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Monday, March 19th, 2018

The Swiss Government’s Remarkable Report on Homeopathic Medicine

Author:     Dana Ullman
Source:     Huffington Post
Publication Date:     Dec 06, 2017
 Link: The Swiss Government’s Remarkable Report on Homeopathic Medicine
Stephan:   Dana Ullman, an old friend, is arguably the most knowledgeable advocate for homeopathic medicine in the U.S.. This essay Dana has written brings some clarity to a subject that is often lost in a miasma of misinformation. What made this Swiss study particularly stand out for me was the fact that it directly contradicts an Australian study which I covered in SR some months ago. Why is this? I suspect because homeopathy is partly a local spacetime medical system and partly a nonlocal one, and there are variables that are often not properly taken into account . In the interest of full disclosure I feel I need to note that I, personally, have had two significant healings using Homeopathy, and have witnessed several others, in my family. We use homeopathic products regularly because they have no additives, toxins, hormones, or poisons, and they either work or they don't and there are no side-effects.

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Credit: Slate.com

The Swiss government has a long and widely-respected history of neutrality, and therefore, reports from this government on controversial subjects need to be taken more seriously than other reports from countries that are more strongly influenced by present economic and political constituencies. When one considers that two of the top five largest drug companies in the world have their headquarters in Switzerland, one might assume that this country would have a heavy interest in and bias toward conventional medicine, but such assumptions would be wrong.

In late 2011, the Swiss government’s report on homeopathic medicine represents the most comprehensive evaluation of homeopathic medicine ever written by a government and was just published in book form in English (Bornhoft and Matthiessen, 2011). This breakthrough report affirmed that homeopathic treatment is both effective and cost-effective and that homeopathic treatment should be reimbursed by Switzerland’s national health insurance program.

The Swiss government’s inquiry into homeopathy and complementary and alternative (CAM) treatments resulted from the high demand and widespread use of alternatives to conventional […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Monday, March 19, 2018 at 7:26 pm

    Maybe it is our inadequate educational system that makes the U.S.A. so stupid, and we do not get anything done properly, like adding alternatives to the products that insurance covers.