Homeopathy in paediatric atopic diseases: long-term results in children with atopic dermatitis

Complementary medicine (CM) is being increasingly used by citizens across Europe as a means to maintain their health and to treat illness and disease. In Italy the reform of Title V of the Italian Constitution allows each Region to decide how to put into practice and organize the Public Healthcare System. The agreement among the Italian National Government, the Regions, and the Provinces of Trento and Bolzano on the terms and requirements for the quality certification of training and practice of acupuncture, herbal medicine, and homeopathy by medical doctors and dentists, signed on February 2013, sets up rules for education and training in acupuncture, herbal medicine, homeopathy, homotoxicology, and anthroposophic medicine. Some regions, including Tuscany, have decided to include Complementary Medicine in their Essential Levels of Assistance, by creating some structures that integrate the health services into the public structures. The Homeopathic Clinic in Lucca, funded by the Tuscany Region, was established in 1998 as part of a pilot project aimed at assessing the feasibility of integrating complementary medicine into the public health care system. To date, over 4,000 patients have been consecutively visited at the Homeopathic Clinic in Lucca. Concomitantly, research into homeopathy effectiveness has been conducted on the whole sample and on specific groups of children, women or patients' parents as well. Studies were also performed on symptom reduction or resolution of atopic diseases, respiratory diseases, side effects of anticancer therapies in women. Other researches concerned cost/effectiveness of therapies, sociodemographic characteristics and compliance of patients, and risk management. The results demonstrate that homeopathy can effectively integrate or, in some cases, substitute allopathic medicine and that the Tuscan example can be useful to the development of national or European rules on CM utilization.

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“…The results of this study seem to confirm a positive therapeutic effect of homeopathy in children presenting with atopic diseases [23].…”

Section: Pediatric Patients At the Homeopathic Clinic Of Luccasupporting

confidence: 76%

Integration of homeopathy and complementary medicine in the public health system in Italy: national regulation and regional experiences

et al. 2014

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“…A review of medication records compared the impact of drug costs of those attending a homeopathic versus a conventional clinic. After 1 year, a 71% reduction in medication cost was seen in the homeopathic treatment group versus the group that was treated only with conventional drugs [54]. There is a need for future highquality research in homeopathy, and challenges remain due to the individualized selection of homeopathic remedies.…”

Section: Homeopathymentioning

confidence: 99%

Complementary and alternative medicine in pulmonology

Mark

Chung

2015

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

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“…Asthma is one such candidate condition for study. The homeopathic clinical literature includes many reports of successful treatment of asthma, 164,165 but the randomized clinical trial findings are limited and less favorable. 166,167 Asthma is one of many medical conditions associated with adverse childhood experiences and/or stressors.…”

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Testing the nanoparticle-allostatic cross-adaptation-sensitization model for homeopathic remedy effects

2013

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Key concepts of the Nanoparticle-Allostatic Cross-Adaptation-Sensitization (NPCAS) Model for the action of homeopathic remedies in living systems include source nanoparticles as low level environmental stressors, heterotypic hormesis, cross-adaptation, allostasis (stress response network), time-dependent sensitization with endogenous amplification and bidirectional change, and self-organizing complex adaptive systems. The model accommodates the requirement for measurable physical agents in the remedy (source nanoparticles and/or source adsorbed to silica nanoparticles). Hormetic adaptive responses in the organism, triggered by nanoparticles; bipolar, metaplastic change, dependent on the history of the organism. Clinical matching of the patient’s symptom picture, including modalities, to the symptom pattern that the source material can cause (cross-adaptation and cross-sensitization). Evidence for nanoparticle-related quantum macro-entanglement in homeopathic pathogenetic trials. This paper examines research implications of the model, discussing the following hypotheses: Variability in nanoparticle size, morphology, and aggregation affects remedy properties and reproducibility of findings. Homeopathic remedies modulate adaptive allostatic responses, with multiple dynamic short- and long-term effects. Simillimum remedy nanoparticles, as novel mild stressors corresponding to the organism’s dysfunction initiate time-dependent cross-sensitization, reversing the direction of dysfunctional reactivity to environmental stressors. The NPCAS model suggests a way forward for systematic research on homeopathy. The central proposition is that homeopathic treatment is a form of nanomedicine acting by modulation of endogenous adaptation and metaplastic amplification processes in the organism to enhance long-term systemic resilience and health.

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Homeopathy in paediatric atopic diseases: long-term results in children with atopic dermatitis

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Integration of homeopathy and complementary medicine in the public health system in Italy: national regulation and regional experiences

Integration of homeopathy and complementary medicine in the public health system in Italy: national regulation and regional experiences

Complementary and alternative medicine in pulmonology

Testing the nanoparticle-allostatic cross-adaptation-sensitization model for homeopathic remedy effects

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