A resolution recognizing the right of citizens to Homeopathic treatment has just been passed in the House of Representatives in the State of Oklahoma in the US.

The Resolution refers to Homeopathy as a low cost, highly effective way to treat illness and says all citizens should have access to information, products and homeoapthic services.

The resolution recognizes Homeopathy as a “natural system of healing with its own theory, scientific parameters  and practice unique to it”. 

It says the clinical use of Homeopathy “has proven to excel in the healing of a wide variety of ailments, whether they be mental, emotional or physical in nature”.

It acknowledges the safety of remedies, how they are “unlikely to cause severe adverse reactions and are not known to interfere with conventional drugs” and it points to the authorization of remedies by the Food and Drug Administration.

The Resolution describes how Homeopathy has been successfully practiced in America since the 1820’s and in Oklahoma “since before Statehood” by “professional health care practitioners of all disciplines, including medical doctors, osteopaths, chiropractors, veterinarians and the like, as well as trained lay Homeopaths who enjoy equal professional standing”.

It says Homeopathy “has proven through several government studies to be a safe, low cost and high effective means of ameliorating illness as well as supporting health”.It is a matter of “public record that Homeopathy has proven to be particularly successful in the prevention and treatment of infectious diseases, as recorded in Oklahoma City during a smallpox epidemic in the 1930’s.

The Resolution concludes: “Now, therefore be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the 1st Session of the 52nd Oklahoma Legislature:  That this body believes that it is the right of all citizens of the State of Oklahoma to have access to all information, products and services regarding homeopathic medicine.“That in celebration of the 254th Anniversary of the birth of Samuel Hahnemann, founder of Homeopathy, April 10 through to April 16, 2009 is recognized as World Homeopathy Awareness Week in the State of Oklahoma.“That a copy of this Resolution be distributed to the Governor and Lieutenant Governor of this state and the State Commissioner of Health”.04/14/09