People with conditions such as HIV, TB and malaria should not rely on homeopathic treatments, the World Health Organization has warned.

It was responding to calls from young researchers who fear the promotion of homeopathy in the developing world could put people's lives at risk.

The group Voice of Young Science Network has written to health ministers to set out the WHO view.

However practitioners said there were areas where homeopathy could help.


There is no objective evidence that homeopathy has any effect on these infections
Dr Nick Beeching, Royal Liverpool University Hospital

In a letter to the WHO in June, the medics from the UK and Africa said: "We are calling on the WHO to condemn the promotion of homeopathy for treating TB, infant diarrhoea, influenza, malaria and HIV.

"Homeopathy does not protect people from, or treat, these diseases.

More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8211925.stm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMGIbOGu8q0

"Ok, so you kill the odd patient with cancer or heart disease...or bronchitis, flu, chicken pox, or measles, but when someone comes in with a vague sense of unease or a touch of the nerves or even just more money than sense, you'll be there for them with a bottle of basically just water in one hand and a huge invoice in the other."

or was it homeopathic ale....

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of the practitioner.