Oscillococcinum – #1 Homeopathic Flu Product Is A Sugar Pill
What is Oscillococcinum? It is a tiny little pill of milk powder and sugar. Plus the secret ingredient of DUCK LIVER! That’s right they think that duck liver can stop you from getting the flu. Well actually, that’s not true either. This homeopathic product is diluted to 200C.
Just in case you don’t go to the link… 200C is one molecule of Duck Liver in 1 followed by 400 “zeros” molecules of water. That amount of water would be bigger than the entire universe.
There is a great write up at Homeo Watch.
Since 1925, Oscillococcinum has been prepared as follows. Into a one litre bottle, a mixture of pancreatic juice and glucose is poured. Next a Canard de Barbarie is decapitated and 35 grams of its liver and 15 grams of its heart are put into the bottle. Why liver? Doctor Roy writes: “The Ancients considered the liver as the seat of suffering, even more important than the heart, which is a very profound insight, because it is on the level of the liver that the pathological modifications of the blood happen, and also there the quality of the energy of our heart muscle changes in a durable manner.” Maybe the French tendency to call any form of not well-being a “crise de foie” (“bilious attack”) had also something to do with it. After 40 days in the sterile bottle, liver and heart autolyse (disintegrate) into a kind of goo, which is then “potentized” with the Korsakov method.
It is complete fantasy. But wait…. It can do more….
Diabetics who are afraid when during a thunderstorm their husband seems to be late, while they have a feeling of electric currents through their varicose veined legs, anal itch and itchy bumps on their wrist, that they keep trying to wash off in a maniacal way, especially when they have a runny nose and stubbornly resist advice not to worry.
And….
Tuberculosis patients sensitive to chilling.
Luetic patients having obsessive ideas.
General symptoms: Lean, pale, chronic invalidity, weakness, need for fresh air even when afraid of cold. Stiffness, shivering, feeling too hot, headache, weakness, repeating shakes descending down the body. Feeling of electric current running through the diseased part. Bitter and grayish secretions, not much.
Aggravates: when you think about it, by moisture, fog, changes of weather, in the night, when resting, after eating eggs or drinking milk.
Improves: in free air, at the seaside, by heat, resting, after evacuations.
Sleep: sleepless with agitation during the night.
Mental symptoms: Latent anxiety, especially when someone doesn’t return on time) fear, unquietness without clear cause. Impatience, improves when one is busy. Quick speech and understanding. Futility, tendency to be maniacal. Pettyness. Can’t stand disorder, fear of dirt and pollution. Urge to often wash hands. Afraid to shake hands for fear of contagion. Stubbornness. Depressed, thinks back of his past fear of thunderstorms.
Local symptoms: Clouding of the senses. Sudden vertigo. Pain in the right of the head, with repeated shaking. Heavy feeling in the head. Sudden feeling of decoupling in the head. Headache in the front of the head, also occipital, worse in the morning than in the evening, better when one blows the nose. Pain in the maxillary region. Feeling of something running across the face on the right half. Feeling of a bug that runs over the face during the night.
And….
Violent needle-like pain in the ears; flu-like state; runny nose; yellow conjunctiva; dry painful cough; wet cough with mucopurulent expectoration; whole tongue putrid; vomit; pain in the appendix region; abdominal cramp followed by fetid smelling diarrhea; persistent obstipation; full feeling in the belly; anal itch, worse in the warmth of the bed, with or without hemorrhoids; itch after antibiotics; hyperglycaemia; painful micturation; cloudy urine; sugar in urine; fetid and yellow leucorrhea; hypotension; hypertension; varicose veins; phlebitis; ulcerations in the legs, painful in the night; chronic streptococcal eczema; feelings of electric shocks in the lower leg; little bumps that itch on the inside of the wrist.
That is one powerful sugar pill.
The problem with ‘sugar pills’ is that homeopathic remedies have worked on pets and babies who cannot be told what the ‘placebo’ effect should be.
Even beyond the molecular number where water should not have memory, there is effect.
I work on the level of ‘chi’ which is a ‘skeptics nightmare” because what effect I have had, personally.
NO! It does not work on pets or babies. Well, not any more than a placebo does. When you treat a patient and give them comfort and attention a percentage will report and or show improvement just because of the symptoms. I challenge you to show me one double blind study that shows homeopathy works on babies!
Or a double blind study that it works, period.
Shirley:
You don’t have to be told about the placebo effect to be affected by it. Placebo effects have been shown for both animals and babies.
http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=263
Regardless of that, if this stuff works, they should work better than a placebo under a double blind study. Can you explain why homeopathy hasn’t been shown to be more effective better than a placebo, if homeopathy has an effect (other than the placebo effect, of course)? Without that, there’s no reason to take your argument seriously.