Regulating Alternative Medicines

As with all Institute publications, the views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the Institute’s members or Board of Directors. [...] Only registered members of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of British Columbia and the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of Ontario, respectively, are allowed Canada to call themselves a TCM practitioner. [...] Other Divergences in Regulatory Practices and scholars argue for an umbrella regulatory body Reform Proposals that would regulate all or most forms of CAM A striking, even disconcerting, feature of the practitioners according to a uniform and consistent evolution and regulation of the various CAMs is set of principles (Ries and Fisher 2013, 295–6; Van the lack of anything approaching consistency o [...] Risk is commonly mandatory warnings of potentially serious side thought of as a product of the probability of a effects if, as in the case of herbal medicines, taken negative contingency occurring and the severity in excess. [...] In such cases, the absence of appropriate of the consequences of that contingency in the warnings might trigger penal sanctions and event that it does occur – often characterized as potential tortious liability, and would remain subject the “expected cost” of a decision to assume the risk to general prohibitions against fraudulent, false or in question.