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USA LMHI Report 2008
By Richard Hiltner, MD, NVP for the USA
Abstract
LMHI in the USA 2010 will on the beach in Redondo Beach, California just five miles from the Los Angeles Airport on 18-22 of May, 2010. This will be a celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Organon of Medicine and the exciting Odyssey of Homeopathy past, present and future.
The ORIGINAL 6th Edition of the Organon of Medicine of Samuel Hahnemann is presently in the University of San Francisco Library. Plans are being made for this to be sent to Los Angeles for the viewing of Congress participants.
Some of the speakers who have shown interest in presenting include: Carlos Campora [Argentina], Anton Rohrer [Austria], Andre Saine [Canada], Josef Schmidt [Germany], Didier Grandgeorge [France], Sadhna Thakkar [India], Roberto Petrucci [Italy] Klaus von Ammon [Switzerland], Peter Fischer [United Kingdom], Iris Bell [USA], Roger Morrison [USA], Richard Moskowitz [USA] Todd Rowe [USA], and others.
Please visit the website: www.LIGA2010.org
The American Institute of Homeopathy continues its restoration of the century plus old Hahnemann Monument in Washington, D.C. under the watchful supervision of Sandra Chase.
On the 24-26th October 2008 the American Institute of Homeopathy and the New York Homeopathic Medical Society will sponsor in the state of New York a Conference on "Systems and Symbiosis: The Bowel Nosodes". This conference will receive Category 1 credit from the New York Medical College.
The 3rd Annual Joint North American Homeopathic Conference was in Providence, Rhode Island April 11-15, 2008. The conference was also emphasizing World Homeopathic Awareness in April. The participants of the Conference included 11 groups.
RESEARCH
The University of the State of Pennsylvania is moving forward on more research on Water as a possible means of transmission of the homeopathic potencies.
An important presentation at the Joint Homeopathic Congress in Rhode Island April 11-15, 2008 was on Homeopathic Community Research by Todd Rowe, MD and Iris Bell, MD. This research was conducted through the American Medical College of Homeopathy [AMCH]in the state of Arizona.
The Purpose of the Community Research is to help better understand the homeopathic: Demographics. Success Rates. Cost Effectiveness of Treatment. Reasons for Seeking Treatment. Reasons for choosing a practitioner. And Effectiveness of various types and styles of homeopathic practice.
AMCH Community Research:
Homeopathic Practitioner Survey
o Completed 2006
o Complete results at www.AMCofH.org
o 1150 participants
Homeopathic Patient Survey
o Completed 2007
o Complete results at www.AMCofH.org
o 1150 participants
Homeopathic Educational Survey
o Students, teachers, administrators
o Will be completed by 2009
Dispelling Myths About Homeopathic Practice
1. Homeopathic Treatment results are due to the effects of placebo.
2. Homeopaths treat mostly functional or psychiatric conditions.
3. There area sufficient number of homeopathic practitioners in the United States.
4. Homeopathic patients reflect the typical diversity of the US population.
5. Success rates are the same for all homeopathic conditions
6. Children have better success rates than adults.
7. Elderly patients have worse success rates than adults.
8. Homeopathic treatment is too expensive.
9. Homeopathic treatment is equally effective regardless of modality of treatment.
10. What patients like least about treatment is the lack of treatment success.
11. It takes a long time to achieve success in homeopathic treatment.
12. Side effects to homeopathic treatment where new symptoms develop [not return of old symptoms] are seldom seen in treatment.
13. It is impossible to make a living practicing homeopathic medicine.
14. The homeopathic system of treatment makes a significant difference in treatment results.
15. Understanding how homeopathic medicine works has no impact on treatment results.
16. Those patients who are sensitive to conventional medications or to homeopathic medicines have poorer treatment results.
17. Men do equally well in homeopathic treatment as do women
LMHI in the USA 2010
LMHI in the USA 2010 will on the beach in Redondo Beach, California just five miles from the Los Angeles Airport on 18-22 of May, 2010. This will be a celebration of the 200th Anniversary of the Organon of Medicine and the exciting Odyssey of Homeopathy past, present and future.
