Questionnaire Survey on Homoeoprophylaxis

By Toroko Yui, Tokyo, Japan

Survey compiled by JPHMA

In Japan, vaccinations have been conducted for over 160 years. Vaccinations were compulsory in Japan for about 50 years between 1948 and 1994, but many children who were inoculated with the MMR vaccine died or became paralyzed and the government was sued by Japanese nationals. The MMR was stopped in 1993. In 1994 the requirement to vaccinate was changed from ‘compulsory’ to ‘encouraged’.

However, the social phenomenon that inoculation is taken as a matter of course has not been changed and it is the fact that there are many parents who do not have questions about the risks. People who use homoeopathy in their daily life, often hear the information of harmful effects from inoculation, which the media does not reveal.

Even if parents are afraid of harmful effects and side effects of inoculation, they also worry if their children will die from childhood diseases, are pressured from schools and medical doctors, and encounter strong opposition from society and their family members. So, they reluctantly accept inoculation in the end.

As I received many demands to provide something which can replace inoculation with homoeopathy, I formulated the ‘YOBO kit’ to deal with homoeoprophylaxis on a self-care basis in 2007. I included 16 nosodes remedies for the prevention of various infectious diseases and 20 main remedies if people actually acquired infectious diseases. I also published a guide book to use this kit. This book explains infectious diseases, such as varicella, herpes zoster, tetanus, pertussis, diphtheria, measles, polio, rubella, influenza, haemophilus influenza type B, tuberculosis, meningitis, scarlet fever, hemolytic streptococcal infection, impetigo contagiosa, molluscum contagiosum, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, Japanese encephalitis, encephalitis, encephalopathy, exanthem subitum, herpangina, epidemic keratoconjunctivitis, acute hemorrhagic conjunctivitis, pharyngoconjunctival fever, foot and mouth disease, mycoplasma pneumonia, winter infants’ diarrhoeal disease, enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli infection and so on. I then introduced how to prevent these diseases by using homeopathic nosodes remedies. There are also main remedies to use in case people acquire such infectious diseases.

The background of conducting this questionnaire survey was to investigate the true facts how much members and ex-members of ‘Homoeopathy Toranoko,’ which is an association of people who use homoeopathy in their daily life, use Homoeoprophylaxis . The results of this survey are collected and published here.

Questionnaire survey on Homoeoprophylaxis:

The period of inquiry of the survey was from 27 April 2014 to 31 May 2014.

Target group: members and ex-members of ‘Homoeopathy Toranoko’ which is an association of people who use homoeopathy in their daily life.

Implementation method: Call for answer questionnaire survey on internet by sending emails.

Valid respondents: 329

Findings

The number who knew about homoeoprophylaxis was quite a high ratio, 307 people (approx. 93%) against the valid respondents.

The number of people who own YOBO kit (homoeoprophylaxis kit) was more than half, 170 people (approx. 52%). Even though they do not have YOBO kit, they have other homoeopathic home kit that was 105 (approx. 32%). This number has shown that in total 84% has homoeopathic home kit and makes use of it to deal with prophylaxes and infectious diseases. 

The possession history was 5 years (28 people: approx. 12%), 6 years (24 people: approx. 7%) and 7 years (26 people: approx. 8%) in descending order.

The gender of the respondents was 310 females (approx. 94%) which occupied the majority.

The age of the respondents was 40s (187 people: approx. 57%), 30s (75 people: approx. 23%), 50s (46 people: approx. 14%) in descending order. It accords with the age bracket of child rearing.

With regard to status of utilization of YOBO kit, the number who utilizes prophylaxis for infectious diseases was 207 people, and the number who utilized the kit at the time of being infected was 232 people. (Multiple answers were valid on this question.) It can be seen that they utilize both at prophylaxis and the time of being infected.

The majority of the target group was self (197people) and their children (182 people). 

(Multiple answers were valid on this question.)

Analysis of data shows that for these diseases, the order of priority for prophylaxis and treatment at the time of being infected was first Influenza, then, diarrhea and vomiting, chickenpox, impetigo, hemolytic streptococcal infection, and mumps in descending order.