Topics for discussion: homoeopathy, Institute of Chemical Technology, Pain Killers, Times of India
Times of India- India Times.com published a news item dated 9th April 2014 which reported that Homoeopathy is effective in treating arthritis.
Click to go to http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Homoeopathy-pills-as-effective-as-painkillers-finds-study/articleshow/33518170.cms
Gist of the Research said to have been conducted at Institute of Chemical Technology, Mathunga, Mumbai (रसायन तंत्रज्ञान् संस्था, मुंबई) by Asst. Professor Sadhana Sathaye:--
...The rodents were arranged in four groups. The first group was healthy and hadn't been biologically engineered to suffer from arthritis like the rest. The second group was given water as a placebo, while the third was given homoeopathic medicines. The last group was given a popular diflofenac painkiller, which is widely used to treat inflammation of tissues among arthritic patients.
The allopathic medicines reduced the pain quickly, but by the seventh day, the homoeopathic pills were as effective.
By Day 14, the homoeopathic medicines seemed better.
Homoeopathic pills could emerge as the treatment of choice for patients with chronic pain.
Homoeopathic medicines have no side-effects like allopathic painkillers.
In the last five years, many studies have been done to prove the efficacy of homoeopathic pills. Recently, the state government's review of patients suffering from chinkungunya showed that those treated with homoeopathy had done far better than those on allopathic medicines. --Dr B H Shah, administrator of the Maharashtra Council of Homoeopathy.
ybrao-a-donkey's comments
This news report is not enough. Medical research, unfortunately both in allopathy, and homoeopathy, suffer from researchers' biases.
They are tailor made to cater to the needs of those persons/agencies who commission their work and pay for it.
Pain killing processes both in allopathy and homoeopathy, need greater explanations. Satisfactory pharmaco-kinetic explanations should be given on how the homoeopathic drugs administered by them reduced the pain.
Size of the sample has not been given.
ICT has to conduct a placebo controlled double blind trial.
ICT should verify and specify, even if be in nanograms or micrograms, the quantum of the medical substance in each dose administered, apart from sugar, alcohol and other fillers used to make up the dose. The unscientific nature of homoeopathy arises from the basic fact that the homoeo medicines are diluted to such an extent that they contain nothing but alcohol, sugar, water except the medical substance. Since the quantity has not been given, we have to presume that alcohol and sugar can be as effective as allopathic pain-killers.
http://www.ictmumbai.edu.in ICT website should make available a pdf copy of the full-length report, so that public can benefit from their studies.
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