It’s perhaps the most amazing drug on CVS’ shelves today: It features:
- No side effects
- No drug interactions
- No active ingredients
That’s right. No active ingredients. Read on to see if Oscillococcinum might be right for you!
Oscillococcinum, a drug with no active ingredients. (See footnotes for image credit.)
Oscillococcinum was a drug originally made from the non-existent oscillococcinum bacterium (wink wink nudge nudge) and marketed as a cure for the flu. This is curious, as the flu is viral, not bacterial, in nature.
Now made from duck parts that don’t exist — perfect for a quack cure — Oscillococcinum is homeopathic. One of the features of many homeopathic medicines is that they are repeatedly diluted during production. Oscillococcinum is typical: the dilution is so extreme that there’s no original product left in the box when it goes out the door.
The dilution factor for CVS’ duck-based medicine is “200C”. …
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