Martin Walker - Cultural Dwarfs and Junk Journalism

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Healing with Homeopathy by Misha Norland

Misha Norland, one of the most respected and experienced homeopaths, gives his thoughts on "Healing with Homeopathy." This article is available to view on his website at http://www.homeopathyschool.com/articles.html

Healing with Homeopathy
by Misha Norland

In this section, we provide an introduction to homeopathy and how we view it as a healing skill – what it is, its history, its principles and how you learn to practice it. Each of our regional study program sections then provides information on the specific aims and objectives that we have for the teaching of that program, how we implement those through the training that we offer, and details of some of our key faculty involved. The focus throughout is on training that is practical and effective supported by caring practitioners and administrators.

What is Homeopathy?
Homeopathy means healing diseases by the application of the law of similars, i.e. ‘like cures like’. This means that the ‘symptom picture’ - a recognisable and characteristic set of symptoms - of the healing agent (the medicine) has to match the disease ‘symptom picture’ of the patient.

Although this principle has been known and applied spasmodically for many centuries, it was Samuel Hahnemann, born in Germany about two hundred and fifty years ago, who clearly established homeopathy as a recognised form of medical practice. At that time the old world-view was being revolutionised by the new wave of what is now call the ‘age of enlightenment’. Community and traditional beliefs, many flimsily based upon superstition, were being increasingly subjected to empirical inquiry, and it was experimentation and theory based upon results that Hahnemann brought to the old notion of "let likes be cured by likes".

This is of particular relevance nowadays when new healing forms are being sought because we are questioning the results of medical procedures with their interventional approaches of cutting, burning, drugging and inoculating. These methods are seen to be failing to bring about long-term improvements in health in chronic disease, although they are of undoubted service in the short term. Increasing numbers of inquiring individuals on the healer’s path are seeking to find ways in which a humane system of medicine can be integrated with the clearly beneficial attributes of a science rooted in empirical methodology—experimentation, observation, theory and review.

How does healing happen?
Healing happens quite naturally, because life has the impulse to maintain its integrity, to self heal and regenerate. Any adverse influence upon life will be met with a response designed to counteract that influence, to maintain equilibrium and restore health—to turn hell into heaven. These counteractions to adverse influences are expressed as symptoms. These are our best defences, our best efforts. We are wise to go with them rather than look for interventions. An intervention is any action that prevents the symptoms being expressed, but does not deal with the causes. An analogy for this could be a situation in which a warning light in a car indicating a sudden increase in engine temperature was responded to by the driver smashing that indicator!

Homeopathy is a holistic method of cure that takes into account not just the physical, but also the mental and emotional symptoms. Homeopaths seek to understand diseases ‘holistically’. If we lose our ability to rebalance and stay healthy, then our whole being responds by evolving symptoms. When the ‘symptom picture’ of the healing agent matches our diseased ‘symptom picture’, it enormously stimulates our capacity for re-balancing, helping us to do the work of ‘venting’ the symptoms and returning to health. This is the true life-preserving function of symptoms, that when unhindered are the means whereby disease is eliminated. This principle is understood in the field of everyday psychology. We know that grief (inner disturbance) is eased by tears (outward expression—symptoms), that sadness when vented does not play out as chronic brooding over the past or develop into say, anorexia, insidious weakness or MS; that anger when it is expressed does not fester and turn to hatred or develop into, say heart disease or cancer.

Acute diseases are most readily treated by homeopathic means because the initial intensification of symptoms, due to our dynamic response to the similar healing agent, is rapidly followed by the total elimination of the disease. For instance, recent grief with chest oppression, spasmodic sighing, hiccupping and acute stomach pain is cured after potentised Ignatia is given because the symptom pictures match. Then, after a brief intensification of presenting symptoms, flowing tears and sobbing ensue, giving way to returning calm and acceptance.

Chronic diseases are also amenable to homeopathic cures, indeed most of our cases are of this kind, but they take longer to resolve. The principle of cure in chronic illness is the same, i.e. we self-heal. It is only when this inclination for self-healing becomes perverted that we get stranded in a diseased state. This usually happens because of inherited disease predisposition’s, past traumas, past and present toxic overload or psychological and environmental stress, poor nutrition due to non-organic farming relying upon the use of agricultural chemicals and pesticides.

