Trial reportThe Veterinary record2018
Comparative effectiveness of individualised homeopathy and antibiotics in the treatment of bovine clinical mastitis: randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in The Veterinary record, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 25 citations in OpenAlex.
- ENHANCE: a global collaborative research programme investigating the role of homeopathy in antimicrobial stewardship.Frontiers in antibiotics · 2026Article
- Antibiotic Treatment vs. Non-Antibiotic Treatment in Bovine Clinical Mastitis During Lactation with Mild and Moderate Severity.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Intramammary Infusion of Micronised Purified Flavonoid Fraction (MPFF) in Mastitis-Diagnosed Dairy Cows Naturally Infected byVeterinary sciences · 2023Article
- Alternatives to Antimicrobial Treatment in Bovine Mastitis Therapy: A Review.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Evidence-Based Human Homeopathy and Veterinary Homeopathy. Comment on Bergh et al. A Systematic Review of Complementary and Alternative Veterinary Medicine: "Miscellaneous Therapies".Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- Persistence of Staphylococcus spp. in milk from cows undergoing homeopathy to control subclinical mastitis.BMC veterinary research · 2022Article
- Advances in therapeutic and managemental approaches of bovine mastitis: a comprehensive review.The veterinary quarterly · 2021Review
- Technological interventions and advances in the diagnosis of intramammary infections in animals with emphasis on bovine population-a review.The veterinary quarterly · 2019Review
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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Based on the widespread use of homeopathy in dairy farm practice when treating mastitis, a blind randomised controlled trial (RCT) was conducted to assess the effectiveness of homeopathic treatment of clinical mastitis on four dairy farms. The study considered specific guidelines for RCTs as well as the basic principles of individualised homeopathy and involved 180 lactating dairy cows. Evaluation of cure rates was based on clinical investigation of the udder and on laboratory analysis of milk samples. In culture-positive cases, the antibiotic treatment provided suboptimal bacteriological cures (60-81 per cent) but was more effective than individualised homeopathy (33-43 per cent) whose effects appeared little different to those of placebos (45-47 per cent) (P≤0.05). On the cytological cure level, all three treatment methods were similarly ineffective: antibiotic being 2-21 per cent, individualised homeopathy 0-8 per cent and placebo 3-13 per cent (P≤0.05; P=0.13). Antibiotics, individualised homeopathy and placebo had similar effects on bacteriological and cytological cure in cases of culture-negative milk samples (P>0.4) and TRIAL REGISTRATION NUMBER: NTP-ID: 00008011-1-9, Pre-results.
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