Complementary Alternative Cardiovascular Medicine

Chapter 14 / Homeopathy and CVD 215
14 Homeopathy
and Cardiovascular Disease
Woodson C. Merrell, MD
and Amy Rothenberg, ND, DHANP
CONTENTS
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
PART 1. AN EVIDENCE-BASED REVIEW OF HOMEOPATHY
AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
PART 2. THE PRACTICE OF HOMEOPATHY
FOR CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE
EDITORS’ CONCLUSION
RESOURCES
REFERENCES
EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION
Homeopathic medicine represents a unique challenge to traditional
medicine, because the cognitive framework does not withstand Western
medicine’s scientific analysis. However, the homeopathic pharmacy is
free of adverse effects, because its dilution is extraordinary by Western
medicine standards and there are substantial allegorical reports of clinical
success. To provide the readers with an understanding of how a
homeopathic doctor approaches the patient and determines the selection
of a homeopathic pharmaceutical (the experience your patient will have)
and to provide a review and critique of the evidence for the clinical
efficacy of homeopathy, this chapter is divided into two parts.
Dr. Amy Rothenberg, a practicing homeopathic physician, describes
the rational and the thought process that is inherent in the selection of
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