query: who is known as the father of homeopathy

pos: Samuel Hahnemann Samuel Hahnemann Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann (; 10 April 1755 – 2 July 1843) was a German physician, best known for creating the pseudoscientific system of alternative medicine called homeopathy. Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann was born in Meissen, Saxony, near Dresden. His father Christian Gottfried Hahnemann was a painter and designer of porcelain, for which the town of Meissen is famous. As a young man, Hahnemann became proficient in a number of languages, including English, French, Italian, Greek and Latin. He eventually made a living as a translator and teacher of languages, gaining further proficiency in "Arabic, Syriac, Chaldaic and

neg: Homeopathy Looks at the Horrors of Allopathy Homeopathy Looks at the Horrors of Allopathy Homeopathy Looks at the Horrors of Allopathy — an allegorical painting by Russian artist Alexander Beideman, painted in 1857. It is owned by the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia. The picture measures 65.5 × 77.3 cm. and has the accession number 1795. In the 19th century, the painting was also known as "Triumph of Homeopathy." The allegorical image "Homeopathy Looks at the Horrors of Allopathy" was painted by Alexander Beideman in Munich in 1857. According to the homeopath Nicholas Gabrilovich (1865-1941), the painting was commissioned by his father, Eugene Gabrilovich (1835-1918), who at

neg: Homeopathy Plus! a New Zealand MP who signed the petition was demoted from his position as a result. The New Zealand Prime Minister John Key called the idea of homeopathy for Ebola "barking mad". The sentence was announced on October 14, 2015: Fran Sheffield was fined $23,000 and banned from selling the products for five years, and Homeopathy Plus fined $115,000. Homeopathy Plus! Homeopathy Plus! is an Australian company run by homeopath Fran Sheffield in Tuggerah, New South Wales. It is known for the claim that homeopathy is an effective, and safer, alternative to vaccination for conditions including whooping cough, along with

neg: Homeopathy Plus! Homeopathy Plus! Homeopathy Plus! is an Australian company run by homeopath Fran Sheffield in Tuggerah, New South Wales. It is known for the claim that homeopathy is an effective, and safer, alternative to vaccination for conditions including whooping cough, along with claims that homeopathy is superior to chemotherapy for cancer. The claims for "homeoprophylaxis" were assessed as misleading by the Complaints Resolution Panel of the Therapeutic Goods Administration and a retraction demanded; this was ignored. The prophylaxis claims were referred to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), and although this was stated to have resulted in their removal, legal

neg: Gesellschaft zur wissenschaftlichen Untersuchung von Parawissenschaften from more than 60 fortunetellers and astrologers were evaluated. The GWUP is a well-known critic of homeopathy. In the year 2005, a petition was initiated against the special treatment of homeopathy as a healing method in Germany. In 2011, the GWUP participated in the international , in which critics of homeopathy took an overdose of highly potentised homeopathic dilutions in public, serving as a warning against the scientifically unrecognised foundation of homeopathy and the scientifically unproven working of homeopathic products. In 2014, the GWUP was mentioned as main critic of the planned bachelor's degree course in homeopathy in Traunstein by

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy Act, a separate authorizing law from the FDA's. (The Wheeler–Lea Act of 1938 established FTC authority to regulate advertising claims of non-prescription drugs.) In Mexico, homeopathy is currently integrated into the national healthcare system. In 1895, a presidential decree by Gral. Porfirio Díaz established the first homeopathic school and hospital as well as regulations specifying training requirements for homeopathic doctors. Of those individuals who use alternative medicines, over 26% use homeopathy. Some countries in South America, such as Argentina or Colombia, allow only professional doctors who are qualified and have graduated from a recognised medical school to practice homeopathy. Homeopathy

neg: Homeopathy has not approved homeopathic products as veterinary medicine in the U.S. In the UK, veterinary surgeons who use homeopathy may belong to the Faculty of Homeopathy and/or to the British Association of Homeopathic Veterinary Surgeons. Animals may be treated only by qualified veterinary surgeons in the UK and some other countries. Internationally, the body that supports and represents homeopathic veterinarians is the International Association for Veterinary Homeopathy. The use of homeopathy in veterinary medicine is controversial; the little existing research on the subject is not of a high enough scientific standard to provide reliable data on efficacy. Given that homeopathy's

neg: Harold Knerr Harold Knerr Harold Hering Knerr (September 4, 1882 – July 8, 1949) was an American comic strip creator, who signed his work H. H. Knerr. He was best known as the writer-artist of "The Katzenjammer Kids" for 35 years. Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Harold Knerr's father was Calvin B. Knerr, a German physician who had migrated to the United States. His mother was Melitta Hering, daughter of Constantine Hering, a pioneer of homeopathy. After attending the Episcopal Academy, he studied for two years at the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art and then became a newspaper illustrator. He

neg: Lionel Milgrom homeopathy works, a claim that has been criticized as "patent nonsense" by Chad Orzel. He has criticized those who criticize homeopathy as "new fundamentalists" and accused them of "demean[ing] science". Lionel Milgrom Lionel R. Milgrom is a British chemist and homeopath. He is a former faculty member at Imperial College London, and a former senior lecturer in inorganic chemistry at Brunel University. He worked as a chemist with expertise in porphyrins for more than twenty years, after which he trained in homeopathy because he was impressed at how effective homeopathy appeared to be for treating his partner's pneumonia. Milgrom is

neg: Righteous Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints His son Gerald Peterson Jr., who led the group after his father, was also a doctor of osteopathic medicine, practicing homeopathy in Tonopah, Nye County, Nevada. Peterson first studied and served as a medical officer in the United States Army. He passed away on May 25, 2018. Mormon fundamentalist and polygamist Tom Green was a member for a short time. Righteous Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The Righteous Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as The Righteous Branch, The Branch Church, The Peterson Group and Christ's Church, is a

neg: Moncure D. Conway gentleman farmer, county judge, and state representative; his home, known as the Conway House, still stands at 305 King Street (also known as River Road), along the Rappahannock River. Conway's mother, Margaret Stone Daniel Conway, was the granddaughter of Thomas Stone of Maryland (a signer of the Declaration of Independence), and in addition to running the household, also practiced homeopathy learned from her doctor father. Both parents were Methodists, his father having left the Episcopal church, his mother the Presbyterian, and they hosted Methodist meetings in their home until a suitable church was finally built in Fredericksburg. An uncle, Judge

neg: Homeopathic dilutions Homeopathic dilutions In homeopathy, homeopathic dilution (known by practitioners as "dynamisation" or "potentisation") is a process in which a substance is diluted with alcohol or distilled water and then vigorously shaken in a process called "succussion". Insoluble solids, such as quartz and oyster shell, are diluted by grinding them with lactose ("trituration"). The founder of homeopathy, Samuel Hahnemann (1755–1843) believed that the process of succussion activated the "vital energy" of the diluted substance, and that successive dilutions increased the "potency" of the preparation, although other strands of homeopathy disagree. The concept is pseudoscience because, at commonly used dilutions, no molecules

neg: DNA teleportation Although fellow Nobel prize winners – who view homeopathy as quackery – were left openly shaking their heads, Montagnier's comments were rapidly embraced by homeopaths eager for greater credibility. Cristal Sumner, of the British Homeopathic Association, said Montagnier's work gave homeopathy 'a true scientific ethos'." Montagnier was also questioned about his beliefs on homeopathy, to which he replied: "I can’t say that homeopathy is right in everything. What I can say now is that the high dilutions are right. High dilutions of something are not nothing. They are water structures which mimic the original molecules. We find that with DNA,

