Homeopathic mosquito repellent

[rustypouch]

A 'clinic' in my town just introduced this product.

Homeopathic mosquito repellent, in pill form.

I just don't know what to say...

http://www.mozi-q.com/

 

[JoeMorgue]

Maybe if you threw it hard enough at them it might keep one, two if you're very lucky, mosquitos away.

 

[Marduk]

the main proponent of this "repellant" is Erin Bosch
heres her answering an interesting question

Q. What do you know about Homeopathy?
A. It's about the law of similars.. its a beautiful form of medicine that works miracles each day.

http://www.meetup.com/ForHomeopathy/members/12134672/
Miracles eh. Religion and Homeopathy in the same product, it must be amazing?

Maybe if you threw it hard enough at them it might keep one, two if you're very lucky, mosquitos away.

We tweaked the formula a bit, and since we can't guarantee that you will never be bitten by a bug again, we have designed this formula to reduce the frequency of bites as well as the reactions that people have to bites

so it doesn't repell mosquitos then ?


anyone know how much it costs ?

 

[LTC8K6]

We started selling it in our little clinic and discovered that it works!

Nice business model. Sell it before you know it works!

 

[Musibrique]

A 'clinic' in my town just introduced this product.

Homeopathic mosquito repellent, in pill form.

I just don't know what to say...

http://www.mozi-q.com/

Were clinical studies conducted?

If so, can you please provide a reference to them? (if there is one)

 

[rustypouch]

Were clinical studies conducted?

If so, can you please provide a reference to them? (if there is one)

I've no idea.

 

[jasonpatterson]

Were clinical studies conducted?

If so, can you please provide a reference to them? (if there is one)

Honestly, at this point there's no reason whatsoever to bother doing clinical studies of homeopathic products. They've been shown over and over again to be garbage. While I'll admit that in the strictest sense of the word possible, it's possible that homeopathy could be shown to be good for anything other than dehydration (or hypoglycemia, if taken in pill form), it's perfectly clear that further scientific study of homeopathic products are a waste of time and money.

Scientific study of how anyone could be so stupid as to buy into homeopathy after learning about it, that's another thing entirely.

 

[biomorph]

From;
www.mozi-q.com/

How fast does it work?

It works within 30 minutes of taking it.

there's a nice little testable claim if ever I saw one,

 

[Careyp74]

So the laws of similar. I guess they took a mosquito and diluted it to thousandths of a part per million?

 

[Drs_Res]

Who needs trails.

Fast forward 3 years... we were continually selling out of this little remedy. After a particularly high day of sales and some great face to face testimonials, I announced, "If I were to die tomorrow, I would want my tombstone to read, "She kept the mosquitoes away!"

and

Xerion's owner is President and CEO of Xerion Homeopathie which is a clinic in Northwest Calgary. This provides XD with clinical experience; here, formulations are tried, tested and tweaked in an environment that allows for immediate consumer feedback. By the time Xerion Dispensary starts manufacturing a product, all the market research has been compiled and the product reflects the results of those efforts.

 

[bruto]

Maybe if you threw it hard enough at them it might keep one, two if you're very lucky, mosquitos away.

No no, you wait until the mosquito lights, then apply it liberally. If you put on enough, the mosquito drowns.

 

[Lucian]

No no, you wait until the mosquito lights, then apply it liberally. If you put on enough, the mosquito drowns.

Not if it's in pill form.

 

[George 152]

Maybe it works if you stay underwater.
I'll almost guarantee you wont get bitten by a mosquito

 

[Finster]

Seems like there should be some kind of accountability for making pretty specific claims like - "It reduces the frequency and severity of mosquito bites." (not saying there are - just that there should be)

 

[Baloney]

From;
www.mozi-q.com/
there's a nice little testable claim if ever I saw one,

Even better:

Does it Work?
It reduces the frequency and severity of mosquito bites.

 

[bruto]

Not if it's in pill form.

Ahh, for that you just wait until the mosquito lights and then squash it with the pill. You keep doing that until the pill has worn out entirely and disintegrated, at which point it is so powerful that the mosquitos squash themselves.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Seems like there should be some kind of accountability for making pretty specific claims like - "It reduces the frequency and severity of mosquito bites." (not saying there are - just that there should be)

In the US at least Woo Slingers like the Homeopaths have become absolute masters at talking all around what their product does. They've learned they can usually stay safe by wording their claims so vaguely as to be impossible to disprove such as "Our product will make you feel energetic-ified!" or some other such nice sounding but empty nonsense or by slapping some microscopic ass covering "This product has not be proven by the FDA to do diddly squat" notice.

 

[Ian]

When was the last time the purveyor of this item ran through rural New Hampshire at night wearing only this product? That would be a scientific test.

 

[JeanFromBNA]

The homeopathic claim is bunk, because what "similar" thing are they using? Mosquitos don't keep other mosquitos away.

The idea of an effective, ingestible bug repellant has some possibilities. I give my outdoor cats a generic form of Capstar (nitenpyram), and they suffer less from fleas when they eat it.

And before anybody flames me, yes, I know homeopathy itself is bunk. This particular claim is double bunk.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Damn Homeopaths. They can't even be wrong right.