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[Dr Naval]

Dear Dr Farshad
can we contact the prince foundation and we will give them the evidence based work on homeopathy and we can associate with the organization for suport of homeopathy,you try to contact them ,

Vikas from ACL college called me he wanted to talk to you did not get your phone please call him,
best regards

Dr Naval Kumar
Charles defends holistic medicine
(Filed: 23/05/2006)
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The Prince of Wales has defended alternative therapies in an address to the World Health Assembly, after a group of leading UK doctors attacked complementary medicine.

The prince is an advocate of homeopathy
In his speech in Geneva to the World Health Organisation's decision-making forum, Prince Charles urged foreign health ministers to adopt a more holistic approach to tackling health problems.

His comments came a day after a group of British scientists implored NHS Trusts to reject the use of complementary medicine and use available funds for treatments "based on solid evidence".

In a letter published in the Times, Michael Baum, emeritus professor of Surgery at University College London, and 12 other scientists said funding of what they called "unproven or disproved treatments" in the NHS was unacceptable.

The letter, also signed by Nobel Prize-winner Sir James Black, criticised a report commissioned by the Prince which suggested that making complementary therapies more widely available on the NHS might lead to widespread benefits.

"At a time when the NHS is under intense pressure, patients, the public and the NHS are best served by using the available funds for treatments that are based on solid evidence," it concluded.

But Charles, a steadfast advocate of alternative therapies, said in his address: "I believe that the proper mix of proven complementary, traditional and modern remedies, which emphasise the active participation of the patient, can help to create a powerful healing force for our world.

"This is where orthodox practice can learn from complementary medicine, the West can learn from the East and new from old traditions."

The use of complementary medicines alongside orthodox treatments is something the heir to the throne first raised more than 20 years ago.

He went on to establish the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health, which encourages the development of complementary medicines and integrated healthcare.

Supporters of complementary therapies said today that the campaign urging the NHS to reject the treatments was frustrating and amounted to "medical apartheid".

Dr Peter Fisher, clinical director of the Royal Homeopathic Hospital, told the BBC: "I think what this suggestion amounts to is a form of medical apartheid - any therapy which can't trace its origins to what is called the biochemical model should be excluded from the NHS."
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