Complementary Medicine Evaluation Programme

In 1998, the Swiss government began a comprehensive Program for Evaluating Complementary Medicine (PEK : Programm Evaluation Komplementärmedizin = Program for Evaluating Complementary Medicine) to study the role and effectiveness of complementary medicine, which was playing an ever-increasing role in the Swiss medical system.

According to the PEK Report, results of the evaluation were inconclusive, and in June 2005, the five complementary therapies under evaluation – anthroposophical medicine, homeopathy, neural therapy, phytotherapy and traditional Chinese medicine (more precisely, traditional Chinese herbal therapy) – were removed from the list of services covered by the compulsory health insurance scheme (KLV).

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