| Title |
To which extent should potency choice in homeopathy be "regulated": Has European legislation gone too far?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Wiener Medizinische Wochenschrift, November 2005
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| DOI | 10.1007/s10354-005-0231-z |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Robbert van Haselen |
| Abstract |
Despite ongoing controversy, homeopathy has become increasingly accepted as a "medical reality" by patients and doctors alike. This process has been accompanied by an increased quality of manufacturing, education, research, and regulation of homeopathy. This paper argues that European regulation may now have gone too far by indiscriminately prescribing that homeopathic medicines should be used in a potency of D4 and higher. Low potencies and tinctures are an important and integral part of the homeopathic heritage. The regulatory environment therefore appears to be hampering one of its own principal aims: the availability of safe and high-quality homeopathic products that practitioners, patients and consumers want and need. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 9 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 2 | 22% |
| Librarian | 1 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 1 | 11% |
| Other | 1 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 1 | 11% |
| Other | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 2 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 33% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 2 | 22% |
| Chemistry | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 3 | 33% |
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