O Homeo, Homeo, wherefore art thou Homeo?
Deny thy fantasy and refuse thy name.
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love
And I’ll no longer be a Realist.
‘Tis but thy fantasy that is my enemy:
Thou art thyself, though not a Hanneman.
What’s Hanneman? It is nor hand nor foot
Nor arm nor face nor any other part
Belonging to reality. O be some other name.
What’s in a name? That which we call a dilution
By any other name would smell not at all;
So Homeo would, were he not Homeo call’d,
Retain that dear delusion which he owes
Without that title. Homeo, doff thy fantasy,
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Join reality.
I like to refer to our competition as the "Distinguished" one using the rubric SCAM: supplements, Complementary, and Alternative Medicine. I have never been a fan of the nouns used to describe SCAMs. What is the difference between science and medicine? Do you mean fantasy-based? Do you mean fiction-based? Is BS-based? Is it based on a crazy mind? How would you say the name of the game? Is it possible to see? There are problems here. It is possibly the most fitting.
Homeopath may be the most crazy cult of all time. There is a place called Tongren. Maybe it is not a good idea to rank them based on less reality than Superman, Green Lantern, and Triplicate Girl. The last are the patron saints of all bureaucracy.
It has been a boon to all NRLM-based therapies that carbon dioxide has been a factor.
…refers to doing research on a phenomenon before establishing that the phenomenon exists. Tooth Fairy science is part of a larger domain that might be called Fairy Tale science: research that aims to confirm a far-fetched story believed by millions of scientifically innocent minds. Fairy Tale science uses research data to explain things that haven’t been proven to have actually happened. Fairy Tale scientists mistakenly think that if they have collected data that is consistent with their hypothesis, then they have collected data that confirms their hypothesis.
Sometimes these studies are listed on the Pubmeds and result in remarkably credulous responses from legitimate medical organizations.
Pubmed has 80 hits for COVID and Homeopathy, compared to 28 for Naturopathy, 51 forChiropractic, and a whopping 213 forAcupuncture. There are so many papers to review in one entry without an ondansetron prescription that it's not surprising.
To see what the homeopaths are up to, you need a high-level view of this medical literature. India may have surpassed the US in deaths caused by carbon 45 due to the popularity of homeopathy. Causality is not associated with association. It's possible. I am not sure if applying homeopathy to COVID in India warrants the warning from one abstract, not in large friendly letters, that suggested, " there is no need to be panic"
There are three broad uses of home remedies. Zero actually. This is a good place to humor me. Prevention, vaccination, treatment, and long COVID are just some of the elements that are included in homeopathy.
The Bayes Theorem makes my head hurt. Statistics were taken and dropped 4 times in college. For four years. The basic application of Bayes is that the less likely the disease, the more likely a positive test result is. The intervention is less likely to work if it is not plausible.
We understand that any positive study of homeopathy is a lie. Why don't you study more? It can be fun to point at something. Someone in reality-based medicine will be snookered into promoting an implausible study. It was the same as always.
Let's take a look at some of the hits and see what the homeopaths are up to and maybe have a laugh along the way. It's not possible to drink milk.
There is a potential role of homeopaths in COPD. If you're a fan of reality, the author doesn't think you'd be a good fit.
may potentially improve the pneumonia in COVID-19 non-responder patients, especially in the early stages of the disease.
It is suggested that someone waste time and money to do a real clinical trial to show efficacy. In the early stages of disease, you don't know if a patient with COVID will be a non-response. How would a judge decide when to say nostrum? The nostrums suggested by the author are Arsenicum album, Stannum, and Ribesnigrum. Arsenicum would be used at a certain time. It's when.
“Air passages constricted. Asthma worse at night. Burning in chest. Suffocative catarrh. Cough worse after midnight; worse if lying on the back. Expectoration. Wheezing respiration.”
I'm amazed by the specificity of the symptoms of homeopathy. The cough is worse at midnight. If you are at a time zone line at midnight, you can jump across. The treatment would change if that happened.