The ORIGINAL 6th Edition of the Organon of Medicine of Samuel Hahnemann is presently in the University of San Francisco Library. Plans are being made for this to be sent to Los Angeles for the viewing of Congress participants.
Some of the speakers who have shown interest in presenting include: Carlos Campora [Argentina], Anton Rohrer [Austria], Andre Saine [Canada], Josef Schmidt [Germany], Didier Grandgeorge [France], Sadhna Thakkar [India], Roberto Petrucci [Italy] Klaus von Ammon [Switzerland], Peter Fischer [United Kingdom], Iris Bell [USA], Roger Morrison [USA], Richard Moskowitz [USA] Todd Rowe [USA], and others.
Please visit the website: www.LIGA2010.org
The American Institute of Homeopathy continues its restoration of the century plus old Hahnemann Monument in Washington, D.C. under the watchful supervision of Sandra Chase.
On the 24-26th October 2008 the American Institute of Homeopathy and the New York Homeopathic Medical Society will sponsor in the state of New York a Conference on "Systems and Symbiosis: The Bowel Nosodes". This conference will receive Category 1 credit from the New York Medical College.
The 3rd Annual Joint North American Homeopathic Conference was in Providence, Rhode Island April 11-15, 2008. The conference was also emphasizing World Homeopathic Awareness in April. The participants of the Conference included 11 groups: the National Center for Homeopathy, the American Institute of Homeopathy ☼ the Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy ☼ American Board of Homeoptherapeutics ☼ Council for Homeopathic Certification ☼ Council on Homeopathic Education ☼ Homeopathic Academy of Naturopathic Physicians ☼ Homeopathic Nurses Association ☼ Homeopaths Without Borders ☼ North American Network of Homeopathic Educators ☼ and the North American Society of Homeopaths.
RESEARCH
The University of the State of Pennsylvania is moving forward on more research on Water as a possible means of transmission of the homeopathic potencies.
An important presentation at the Joint Homeopathic Congress in Rhode Island April 11-15, 2008 was on Homeopathic Community Research by Todd Rowe, MD and Iris Bell, MD. This research was conducted through the American Medical College of Homeopathy [AMCH]in the state of Arizona.
The Purpose of the Community Research is to help better understand the homeopathic: Demographics. Success Rates. Cost Effectiveness of Treatment. Reasons for Seeking Treatment. Reasons for choosing a practitioner. And Effectiveness of various types and styles of homeopathic practice.
AMCH Community Research:
Homeopathic Practitioner Survey
o Completed 2006
o Complete results at www.AMCofH.org
o 1150 participants
Homeopathic Patient Survey
o Completed 2007
o Complete results at www.AMCofH.org
o 1150 participants
Homeopathic Educational Survey
o Students, teachers, administrators
o Will be completed by 2009
Dispelling Myths About Homeopathic Practice
1. Homeopathic Treatment results are due to the effects of placebo.
2. Homeopaths treat mostly functional or psychiatric conditions.
3. There area sufficient number of homeopathic practitioners in the United States.
4. Homeopathic patients reflect the typical diversity of the US population.
5. Success rates are the same for all homeopathic conditions
6. Children have better success rates than adults.
7. Elderly patients have worse success rates than adults.
8. Homeopathic treatment is too expensive.
9. Homeopathic treatment is equally effective regardless of modality of treatment.
10. What patients like least about treatment is the lack of treatment success.
11. It takes a long time to achieve success in homeopathic treatment.
12. Side effects to homeopathic treatment where new symptoms develop [not return of old symptoms] are seldom seen in treatment.
13. It is impossible to make a living practicing homeopathic medicine.
14. The homeopathic system of treatment makes a significant difference in treatment results.
15. Understanding how homeopathic medicine works has no impact on treatment results.
16. Those patients who are sensitive to conventional medications or to homeopathic medicines have poorer treatment results.
17. Men do equally well in homeopathic treatment as do women.
1] Homeopathic Treatment results are due to the effects of placebo.
Placebo response rate is generally around 30-40%.
General response rate to homeopathic treatment was 79%
There was a lack of significant correlation between lengths of time in treatment to results.
