03/20/2025
Did You Know?
In a series of studies by French researchers, the patients of doctors using homeopathy were compared to those seeing conventional physicians.
For upper respiratory infections, musculoskeletal diseases, sleep disorders, and anxiety and depression, the homeopathic doctors prescribed far fewer antibiotics, psychotropic drugs, and pain medications with similar or better outcomes in their patients.
They also incurred twenty percent less total cost of treatment, of particular value to the healthcare system.
Sources:
Rossignol M et al. Impact of physician preferences for homeopathic or conventional medicines on patients with musculoskeletal disorders: results from the EPI3-MSD cohort. Pharmacoepidemiol. Drug Saf. 2012; 21(10):1093-1101.
Grimaldi-Bensouda L et al. Management of upper respiratory tract infections by different medical practices, including homeopathy, and consumption of antibiotics in primary care: the EPI3 cohort study in France 2007-2008. PLoS One. 2014 19;e89990.
France Health Economics Review (2015) 5:18. DOI 10.1186/s13561-015-0055-5.
