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Evidence summary

Need help backing up your case for a referral? Download a useful, two page summary of the evidence for homeopathy to give to your GP or local health authority.

 

 

Conditions with positive evidence

Listed below are medical conditions where positive findings for homeopathy have been reported in at least one systematic review, randomised controlled trial (RCT) or non-randomised study.

Download full list of references for all conditions: Clinical research evidence in favour of homeopathy (7 pages).  For more complete details of the research, visit the research section of the Faculty of Homeopathy's website, which includes details of those RCTs that were either negative or non-conclusive.

Allergic asthma 9
Anal fissure 10
Ankle sprain 11
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder 12
Brain injury 13
Bronchitis 14
Cardiac insufficiency 69
Childhood diarrhoea 1, 15, 16
Childhood fever 70
Chronic fatigue syndrome 17
Common cold 18, 71
Cough 19
Dry mouth 20
Dysmenorrhoea 72
Fibromyalgia 21, 22, 23
Gastrointestinal cramps 73
Hay fever 2, 3, 4, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 74
Headache 75, 76
HIV infection 32
Immune function 33
Infertility (female) 34
Influenza 5, 35, 36, 37, 38
Insomnia 77
Irritable bowel syndrome 39
Kidney failure 40
Low back pain 41, 78
Migraine 42
Muscle soreness 43
Musculo-skeletal injury 79
Nervousness 80
Obesity 44
Osteoarthritis 45, 46
Otitis media 47, 81
Plantar fasciitis 48
Post-operative agitation 49
Post-operative bruising, pain or swelling 50, 51, 52
Post-operative ileus 6
Post-partum bleeding 53
Post-partum lactation problems 54
Premenstrual syndrome 55
Pruritus 56
Psoriasis 82
Radiotherapy-induced dermatitis 57
Respiratory tract infection 7, 58, 83, 84
Seborrhoeic dermatitis 59
Sepsis 60
Sinusitis 61, 62, 63, 85
Stomatitis 64
Tendinopathy 86
Tracheal secretions 65
Varicose veins 66
Vertigo 8, 67, 68, 87
Viral infection 88