‘Health worker’ fined for advising patient to swap HIV drugs for lavender & essential oils

‘A private ‘health worker’ has been fined by a Swiss court for telling an HIV-positive patient to ditch her treatment drugs and instead use lavender and essential oils. Heeding the advice, the woman stopped taking her medication in 2014.
The advice was given during a 2014 consultation with the man, who runs a clinic in the canton of Valais, Le Nouvelliste newspaper reported. The patient agreed to the natural ‘treatment plan’ and abandoned her prescription drugs.
“A patient had, at his request, stopped taking her anti-HIV medication after a consultation at the end of 2014,” a document outlining the charges against the man states.’
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