The disease, also being a manifestation of life, albeit a distorted one, behaves as if it were a separate entity that also wishes to express itself. It does so by the development of chronic symptoms. These symptoms are a compound of the disease and our unique individuality—they are the outward expression of our internal state. Just as in the case of the treatment of acute disease, they indicate what needs to be cured. We can read this information as we may read a book. In order to bring about a resolution of chronic disease, we require a return to natural living and eating as well as the thrust that the ‘intelligence’ of the healing agent confers. Then, as in the acute situation described above, the disease is eliminated from the inside towards the outside via established venting routes. It does this in a reverse time frame (last symptoms to appear are first to disappear, first symptoms to appear are last to disappear) and from the most important organs for survival to the least important. This means that as health is re-established, deep distress is supplanted by temporary superficial disturbances. To put this another way, we would expect to see transient acute manifestations in place of chronic degeneration. For instance, these disturbances could range from tears to temper tantrums, from skin eruptions to diarrhoea.

How do we recognise healing agents?
Substances are selected from either past experience of a medicine's healing powers or intuition as to their potential healing properties. The details are then worked out experimentally. Homeopaths call this proving. This is how it works. A group of stable volunteers comprising of both sexes are given a potentised dose of the substance under enquiry. They usually do not know what that substance is. Over a period of time (usually about two months) and while under supervision, they keep a detailed daily log of their altered state. They examine not only new and/or changed physical symptoms but also scrutinize their mental and psychological state. This information is gathered from all the volunteers and collated. During this process it is established which symptoms are most frequently experienced, which moderately and which least. This organisation of symptoms constitutes the ‘picture’ of the healing agent. It is verified and enlarged upon, given its therapeutic range, by clinical trial. As we have written, in homeopathy the remedy and the disease are similar. The remedy assists what the disease symptoms were unsuccessfully trying to do.

Because homeopathy is now more than two hundred years old, we work with many medicines that are well tested in clinical settings. Thus their healing characteristics and depth of action are well established.

What does potentised mean?
Let us first examine how healing proceeds. Healing agents work by harnessing the life preserving power within us. This power is invisible, indeed it is immaterial. We know of its existence by the result of its actions. We certainly know when it is absent, for then death ensues. Without its influence only the material constituents of the body remain, unanimated and lifeless. In order that healing should commence a subtle, immaterial, life-empowering force needs to be applied and recognised by the life preserving power within us. Healing agents are said to be potentised when they have been prepared in a particular manner so as to increase their healing properties.

What are homeopathic healing agents and how are they prepared?
Healing agents, or remedies as they are called, are derived from the natural world. Most typically they are of mineral, plant, animal or human origin. Examples of these are: salt (sodium chloride), club moss (Lycopodium clavatum), venom of surukuku snake (Lachesis muta), cancerous tissue (Carcinosin). They can also be derived from energy sources, for instance electro-magnetic sources, such as x-rays. When soluble these substances are dissolved in water and alcohol, while if they are insoluble, they are ground in a mortar and pestle. If electro-magnetic, then the rays are concentrated and permitted to pass through water where their influence is ‘recorded’ by the water. A process of serial (successive) dilution and agitation is then applied. By these means the material is reduced, within the bulk of the dilutant, while at the same time, the medicinal potency is increased. This achieves maximum effect for minimum stimulus. This process is also called dynamisation. This refers to the dynamic (as opposed to static) nature of the potentised (now potent) dose. It is the subtle, dynamised state of remedies that have resonance to the dynamic life-preserving function of the living organism. In other words, homeopathic practice rests upon the similarity of the remedy to disease and resonance of the remedy potency with an organism’s life-preserving force.

How do we teach the healing?

Let us take a look at two co-existent methodologies and worldviews which prevail in the work. If we apply the senses and ‘logic’ to the enquiry, the world may be understood as a collection of objects. Each object may be assessed, weighed and measured. In this manner the symptoms of diseases and the healing properties of their corresponding remedies are categorised and catalogued. The world may also be encountered as a communion of subjects. These subjects are interrelated and informed of each other's existence and of their participation in the whole by allowing feeling and intuition to enter into the experience. This gives birth to an appreciation of the world as sacred and is best expressed by art—it is sung into being, danced, sculpted and painted. The impulse to practice the art of healing also ensues from this perception of the world. It is to the first world view that reductionism owes allegiance and by the second that imagination is inspired.

