Posted by:
EssexExMo
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Date: December 04, 2010 01:31PM
anon this time Wrote:
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> I've used other homeopathics that haven't done
> anything for me. There was no difference in my
> level of belief of nonbelief that any of them
> would work for me. Some have worked for me, others
> have not. Nothing placebo about them. I've had the
> same experience with prescription medication. Some
> work, some don't.
>
> Don't knock it till you try it.
from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArnicaHomoeopathic preparations of Arnica are widely marketed and used. In the UK, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has registered the product for sprains and bruising under the National Rules for Homoeopathic Products (2006). These rules allow claims of efficacy for these conditions to be made on the packaging in the absence of similar evidence to that required for conventional medicines under the Medicines Act 1968 and 1971.[13] A systematic review of clinical trials showed that arnica was no more effective than a placebo.[14] In some quarters, the fact that homoeopathic Arnica has been the subject of published clinical trials at all has drawn criticism grounded on the allegation that the basic premise of the high dilutions used in homoeopathy would be inherently flawed.[15]
With respect to the range of homoeopathic Arnica creams available on the market, these are generally formulated using the mother tincture rather than a dilution, and THEY THEREFORE DO IN FACT CONTAIN MEASURABLE QUANTITIES OF THE MEDICALLY ACTIVE SUBSTANCE [emphasis mine]
if it contains some measurable quantity of ingredient, it aint Homoeopathy