Homeopathy

Introduction : Clinical Research has played a major role in the development of medicine. It is more in Homeopathy where clinical validity of the data collected through drug provings on healthy human beings needs to be established. Clinical studies also facilitate assessment of therapeutic utility of drug substances in specific disease conditions for their optimum utilisation by the profession.

It also helps in the elucidation of fundamental principles and their application in the treatment of various diseases. The Council has, therefore, laid emphasis on clinical research and has remained an important activity of the Council ever since its inception.The Council has taken up clinical evaluation of certain diseases that are common as well as chronic ailments and also in certain diseases of interest from national health point of view viz. Filaria, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, Diabetes, etc.

Total forty one(41) projects, out of which (27) under disease-related, (14) under drug-related Clinical research are under progress at six (6) research Institutes, twelve (12) clinical research units and one clinical research unit in tribal area.

Aims and Objectives
Clinical research in Homeopathy has a number of objectives such as,

• Clinical confirmation of drug-pathogenesis,
  
• Elicitation of new clinical symptoms
  
• Evaluation of clinical drug pictures,
  
• Classification of various complexions, temperaments and constitutions, and
  
• To evaluate action of Homeopathic drugs on any given pathological conditions etc.
  

Homeopathy & Naturopathy