Harald Gaier

Who is Harald Gaier?

Harald Camillo Gaier is an Austrian-born British osteopath, homeopath, naturopath, master herbalist, acupuncturist and author of the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Homoeopathy, former president of the British Naturopathic Association and founder of the General Naturopathic Council, which has since become the de facto regulatory body for the UK's naturopathic medical profession, under the aegis of the UK Government's Department of Health and is a constituent member of the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council.

He came to the United Kingdom from Vienna, Austria in 1987 after having been invited by The Royal Society of Medicine to contribute to their ‘Colloquia on Medicine and Complementary Therapies’ that were held at 1 Wimpole Street, London between April 1984 and January 1987. There he delivered a paper entitled ‘Statutory Recognition of So-called Associated Health Service Professions: An Anomaly in Medical Politics’. This constituted the first serious impetus in the UK toward the gradual official regulation of non-orthodox medicine.