This study found that children receiving homeopathy in addition to conventional care improved more than those who received conventional treatment alone. The homeopathic group was also shown to continue to improve for at least a year after treatment.

Initial analysis of the results of this study suggest that patients receiving homeopathy in addition to conventional care improved more than those receiving conventional care alone. 

Despite the findings of statistically significant positive results in well-controlled studies, some critics of homeopathic medicine assert that positive findings are due to a placebo effect.  The following study demonstrates that effects of homeopathic medicines differ from the effects of placebos. 

Prejudice exists within the medical profession towards non-conventional medicines such as homeopathy. This study explores the extent to which such bias exists and is justified. 

Researchers at the University of Glasgow in the UK, have found that 80% patients who received very small, “homeopathic”, doses of whatever substance they were most allergic to had significant relief of symptoms within the first week of treatment, compared to 38% of patients who received placebo.

Homeopathy is used by tens of thousands of physicians and over 500 million people worldwide, making it one of the most popular forms of integrated medicine. High quality surveys of use of homeopathy have been conducted in 11 countries. This article reviews this research into the efficacy of homeopathy.