Based on this, its therapeutic effect is credited to the placebo effect. One of the objections that has always been raised against homeopathy is the “lack of clinical evidence”, which is the fruit of deficient or poor scientific research. Scientific Research in Homeopathic Medicine: Peculiarities and Criticalities The journal must be indexed in biomedical databases (PubMed, Scopus, BVS, etc.), and it may have an Impact Factor (I.F.) 2. The study must also be published in a peer-reviewed journal, i.e., it must be assessed by a committee of referees. Description of the characteristics of enrolled patients The quality of a clinical study must generally take account of ten aspects:ġ. In this context, the quality of clinical study has become crucial both in patient management and health policy choices.
Since the early 1990s, EBM (evidence-based medicine) has redefined the parameters for scientific research, especially in biomedicine and professional practice. Homeopathy database evidence EBM protocols study design 1.
Therefore, a comprehensive database will not only support homeopaths but also assist in the better promotion and worldwide recognition of homeopathy as a significant field of medicine. Unfortunately, it is not well known by the homeopaths themselves and also by the medical and scientific community.
In the last 50 years, evidence in homeopathy has been increasing both at a quantitative and qualitative level. It is being updated every three months and is available both for the whole homeopathic community and for the patients, Institutions, stakeholders, and skeptics. A dynamic database was created containing 1,146 reliable pieces of evidence. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the most reliable and available homeopathic studies in order to systematize the best evidence at all levels of research (studies based on humans, animals, and plants, randomized controlled trials, observational studies, fundamental studies, etc.). Homeopathy, a system of Traditional and Complementary Medicine (T&CM, according to WHO definition), is under frequent attack by skeptics because of its supposed “lack of evidence.” To overcome the distrust of skeptics and the public, many databases have been created, which focused on collecting all the published and indexed studies however, none of these seem to be “comprehensive” and systematic enough.