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Homeopathy in Nepal

Study group member Bharati Devakota has written an article on the development of homeopathy in Nepal. She was trained in Nepal, so she speaks from first hand experience.

Press articles about homeopathy from the web

Don't insist on only wearing saree: HC to college
Holding that wearing salwar kameez or churidar with duppattas could not be considered indecent, the Madras High Court has directed a private homeopathic college not to insist women internees to only wear saree for one year before receiving the degree.
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Caroline Falkenberg, homeopathic medicine
My family has successfully used and relied on homeopathy for generations. My great-great uncle was a homeopathic physician in Colorado Springs in the 1800s, and his knowledge trickled down the family tree. My aunt Averette and I are now carrying on the family tradition.
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Herbal remedies appear to not work
Ten years ago the government set out to test herbal and other alternative health remedies to find the ones that work. After spending $2.5 billion, the disappointing answer seems to be that almost none of them do.
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Homeopathy could help ease hay fever
Hay fever sufferers are being offered an alternative way to ease their symptoms and gradually reduce their sensitivity to pollens.
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Alternate Cures Gaining Acceptance
Perhaps the pharmaceutical industry is running scared; not because of the advent of homeopathy but because of its re-emergence.
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Important statement about Zicam, homeopathic remedies and false AP report
The FDA's action produced a story distributed by Associated Press AP that is full of fabrications and falsely called into question the safety of homeopathic remedies. The National Center of Homepathy NCH, in concert with the American Association of Homeopathic Pharmacists AAHP, has been vigorously responding to the AP story.
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The Moral of the Zicam Story
The moral? If you're going to sell homeopathic medicine - and boy, is it a lucrative business - make sure that you don't put anything in there except sterile water. That'll cut down on your expenses, too, since most ingredients cost more than water, anyway. Stick with that strategy, and you can be absolutely sure that nothing bad will happen to your customers. Nothing good will happen to them either, but they won't know that. When their cold/headache/whatever goes away of its own accord, they'll ascribe it to your miracle product. Sit back and profit!
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Smell-Loss Drug Escaped FDA Review Under Homeopathic Label
Matrixx didnt alert U.S. regulators to about 800 reports it received from Zicam users who said they lost their sense of smell. The FDA found the reports only after an inspection in May. Zicams main ingredient is zinc, which since the 1930s has been linked to loss of smell when applied inside the nose. A group overseeing homeopathic drugs says thats an improper use.
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FDA approved drugs - are they really safer than alternative medicines?
The anti-alternative medicine camp is at it again, with new headlines popping up today referring to complementary and alternative medicine CAM as "unorthodox" and "mystical mumbo jumbo". see recent article in the Idaho Statesman The implication is that CAM therapies are not only unorthodox and unapproved, but also dangerous. This is a change from some other recent posts siting NCCAM reports that the alternative therapies, studied by the National Institutes of Health NIH department of complementary and alternative medicine, are nothing more than ineffective placebos. So in the space of about a week, alternative medicine went from placebo to something dangerous that should be avoided at all costs. Interesting.
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Misconceptions aside, homeopathy has stood test of time
The article, Zicam not alone in side effect reports AC-T, June 17, portrays homeopathy in a very poor light. Unfortunately, its author makes the all-too-common mistake of writing passionately about the horrors of homeopathy without actually even understanding homeopathy. Zicam is not homeopathy.
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Homeopathic remedies reduce outdoor worries
Other parents were giving me advice such as, Put some baking soda on it, but I knew exactly what to do. I rushed Sahara home and promptly gave her a couple doses of homeopathic Apis mellifica. Immediately, the swelling went down, and Sahara collected herself and stopped screaming. Half an hour after she was stung, I sent her back to school with a few doses of Apis in her pocket. Later that night, all traces of the bee sting were gone.
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Zicam Recall Points to Potential Problems with Homeopathic Remedies
Last weeks Zicam recall is raising some serious questions about the safety and regulation of homeopathic remedies. According to a new report by the Associated Press, more than 800 homeopathic ingredients were potentially implicated in health problems last year.
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Two songs playing in an individual
This is the latest in the series by Rajan Sankaran, a widely acclaimed homoeopath. The book, which attracts even a non-practitioner of homeopathy, underlines that something else lives within us that causes emotional upheaval during stress-induced illnesses. Insight into two primary questions what makes us what we are and what makes us ill shows how homoeopathy is practised by taking a patient to the sensation level because the awareness of this deepest experience is in itself a healing process.
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Annabel Croft: Why I have come to rely on homeopathic medicine
As Wimbledon fortnight begins, player-turned-TV presenter Annabel Croft describes how her life has been transformed by homeopathy.
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Richmond man joins Zicam complaints
Ehler, 45, is among hundreds of users of the zinc-based homeopathic cold remedy Zicam to complain of a diminished sense of smell.
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