Homeopathic pathogenetic trial (proving) protocol

Teixeira MZ. Protocolo de experimentação patogenética homeopática em humanos. São Paulo: Marcus Zulian Teixeira, 2013, 64 páginas. (e-Book em pdf)

Disponível em: Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS) / LILACS - HomeoIndex

Teixeira MZ. Protocolo de experimentação patogenética homeopática em humanos. Revista de Medicina (São Paulo) 2013; 92(4): 242-263.

Disponível em: http://www.revistas.usp.br/revistadc/article/view/80006

 Book description

Homeopathic pathogenetic trial (HPT) or experimentation is the clinical and pharmacological research method used by homeopathy to get to know the pathogenetic manifestations (signs and symptoms) that the substances arouse in humans, enabling the application of the principle of therapeutic similitude. Indispensable tool in care, research and teaching of homeopathy, presents various application models throughout these two centuries of homeopathic practice by which thousands of substances have been tested in healthy human individuals and had their symptomatic manifestations described in the Homeopathic Materia Medica. Despite its importance in the development of homeopathic episteme, the Brazilian Homeopathy lacks, at present, of pathogenetic research protocols consistent with the requirements of modern scientific methodology, which would make the proving more reliable and would facilitate its approval before the research ethics committees of the institutions who wish to run them. This protocol of homeopathic pathogenetic trial was designed in order to meet this demand, following the steps and requirements necessary for the production of a clinical research project on human, in order to make available a systematic that allows the standardization of the procedure and its application in several instances that propose to carry out pathogenetic homeopathic research. The possibility of publication of this protocol on an indexed, open-access journal, allowing wide dissemination of a topic essential to the understanding and progress of homeopathy, facilitates the clarification of scientific rationality to the homeopathic medical class and the dissemination of the proposal before the Brazilian homeopathic movement.