Homeopathy 2008; 97(04): 206-213
DOI: 10.1016/j.homp.2008.08.002
Clinical
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Homeopathic practice in Intensive Care Units: objective semiology, symptom selection and a series of sepsis cases

M.Z. Teixeira
1   Department of Clinical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
,
S.M. Leal
,
V.M.F.A. Ceschin
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Received04 December 2007
revised15 June 2008

accepted06 August 2008

Publication Date:
16 December 2017 (online)

Abstract: Homeopathy has been used for more than two hundred years to treat chronic disease using various approaches in a wide range of diseases. However, for acute disease and critical illness, application has been limited by inadequate training of homeopathic physicians and the small number of pertinent clinical studies. In view of the difficulty of practising homeopathy in Intensive Care Units (ICU), a protocol was developed to facilitate description of objective homeopathic symptoms with a ranking of symptoms appropriate for these situations (Protocol for Objective Homeopathic Semiology). Examples of favorable results with individualized homeopathic treatments for a series of cases of Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome (sepsis) are described.