RESPUESTA DE APTN-COFENAT ANTE EL ANÁLISIS DE SITUACIÓN DE LAS T. N. EN LOS MEDIOS.

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COMUNICADO DE PRENSA

Ante la información aparecida en los Medios de Comunicación  consecuencia de la presentación del “ANÁLISIS DE SITUACIÓN DE LAS TERAPIAS NATURALES” elaborado por el Grupo de Trabajo de Terapias Naturales del Ministerio de Sanidad Política Social e Igualdad a instancia de la Proposición no de Ley de la Comisión de Sanidad y Consumo del Congreso de los Diputados aprobada el 11 de diciembre de 2009.

APTN_COFENAT expone

1.- Nuestro FRONTAL DESACUERDO al procedimiento llevado a cabo en la elaboración del mismo. Un proceso que se ha llevado de espaldas al colectivo de Profesionales No Sanitarios de las Terapias Naturales. Colectivo que introdujo la Medicina no Convencional en nuestro país y que durante años ha venido formando al resto de profesionales sanitarios y parasanitarios.

2.- En relación con la acusaciones sobre el “efecto placebo” de la HOMEOPATÍA debemos indicar que se ha mostrado efectiva en animales, los cuales no se encuentran sugestionados por el efecto placebo. Lo cual ya fue alegado por parte APTN_COFENAT en la presentación de alegaciones al primer informe.  APTN_COFENAT quiere recordar que la práctica totalidad de los productos Homeopáticos que se suministran en España se obtienen en Farmacias. Al estar hablando de efecto placebo nos    encontraríamos ante un fraude de las mismas al suministrar productos sin evidencias científicas y   dejaría en evidencia al colectivo médico que día a día ha ido aumentando su cuota de negocio en el campo de esta Terapia Natural.

3- El Informe apunta a la falta de evidencias científicas que amparan a las Terapias Naturales en nuestro país. Debemos recordar que en España hay grupos de investigación muy importantes con reconocimiento internacional que día a día trabajan en el campo de los profesionales de las Terapias Naturales. Investigando, traduciendo informes de otros países y dotando de “EVIDENCIAS CIENTÍFICAS” al área de las Terapias Naturales y a sus profesionales. Recomendamos, por ejemplo, visitar la web www.e-digitalis.com del grupo de investigación en Terapias Naturales del Centro ISMET de Barcelona que contribuyen a la investigación en el área de la Medicina No Convencional y están reconocidos por Universidad Extranjeras.  O al proyecto Plan Europeo CAMBRELLA con Fondos del VII Programa Marco de la UE que investiga a nivel Europeo acerca de la Medicina no Convencional.

4.- Nos sorprende especialmente que el  Ministerio de Sanidad haya recogido casi en su integridad los datos del “OBSERVATORIO DE LAS TERAPIAS NATURALES” de Mayo de 2007 a Instancia de COFENAT, CONAMAD y no haya indicado que dicho Observatorio fue elaborado bajo los estrictos criterios de calidad del Instituto DYM de Estudios de Mercado. Esto vuelve a reafirmarnos en la idea que el Ministerio de Sanidad Política Social e Igualdad nos ha dejado de lado al no tomar contacto con NINGUNA de las Asociaciones Profesionales de las Terapias Naturales que existen en España, no sólo para haber formado parte de esa comisión de estudio. Si no tan siquiera para preguntarnos acerca de la actualización de unos datos de consumo de Terapias Naturales a fecha 2011 y habiendo tomando unos datos del 2007  completamente obsoletos.

5.- Así mismo el Informe indica que no existe Cualificación Profesional de las MNC a nivel Europeo al no estar reconocida en la D 2005/36/CE si bien no indican que dicha Directiva está en proceso de  modificación y siendo conocedores que APTN_COFENAT participó como única Asociación a nivel Europeo en las sesiones de trabajo organizadas por la Comisión Europea para la incorporación de un capítulo que reconociera a los Profesionales de las Terapias Naturales. Así mismo se presentó una propuesta de regulación que fue tomada en consideración por parte de la Comisión Europea pero no fue tomada en consideración habiendo sido presentada por parte del Ministerio de Sanidad Política Social e Igualdad.

6.- APTN_COFENAT quiere manifestar que en España hay más de 60.000 profesionales de las Terapias   Naturales reconocidos en los epígrafes fiscales 841 y 944  que se han venido formando como profesionales en Universidades y Centros Privados que emiten Títulos Propios, bien en Universidades Extranjeras donde si están reconocidas sus disciplinas.

7.-Por respeto a los profesionales y a los casi 12 millones de españoles que habitualmente se tratan con Medicina no Convencional ROGAMOS un poco más de responsabilidad y rigor a la hora de hacer declaraciones públicas, ya que los ciudadanos si tienen claro el efecto que tienen en sus patologías y los beneficios que les aportan los tratamientos con Terapias Naturales. Casi el 25% de la población de España.

