Trailblazer
Veteran Member
It is impossible to conduct a double blinded randomised control trial for homeopathic remedies for the reason given by #25 David McCann, who said that “The traditional testing methods are almost impossible to apply to any system of therapy which is patient-specific.”The gold standard for establishing whether a medicine works or not is a double blinded randomised control trial. That removes bias from both the person taking the medicine and the one collating the data. It also eliminates the placebo aspect which is in fact a surprisingly important aspect of the effectiveness of any medicine. To date there is no known evidence to my knowledge that a homeopathic remedy works any better than a placebo pill. However placebo pills can have a powerful affect for some people and that’s most likely why homeopathic remedies work for some people who will in turn have strong beliefs about its efficacy.
There is no way that the healing that has occurred with homeopathy is all due to the placebo effect. To say that is highly illogical.
However, I expect you to say this because you are a medical doctor.
The first homeopath I went to was a Baha’i who had practiced conventional medicine for 30 years before he switched his practice over to homeopathy only. The second homeopath I went to had also practiced conventional medicine for many years before he switched his practice over. Both were medical doctors licensed to practice in Washington State and they also prescribed allopathic medicines when necessary.
As I just told Subzone and Penguin, homeopathy works by stimulating the vital force to heal the body and that is not something that can be “studied” any more than the soul can be studied. That is what makes some people so mad. They want to pin everything down. I think that the vital force has something to do with the soul, but of course I could never prove that.
God and Baha’u’llah cannot be proven either. Does that mean they do not have any effect upon the soul? Anything that affects the soul also affects the body since the two are inextricably intertwined.
As I vaguely recall, some members of the UHJ used homeopathy as their primary medical treatment.