In the course of the development of evidence-based medicine (EBM), the need for research into homeopathy quickly became apparent. In the period since the mid-1990s, numerous research results have been published on clinical indications analysing the effects of homeopathic therapy. Remarkably, several meta-analyses and reviews have been carried out (1997-2024), which clearly evaluate all the material.
A special aspect is taken by care research, which has been conducted in several European countries and the United Kingdom, and presented as large-scale research reports and (Health Technology Assessment (HTA) reports. There are also structured and qualified studies on veterinary medicine.
In addition to the overview of existing esearch databases, this section provides a clear summary of the high-quality studies as well as all meta-analyses and reviews.
The aim here is to reflect the qualitative state of research rather than to provide a comprehensive overview of all available works found in databases. The reason for this approach lies in the insufficient communication between researchers and practitioners working in homeopathy, as well as in the diversity of homeopathic methodology itself, which has led to a challenging research situation and, in some cases, results that are difficult to analyse statistically.
The purpose of this review is to qualitatively evaluate and further develop research on homeopathy on the basis of the existing research work in order to be able to better consolidate and analyse future research with specific questions than has already been done.
In addition, all integrated papers with their cited abstracts are stored in a separate online archive with a search function.