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy has been regulated in other South American countries, such as Colombia, since the beginning of the 20th century. In Brazil, homeopathy is included in the national health system, and since 1991, physicians who want to practice homeopathy must complete 2,300 hours of education prior to receiving the proper licenses. India has the largest homeopathic infrastructure in the world, with low estimates at about 64,000, but going as high as 300,000 practising homeopaths. In addition, there are 180 colleges teaching courses, and 7500 government clinics and 307 hospitals which dispense homeopathic remedies. In China and Japan, homeopathy appears to be almost

neg: Homeopathy trials, adverse effects were reported among the patients who received homeopathy about as often as they were reported among patients who received placebo or conventional medicine. The lack of convincing scientific evidence supporting its efficacy and its use of preparations without active ingredients have led to characterizations as pseudoscience and quackery, or, in the words of a 1998 medical review, "placebo therapy at best and quackery at worst". The Russian Academy of Sciences considers homeopathy a "dangerous 'pseudoscience' that does not work", and "urges people to treat homeopathy 'on a par with magic. The Chief Medical Officer for England, Dame

neg: Luc Jouret Kolwezi. Following his time in the army, he began a formal study of homeopathy and qualified as a homeopathic practitioner in France. He travelled widely studying various forms of alternative and spiritual healing; it is known that he visited the Philippines in 1977, and he later stated he had visited China, Peru, and India. At the beginning of the 1980s he settled in Annemasse, France, not far from the Swiss border, and began to practice homeopathy there. He continued to lecture widely on holistic health and the paranormal and invited those who responded to him into Amenta Club (later renamed

neg: Homeopathy dilution), which means both are present in a biologically active concentration strong enough to have caused some people to lose their sense of smell, a condition termed anosmia. Zicam also listed several normal homeopathic potencies as "inactive ingredients", including "galphimia glauca", histamine dihydrochloride (homeopathic name, "histaminum hydrochloricum"), "luffa operculata", and sulfur. Isopathy is a therapy derived from homeopathy, invented by Johann Joseph Wilhelm Lux in the 1830s. Isopathy differs from homeopathy in general in that the preparations, known as "nosodes", are made up either from things that cause the disease or from products of the disease, such as pus. Many

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy 19% of alternative medicine users used homeopathy. Physicians who choose to use alternative medicines such as homeopathy must follow guidelines set by their province's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Provincial health care generally does not cover homeopathy. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act) of 1938 recognized homeopathic preparations as drugs, but with significant exceptions. A principal sponsor of the Act was New York Senator and homeopathic physician Royal Copeland, who ensured that homeopathy's own "Homœopathic Pharmacopœia of the United States" (HPUS) be included, as it expressed the "self-professed quality standards" of the homeopathic profession. The finished Act

neg: Samuel Cockburn (physician) homeopaths). The book also denounced the "heavy-handed" attempts by the RCSEd to pressure its members (including himself) to avoid the "quackery" of homeopathy. In 1862 Cockburn moved to Glasgow, where he practiced homeopathy for the rest of his career. As well as practicing homeopathy at his clinic, Cockburn continued to lecture and publish articles on homeopathy. He was an active member of the British Homeopathic Society and a well-known member of the homeopathic community in Glasgow in the late 19th century. In his retirement, Cockburn wrote two books that expounded on his convictions concerning the relationship between science and religion.

neg: Homeopathy matters worse: On clinical grounds, patients who choose to use homeopathy in preference to normal medicine risk missing timely diagnosis and effective treatment, thereby worsening the outcomes of serious conditions. Critics of homeopathy have cited individual cases of patients of homeopathy failing to receive proper treatment for diseases that could have been easily diagnosed and managed with conventional medicine and who have died as a result, and the "marketing practice" of criticizing and downplaying the effectiveness of mainstream medicine. Homeopaths claim that use of conventional medicines will "push the disease deeper" and cause more serious conditions, a process referred to

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy allowing the funding of homeopathy on the NHS." The government stated that this decision would be left open to the Primary Care Trusts (PCTs), the smaller bodies in charge of regional NHS management, instead of being done by the government itself. In June 2010, the British Medical Association voted three to one in favour of a motion that homeopathy should be banned from the NHS, and kept from being sold as medicine in pharmacies. In February 2011, out of 104 PCTs who responded to queries, 72 said they did not fund homeopathy, with 10 of these having stopped funding homeopathy

neg: Homeopathy share homeopathy's vitalist world-view and the preparations are claimed to act through the same hypothetical "vital force" as homeopathy, the method of preparation is different. Bach flower preparations are manufactured in allegedly "gentler" ways such as placing flowers in bowls of sunlit water, and the preparations are not succussed. There is no convincing scientific or clinical evidence for flower preparations being effective. The idea of using homeopathy as a treatment for other animals termed "veterinary homeopathy", dates back to the inception of homeopathy; Hahnemann himself wrote and spoke of the use of homeopathy in animals other than humans. The FDA

neg: Homeopathy Looks at the Horrors of Allopathy homeopathy in art". The "positive extreme of the scene" is located in the right part of the painting. In the background, an allegorical depiction of Homeopathy soars in the clouds. In front of her is the god of medicine Aesculapius in a red cloak, his left hand raised in anger and indignation. Behind him is the goddess Athena, who protects the sciences. At the right edge of the canvas is the German physician Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), the founder of homeopathy. All of them look with disapproval and indignation at those associated with allopathy (modern medicine) in the "negative extreme," located

neg: Anthony Campbell (physician) Anthony Campbell (physician) Anthony Campbell, M.D., is a retired British physician, homeopath, acupuncturist and author. He was a consultant physician at The Royal London Homeopathic Hospital until he retired in 1998, and for many years was the editor of the "British Homeopathic Journal" (now "Homeopathy"), the journal of the Faculty of Homeopathy. Nonetheless, he is a skeptic about much of alternative medicine. Although a Fellow of the Faculty of Homeopathy who advises that a great many patients have found benefit from homeopathy, Campbell considers that its claimed benefits may be due to the placebo response and other factors unconnected with

neg: Nelsons (Homeopathy) Nelsons (Homeopathy) Nelsons is a British alternative medicine company, with subsidiaries in Germany and the US. The head office and manufacturing facilities are located in Wimbledon, London, with a retail pharmacy in Central London. Spatone is manufactured at the Trefriw Wells Spa in Snowdonia, Wales. In 1860 Ernst Louis Armbrecht, a student of Samuel Hahnemann who founded homeopathy, moved to London where he opened a homeopathic pharmacy in Ryder Street so as to put into practice the principles learned from his teacher. Ernst married Charlotte Nelson in 1866 and soon after began trading as Armbrecht, Nelson & Co., later to

neg: Michael Frass Michael Frass Michael Frass (born 1954, Vienna) is an Austrian medicine specialist for internal medicine and professor at the Medical University of Vienna (MUW). He is known for his work on homeopathy and his inventions in the field of airway management. He is First Chairman of the "Scientific Society for Homeopathy" (WissHom), founded in 2010, president of the "Umbrella organization of Austrian Doctors for Holistic Medicine", since 2002 and since 1994 Vicepresident of the "Doctors Association for Classical Homeopathy". Frass is the inventor of the Combitube, an emergency airway allowing blind insertion used in the pre-hospital and emergency setting. Frass

