Homeopathy 2019; 108(03): 158-168
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1677495
Review Article
The Faculty of Homeopathy

Effects of Ultra-Low-Dose Aspirin in Thrombosis and Haemorrhage

Francisco Xavier Eizayaga
1   Departamento de Homeopatía, Universidad Maimónides, Buenos Aires, Argentina
,
Philippe Belon
2   Centre de Recherche et de Documentation Thérapeutique, Lyon, France
,
Vanessa Desplat
3   Laboratoire d'Hématologie, UFR des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
,
Omar Aguejouf
3   Laboratoire d'Hématologie, UFR des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
,
Christian Doutremepuich
3   Laboratoire d'Hématologie, UFR des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
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Publication History

20 August 2018

31 October 2018

Publication Date:
20 April 2019 (online)

Abstract

Background Aspirin is the oldest and possibly the most widely used pharmacologically active substance still used in allopathic medicine. Its effect on fever and inflammation has paved the way to its anti-thrombotic effect. Dilutions of aspirin have been tested for many years in the University of Bordeaux, in humans as well as in animal models.

Methods This article is a review of the totality of articles published by the Laboratory of Hematology of the Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Bordeaux, reporting different doses and dilutions of aspirin, different kinds of inhibitors, transgenic mice and animal models of disease such as portal hypertension and cirrhosis.

Results Homeopathic dilutions of aspirin, notably 15 cH, have shown a pro-thrombotic effect in humans and in in-vivo animal studies. Longitudinal studies in rats have also shown an initial anti-thrombotic effect followed by a pro-thrombotic effect of aspirin several days after a single high-dose administration. This pro-thrombotic effect seems to act by inhibiting the cyclooxygenase (COX)-2 pathway in studies performed with COX selective inhibitors and in knock-out mice without COX-1 or COX-2. This effect may explain the thrombo-embolic complications described after aspirin withdrawal for the purposes of surgery or after non-compliance with anti-platelet therapy, and it may be beneficial in normalising primary haemostasis and decreasing haemorrhage in animal models of portal hypertension and cirrhosis.

Conclusions Aspirin 15 cH acts through the inhibition of the COX-2 pathway producing a clear pro-thrombotic effect. Further studies should clarify if the pro-thrombotic effect of aspirin withdrawal and the effect of aspirin 15 cH are related, as secondary effects of the same drug. Clarifying this last outcome may be of great significance to public health.

Highlights

• ASA 15 cH has a strong pro-thrombotic effect, opposite to that of low-dose aspirin used to prevent ischaemic accidents.


• Prior inhibition or the absence of COX-2 blunts the pro-thrombotic effect.


• The evidence examined in this article may contribute to clarifying the mechanism of effect of homeopathic dilutions.


• It may also help in understanding the complications observed after withdrawal of the larger doses of aspirin used to treat thrombo-embolic events.


 
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