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Article: Duck innards among homeopathic remedies tried for flu
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
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- December 5, 2004
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PHILADELPHIA - One winter about 20 years ago, as Barbara Dively
prepared to pay for an armful of pills, lozenges, and other flu
provisions at her Plymouth Meeting, Pa., drugstore, the pharmacist
brushed it all aside.
"You only need one thing," he told her. It was something Dively
had never heard of, but which has been the sole flu remedy in her
family medicine chest ever since: Oscillococcinum, Oscillo for short,
a best-seller in France and an increasingly popular brand here.
It's made from the liver and heart of Anas barbariae, the Muscovy
duck, otherwise known for its lean and flavorful meat. "We thought it
was crazy, but it worked for flu," said Dively, 63, of Lansdale, Pa.
As the flu ...