2] Homeopaths treat mostly functional or psychiatric conditions.
This study indicates that homeopathy treats a wide variety of conditions successfully from mild to severe pathology with good results.
3] There area sufficient number of homeopathic practitioners in the United States.
There are fairly good distribution of practitioners in the Northeast, Western states and Colorado. There is a greater need in the Midwest and Southeastern states.
4] Homeopathic patients reflect the typical diversity of the US population.
They found that there were many populations underserved by homeopathic medicine: A] Low income. B] Hispanic. C] African American. D] Native American. E] Elderly.
5] Success rates are the same for all homeopathic conditions.
They found that the success rates varied. Infectious diseases had the best results and endocrinological had the lowest success rate.
6] Children have better success rates than adults.
They found that children had worse success rates than adults in all categories.
7] Elderly patients have worse success rates than adults.
They found that the elderly had a trend towards slightly worse success rates.
8] Homeopathic treatment is too expensive.
Average annual cost was $580.
However, the average cost savings of the reduction in conventional medication and supplements was $1033 per year.
This makes a net savings of $453.
9] Homeopathic treatment is equally effective regardless of modality of treatment.
They found that classical homeopathy was statistically higher in all categories than for complex homeopathic treatment.
They found no statistically significant diffenences between classical homeopathic treatment and combined classical and complex homeopathic treatment.
10] What patients like least about treatment is the lack of treatment success.
This was not found to be true. That which was least liked about homeopathic treatment was the slowpace of healing.
It takes a long time to achieve success in homeopathic treatment.
It takes a long time to achieve success in homeopathic treatment.
11] It takes a long time to achieve success in homeopathic treatment.
The time varied, but on the average about 21/2 to 31/2months.
12] Side effects to homeopathic treatment where new symptoms develop [not return of old symptoms] are seldom seen in treatment.
Approximately 75% of symptoms were OLD; only about 23% were NEW.
13] It is impossible to make a living practicing homeopathic medicine.
The overall average income of homeopathic practitioners was $49,500 per year.
The average for those of more extensive training was $101,000 per year.
14] The homeopathic system of treatment makes a significant difference in treatment results.
There was limited data to study this question. However, they did find that those patients treated with polychrest remedies achieved the same results as those who received more esoteric remedies.
15] Understanding how homeopathic medicine works has no impact on treatment results.
They found that those patients who described better understanding of homeopathic treatment had statistically significantly better treatment results.
16] Those patients who are sensitive to conventional medications or to homeopathic medicines have poorer treatment results.
The study showed that there was a slight improvement in results for those patients who were more sensitive to either conventional or homeopathic treatments.
17] Men do equally well in homeopathic treatment as do women.
The study revealed that women did consistently better the men.
Organizations
National Center for Homeopathy
801 North Fairfax St.
Alexandria, VA 22314-1757
(703)548-7790 11am-4pm EST FAX (703)548-7792
5,500 members and approximately 600 practitioners
http://www.homeopathic.org/
America Institute of Homeopathy
801 North Fairfax St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
(888)455-9988
Approximately 125 members (medical professionals)
