Originally posted in July 2015. Bizarrely flagged up today (!) for containing adult content. I've removed a word from Comfort Click's upheld ASA adjudication for 'Wartrol wart relief spray' as the location of the warts appears to have triggered the flagging...
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These days it's fairly rare to get an actual Advertising Standards
Authority (ASA) adjudication on a misleading homeopathy claim. That's
because most homeopathy complaints are fast-tracked to the ASA's
Compliance team rather than being investigated (because the ASA, like so
many others, has previously investigated homeopathy and found there's
no evidence that it's effective for any condition) and the Compliance
team doesn't publish its findings.
Last week there was a new adjudication, against Teddington Homeopathy,
for claims made about using 'CEASE Therapy' for treating autism.
There are now 11 ASA adjudications upheld against misleading homeopathy
claims, 2 upheld in part and 1 not upheld. There are also 11 'informally
resolved' complaints where the homeopath has agreed to amend their
website and remove the incorrect claims, so no further action needs be
taken.
Since most homeopaths do amend their website when asked by the ASA
relatively few of them find their way to the non-compliant online
advertisers but the Islington Homeopathy Clinic has managed to make it there.
Here's the list.
ASA adjudicatons upheld
Teddington HomeopathyRe: CEASE therapy
Date: 22 July 2015
Decision: Upheld
Happy Homeopathy
Re: menopause relief
Date: 11 June 2014
Decision: Upheld
Islington Homeopathy Clinic
Date: 26 February 2014
Decision: Upheld
Steve Scrutton Homeopathy
Re: homeopathy for depression
Date: 18 September 2013
Decision: Upheld
Steve Scrutton Homeopathy
Re: homeopathy for influenza
Date: 8 August 2012
Decision: Upheld
Society of Homeopaths
Date: 3 July 2013
Decision: Upheld
Dr Batras Positive Health Clinic (UK) Ltd
Re: homeopathy for psoriasis
Date: 27 April 2011
Decision: Upheld
British Institute for Allergy and Environmental Therapy
Re: allergy testing
Date: 9 March 2011
Decision: Upheld
The Homeopathic Clinic
Re: thermal mammography
Date: 2 March 2011
Decision: Upheld
Comfort Click Ltd t/a ShytoBuy.co.uk
Re: homeopathic wart relief spray
Date: 4 July 2012
Decision: Upheld
CNM The College of Naturopathic Medicine Ltd
Re: naturopathy
Date: 13 March 2013
Decision: Upheld
ASA adjudications upheld in part
Homeopathy: Medicine for the 21st CenturyDate: 3 July 2013
Decision: Upheld in part
Ainsworths (London) Ltd t/a Ainsworths Homeopathic Pharmacy
Date: 27 July 2011
Decision: Upheld in part
ASA adjudications NOT upheld
Neals Yard (Natural Remedies) LtdDate: 2 February 2011
Decision: Not Upheld
Informally resolved cases
Happy Homeopathy 23 Oct 2013Maya Homeopathy 23 April 2014
Naturally Well Homeopathy 12 Feb 2014
Amanda Hughes Homeopathy 12 Mar 2014
Classical Homeopathic Healing 22 May 2013
The Kernow Chiropractic Clinics 19 Jun 2013
Team Health Windsor 14 Aug 2013
The Rock Clinic t/a Rock Clinic Association 19 Jun 2013
North Lakes Clinic 19 Jun 2013
University College London Hospitals t/a
The Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine 2 May 2012