| Abstract
Homeopathy was reintroduced in Cuba in 1992. Since then, the Cuban
Ministry of Public Health has made great efforts in the development
of homeopathy, as a diagnostic medical system based on evidence.
The Ministry pursues homeopathic investigations with the scientific
rigour characteristic of Cuban medicine. This presentation will
include various double blind studies of patients on homeopathic
vs. allopathic treatment, where homeopathy's usefulness and value
will be demonstrated.
The first study of duodenal ulcer includes a treatment
of 120 patients for 8 weeks and 52-week control follow-up of acid
secretion in addition to follow-up with endoscopies at 4, 8, 26
and 52 weeks; also a reconsideration of the symptom progress, the
scarring rate and the negativity rate of Helicobacter pylory. The
second study focuses on the treatment of a Hepatitis-A
outbreak, where 3 homeopathic drugs based on the epidemic genus
were used on 351 patients, showing in patients treated with homeopathy
an evident favourable progress, social impact and better quality
of life compared to those treated with allopathic drugs. The third
study looks at 67 patients with idiopathic ulcerative colitis
treated with individualised homeopathic drugs and followed up for
5 years, with clinical, haematological, endoscopic and histological
results. The results reveal, in most patients, better clinical-endoscopic
progress compared to the group treated allopathically, and the prevention
of dysplasia in all degrees.
Schlüsselwörter:
Kuba, Ulcus duodeni, Hepatitis A, Colitis ulcerosa.
Korrespondierender Autor: Dr. Jorge Luis Alvarez, Ave. Comandante
Pinares 17, Entre Mar y Maximo Gomez, Pinar del Rio, Cuba |