Jacobs Jennifer
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States.
Homeopathy. 2018 Aug;107(3):157-160. doi: 10.1055/s-0038-1649487. Epub 2018 May 12.
Homeopathy has been used to treat epidemic diseases since the time of Hahnemann, who used Belladonna to treat scarlet fever. Since then, several approaches using homeopathy for epidemic diseases have been proposed, including individualization, combination remedies, genus epidemicus, and isopathy.
The homeopathic research literature was searched to find examples of each of these approaches and to evaluate which were effective.
There is good experimental evidence for each of these approaches. While individualization is the gold standard, it is impractical to use on a widespread basis. Combination remedies can be effective but must be based on the symptoms of a given epidemic in a specific location. Treatment with genus epidemicus can also be successful if based on data from many practitioners. Finally, isopathy shows promise and might be more readily accepted by mainstream medicine due to its similarity to vaccination.
Several different homeopathic methods can be used to treat epidemic diseases. The challenge for the future is to refine these approaches and to build on the knowledge base with additional rigorous trials. If and when conventional medicine runs out of options for treating epidemic diseases, homeopathy could be seen as an attractive alternative, but only if there is viable experimental evidence of its success.
自哈内曼时代起，顺势疗法就被用于治疗流行病，哈内曼曾用颠茄治疗猩红热。从那时起，人们提出了几种使用顺势疗法治疗流行病的方法，包括个体化、复方药物、流行性属方和同类疗法。
检索顺势疗法研究文献，以找到这些方法各自的实例并评估哪些方法有效。
这些方法均有充分的实验证据。虽然个体化是金标准，但广泛应用并不实际。复方药物可能有效，但必须基于特定地点特定流行病的症状。如果基于众多从业者的数据，流行性属方治疗也可能成功。最后，同类疗法显示出前景，因其与疫苗接种相似，可能更容易被主流医学接受。
几种不同的顺势疗法可用于治疗流行病。未来的挑战是完善这些方法，并通过更多严格试验建立知识基础。如果且当传统医学在治疗流行病方面无计可施时，顺势疗法可能会被视为一种有吸引力的替代方法，但前提是要有其成功的可行实验证据。
