Experience in conducting randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trials in homeopathy
AUTHORS : Golovatyuk1 A.V. | Titieva N.M.
RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : 1Institute of Homeopathic Medicine. A. Vaye, Detmold, Germany,
2Medical and social homeopathic center, Novosibirsk
YEAR : 2007
The founder of the homeopathic method, Hahnemann himself laid the foundations for clinical trials in homeopathy. It was his test of cinchona peel (preparation China), or rather, the results of this test, that served as a key moment in the formation of homeopathic doctrine. Numerous tests of drugs in order to clarify the symptoms caused by them were carried out by Hahnemann on himself, his relatives and disciples-followers [5]. These trials were, to use modern terminology, phase 1 trials in which a drug is tested in healthy volunteers. Trials of this kind, called proving in homeopathy, are, to this day, along with the clinical verification of symptoms, the main way to expand the homeopathic Materia
Medica. The research data are, however.