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy (UAE) and in Iran. The UAE Ministry of Health (MOH) recognizes and regulates the practice of homeopathy in a systematic way. Both medical doctors and lay practitioners can practise homeopathy but they all should pass MOH exams which cover both medical science and homeopathy. The Ministry of Health of Iran recognizes homeopathy as a legal alternative treatment. The Iranian Homeopathic Association, formed with the permission of the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Health, is the reference association for providing standards of homeopathy. In Iran only medical doctors can practice homeopathy. Homoeopathy came to India in early 1810,

neg: MD (Homeopathy) in India and Surgery. MD (Homeopathy) in India MD (Homeopathy) is the three-year post-graduate degree in homeopathy offered by many universities in India. The course is regulated by the Central Council of Homeopathy. There are 38 colleges in India offering both bachelors and post-graduate courses in homeopathy, and two exclusive PG colleges conducting MD courses in homeopathy. There are seven specializations offered in MD homeopathy course : Organon of Medicine with Homeopathic Philosophy, Homoeopathic Materia Medica, Repertory, Practice of Medicine, Homoeopathic Pharmacy, Pediatrics and Psychiatry. In order to get admission for the MD (Homeopathy) course, the candidate should have passed Bachelor of

neg: MD (Homeopathy) in India MD (Homeopathy) in India MD (Homeopathy) is the three-year post-graduate degree in homeopathy offered by many universities in India. The course is regulated by the Central Council of Homeopathy. There are 38 colleges in India offering both bachelors and post-graduate courses in homeopathy, and two exclusive PG colleges conducting MD courses in homeopathy. There are seven specializations offered in MD homeopathy course : Organon of Medicine with Homeopathic Philosophy, Homoeopathic Materia Medica, Repertory, Practice of Medicine, Homoeopathic Pharmacy, Pediatrics and Psychiatry. In order to get admission for the MD (Homeopathy) course, the candidate should have passed Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine

neg: Homeopathy health condition". In 2009, World Health Organization official Mario Raviglione criticized the use of homeopathy to treat tuberculosis; similarly, another WHO spokesperson argued there was no evidence homeopathy would be an effective treatment for diarrhoea. The American College of Medical Toxicology and the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology recommend that no one use homeopathic treatment for disease or as a preventive health measure. These organizations report that no evidence exists that homeopathic treatment is effective, but that there is evidence that using these treatments produces harm and can bring indirect health risks by delaying conventional treatment. Science offers a variety

neg: Naturopathy by Father Sebastian Kneipp; Kneipp sent Lust to the United States to spread his drugless methods. Lust defined naturopathy as a broad discipline rather than a particular method, and included such techniques as hydrotherapy, herbal medicine, and homeopathy, as well as eliminating overeating, tea, coffee, and alcohol. He described the body in spiritual and vitalistic terms with "absolute reliance upon the cosmic forces of man's nature". According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the first known use of "naturopathy" in print is from 1901. From 1901, Lust founded the American School of Naturopathy in New York. In 1902, the original North American

neg: Homeopathy Homeopathy Homeopathy or homœopathy is a system of alternative medicine created in 1796 by Samuel Hahnemann, based on his doctrine of "like cures like" ("similia similibus curentur"), a claim that a substance that causes the symptoms of a disease in healthy people would cure similar symptoms in sick people. Homeopathy is a pseudoscience – a belief that is incorrectly presented as scientific. Homeopathic preparations are not effective for treating any condition; large-scale studies have found homeopathy to be no more effective than a placebo, indicating that any positive effects that follow treatment are due to factors such as normal recovery

neg: Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions Homœopathy and Its Kindred Delusions is a work by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., based upon two lectures he gave in 1842, "Medical Delusions" and "Homœopathy". The work criticizes homeopathy, which he considered to be akin to "astrology, palmistry and other methods of getting a living out of the weakness and credulity of mankind and womankind". It is considered to be a classic text, one of Holmes' most important works, as well as one of the earliest criticisms of homeopathy. "Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions" is composed of two parts. In the first, Holmes explains how

neg: William Boericke United States. He was a popular clinical physician, prolific academic writer, publisher, medical journal editor, owner of several pharmacies, medicine manufacturer, medical school professor, and published researcher. To the extent that homeopathy had been, and still is, criticized by the mainstream medical community in North America, Boericke's era of homeopathy, and Boericke in particular, was highly transparent and well-published. Boericke was also well-known and influential in Europe, particularly Germany – the birthplace of homeopathy, whose people spoke the language of Boericke's childhood. At the end of the 19th century, there was hardly a U.S. city with over 50,000 people that

neg: Homeopathy Sally Davies, has stated that homeopathic preparations are "rubbish" and do not serve as anything more than placebos. Jack Killen, acting deputy director of the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, says homeopathy "goes beyond current understanding of chemistry and physics". He adds: "There is, to my knowledge, no condition for which homeopathy has been proven to be an effective treatment." Ben Goldacre says that homeopaths who misrepresent scientific evidence to a scientifically illiterate public, have "... walled themselves off from academic medicine, and critique has been all too often met with avoidance rather than argument". Homeopaths often prefer

neg: Faculty of Homeopathy Faculty of Homeopathy The Faculty of Homeopathy was formed in 1944 from the British Homeopathic Society (founded in 1843). It was incorporated by the Faculty of Homeopathy Act 1950, which confers an educational function on the Faculty. The Faculty promotes the development of homeopathy. Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine which is generally considered ineffective. The Faculty claims "over 900 members worldwide". Membership is open to statutorily registered healthcare professionals, with student membership available to undergraduates on medical courses. Faculty-Accredited courses in homeopathy are taught at four locations in the UK and at four overseas. After specified training periods,

neg: Homeopathy (journal) Homeopathy (journal) Homeopathy is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research, reviews, and debates on all aspects of homeopathy, a controversial form of alternative medicine. It is the official journal of the Luton-based Faculty of Homeopathy. The journal was established in 1911 as the British Homoeopathic Journal, resulting from a merger between the "British Homoeopathic Review" and the "Journal of the British Homoeopathic Society". It obtained its current name in 2001 and the editor-in-chief is Peter Fisher. The journal was originally published by Nature Publishing Group, but is now published by Elsevier. Elsevier's decision to publish this journal has been called