The symptom complex isn't like any of the other ones I've taken care of. The underlying cause of dis-ease is not always treated by the real doctors. Homeopaths ignore the underlying pathophysiology in order to focus on the symptoms. It's not possible to prove that illness with COVID. They can just go after the symptoms.
I think the immune effects will be credited for the effects of most NLRM interventions. The immune system needs support.
The remedies in COVID-19 are prognostic factor research. It was designed to be useless for any conclusions. In a disease where most people get better, 27 different nostrums were given. They said it was because of the Homeopathy.
homeopathic medicines were associated with improvement in symptoms of COVID-19 cases.
Suggestions for further studies were made.
Such garbage.
The fight against coronaviruses disease was withdrawn. What's the reason?
… the lack of empirical data and the lack of testing of the proposed model as a severe limitation that invalidates the conclusions drawn in the article. The conclusion that epidemiological studies are needed to evaluate homeopathic treatment are not justified based on the model developed by the authors. The simplified approach provided by the authors is not appropriate to model the complex biological associations and not based on evidence-based health research principles.
Doesn't that apply to all the papers that have been published? Almost every study? I believe so.
I didn't know that there was a certain type of mental health care. You can make your own joke here. There is a proposal to deal with COVID isolation in India.
… web-portal will capture all the patients’ symptoms. Then homeopathy E-Prescriptions would be generated by the psychiatrists. This transmission of E-Prescription would be done using the proposed secret session key using Advanced Encryption Standards. Ignatia, Natrum Sulphuricum, Aconite, Arsenicum Album, Belladonna, etc are the important homeopathy medicines as prescribed by the homeopathy psychiatrists in COVID-19. Mathematical calculations were done on this proposed technique with positive efficacy. Hence, homeopathy telemedicine is the pivotal way to cure psychiatric patients remotely in this Post-COVID-19 “New Normal” context.
I don't know who to argue if mathematical calculations show a positive effect. The e-prescriptions can be sent over the phone. People, let's get digital.
Millions of people in India have received homeopaths as preventatives. I don't think there is any correlation between the number of infections and deaths from COVID in India and the number of homeopaths. Nope, that's right. It wasn't me.
Covid-19: science or superstition? An acronym for "Ayush" is yoga and Naturopathy. With our Bayesean knowledge, we can assign the answer to the latter rather than the former.
Every study uses a number of interventions. Personalize for the individual or the epidemic.
Successful homeopathic prescriptions are based on careful individualization of symptoms, either for an individual patient or collectively in the case of epidemic outbreaks.
Being able to have it both ways is nice. It is odd when viewed from a different perspective. The intervention within the system is not the catholicon. It is not the specific remedy that works.
They are trying nosodes as well. We have vaccines that are safe and effective but they are testing a different vaccine. I would love to read the informed consent of the study authors. I am a fan of science fiction and comic books.
There is a vaccine for COVID that uses the convalescent serum from patients and injects it into the sick. It's really. The convalescent serum was not effective in the epidemic. It's not likely to improve its efficacy.
There are no quality studies that show the benefits of homeopaths. Despite the request that was made.
For homeopathy, shunned during its 200 years of existence by conventional medicine, this outbreak is a key opportunity to show potentially the contribution it can make in treating COVID-19 patients. This should be done through performance of impeccably controlled, prospective, randomized clinical trials, with publication of their findings in well-ranked conventional medicine journals. If the homeopathy community fails to take advantage of this rare opportunity, it might wait another century for the next major pandemic.
I don't think they will have to wait another century to see if their catholicon is worth anything. A new phrase. A new word came to me. I will use it without restriction. There is a Catholic on this planet. A little bit sweet. I don't think any of the studies will meet those criteria. Homeopaths know they are doing a poor job.
Confirmation bias leading to lowering of symptom threshold, keynote prescribing, and deficiency in checking of all symptoms in each case were identified as the most important sources of bias.
