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Friday 15 May 2015

Homeopathic arnica works! One only needs to change the definitions | Edzard Ernst

A new study of homeopathic arnica suggests efficacy. How come?

Subjects scheduled for rhinoplasty surgery with nasal bone osteotomies by a single surgeon were prospectively randomized to receive either oral perioperative arnica or placebo in a double-blinded fashion. A commercially available preparation was used which contained 12 capsules: one 500 mg capsule with arnica 1M is given preoperatively
on the morning of surgery and two more later that day after surgery. Thereafter, arnica was administered in the 12C potency three times daily for the next 3 days (‘‘C’’ indicates a 100-fold serial dilution; and M, a 1000-fold dilution) […]

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