Acleron,

Well, I'm a mathematician by education and I must say I agree about what one can say about the black sheep, one has to have all their definitions right before talking about things. And yes, before the trials - if one still thinks that they should indeed be indispensable and should replace clinical evidence.
I will reread your post, I just have no time now, it's very late here in Japan, re ethics in trials of homeopathy, sorry, I cannot comment right now.

I have the link to the case of leukemia, but it's in Russian, I doubt you'll be able to read it, but still I'll post it, so that you could affirm that the site that talks about this exists in reality.
Îñòðûé ëåéêîç. Ïðèìåíåíèå íà ïðàêòèêå Ãàíåìàííîâñêîé äîêòðèíû â ëå÷åíèè õðîíè÷åñêèõ çàáîëåâàíèé - Öåíòð êëàññè÷åñêîé ãîìåîïàòèè ÎËËÎ

(I thought they had an English version of this somewhere, but could not find it this time)

I've got the ENglish link now, here it is (although I did not read it to check the adequacy of the translation, I hope it is close enough)
ACUTE LEUKEMIA. PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE HAHNEMANNIC DOCTRINE TO THE TREATMENT OF A CHRONIC DISEASE - Öåíòð êëàññè÷åñêîé ãîìåîïàòèè ÎËËÎ

It contains most of the blood tests readings, and I should also add to some people that say that clinical evidence might be unreliable because of people's memories, that usually homeopaths have everything on file, and every time the patients come the clinically important things that they said are always noted and added to the file, so the cases tend to be well documented, if you'd care to examine them and forget about the trials for the moment.

I personally have helped in treating people with thyroid disorders (would you consider them self-limiting? I have not heard much about spontaneous recovery of such cases - i.e. without ANY treatment, at what rate do they get better?), and all 3 cases do the regular follow ups at the hospital for tests - one had Hashimoto's disorder completely improved, the tests are back to normal and stay so for 5 years now, improved within 3 months after beginning of treatment, the other had Basedow's completely recovered (although it took almost a year, the initial complaint, though, was endometriosis, which also showed considerable improvement, she is almost pain free now) and tests stay normal for 3 years now, the third one is a very difficult case, she had cancer of thyroid, half of it was removed, but since she started homeo/treatment her tests show steady increase in hormone production, and as she takes regular follow ups there is a chance that her thyroxine supplement will be decreased if the values go too high... I don't have the full records, because I was only helping as I'm only a student, but I have seen the tests from the lab with my own eyes. And needless to say, the tests were not used as an indication of success or otherwise of the treatment.

I will also - if my family with 2 small children will let me to write more or less regularly - refrain from using this word "allopathy", I just meant to distinguish the treatment non-homeopathic in this case, not really derogatory, just meaning what it means "treatment not by likes" - "allos"=different.

THanks for reading, by the way, hope my posts will clarify something for some people.