As healers teaching at the School of Homeopathy, we integrate both views as we celebrate spirit, body and soul. The sacred view maintains that we regard all expressions of creation as intrinsically equal in value, whether mineral, viral, bacterial, fungal, plant, animal, human, and no matter what race or creed. We are all connected as well as dependent upon each other. No one is better or worse than another one. No creature or plant or stone or water or air or fire is higher or lower than its counterpart. No things can be owned or possessed (except in the most temporary manner), nor can humans lay claim upon them, for they belong only to themselves and are related to others only through love—a love which is given unconditionally, just as parent to child, mineral to plant, plant to animal, prey to predator. Our DNA has been passed over eons, evolving through successive life forms. We are the sum of all that has been and is now and is yet to be for the seeds of the future are in the present. This is a description of a living experience of the natural world of which we are participant and caretaker as well as exploiter and destroyer. This description is given here because as homeopathic practitioners, we are devotees of nature, for it is the natural world which provides for our sustenance and our healing. Nor is reductionism an outmoded concept for us because we view, not the world, but its attributes in this manner: we name the parts, catalogue the symptoms and we use computers to help us in our analysis.

As homeopaths and teachers, we learn to listen non-judgmentally. (Although our analysis of what we learn involves careful judgement and feedback.) Through reflecting upon ourselves (looking into the mirror of our motivations and our actions) we appraise ourselves, finding a path between our own opinions of right and wrong, good and bad, finding a way which is non-aggressive, which is informed by respect for ourselves, and others and the world in which we live. This is the pledge which we make as we work upon our own nature through the study and practice of homeopathy. Homeopathic healing results through re-establishing the relationship between our inner selves and outer nature through the application of remedies (medicines) which are derived from the natural world.

How do you learn to practice healing skills?
To develop your healing skills requires learning and development. As in any other activity, this has phases to it:

Vocation
Before you begin, you have to be inspired.

Theory
Inspiration is informed by philosophy, understanding and knowledge.

Application
Philosophy and understanding are applied. You underpin your knowledge through the critical appraisal of practice.

Practice
You do it—you roll up your sleeves and get on with it.

Discrimination
You check out the teachings against your practice, retaining what is of value for you, throwing out what does not work.

Masterhood
You extend your developing individual creativity into the task. You add your own skills and understanding to that which you have already learnt. In doing this you continue to develop your skill of healing the sick and inspiring others through your example.

Continuing professional development
Through self-reflection, experimentation and research you continue to mature, both personally and professionally.

Community
You now have become a valued and contributing member of the healing profession.

Goldacre et al, Projection and a Meta-analysis in the Lancet showing the effectiveness of homeopathy beyond placebo.

I would like to draw your attention to a meta-analysis that was published in the Lancet (yes the very journal that proclaimed the "END" of homeopathy) in 1997. It clearly shows that homeopathy does work beyond the placebo effect. But first I would like to consider why the critics of homeopathy so fiercely claim that there is no evidence for homeopathy.

So where exactly do Ben Goldacre et al get their nonsensical data from? There is a mountain of evidence supporting homeopathy working beyond the placebo effect yet they still preach the same message - "there is no evidence to show homeopathy to work beyond placebo." I have faith however that the British public can make their own rational decision on whether they believe homeopathy to work if they are given the correct information.

Those with an agenda will bend and twist homeopathy into what they want, but ultimately the truth prevails. We have to wonder why some people would want to do this? I honestly can't answer that question for the likes of Ernst, Goldacre et al. Why would someone feel so threatened that they would feel the need to lie and manipulate the public into believing their own belief structures, hence why I used the word "preach" earlier. They are preaching a belief structure that does not hold up to scientific questioning.

Ironically this is what homeopaths are accused of time and again by their critics. However there is a principle in psychology called Projection which is simply defined as something you project unconsciously of yourself onto another individual, believing that they have the same attributes as yourself. Often however this is as a result of denial of yourself, and the fact that it is actually yourself that holds those attributes.

For example, critics of homeopathy claim it to be unscientific, mumbo-jumbo that is based upon belief and not actual substance. Now this could be true if it weren't for the fact that there is a lot of scientific evidence supporting homeopathy, so now we have to ask the question of why they so strongly believe themselves to be right? This is where the role of psychological projection comes in, because they deny that they themselves are unscientific and biased in their approach.

