In Brief
A homeopathy school challenged a Kerala High Court judgment that restricted homeopathic practitioners to prescribing medicines only as immunity boosters for COVID-19. The Supreme Court held that the Ministry of AYUSH's guidelines explicitly permit homeopathic practitioners to prescribe for preventive, prophylactic, symptom management, and add-on conventional treatment purposes. The Court found the High Court had misinterpreted the guidelines by taking a restrictive view and had gone beyond the scope of the original petition. The Court clarified that homeopathy is a therapeutic aid, not a cure, and that existing professional regulations already prohibit unethical advertisement.
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