Homeopathy finally gets some respect: Care2 Healthy and Green Living

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http://www.care2.com/greenliving/homeop ... spect.html

. . . But the cries that it’s only a placebo are weakening. Perhaps the best thing to happen to homeopathy in recent years is the research showing it to be much more than that.
The good press started back in 1997 when the well-respected medical journal The Lancet published a meta-analysis of placebo-controlled studies on homeopathy. In 89 studies rigorously designed to evaluate its ability to treat and prevent various illnesses, the odds consistently showed homeopathy to be more effective than a placebo.
More recently, Wayne B. Jonas, a physician and director of the Samueli Institute for Information Biology, in Alexandria, Va., assembled an even more comprehensive overview of homeopathy studies, published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The paper took into account four different meta-analyses and found homeopathy to be effective in treating allergies, childhood diarrhea, postoperative trauma, and influenza. “The weight of the current evidence right now falls slightly in favor of homeopathy,” says Jonas. . .

The whole article is WELL worth a read.

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Margaret in Boston
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