{"id":2702,"date":"2021-09-23T22:24:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-23T14:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2021-09-23T22:24:12","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T14:24:12","slug":"homeopathy-should-pharmacists-concerned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/homeopathy-should-pharmacists-concerned\/","title":{"rendered":"Homeopathy: Should Pharmacists Concerned?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The fundament of current healthcare system is based on medical practice emphasized on science and evidence-based treatment or drugs. This system is called allopathy where professional healthcare workers are licensed to mitigate symptoms and diseases using their scientific knowledge.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In contrast, homeopathy is a complementary treatment based on the concept of \u201clike cure like\u201d where illness is treated with ultra-dilute substances that cause similar symptoms in healthy people and trigger the body\u2019s natural defenses. However, homeopathic products are derived from natural products where their efficacy are not scientifically tested and clinically approved. They can pose unknown side effects to the patients. Besides, diluted homeopathic dosages may lower medicinal effect of diseases such as diabetes and hypertension which need accurate dosage of treatments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although there is high risk of practicing homeopathy due to lack of scientific evidence, homeopathy is gaining importance as people believe it brings lesser side effects as modern medicines. Since pharmacists are highly educated professionals with understanding of science, they have the responsibility to advise the public on appropriate use of homeopathy to prevent medication errors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Firstly, pharmacists should not recommend and sell homeopathic products that are not clinically approved because being a pharmacist is to apply knowledge, experience, and skills to assure optimal outcomes for patients. If a patient requests advice on homeopathy, the pharmacist should advise patient to approach scientific treatment based on the patient\u2019s condition. Lastly, pharmacists should also ensure patients who take a homeopathic product to not stop taking their prescribed medication.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19.1.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2703\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19.1-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"992\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19.1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19.1-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19.1-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19.1.png 1100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 992px) 100vw, 992px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19.2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19.2-300x225.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"991\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19.2-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/19.2.png 638w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 991px) 100vw, 991px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fundament of current healthcare system is based on medical practice emphasized on science and evidence-based treatment or drugs. This system is called allopathy where professional healthcare workers are licensed to mitigate symptoms and diseases using their scientific knowledge.\u00a0 In contrast, homeopathy is a complementary treatment based on the concept of \u201clike cure like\u201d where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2705,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/2705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukm.my\/epharmaline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}