Forschende Komplementärmedizin = Research in complementary medicine
-
Though homeopathy has been in successful and continuous use for well over 200 years, in the United Kingdom it is under growing pressure, from scientific detractors and sections of the media. As such, homeopathy's free National Health Service provision is threatened because it is derided as 'unproven', 'unscientific', and even 'deadly'. While refuting these and other detractions, this paper considers possible reasons for the current plight of homeopathy UK. Thus, the current attacks against homeopathy should be viewed more in the context of the globalised pharmaceutical industry which is itself in crisis, and a succession of UK governments seemingly supine in the face of legislation originating from the European Union.
-
Forsch Komplementmed · Aug 2009
Controlled Clinical Trial[Pain-relieving effect of cantharidin blister on lumbar spinal stenosis].
Lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) is a common cause of chronic lumbar pain and disability. Conventional therapy approaches include analgesics and spinal surgery. Topical cantharidin applications are used for the treatment of severe chronic lumbar pain in traditional European medicine (TEM). We tested the pain-relieving effect of lumbar cantharidin blisters in a non-randomised controlled pilot study. ⋯ In this first study on the efficacy of cantharidin blisters, a clinically relevant pain-relieving short-term effect on LSS was observed. As the trial was non-randomised and only included a limited number of patients, the results should be interpreted with caution.