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Homeopathy for the coronavirus?
Can homeopathy be applied to the coronavirus pandemic? It is risky for me to even ask the question in the current climate of attacks on homeopathy. But the question needs to be asked. Mainstream medicine has little to offer so far, and governments should be recommending homeopathy. It is urgent and there is nothing to lose. Homeopathy is not guaranteed to help because, each patient has to take the right remedy for their own individual pattern of symptoms. Homeopathy has an excellent track record of dealing with epidemics. Cholera epidemics in London, the USA and many other places; an epidemic of leptospirosis in Cuba in 2007: all these and many many more were treated successfully with homeopathy, and the results are on record. Homeopathy can stimulate the immune system to react and heal. Most of the damage done by this virus is done by the body reacting to it, and damaging its own tissues. For example in the pneumonia that sometimes develops, and can be fatal, the body floods its own lungs with fluid in an attempt to kill the virus. What is needed is a medicine which can stimulate a better reaction from the immune system. The homeopathic community have little experience so far of treating this epidemic, but homeopathy can treat new diseases with old remedies, because homeopaths treat the patient, and the patient cures the disease. |
A short video of Peter and some of his clients, and a local farmer, talking about homeopathy.
During the coronavirus crisis I am doing consultations by phone and Skype. Please contact me on 07443017427 or email peteradams333@yahoo.co.uk
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The following statements from patients do not represent evidence that homeopathy works, but are the personal opinion of people I have treated. I am not allowed by the Advertising Standards Authority to imply that homeopathic treatment can help any specific medical conditions. I would like to make it clear that these statements are not meant to imply that a particular homeopathic remedy can cure a specific medical condition. This is not how I believe that homeopathy works. You may however note from these unedited comments that people who have been diagnosed with a wide range of medical conditions have reported that they have experienced an apparent benefit from homeopathy.
"Over the last thirty years, homeopathy has worked wonders for our family on may occasions. Peter has achieved some spectacular successes, especially for my children. He is invariably kind, calm, thoughtful and tenacious and prescribes with much care and intelligence." Mother of two young adults.
"Peter's insight married with his thorough knowledge of homeopathy, have helped me greatly on many occasions. His ability to see the underlying causes of a physical problem is highly developed. I thoroughly recommend him." Angie Spencer, Stroud.
Your Consultation And Treatment
I will ask you to tell me all about your problems and yourself. I will listen carefully: everything you tell me is a piece of a jigsaw puzzle. I put the pieces together to make a homeopathic picture of you. This will also be the picture of a homeopathic remedy, or homeopathic type. When you take this remedy a healing process of great depth and power and subtlety begins.
"Over the last thirty years, homeopathy has worked wonders for our family on may occasions. Peter has achieved some spectacular successes, especially for my children. He is invariably kind, calm, thoughtful and tenacious and prescribes with much care and intelligence." Mother of two young adults.
"Peter's insight married with his thorough knowledge of homeopathy, have helped me greatly on many occasions. His ability to see the underlying causes of a physical problem is highly developed. I thoroughly recommend him." Angie Spencer, Stroud.
Your Consultation And Treatment
I will ask you to tell me all about your problems and yourself. I will listen carefully: everything you tell me is a piece of a jigsaw puzzle. I put the pieces together to make a homeopathic picture of you. This will also be the picture of a homeopathic remedy, or homeopathic type. When you take this remedy a healing process of great depth and power and subtlety begins.
My Charges
The first appointment is £67 for adults and £50 for children (under 14)
Follow-up appointments are £36 and £32
The cost of medicines is included in these fees.
The first appointment is £67 for adults and £50 for children (under 14)
Follow-up appointments are £36 and £32
The cost of medicines is included in these fees.
The medicines that could help us in this pandemic have been pushed aside
This is a double tragedy for humanity. Not only do we have the coronavirus pandemic, but also the only possible treatments have been pushed aside by prejudice. Natural treatments have been sidelined in recent years by the belief that only mainstream medicines work. There is no mainstream treatment for the coronavirus, so we have nothing - but we could have natural medicines.
One of the most sidelined of these, and the one most appropriate for this pandemic, is homeopathy. Homeopathy is a genuinely scientific system of medicine. It may seem implausible or impossible that highly dilute medicines can have any effect, but there is scientific explanation for how they work. This explanation has been ignored by the media, but it is there to be seen in new scientific developments in water research.
Also, there is clinical evidence that homeopathy works; scientific evidence of the highest quality. But this evidence has been rejected because of prejudice and ignorance.
The evidence for homeopathy is as good as the evidence for orthodox medicine. There are hundreds of high quality trials of homeopathy demonstrating this. There are five of such scientific excellence that the results cannot be contested. They are:
Jacobs 1994 (Childhood diarrhoea)
Jacobs 2001 (Acute otitis media)
Bell 2004 (Fibromyalgia)
Colau 2012 (Menopausal problems)
Cortes 2015 (Depression)
On top of this, six out of seven systematic reviews of clinical trials of homeopathy have found that it is more effective than placebo. The one which claims negative results misrepresents its own findings, and has been widely discredited by experts on scientific research.
