The World Health Organization (WHO) has begun endorsing alternative medicines — some widely discredited by medical authorities. WHO began encouraging the public to explore these treatment options via ...

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For 80 years homeopathic physicians* in Maryland peacefully carried on their practices. They also ran their own medical society, which, by state law, appoints a licensing board of examiners. But last ...

An incorrectly-made homeopathic medicine resulted in a man presenting to the emergency room being unable to properly see, speak, or move. A 53 year old man in Germany became seriously ill and required ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recalled homeopathic remedies made by a company called Terra-Medica because they may contain actual medicine -- possibly penicillin or derivatives of the ...

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Or are alternative homeopathic treatments—which produce no provable results according to science, yet which are still recommended by some doctors—some combination of natural remedy and mind game?

No, because they contain the substance which the body is said to need replacing in quantities sufficient to actually replace it. So if we lose x grammes, the stuff has x grammes in it. If it were ...

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