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| The future of homeopathic research |
Homeopathic research has succeeded in adapting
to the developments in modern medical science and the practice
of clinical trials. It has overcome difficulties that it has
sometimes encountered, from the complexity of its implementation
up to some a priori negative.
In the last few years, meta-analysis conclusions have made
it possible to definitively erase doubts on the fundamental
aspects of homeopathic clinical research: trials are conducted
rigorously and scientifically and their
results are not caused by a placebo effect or by chance.
Significant results, studies to be pursued
The positive results obtained by
homeopathy on diseases such as allergic rhinitis, acute
diarrhoea or Fibromyalgia are reliable.
Above all they show its efficacy and its advantages (particularly
the lack of adverse effects).
Studies that evaluate the impact that health-care strategies
have on public health as well as their financial aspects show
the favourable cost-efficacy ratio of homeopathic treatments.
Furthermore, biological research has made it possible for
specialists to study in vitro and in vivo with animals, the
action of homeopathic medicines according to their dilution
and to thus fine tune homeopathic knowledge. Researchers are
also doing their best to find a
physical explanation to the effects of high dilutions
: they are studying the "how" of homeopathy, as much as the
"why".
Homeopathic research, a story which continues
to unfold
Currently, biological studies must be pursued, diversified,
amplified and their results transposed to humans. New clinical
trials must confirm results already
obtained and many others, to show the effect of homeopathic
treatment on different pathologies.
It is by multiplying the experiments
in all of the study axes that homeopathic research is constructed.
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