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To what extent did the influence of the Royal Family ensure the inclusion of homeopathy in the NHS?
Please help settle an argument.
One protagonist says that when the NHS was founded the politicians must have taken advice from the eminent medical men of the day in making the decision to include homepathy.
The other says that because the late Queen Mother was a keen proponent of homeopathy, her influence on the chattering classes was transmitted via them to the politicians.
I'm not interested in whether it's a good or bad thing, or whether t works or not: I'm just curious about where the decision to include it came from, when many other alternative therapies were excluded..
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- Jim LLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
An important factor I think.
Maybe Charles will revive touching for the King's Evil!
- Anonymous1 decade ago
I think there are several reasons: 1) HM patronage i.e. the Royal London Homeopathic Hospital 2) These remedies are in themselves harmless ie nontoxic, whereas modern pharmaceuticals have side-effects 3) Patients, prescribers, and pharmacists are hopeless at differentiating the "placebo effect" from actual effectiveness 4) The mantra of "patient choice" has hit the NHS
