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Originally Posted by Elena Zagrebelnaya
For me personally we had to change 3 remedies before it has started to work, my daughter finally gets better after 5 changes of the remedy and my husband gets the 5th remedy which finally works as well.
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It is possible that the treatment was eventually successful. It is also possible that the treatment was ineffective and that the underlying conditions resolved spontaneously over that period of time. We would need to know what conditions were being treated and what the natural history (ie without treatment) of these conditions are.
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How would you deal with this possibility in terms of control with placebo? THe homeopath will see no result - I hope noone supposes that people in the trial would all show sufficiently clear remedy picture form the start and consequently sufficiently visible results after just one dose of the remedy? - and the homeopath will think that the case needs to be reassessed if the study is blinded... MY opinion is that it is really not possible to determine anything in a short-time protocol, people often need more than a year to show any objective improvement, because obviously the statistically minded people will refuse to accept any subjective improvements that the patients might report.
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Perhaps we need to trial only one remedy and treat only acute illnesses which would be expected to resolve within a short time frame. However, remember the first proirity is no interference in the practitioner/patient relationship.
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After all - is medicine for people intended to cure people, or people for medicine - people used as guinea pigs to test if someone's theory is right or not? I'm rather in favour of the first "option" - and therefore I think that anything else than long-term clinical observations are simply unethical from a humanitarian point of view, be it allopathic medicine or homeopathic medicine or Chinese Medicine - or whatever.
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Certain conditions would not matter in this respect. Consider the common cold or flu, headaches or migraines. There must be lots of conditions which are just a nuisance left untreated rather than life threatening. That would be a good place to start.