EUROMEDICA  Hanover 1-2  Juni 2007	Advanced methods of diagnosis, treatment and prophylactics
	European Academy of Natural Sciences, Hanover European Scientific Society, Hanover Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow

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Presently, the necessity exists to introduce methods combining high efficacy, safety and availability into the everyday medicine practice. Homeopathy is a kind of regulating therapy, which meets all the requirements mentioned above. The question about the fact what diseases can be treated with homeopathic methods and what diseases cannot is still open and highly disputable: there exists disagreement even among homoeopathists. Absolutely, efficacy of practical realization of homeopathic principles depends on doctors’ qualification and individuality, on the assortment of medications available and their grade, and first of all, it depends on the methods, which a clinicist uses. In spite of the fact that all homoeopathists use the unified theoretical grounds, S. Hahnemann doctrine, presented in «Organon of Medicine», practically, they use different methods for medication prescription. Existing diversity of the methods may be classified as the following paradigms of the modern homeopathy: classic homeopathy, social homeopathy, combined homeopathy.

Classic homeopathy is characterized by the fact that in the course of treatment at the doctor’s consultation only one homeopathic preparation is prescribed for a certain period. Selection of the medication is based on the careful analysis of a patient’s syndrome; this requires high qualification of the clinicist and takes a lot of time. The advantage of classic homeopathy is a high probability of recovery, first of all from chronic diseases. The goal is rehabilitation of patients

Social homeopathy is the term describing the method of simplified (in comparison with the method of classic) homeopathy, which is accepted in some countries. Somewhere in the literature one can find another term for designating the method - a method for prescription of homeopathic preparations ‘on the experienced indications”. Selection of the medication is performed on the similarity principle, but for analysis of the clinical case, not all the symptoms expressed in patient are used but only some local symptoms hurting the patient worse. From the viewpoint of the founders of the homeopathy doctrine this procedure is prescription of a preparation by “a partial similarity” and leads to suppression of some symptoms for a certain time and, therefore to temporary improvement of life quality of the patient. The drawback of this method is common for everyone applying this procedure; it is the impossibility of steady and complete patient’s recovery due to the fact that sooner or later the suppressed symptoms would develop again and sometimes in a more severe form. But there exist some advantages of this concept; they are the possibility to train specialists of such qualification, prompt removal of symptoms disturbing the patient worse, and the fact that this method is inexpensive and available, which gave the method its name. The purpose of the method is to relief patients with the minimum damage for his organism.

Homeopathy of combined preparations is even more simplified variety of homeopathy. Essentially, application of the combined homeopathic medical preparations is a transient form between allopathy and homeopathy. These preparations are produced according to the rules of homeopathic medicine, that is, using dynamization technology but they are prescribed according to the rules of allopathic medicine, that is, according to nosologic diagnosis or according to certain syndromes. The drawback of this method is the fact that treatment is not specific; it is directed to removal of a certain symptom or syndrome and not to recovery of patient’s health. The advantages of the method is the fact that application of the method does not require special homeopathic training, thus, these preparations are prescribed according to clinical diagnosis, and, as a rule, they may be used as self-treatment domiciliary. The aim is developing of ‘selective preparations’ for clinicists and patients. Application of homeopathic medications in combined medicamentous therapy of acute and chronic diseases increases efficacy of treatment and its tolerability.