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Samuel Hahnemann, the inventor of homeopathy, would have turned 266 today. A retrospective by Dr. Natalie Grams When I first heard a sentence from Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy, I was a young medical …
For English version see the original article by Yannick Borkens in Frontiers in Sociology 6:, 667772 v. 17.01.2022 (www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsoc.2021.667772/full).
Continue readingHomeopathic Conversion Therapy - the "Bund Katholischer Ärzte"
Die Entscheidung Im Februar hatten wir zusammen mit der GWUP einen Wettbewerb für Studierende ausgelobt. Zielsetzung dabei war, das Bewusstsein für die Bedeutung der kritischen Beurteilung von klinischen Studien, der Evidenzquelle Nr. 1, zu stärken. …
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Oft liest oder hört man in den Medien: „Eine neue Studie zum Thema X hat gezeigt…“, oder es heißt von interessierter Seite: „Es gibt positive Studien zur Therapie X“. Für die Öffentlichkeit sind solche Aussagen …
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„Was sagen Sie zu der Studie von der Securvita? Da steht doch jetzt wirklich schwarz auf weiß, dass ....“ Diese in letzter Zeit häufiger an uns herangetragene Frage nimmt Bezug auf eine Studie, über die …
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Without an active ingredient nothing works. This is an essential principle of our criticism of homeopathy. In this doctrine, it is assumed that the stronger the effect of a remedy, the more the original substance …
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Continue readingHomeopathy, Phytotherapy and Homeopathic Complex Remedies
Be aware: also with SARS-CoV19 (the so-called Corona virus) any attempt of homeopathic prevention or even treatment is ineffective and dangerous! The search term "homeopathic vaccines" finds more than 500,000 hits on Google. With "nosodes" …
Prof. Tina Salomon's detailed article on the "homeopathic 20-million peanuts", which we recently published under the heading "Points of View", met with great interest - and the desire to provide a "short version" of it. …
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What happens after ingesting a homeopathic remedy - according to the homeopathic build of thought? Occasionally one is confronted with the argument that the effect of homeopathic remedies cannot be based on a placebo effect …
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This text describes the legal situation under which health insurance companies in Germany are legally allowed to reimburse costs for homeopathy. Due to the very specific German factual and legal situation, we refrain from a …
Continue reading "Glasses, dentures and homeopathy – The role of German statutory health insurances"
Ein vielfach bemühtes Argument pro Homöopathie (das allerdings mit der Wirksamkeit nichts zu tun hat) ist, dass homöopathische Behandlungen zu weniger Verschreibungen konventioneller pharmazeutischer Arzneimittel führen. Dies hört man allerorten und immer wieder. Spontan braucht …
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The Information Network Homeopathy recently received a question as to why there was no discussion of ultra-high dilution research in its publications. What exactly is this about? It is about research on dilutions above the …
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Another point on which homeopathy is contradictory: either homeopathic remedies cannot have side effects, or homeopathic drug testing cannot work. If you ask a homeopath how one knows which remedy to use and when, he …
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A popular remedy - a closer look Minor injuries with swelling ("bumps") are often treated with arnica (e.g. in small children after they have fallen and a "bruise" forms, sometimes even prophylactically in athletes). The …
On this page you will find various information about the placebo effect, which explain that it is effective with any kind of attention - and therefore, of course, even more so with medical interventions. Furthermore, …
Let us first clarify what is meant by the term "placebo". Here we would like to limit ourselves to placebos as drugs (yes, there are a lot of placebos that have nothing to do with …
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This text describes the legal situation under which health insurance companies in Germany are legally allowed to reimburse costs for homeopathy. Due to the very specific German factual and legal situation, we refrain from a …
Continue reading "Glasses, dentures and homeopathy – The role of German statutory health insurances"
The "Cum hoc ergo propter hoc" fallacy of homeopathic drug testing "Cum hoc, ergo propter hoc" means "with this, therefore because of this" and, as a fallacy, is to be understood in such a way …
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The placebo effect in children - even infants - and animals does not even exist, we hear again and again. But that's not true. It is present and is called "placebo-by-proxy". This has been proven …
... ...and are homeopathy critics willing servants of the pharmaceutical industry? Both are ineradicable narratives that we encounter daily. Behind this idea are assumptions that have simply nothing to do with reality. And why do …
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"Old knowledge is just - old." When it comes to alternative, complementary and holistic healing methods or even herbs, people like to argue with "old knowledge". But what does that mean? Out of a conglomeration …
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Tooth eruption (dentition) begins in most babies in the 6th month of life and is a painful process. Before a tooth reaches the light of the oral cavity, it first has to fight its way …
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In 1755 a devastating earthquake destroyed Lisbon, the British-French war over North America raged and on 10 April Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was born in Meissen (Triebischvorstadt) as the third child of the porcelain painter …
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(This contribution describes the legal situation in Germany which currently applies to the reimbursement of homeopathy by the statutory health insurance.) Unfortunately the health insurances do this indeed, even if one hardly considers it possible. …
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Continue readingObjection: But homeopathy and naturopathy are identical!
