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Bernstein, John P K; Calamia, Matthew

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“…33 Raue suggested several remedies— Calcarea carbonica , Hydrastis canadensis , Natrum carbonicum , Natrum muriaticum , Sepia succus , Tellurium and Chrysophanic acid 34 ; several of these remedies were prescribed in our trial as well. Different authors like Kippax, 35 Dearborn, 36 Bernstein 37 and Morrison 38 have suggested different groups of remedies in treatment of TC. Homeopathic repertories represent the condition under different rubrics, such as “ringworm”, 39 “herpes circinatus”, 40 41 42 43 “trichophytosis” 40 and “tetters”, 44 with a very similar group of medicines as were used in our trial.…”

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Individualized Homeopathic Medicines in the Treatment of Tinea Corporis: Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial

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Introduction Tinea corporis (TC; ringworm or dermatophytosis) is a superficial skin infection caused by Microsporum, Epidermophyton and Trichophyton genera of dermatophytes. We compared the effects of individualized homeopathic medicines (IHMs) in fifty-millesimal (LM) potencies against placebo in TC. Methods A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, two parallel arms trial was conducted on 62 individuals suffering from TC at the National Institute of Homoeopathy, India. Participants were randomized in a 1:1 ratio to receive either IHMs in LM potencies or identical-looking placebos for a period of 3 months. The primary outcome measure was the number of participants showing complete disappearance of skin lesions after 3 months. Secondary outcomes were a numeric rating scale (NRS) measuring intensity of itching and the Skindex-29 questionnaire (overall, and three sub-scales—degree of symptoms, psychological functioning, emotional status). All were assessed at baseline and every month, up to 3 months. The intention-to-treat sample was analyzed to detect inter-group differences using two-way repeated measures analysis of variance after adjusting for baseline differences. Results The primary outcome revealed no improvement in either of the groups (χ 2 = 0.012, p = 0.999). Inter-group differences in some of the secondary outcomes favored IHMs against placebo—itching NRS (mean group difference after 3 months: −0.7 (95% confidence interval [CI], −1.1 to −0.4; p = 0.001); Skindex-29 overall (mean group difference after 3 months: 3.2 [95% CI, −0.6 to 7.0; p = 0.009]), Skindex-29 degree of symptoms (mean group difference after 3 months: 0.9 [95% CI, −0.2 to 1.9; p = 0.007]); and Skindex-29 psychological functioning (mean group difference after 3 months: 1.7 [95% CI, 0–3.4; p = 0.002]). Conclusion Results were negative on the primary outcome; however, secondary outcomes included some statistically significant results favoring IHMs against placebo after 3 months. Trial registration CTRI/2019/11/021999; UTN: U1111–1242–0070.

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Individualized Homeopathic Medicines in the Treatment of Tinea Corporis: Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial

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“…Finally, we note that the age of 47 Tuc is only constrained from our analysis to be greater than ∼ 3 Gyrs. We may be able to improve this by calibrating the log gf values of individual Fe lines to the abundance solution for Arcturus; doing so should reduce the scatter in plots like those shown in Figure 3 to ±0.05, as it does in the analysis of individual stars (see Bernstein & McWilliam 2005). However, it is also clear from evolutionary tracks and observed CMDs of Milky Way GCs that stellar populations themselves simply do not vary much with age after a few Gyrs (e.g.…”

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“…Balmer line EWs and profiles will be helpful in this regard, because they are very sensitive to the light fraction contributed by hot stars (e.g. Bernstein & McWilliam Detailed Abundances of Extragalactic Globular Clusters 9 2002; Schiavon et al 2004;Bernstein & McWilliam 2005;). To this end, we have compared observed Balmer profiles for several of our training set clusters with synthesized, light-weighted Balmer profiles based on the isochrones.…”

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Detailed Chemical Abundances of Extragalactic Globular Clusters

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We outline a method to measure the detailed chemical composition of extragalactic (unresolved) globular clusters (GCs) from echelle spectra of their integrated light. Our goal is to use this method to measure abundance patterns of GCs in distant spiral and elliptical galaxies to constrain their formation histories. To develop this technique we have obtained a "training set" of integratedlight spectra of resolved GCs in the Milky Way and LMC by scanning across the clusters during exposures. Our training set also include spectra of individual stars in those GCs from which abundances can be obtained in the normal way to provide a check on our integrated-light results. We present here the preliminary integrated-light analysis of one GC in our training set, NGC 104 (47 Tuc), and outline some of the techniques utilized and problems encountered in that analysis.

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Individualized Homeopathic Medicines in the Treatment of Tinea Corporis: Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial

Individualized Homeopathic Medicines in the Treatment of Tinea Corporis: Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial

Detailed Chemical Abundances of Extragalactic Globular Clusters

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