What do homeopaths recommend people do about malaria?
Oh dear, homeopaths have been caught suggesting ineffective anti-malarial medicines again: A shop in [Exeter’s] Princesshay centre will come under the spotlight tonight when it is featured in an investigative TV programme. BBC One’s Inside Out South West has investigated claims by Neal’s Yard that homeopathic remedies it sells in its stores can help prevent and treat serious fatal diseases such as malaria. Neal’s Yard do sell malaria remedies, which are so diluted they contain no active ingredient. As far as recommending homeopathic-only prophylaxis – instead of effective pharmaceutical prophylaxis – goes, they sell a book titled ‘Homoeopathic Alternatives To Immunisation’ which “contains practical information on preventing and treating major infectious diseases, including hepatitis, flu, malaria, measles and whooping cough” (my emphases) by Susan Curtis, who is a member of the Society of Homeopaths and works as the Medicines Director at Neal’s Yard. For the programme Janine Jansen als
