Homeopathy: Gold Standard in Influenza Treatment

Official journals were kept at both conventional and the many homeopathic hospitals in the USA during the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918.

These official records reveal that while the mortality rate of people treated with traditional medicine and drugs was 30 percent, those treated by homeopathic physicians had a mortality rate of only 1.05 percent.

Of the fifteen hundred cases reported at the Homeopathic Medical Society of the District of Columbia there were only fifteen deaths. Recoveries in the National Homeopathic Hospital were 100%.

In Ohio, of 1,000 cases of influenza, Dr. T. A. McCann, MD, Dayton, Ohio reported NO DEATHS. According to Dr. Frank Wieland, MD, in Chicago, "(With) 8,000 workers we had only one death. Gelsemium was practically the only remedy used. We used no aspirin and no vaccines."

Ohio reported that 24,000 cases of flu treated allopathically had a mortality rate of 28.2% while 26,000 cases of flu treated homeopathically had a mortality rate of 1.05% .

In Connecticut, 6,602 cases were reported, with 55 deaths, less than 1%. Dr. Roberts, a physician on a troop ship during WWI, had 81 cases of flu on the way over to Europe. He reported, "All recovered and were landed. Every man received homeopathic treatment."

A report to the American Institute of Homeopathy in 1921 documented the dramatic success of homeopathy in the worst flu pandemic in history. The death rate of 24,000 flu cases under conventional medical care in that study was 28.2 percent, while the death rate of 26,000 cases treated with homeopathy was a nearly miraculous 1.05 percent.

Similarly, many homeopathic physicians each reported treating thousands of patients with very few deaths.

According to these records, based on very large samples, homeopathy has a spectacular success rate in flu epidemics.

Why therefore are the BMA and the MHRA attacking a purveyor of such reportedly powerful medicine?

Why are we not handing out Gelsemium and other homeopathic remedies instead of Tamiflu, whose side effects are now all in the news?