1st European Samueli Symposium
Future Directions and Current Issues of Research in Homeopathy
January 17-19, 2002
Sponsors
Samueli Institute
Purpose & Focus
The Samueli Institute, under the leadership of Harald Walach, director of the European Samueli Institute Office, sponsored a meeting of homeopathic researchers from Great Britain, Europe, Scandinavia and Israel January 17-19, 2002. Twenty-six published, scientific investigators from nine countries attended. Participants reviewed the current state of homeopathy research related to physical measures, laboratory research, clinical studies, outcomes and practice-based studies and current theories and models to explain homeopathic effects. The group had frank and extensive discussions about the quality of the current data, the implications of recent studies (which have been both positive and negative) and strategies for the advancement of science in homeopathy.
Audience
Basic and clinical research scientists, clinicians, health providers, government officials involved in research policy.
Outcome
9 papers from the conference were published as a Samueli Institute Proceedings in August 2002.
Table of Contents
FOREWORD FROM THE ORGANIZERS
Harald Walach
Rainer Schneider
BASIC RESEARCH EFFORTS TO ELUCIDATE THE POTENTIATION PROCEDURE OF
HOMEOPATHY
Stephan Baumgartner
OSCILLATORY EFFECTS IN A HOMEOPATHIC CLINICAL TRIAL: AN EXPLANATION
USING COMPLEXITY THEORY, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE
Michael E. Hyland
George T. Lewith
A CRITICAL OVERVIEW OF HOMEOPATHY
Wayne B. Jonas
Ted J. Katpchuk
Klaus Linde
HOMEOPATHY AND THE ACTION OF MEANING THE MODEL OF PRAGMATIC
INFORMATION (MPI) AND HOMEOPATHY
Walter von Lucadou
SOME CRITICAL POINTS ABOUT RESEARCH IN HOMEOPATHY. ON SOME PAPERS
EDITED OVER THE PAST 20 YEARS (1982–2002)
Bernard Poitevin
A RANDOMIZED, PLACEBO CONTROLLED DOUBLE-BLIND STUDY TESTING THE
EFFECTIVENESS OF CLASSICAL HOMEOPATHIC THERAPY OF ATOPIC DERMITIS (AD)
Joachim Siebenwirth
A NEW AVENUE TO HEALING: MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE HOMEOPATHIC SIMILAR
PRINCIPLE
Roeland van Wijk
WHAT HAPPENS IN HOMEOPATHIC REMEDY PROVINGS? RESULTS FROM A DOUBLE-BLIND
CROSSOVER STUDY OF BELLADONNA 30CH AND AN ANALYSIS BY GRADE OF MEMBERSHIP (GOM)
Harald Walach
SUCCESSFUL TREATMENT OF PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME BY CLASSICAL
HOMEOPATHY
M. Yakir
S. Kreitler
A. Brzezinski
G. Vithoulkas
Z. Bentwich
Contributing Authors
Stephan Baumgartner
University of Bern/KIKOM
Zvi Bentwich
AIDS and Clinical Immunology Center
Kaplan Medical Center
Hebrew University Hadassah Medical Center
Amnon Brzezinski
Department of Obstetric and Gynecology
Hadassah University Hospital
Ronald A Chez
Samueli Institute
Michael E. Hyland
Department of Psychology
University of Plymouth
Drake Circus
Plymouth, United Kingdom
Wayne B Jonas
Samueli Institute
Ted J Kaptchuk
Center for Alternative Medicine Research
and Education
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School
George T. Lewith
Complementary Research Unit
University of Southampton
Royal South Hants Hospital
Klaus Linde
Department Internal Medicine II
Centre for Complementary Medicine
Research
Shulamit Kreitler
Department of Psychology
Tel Aviv University
Bernard Poitevin
Associatoin Francaise pour la Recherche
en Homeopathie
Rainer Schneider
Institut für Umweltmedizin und
Krankenhaushygiene
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Joachim Siebenwirth
Humplgaßl 21
Roeland van Wijk
Department of Molecular Cell Biology
Utrecht University
Walter von Lucadou
Parapsychologische Beratungsstelle
Harald Walach
Institut für Umweltmedizin und
Krankenhaushygiene
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Michal Yakir
Ruth Ben Ari Institute of Clinical
Immunology and AIDS Center
Kaplan Hospital
Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School