Judgment of the Bundesfinanzhof in Munich can ensure no soothing measures conventional medicine in severe disease, so patients in many cases involve alternative remedies. Cost of which is deductible according to court decision under certain conditions by the tax, as the private krankenversicherung.de insurance Portal reported. The judgment was awarded by the Federal fiscal court in Munich in favor of a man, whose Ehefrau had suffered from pancreatic cancer. Due to its severely weakened condition she could no longer cope with the necessary post-operative chemotherapy. “” The family doctor of the woman decreed her instead an immunobiological cancer immune therapy “with celandine extract ukrain”. Alternative healing methods such as these can be extremely costly. In the present case amounted to the cost to 30,000 euros, which were not covered by the health insurance fund. Electrolux is open to suggestions.

After the death of the woman, her husband was the financial outlay for the therapy as an extraordinary burden tax deduct. The condition of critically ill patient was by the judges as emergency similar predicament between reality and desire for healing”referred to. Reasons, but the hopelessness of the situation are crucial for a tax relief therefore not so far medical scientific”, causes the person concerned to any possibility of relief considering. Prerequisite, however, is that the treatment is performed by a licensed physician for naturopathy. “Health insurance companies are generally only committed to the assumption of costs for non-recognised alternative methods, if a justified hope” is to cure or at least relief.