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy Association of Homeopathic Veterinary Surgeons had 36 vets listed as members. There are over 41,000 GPs and around 24,000 registered veterinary surgeons in the UK, and almost 23,000 dentists doing NHS work in England. In 2009 there were approximately 2,000 homeopaths, who are not GPs, registered with various organisations. A systematic review of surveys, published in April 2013, concluded that homeopathy is used by UK medical professionals to a minor degree, and that on average referral rates are low. Around 2009, a few UK universities started closing or reviewing their courses on homeopathy and alternative medicine, after accusations that they

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy that "doctors can recommend homeopathy". In October 2013 a legal review conducted by the National Board of Health and Welfare on behalf of the government concluded that the use of homeopathy by licensed medical professionals is limited to patient-initiated last-resort treatments. While the practice of homeopathy in the United Kingdom (UK) is not regulated by law, homeopathic products sold as remedies or medicines are regulated by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. In Britain, homeopathy has been in a state of steady decline over recent years. The number of National Health Service (NHS) prescriptions for homeopathic remedies dropped by

neg: Edward A. Wild Edward A. Wild Edward Augustus Wild (November 25, 1825 – August 28, 1891) was an American homeopathic doctor and a brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. Wild was a native of Brookline, Massachusetts, the second son of homeopath Dr. Charles Wild and his wife Mary. He earned his medical degree in 1846 from Harvard and at Jefferson Medical College, and he also studied homeopathy, becoming a member of the Massachusetts Society of Homeopathy. Wild then traveled and studied medicine in Paris, France. Wild practiced alongside his father as a homeopathic physician in Brookline until 1855,

neg: Michael Baum Michael Baum and Edzard Ernst -- writing to other physicians—wrote some strong criticisms of homeopathy: Homeopathy is among the worst examples of faith-based medicine... These axioms [of homeopathy] are not only out of line with scientific facts but also directly opposed to them. If homeopathy is correct, much of physics, chemistry, and pharmacology must be incorrect... To have an open mind about homeopathy or similarly implausible forms of alternative medicine (eg, Bach Flower remedies, spiritual healing, crystal therapy) is therefore not an option. We think that a belief in homeopathy exceeds the tolerance of an open mind. We should start

neg: William Boericke of the Netherlands, a subsidiary of the Willmar Schwabe Group of Germany. In 1992, Boericke & Tafel moved to Santa Rosa, California. In 2005, Schwabe Pharmaceuticals closed its Santa Rosa manufacturing facilities and moved its marketing and distribution departments to a sister company, Nature's Way, in Utah, and its manufacturing to the Netherlands and Mexico, where Schwabe, at that time, had facilities that were underused. Boericke and Runyon Company was eventually, sometime after 1950, acquired by Boericke & Tafel. Boericke, who was known internationally in the field of homeopathy, flourished in several dimensions of homeopathy during its rise in the

neg: Central Council of Homeopathy Central Council of Homeopathy Central Council of Homeopathy (CCH) is a statutory apex body under the Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India. It was set up by the Government of India in 1973, and part of the Professional Councils of University Grants Commission (UGC), formed to monitor higher education in the field of Homeopathy India. Any institution desiring to grant a qualification in homeopathy is required to apply to the Council, which prescribes course curriculum and maintains central registers of homeopaths. Homeopathy is a pseudoscience and its remedies have been found to be no more effective than placebo. The institution

neg: Mukesh Batra of ineffectiveness of Dr Batra's hair treatment. . Mukesh Batra Mukesh Batra is a homeopathy practitioner and the CMD of Dr. Batra’s Positive Health Clinic Pvt Ltd a chain of homeopathy clinics in India. He received his degree in homeopathy in 1972 from Smt. Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel Homeopathic Medical College. Batra is the author of three books on homeopathy and writes for the column "Heal with Homeopathy" published in "The Times of India". Batra was awarded the Padma Shri award for homeopathic medicine in 2012. Batra received "Indian Affairs Impact Award" for Homeopathy at the 6th Annual India Leadership Conclave

neg: Mukesh Batra Mukesh Batra Mukesh Batra is a homeopathy practitioner and the CMD of Dr. Batra’s Positive Health Clinic Pvt Ltd a chain of homeopathy clinics in India. He received his degree in homeopathy in 1972 from Smt. Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel Homeopathic Medical College. Batra is the author of three books on homeopathy and writes for the column "Heal with Homeopathy" published in "The Times of India". Batra was awarded the Padma Shri award for homeopathic medicine in 2012. Batra received "Indian Affairs Impact Award" for Homeopathy at the 6th Annual India Leadership Conclave 2015. Batra's company sponsors the annual Dr Batra's

neg: Faculty of Homeopathy students are eligible to sit the specialist examinations, which lead to the Faculty's qualifications: LFHom, MFHom (for dentists, doctors, nurses, pharmacists and podiatrists), VetMFHom (for veterinary surgeons) and DFHom (for pharmacists and podiatrists). The qualifications do not themselves confer any legal qualification to practise homeopathy. The Faculty publishes "Homeopathy" (formerly the "British Homeopathic Journal" -BHJ). This journal was first published in 1844, as the "British Journal of Homoeopathy" (BJH), which became the BHJ in 1911. "Simile" is a regular Newsletter-type publication, for the service of members. Faculty of Homeopathy The Faculty of Homeopathy was formed in 1944 from the British

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy Homeopathy is fairly common in some countries while being uncommon in others. In some countries, there are no specific legal regulations concerning the use of homeopathy, while in others, licenses or degrees in conventional medicine from accredited universities are required. Homeopathic preparations are not effective for treating any condition. Outside of the alternative medicine community, scientists have long considered homeopathy a sham or a pseudoscience, and the mainstream medical community regards it as quackery. Regulations vary in Europe depending on the country. In Austria and Germany, no specific regulations exist, while France and Denmark mandate

neg: Luc Montagnier gave homeopathy 'a true scientific ethos'." When asked by Canada's CBC "Marketplace" program if his work was indeed a theoretical basis for homeopathy as homeopaths had claimed, Montagnier replied that one "cannot extrapolate it to the products used in homeopathy". While homeopaths claim his research as support for homeopathy, many scientists have greeted it with scorn and harsh criticism. Because the research used high dilutions, homeopaths claimed it supported homeopathy, even though it didn't mention homeopathy: Criticism of the claims of homeopaths followed: In a 24 December 2010 "Science" magazine interview entitled "French Nobelist Escapes ‘Intellectual Terror’ to Pursue Radical

neg: Electrohomeopathy Electrohomeopathy Electrohomoeopathy (or Mattei cancer cure) is a derivative of homeopathy invented in the 19th century by Count Cesare Mattei. The name is derived from a combination of "electro" (referring to an electric bio-energy content supposedly extracted from plants and of therapeutic value, rather than electricity in its conventional sense) and "homeopathy" (referring to an alternative medicinal philosophy developed by Samuel Hahnemann in the 18th century). Electrohomeopathy has been defined as the combination of electrical devices and homeopathy. Lucrative for its inventor and popular in the late nineteenth century, electrohomoeopathy has been described as "utter idiocy". Like all homeopathy, it

neg: Homeopathy of several European countries, including France, Scotland, Luxembourg and England (though the latter will cease in February 2019). In other countries, such as Belgium, homeopathy is not covered. In Austria, the public health service requires scientific proof of effectiveness in order to reimburse medical treatments and homeopathy is listed as not reimbursable, but exceptions can be made; private health insurance policies sometimes include homeopathic treatment. The Swiss government, after a 5-year trial, withdrew coverage of homeopathy and four other complementary treatments in 2005, stating that they did not meet efficacy and cost-effectiveness criteria, but following a referendum in 2009 the

