VANCOUVER — British Columbia’s top doctor and an alternative-medicine group are both expressing concern about a Victoria naturopath who treated a four-year-old boy with a rabid-dog saliva remedy. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says she is urging Health Canada to review its approval of lyssin, a naturopathic product that claims to contain the infected saliva. “Health Canada takes the safety of health products on the Canadian market very seriously,” Health Canada said in an emailed statement. If it doesn’t work, then it doesn’t matter what the remedies are made from, because if it’s just water, who cares. It said the use of nosodes, or homeopathic remedies, goes back hundreds of years and they are used in practice regularly.

Source: thestar April 20, 2018 18:33 UTC