01 Sep 10
jeez, $19.99 for a 12-count from Target.com!
http://www.google.com/products?q=Oscillococcinum&aq=f
Boiron - Oscillococcinum, 12 pellets
Nature's #1 Flu Medicine™ Take Oscillo at the First Sign of Flu! *Please read package for full directions and warnings. ~Non-drowsy, no drug interactions ....
02 Sep 10
Originally posted by KazetNagorraQuite so, and I hope the coalition government will put a stop to this waste of money.
Well, if they are going to prescribe them to hypochondriacs (which I suppose is what homeopathic medicine is useful for), you could at least just have someone make pills with nothing for 2 cents a pack and vary the labels a bit.
02 Sep 10
Originally posted by zeeblebotThere is something really wrong there.
60X 30C 10**60 Dilution advocated by Hahnemann for most purposes;[61] patient would need to consume 10**41 pills (a billion times the mass of the Earth), or 10**34 gallons of liquid remedy (10 billion times the volume of the Earth) to consume a single molecule of the original substance[67]m
Are you saying that to make these pills, they put one mole of original substance into a pot of water 10 billion times the volume of the earth x the number of molecules in 1 mole?
Or is it in fact impossible to achieve 30C via dilution?
400X 200C 10**400 Dilution of popular homeopathic flu remedy Oscillococcinum
You seem to be claiming that such dilutions are in fact possible. How is it done?
02 Sep 10
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Originally posted by twhiteheadThey probably start with an initial amount that is far smaller than a mole, so then you don't need as much water to reach such dilute concentrations.
There is something really wrong there.
Are you saying that to make these pills, they put one mole of original substance into a pot of water 10 billion times the volume of the earth x the number of molecules in 1 mole?
Or is it in fact impossible to achieve 30C via dilution?
[b]400X 200C 10**400 Dilution of popular homeopathic flu remedy Oscillococcinum
You seem to be claiming that such dilutions are in fact possible. How is it done?[/b]
Also they just throw away most of the initial amount.
02 Sep 10
Originally posted by twhiteheadhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100210065644AA5WHO7
There is something really wrong there.
Are you saying that to make these pills, they put one mole of original substance into a pot of water 10 billion times the volume of the earth x the number of molecules in 1 mole?
Or is it in fact impossible to achieve 30C via dilution?
[b]400X 200C 10**400 Dilution of popular homeopathic flu remedy Oscillococcinum
You seem to be claiming that such dilutions are in fact possible. How is it done?[/b]
X means a 1/10 dilution....200 means it is done 200 times
C means a 1/100 dillution...again 200 means it is done 200 times.
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