Cure PSP with homeopathy

[Vmal]

Does homeopathy have any cure for PSP? I am desperately needing this for my lovely Dad.

[Hidden]

No, there is no treatment to cure PSP. The best thing to do is exercise to try and keep mobility for as long as possible.

[Vmal in reply to Hidden]

I wonder why, symptoms of the disease are quite clear.. why there is no medication. After all homeopathy is a symptomatic treatment..

[Hidden in reply to Vmal]

The brain is dying because the Tau protein is folding the wrong way when creating new brain tissue. There’s no pill for that.

[Vmal in reply to Hidden]

Sad

[Kevin_1]

Hi Vmal

Homeopathy was reviewed in a major study in Europe a few years back and it was found to be no more efficacious than a placebo.

FWIW Clinical research now has some extraordinarily complex tools which enables researchers to take many different studies and to combine the results in a meaningful way. This form of study is increasingly being used and they have been found them to be extremely effective. A lot of computing and complex maths is involved.

It was just such a study that was done on Homeopathy. It involved many hundreds of studies. The results had a very high degree of certainty.

The Royal Homeopathy Hospital in London, World class lead in the field, has now renamed itself the Royal Hospital for Integrated Medicine and if they have walked away from it... Well...

Best to you

Kevin

[Ettavb in reply to Kevin_1]

Ah, now you’re talking my former career! Secondary analysis and data have actually been around awhile (and mostly used for sociological research, though that is changing now that we have better data repository protocols) - well, at least as long as scientists have been able (and perhaps more importantly “willing”) to share data.

I have actually worked with data in a secondary way, and I was involved with a team in the US tasked with developing repository data systems for research in the long-tail (technological advances are changing with a velocity that it makes storage (and more importantly) retrieval complicated).

The data that I used in secondary analysis became problematic when I followed a “tool” (a type of vetted survey) back to the developer, only to find that the instructions for scoring the survey had been misinterpreted for nearly a decade - thus putting thousands of studies that used this tool, basically in the trash (unless the original data collection still existed and the research study could be re-analyzed).

I also briefly worked for a web metric collecting marketing firm that ensured customers that we used scientific methods to advise them of how to make improvements to their web sites. The science was so sketchy, it was directional at best - and flat out wrong at the worst! (I delved into a banking website project only to find that we had collected data from only one of the lesser known web browsers because the bank’s website didn’t load on more commonly used web browsers, thus preventing us from data that reflected the real population. In real terms, we (as in the company I briefly worked for), had been telling the bank everything was fine... when in fact it was so wrong, that the majority of internet users weren’t even able to access their site!)

I probably should’ve taken this “data geekdom” factoid about myself offline, but I have a lot of thoughts on this as well as research design (which was the focus of my graduate studies). I’m responding to Vmal separately.

[Kevin_1 in reply to Ettavb]

Good for you!

But, please don't me it's simple chuckles.

I think I see the thrill of it all.

Smiling

Take care

Kevin

[Ettavb]

My mother, a long time believer in alternative therapies, tried many, many non-traditional treatments for her condition (CBD), (the most expensive being hyperbaric chamber therapy). Nothing worked. The only thing (from an anecdotal perspective) is that she has lived a very long time with her condition; frequently doctors have stated that she is one of the healthiest “sick” persons they’ve ever met. We have reached the point where mom has now voiced doubt on her own intense focus on maintaining her health as she has been bed-ridden (and miserable) for the past 3 years.

I wish I could provide you more hope with a homeopathic protocol (I’ve used homeopathy protocols for other conditions with some success), but I haven’t come across anything that mulch helps with this condition (traditional or alternative). I wish my mom had spent more time preparing for living with her condition (re-modeling her living environment to have stayed home longer, etc.) than trying to find a cure.