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'{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2021}} {{short description|psuedoscience on using sap from trees for health }} {{Multiple issues| {{missing information|scientific evidence and evaluation of the concept|date=September 2011}} {{Refimprove|date=October 2011}} {{notability|date=February 2016}} {{Orphan|date=October 2017}} }} {{Alternative medicine sidebar}} '''Gemmotherapy''' [from Lat. ''gemma'', bud, and New Lat. ''therapīa'', Grk. ''therapeia'', medical treatment] is a pseudoscientific group of remedies from embryonic tissue of various [[tree]]s and [[shrub]]s, [[bud]]s, emerging [[shoots]], [[seed]]s, [[catkin]]s, [[root]]lets and [[plant sap|sap]]. This raw material is taken at the peak time of the tree or shrubs' [[germination]]. It is claimed that unknown plant hormones and enzymes are released during this process which can somehow improve health. == Development and spread of gemmotherapy == The therapeutic effects of embryonic material of plants were first investigated in the late 1950s by a Belgian homeopath, Pol Henry<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uygAyfa5Au8C&q=pol+henry&pg=PA80 |page=80 |title=Soigner le stress par l'homéopathie et la phytothérapie |author=Bernard Chemouny |publisher=Odile Jacob |date=2012 |isbn= 9782738178237 }}</ref> working with a group of French [[homeopath]]s .<ref>{{Cite book|title = Bases Biologiques de la Gemmothérapie|last = Henry|first = Pol|publisher = Saint-Norbert|year = 1959|location = Tongerlo, Belgium}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = Conception de la Gemmotherapie|last = Tétau|first = Max|date = January 1959|journal = Archives Homéopathiques de Normandie |issn=0518-3391 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|title = Observation clinique de Gemmotherapie|editor-last = Julian|editor-first = O.A.|date = January 1961|journal = Archives Homéopathiques de Normandie }}</ref> Henry initially called the new type of medicine, phytoembryotherapy which was later renamed , gemmotherapy.<ref>{{Cite book|title = Treatise on Gemmotherapy|last = Andrianne|first = Philippe|publisher = Editions Amyris SPRL|year = 2012|isbn = 978-2-8755-2012-8|location = Brussels, Belgium}}</ref> Gemmotherapy was included in herbal therapies in France in the ''Pharmacopée Francaise''<ref>''Pharmacopée Francaise'', 8th edition, Ministère de la Santé, Gouvernement Français, Paris 1965</ref> in 1965. ==Lack of evidence of efficacy== There is no evidence of therapeutic efficacy for gemmotherapy. (search on Pubmed for evidence and you will find this is not true) Although scientific knowledge about the healing effects of plants is still increasing, gemmotherapy has not yet been the subject of any serious scientific publication. (search on Pubmed for evidence and you will find this is not true) It has not been the subject of any randomized double-blind study, the only method recognized as reliable, nor has it been published in a recognized professional journal.(search on Pubmed for evidence and you will find this is not true) Gemmotherapy is promoted especially at trade fairs dedicated to "wellness", in the middle of a cocktail of other pseudosciences and "fake drugs". == References == {{Reflist}} [[Category:Biologically-based therapies]] [[Category:Alternative medical treatments]] [[Category:Pseudoscience]]'