belladonna

I saw a parody of a homeopathic "remedy" package that was shared on facebook by the Skeptic's Guide to the Universe. I quickly assumed that it was originally a package of Oscillococcinum and commented, like others, that it was 100% sugar. When I took a closer look however, I saw that it was...

In the March 16, 2007 Swift, Randi quotes Reader Dana Turgeon, of Regina, Saskatchewan, as stating: "I guess it's a lucky thing that it's all a bunch of homeopathic hooey – who'd want to give an infant an actual, real dose of belladonna?" Randi Forum participants might be interested to know...

I don't remember seeing this discussed here but perhaps it was. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled "proving" was conducted by the Complementary Medicine Research Unit, University of Southampton and published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. No surprise - no clinical...