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A B.C. naturopath who came under fire earlier this year after she boasted of using homeopathic saliva from a rabid dog to cure aggression in a preschooler has published new claims.

She says she cured a two-year-old of “tics” using a homeopathic remedy for “frights” that his mother likely passed along during pregnancy; and fixed dyslexia in a boy who “seems a bit spacey” and saw words floating on the page with a single dose of a homeopathic mixture made from marijuana.

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Recent tweets posted by naturopath Anke Zimmermann have left critics apoplectic about the “utterly bonkers nature of homeopathic ‘thinking’ ” and others pleading for regulators to do something about the seriously misleading claims on some naturopathic websites.

In one recent tweet, Zimmermann linked to an older blog post in which she detailed giving “Liam,” a two-year-old with tics that had been “pronounced incurable” by a neurologist, a homeopathic preparation of fly agaric, a mushroom. At one point the child broke out in full body hives, became “flaccid and limp” and had to be taken to emergency. “The doctor there said that he (had) never seen a rash like that,” Zimmermann wrote.