Does Homeopathy Use Steroids

This argument has been a cause of dispute and further studies by so many researchers even until today. Is it true that homeopathy contain steroids? If so, does it mean that the conservative healing method used by many people including the British royal family be harmful?

According to World Health Organization (WHO) homeopathic system is the second largest medical system in the world which originated in Germany 200 years ago. This practice is also being used by more than 60 countries around the world. India alone records 300,000 institutionally qualified homeopathic doctors. In Asia, with the combined numbers from Jakarta, Indonesia, Seoul South Korea and Cambodia, millions of cases are said to be healed by homeopathy annually.

Homeopathy is said to effective for any acute and chronic diseases and in many cases, it can treat diseases fast and clean. A statement which intrigues many is a claim which says that when a disease is healed fast through homeopathic treatment, the medicine used may have steroids in it. We do not know when and where this issue started but a lot of reviews have already been released about it.

According to studies conducted by the Peterson Group, a non-profit online community keeping track of the real effect of alternative, complementary and integrative medicines, many homeopathic clinics have lost some of their clients when the issue of using steroids was released in the press and television. Warnings were greatly imposed and many clients have been alarmed.

Homeopathic Educational Services is adamant on the widespread. The company stated, “Several known ‘quack busters’ have made reference to a letter that noted that a homeopathic medicine was found to be contaminated with a steroid. However, true to the bias that they bring to their assessment of homeopathy, they always neglect to mention that this single incidence took place in Pakistan where a lot of cases has proved the security to be lax and a lot of fraudulent medicine exchange has taken place”.

To confirm these claims, a set of doctors and researchers had gathered together to test their medicines. Methods like Liberman Buchard test, thin layer chromatography method and UV absorption method were used.

Almost all steroids show UV absorption between 235 and 240 nm in dehydrated alcohol or methanol in a clear solution. A complete spectrum of this solution is taken between 400 NM and 200 NM on a suitable spectrophotometer, if any steroid is present, it will show maximum at 240 NM. This is the right method of testing to confirm the presence of steroids and no Homoeopathic medicines have shown positive reaction.