A Medical Journal Australia has evinced that homeopathic medicines only work as placebos and have no other effect on the health of an individual. The review is the journal has contended conventional belief in the efficacy of homeopathy.

The article, which has been tailored by Edzard Ernst, Director of Complementary Medicine at the University of Exeter in the UK, took into consideration and analyzed six studies on homeopathy in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. This database is taken to be the most credible source of evidence.

Professor Ernst declares that none of the studies substantiate the efficiency of homeopathic medicine.

It has been reported that Ernst carried out the appraisal as a reaction to claims from homeopaths that organized reviews that do not proffer positive conclusion about homeopathy are prejudiced.

Ernst reveals, "It is therefore necessary to seek out those systematic reviews of research into homeopathy that are least likely to be biased. As most of the reviews I appraised were authored by homeopaths, it seems unlikely that they were biased against homeopathy".

Ernst shares that there are nearly 150 controlled clinical trials that are available in print on homeopathy. The conclusions of these trials are equivocal, with neither all positive or all negative conclusions.