[Buddha-l] Medicine, Efficient Cause and Philosophy

[Christopher Fynn]

Alex Wilding wrote:

> Katherine Masis
>> successful clinical trials should be sufficient to
>> afford homeopathy the respectability it deserves.
> Is there a consensus that rigorous clinical trials have actually found an
> "above placebo" benefit from hopeopathy? I didn't know that.

At least homeopathic remedies have never been proven worse than a placebo, 
unlike some conventional medicines.

In London there is the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital, in Bloomsbury 
<http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/Our+hospitals/Royal+London+Homoeopathic+Hospital.htm>
and there are four others in Bristol, Glasgow, Tunbridge Wells & Liverpool.
UK residents can still go to these "on the NHS" provided their local PCT allows 
it and they can get a referral from their GP.

On "clinical trials" and homeopathy see:
<http://www.medscimonit.com/pub/vol_11/no_12/8209.pdf>


- Chris