Parental Administration for Homeopathic Drugs

© Copyright 2003 by Dr. rer. nat. Wilfried Stock, Ph.D., Werner Frase, M.D., Jan Kersschot, M.D., Rudy De Clercq, R.Ph., and Bruno Van Brandt, Scientific Director; Germany
(Explore Issue: Volume 12, Number 1)

HEEL USA MEDICAL DIRECTOR’S ADDENDUM
By Bruce H. Shelton, M.D. M.D.(h), DiHOM

This article was written in Europe for distribution to Heel’s worldwide customer base in the 60 Countries where Heel Products are successfully used and distributed. The U.S. FDA requires that all of Heel’s ampoules coming into the U.S. from Germany are labeled as oral vials. Three Heel preparations, Traumeel, Engystol and Gripp-Heel, are produced as injectables in the U.S. In either form, Heel ampoules are considered totally safe as they are sterilized to 135 degrees Celsius after production.

It has been the observation of Heel’s customer’s worldwide that the same clinical effects can be obtained if the points mentioned in the article are injected in a Neural Therapy fashion with procaine and Vitamin B12 or simply stimulated with Acupuncture needles, as in Biopuncture, or if the products are administered orally concurrent with the needling procedure. Certain practitioners have done these procedures both ways; that is, by both by injecting them into the point or orally administering them and are convinced that they get better clinical results by needling the points and giving the vials orally, as they are legally permitted in the U.S.

Homeopathic drugs can be used in all traditional routes of administration in accordance with the experience and conceptions of homeopathy. This also includes the parenteral means of application i.v., i.m. s.c. and i.c. At this time there are no known risks that go beyond a general risk caused by the injection itself.

On the basis of their way of application, injections first require certain medical knowledge and manual skills. For this reason the parenteral administration is not carried out by the patients themselves, but by physicians. The parenteral application offers the certainty in therapy that the selected remedies are actually administered at the right time in the designated dosage. This results in a clear improvement of the compliance. In addition it is known from therapeutic experience that the onset of parenteralia begins clearly faster than with the oral administration.

The following aspects can be set out as general advantages of the parenteral application in the therapeutic practice:

• An application can take place in local pain points.
  Because of the various possibilities of the s.c., i.c., i.m. application the depth of the injection can vary each time according to the tissue area that needs to be treated.
• Because of the parenteral application the patient compliance is in any case guaranteed.

Homeopathic remedies have been available in many European Union countries, very much in Germany, and throughout the world since the nineteen-sixties. Many physicians, including general practitioners, rheumatologists and orthopedic surgeons share the advantages of giving injections with homeopathic products for a variety of clinical medical problems.