It has been a busy year for homeopathy, a branch of medicine considered to be included in alternative, complementary and integrative medicine. This treatment, which has been gathering a lot of followers for the more than 2 centuries of service, had been founded by a German physicist, Samuel Hahnemann, and is believed to be more effective than the conventional medicine.
To recap, last April 20-21, 2015, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has opted to review basic regulations of homeopathy under influence the American Medical Association. Early next year, homeopathic treatments will have to undergo strict testing and experimentation to guarantee inexistence of fraud ingredients.
After an immediate caucus and the jury have decided, homeopathy practice was then bombarded with complaints and allegations. Negative reviews and researches include the question of dilution of its treatment, deception accounts by former users and unsigned petition against the harshness of words written by Wikipedia to open conflict against Wikipedia owner, Jimmy Wales to war of homeopathic websites The Peterson Group and Homeopathic Life, were the highlight of this year’s homeopathic activities, not to mention the loss of patrons.
However, these events seem to only have happened in the United States. Critics have mentioned that those who claim the death of homeopathy are only looking at one small part of the picture. If death occurs in homeopathy in the United States, it can still survive with the remaining 75% of partisans from other parts of the world.
Europe
This is the continent from where it all began. Europe was the first to adapt the first of the homeopathic treatments. However, in the next years, there were changes in this adaptation
a. Germany
Germany is the only member state of the European Union in which homeopathic remedies based on minerals or plants, and produced only in very low quantities, do not need to be registered. In other member states only remedies individually prepared in a pharmacy are exempt
b. United Kingdom
UK has homeopathy since 1820. The royal family has also expressed great support for the practice and has their own homeopathic doctor
c. France
Homeopathy is the most famous form of treatment in France.
Asia
Alongside other medical treatment, homeopathy is also adapted
1. Indonesia
Homeopathy clinics stand side by side hospitals and conventional healthcare in Jakarta and have some scattered branches in other major islands
2. Japan
A medical homeopathy association, the Japanese Society for Homeopathy, was created in the middle of the 90’s and currently includes 70 doctors.
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