Prince Charles: New-look sCAM website unveiled

[Blue Wode]

The Foundation for Integrated Health website has had a make-over and now includes new articles such as ‘nature’ being prescribed on the NHS, and healthy town planning…

It’s a big idea. It’s complex. It often calls for unlikely alliances. But there is a growing group of people who are putting integrated health into practice, in all its guises. This website explores some of the ways it can be done.

http://www.fih.org.uk/integrated_health/what_is_integrated.html




You can even subscribe to the Foundation's monthly newsletter so that you don’t miss out on any of its new developments:

http://www.fih.org.uk/index.html

[H3LL]

I found the only sensible advice:

A reputable practitioner will not tell you, nor say in advertisements, that they can cure a specific disease or condition. You should, therefore, be suspicious of anyone who does.

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. The ASA says that unqualified claims such as “cure” are generally not acceptable.

So Charlie boy...Complementary medicine is great as long as you don't want to cure anything.

May as well just take water or a sugar pill...Oh..Wait...

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[catbasket]

I downloaded and skimmed through their 'Complementary Healthcare: a guide for patients'. Woo-tastic.

[Mojo]

The page on "Self-regulation for complementary therapies" says: Anyone can set themselves up in business as a complementary therapist. While people are not allowed to claim to cure disease, there are plenty of ways to imply it without breaking the law.


It's True: the section of the "guide for patients" covering homoeopathy says, for example: The basic principle of homeopathy is ‘like cures like’. This means that a substance that would produce certain symptoms in a healthy person can be used to treat a sick person with very similar symptoms. A homeopathic remedy made from onion, allium cepa, can be used to treat patients who have a complaint like a cold or hay fever along with watering eyes and a stinging or runny nose.

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Homeopathy is most often used to treat chronic conditions such as asthma; eczema; arthritis; fatigue disorders like ME; headache and migraine; menstrual and menopausal problems; irritable bowel syndrome; Crohn’s disease; allergies; repeated ear, nose, throat and chest infections or urine infections; depression and anxiety.