This article reviews the current state of knowledge and promising new directions concerning
the psychology of pandemics. Pandemics are disease outbreaks that spread globally …

Our aims were to provide updated information on placebo/nocebo effect and the potential
use of placebo in clinical practice. This article can only provide a rough overview on the …

Homoeopathy is commonly recognised as pseudoscience. However, there is, to date, no
systematic discussion that seeks to establish this view. In this paper, we try to fill this gap. We …

The prescription of homeopathic remedies at the expense of the statutory health insurance
(SHI) system in Germany has been criticized for years due to a lack of evidence. Now, on the …

Despite the controversy about its efficacy, homeopathy is considered a medical practice
alternative to the conventional medical model. Prevalence of homeopathy use varies greatly …

The usual homeopathic remedy,“globules,” does not contain any pharmacologically active
ingredient. However, many patients and practitioners report beneficial effects of …

The emerging concept of planetary health—defined as the interdependent vitality of all
natural and anthropogenic ecosystems (social, political, and otherwise)—emphasizes that …

Complementary and integrative medicine (CIM) is increasingly being integrated into
preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases to enhance patient outcomes …

Definition Homeopathy is a popular, although highly debated, medicinal practice based on
the administration of remedies in which active substances are so diluted that no detectable …

Objective While homeopathic remedies are often used to treat non-specific complaints such
as headaches, empirical evidence suggests their treatment effect is due to the placebo …