8.- Por último agradeceríamos a los Medios de Comunicación un trato acorde a la realidad que día a día vive este sector.

9.- APTN_COFENAT se ofrece al Ministerio de Sanidad Política Social e Igualdad, a los Medios de  Comunicación, a los colectivos médicos, farmacéuticos y a la población en general a resolver cuantas dudas e inquietudes les surjan en relación con el proceso de regulación de las Terapias Naturales en España.

A Personal Case for Classical Homeopathy, Part I

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by Judith Acosta

The American Sound Bite

Out of nowhere, my husband turned to me and said, "I wish you'd tell me what you do so I can tell other people. They ask me what you do and I can't explain it."

"I'm a psychotherapist and a consultant in classical homeopathy," I stared at him. "You know what I do."

"But I can never explain it quickly enough. I tell them 'rebalancing,' 'rewiring,' 'peeling the skin off onions,' but then I lose myself. I can't come up with a simple way to describe it."

This is the worst problem for a homeopath. How do we explain an exquisitely subtle and complex process in a simple way? Take something so important and put it in a sound bite?

I remember a long time ago having to try to explain "verbal first aid" in five seconds or less for a three-minute TV news interview. I totally blew it. I'm not very good at sound bites.
But that is what we want in this country -- drive-through information, fast food for the mind. If we can't eat it in the time it takes to reach for the remote, the opportunity to communicate is lost.

But there is hope, because we do like stories. So, I thought that perhaps the best way to communicate what I do is to share with you a few cases. The first one is my own. The others (in Part II of this article) are a dog and a patient with his/her identity protected. I have never shared my own story before, but I do so because I believe its dramatic nature will help you to understand what classical homeopathy can do and why some people are so passionate about it.

The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing Mass

Many years ago, I suddenly developed abdominal pain. I had not been sick in any other way and had no idea what was happening. I went for a gynecological exam and was told I was fine. The pain continued. I went back and after numerous exams was sent from the table to the couch. The psychiatrist sent me right back to the doctor. After about a year of bouncing back and forth with increasingly intense (searing, stabbing) pain, they finally "discovered" a mass several centimeters in width in the area of my left ovary.

At this point, the surgeons were called in. I was scheduled for an emergency laparotomy. As they wheeled me in, the surgeon said to my mother, "It could be cancer." I was 26.

After surgery, as soon as I stopped vomiting, the doctor told me that it was not cancer. My mother wept. He said it was a streptococcal infection (Strep B) that had created adhesions and that I could forget about having children. He proudly went on to inform us that they had "scraped me clean" and that I'd be on antibiotics for about a month.

I did as I was told. I was raised by a doctor, surrounded by doctors and had complete faith in the system.

Within a short time a whole new sort of pain emerged, this time, however, deeper. It was more localized, again on the left side. I thought the infection had returned. The pain continued for quite a while. I went to the doctor, but there was no infection. After dismissing it (and me) for at least a year again, I finally wound up in hospital. A cyst had burst. This cycle recurred every few months. They recommended birth control pills, pain pills and pills I didn't understand. Nothing helped. By the fourth rupture and hospital visit, they recommended a full hysterectomy.

I sat silently until I could take a deep breath again. I asked if there were no other options. The doctor said, "You'll just keep getting them and since you can't get pregnant anyway, this is the best idea."

I told him I would think about it. He told me not to think too long but looked at me is if I couldn't think at all.

I called a friend who had been talking about homeopathy. She used a homeopath for herself and had located a homeopathic vet. I asked for more information. She sat with me. She loaned me books. And she gave me the name of a doctor. I decided to at least try something before I let my reproductive center be removed forever.

I told my gynecologist about it. He said, and I quote, "You can use all the weed whackers you want, it won't help."

I said, "We shall see." And I meant "we." I had no more experience in it than he did. But I wanted some option other than organ removal. He did not escort me out. He was more than mildly annoyed. But I was on a mission.

Where the Magic Begins

This is what saved me: a young doctor with a tattered copy of a repertory (the book that is used to look up symptoms and match them to different remedies) and another equally frayed Materia Medica (the book that contains full descriptions of the remedies themselves) in a basement office in New Rochelle, NY.
It was the strangest medical experience I'd ever had. He didn't examine me the way I had expected. He talked to me. Well, actually, he talked very little. He asked me endless questions: Where is the pain? When does it come on? What happened then? What does it feel like? What makes it better? Do you have any food cravings? Do you kick your feet out of the covers? Do you like other people around you? Are you warm? Cold? What makes you afraid? Anxious? Sad?

He was relentless. Two hours of questions that could not seem more unrelated to me or to my ovaries. But honestly, it was such a relief to have someone listen to me without judgment that I suspended my own.

