Traditional medicine and homeopathy definitely do not play in the same yard. This Tuesday, June 19, the College of Physicians issued a statement * in which it classifies homeopathy as a practice "not tested" by science.

According to the institution, "the media use of the terms 'alternative and complementary medicine', particularly concerning homeopathy, is ambiguous and confusing".

Treatment that should not be offered as first-line

And the College of Physicians goes further: homeopathy should not be the first treatment proposed, but be used as a secondary therapy, he explains. "Every doctor must practice medicine according to the data acquired from science, both in the development of the diagnosis and in the proposal of a treatment," the statement also said.

In conclusion, he adds that "the medical care of a patient must comply with the requirements of quality and safety of care, or even their urgency.The treatment recommended by a doctor can not, under any circumstances, be alternative to the acquired data of science and the state of the art ".

The third part of an already growing debate

In a forum published in Le Figaro dated March 18, 2018, 124 doctors were already denouncing these alternative medicines by calling them "fake medicines" or "esoteric medicines". They then asked for the derogation of homeopathy by Social Security, as is the case in several European countries.

The Minister of Health, Agnès Buzyn, had meanwhile relaunched the debate on May 24, 2018 by saying on France Inter: "We decided to reimburse homeopathy without any scientific evaluation.Perhaps it could enter the right If it is useful, it will be refunded, if it is useless, it will stop being ".

Case to follow.

* www.conseil-national.medecin.fr/node/2836