For the first time in memory, a mainstream cancer journal has published an article favorable to homeopathy. This randomized controlled trial concerned the homeopathic medication Traumeel S. The patients all were children receiving high-dose chemotherapy with bone marrow transplantation. Of 30 patients, 15 were given placebo (sugar pill), while 15 were treated with Traumeel S. Five patients (33%) in the Traumeel S treatment group did not develop stomatitis (inflammation of the soft tissues of the mouth, resulting in mouth sores) at all compared with only one such patient (7%) in the placebo group.
Furthermore, stomatitis worsened in 93% of the control patients but in only 47% of the treatment group...a statistically significant difference. The Israeli authors concluded that Traumeel S "may reduce significantly, the severity and duration of chemotherapy-induced stomatitis in children undergoing bone marrow transplantation."
I don't know which is more significant: the fact that an effective medication has finally been found for stomatitis...or that such a study should appear in Cancer, a journal of the American Cancer Society {2001;92:684-90}. It will be interesting to see how the inveterate opponents of homeopathy respond to this development.
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