So homeopathy must take the brunt of their own denial of themselves. Which is obvious for all to see as their writings are so clearly based upon bias and nonsense. There is evidence that homeopathy works, yes scientific evidence not just anecdotal, and yes published in "prestigious" journals like the Lancet as I will show below. So what are they going on about? Hence the conclusion of projection, maybe they should acquaint themselves with the writings of Freud and Jung.

Here is the abstract of the meta-analysis promised

"Meta-analysis of 89 trials on homeopathic medicine versus placebo. Result: significantly in favour of homeopathy (OR 2.45 (95% CI 2.05-2.93)). This meta-analysis included 186 placebo-controlled studies of homeopathy published until mid-1996, of which data for analysis could be extracted from 89. The overall ratio was 2.45 (95% confidence intervals 2.05-2.93) in favour of homeopathy, which means that the chances that homeopathy would benefit the patient were 2.45 times greater than placebo. When considering just those trials of high quality published in MEDLINE listed journals, and with predefined primary outcome measures, the pooled odds ratio was 1.97 and significant. Even after correction for publication bias the results remained significant. The main conclusion was that the results "were not compatible with the hypothesis that the effects of homeopathy are completely due to placebo." If the results of new trials were to show no difference between homeopathy and placebo, we would have to add 923 trials with no effect with 18 patients in each order to balance the two."

Linde K, Clausius N, Ramirez G, et al. Are the clinical effect of homeopathy placebo effect? A meta-analysis of placebo-controlled trials. Lancet 1997; 350:834-43.

ANH announces Merger

ANH Press Release: 'United we are stronger'—ANH announces merger

PRESS RELEASE – for immediate release
18th DECEMBER 2009

‘United we are stronger’: ANH announces merger

Two leading natural health campaign organisations are formally merging as of today. The Alliance for Natural Health (ANH), based in Dorking, UK, and the American Association for Health Freedom (AAHF), of Washington DC, have merged to form the Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH International). The new organisation is headed up by internationally acclaimed scientist and activist, Dr Robert Verkerk. The organisation’s headquarters will be in Dorking, UK, which will remain the base for ANH International’s European activities, now to be conducted through ANH-Europe. The Alliance for Natural Health USA (ANH-USA), under the leadership of attorney Gretchen DuBeau, will continue to operate out of its Washington DC base, although its activities will be closely coordinated with that of ANH International. The merger joins two powerful, results-orientated natural health organisations that have long advocated for natural and integrative medicine.

Dr Verkerk and his co-workers at ANH-International have been at the forefront of moves to reduce the impact of the increasingly far-reaching and stringent European regulatory system. This system threatens to decimate clinical nutrition, nutritional therapy, non-European healthcare traditions such as Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda as well as the leading-edge of the health food sector across the 27 Member States of Europe. European regulation is also acting as a key regulatory template influencing many countries around the world, as well as global standards and guidelines for food products issued through the Codex Alimentarius Commission. The ANH has pioneered the use of ‘good science’ and ‘good law’ as the key principles in establishing a legal and scientific framework appropriate to the continued and expanded use of natural and sustainable approaches to healthcare.

Known for its longstanding efforts to protect integrative practitioners from unjust prosecution for utilising natural healing modalities and ensuring consumers have continued access to the natural healthcare options of their choice, ANH-USA brings an arsenal of lobbyists and more than 50,000 advocates dedicated to shifting the medical paradigm from an exclusive focus on surgery, drugs and other conventional techniques to an “integrative” approach incorporating food, dietary supplements and lifestyle changes.

“United we are stronger”, said Dr Robert Verkerk. “Europe has one of the most restrictive systems which we badly need to liberalise,” continued Dr Verkerk, “while the US represents one of the most liberal systems, which we must ensure is not lost. Together, we handle both sides of the issue. Many consumers and natural health advocates have criticised the lack of cooperation among natural health campaigners. We hope today marks a permanent change.”

Gretchen DuBeau, executive director of ANH-USA, commented, “We are thrilled about the merger. The opportunity to join forces with a top-notch, international natural health organisation increases our strength in moving towards a sustainable, integrative medical model.”

