Editing Charles III (section)

=== Alternative medicine ===
Charles has controversially championed [[alternative medicine]], including [[homeopathy]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Feder |first=Barnaby J. |date=9 January 1985 |title=More Britons Trying Holistic Medicine |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/09/garden/more-britons-trying-holistic-medicine.html |url-status=live |access-date=12 October 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601212116/http://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/09/garden/more-britons-trying-holistic-medicine.html |archive-date=1 June 2013 |oclc=1645522}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> He first publicly expressed his interest in the topic in December 1982, in an address to the [[British Medical Association]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bower |first=Tom |title=The Rebel Prince, The Power, Passion and Defiance of Prince Charles |date=2018 |publisher=William Collins |isbn=978-0-00-829173-0 |location=London |chapter="Chapter 6" |author-link=Tom Bower}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |author=The Prince of Wales |date=December 2012 |title=Integrated health and post modern medicine |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |volume=105 |issue=12 |pages=496–498 |doi=10.1258/jrsm.2012.12k095 |pmc=3536513 |pmid=23263785 | issn=0141-0768 }}; {{Cite web |last=Hamilton-Smith |first=Anthony |date=9 April 1990 |title=Medicine: Complementary and Conventional Treatments |url=https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1990-04-09/debates/6296182a-aae3-4b12-af8d-725a4f1f5325/MedicineComplementaryAndConventionaltreatments |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220913190402/https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1990-04-09/debates/6296182a-aae3-4b12-af8d-725a4f1f5325/MedicineComplementaryAndConventionaltreatments |archive-date=13 September 2022 |access-date=13 September 2022}}; {{cite web |last=Rainey |first=Sarah |date=12 November 2013 |title=Prince Charles and homeopathy: crank or revolutionary? |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/10433939/Prince-Charles-and-homeopathy-crank-or-revolutionary.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214095738/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/prince-charles/10433939/Prince-Charles-and-homeopathy-crank-or-revolutionary.html |archive-date=14 February 2021 |access-date=22 June 2022 |website=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |quote=}}</ref> This speech was seen as "combative" and "critical" of modern medicine and was met with anger by some medical professionals.<ref name=":1">{{Cite journal |last=Rawlins |first=Richard |date=March 2013 |title=Response to HRH |journal=Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine |volume=106 |issue=3 |pages=79–80 |doi=10.1177/0141076813478789 |pmc=3595413 |pmid=23481428 |quote=}}; {{Cite book |last=Ernst |first=Edzard |title=Charles, the alternative prince an unauthorised biography |date=2022 |publisher=Imprint Academic |isbn=978-1-78836-070-8}}; {{Cite journal |last=Weissmann |first=Gerald |date=September 2006 |title=Homeopathy: Holmes, Hogwarts, and the Prince of Wales |journal=The FASEB Journal |volume=20 |issue=11 |pages=1755–1758 |doi=10.1096/fj.06-0901ufm |pmid=16940145 |s2cid=9305843 |quote=|doi-access=free }}</ref> Similarly, [[the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health]] (FIH) attracted opposition from the scientific and medical community over its campaign encouraging [[general practitioner]]s to offer [[Herbal medicine|herbal]] and other alternative treatments to NHS patients.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Carr-Brown |first=Jonathon |date=14 August 2005 |title=Charles's 'alternative GP' campaign stirs anger |work=[[The Times]] |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/charless-alternative-gp-campaign-stirs-anger-zlq9rbk9ndf |url-status=live |access-date=11 March 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622192659/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/charless-alternative-gp-campaign-stirs-anger-zlq9rbk9ndf |archive-date=22 June 2018}} {{Subscription required}}</ref><ref name="guardian-coffee-cancer">{{Cite news |last=Revill |first=Jo |date=27 June 2004 |title=Now Charles backs coffee cure for cancer |work=[[The Observer]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/jun/27/themonarchy.medicineandhealth |url-status=live |access-date=19 June 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927115424/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2004/jun/27/themonarchy.medicineandhealth |archive-date=27 September 2013}}</ref>

In April 2008, ''The Times'' published a letter from [[Edzard Ernst]], professor of [[complementary medicine]] at the [[University of Exeter]], which asked the FIH to recall two guides promoting alternative medicine. That year, Ernst published a book with [[Simon Singh]] called ''[[Trick or Treatment: Alternative Medicine on Trial]]'' and mockingly dedicated to "HRH the Prince of Wales". The last chapter is highly critical of Charles's advocacy of complementary and alternative treatments.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Singh |first1=Simon |title=Trick or Treatment: Alternative Medicine on Trial |title-link=Trick or Treatment? |last2=Ernst |first2=Edzard |date=2008 |publisher=[[Bantam Press]] |author-link=Simon Singh |author-link2=Edzard Ernst}}</ref>