At the end of the interview, he went into a little closet, pulled out an amber bottle, opened the cap, poured a few pellets into the cap, tipped my head back and said, "Open your mouth."

He poured the little pellets under my tongue.

That was my first remedy. It was Pulsatilla, a common flower in highly diluted (potentized) form.

After that, my mood improved slightly but briefly and the physical symptoms did not go away. Instead they shifted and got worse. I've learned since then that this can happen when a remedy is close but not a bull's eye. The symptoms became far more localized and presented with greater clarity. It seemed to me then that it was like a boil coming to a head, collecting the "illness" from a large area and concentrating it so it could be seen properly and discharged. We waited a very uncomfortable month.

After the second interview he gave me Thuja. After that I had a frankly rude aggravation (cystitis) which lasted about a month and the cystic pain completely disappeared. An aggravation is what homeopaths hope for as the sign that a cure is beginning. It is also precisely what allopathic doctors find wholly inconsistent with their training. They are supposed to make symptoms go away, not generate others. But because homeopaths see the human organism as a moving, dynamic system, they believe that this discharge is absolutely necessary. Aggravations are like siphons; they allow previously suppressed diseases or eruptions a way out of the system. In homeopathic philosophy, it is part of the cure.

But I didn't know that at the time. So I called him and complained, and after he ruled out any dangerous infections, he said "Now, we wait." I'd call him back, still annoyed, uncomfortable, and worried. And he said, again, "WAIT!"

So, I did. After a while, the "rudeness" was gone and so was all the pain. And after a year I realized so were the cysts. None of it -- not the cysts or the strep or any of that pain -- has ever come back. More important, perhaps, than the physical relief, was that over the next couple of years I became calmer, more centered. Much of the insecurity that had ruled my life up until that point also seemed to just not be there. I didn't see it leaving. It was just gone when I remembered to look for it.

That was a very long time ago. All my exams are still splendidly normal and I still have my own organs in my own body.

I went on to need other remedies over time to deal with other issues and wound up with a different remedy as my "constitutional," the one that seems to fit my overall being. But this is how it started. And it convinced me on a cognitive and cellular level that what I had experienced was more than placebo or fanciful wish-fulfillment.

As far as I could see, it could not be a placebo (although that would have been just fine with me at that point), because one remedy missed the mark, but the other did not. And as far as wish-fulfillment -- if it had been up to me, I'm sure I would have wished for instant relief -- sans aggravation!

In any case, getting better was the beginning of a search for understanding and eventually I enrolled in school for classical homeopathy. In the follow-up article, we'll look at a couple of other cases to demonstrate the most important principle of homeopathy: like cures like. And hopefully discover the sound bite people need to understand what Hahnemann's legacy has been.

Homeopathic Plumbum metallicum for lead poisoning: a randomized clinical trial.

(Extraído de PubMed.gov)

Homeopathy. 2011 Jul;100(3):116-21.

Padilha RQ, Riera R, Átallah AN.

Source

Department of Medicine at the Federal University of São Carlos, São Paulo, Brazil.

Abstract

INTRODUCTION:

Poisoning due to lead and its compounds has short and long-term effects primarily on the nervous, hematopoietic, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, musculoskeletal, renal and reproductive systems. It can manifest in acute or chronic symptoms. Measuring serum concentration is the primary method for diagnosing and monitoring exposed workers. Presently, elevated lead levels are treated by drugs whose effectiveness is contested on various fronts. Experimental studies suggest that homeopathic preparations may be in controlling blood lead levels in laboratory animals, creating the need for controlled studies to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of these preparations in humans.

OBJECTIVE:

To evaluate the effectiveness of the homeopathic preparation Plumbum metallicum in reducing the blood lead level of workers exposed to this metal.

DESIGN:

Double-blind randomized trial.

SETTING:

Workers' clinic in the Ajax battery plant, which employs 900 workers with varying degrees of lead exposure in Bauru, São Paulo State, Brazil.

SUBJECTS:

131 workers exposed to lead.

INTERVENTION:

Plumbum metallicum 15 cH or placebo, orally for 35 days.

RESULTS:

The percentage of workers who demonstrated a reduction in lead counts by a percentage greater than or equal to 25% following treatment was the same for both groups: 20.3% in the homeopathic groups versus 21% in the control group [Relative Risk (RR) = 0.95, confidential interval (CI) 95%: 0.47-1.92)]. Analysis by intention-to-treat also did not show any difference between the groups: 18.2% in the treated group versus 20% in the placebo group (RR = 0.91, CI 95%: 0.45-1.84).

CONCLUSION:

The homeopathic preparation Plumbum metallicum had no effect, in this study, in terms of reducing serum lead in workers exposed to lead.

Modulation of arthritis in rats by Toxicodendron pubescens and its homeopathic dilutions.