But that study is the one that has been quoted and used against homeopathy. The decisions now being taken against homeopathy are often based on that study (Shang et al. 2005), even though it is non-science. An example is the UK Parliamentary Committee report of 2010.
How would homeopathy treat this epidemic? How could it possibly work? The answer lies in susceptibility. With all infectious diseases, it is the susceptible ones among us who suffer from the virus. Some peoples’ immune systems react to this virus in ways which cause damage to their own bodies. People who die from it flood their lungs with fluid, in a fatal attempt to kill the virus. The most effective treatment is one which modern medicine can only dream of, but homeopathy already has. It guides the immune system to work better and destroy the virus without destroying itself. The potentised medicine is similar to the disease state of the patient - the ineffective and destructive immune response - and it stimulates a healing reaction.
The diseases we get may change over time but our immune systems still need the same homeopathic remedies to help them to react and heal. Homeopathy could, given the chance, have a significant impact on this epidemic and prevent suffering and death. It has an excellent record of successfully treating epidemics.
In the cholera outbreak in London in 1854 the death rate in the homeopathic hospital was fraction of that in the mainstream hospital. This news was kept secret but a question in Parliament revealed the truth. In 2007 a leptospirosis epidemic in Cuba was prevented by homeopathy.
But instead of being allowed to grow, homeopathy has been under attack in the media since about 2005. Before 2005 homeopathy was growing rapidly. It was getting good media coverage, it was becoming available in GP surgeries in the UK. It was becoming the important part of our health care that it should be. If that trajectory had continued it would be established enough by now to pay a valuable role in the treatment of coronavirus. But it has been condemned as unscientific, and undermined, and because of prejudice we are left without treatments at a time when we need them most.
This is a double tragedy for humanity. Not only do we have the coronavirus pandemic, but also the only possible treatments have been pushed aside by prejudice. Natural treatments have been sidelined in recent years by the belief that only mainstream medicines work. There is no mainstream treatment for the coronavirus, so we have nothing - but we could have natural medicines.
One of the most sidelined of these, and the one most appropriate for this pandemic, is homeopathy. Homeopathy is a genuinely scientific system of medicine. It may seem implausible or impossible that highly dilute medicines can have any effect, but there is scientific explanation for how they work. This explanation has been ignored by the media, but it is there to be seen in new scientific developments in water research.
Also, there is clinical evidence that homeopathy works; scientific evidence of the highest quality. But this evidence has been rejected because of prejudice and ignorance.
The evidence for homeopathy is as good as the evidence for orthodox medicine. There are hundreds of high quality trials of homeopathy demonstrating this. There are five of such scientific excellence that the results cannot be contested. They are:
Jacobs 1994 (Childhood diarrhoea)
Jacobs 2001 (Acute otitis media)
Bell 2004 (Fibromyalgia)
Colau 2012 (Menopausal problems)
Cortes 2015 (Depression)
On top of this, six out of seven systematic reviews of clinical trials of homeopathy have found that it is more effective than placebo. The one which claims negative results misrepresents its own findings, and has been widely discredited by experts on scientific research.
But that study is the one that has been quoted and used against homeopathy. The decisions now being taken against homeopathy are often based on that study (Shang et al. 2005), even though it is non-science. An example is the UK Parliamentary Committee report of 2010.
How would homeopathy treat this epidemic? How could it possibly work? The answer lies in susceptibility. With all infectious diseases, it is the susceptible ones among us who suffer from the virus. Some peoples’ immune systems react to this virus in ways which cause damage to their own bodies. People who die from it flood their lungs with fluid, in a fatal attempt to kill the virus. The most effective treatment is one which modern medicine can only dream of, but homeopathy already has. It guides the immune system to work better and destroy the virus without destroying itself. The potentised medicine is similar to the disease state of the patient - the ineffective and destructive immune response - and it stimulates a healing reaction.
The diseases we get may change over time but our immune systems still need the same homeopathic remedies to help them to react and heal. Homeopathy could, given the chance, have a significant impact on this epidemic and prevent suffering and death. It has an excellent record of successfully treating epidemics.
In the cholera outbreak in London in 1854 the death rate in the homeopathic hospital was fraction of that in the mainstream hospital. This news was kept secret but a question in Parliament revealed the truth. In 2007 a leptospirosis epidemic in Cuba was prevented by homeopathy.
But instead of being allowed to grow, homeopathy has been under attack in the media since about 2005. Before 2005 homeopathy was growing rapidly. It was getting good media coverage, it was becoming available in GP surgeries in the UK. It was becoming the important part of our health care that it should be. If that trajectory had continued it would be established enough by now to pay a valuable role in the treatment of coronavirus. But it has been condemned as unscientific, and undermined, and because of prejudice we are left without treatments at a time when we need them most.
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