Homeopathics fare poorly in study
I’m not sure what to make of this study. It seems hard to argue with the conclusions. But I know last night my son was coughing during the night. He didn’t even wake up when I gave him the homeopathic cough tablets, but he stopped coughing for several hours. When he started again, I gave him more tablets, and he slept the rest of the night. He’s three, so I can’t see the placebo affect applying to him. You can read more about the study here.
We use the coldcalm and oscisillo when flu and colds hit. This, with no refined sugar, echinacea, healthy organic foods, lots of rest and lovin – we can knock out germs so fast that literally there have been 1 day colds or half day flu bugs. Recently a family who lived with us for a month moved in with 4 very sick children who each had a high fever for 5 days. Our 3 year old caught the bug and whipped thru it in 30 hours. Our 7 year old who played with the sick children in close quarters never caught it at all. Like you, I don’t know how effective homeopathic remedies are but I know mixed with all the other things I mentioned, that we keep pretty healthy around here. which causes me to wonder who the study was done on – were these day care and public school mass vaccinated children/adults with a diet of twinkies and spaghetti-o’s? I would think even that homeopathic remedies, being more delicate, need a balanced strong immune system to have a good chance of working. Just my thought.
Comment by candace — September 14, 2005 @ 9:52 am