Someone would be bamboozled by a study of homeopathy. I am giving you PulmonaryAdvisor.com.
…offers healthcare professionals a comprehensive knowledge base of practical information and resources focused on pulmonary and critical care medicine to assist in making the right decisions for their patients.
Critical thinking wasn't applied to the project. Can Homeopathic treatment speed recovery for patients with carbon dioxide? Absolutely! Mainstream medicine can't evaluate NLRM studies due to a lack of understanding
Patients were randomized to receive placebo or standard therapy in India.
Forty homeopathic medicines were prescribed for the patients. Of these, Arsenicum album was prescribed to 9.93% patients (n = 15), Bryonia alba and Phosphorus were to 7.94% (n = 12) patients each; Rhus toxicodendron to 6.62% (n = 10); Natrum muriaticum (n = 9, 5.96%); Hepar sulphuricum & Pulsatilla nigricans (n = 7, 4.63% each); Lycopodium clavatum & Nux vomica (n = 6, 3.97% each); Belladonna, Carbo vegetabilis, Chininum arsenicum, Gelsemium (n = 5, 3.31% each). At first prescription 44.37% (n = 67) of patients received 30C potency, 47.68% (n = 72) received 200C potency and the remaining 7.94% (n = 12) received higher potency. Of all, 63% (n = 96) patients received one homeopathic medicine only, while 36.42% (n = 55) patients required two or more homeopathic medicines during the study period.
At 30 C is a good time to remember.
this would require giving two billion doses per second to six billion people for 4 billion years to deliver a single molecule of the original material to any patient.
One placebo was better at improving subjective symptoms than two placebos. The treating Naturopath knew who was getting what. When the results are unreliable, it's because the practitioners aren't blind to treatment groups. The results are reliable because there will be a false positive salubrious effect.
The underlying treatment is crazy. The other was not good for sight.
If these flaws are found, the pulmonary advisor won't recognize them.
A major limitation of the current study is the fact that because of the large number of COVID-19 patients at the hospital, follow-up laboratory tests could not always be performed because of a resource crunch. Further, restricted access to patients because of the high transmissibility of COVID-19 limits the number of homeopathic prescriptions, since various patient attributes and disease characteristics need to be known when selecting these medications.
Another reviewer fell off the truck. Critical thinking was absent. Hey, I'd like to speak with you. Can you write a book like there's no such thing as the tooth fairy? It's necessary.
The funniest line in the medical literature was caused by the treatment of COVID. There is a retrospective case series I give you.
At the start of treatment, each patient received Influenzinum, either in CH200 potency or in case of very bad condition, in CH10,000 potency on day one.
At 13 C is a good place to remember.
If pure water were used as the diluent, no molecules of the original solution remain in the water.
At 30C.
this would require giving two billion doses per second to six billion people for 4 billion years to deliver a single molecule of the original material to any patient.
The temperature was 200C.
the total mass of pills that would have to be consumed to encounter a single molecule of the original substance would be billions of times greater than the mass of the Earth.
It isn't likely that the multiverse can find one molecule. Many people have said that it should be a form of delusional thinking.
There are some assessments that are based on reality. They sum it up as well as I could in the Role of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Prevention and Treatment of Covid 19: An Overhyped Hope.
However, no clinical evidence of these alternative medicines to treat COVID-19, lack of high-quality data, little or no data to support their claims, lack of statistically significant number of participants, long-term efficacy, proper follow-up,no comparative control groups and no adherence to strict quality norms while conducting clinical trials are some of the concerns expressed by experts.
Therefore, unless research is not conducted as per standard protocols, CAM will be seen with a lot of skepticism in medical science.
At the Pulmonary advisor.
There is a tour of some of the studies.
I need a beverage after that. The bartender doesn't subscribe to the principles of homeopathy.
There is a Catholic on this planet.
You can see my talk at Skeptic Camp. What is the evidence in alt med?
You can buy an e- book.
Dr. Hall is teaching a video course.
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