"Oscillococcinum is a remarkable substance. It’s a homeopathic remedy which fights the Oscillococcus
bacterium. Now some skeptics will balk at that and ask how a homeopathic medicine can fight anything. That’s not a problem in this case as Oscillococcus probably doesn’t exist. That’s a distraction. What’s interesting is Oscillococcinum itself.
Oscillococcinum is made from the extract of heart and liver of a Muscovy duck. This is diluted to 200CK. The K refers to the method of dilution. You fill a glass with a solution and then empty it. Then you refill the still damp glass with 100ml of fresh pure water. This method assumes you’ve just diluted your solution by one part in a hundred. The C is the bit that tells you it’s one part in a hundred. So in this case 1ml of heart and liver extract is diluted in 10 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 litres of water. If you took a drop of heart and liver extract and mixed it with all the water in all the oceans on the Earth, it still wouldn’t be anywhere near as diluted as Oscillococcinum.
Once I saw that one question lodged in my mind: “Is it suitable for vegetarians?”- From
Clioaudio, which covers Ancient History, Archaeology and Archaeoastronomy through a Skeptic’s Eyes
Look at those zeros, people, and then explain to me how
Homeopathy can "work" - or what those fools
in the white lab coats think they're doing. It's shameful that the FDA and major media can allow this nonsense to be sold as medicine - or
pretend there's a controversy about it's effectiveness - even touting it as
a cure to be used on children. The believers are
cultists and nothing more; delusional fools
with a mental block as thick as The Great Wall Of China. Or
as wide as Africa.Vegetarians? Well, they're just rude.
I gotta go,...
Despite this it’s not suitable for vegetarians. This is then the homeopathic remedy for flu or as the French call it, ‘la grippe’.
It’s highfalutingly called Oscillococcinum pronounced, oh-sila-cox-see-num. The water of that dissolved golden duck i’m told sells for $20,000,000 a year.
Homeopathy is the science of the minimum dose. The idea is that like cures like.
So if you have insomnia, what causes insomnia? Coffee. So they dissolve a tiny bit of coffee in gallons of water. That’s sold as a cure for insomnia.
Alright you say so it’s just the same as vaccinations. No!? Vaccinations have some content. Homeopathic remedies are diluted so many times they have not an atom of the original product.
Some argue that the water has a memory of the original coffee or duck bits. If that’s the case how’s it forgotten the pipes it’s been through or various people’s bladders.
Believers laugh when you point out that some cultures apply the same ‘like cures like’ theory. For example the idea that the ground down powder of the erect rhino horn cures sexual dysfunction in men. Isn’t that like cures like?
Or the voodoo idea that you can influence a person by sticking pins in a doll likeness.
I’ve an old letter from Crippen the convicted murderer. He was a homeopath and he sold homeopathic plasters to cure deafness.
In the watery world of the homeopath there’s someone with a sense of humour."
