Integration of Homeopathy and Complementary Medicine in the Tuscan Public Health System and the Experience of the Homeopathic Clinic of the Lucca Hospital

Abstract

These results suggest that homeopathy can effectively be integrated with allopathic medicine and that the Tuscan experience could provide a useful reference for developing national and European regulations on the use of CM and homeopathy in public healthcare.

High-diluted thymulin on Ehrlich tumor growth in mice and the importance of tumor microenvironment

“…The results of the present in vivo study represent a contribution to the knowledge about the action of homeopathic medicines in tumor biology, considering the microenvironment in which it is inserted, since different histopathological features were described, which would not be possible with cell monocultures in vitro, as most shown by most of the papers found in the literature about this topic. High-diluted homeopathically prepared medicines are already used in the oncological practice in some countries, with interesting results (GHOSH et al, 2014;FRASS et al 2015;GLEISS et al, 2016;ROSSI et al, 2018). Since homeopathic medicines have a universal applicability, in which different species can be treated with (MATHIE et al, 2012;SATO et al, 2012;BELLAVITE, 2015), these experimental results may have a large translational character, in order to give cellular-level explanations to the observed effects.…”

“…The current treatments for cancer are often associated with adverse effects and sequels that have negative effects on the patient's life. For this reason, patients are increasingly seeking complementary treatments, including homeopathy and high-diluted substances, to avoid side effects (GHOSH et al, 2014;FRASS et al, 2015;GLEISS et al, 2016;ROSSI et al, 2018;SHALOM-SHARABI et al, 2018).…”

“Homeopathy is not placebo effect”: proof of the scientific evidence for homeopathy

“…Then, in the chapter "Estudos observacionais" ("Observational studies"), we mainly discuss analytical observational studies (level of evidence 2B), describing robust cohort studies that present important information about the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of homeopathic treatment in thousands of patients, both in the long term and in different clinical conditions [22][23][24][25] .…”