A homeopatia como alternativa de tratamento da dengue

Abstract

The most practiced treatment methods actually used in medicine depart from the principle of allopathy, where you hit the cure by the inverse process the medication in use to produce symptoms / signs opposite to what the patient shows. Homeopathy arises comes up in counterpart of this principle, proposing a-the cure ``by the similars.´´ In the homeopathic treatment, the symptoms are completely treated, by using small diluted doses of a substance, that, when administered in high doses may produce the same symptoms that it is intended to combat. In this article a bibliographical survey was carried out on how homeopathy can be used in dengue treatment, a disease that is currently considered a global public health problem. Informations were collected about the origin of homeopathy, the principles that guide it and what substances are most known by the moment, as well as a survey about how these substances can be used in dengue treatment.