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Homeopathic name Substance Common name Aconite [1] Aconitum napellus: Monkshood, monk's blood, fuzi, wolf's bane Aesculus hippocastanum [1] Aesculus hippocastanum: Horse-chestnut Allium cepa [1] Onion: Aloeaceae [2] Aloe succotrina: Aloe: Arnica [3] Arnica montana: Leopard's bane Baptisia [1] Baptisia tinctoria: Wild indigo, horseflyweed ...
A popular homeopathic treatment for the flu is a 200C dilution of duck liver, marketed under the name Oscillococcinum. As there are only about 10 80 atoms in the entire observable universe, a dilution of one molecule in the observable universe would be about 40C.
[76] [122] [152] [153] Critics of homeopathy have cited individual cases of patients of homeopathy failing to receive proper treatment for diseases that could have been easily diagnosed and managed with conventional medicine and who have died as a result, [154] [155] and the "marketing practice" of criticizing and downplaying the effectiveness ...
The lengthy records of self-experimentation by homeopaths have occasionally proven useful in the development of modern drugs: For example, evidence that nitroglycerin might be useful as a treatment for angina was discovered by looking through homeopathic provings, though homeopaths themselves never used it for that purpose at that time. [124]
Cystectomy is a medical term for surgical removal of all or part of the urinary bladder. It may also be rarely used to refer to the removal of a cyst. [1] The most common condition warranting removal of the urinary bladder is bladder cancer. [2] Two main types of cystectomies can be performed.
Nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma is rapidly being modified to allow partial removal of the kidney. Nephrectomy is also performed for the purpose of living donor kidney transplantation. [1] A nephroureterectomy is the removal of a kidney and the entire ureter and a small cuff of the bladder for urothelial cancer of the kidney or ureter. [9]
Treatment of hydronephrosis focuses on the removal of the obstruction and drainage of the urine that has accumulated behind the obstruction. Therefore, the specific treatment depends upon where the obstruction lies. [14] Acute obstruction of the upper urinary tract is usually treated by the insertion of a nephrostomy tube.
In 2017, homeopathic remedies accounted for 2.74% of sold units in the pharmaceutical sector (0.90% of business volume); 0.14% of prescriptions covered by public health insurance were for homeopathic remedies. [18] A 2008 telephone survey of German adults found that 11.5% had used homeopathy. [19]