The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7419 p366
23 September 2006

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Homoeopathy

No questions asked

From Mr J. Sharp, HonMRPharmS

If Kamal Nathwani (PJ, 26 August, p246 ) were to take a stroll around a few randomly selected high street pharmacies he would see scores, if not hundreds, of homoeopathic “remedies” for all sorts of conditions, offered for sale on an entirely self-select, self-serve, pay-at-the-counter, no-questions-asked and no-advice-offered basis.

How would he then reconcile these observations with his assertions that “homoeopathic treatment is based on ‘totality of symptoms’ … taking into consideration of all the symptoms … mental, emotional and physical pertaining to the patient” and that “it is an individualised or holistic way of prescribing”?

John Sharp
Woodley, Berkshire

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