Are Schuessler Salts Homeopathy? The so-called "Schuessler salts" are often equated or confused with homeopathy. However, they do not go back to Hahnemann, but to the Oldenburg physician Wilhelm Heinrich Schüßler (1821 to 1898). Biographical …
Really? In the pharmacy all kinds of homeopathic globules are available for sale -over the counter. They are also strongly promoted by the manufacturers with the attributes "gentle and natural". Above all, "simple and side-effect-free" …
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Water lilies grow on a lake and their surface area increases tenfold every day. After nine days the lake is completely overgrown. How much of its surface is covered after eight days? (Solution at the …
The alleged holistic nature of the homeopathic method is one of the most popular "pro-arguments", you read and hear it everywhere. What is the truth? Let us get straight to the point: Basically, the opposite …
About the inventor Edward Bach was a doctor from Birmingham, England, who studied medicine at the University College Hospital in London and graduated from Cambridge. Before he began his studies, however, he worked in the …
Animal homeopathy is widespread and highly praised. At Google the term achieves nearly 65.000 hits (retrieved 13.04.2021). But it is a building that was first constructed by Hahnemann's successors. There is only a short text …
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"Antibiotics versus globules - really? "I'd rather take globules than antibiotics." "Doctors prescribe way too much antibiotics randomly." "If I take too much of it, I'll be resistant in later diseases." These sentences can be …
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Another common misconception about homeopathy Many people assume that homeopathic remedies are made from herbal substances. But if you look at the long "drug lists" of homeopathic manufacturers, it quickly becomes clear that homeopathy and …
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"According to the known laws of aerodynamics, a bumblebee cannot fly. The bumblebee knows nothing about aerodynamics - and still flies"... ...and therefore, as the argument is intended to express, science is also not suited …
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Homeopathic remedies in medium and high potencies do not contain any or no significant amounts of the remedy indicated on the packaging. Some advocates of homeopathy say that it is an antiquated view of the …
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Has storing music on a CD really anything to do with homeopathy? Proponents of homeopathy often point out that chemical analysis cannot determine whether a CD is recorded or not, or what is stored on …
A book from the beginning of the 19th century - a Bible of today's "medicine"? The Organon can justifiably be called the Bible of homeopaths. It was first published in 1810 by the inventor of …
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Es dürfte wohl wenige Familien geben, deren Leben in der Öffentlichkeit besser dokumentiert ist als das der Windsors. Wobei wir die Familien Kennedy und Grimaldi einmal außen vor lassen. Dies natürlich vor allem durch die …
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Der nachstehende Beitrag erhellt exemplarisch, was sich so manches Mal hinter Veröffentlichungen der homöopathischen Szene verbirgt. Auf seiner Facebook-Seite hatte der DZVhÄ (Deutscher Zentralverein homöopathischer Ärzte) am 14. April 2016 um 13.37 Uhr einen Artikel …
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You can find the original article by Dr. Steven Novella under: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-it-worked-for-me-gambit/
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Individuality... ? The "individual" homeopathy - is it really that? Homeopathy is said to be a very individual therapy. Even the smallest differences between two patients can cause them to be administered different remedies, even …
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"We all don't process information as carefully and reflectively as we think we do." Fast thinking versus slow thinking People use two different ways of thinking. Normally we judge intuitively, without reflection and according to …
Homeopathy is not the right answer to justified questions and wishes of patients Many patients are longing for an alternative to our often so time-limited, too often unemotional medical everyday life - and rightly so! …
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This true without lying, certain and most true. That which is below is like that which is above and that which is above is like that which is below to do the miracles of one …
Ein weiterer Widerspruch der Homöopathie. Zu den Grundlagen abseits der Homöopathie Wenn wir verdünnen, verändern wir, technisch gesehen, das Verhältnis von Substanzen in einem Gemisch, einer Lösung. Durch die Zugabe des Lösungsmittels sinkt die Konzentration …
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