Brief Homeopathic Pathogenetic Experimentation A Unique Educational Tool in Brazil英文文献资料.docVIP

Advance Access Publication 4 October 2007 eCAM 2009;6(3)407–414 doi:10.1093/ecam/nem128 Review for Education Section Brief Homeopathic Pathogenetic Experimentation: A Unique Educational Tool in Brazil Marcus Zulian Teixeira Department of Clinical Medicine, School of Medicine of the University of Sa?o Paulo, Sa?o Paulo, Brazil In homeopathy, many difficulties are encountered in understanding theoretical presuppositions because they represent different paradigms from those of hegemonic science. In our medical school, we developed a brief homeopathic pathogenetic experimentation course to be added as curricularcontentandadidacticmethodinhomeopathicdisciplinestoaddpracticalexperience to the theoretical approach of homeopathic presuppositions. In accordance with the premises laid out by Hahnemann, the father of homeopathy, brief pathogenetic experimentation was offered on a voluntary basis for students who were free of chronic diseases and who had not regularly used medication in the last 3 months. The clinical test, either crossed or sequential (randomized and blind), was used as a study model. Single weekly doses of a homeopathic medicine of30cHorplaceboweretakenbyparticipantsduring4weeksafterwhichcrossover of the experimented substances took place for another 4 weeks. Polycrest medicines were used so that symptoms developed by the participants could be compared to those described in Homeopathic Materia Medica. Thirty-three of the 50 students who studied homeopathy as an electivedisciplineoverthelast4yearsattheSchoolofMedicineoftheUniversityofSa?oPaulo (FMUSP) participated. Participants described symptoms according to specific methodology including many comments with peculiar characteristics and notable idiosyncrasies. All these students endorsed the course because it contributed to their understanding of how dynamized substances produced symptoms in healthy participants as well as the cure of symptoms according to the casual similitude principle. Brief homeopathic