ANH International is committed to sustainable approaches to healthcare. It strongly believes the existing orthodox medical paradigm, based around the over-use and abuse of pharmaceutical drugs, can no longer be countenanced. Its lack of respect for biological principles, born out by poor efficacy and huge costs in terms of side effects, is just one expression of this.

According to ANH International, preventative medicine is too often incorrectly defined by the use of increasing amounts of drugs, earlier and earlier in life, even in childhood. The concept of sustainable healthcare is about genuine prevention, particularly chronic disease prevention. Chronic diseases represent the single greatest burden on healthcare systems around the world and it is well accepted that they are largely preventable through dietary and lifestyle changes, rather than the use of drugs.

Drawing on the legal, scientific and policy expertise of its US and European offices, as well as its affiliates around the world, ANH International will work tirelessly and with even greater effectiveness to help stimulate a fundamental shift in the orthodox western healthcare paradigm. The new paradigm, built on the principles of sustainability, needs to work harmoniously with biological systems, rather than against them.

Given the imminent threats to natural health in many parts of the world, and the urgency of required action, ANH-International, and its two regional offices, is looking to expand significantly its reach among consumers, practitioners and companies in the natural health field. New or substantially revised campaign websites have been launched which hope to facilitate this process. Companies or practitioners, or even volunteer members of the public, wishing to collaborate with any of the organiations should contact their nearest regional office.

ENDS.

For further information, please contact Meleni Aldridge, Executive Coordinator, ANH-International; ph: +44 (0)1306 646 600, email: mel@anhcampaign.org or Gretchen DuBeau, Executive Director, ANH-USA; ph: +1 202 467 1988, email: gretchen@anh-usa.org.

NOTES TO THE EDITOR:

About the Alliance for Natural Health International
www.anhinternational.org

The Alliance for Natural Health International (ANH-Intl) represents an international non-governmental organisation dedicated to promoting natural and sustainable approaches to healthcare. It upholds that the integrative medicine and functional medicine models, as well as many traditional healthcare systems that have evolved over millennia, are more appropriate means of dealing with today’s health challenges than the current dominant western medicine model, which is over-reliant on the use of pharmaceutical drugs. The ANH is working collaboratively to help facilitate the development of scientific and legal frameworks appropriate to natural healthcare.

More from Dana at the Huffingtion Post

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Placebo and Plants

As I have shown earlier - here - there have been many trials showing homeopathy to work beyond the placebo effect on humans and also on animals. Now also there is a list of scientific trials proving homeopathy has an effect on plants. Now are plants really supposed to be affected by a placebo?

The list of trials can be found here.

GP Supports Homeopathy

Why homeopathy works at my practice
23 Oct 09

(article taken from Pulse, a magazine for GPs)

Dorset GP Dr Tim Robinson explains why he's a firm believer in homeopathy in
general practice.

I have been incorporating homeopathy into my general practice for almost 15
years.

I have found homeopathy effective as an alternative to conventional medicine for
problems in all the systems: respiratory, digestive, skeletal, hormonal, skin
and mental/emotional health. It is also extremely useful in situations in which
conventional medicine is ineffective or non-existent such as bruising, recurrent
cold sores, chilblains, leg cramps, glandular fever, growing pains, teething,
infantile colic and children with bedwetting and sleep problems.

Incorporating homeopathy into my general practice has also reduced my referral
rate to secondary care, as well as saved my drug budget. Along with these
advantages I believe that I have benefited through dealing with my heart-sink
patients more effectively. Homeopathy has enhanced my communication skills and
resulted in a greater ability to connect with my patients.

The provision of a homeopathic service in routine general practice is very
straightforward. As with all consultations the patient presents their particular
problem or set of symptoms from which I make a diagnosis and decide upon a
management plan for the case. If I consider homeopathic treatment is an
appropriate, safe and valid alternative I offer my patient the choice at that
point.

I usually point out that although we homeopaths don’t yet know how it works,
years of homeopathic experience support its effectiveness. When I am offering
the homeopathic choice I back it up with the fact that it won’t do any harm and
if it doesn’t work we still have conventional medicine to fall back upon.
Patients are usually receptive to this and grateful for the choice.

