Homeopathy contribution to dengue epidemics control in Macaé

Homeopathy has contributed throughout history in order to control and eradicate epidemic infect-contagious diseases. Facing the challenges of Dengue epidemics control, the Secretaria de Saude de Macaé/RJ, performed in april and may 2007 the “Homeopathy Campaign against Dengue” based in studies which took place in São José do Rio Preto in 2001 and in Havana and Camaguey (Cuba) in 2006, in which a decrease in the incidence of the disease was shown. In Macaé, whose populations is estimated in 180,000 inhabitants, 156,000 homeopathic medicine doses where freely distributed from april to may 2007 to asymptomatic patients and 129 doses to symptomatic patients, treated in the ambulatory, this indication based in the Lei dos Semelhantes, to the epidemic genius concept (Hahneman, 1986). The used medications form the Homeopathic Complex against dengue described in Marino (2007), which contained Phosphorus 30ch, Crotalus Hórridus 30ch and Eupatorium Perfoliatum 30ch. A paper on Health Education was parallel done, leading to an increase in the number of notifications and consequently bigger number of blockades of possible focus of Aedes aegypti. The disease incidence in the first three months in 2008 had a 93% decrease when compared to the same period of time in 2007, while in the state there was an increase of 128% in the incidence compared to 2007, what proves the efficiency of homeopathy in endemic processes.