This question is not often asked of the specialist’s Homeopathy Pierre Fontaine But since homeopathy as a phenomenon takes its place in the world and new york is no exception in this regard, it would be advisable to clarify its position on this issue.
Let’s start, perhaps, from afar, namely, with numbers that reflect the general picture of world medicine and are necessary to understand the main trends of modern civilization in this area.
So homeopathy. The global market for homeopathy and alternative medicine in 2018 was about US $ 69 billion, and by 2023 it should reach over the US $ 199 billion. Sales of alternative medicines are growing by 19% annually
Market volume
Vaccines. The vaccine market is now valued at $ 36.5 billion and is set to surpass the $ 50 billion mark in 2023. It is growing at a rate of 6.7%. In addition, the market for dietary supplements last year was almost $ 124 billion, and in 2023 it will be over $ 205 billion. The annual growth rate (CAGR) is 9.6%. The dietary supplements market is almost four times larger than the vaccine market
At the same time, the total global pharmaceutical market is estimated at $ 934.8 billion, its growth in the coming years will be 5.8% and by 2025 it will reach $ 1.5 trillion. …
The given data are huge and impressive figures that demonstrate that the share of homeopathy in the total “cauldron” occupies an insignificant place, but it is stable and even tends to grow steadily. In other words, this means that there are some people in the world who believe in homeopathy and are its admirers and convinced followers.
Now let’s look at the definition of the term “homeopathy”. Wikipedia gives it a fairly extensive description, but here we will limit ourselves to part of it.
“Homeopathy (from the Greek ὅμοιος -“ like ”and πάθος -“ disease ”) is a type of alternative medicine. In homeopathy, highly diluted preparations are used, the active substance of which supposedly causes symptoms in healthy people, similar to those of the patient’s illness. Homeopaths oppose the concept of treatment according to the principle “like cures like” (lat. Similia similibus curantur) to the principles of rational pharmacotherapy ”.
Now let’s move on to the essence of the question in the title.
Firstly (and we never tire of repeating this), there are no magic pills for autism in either traditional or alternative medicine. Autism is not a disease, but a disorder, which means that it is not cured, but corrected. Even if you are recommended the world’s best homeopath, who guarantees you a cure for autism with some super-expensive homeopathic remedy, you are misled, and you can either take your interlocutor’s word for it or subject his promises to reasonable doubts. The choice is yours and yours alone.
Research shows that parents most often turn to homeopathy for autism as a lifeline, believing that the main cause of autism is the vaccination of children in order to immunize them. Some parents directly blame the MMR vaccine, whose children, after receiving this vaccine, experienced short-term, autistic-like deterioration: fever, temporary hearing loss, inflammation of the intestines.
This approach is quite common among parents of children with autism, and this is understandable, but it should always be remembered that such conclusions are not scientifically supported. This position is very close to convinced consumers of homeopathy, who believe that official medicine “does not heal, but cripples”, and homeopathy solves the problem in a complex for the whole organism and, moreover, ecologically, without chemistry, which in many cases, it must be admitted, corresponds to reality. Apparently, this is the main prerequisite for the existence of the “autism-homeopathy” link.
There are several other factors that make the autism-homeopathy link attractive to consumers and stem from the very philosophy and nature of homeopathy as alternative medicine.
Homeopaths love people who are different in some way, whose symptoms are strange, unique, and unusual. Quite often, we hear that homeopaths treating children with autism focus on identifying how the child is different from other children. Symptoms such as tiptoeing, clapping hands, and obsession with trains may seem strange and not inherent in many children, but they are known to be common in children with autism. And although, of course, we always welcome the identification of individual differences in a child, this applies not only to homeopathy, and even more so does not mean that representatives of homeopathy are unique in this context. All specialists should have an individual approach to each child with autism (in fact, as well as to each standard-type individual).
Autism treatment with homeopathy
Homeopaths call another of their advantages “the complexity of the approach.” A traditional doctor or even a holist doctor, as well as doctors of some non-traditional therapies, will usually solve each problem separately. A homeopathic remedy, according to homeopaths, can relate to all of these symptoms. Of course, parents have a choice, and they can add something else, such as casein and gluten-free diet, dietary supplements, keep the child busy, try sensory integration treatments, and other treatments that may be beneficial.
Finally, it is also important that homeopathic remedies are very tasty in themselves and children take them with pleasure.
Thus, we can conclude that homeopathy has the right to be present in the lives of people with autism, but, as in other cases, it is an independent choice of responsible parents and certainly not a panacea for either autism or other problems of any person.
In general, homeopathic specialists can be said to be doing a good deed, provided that these specialists are good and experienced.
But the complexity, versatility, and regularity of actions, we repeat, is the most effective means for correcting autism. With or without homeopathy.