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy the 20th century. The last purely homeopathic medical school closed in 1920, although homeopathic electives continued to be offered by the Hahnemann Medical School in Philadelphia until the 1940s. According to one study, in 1990, 0.7% of individuals used homeopathy in the year prior to being questioned; in 1997, 3.4% had used homeopathy at least once in the previous year. According to the same study, of those who used homeopathy, 31.7% had seen a homeopathic practitioner in the past year in 1990 and the number dropped to 16.5% by 1997. The FDA held a hearing April 20 and 21, 2015,

neg: Farokh Master Farokh Master Farokh Master (born 24 February 1957, Mumbai, India) is a professor and practitioner in homeopathy and the author of numerous books in the field. He started studying homeopathy in June 1976, when he joined the Bombay Homeopathic Medical College, now known as Smt. Chandaben Mohanbhai Patel Homeopathic Medical College. He obtained an LCEH certification in 1979. In 1991 he began attending the MPK Homeopathic medical college in Jaipur, Rajasthan, and completed his MD (Doctor of Medicine) in 1994. He states he is the first homeopath to obtain an M.D. degree in India. He has done his PhD in

neg: Natalie Grams Natalie Grams Natalie Grams (born 12 April 1978) is a German physician and author. Formerly a practicing homeopath, she became known throughout Germany as a whistleblower for her 2015 debut book "Homeopathy Reconsidered — What Really Helps Patients" in which she criticized homeopathy. In 2016 she joined the German Council of Science and Humanities and in January 2017 became Communications Manager for the skeptical Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences (GWUP). She also serves on the advisory board of the humanist Giordano Bruno Foundation since May 2017, and as vice president of the Humanist Press Foundation in Germany since

neg: Homeopathy molecule as the smallest possible unit of a chemical substance was just beginning to be recognized. The greatest dilution reasonably likely to contain even one molecule of the original substance is 12C. Critics and advocates of homeopathy alike commonly attempt to illustrate the dilutions involved in homeopathy with analogies. Hahnemann is reported to have joked that a suitable procedure to deal with an epidemic would be to empty a bottle of poison into Lake Geneva, if it could be succussed 60 times. Another example given by a critic of homeopathy states that a 12C solution is equivalent to a "pinch

neg: Amy L. Lansky her perceived success at using homeopathy to "cure her son of Autism." In 2003, she published "Impossible Cure: The Promise of Homeopathy" (). This book is now used as a textbook in homeopathy schools and is cited in a number of other books on alternative health. Amy L. Lansky Amy Linda Lansky (born 1955) is an American author, computer scientist, and homeopath, noted for having written "Impossible Cure: the Promise of Homeopathy". Lansky grew up in Buffalo, New York. She received a B.A. from University of Rochester in 1977 and a M.S. (1979) and Ph.D. (1983) in Computer Science from

neg: Homeopathy U.S. However, by the mid to late 1970s, homeopathy made a significant comeback and sales of some homeopathic companies increased tenfold. Some homeopaths give credit for the revival to Greek homeopath George Vithoulkas, who performed a "great deal of research to update the scenarios and refine the theories and practice of homeopathy", beginning in the 1970s, but Ernst and Singh consider it to be linked to the rise of the New Age movement. Whichever is correct, mainstream pharmacy chains recognized the business potential of selling homeopathic preparations. The Food and Drug Administration held a hearing April 20 and 21, 2015,

neg: Mercy B. Jackson patients with persistent symptoms even after treatment. After becoming very well known very quickly, Mercy became the first woman to be inducted into the American Institute of Homeopathy. Mercy had a very fulfilling career, as homeopathy very quickly gained popularity as Jackson was attending school and just beginning her practices. Throughout Jackson's life she was mentioned in many homeopathic journals in both the United States and Britain. Mercy Ruggles Bisbee Jackson died December 13, 1877 in Boston, Massachusetts and is buried at Old Granary Cemetery. Mercy B. Jackson Mercy Ruggles Bisbee Jackson, M.D. (17 September 1802 – 13 December 1877)

neg: John Weir (physician) of the Glasgow Homeopathic Hospital, who had an important influence on the future Physician Royal, who he treated for boils and converted to homeopathy [Bodman, 1971]. "It was Dr Gibson Miller who advised Sir John Weir to go to the United States." [Stewart, 1967, p. 260] This influence tended to be passed on: Dr Douglas Gibson (1888–1977) "became interested in homeopathy in 1936 through a meeting with Sir John Weir," [Gibson obit, 1977, 225]. He spoke on homeopathy before the Royal Society of Medicine in 1932, and was knighted by King George V that same year. The renovated Manchester Homoeopathic

neg: Homeopathy homeopathic products they advertise and sell: Patients who choose to use homeopathy rather than evidence-based medicine risk missing timely diagnosis and effective treatment of serious conditions such as cancer. In 2013 the UK Advertising Standards Authority concluded that the Society of Homeopaths were targeting vulnerable ill people and discouraging the use of essential medical treatment while making misleading claims of efficacy for homeopathic products. In 2015 the Federal Court of Australia imposed penalties on a homeopathic company, Homeopathy Plus! Pty Ltd and its director, for making false or misleading statements about the efficacy of the whooping cough vaccine and homeopathic

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy of the East Central State. The Nigerian Institute of Homeopathy has special consultative status with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy Homeopathy is fairly common in some countries while being uncommon in others. In some countries, there are no specific legal regulations concerning the use of homeopathy, while in others, licenses or degrees in conventional medicine from accredited universities are required. Homeopathic preparations are not effective for treating any condition. Outside of the alternative medicine community, scientists have long considered homeopathy a sham or a pseudoscience, and the mainstream medical community regards

neg: Homeopathy Technology Committee of the United Kingdom House of Commons recommended that homeopathy should no longer be a beneficiary of NHS funding due its lack of scientific credibility; funding ceased in 2017. In March 2015, the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia published an information paper on Homeopathy. The main findings of the report were 'there are no health conditions for which there is reliable evidence that homeopathy is effective". Reactions to the report sparked world headlines which suggested that the NHMRC had found that homeopathy is not effective for all conditions. In 2018, Australian pharmacies ignored recommendations for