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Homeopathy. 2011 Jul;100(3):131-7.

Patil CR, Rambhade AD, Jadhav RB, Patil KR, Dubey VK, Sonara BM, Toshniwal SS.

Source

RC Patel Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Karvand Naka, Shirpur 425 405, Dhule, Maharashtra, India. pchandragouda@yahoo.com

Abstract

BACKGROUND:

Toxicodendron pubescens P. Mill (Anacardiaceae) known in homeopathy as Rhus toxicodendron (Rhus tox) is used as an anti-inflammatory medicine in homeopathic practice. In this study, Rhus tox in its crude form and homeopathic dilutions (3cH, 6cH, 30cH, 200cH) was evaluated for effects on Complete Freund's Adjuvant (CFA) induced arthritis in rats.

METHOD:

We assessed the severity of arthritis through observations including inflammatory lesions, body and organ weight and hematological parameters including C-reactive protein (CRP). Blinded radiological analysis of the affected joints and pain intensity determination was also carried out.

RESULTS:

Rhus tox protected rats from CFA-induced inflammatory lesions, body weight changes and hematological alterations. Rhus tox protected against radiological joint alterations due to arthritis. Arthritic pain scores were also favorably affected by Rhus tox. All the dilutions of Rhus tox including crude form showed anti-arthritic activity. The maximum protective effect was evident in the crude form at 10mg/kg/day, by mouth.

CONCLUSION:

This study supports claims in the homeopathic literature on the role of Rhus tox and its ultra dilutions in the treatment of arthritis and associated pain. Further study is needed to explain this anti-arthritic effect of Rhus tox.

Anti-asthmatic and anti-anaphylactic activities of Blatta orientalis mother tincture.

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Homeopathy. 2011 Jul;100(3):138-43.

Chandrakant Nimgulkar C, Dattatray Patil S, Dinesh Kumar B.

Source

Food and Drug Toxicology Research Centre, National Institute of Nutrition, ICMR, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. chetanmhrpharma@gmail.com

Abstract

OBJECTIVES:

To study the anti-asthmatic and anti-anaphylactic activities of Blatta orientalis mother tincture (B. orientalis MT), a homeopathic medicine, in experimental animal models.

METHODS:

The anti-asthmatic activity of B. orientalis MT was studied in the bronchial hyperactivity models, acetylcholine and histamine induced bronchospasm, in guinea pigs. Anti-anaphylactic activity was tested by active and passive anaphylaxis models in rats, anti-eosinophilic activity was tested by milk-induced eosinophilia in mice.

RESULTS:

Significant protection against acetylcholine and histamine aerosol-induced bronchospasm in B. orientalis MT treated guinea pigs was seen. In active and passive anaphylaxis albino rat models significant reduction in mesenteric mast cells degranulation, serum IgE level and eosinophil cell count was observed in the B. orientalis MT treated rat group when compared with the sensitized control rat group.

CONCLUSION:

These results reveal broad activity of B. orientalis MT. It may have nonselective anti-asthmatic activity. The anti-anaphylactic activity of B. orientalis MT may be due to mast cell stabilization, suppression of IgE and eosinophil cell count.

Homeopathy in the treatment of tubercular lymphadenitis (TBLN)--an Indian experience.

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Homeopathy. 2011 Jul;100(3):157-67.

Chand SK, Manchanda RK, Batra S, Mittal R.

Source

Head of Homeopathic Department, Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital, New Delhi, India. kusumschand@hotmail.com

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) has been known since antiquity. In spite of effective antibiotic treatment, it is still a major worldwide public health problem. Endogenous factors are important in the development of active disease. Homeopathic medicines have the potential for immune-modulation and hence to influence endogenous factors in disease. In India, patients with tubercular lymphadenitis (TBLN) often consult homeopaths but such cases are seldom documented. The objective of the present study is to document such experience. A retrospective exploratory study of 25 positively diagnosed cases of TBLN has lead to the development of a homeopathic regime consisting of a patient specific constitutional medicine, one disease specific biotherapy (Tuberculinum) and Silicea 6x as supportive medicine. Homeopathy can be used as a complement to conventional anti tubercular treatment (ATT) with beneficial results. Further validation in controlled trials with immunological markers is required.

Blisters and homeopathy: case reports and differential diagnosis.

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Homeopathy. 2011 Jul;100(3):168-74.

Jurj G, Waisse S.

Source

Asociaţia Română de Homeopatie Clinică, Timişoara, Romania.

Abstract

Blisters are skin lesions characterized by accumulation of fluid between the layers of the skin. Their severity varies from the common blisters caused by friction to severe autoimmune and congenital bullous disorders, some of them currently without treatment in conventional medicine or requiring drugs with potentially severe side-effects. This article reports cases of blistering diseases successfully treated with homeopathic medicines, which represent an alternative for the treatment of such disorders.