Schizophrenia and Drug Therapy Side Effects vs. Homeopathy and Bach Flowers

Until now, there is no clinical evidence about the effectiveness of homeopathy, or Bach flowers therapy, in the treatment of schizophrenia. Instead, neuroleptics are still the best and most effective option in drug treatment.

They relieve the positive (delusions and hallucinations) and negative (affective flattening, apathy, mutism, motor impairment) symptoms of schizophrenia giving patients a better understanding of their disease and a deeper self-consciousness and thus they contribute to allow patients a better life quality. Of course they have some side effects, but these effects can be reduced to a minimum by using the latest products at the minimum effective dose.

If you are bothered by some of this side effects, you'd better see your community care psychiatrist and ask him how you could modify your drug therapy towards a better compliance with less side effects.

Don't forget that a better co-operation between patient and doctor will give better results in terms of symptom relief and less side effects.