Charles's Duchy Originals produced a variety of complementary medicinal products, including a "Detox Tincture" that Ernst denounced as "financially exploiting the vulnerable" and "outright [[quackery]]".<ref name="TelegraphAltMed">{{Cite news |last=Walker |first=Tim |date=31 October 2009 |title=Prince Charles lobbies Andy Burnham on complementary medicine for NHS |work=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/6474595/Prince-Charles-lobbies-Andy-Burnham-on-complementary-medicine-for-NHS.html |url-status=live |access-date=1 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327154332/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/6474595/Prince-Charles-lobbies-Andy-Burnham-on-complementary-medicine-for-NHS.html |archive-date=27 March 2010}}</ref> Charles personally wrote at least seven letters<ref>{{Cite web |last=Colquhoun |first=David |author-link=David Colquhoun |date=12 March 2007 |title=HRH 'meddling in politics' |url=http://www.dcscience.net/?p=89 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101115065128/http://www.dcscience.net/?p=89 |archive-date=15 November 2010 |access-date=6 November 2009 |publisher=DC's Improbable Science}}</ref> to the [[Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency]] shortly before it relaxed the rules governing labelling of such herbal products, a move that was widely condemned by scientists and medical bodies.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Hawkes |first1=Nigel |last2=Henderson |first2=Mark |date=1 September 2006 |title=Doctors attack natural remedy claims |work=[[The Times]] |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/healthcare/article/doctors-attack-natural-remedy-claims-mchf8nkw22j |url-status=live |access-date=22 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180622193109/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/doctors-attack-natural-remedy-claims-mchf8nkw22j |archive-date=22 June 2018}} {{subscription required}}</ref> It was reported in October 2009 that Charles had lobbied the health secretary, [[Andy Burnham]], regarding greater provision of alternative treatments in the NHS.<ref name=TelegraphAltMed/>

Following accounting irregularities, the FIH announced its closure in April 2010.<ref>{{Cite web |work=FIH |date=30 April 2010 |title=Statement from the Prince's Foundation for Integrated Health |url=http://www.fih.org.uk/media_centre/closure_of_fih.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202063318/http://www.fih.org.uk/media_centre/closure_of_fih.html |archive-date=2 February 2013}}</ref><ref name="GuardianCollege">{{Cite news |last=Sample |first=Ian |date=2 August 2010 |title=College of Medicine born from ashes of Prince Charles's holistic health charity |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/02/prince-charles-college-medicine-holistic-complementary |url-status=live |access-date=24 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803055156/http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/02/prince-charles-college-medicine-holistic-complementary |archive-date=3 August 2010 |oclc=60623878}}</ref> The FIH was re-branded and re-launched later in 2010 as [[the College of Medicine]],<ref name=GuardianCollege/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Colquhoun |first=David |author-link=David Colquhoun |date=29 October 2010 |title=Don't be deceived. The new "College of Medicine" is a fraud and delusion |url=http://www.dcscience.net/?p=3632 |url-status=live |access-date=24 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120911051401/http://www.dcscience.net/?p=3632 |archive-date=11 September 2012}}; {{Cite journal |last=Hawkes |first=Nigel| url-access=subscription|date=29 October 2010 |title=Prince's foundation metamorphoses into new College of Medicine |url=http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6126.full |url-status=live |journal=[[British Medical Journal]] |volume=341 |issue=1 |page=6126 |doi=10.1136/bmj.c6126 |issn=0959-8138 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101202052820/http://www.bmj.com/content/341/bmj.c6126.full |archive-date=2 December 2010 |access-date=17 December 2010 |s2cid=72649598}}</ref> of which Charles became a patron in 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 December 2019 |title=HRH The Prince of Wales is announced as College of Medicine Patron |url=https://collegeofmedicine.org.uk/hrh-the-prince-of-wales-is-announced-as-college-of-medicine-patron |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220625044939/https://collegeofmedicine.org.uk/hrh-the-prince-of-wales-is-announced-as-college-of-medicine-patron |archive-date=25 June 2022 |access-date=22 June 2022 |website=College of Medicine}}</ref>