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Article: Homeopathic medicine for asthma said to best a placebo Reduction in symptoms seen in trial
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- December 9, 1994
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As medical experiments go, it is a curious and perplexing result.
In a new study of asthma patients comparing the effects of pure water
with pure water, the pure water labeled "homeopathic medicine"
consistently came out ahead.
Everyone agrees that as far as any scientific instruments can
measure, both the homeopathic medicine and the placebo were nothing
but unadulterated water. The only difference is that the homeopathic
preparation started as a weak solution of a substance that causes
asthma symptoms, such as house dust, and then was diluted 30 times,
until not a single molecule of the original substance remained.
Though no one can explain why, the Scottish researchers who
published the ...