials produce more specific than non-specific
symptoms: results from two double-blind placebo controlled trials

H. Walach
School of Social Sciences and European Office of the Samueli Institute for
Information Biology, University of Northampton, Northampton, UK,
harald.walach@northampton.ac.uk , Academic Section on the Evaluation of
Complementary Medicine, Institute for Environmental Medicine and Hospital
Epidemiology, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
H. Möllinger
Health Center Socrates, Güttingen, Switzerland
J. Sherr
Malvern, Worcester, UK
R. Schneider
Department of Human Sciences, University Osnabrück, Osnabrück, Germany

We conducted two parallel, blinded homeopathic pathogenetic trials conducted
at two different sites to determine whether symptoms reported by healthy
volunteers were significantly different for homeopathic remedies than for
placebos. Study 1 used a two-armed design, testing ozone against placebo.
Study 2 used a three-armed design, testing ozone and iridium against
placebo. We found significantly more remedy-specific symptoms in provers
taking ozone or iridium than in provers taking placebo in the three-armed
trial and in both trials pooled for ozone and placebo. We, therefore,
conclude that homeopathic remedies produce more symptoms typical for a
remedy than non-typical symptoms. The results furthermore suggest a somewhat
non-classical pattern because symptoms of one remedy appear to be mimicked
in the other trial arm. This might be indicative of entanglement in
homeopathic systems.
Dana Ullman, MPH
Homeopathic Educational Services
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[Tanya Marquette]

can someone clarify this last statement in the post below:

The results furthermore suggest a somewhat

what do they mean by entanglement in homeopathic systems?

tanya
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[suriya56]

Dear Tanya

I think it has to do with a phenomen that has been observed that when
placebo trials or trials with more than one remedy is done, that the
placebo cases come up with the same proving symptoms and when there
are two remedies some provers will have symptoms of both even what
they did not take.

Maybe some others know better and can add to this , or correct me if I
am wrong?

regards

suriya
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[Jayney Goddard]

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