my view is that anything which calls itself a medicine should be subject to the medicinal regulations
then the vast, vast majority of "alternative" medicines would fall foul of Article 12:

The marketing authorisation shall be refused if [...] it appears that the applicant has not properly or sufficiently demonstrated the quality, safety or efficacy of the medicinal product.

thus, they wouldn't be able to call themselves "medicines" any more - problem solved
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Fri 11 Oct 2013, 18:05, 1 reply)

Agreed
If you're marketing it as a "treatment" or "therapy", then it should be regulated under a single united set of standards. The most basic of which should be "Yes, but does it actually work?"

Instead, we have a system of carve-outs for traditional herbal preparations and other quackery, and systems of pseudo-regulation to help rubber-stamp them with the whiff of legitimacy.

But even by their own rules there's still a big problem
( Amish Information Systems hates misplaced, commas, Mon 14 Oct 2013, 13:37, closed)