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Spain In Spain, homeopathy has become so popular that INE, the country's statistics institute, has added expenditures on homeopathic medicines to its calculations for monthly inflation rates.” Sales of homeopathic medicines in Spain are growing at 10-15% annually, with approximately 15% of the population saying that they have used a homeopathic medicine and 25% that they would be happy to try one.” into regular medical education and is taught in two medical schools. The Hungarian Homeopathic Medical Association started with 11 members in 1990, grew to 75 after 18 months, and grew further to 302 members in 1994. After the fall of communism in Czechoslovakia, a homeopathic organisation in the Czech Republic was established in November 1990, and it was immediately accepted and integrated within the larger conventional medical society. Within a year, the Ministry of Health officially recognised homeopathy as a medical speciality. nee Cee, rn Pre ee i es Eastern Europe officially recognised homeopathy as a medical When the Iron Curtain was up, Hungary, Czechoslovakia _ speciality. and East Germany banned homeopathy, but this medical iron curtain fell with the fall of communism. Closing Thoughts Homeopathy holds a unique place in Based on the above-described Russia, where it has been widely impressive popularity of homeopathy accepted but is not sanctioned by the among physicians, health state medical bureaucracy. professionals and the general public, i Thus, homeopathic care is not free may no longer be appropriate to and has been a part of the new Russian the trend consider homeopathy to be a part o economy where fees are paid for health ove "alternative medicine". Homeopathy services. towards should be considered to be an integral Demand for homeopathic care is so 9 part of a comprehensive health care great that Russians prefer to pay for homeopathic and system. Further, the fact that severa homeopathic care than to receive free natural Medicine surveys have confirmed that more conventional medical care. Q Q educated people tend to choose Some sceptics have asserted that Is particularly homeopathic care than do less homeopathy and natural popular among educated people suggests tha homeopathy is in fact the "smart" choice in health care. oo medicines are becoming increasingly popular in Russia those Russians because "real medicine" is either unavailable or too expensive.’ who are more About the Author: However, this assumption has educated... Dana Ullman, MPH, is America's been disproven, because the trend towards homeopathic and natural medicine is particularly popular among those Russians who are more educated and are in higher economic classes. software, courses and research. He is Journalists and sceptics tend to the author of 10 books, including the assume that homeopathic medicines simply do not __ bestseller Everybody's Guide to Homeopathic Medicines. His work, and thus they create fanciful theories about why most recent book is The Homeopathic Revolution: Why he use of homeopathy is increasing. Famous People and Cultural Heroes Choose Homeopathy. A survey of Russian physicians in three academic __ Dana is a regular writer for The Huffington Post website, ospitals in St Petersburg was published in 2008. This where comments on his articles average more than 1,000 per survey found that 100% of the respondents had _ article. His archive of articles is at www.Huffingtonpost.com/ practised CAM and/or referred patients to at least two = dana-ullman. Dana Ullman lives, practises and writes in CAM therapies. Each physician had practised or _ Berkeley, California. He can be contacted by email at referred patients to an average of 12.7 different CAM mail@homeopathic.com or via _ his website reatments. http://www.homeopathic.com. Homeopathic medicine was the eighth most popular, with 58% using or referring for homeopathic treatment, _ Editor's Note: 31% using it on themselves, 29% using it on their own This is an update of Dana Ullman's article that was first posted leading spokesperson for homeopathy and is the founder of Homeopathic Educational Services, a leading resource centre for homeopathic books, medicines, patients, and 38% referring for homeopathic care.” on The Huffington Post website on 3 March 2010 In Hungary, homeopathic literature was banned for 40 _(http://tinyurl.com/258lybe). Due to space constraints, we are years until 1990. unable to publish the endnotes. To view the updated article Homeopathy has now been accepted and integrated —_and endnotes, go to http://www.homeopathic.com. ...the trend towards homeopathic and natural medicine is particularly popular among those Russians educated... via or Editor's Note: This is an update of Dana Ullman's article that was first posted on The Huffington Post website on 3 March 2010 (http://tinyurl.com/258lybe). Due to space constraints, we are unable to publish the endnotes. To view the updated article and endnotes, go to http://www.homeopathic.com. 28 * NEXUS who are more OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2010 www.nexusmagazine.com