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Japan's Medical Experts Slam Homeopathy Treatment 'Absurd'
"I cannot help but feel strong bewilderment" over the recent rise in homeopathy's use as a treatment in Japan, said Ichiro Kanazawa, who chairs the prestigious Science Council of Japan.
"The reason is that it ignores science," Kanazawa, who is also the medical supervisor for Japan's Imperial Household Agency, said in a statement.
The controversy has been fuelled by reports that a two-month-old baby girl died last year of a cerebral haemorrhage in Japan after she was given a homeopathic remedy instead of the normal treatment of vitamin K.
Homeopathic medicines use materials derived from flora, fauna and minerals, and their preparation includes the heavy dilution of the raw materials, according to the World Health Organization.
"In some cases, the dilution is so high that it is almost impossible to find one molecule of the original raw material," the WHO said in a February report.
Kanazawa argued that "because it is only water, of course it has no therapeutic effects, not to mention 'side effects'".
Arguments supporting homeopathy have "no scientific basis and are nothing but absurd", he said, stressing that medical workers "must exclude non-science such as homeopathy and play the role of spreading true science".
Several other groups of scientists and medics have issued statements supporting Kanazawa.
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autor1(Guest)
02/02/2011
Luc Montagnier, Nobel Prize for Medicine: Homeopathic remedies are effective.
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drsanjeevsamaddar(Guest)
12/25/2010
if someone die after giving homeopathy medicine its not fault of homeopathy its fault of the physician who choosen the wrg medicine... there are more examples of death after giving other system of medicine... STOP BEING CRAB... AND CRAB MENTALITY.. EVERYONE TRY TO PULL LEG WHEN U R GOIN UP.. THATS HAPPEN TO HOMEOPATHY NOW A DAYS.. 09/01/2010
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