Dengue is the most common arthropod-borne viral disease. It can cause various symptoms like fever, muscle pain, joint pain, but often it is asymptomatic. In addition, it may cause potentially fatal sickness and danger signs with severe abdominal pain, vomiting, bleeding from gums and nose, hematuria and hematochezia. Homeopathy is often recommended.
The present observational study was conducted to determine the clinical sign and symptoms of dengue fever and to observe the patient’s condition after taking homeopathy medicine. It was conducted in Outpatients’ Department (OPD) of Govt. Homeopathic Medical College and Hospital, Mirpur, Dhaka between the periods of August-October’2023.
A total of 99 patients with dengue fever were included. Data were collected by face-to-face interview with the patients and follow-up was done on 3rd, 6th and 9th day with appropriate investigations required for the follow-up. All patients were treated with homeopathic medicine.
Mean±SD of age of the patients was 27.7±9.4 and range was from 11-60 years. Among the patients 73.74% were male and 26.36% were female. All patients presented with fever. Other presenting symptoms ‘headache’ ‘myalgia’, ‘joint pain’, ‘abdominal pain’, vomiting and pain in the retro-orbital region’ were, 91.92%, 87.88%, 84.85%, 73.74%, 17% and 85.86% respectively. About 46.46% of patients experienced diarrhea, and 21.21% presented with bleeding from different sites. Mean±SD of platelet was 148333.3±29642.31, 137888.9±118516.2 and 177111.1±49194.5, respectively on 3rd, 6th, and 9th day of fever. In this study mean±SD of HCT was 40.67±4.67, 41.62±5.59 and 41.23±3.83, respectively on 3rd, 6th and 9th day of fever. Among the dengue patients, 3.03% were diagnosed with dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). Hemoglobin was 13.63±1.49 gm/dl, 13.6±1.72 gm/dl, and 13.98±1.57 gm/dl on the 3rd, 6th and 9th day, respectively. None of the patients faced shock syndrome of dengue fever.
The authors concluded that conventional medicine currently does not offer a specific treatment or vaccine for dengue, focusing primarily on vector control and supportive measures such as antipyretics and fluid management. Homeopathy may provide additional options through individualized remedies, with medicines like Arsenicum album, Bryonia alba, and Rhus toxicodendron being used based on symptom profiles. Further research is recommended to explore and evaluate the potential role of these approaches.
WHAT?
If ever there was a rubbish paper, it would be this one! We learn virtually nothing about the perceived outcomes of the treatment. Yet the authors boldly entitled their article “OUTCOME OF DENGUE FEVER TREATED WITH HOMEOPATHY MEDICINE: A PROSPECTIVE STUDY”!
Why the authors feel entitled to conclude that “homeopathy may provide additional options through individualized remedies” remains a complete mystery. As the study does not yield any evidence to support the notion, it can only be based on their prior belief.
In essence, therefore, the paper confirms what we have often noted: homeopathy is not medicine, it is a belief-system and a religion, and its proponents worship in the
Holy Church of Hahnemann.
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“We learn virtually nothing about the perceived outcomes of the treatment.”
The answer is obvious: it’s awaiting succussion.
I did shake my head vigorously – alas, to no avail.
You forgot to dilute your brain first …
does Whiskey count?
“does Whiskey count?”
Damn right it does! In fact it helps…
You might like to know that each molecule in a glass of 10-year-old whiskey has twerked[1] in its cask circa 10²² times.
1. been in a kinetic collision with another molecule,
The Feynman Lectures on Physics Vol I 41-4
I found that the strongest argument for the efficacy of homeopathy that homeopaths always come up with in the end, the argument that (to them) overrules the overwhelming scientific and logical evidence that homeopathy can’t possibly do anything, is this one:
“But we SEE homeopathy working EVERY DAY!”
which is exactly the same argument that Creationists make:
“But we SEE the hand of God EVERYWHERE we look!”
and the same argument that flat-earthers make:
“But we SEE that the earth is flat WITH OUR OWN EYES!”
Funny thing is that I mostly see a lot of people whose brain must have fallen out along the way, being way too
credulous>open-minded.But we SEE intelligent design everywhere we look!
QUOTE
The banana argument is a specific teleological argument for theism based on the form and function of natural objects — specifically in this case the banana. According to Ray Comfort, the banana is “the atheist’s nightmare”, as he considers its ease of use, nutritional value, and “colour-coding” to be irrefutable proof of intelligent design.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Banana_argument
Hahnemann is the prophet of homeopathy.
The Organon ist the holy book.
The different varieties of homeopathy correspond to religious denominationa.
People like Dullman are bishops.
And the homeopathic doctors are the priests of the faith and the naturopaths are its preachers.