Biological Remedies Heel
The Biological cure Heel GmbH is one of the world's largest manufacturer of homeopathic remedies , based in Baden-Baden and is a subsidiary of DELTON AG , Bad Homburg.
Companies
The company was founded in 1936 in Berlin by Hans-Heinrich Reckeweg (1905–1985). "Heel" is made up of the first letters of the Latin sentence: "Herba est ex luce" ("the medicinal plant draws its strength from sunlight"). In addition to Germany, Heel has other locations in Belgium, Brazil, Chile, Canada, Colombia, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, South Africa and the USA. The number of employees is 1,300 worldwide, around 800 of them in Germany.
Heel focuses on homeopathic combination products . Heel's preparations support homotoxicology . The homotoxicological system, like homeopathy, provides a scientifically unrecognized alternative medicine model of the development of diseases.
criticism
The company finances the endowed professorship of the head of the scientifically controversial Institute for Transcultural Health Sciences at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt / Oder, Harald Walach .
With Claus Fritzsche, Heel financed an operator of several websites who described himself as a journalist and dedicated himself to defaming critics of complementary medical practices. Fritzsche used different servers that were linked to one another, so that the search results u. a. manipulated by Google and thus bring criticism to the fore. A victim of this practice was e.g. B. the British researcher Edzard Ernst .
Web links
Coordinates: 48 ° 46 ′ 52.5 " N , 8 ° 10 ′ 56" E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heel Facts and Figures (as of April 5, 2012) ( Memento of March 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Stiftung Warentest (Ed.): The other medicine. Benefits and risks of gentle healing methods . Berlin, 2nd edition 1992, p. 184 f.
- ↑ Esoteric Institute before the end? (June 18, 2012).
- ^ Homeopathy lobby on the net - Dirty methods of gentle medicine , article in the Süddeutsche from June 30, 2012, accessed on August 8, 2012.