Homeopathic prescribing is perfectly possible within the standard 10 minute GP
consultation time. The prescription is usually based upon one of a number of
possible prescribing strategies. For example some specific conditions respond to
specific medicines, such as Arnica for bruising or Cocculus for car sickness. I
may also prescribe on ‘local’ features of a condition i.e. those features that
are individual to the case, for example joint pains that are better for heat and
movement (Rhus Tox rather than Bryonia).

Homeopathy has received a lot of slating over the last few years. Our critics
discredit homeopathy by saying that patients improve (yes, they admit they do
improve) because of long and repeated consultations. As I have described, my
homeopathic consultations are mostly seen within standard 10 minute GP
appointments. The additional psychotherapeutic effect that can be gained from
long consultations does not apply in this situation.


I audited my homeopathic prescribing over a year and demonstrated the wide range
of conditions that homeopathy can be prescribed for (1). I assessed the outcomes
from the homeopathic treatments by scoring the degree of improvement. I was
pleased to find that 78% of those patients treated noted an improvement. These
results support the use of homeopathy within my NHS general practice. It was
also pleasing to find that this improvement was of the same magnitude as other
outcomes studies performed in homeopathic hospital outpatient clinics. (2, 3, 4,
5)

Despite the consistency between these independent outcomes studies, the sceptics
are still unconvinced. It is often said in the media that there are no clinical
trials in homeopathy that show a positive effect. This is simply untrue. A total
of 138 randomised controlled clinical trials have been done, in 71 different
medical conditions – 60 had a positive outcome, 68 weren’t statistically
conclusive and only 10 were negative. We openly admit that the medicines are
often so dilute there are none of the original molecules left in it but how do
you explain that these same medicines have a measurable effect in laboratory
experiments with allergy response blood components? (6,7)

The sceptics also claim that patients improve (yes, they still state that they
improve!) because we only treat conditions that get better on their own with no
treatment. Those of us who have been treating patients with homeopathy for long
enough will know that we successfully treat many long-term conditions that have
previously shown no sign of improvement over long periods of time.

We are also accused of deliberately misleading our patients; as I described
earlier, I deliberately tell my patients that we don’t understand how homeopathy
works and leave it to them to decide between conventional and homeopathic
treatment.

My final annoyance with the sceptics is that they accuse us of being dangerous
and treating inappropriately by discouraging childhood immunisation and
recommending homeopathic vaccination. Members of the Faculty of Homeopathy are
all statutorily registered healthcare professionals who operate within very
clear policy guidelines which unequivocally advocate conventional medical
immunisation.

The Faculty of Homeopathy offers training at various levels, the first of which
is a short course leading to the Primary Health Care Examination. Passing this
exam enables you to join the Faculty as a Licensed Associate and to use basic
homeopathy in your general practice.

In an ideal world there would be even greater provision of homeopathic treatment
in the GP setting. I know that it would bring great benefits to our patients,
ease the NHS drug bill and pressure on hospital services. It would also increase
the enjoyment and effectiveness of practising as a GP; the quality of life of
all parties involved would be enriched.

For more information about training in homeopathy, go to
www.facultyofhomeopathy.org

References :
1. Robinson TW. Responses to homeopathic treatment in National Health Service
general practice. Homeopathy 2006; 95: 9–14.

2. Spence D, Thompson E, Barron S. Homeopathic treatment for chronic disease: a
6-year university hospital based outpatient observational study. J Altern
Complement Med 2005; 5: 793–8.

3. Clover A. Patient benefit survey: Tunbridge Wells Homoeopathic Hospital.
British Homeopathic Journal, 2000; 89: 68–7.

4. Richardson WR. Patient benefit survey: Liverpool Regional Department of
Homoeopathic Medicine. British Homeopathic Journal, 2001; 90: 158–162.

5. Sharples F, van Haselen R, Fisher P. NHS patients’ perspective on
complementary medicine. Complementary Therapies in Medicine, 2003; 11: 243–248.

6. Belon P, Cumps J, Ennis M, et al. Histamine dilutions modulate basophil
activation. Inflammation Research, 2004; 53: 181–188.

7. Chirumbolo S, Brizzi M, Ortolani R, Vella A, Bellavite P. Inhibition of
CD203c membrane up-regulation in human basophils by high dilutions of histamine:
a controlled replication study. Inflammation Research, 2009: e-published, 6 May.