We are delighted to announce the following illustrious speakers for our 3rd HRI International Homeopathy Research Conference who will be delivering keynote presentations on their specialties – basic research, clinical research and provings: Dr Stephan Baumgartner Senior Research Scientist, Institute of Integrative Medicine, University of Witten-Herdecke, Germany Prof Michael Frass Professor, Department of Medicine, Medical […]

Track 21 of the congress programme on Saturday 11 June 2016 covers the topic of Integrative Medicine Research (IMR). Hear from Klaus von Ammon, Peter Fisher, Stephan Baumgartner and Torkel Falkenberg.

Many laboratory studies have shown ultra-high dilution homeopathic medicines having biological effects. Here we present some of the highest quality and most replicated experiments: Basophil degranulation experiment 28 scientific papers have been published on this topic, 23 of which reported positive results. 11 publications were judged to be of high quality, of which 8 reported positive […]

Dr Gustavo Bracho, Cuba – homeopathy for Leptospirosis & other epidemics David Eyles, UK – homeopathy to reduce distress in lambs Prof Jürgen Pannek, Switz. – homeopathy for urinary infections Dr Stephan Baumgartner, Switz. – testing homeopathic medicines on plants Alastair Gray, Australia – modern ‘provings’ testing new homeopathic medicines

Dr Stephan Baumgartner, University of Bern, Switzerland

Hear from the experts At the biennial HRI conferences we gather together some of the biggest names in homeopathy research from around the world, in a forum of intensive collaboration. As well as filming all presentations, we take these rare opportunities to interview these researchers, giving us deeper insight into the fascinating work they are doing and the […]

Roberts ER, Baumgartner S, Mathie RT, Relton C, Thompson E, Tournier A. Full text

Laboratory experiments have demonstrated that homeopathic medicines are not just sugar pills Critics of homeopathy point to the fact that homeopathic medicines are so highly diluted that there is ‘nothing in them’. This comes from the fact that the liquids used to make some homeopathic medicines are diluted beyond the threshold known as Avogadros number […]

A Health Technology Assessment report1 was commissioned by the Swiss health authorities to inform decision-making on the further inclusion of homoeopathy in the list of services covered by statutory health insurance. According to the authors, their report “confirms homoeopathy as a valuable addition to the conventional medical landscape – a status it has been holding for a […]

Endler PC, Thieves K, Reich C, Matthiessen P, Bonamin L, Scherr C, Baumgartner S Homeopathy, 2010; 99: 25-36 Synopsis | Abstract