Comparative study of Treatments for Tinnitus - Allopathy or Homeopathy

Abstract

The study described in this paper aims to compare the efficacies of homeopathy and allopathic therapy for tinnitus of different etiologies and periods of time since onset. It is a retrospective study with a lower reliability than prospective ones, but reaching the same results regarding the Gingko Biloba therapy as the most prospective studies published, respectively its efficacy only in vascular conditions determined tinnitus. While homeopathy showed less efficacy than Gingko Biloba in vascular tinnitus (with the highest incidence o all tinnitus causes), this complementary therapy proved to be more efficient in posttraumatic and idiopathic ear noises, while in tinnitus due to professional noise exposure none of these treatments showed significant efficacy.