neg: National Institute of Homoeopathy of Homeopathy was established on 10 December 1975 in Kolkata as an Autonomous Organisation under the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Govt. of India. The then Institute building was located at 118 Amherst Street, Kolkata 700 009. Later it was shifted to the present location. National Institute of Homoeopathy National Institute of Homeopathy (NIH) is an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH), Govt. of India. It is affiliated to the West Bengal University of Health Sciences and conducts the degree course in Homeopathy i.e. Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy licenses to diagnose any illness or dispense of any product whose purpose is to treat any illness. Some homeopathic treatment is covered by the national insurance of several European countries, including France, some parts of the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Luxembourg. In other countries, such as Belgium and the Czech Republic, homeopathy is not covered. In Austria, public insurance requires scientific proof of effectiveness in order to reimburse medical treatments, but exceptions are made for homeopathy. In 2004, Germany, which formerly offered homeopathy under its public health insurance scheme withdrew this privilege, with a few exceptions. In June 2005, the

neg: Homeopathy down a decree in 2012 which stated that electrohomeopathy was an unrecognized system of medicine which was quackery. The use of homeopathy as a preventive for serious infectious diseases is especially controversial, in the context of ill-founded public alarm over the safety of vaccines stoked by the anti-vaccination movement. Promotion of homeopathic alternatives to vaccines has been characterized as dangerous, inappropriate and irresponsible. In December 2014, Australian homeopathy supplier Homeopathy Plus! were found to have acted deceptively in promoting homeopathic alternatives to vaccines. The low concentration of homeopathic preparations, which often lack even a single molecule of the diluted substance,

neg: Homeopathy to try to treat severe diseases such as HIV and malaria. The continued practice of homeopathy, despite a lack of evidence of efficacy, has led to it being characterized within the scientific and medical communities as nonsense, quackery, and a sham. There have been four large scale assessments of homeopathy by national or international bodies: the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council; the United Kingdom's House of Commons Science and Technology Committee; the European Academies' Science Advisory Council; and the Swiss Federal Health Office. Each concluded that homeopathy is ineffective, and recommended against the practice receiving any further funding.

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy means of a simplified electronic registration procedure. According to one 1996 study, approximately 4.4% of Australian adults have used homeopathic remedies at least once in their lives, including 1.2% that sought treatment exclusively from homeopathic practitioners. In Canada, a study detailing the use of alternative medicines by children in Quebec found that 11% of the sampled 1,911 children used alternative medicines, and 25% of those who did use alternative medicines (less than 3% of all children sampled) used homeopathy. The study also pointed out that homeopathy is more commonly used in children in Canada than in adults, of whom only

neg: Edzard Ernst axioms [of homeopathy] are not only out of line with scientific facts but also directly opposed to them. If homeopathy is correct, much of physics, chemistry, and pharmacology must be incorrect... To have an open mind about homeopathy or similarly implausible forms of alternative medicine (e.g., Bach flower remedies, spiritual healing, crystal therapy) is therefore not an option. We think that a belief in homeopathy exceeds the tolerance of an open mind. We should start from the premise that homeopathy cannot work and that positive evidence reflects publication bias or design flaws until proved otherwise... We wonder whether any kind

neg: Natalie Grams the motivation behind her conversion and expressed astonishment that Grams did not "wash out" of her homeopathic education relatively early, given her doubts. Natalie Grams Natalie Grams (born 12 April 1978) is a German physician and author. Formerly a practicing homeopath, she became known throughout Germany as a whistleblower for her 2015 debut book "Homeopathy Reconsidered — What Really Helps Patients" in which she criticized homeopathy. In 2016 she joined the German Council of Science and Humanities and in January 2017 became Communications Manager for the skeptical Society for the Scientific Investigation of Parasciences (GWUP). She also serves on the

neg: Homeopathy in New Zealand Homeopathy in New Zealand Homeopathy practice is unregulated in New Zealand and homeopathic remedies are available at pharmacies, although there are calls to have them removed from sale. A small-scale survey of homeopathic practitioners of New Zealand in 2008 showed that they all claimed to be able to treat asthma and ear infections, and statements such as "hundreds of remedies for ear infections and asthma" and "homeopaths have a success rate nearing 80%" were made. Though large scale studies conducted across the world show that homeopathy is a pseudoscience and its remedies have been found to be no more effective

neg: Homeopathy in New Zealand for misleading claims about homeopathic products. In 1997 SCI Natural (NZ) Ltd was to be prosecuted for claims that the Soft Seaweed Soap product would help people to lose weight. The Commerce Commission decided not to go ahead with the prosecution since a key individual had left New Zealand and the company went into liquidation. A Tauranga-based couple who specialised in homoeopathic remedies pleaded guilty to 19 charges under the Fair Trading Act in 2008 for making misleading claims. Homeopathy in New Zealand Homeopathy practice is unregulated in New Zealand and homeopathic remedies are available at pharmacies, although there are

neg: National Institute of Homoeopathy National Institute of Homoeopathy National Institute of Homeopathy (NIH) is an autonomous organisation under the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH), Govt. of India. It is affiliated to the West Bengal University of Health Sciences and conducts the degree course in Homeopathy i.e. Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery (B.H.M.S.) since 1987 and postgraduate course i.e. Doctor of Medicine in Homeopathy "M.D.(Homeopathy)" in 6 subjects viz Last 3 were started in 1998-99. Later the latter ones were added. The Institute has a 250-bed hospital, with 10 for surgery and 10 for maternity cases. National Institute

neg: George Vithoulkas homoeopathy. In response, Vithoulkas quoted various medical studies he claimed supported his assertion that penicillin "may suppress primary syphilis while failing to prevent the insidious development of a tertiary stage, especially as manifested in psychosis." Vithoulkas' claims conflict with scientific studies, which indicate that penicillin treatment produces a complete cure of syphilis in more than 90% of cases. George Vithoulkas George Vithoulkas () (born 25 July 1932 in Athens) is a Greek teacher and practitioner of homeopathy. He studied homeopathy in South Africa and received a diploma in homeopathy from the Indian Institute of Homeopathy in 1966. Upon receiving his

neg: The Organon of the Healing Art part: The sub-division of the philosophy of Homoeopathy is below: Aphorisms 71–294 are known as the practical part: The Organon of the Healing Art Organon of the Art of Healing ("Organon der rationellen Heilkunde") by Samuel Hahnemann, 1810, laid out the doctrine of his ideas of homeopathy. The work was repeatedly revised by Hahnemann and published in six editions, with the name changed from the second onwards to Organon of Medicine ("Organon der Heilkunst"). Hahnemann wrote this book in order to document his new system of medicine, "Homeopathy". In 1796, some six years after Hahnemann first experienced the effect of

neg: Homeopathy criteria, 19 of which were placebo-controlled and provided enough data for meta-analysis. These 19 studies showed a pooled odds ratio of 1.17 to 2.23 in favour of individualized homeopathy over the placebo, but no difference was seen when the analysis was restricted to the methodologically best trials. The authors concluded that "the results of the available randomized trials suggest that individualized homeopathy has an effect over placebo. The evidence, however, is not convincing because of methodological shortcomings and inconsistencies." Jay Shelton, author of a book on homeopathy, has stated that the claim assumes without evidence that classical, individualized homeopathy works

