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Originally Posted by Hahnemannian444
Yeah, and double-blind drug trials are based upon wholly fouled-up and truly ignorant (deadly ignorant, in fact) basic erroneous assumptions
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Would you mind explaining the problem with double blind studies? I understand that they're not useful for assessing the experience of a patient visiting a homeopathic doctor and getting a specific prescription. I'm only suggesting double blind studies be used to compare conventional over the counter medicine and homeopathic medicine bought similarly.
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Originally Posted by Hahnemannian444
Although this is a long subject, specifically, there are no specific drugs for allopathically defined diseases, and those disease-diagnostic categories are total falsehoods, anyway. You therefore try to make -1 + 1 = something other than zero but always fail. 2700 years of failed experiments on 50-100 billion people, all of whom have been murdered by your buddies in allopathic medicine, is not enough proof to you morons that you've got something wrong?
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You're claim that there are no specific drugs for allopathically defined diseases is false. Surely we can agree that allopathic medicine has specific treatments for a range of diseases.
Are you capable of explaining how you think allopathic medicine has murdered 50-100 billion people? It is only estimated that about 70 billion people have died in the last 2700 years, so do you suggest virtually all of them were "murdered" by allopathic medicine?
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Originally Posted by Dr. Nancy Malik
Links & studies published in journals: results better than placebo
1. Arnica Therapy in patients receiving knee surgery: Results of three randomised double blind trials
Researchers investigated the effeciveness of Arnica on post-operative swelling and pain
Three different randomised pacebo-controlled, double blind, and sequential clinical trials were conducted after arthroscopy, artficial knee joint implantation and crutiate ligament reconstruction.
A total of 227 patients were enrolled in the arthroscopy (33% females and the mean age was 43.2 years)
35 patients in artificfial knee joint implatation (71% females and mean age was 67 years)
57 patients in crutiate ligament reconstruction (26% females and mean age was 33.4 years)
The study conducted each with 2 parallel therapy groups, of which one recieved placebo, and the other with anica 30X.
The arnica Montana was manufacured by DHU in Karlsruhe, Germany in accordance with the guidelines of the German Homoeopathic Phamacopoeia.
In all the three trials, patient receiving Arnica showed a trend towards less post-operative swelling compared to patients with placebo.
Journal: Complementary Therapy in Medicne, Vol. 14, pp. 237-246, 2006
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Here's a link to a study where arnica was shown to be no more effective than placebo:
Trial shows that homoeopathic arnica is no better than placebo -- Mayor 326 (7384): 303 -- BMJ
This study showed placebo to be more effective than arnica.
Double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial of homoeopathic arnica C30 for pain and infection after total abdominal hysterectomy.
We need to keep in mind is there's an element of chance involved in these trials. No one trial is proof of an effective treatment. When you look at all the trials testing arnica against placebo the majority indicate no difference. A few indicate better results from one or the other but this is because of statistical probability.