The two major concerns people have about homeoprophylaxis is the effectiveness and safety of the remedies and procedure. This article will discuss the effectiveness of homeoprophylaxis. There are three types of evidence now available about the effectiveness of homeopathic vaccinations:
1. HISTORICAL EVIDENCE
Vaccination was first used in 1796 and homeoprophylaxis was first used in 1798. There are over 200 years of recorded clinical evidence showing the real-world effectiveness. The founder of Homeopathy, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, was the first to use HP in epidemic situations and it has been used by many masters of homeopathy since then. However, much of the historical information is not collected for statistical studies and does not suggest rates of effectiveness. It has value. There are also statistical studies. Please visit Let’s Look at Homeopathic Homeoprophylaxis.
2. EPIDEMIC STUDIES
There have been a number of studies published in English describing the effectiveness of HP in epidemic conditions. Most have found an effectiveness of around 90%. Other studies from South America and India have yet to be translated. The most thorough study in English undertaken by orthodox practitioners and scientists was from Brazil in 1998.
THE BRAZILIAN EXPERIENCE
In 1998 there was an outbreak of meningococcal meningitis type B in a region of Brazil. Many doctors in that country are also homeopaths. There was no vaccine available at the time. (There is still no vaccine available for Meningococcal type B in Australia), so a group of doctors who worked in the region used the meningococcal Nosode to immunize 65,826 children. Another 23,539 children in the region were not immunized. The doctors followed the two groups for 12 months. The efficacy of homeoprophylaxis was 95% after six months and 91% after 12 months. It was a complete and statistically rigorous report and was published in a leading peer-reviewed Homeopathic journal, and is available for study (reference: Mroninski C, Adriano E, Mattos G (2001) Meningococcinum: Its protective effect against the meningococcal disease. Homoeopathic Links Winter Vol 14(4); pp. 230-4).
3. LONG-TERM ENDEMIC STUDIES
Dr. Isaac Golden, today’s leader on homeoprophylaxis, and Head of School and Business Manager Academic at Endeavour College of Natural Medicine (Australia), conducted research on a long-term homeoprophylaxis program for use against potentially serious infectious diseases commonly present in the Australian community collected and examined data from 1986 to 2004.
DR. GOLDEN’S RESEARCH WAS DONE IN 2 PARTS
a. National Health Survey – this research studied 781 children between 5 and 10 years of age. Through a questionnaire completed by parents, measures of each child’s general immune competence (using the diseases of asthma, chronic eczema, chronic ear infections, allergies and behavioural problems) were compared to the method of disease prevention which the child used, including vaccination, homoeopathy, general constitutional treatment, no method at all, or a combination of all of these. The relative safety and effectiveness of the different immunization methods studied were then calculated.
b. 20-Year Clinical Study – using responses from parents whose children used 5-year homoeoprophylactic program for disease prevention from 1985 to 2004. 2,342 responses were collected, each one covering one year of a child’s life. The effectiveness and safety of the homoeopathic option to vaccination is fully discussed, and the actual comments by parents are reported. The single figure measure of effectiveness is 90.4% (95% confidence limits 87.6% – 93.2%). Using national attack rates as a control HP efficacy for three diseases was whooping cough – 86.2%; measles – 90.0%; mumps – 91.6%.
The results of the research have been published and are now available. Please click here to visit Dr. Golden’s site and learn more about his research.
THE CUBAN EXPERIENCE
Homeopathic medicine tested on 2.3 million Cubans appears to be effective in controlling Leptospirosis epidemic. In this video Dr. Golden discusses the good results of homeoprophylaxis in Cuba for Influenza and the threat of an leptospirosis epidemic. And the memorandum signing with the Finlay Institute, Cuba Endeavor College of Natural Health, Australia.
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Myra Nissen, CCH
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