Proof that homeopathy works for hayfever

Homeopath Sue Leach specialises in the treatment of hay fever here at The Hub. She aims not just to reduce your symptoms, but to stop you suffering from your hayfever altogether.

Hayfever is one of the best-researched areas that proves homeopathy works. A study published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet in 1986, by Dr David Reilly, a professor and homeopath at the University of Glasgow, showed that homeopathically prepared doses of 12 common flowers were very effective in reducing hayfever symptoms when compared with patients given a placebo. Patients who took the placebo had six times more symptoms than those given the homeopathic medicine.

In a further randomised, clinically controlled study published in the British Medical Journal (Taylor, 2000) patients at four GP practices were given either doses of the pollen to which they were allergic or a placebo. Those taking the homeopathic pollen had significantly better airflow through their noses.

Seven studies comparing the effectiveness of the hayfever remedy galphimia with a placebo consistently found the homeopathic medicine to be effective (Wiesenauer, 1985). And when researchers tested a homeopathic combination (galphima, luffa operculata, histamine and sulphur) and compared it with cromolyn sodium antihistamine spray (NasalCrom), the researchers found these two treatments were equally effective (Weiser, 1999).

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