Many practitioners of homeopathy are trained Doctors who have integrated homeopathy into their practice. We should not rule out the patient perspective and experience when reviewing efficacy.

Nevertheless, there is a substantial amount of evidence from clinical trials that homeopathy is effective.

Modern advances in physics are helping us better understand the mechanism of action in homeopathic remedies and are providing a common ground for those with opposing ideas to begin fair and productive conversations.

You can read more evidence-based homoeopathy here at the Homeopathy Research Institute: www.hri-research.org
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Here’s a few examples to tickle your taste buds:

1.     In September 2005 the Bristol Homoeopathic Hospital published the results of a survey carried out by three of its doctors. Over a six year period, 6544 consecutive patients, all with long-standing chronic diseases such as asthma, migraine, IBS, arthritis, depression and chronic fatigue syndrome, were treated homoeopathically. Seventy percent of patients reported significant improvement in their condition and 51% felt much better. The media were informed of this but were not interested. (Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 11(5): 793-8).

2.     In February 2010 the International Journal of Oncology reported on a study carried out by the highly respected MD Anderson Cancer Centre in Houston, Texas. Homoeopathic medicines, in different potencies, were applied to breast cancer cells and were found to cause significant death rates in the cancer cells and yet no measurable harm to normal breast cells. This was a laboratory experiment on cell lines, using automated equipment and including proper controls so there was no possibility of a placebo effect. (International Journal of Oncology 36:395-403, 2010).

3. By the end of 2019, 221 randomised controlled trials of homeopathy on 115 different medical conditions had been published in peer-reviewed journals. Of these, 129 were placebo-controlled on 77 medical conditions and were therefore eligible for detailed review. 
• 45% were positive, finding that homeopathy was effective; 
• 4% were negative, finding that homeopathy was ineffective; 
• 51% were inconclusive. (1)

In addition, there have been six meta-analyses of homeopathy (large scale overviews of all previous research).
One was negative; concluding that homeopathy had no effect beyond placebo.
Five were positive; suggesting that there was some evidence of an effect beyond placebo, but that more high quality research would be needed to reach definitive conclusions. The sixth, most recent and most comprehensive of these by Mathie et al (2), published in 2014, found that homeopathic medicines, when prescribed during individualised treatment, are 1.5-2.0 times more likely to have a beneficial effect than placebo.

With regards to the effectiveness of conventional medicine things are not as we have been led to believe. Every six months the British Medical Journal (BMJ) publishes the scientific clinical evidence for treatments currently available on the NHS. This study found that of 3,000 commonly used NHS treatments 50% are of unknown effectiveness and only 11% are proven to be beneficial (3)

1. Faculty of Homeopathy, 2019. Research. Available from: https://facultyofhomeopathy.org/research

2. Homeopathy Research Institute,2015. Clinical trials overview. Available from: www.hri-research.org/resources/homeopathy-the-debate/essentialevidence/clinical-trialsoverview/

3. British Medical Journal (BMJ), 2015. What conclusions has Clinical Evidence drawn about what works, what doesn’t based on randomised controlled trial evidence? Available from: https://clinicalevidence.bmj.com/x/set/static/cms/efficacy-categorisations.html