Addictions, _The Homeopathic Treatment of... Cases in homeopathy

by Frans Kusse Response on Homeopathic treatment POSITIVE The responses of clients, responsible therapists and the homeopathic physician to a questionnaire were unanimous: 70% of the clients respond positive to homeopathic treatment. They feel emotionally and physically better and are more capable to overcome their addiction. The results in the long run are good, but it needs more study to distinguish the effects of homeopathy from the other therapies given. Introduction: Since seven years (may 1998) homeopathy has been part of the treatment in 'De Brijder' , a regular clinic for addiction in the province of 'Noord-Holland'. Amsterdam belongs to the province, but has its own clinic (Jellinek). Both clinics are closely related and cooperate in scientific research. 'De Brijder' has many offices all over the province. The clinic itself is located in Alkmaar, 40 kilometers north-west of Amsterdam and contains a detox unit, a unit for outpatients (part-time) and a unit for inpatients. Homeopathy was introduced as a possibility for clients of the clinic who had some stability in their private life and social environment and insight in their underlying problems. Especially the therapists of the outpatient unit were much in favor of holistic approaches and in fact, they invited me to work in the clinic. Experiment: In the beginning, homeopathy in the clinic was marked as experimental. During the first half year I saw 13 new clients. Most of them were clients of the outpatients unit.At the end of this period all clients, the responsible therapists and the homeopathic doctor received a questionnaire to judge the effect of homeopathy, apart from the other therapies. The possible answers were: - bad - insufficient - doubt - sufficient - good - excellent The answers were unanimous: 70% of the clients respond positively to homeopathic treatment, although most of the clients had no knowledge about homeopathy and some were very skeptical. Case: One of the 'excellent' cases was spectacular. For a man who suffered from obsessive, fearful thoughts I prescribed one dose of Lithium metallicum 30K. In the first week his symptoms got worse, but after that week the thoughts, the main reason to use drugs, were gone and did not appear again! We decided to continue the experiment for another half year. When the results at the end of this period were the same - 7 out of 10 scored 'good', the staff of the clinic decided to accept homeopathy as a possible treatment for the clients of 'De Brijder' . 159 clients have been treated with homeopathy since 1998 and the results were in the same order, about 70% reacted well. They were in a much better emotional and physical state and were clean when they left the clinic.