Homeopanic

Here's an interesting leak, it's from an Administrator at the south downs school of Homoeopathy and it's regarding the potential change to medical labelling and licensing standards that the MHRA is considering, essentially if the change is made substances may only be dispensed as "medicine" with an appropriate licence by qualified doctors, meaning that 99.999% of homoeopathic remedies will no longer be able to be dispensed by non-medically qualified homoeopaths.

Here is the email, the key sentence is in bold..

Dear EVERYONE,

This is urgent. TOP PRIORITY!!! The deadline is the 18th of February. The practice of homeopathy by lay homoeopaths is at stake, and if the MHRA changes the wording to the document mentioned below, we will ...not be allowed to practice any longer. This will take effect immediately. The new wording which is being suggested by sense against science, and is being considered by the MHRA will effectively put us in catch 22 so that we can no longer give out remedies - basically, it is about the difference between dispensing and prescribing. all homoeopaths dispense remedies as a normal part of daily practice. the new rules will mean that it will be illegal to dispense without a license, and only a qualified doctor can make a prescription. without the ability to dispense, all we can do is sit and listen to people's problems, but can do nothing else about it. this will also have an affect on the homeopathic pharmacies, who will only be allowed to dispense licensed remedies (currently, only arnica and possibly one or two others are licensed) unless prescribed by a physician, and this means the potential loss of thousands of remedies. The key words in the version we want, which help keep homeopathy going are "...use within the homeopathic tradition". This avoids the need to prove the science behind prescribing of remedies and allows us to practise as normal.

So my reading of this says not only is it a scam (which any rational person already knows) they know it is too!  Although I'm not sure why this administrator is so worried about the Government removing this loop-hole, after all it's only the "sitting and listening" part that does anything anyway, the medicine part can be replaced by an Evian dispensing machine in the waiting room.

What really concerns me about this though is the thought that by weakening the status of Homoeopathic remedies in our medical establishment will we just be making them stronger?