The databases of the Carstens Foundation
The Carstens Foundation promotes research in complementary medicine / naturopathy, for many years also with a focus on homeopathy. It supports clinical studies, basic research and the next generation of scientists by awarding scholarships. The founders of the foundation are the then Federal President Karl Carstens (1914-1992) and his wife Veronica Carstens. Research databases were a major operational project of the Carstens Foundation for many years. This resulted in 3 databases on experimental and clinical studies in homeopathy. After a long period of commitment, these have not been updated as usual since around 2018. They are still accessible (after registration), but are no longer up to date.
- CORE-Hom: 1,383 clinical studies on homeopathy. https://www.hri-research.org/de/informationsquellen/forschungsdatenbanken/core-hom/
- HomBRex: 2,418 experiments on homeopathic basic research.https://www.carstens-stiftung.de/datenbanken-zur-integrativen-medizin.html#/hombrex/
- HomVetCR: 476 studies on homeopathy in veterinary medicine. https://www.carstens-stiftung.de/datenbanken-zur-integrativen-medizin.html#/homvet/
Homeopathic Intervention Studies (HOMIS) in Human Diseases
In 2022, a working group of 10 researchers (Gaertner et al., 2022) compiled a literature review of clinical research on homeopathy. As part of this work, a database was set up at the Institute for Complementary and Integrative Medicine (IKIM) at the University of Bern (CH) (link to database).
Gaertner, K., Loef, M., Frass, M., Mittal, R., Khurana, A., Manchanda, R., Von Ammon, K., Frei-Erb, M., Walach, H. & Baumgartner, S. (2022). Bibliography of Homeopathic Intervention Studies (HOMIS) in Human Diseases. Journal Of Integrative And Complementary Medicine, 29(1), 14–21. https://doi.org/10.1089/jicm.2022.0523
General medical research database
In addition, numerous articles and papers on homeopathy research can be found in various medical research databases:
- PubMed - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed - U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health (NIH) with approx. 5,000 articles.
- Trip medical database - http://www.tripdatabase.com/ - Database with clinical evidence for physicians, about 1400 papers.
- CamQuest - https://www.cam-quest.org/en - State of research in various CAM procedures - Carstens Foundation website with research tools.
- Collection of links to other medical databases (Charité) - https://bibliothek.charite.de/en/find_literature/databases
Other scientific databases
The Homeopathy Research Institute (HRI) is committed to promoting high quality research in homeopathy at an international level. The HRI provides an overview of other scientific databases on homeopathy research on its website: https://www.hri-research.org/resources/research-databases/