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I bet many homeopaths have never used Berlin Wall, but it exists," said Prof Ernst.

It imposed Rs5,000 tax on medical consultants/specialists and dental surgeons, Rs4,000 on registered medical practitioners and Rs4,000 on homeopaths and hakeems.

Shah urged the Sindh Healthcare Commission to give due place to homeopaths in all the affairs of the commission.

One of the oldest homeopaths, Dr Vanetta Shahani, who began her practice in 2002, credits the rising popularity of this branch of complementary medicine to its efficacy and good results.

"I treated her myself, along with the support of other homeopaths. She had quite a lot of herbalism [the use of plants intended for medicinal purposes].

Has he studied any clinical cases presented in our books and by so many other competent homeopaths? Rather than regurgitating the same, often flawed, studies disproving homeopathy, I would ask that he have an open mind about its effectiveness.

Currently, there are over 10,000 herbal/Unani product manufacturers in Pakistan and over 150,000 traditional healthcare practitioners, including homeopaths.

The Society of Homeopaths also claims that such well-known names as David Beckham, Jude Law, Helena Bonham Carter and many others are avid users of the medicinal treatment.

Does he know that in the 1800s almost all doctors were homeopaths and most medicine was "natural"?

"Sugar pill, sugar pill, never cured and never will!" Philadelphia medical students chanted this gibe at homeopaths in training in the 1890s.

Now the Advertising Standards Authority has blasted the Society of Homeopaths for misleading people with a list of illnesses it could help.

Most of the best homeopaths will generally admit that if they continue studying for the rest of their lives, they might learn to be as good a homeopath as they would like to become.

Homeopaths contend that this approach often fails to restore the patient to health and only suppresses symptoms.

Edzard Ernst, a professor of complementary medicine, also described the logic behind homeopathy as bizarre and accused homeopaths of lying to their patients.