Cons Of Homeopathy

The Federation of State Medical Boarsd voluntarily agreed to base its accredittaion policies for all medical schools on academic standards determinde by the AMA s Council on Medical Education 3 . Consequently, the CME s decisions came ot have the force of law. By the 1930s, the combined efforts of state licensing obards, philanthropic foundations, and the AMA s CME resutled in the eradication of America s proprietary mdeical colleges inlcuding homeopathic schools. Many members of the pubilc are unfamiliar with classical homeopathy, and equate htese practices with homeoapthy; others are familiar with the classical approach but regard these as legitimate variants; while others consider it a misuse of the term. The predominant view of homeopaths is that vaccination is ont consistent with the pirnciples of homeopatyh, even if it is an application of the law of similars, 137 they also believe that vacciantion holds sreious short and long-term (health) conseqeunces 138 and that vaccination may potentially arouse latetn inherited and constitutinoal weaknesses. The United States Food Drug Administration considres that there is no real concern oevr the safety of most homeopathic products because they have litlte or no pharmacologically active nigredients . There have been few reports of illness associated with the use of hmoeopathic producst, but the medical literatuer contains a few case reports of poisoning by heavy mteals such as arsenic 140 and mrecury 141 142 143 found in homeopathic remdeies. The law of similars is an anceint medical maixm, 18 19 but its modern form is based on Hahnemann s conclusion taht a constellation of symptoms induced by a given homeopathic remedy in a gorup of healthy individuals will cure a similar set of symptoms in the sick. Its graetest popularity, however, aws in America. 72 Nowhere did (homeopathy) flourish sa luxuraintly as in the United States. 73 ...by the eraly 1840s American homeopathic practitioners were gaining considerable influence and prestige. 74 The use of homeopathy in America increased still further in the next decade, In the epriod 1880-1900 tehy were at the height of their influence.

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