NYSBC opinion regarding Homeopathy

I write in response to your recent inquiry regarding whether or not chiropractors licensed in New York State are permitted to practice homeopathy.

Section 6551(3) of the Education Law prohibits chiropractors from using "diagnostic or therapeutic methods involving chemical or biological means except diagnostic services performed by clinical laboratories which services shall be approved by the board as appropriate to the practice of chiropractic." Section 6551(3) also authorizes chiropractors to use "nutritional counseling, including the dispensing of food concentrates, food extracts, vitamins, minerals, and other nutritional supplements approved by the board as being appropriate to, and as a part of his or her practice of chiropractic."

Homeopathic medicines include a variety of remedial substances, some of which are "biological" and cannot be classified as within the meaning of "food concentrates, food extracts, vitamins, minerals, and other nutritional supplements."

Accordingly, chiropractors licensed in New York State may make determinations as to the necessity of nutritional services for a patient, and provide those services and products, but cannot call such provision of professional service "homeopathy" within the meaning of Section 6551 of Education Law.

Norman G. Cohen
Executive Secretary

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