Unexpected Results with New Homeopathic Complexes: A Review

Abstract

Despite homeopathy being a therapy that has been around for over 200 years, it still arouses controversy, both because of the high dilutions in which it is administered and because of the methodologies used in research, which are not always adequate to reach a definitive conclusion. Our group has been researching the action of single homeopathic products and homeopathic complexes on immune system cells and on tumor cells, both animal and human, for over 25 years. In this chapter, we intend to summarize the main results obtained in theses and dissertations, products of academic research with strict controls, all carried out by nonhomeopathic professionals, mainly by biologists and biochemists, whose conclusion is unquestionable. We may not know the detailed mechanisms of action of homeopathy, just as we do not know about most allopathic medicines, medicines that often work one way in a patient. In some people, the doses must be tested, or even sometimes have a paradoxical action in others. The results were surprising, and here we will present two of the investigated complexes, which have already been published with different names or acronyms, but which, in recent years, have been referred to as M1 (mixture 1) and M8 (mixture 8), letters and numbers used in a large double-blind study conducted.