Table 2.

Summary of laboratory studies on lymphocytes

✓ Phytolacca (5c, 7c and 15c) have no mitogenic effect on resting lymphocytes but on lymphocytes stimulated with ponderal doses of phytohemagglutinin they inhibit mitosis (36,37).

✓ Naphthoquinones (plumbagin, alkannin and others) and cytostatic agents (vincristine, methotrexate and fluorouracil) inhibit lymphoblastic transformation at relatively low dilutions, whereas higher dilutions have a stimulatory effect (38).

✓ High dilutions of Bee venom (Apis) or Phosphorus inhibit blood lymphocytes (stimulated in vitro with PHA) from healthy subjects while the cells from immunodepressed patients do not show any significant inhibition (40).

✓ A homeopatic complex formulation containing Vincetoxicum 6× to 30× and Sulfur 4× to 10× stimulate cytokine production by human lymphocytes (51).

✓ The homeopathic immunostimulant complex Canova has no genetoxic properties on human lymphocytes (53).

✓ Traumeel S inhibits IL-beta, TNF-alpha, and IL-8 production by human T cells, monocytes and gut epithelial cells (54).