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Oscillococcinum (Oscillo.) Contact Us Now for Homeopathic Care! Oscillococcinum is used for preventing and treating influenza-like (flu) symptoms including the relief of symptoms of flu such as fever, chills, body aches and pains. This homeopathic medicine has been shown in clinical studies to decrease the duration and intensity of flu symptoms. It is an anomaly in the homeopathic materia medica because it is one of the relatively few proprietary preparations. The name is registered by Boiron. Less known to the English-speaking world, it is one of the most widely used and popular homeopathic medicines in France. It is the only homeopathic medicine authorized for routine production in France in a dilution above the 30c, and by the Korsakovian method. All other homeopathic medicines in France are prepared by the Hahnemannian method, in potencies not exceeding 30c, although higher dilutions may be prepared on a named patient basis. The Korsakovian dilution method involves repeated incomplete emptying and refilling of a single piece of glassware, whereas the Hahnemannian demands fresh glassware for each Oscillococcinum is a 200c potency of an autolysate of Barbary duck heart and liver. It was introduced in the 1930�s by Dr Joseph Roy, who believed that it contained a bacterium, Oscillococcus, which caused influenza. We now know that this rationale was spurious, although it is not the first or last instance of an effective medicine being introduced on the basis of a theory subsequently shown to be incorrect. In a further twist, Roy�s theory has been shown to be much closer to the mark than once supposed. Wild fowl have been shown to be a major reservoir of human influenza viruses. Certainly Oscillococcinum is popular with the French public, and it was this popularity which made the legislature feel constrained to make it a special case when regulating the production of homoeopathic medicines. |
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