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Article: Homeopathic remedies that won't make you better; Patients better off with conventional treatments, says study.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- March 5, 2003
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Byline: JAMES CHAPMAN
HOMEOPATHIC remedies simply do not work in the treatment of many illnesses, scientists have concluded.
A review of patients with symptoms including migraine, sore muscles and flu found homeopathy had no effect at all.
The scientists also said there was very little evidence that homeopathic methods worked on any other condition.
Instead, they said, patients should use treatments which are known to work.
Homeopathy - the word is Greek for 'similar suffering' - is supposed to work by giving patients tiny doses of a substance that causes symptoms similar to those they are already experiencing, provoking ...