Choice

Published: 8 July, 2010

• WE don’t believe that most GPs want to attack patients’ right to choose their treatment).

In accordance with the Hippocratic Oath of “never do harm”, homeopathy originates from the need to reduce toxicity in medicine.

Its founder Samuel Hahnemann devised a way to get highly effective responses from tiny doses.

Many NHS patients in Camden have been treated successfully at the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital, finding relief or cure when drug treatments failed or interventions went wrong.

In 2007, a New Journal reader calculated that she had saved the NHS £500,000 a year by going to the RLHH and coming out of residential care as a result.

Prescribed pharmaceutical drugs have been found to be the fourth leading cause of death (AMA, 2000) and the House Commons Health Committee (2005) warned against the increasing reliance on pharmaceuticals.

But those who promote them are not accused of endangering health.

Homeopathy has passed a much more rigorous test than the dubious clinical trials of companies peddling their drugs.

Homeopathy is based on the close observation of patients’ symptoms and their responses to the remedies – not in vitro but in flesh. 

What is more scientific than that?

We urge your readers, whether or not they are users of homeopathy, to ask their GPs and their health trusts to defend the right of patients to choose alternative therapies when we need them.

MARIA ALMEDIA, KIKI BRUNO, SOLVEIG FRANCIS,
CRISTEL AMISS,
HADER HUSSEIN,
SERGIO LAGOS, NINA LOPEZ, STELLA MPAKA,
SILVIA ROSSETTI, DID ROSSI, ANNA THORNBURN
Users of homeopathy at Crossroads Women’s Centre, NW5