neg: George Vithoulkas George Vithoulkas George Vithoulkas () (born 25 July 1932 in Athens) is a Greek teacher and practitioner of homeopathy. He studied homeopathy in South Africa and received a diploma in homeopathy from the Indian Institute of Homeopathy in 1966. Upon receiving his diploma, he returned to Greece where he practiced and began teaching classical homeopathy to a small group of medical doctors. His alleged therapeutic success drew attention and led to the establishment in 1970 of what eventually became the Center of Homeopathic Medicine in Athens, a school exclusively for M.D's. In 1972, Vithoulkas started a Greek homeopathic journal, Homeopathic

neg: B. Jain Foundation, a part of the trust, helps in providing education and health facilities to the poor. B. Jain also runs an organization for the promotion of Homeopathy, called CASH (Centre for Advanced Study in Homeopathy). CASH organizes regular seminars and workshops to promote homeopathy. In 2005, it organized workshops and lectures on homeopathy by Robin Murphy in India. B. Jain B. Jain is an Indian publishing house with headquarters in New Delhi. The B. Jain publishing group has six book imprints and also publishes two monthly homeopathic journals, one monthly international journal on homeopathy and a bi-monthly lifestyle and health

neg: Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions series of letters titled "Some Remarks on Dr. O. W. Holmes's Lectures on Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions; Communicated to a Friend", Robert Wesselhoeft negatively compared Holmes' work to writers that "made sport of their fellow man" and considered the work to be representative of "Old School medicine's continued scorn for reform". In contrast, Eric W. Boyle wrote in his 2013 book "Quack Medicine" that Holmes' work was "the most thoroughly explicated attack on homeopathy as a dangerous and deadly error". Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions Homœopathy and Its Kindred Delusions is a work by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., based

neg: Homeopathy Ernstwriting to other physicianswrote that "Homeopathy is among the worst examples of faith-based medicine... These axioms [of homeopathy] are not only out of line with scientific facts but also directly opposed to them. If homeopathy is correct, much of physics, chemistry, and pharmacology must be incorrect...". In 2013, Mark Walport, the UK Government Chief Scientific Adviser and head of the Government Office for Science, had this to say: "My view scientifically is absolutely clear: homoeopathy is nonsense, it is non-science. My advice to ministers is clear: that there is no science in homoeopathy. The most it can have is a

neg: Central Council of Homeopathy set up under the "Central Council of Homeopathy Act 1973, (Act 59)". Any university or similar institution in India offering either a degree or a diploma in homeopathy can do so only if it is approved by CCH, apart from being listed under the schedules of the above-mentioned act. The CCH also defines particular course curriculum and notifies benchmarks that need to be maintained by homeopathy teaching institutions, apart from maintaining a central registry of all homeopathy physicians in India. In 2007, the Union Health Ministry set up the 'National Council for Clinical Establishments' for "determine minimum standards" for clinical

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy , the exercise of homeopathy is in Belgium is reserved by law to only doctors, dentists and midwives, and should only be used for those indications for which the exercise is shown to be effective according to evidence-based medicine. The Belgian Council of Ministers agreed on July 12, 2013, with the draft royal decree as proposed by the Minister of Social Affairs and Public Health Laurette Onkelinx. The law follows the recommendations of the Belgian Health Care Knowledge Centre. who concluded on the basis of a systematic review of the scientific literature that there is no evidence that homeopathic treatments

neg: David Moncoutié to that of a recreational cyclist who enjoys riding his bicycle. In the past he has been criticised for lacking aggressiveness and for haplessness. For a while he was not able to put on a rain cape without having to put his feet on the ground. The magazine "Vélo" said he had a "calm and a lucidity, a way of talking openly, something too of a rage hidden behind a smile, for him, a little painful." He is known as a "clean" cyclist who relies on homeopathy. François Migraine of Cofidis said: "Everyone is more or less unanimous that David

neg: Homeopathy any time within the past four years". The lawsuit charged that it "is nothing more than a sugar pill", "despite falsely advertising that it contains an active ingredient known to treat flu symptoms". In March 2012, Boiron agreed to spend up to $12 million to settle the claims of falsely advertising the benefits of its homeopathic preparations. In July 2012, CBC News reporter Erica Johnson for "Marketplace" conducted an investigation on the homeopathy industry in Canada; her findings were that it is "based on flawed science and some loopy thinking". Center for Inquiry (CFI) Vancouver skeptics participated in a mass

neg: Homeopathy University of Kassel, Germany, concluded that there was insufficient evidence to support the use of homeopathy in livestock as a way to prevent or treat infectious diseases. The UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has adopted a robust position against use of "alternative" pet preparations including homeopathy. Popular in the late nineteenth century, electrohomeopathy has been described as "utter idiocy". Electrohomeopathy is somewhat associated with an Spagyric medicine in that the disease is usually multi-organic in cause or effect and calls for holistic treatment that is both complex and natural. The Allahabad High Court in Kanpur handed

neg: Constantine Hering live to complete. He was joint editor of the "Medical Correspondent" (Allentown, 1835–1836), of the "Miscellanies of Homeopathy" (Philadelphia, 1839), of the "North American Homœopathic Quarterly" (New York, 1851–1852), and of the "Homœopathic News" (1854), and founded and edited the "American Journal of Homœopathic Materia Medica". He published many books in both German and English, including: Constantine Hering Constantine J. Hering (January 1, 1800 – July 23, 1880) was a physician who was an early pioneer of homeopathy in the United States. Hering was born in Oschatz, and studied medicine at the University of Leipzig where his interest in homeopathy

neg: Elizabeth Wright Hubbard She then spent two years in Europe studying homeopathy in Stuttgart, Vienna, under Adolf Stiegele, in Geneva under Pierre Schmidt, and in Tübingen under Emil Schlegel. Hubbard subsequently assumed leadership roles as president of the International Hahnemannian Association from 1945 to 1946, and of the American Institute of Homeopathy from 1959 to 1961. She served as editor of the "Homoeopathic Recorder", the "Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy" and the "Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy". She was on the faculty of the AFH postgraduate homeopathic school. Hubbard was also involved in Anthroposophy and served as president of

neg: Constantine Hering Constantine Hering Constantine J. Hering (January 1, 1800 – July 23, 1880) was a physician who was an early pioneer of homeopathy in the United States. Hering was born in Oschatz, and studied medicine at the University of Leipzig where his interest in homeopathy began. He had been engaged to write a book confuting homeopathy, but upon reading Samuel Hahnemann's works and investigating homeopathy's clinical claims for himself he became convinced of its efficacy, sought out the author, and became his personal friend. They began corresponding in 1824. Later, Hering was treated for a dissecting wound with the homeopathic remedy

neg: Homeopathy to ignore meta-analyses in favour of cherry picked positive results, such as by promoting a particular observational study (one which Goldacre describes as "little more than a customer-satisfaction survey") as if it were more informative than a series of randomized controlled trials. Referring specifically to homeopathy, the British House of Commons Science and Technology Committee has stated: The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the United States' National Institutes of Health states: Ben Goldacre noted that in the early days of homeopathy, when medicine was dogmatic and frequently worse than doing nothing, homeopathy at least failed to make

