Homeopathy is an alternative medicine system, characterized by the use of remedies lacking chemically active ingredients and considered by a large part of the medical and scientific community a pseudoscience, since they have no solid experimental or scientific basis.
However, homeopathy has registered an important growth in recent years, also applied in children, and is increasingly accepted in some countries. It is even financed or covered by some public health or social security systems.
Many parents perceive homeopathy as safe and without toxic effects, since it uses natural ingredients, and homeopathic consultations and treatments are frequent due to respiratory and skin problems.
Although, in my opinion, the demand for homeopathy also increases in the search for solutions to certain problems such as infant colic that have no clear remedy in traditional medicine (although there are other means to calm them down), luck is "tried" with homeopathy.
With the fortune that he himself Placebo effect It can give positive results at times. Precisely because homeopathy has not been able to demonstrate by objective means a specific effectiveness, that is, greater than that of the placebo effect, the dominant position in the scientific literature is consider homeopathy as a pseudoscience.
Evidence Based Medicine or in evidence (“Evidence based medicine”) was a term coined in Canada in the 1980s to describe the learning strategy that underlines the importance of reviewing evidence from research, and of the cautious interpretation of clinical information derived from non-systematic observations.
The concept was released in 1991 through an editorial in the ACP (American College of Physicians) Journal Club, the first magazine that began publishing structured summaries of relevant studies from other journals. Its dissemination was expanded and was defined in 1996 by Dr. David Sackett as the conscious, explicit and critical use of the best available evidence to make medical decisions.
Integrates both the professional experience and the available evidence by reviewing the medical literature (ie scientifically proven facts). There are different degrees of scientific evidence, and it seems that homeopathy does not meet any.
There are even some campaigns that aim to alert you about the deceptions that can occur through some “magic” solutions to certain diseases, well, let's not forget, behind homeopathy there is also business. In the United Kingdom there are protests from the medical community so that public resources are not allocated to homeopathy.
However, at the same time there are postgraduate university courses on homeopathy and many doctors have ever prescribed some homeopathic treatment.
All this boom is part of a movement of general "medicalization" of our society, which seeks medical (or homeopathic) solutions to issues that in principle do not require such treatments. And in an environment in which the lack of time that makes the fastest solution is that provided by a pill, or herbs ...
WHO defends the use of “Traditional, complementary and alternative medicine” (which includes practices as diverse as acupuncture, Arab unani medicine, indigenous medicines…) but only when they have demonstrated their usefulness to the patient and represent a minimal risk and especially in countries with limited resources, although it warns of the misuse that can be made of alternative medicines and possible adverse reactions. The term "homeopathy" is not used in the documents that talk about these traditional medicines, since they are different concepts.
What I think can be more “saved” from homeopathy is one of its premises that should be accepted and applied more in medical consultations “to use”: the importance of the emotional side of the patient, the unification of the physical and mental state of person.
Personally I have never used homeopathic remedies neither for my ailments nor for those of my babies, and although it is usually argued that it does not harm, neither does a glass of water, which is cheaper, and if it has the same effectiveness (according to the tests), it is as for think about it ...
As I read and inform myself about these methods, my confidence in them does not increase. What is your experience with homeopathy?
