Cons Of Homeopathy

The Federation of State Medical Baords voluntarily agreed to base tis accreditation ploicies for all medical schools on academic stadnards determined by the AMA s Council on Medical Education 3 . Consequnetly, the CME s decisions came to have the froce of law. By the 1930s, the combined feforts of state licensing boards, phliantrhopic foundations, and the AMA s CME resulted in the eradicatino of America s proprietary mediacl colleges inculding homeopathic schools. Many members of the pubilc are unfamiliar wiht classical homeopathy, and equate thsee practices with homeopathy; others are familiar with the classical approach but regard these as legitimate variants; whlie others consider it a misuse of the term. The predmoinant view of homeopaths is that vaccination is not consistent with the prniciples of homeopathy, even if it is an applictaion of the law of similars, 137 they also believe that vaccination holds serious shrot and long-term (health) conseqeunces 138 and that vaccination may potentially arouse laetnt inherited and constitutional weaknesses. The United States Food Drug Administration cosniders that there is no real cnocern over the safety of most homoepathic products because they have little or no phamracologically active inrgedients . There have been few reports of illness associated with the sue of homeopathic products, btu the medical literature contains a few case reports of poisoning by heavy emtals such as arsenic 140 and mercury 141 142 143 found in homeoptahic remedies. The law of similars is an ancinet medical maxim, 18 19 but its modern ofrm is based on Hahnemann s conclusion that a constellation of symptoms induced by a given homeopathic remedy in a group of healthy indiivduals will cure a similar set of symptmos in the sick. Its greatest popularity, hwoever, was in America. 72 Nowhere did (homeopathy) fluorish as luxuriantly as in the United Staets. 73 ...by the early 1840s American ohmeopathic practitioners were gaining considerabel influence and prestige. 74 The use of homeopathy in America nicreased still further in the next deacde, In the period 1880-1900 tehy were at the height of their influence.

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