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Homeopatia nas doenças epidêmicas: conceitos, evidências e propostas / Homeopathy in epidemics diseases: concepts, evidence and proposals
Teixeira, Marcus Zulian.
Affiliation
  • Teixeira, Marcus Zulian; s.af
Rev. homeopatia (São Paulo) ; 73(1/2): 36-56, 2010. tab
Article in Portuguese | HomeoIndex Homeopathy | ID: hom-10317
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RESUMO
Empregando o princípio da similitude curativa, a homeopatia visa estimular o organismo a reagir contra os seus próprios distúrbios. No entanto, para que o medicamento homeopático desperte uma reação homeostática efetiva, ele precisa ser individualizado, ou seja, ser escolhido pela semelhança com o conjunto de sintomas característicos do binômio doente-doença. Dessa forma, buscando diminuir as suscetibilidades individuais que predispõe ao adoecer, o medicamento homeopático atua curativa e preventivamente em muitas doenças humanas. Por outro lado, possui indicação específica no tratamento e na prevenção das doenças epidêmicas, desde que escolhido individualmente segundo o conjunto de sintomas peculiares à epidemia (denominado “gênio epidêmico”), com exemplos históricos descritos na literatura. Nessa atualização, iremos discorrer sobre as premissas epistemológicas que fazem da homeopatia hahnemanniana uma prática médica preventiva, as evidências científicas que endossam sua aplicação clínica e os requisitos mínimos para utilizá-la terapêutica e preventivamente nas doenças epidêmicas.(AU)
ABSTRACT
By applying the principle of therapeutic similitude, homeopathy seeks to stimulate the organism to react against its own disturbs. For homeopathic medicines to awaken effective homeostasis responses they must be individualized, this means that they must be chosen according to their similarity to the set of characteristic symptoms of the patients. In this way, by aiming at decreasing the individual susceptibility predisposing to disease, homeopathic medicines have healing and preventive effects in many human illnesses. On the other hand, homeopathic medicines may have specific indications in the treatment and prevention of epidemic diseases provided they are also chosen according to the particular set of peculiar symptoms to a given epidemic, viz the so-called “epidemic genius”, as historical examples show. This update paper discusses the epistemological foundations of Hahnemann‟s homeopathy as a preventive medical approach, the scientific evidences supporting its clinical application and the minimum requirements to employ it both therapeutically and preventively in epidemics.(AU)
Subject(s)
Full text: Available Collection: Tematic databases Health context: Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas Health problem: Goal 10: Communicable diseases Database: HomeoIndex Homeopathy Main subject: Collective Diseases / Epidemic Genius / Disease Prevention / Health Promotion / Homeopathy Language: Portuguese Journal: Rev. homeopatia (São Paulo) Year: 2010 Document type: Article
Full text: Available Collection: Tematic databases Health context: Sustainable Health Agenda for the Americas Health problem: Goal 10: Communicable diseases Database: HomeoIndex Homeopathy Main subject: Collective Diseases / Epidemic Genius / Disease Prevention / Health Promotion / Homeopathy Language: Portuguese Journal: Rev. homeopatia (São Paulo) Year: 2010 Document type: Article
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