Alternative medicines are being majorly opt for today and so is there use on a rising trend. But, highlighting that this growing trend should continue only after thorough research, a peak complementary medicine body has recently urged the federal government to put in more money and efforts into researching therapies like acupuncture, homeopathy and radionics, before serving the patients with same if they want to seek desired results.

While speaking in Sydney on Friday, the National Institute of Complementary Medicine (NICM) Executive Director Mr. Alan Bensoussan said that more consumers are losing out with the alternative techniques because of the big lack that is lacking in the research of the natural therapies.

He further said that underfunding is giving alternative products without having their health claims empirically tested, which can prove very hazardous for a human life.

"As a nation we collect at least $100 million in GST off complementary medicines but I don't see any of that going back to shoring up the evidence for consumers”, Mr. Bensoussan told AAP. "There's an obligation on government to do that for consumers”, he added in his statement.

As per records of NICM, two in every three Australians are regular users of one or other type of alternative medicine thus it is very vital that complementary medicines that are today receiving just a fraction of the government money allocated to traditional forms starts receiving better than this.

Calculations say that the medicine industry is worth about $2 billion a year claiming it to be a big industry but this so-called big industry is employing only 30,000 people. This clearly states that even less than a percent of the national health and medical research budget helps supporting complementary medicine research, which is definitely far less than what is required.