Archanus is the first brand of European wine produced from grapes grown using 100 percent homeopathic agriculture. Tiny amounts of homeopathic product are used to treat fungi and insects. The first experiments were done in the Vinho Verde region, with the first harvest done in 2009, with a very limited number of bottles.

In 2010, new experiments took place in the Alentejo Region of Portugal. The grapes for Archanus Alicante Bouschet were harvested in the September 2010, the wine is now ageing in oak barrels, and it will be launched exclusively onto the Portuguese and Brazilian market in July 2011.

Brand owner, Manuela Ribeiro, sees a great future for homeopathic wines, “This is a new approach to  agricultural practice, which I am sure will help to create greater balance in the natural environment.”

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The Yeo Valley dairy herd is committed to an organic system which includes a proactive approach to animal welfar and excludes the routine use of conventional medicines,. The herdsman favours homeopathic treatment wherever possible and sees homeopathy as a viable, practical option.

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Dr. Luc Montagnier, the French virologist who won the Nobel Prize in 2008 for discovering the AIDS virus, has surprised the scientific community with his strong support for homeopathic medicine (taken from an article by Dana Ullman on the Natural News website).

In a remarkable interview published in Science magazine of December 24, 2010, (1) Professor Luc Montagnier, has expressed support for the often maligned and misunderstood medical specialty of homeopathic medicine. Although homeopathy has persisted for 200+ years throughout the world and has been the leading alternative treatment method used by physicians in Europe, (2) most conventional physicians and scientists have expressed skepticism about its efficacy due to the extremely small doses of medicines used.

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The Swiss people have voted five Complementary Medical Therapies back onto the Swiss Health system for ‘paid for health therapies’.

Previously taken off the list of therapies accepted as ‘insurable health costs’ by the Swiss Government, these five therapies are now back on the list after two thirds of the population voted in their favour.

The five therapies are homeopathy, herbal medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), Holistic medicine (“This method looks holistically at the body, life force, soul and spirit. Care involves a holistic treatment with natural substances as well as conventional medical drugs.”), and Neural Therapy (based on the theory that trauma can produce long-standing disturbances in the electrochemical function of tissues. Treatment tries to affect the nervous system with injections of local anaesthetics.”).

These therapies will be ‘re-imbursable’ from 2012 and will be officially “on test” – to prove their worth – until 2017.

A spokesperson from the Federation of Swiss Societies of Complementary Medicine, Hansueli Albonico said “” I really welcome this move towards the international arena. I see this as a great opportunity. In Germany, for example, the medical profession has been engaged in a dialogue for the past decade on pluralism in medicine and applying different methods – always with a view to effectiveness, appropriateness and efficiency…… We need a shift away from methods used for testing effectiveness, such as are appropriate for drugs, to studies that show the overall benefit provided by these [complementary] methods”

The head of communications from the Swiss Interior Ministry explained, “Until now we have not been able to prove fully that these five therapies are efficient, cost-effective and suitable. Some do it more than others. The goal of these six years is to fill in the gaps for those that don’t manage to [meet these criteria] or do so only partially. We’ll see what happens, we cannot prejudge the results.”

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