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[Monica]

What type of scientific study is better?

There is none that's better. Homeopathy doesn't lend itself to scientific study. Homeopathy requires personalizing the remedy to the patient's constitution, and that can't be done with zero possibility for bias.

For example, 3 people have a fever.

Person A is irritable and cranky
Person B got a sudden, severe fever with chills and cannot get warm no matter how many blankets are piled on him
Person C is hot, hot, hot, sweating, with bright red, flushed cheeks

The fever, measured by a thermometer, is the same with all 3 patients, but their symptoms are different and their mental/emotional states are different.

Person A likely needs Chamomilla.
Person B likely needs Aconite.
Person C is a clear case for Belladonna.

(This is a simplified example - there are other remedies for fever, but these are 3 of the common ones.)

Give the right remedy and watch all the fevers cool down within seconds, literally. B's chills will subside and A will be more pleasant. C's cheeks will be less flushed.

But mix those remedies up - like give A Belladonna - and nothing happens.

That's what they did in the mega-study a few years ago. They had x number of people with x symptom and gave them all the same remedy. It was like taking 1000 random people with fevers and giving them ALL Aconite! When maybe only 1 in 10 would be indicated for Aconite. Of course very few people got results! it was left up to chance that the right person might need the particular remedy they were studying.

Any self-respecting homeopath knows this. Had they truly wanted to understand how homeopathy works, they would surely have consulted with some homeopaths! Therefore I can only conclude that the study was intentionally designed to fail.

Holistic medicine is much more time-intensive. It doesn't work in the fast-food-fast-drugs-get-medicine-OTC paradigm. It never will.

But see, people like me, who were very sick and were healed by holistic medicine, don't care about scientific studies.

There's nothing wrong with scientific studies. For emergency trauma care, yes, please, study the pain management drugs and tell me the potential side effects. I recently had some dental work done and you can bet I got pain meds! And I was very grateful that there were websites explaining the side effects of vicodin, versed and other drugs used by the dental profession. (Although they neglected to mention that many people have bad acid trips when given versed! I found that out on a discussion forum.) There is a place for allopathic medicine!