As the flu epidemic is in full swing, boxes of Oscillococcinum appear prominently on the counter of some pharmacies. These homeopathic granules indicated in the treatment of influenza, sometimes improperly qualified as "homeopathic vaccines", have never proven their effectiveness. What do they contain? How are they made? We take stock.
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Surprisingly, the star product of the Boiron laboratories is prepared from prickly duck organs (heart and liver). The notice tells us that it was "energized at the 200th K". A strange formula, which means that the initial mixture has been diluted 200 times according to the so-called "korsakovian" dilution principle: the flask containing the macerate of duck extracts is completely emptied the first time, before being filled with l 'pure water ; then again emptied, and filled; and that 200 times. At the end of this process, a drop of the last water is poured onto compound granules
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