WHO recognition for homeopathy
Newindpress, India - 24 Dec 2005

 

WHO recognition for homeopathy
Sunday December 25 2005 - 08:54 IST

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Deviating from the trend of rejecting homeopathy
treatment and medicine as mere placebos, the World Health Organisation (WHO)
has declared that homeopathy is the second-most used medical system
internationally.

"Clinical trials have proved that this method of treatment has been
successful if the practitioners have taken into account the individual
holistic nature of the patient before opting for homeopathy," says Dr T N
Sreedhara Kurup, Assistant Director In-Charge of the Central Research
Institute for Homeopathy.

Different patients will receive different treatments for the same disease
making it difficult to conduct randomised control trials, he said.
"Homeopathy is that stream of medicine, which prescribes medicines suitable
to the individual and the cost of treatment is affordable when compared to
Allopathy. Besides, it is claimed that homeopathic medicines are devoid of
any harmful side-effects," says Dr Ravi M Nair, a homeopathy specialist.