http://www.homeopathyusa.org/
AIH@homeopathyusa.org
California Homeopathic Medical Society
169 E. El Roblar Dr.
Ojai, CA 93023-2310
(805)646-1495 FAX (805)646-8159
rhiltner@sbcglobal.net
Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of New York
6250 Route 9
Rhinebeck, NY 12572
845-876-6323 FAX: 845-876-2627 WEB: hmssny.org
Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania
637 W. Lincoln Highway
Wxton, PA 19341
610-269-878 Fax: 610-269-1090
Illinois Homeopathic Medical Association
400 East 22nd Street, Suite F
Lombard, IL 60148
630-792-9311 Fax: 630-972-9316
630-792-9312 Web: Homeopathyillinois.org
Ohio State Homeopathic Medical Society, Inc
185B Wadsworth Road
Wadsworth, OH 44281
330-335-1586 Fax: 330-336-4236
Southern Homeopathic Medical Association
10418 Whitehead Street
Fairfax, VA 22030
703-273-5250 Fax:703-273-1235
Samueli Institute for Information Biology TM
Suite 200
121 S St Asaph Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
wjonas@siib.org
American Association of Homeopathic Pharmacists (AAHP)
www.homeopathicpharmacy.org
Foundation for Homeopathic Education
fhe@nesh.com
Homeopathic Community Council (HCC)
info@homeopathic.org
American Society of Homeopaths
http://www.homeopathy.org
Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy (AVH)
http://www.theavh.org
Homeopathic Pharmaceutical Association (AHPHA)
borneman3@aol.com
Academy of Naturopathic Physicians (HANP)
http://www.healthy.net/hanp/
Texas Society for Homeopathy
http://homeopathyyes.com
Homeopathic Nurses Association (HNA)
http://www.homeopathicnurses.org
NY Center for Homeopathy
klukas@earthlink.net
Homeopaths without Borders-North America (HWB)
hwb@igc.org
TheAmerican Association of Homeopathic Pharmacists (AAHP) website www.homeopathicpharmacy.org
could have other possible links.
Boiron USA West Coast
4145 Guardian Street
Simi Valley, Ca 93063
Phone: [805] 582-9091
Fax: [805] 527-3190
Vice President Guillaume Lois
_guillaume.lois@boiron.com_
Hahnemann Laboratories Inc
1940 4th St
San Rafael, CA 94901
(888)427-6422 toll free
(415)451-6981 (fax)
info@hahnemannlabs.com
www.hahnemannlabs.com
Homeopathic Educational Services
2124 Kittredge St #N
Berkeley, CA 94704
(800)359-9051 orders only
(510)649-1955 (fax)
mail@homeopathic.com
www.homeopathic.com
Standard Homeopathic Company / Hylandís Inc
210 W 131st St
PO Box 61067
Los Angeles, CA 90061
(800)624-9659
(310)516-8579 (fax)
info@shc.com
www.hylands.com
Mediral International Inc
10550 E 54th Ave Unit E
Denver, CO 80239-2131
(877)633-4725 toll free
(303)355-4155 (fax)
homeopathy@mediral.com
www.mediral.com
Weise Pharmacy, Homeopathic and Natural Medicines
4343 Colonial Ave
Jacksonville, FL 32210
(800)554-6670
(904)384-0569 (fax)
gillthepill@clearwire.net
www.naturallyweise.com
Merz Apothecary
4716 N Lincoln Ave
Chicago, IL 60625
(800)252-0275
(773)989-8108 (fax)
www.smallflower.com
Homeopathy Overnight
929 Shelburne Ave
Absecon, NJ 08201
(800)276-4223
(609)646-0347 (fax)
remedy@homeopathyovernight.com
www.homeopathyovernight.com
Natural Health Supply
6410 Avenida Christina
Santa Fe, NM 87507
(888)689-1608
(505)473-0336 (fax)
nhs@a2zhomeopathy.com
www.a2zhomeopathy.com
HomeoCare Laboratories Inc
PO Box 153
Riverdale, NY 10471
(718)796-5004
(718)796-7292 (fax)
info@homeocare.com
www.homeocare.com
Tx Options
1006 W 8th Ave
King of Prussia, PA 19406
(800)296-8998 (fax)
info@txoptions.com
www.txoptions.com
1-800-HOMEOPATHY
PO Box 8080
Richford, VT 05476
(800)HOMEOPATHY
(877)999-0090 (fax)
info@1800homeopathy.com
www.1-800homeopathy.com
ELIXIRS.COM
422 N Earl Rd
Moses Lake, WA 98837
(800)390-9970 orders/questions
(206)350-1556 (fax)
health@elixirs.com
www.elixirs.com
Washington Homeopathic Products Inc
33 Fairfax St
Berkeley Springs , WV 25411
(800)336-1695 orders only
(877)286-0601 (fax)
info@homeopathyworks.com
www.homeopathyworks.com
HomeoLab USA Inc
3025 De L'Assomption
MONTREAL, PQ H1N 2H2
(800)404-4666
(514)252-8919 (fax)
homeolab@homeocan.ca
www.homeolab.com