Dissemination of evidence-based homeopathy before Brazilian medical institutions as a strategy to strengthen the homeopathic medical specialty - Clinics - 2026

Teixeira MZ. Dissemination of evidence-based homeopathy before Brazilian medical institutions as a strategy to strengthen the homeopathic medical specialty. Clinics (Sao Paulo). 2026 Sep 7;81:101127. 

Disponível em: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clinsp.2026.101127

Abstract

The text aims to clarify to the medical class the assumptions and scientific evidence of homeopathy, which, despite being part of the list of Brazilian medical specialties since 1980, is not taught in most medical schools. Associated with this gap in the education of medical students, which is reflected in the lack of information and ignorance of future doctors, the application of assumptions different from those propagated by hegemonic medicine contributes to the dissemination of prejudices rooted in the medical culture, distancing undergraduates and graduates from learning a bi-secular therapy that should be part of the current therapeutic arsenal. Employing a principle of healing that stimulates the organism to react against its own disorders and valuing the diseased individuality in its multiple aspects, the homeopathic method of treatment favors the doctor-patient relationship and stimulates holistic reasoning in the understanding of the complex phenomenon of human illness, providing a low-cost therapy that is free of adverse events and that increases the clinical resolution of diseases in general. In addition to clarifying homeopathic assumptions and their basis in hundreds of scientific studies, this article describes the various initiatives to disseminate evidence-based homeopathy before Brazilian medical associations as a policy to strengthen the medical specialty.