a heated debate has unfolded after the decision of Russian academics. The Commission of Sciences declared: from now on, in our country, homeopathy is recognized as pseudoscience. In a nutshell, the argument is the following: the effectiveness of these drugs has not been proven, at best a placebo effect. And drugs that actually help sick while neglect. So what’s next? The last word for the Ministry of health.
to take or not to take homeopathy — that is the question. To this day, except a neighbor, whose “husband help”, it could prescribe a doctor or to a pharmacist. Now there is a Memorandum prepared by the Commission of the RAS. Homeopathy it is called pseudoscience and suggest to the Ministry of health, firstly, to withdraw drugs from hostlink, secondly, to remove all of annotation information about the therapeutic effect.
“Homeopathy repeatedly tested, was considered, but was recognized as unscientific, ineffective. The trouble is that the scale of the use of homeopathic remedies was too great, and in this sense, people are spending on homeopathy a lot of money,” – said the President of the society of specialists in evidence-based medicine Vasily Vlasov.
In the Windows in orderly rows. And, there’s no problem that can’t be overcome. From tooth decay to menopause. In our country was almost two thousand homeopathic medicines. In Russia, hundreds of homeopathic pharmacies. Also tablets and solutions can be bought in any Department of the regular pharmacy. And if homeopathy is for sale, so that someone who needs it? However, the arguments in favor of the sellers themselves-pharmacists, it seems, with medicine in no way connected.
- in General, in principle, everywhere plays the role of the placebo effect, hypnosis, – says the pharmacist.
- And most importantly, with a positive attitude, Yes to the placebo worked?
- Well, in homeopathy – Yes, it is very important.
Attitude?
- If you don’t, you better believe it, when everything will be fine and will be fine definitely.
With that in one of Moscow’s pharmacies sell granules from SARS. Of its own production. The recipe is based on the main principle of homeopathy, who 200 years ago formulated by the German Samuel Hahnemann: like cures like. The basis of the drug substance that a healthy person forced to hurt. But the ultra-low dose and, therefore, do no harm. What about the benefits?
“Take one gram of a substance, is placed 99 grams of water, shake, get the so-called one percent solution. Then take out one gram, is placed 99 grams of water, and shake again. And so the chain makes an average of 30 times. After that, the source of this substance there is nothing left. So classical homeopathic remedy is indistinguishable from water,” – explains senior researcher of the Institute of information transmission problems for them. A. A. Kharkevich, RAS Alexander Pankin.
It is against such classical homeopathy and submitted a Memorandum, explain its creators. It’s not about herbs, or Nutraceuticals, namely, the so-called sugar balls. But here’s another fact: classical homeopathy-approved by who. And how pseudoscience is not the first dozen years may be subject to serious medical theses?
“the same method of treatment as any other. And Russia is right, that homeopathic treatment is allowed only to physicians who have some certificates entitling them to treatment,” – said the President of the Russian homeopathic society Vladimir Mishchenko.
While scientists ran call homeopathy pseudoscience. In the Moscow medical Academy Sechenov in one of the departments have a program “Basics of homeopathy”. And these lectures do not listen to students and practitioners.
“My colleagues, academicians, I think, a little hurried with this decision. Feature of homeopathy is that it is directed, figuratively speaking, inside the body to mobilize its protective adaptive mechanisms. Therefore, when reasonable using this method, we do help our patients,” says head of Department non-drug therapies and clinical physiology MSMU n. a. I. M. Sechenov Vadim Zilov.
There is such a story: in 2009, the daughter of the famous singer Billy Joel tried to commit suicide. Drank pain: homeopathy. 15 tablets at once. Thought better of it, called an ambulance. Doctors found only fear.
“the Action is not proven, but not denied” — the official position of the doctors in the homeland of homeopathy, in Germany. The state insurance program of such treatment not pay. But the miracle of the pellets is 8% of the drug market, to buy. In Russia, however, only in 2016, according to analysts, has sold more than 20 million packages.
“She treated my family for a long years. Fortunately, there are positive results,” – said the girl.
“Homeopathy is the same direction in medicine, which has the right to be”, says the passerby.
“Homeopathy has treated my great-grandmother, grandmother and mother, so I would,” said the woman.
A lot of doctors today suggest to treat the pellets as cough lozenges. Warning: drugs with the prefix “homey” will not bring down the temperature under 40. For 200 years, no clinical trial has proved the opposite. Themselves are not dangerous, but if treated only by them, unfortunate consequences can not be avoided, insist scientists of the RAS. The Ministry of health with conclusions do not hasten. Promised to resolve the issue for each drug separately.
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