Health Focus: Homeopathy

Health Correspondent, Marie-Louise Connolly, reports on the future of homeopathic remedies.

This week's Health Focus puts alternative treatments under the microscope ahead of the most wide-ranging consultation on how chemists should market them.

The view of the regulatory body for pharmacists, who are consulting their members about how the products are currently marketed, is that people who buy homeopathic products should be advised that they do not work and only have a placebo effect.

But according to homeopaths, the real issue behind the consultation is the threat complementary medicine is posing to the highly lucrative relationship between the drug companies and the Health Service.

Click here to see interview with Registrar of the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland

Click here to see interview with Chair of the Northern Ireland Association of Homeopaths

BBC Newsline talks to Inge Haghighi who has used homeopathic remedies for around seventeen years.

BBC Newsline website