But some of those packages hold no medicine at all, just homeopathic remedies.
How We Know Homeopathy Is Useless
Homeopathicdoesnt meannatural, orherbal, orhome remedy.
Take coffee, for example.
Coffee keeps you awake.
Caffeine doesnt work this way.
Or sometimes its a little packet of sugar pills, orsometimes 40 proof alcohol.
So our 1902 textdescribes coffee extractas both causing and curing sleeplessness.
The fact that homeopathic drugs are safe is probably also a selling point.
Some of the cold medicines include alicorice root extract, amount not specified.
A few homeopathic products are a sort of double scam, in that theyre notactuallyhomeopathic at all.
Awesome, except that putting zinc in your nose can cause you topermanently lose your sense of smell.
Zicam reformulated their swabs*.
The homeopathic drugs were priced between $7.39 and $11.49.
you could get water out of your tap for pennies.
Its best to avoid homeopathic remedies entirely.
They might be harmful, and even in the best case theyre a ripoff.
In the store shelf in the picture, the homeopathic drugs were priced between $7.39 and $11.49.
you’ve got the option to get water out of your tap for pennies.
This is also fake Latin, because the muscovy ducks actual scientific name isCairina moschata.
Dont let the jargon throw you; its all garbage.
Does the gel work, then, to reduce pain and prevent bruising?
We dont know;maybe, but it hasnt been tested the same way real drugs have been tested.
Good luck with that.
Dont buy this crap.
Illustration by Sam Woolley.
Snake oil salesman photo byCarol Highsmith.
