TY - JOUR AU - Thompson, Trevor DB AU - Weiss, Marjorie PY - 2006 DA - 2006/11/13 TI - Homeopathy – what are the active ingredients? An exploratory study using the UK Medical Research Council's framework for the evaluation of complex interventions JO - BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine SP - 37 VL - 6 IS - 1 AB - Research in homeopathy has traditionally addressed itself to defining the effectiveness of homeopathic potencies in comparison to placebo medication. There is now increasing awareness that the homeopathic consultation is in itself a therapeutic intervention working independently or synergistically with the prescribed remedy. Our objective was to identify and evalute potential "active ingredients" of the homeopathic approach as a whole, in a prospective formal case series, which draws on actual consultation data, and is based on the MRC framework for the evaluation of complex interventions. SN - 1472-6882 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6882-6-37 DO - 10.1186/1472-6882-6-37 ID - Thompson2006 ER -