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy make a diagnosis and provide the appropriate ICD-10 diagnostic codes. Homeopathic Practitioners also have to be licensed to compound Homeopathic medicine and to dispense any medicine falling within their scope of practice. Both conventional pharmacology and Homoeopharmaceutics are a legal training requirement. Training therefore is based upon the medical curriculum with Homoeopathy as the primary therapeutic focus. From this perspective it is understandable that (as for Medical Practitioners where the requirement for registration is a MBChB or equivalent) in the case of Homeopathy the requirement for registration is a master's degree in Homeopathy MTech(Hom) or equivalent. Homoeopathic practitioners are trained

neg: Central Council of Homeopathy establishments.A CCH representative is also a formal member of this National Council. In October 2016, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested the CCH's chief, Dr Ramjee Singh and another man in relation to the alleged collection of money to provide a favorable report that would allow regulatory approval. The council regulates the Bachelor of Homeopathic Medicine and Surgery (B.H.M.S.). It is a graduate degree in Homeopathy awarded after the study of five and a half years, including one-year internship. BHMS covers medical knowledge of the homeopathic system. Central Council of Homeopathy Central Council of Homeopathy (CCH) is a statutory

neg: Regulation and prevalence of homeopathy considered to represent comparatively light use compared to other countries. In 1991, 40% of general practitioners used homeopathy. Romania follows the general practices of EU regarding homeopathy. It is regulated by the National Agency of Drugs and Medical Devices (ANMDM) and is not permitted without a license. Most homeopathic drugs are sold over the counter. Approval of homeopathic drugs was simplified, considering there is no need for excessive testing for most of them. In September 2011, after the National Board of Health and Welfare put a doctor on probation for recommending homeopathy to a patient, Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court ruled

neg: Homeopathy (journal) into question, given homeopathy's proven ineffectiveness and unscientific status. Elsevier's Vice President of Global Corporate Relations, Thomas Reller, has defended Elsevier's decision to publish the journal, saying that "We support debate around this topic". The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal had a 2017 impact factor of 1.524. The journal's impact factor for 2015 was suppressed because of excessive self-citations. Homeopathy (journal) Homeopathy is a peer-reviewed medical journal covering research, reviews, and debates on all aspects of homeopathy, a controversial form of alternative medicine. It is the official journal of the Luton-based

neg: George Vithoulkas Medicine. In 1976, he organized the first of an annual series of International Homeopathic Seminars. In 1995, he opened the International Academy for Classical Homeopathy (I.A.C.H.) on Alonissos, to provides post-graduate training for homeopaths. It is dedicated exclusively to the teaching of Homeopathic Medicine. Vithoulkas has authored a number of books on homeopathy, two of which, "Homeopathy: Medicine of the New Man" and "The Science of Homeopathy", have been translated extensively, and is currently writing "Materia Medica Viva", a homeopathic materia medica or reference work on homeopathic remedies, to reach 16 volumes when finished. In addition to his books, he

neg: Farokh Master Award". Master was invited to the United Kingdom House of Lords by Aaron Kenneth Ward Atherton, Lord of Witley and Hurcott (himself a practicing homeopath), to be honored with the title "Master of Homeopathy" on Sep 26th 2008, and is the first Indian to be so honored. Master has also received praise from Charles Tankard Hahnemann, 6th descendant of Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homeopathy. Farokh Master Farokh Master (born 24 February 1957, Mumbai, India) is a professor and practitioner in homeopathy and the author of numerous books in the field. He started studying homeopathy in June 1976, when he

neg: Homeopathy homeopathy sector, including poor randomization. A separate 2001 systematic review that assessed the quality of clinical trials of homeopathy found that such trials were generally of lower quality than trials of conventional medicine. A related issue is publication bias: researchers are more likely to submit trials that report a positive finding for publication, and journals prefer to publish positive results. Publication bias has been particularly marked in alternative medicine journals, where few of the published articles (just 5% during the year 2000) tend to report null results. Regarding the way in which homeopathy is represented in the medical literature, a

neg: Edzard Ernst of evidence would persuade homeopathic physicians of their self-delusion and challenge them to design a methodologically sound trial, which if negative would finally persuade them to shut up shop... Homeopathy is based on an absurd concept that denies progress in physics and chemistry. Some 160 years after "Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions", an essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, we are still debating whether homeopathy is a placebo or not... Homeopathic principles are bold conjectures. There has been no spectacular corroboration of any of its founding principles... After more than 200 years, we are still waiting for homeopathy "heretics" to be

neg: Homeopathy traits, physical and psychological state, and life history. Homeopathy is not a plausible system of treatment, as its dogmas about how drugs, illness, the human body, liquids and solutions operate are contradicted by a wide range of discoveries across biology, psychology, physics and chemistry made in the two centuries since its invention. Although some clinical trials produce positive results, multiple systematic reviews have shown that this is because of chance, flawed research methods, and reporting bias. Homeopathic practice has been criticized as unethical because it discourages the use of effective treatments, with the World Health Organization warning against using homeopathy

neg: Michael Baum from the premise that homeopathy cannot work and that positive evidence reflects publication bias or design flaws until proved otherwise... We wonder whether any kind of evidence would persuade homeopathic physicians of their self-delusion and challenge them to design a methodologically sound trial, which if negative would finally persuade them to shut up shop... Homeopathy is based on an absurd concept that denies progress in physics and chemistry. Some 160 years after "Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions", an essay by Oliver Wendell Holmes, we are still debating whether homeopathy is a placebo or not... Homeopathic principles are bold conjectures. There

neg: History of alternative medicine UK in the 1830s by a Dr Quinn who introduced it to the British aristocracy, whose patronage continues to this day. Despite arousing controversy in conventional medical circles, homeopathy is available under the National Health Service, and in Scotland approximately 25% of GPs hold qualifications in homeopathy or have undergone some homeopathic training. The impact on CAM of mass immigration into the UK is continuing into the 21st century. Originating in Japan, cryotherapy has been developed by Polish researchers into a system that claims to produce lasting relief from a variety of conditions such as rheumatism, psoriasis and muscle pain.

neg: Elizabeth May "It is very disturbing how quickly Wi-Fi has moved into schools as it is children who are the most vulnerable", she wrote. In June, during a Twitter exchange with May, a Green Party critic downloaded the party's platform and found reference to the party's support of government-subsidized homeopathy. Homeopathy found its way into the platform "by accident", May later said. In December 2014, May presented a petition to the House of Commons by members of 9/11 Truth organizations asking the government to review the September 11 attacks in New York. While she personally did not agree with the petition, May

neg: Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions itself, such as its theory of dilutions. Another issue is that of homeopathic provings (the practice of taking a substance to see what symptoms it causes). Holmes claims that during provings, subjects consider even the slightest discomfort (such as itching) to be the result of the substance, and that this method does not demonstrate symptom causality. In the work Holmes also expressed a belief that "real advances were made only after years of work by highly trained men who cared little for fame and money". "Homeopathy and Its Kindred Delusions" received both praise and criticism after its release. In a