I recently got over a flu and when it started my wife suggested that I take this homeopathic medicine called Oscillococcinum
Actually, let me step back. I hate taking drugs. I need to be feeling pretty bad to pop a tylenol or any other drug, I just don’t think it is worth the damage that it does to my liver and the weird side effects, etc. So, I typically just deal with the pain until it gets bad enough that I need to do something.
In the case of my most recent flu, that was the case. I could hardly sleep, I had a fever, chills and my body felt like 3 sumo wrestlers had tore me apart – I was achy and sore!
My wife to the rescue!
So my wife came to the rescue by running up to Walgreens and getting me some Oscillococcinum. When you get the package, you find that it is 6 little containers containing some powdery substance. You are instructed to drop it in your mouth and let it dissolve. It tastes like sugar.
At this point I was feeling pretty miserable so I didn’t really care, I was willing to give it a try. To my amazement, just a couple hours later I felt noticeably better. I was still skeptical that maybe it was a placebo or something, but I continued to take it every 6 hours as instructed and continued to feel tremendously better to the point, I thought the flu bug was completely gone.
This is where my mistake was, I stopped taking it because I thought I was over it. A couple days later the symptoms returned pretty strong, but again as soon as I started taking the Oscillococcinum I began to feel a lot better.
Oscillococcinum side effects
I noticed no side effects when taking Oscillo. I am not sure if there are any, but I didn’t notice them if there were.
To answer the question – does Oscillococcinum really work?
I would have to give an emphatic yes. In fact, based on how it performed for me, I would say that it is amazing! And the beautiful thing is that it is all-natural, so it works and does it naturally rather than filling yourself full of drugs!
Have you had similar or different experiences with Oscillococcinum
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Oscillococcinum is part of homeopathic medicine. Generally it works great and doesn’t have the side effects of regular cold meds. Glad it worked out for you.
My husband and I have four children and none of us had ever experienced the flu before until last year. Our oldest son (13 at the time) became sick fast and he had a temp. of 104*
Not knowing that it was the flu, I didn’t take him to the doctor right away, thinking the fever would run it’s course, but after a few days, he continually got worse and by the time I got him to the doctor and they confirmed it was the flu. It was too late to start taking the prescription flu medicine the doctor said and this had to run it’s course.
For five more days, my son ran a temp. of 104* and I was worried sick about him. I had a parent/teacher meeting with our other son’s teacher and I told her that one of our sons’s had the flu. She suggested that I buy Oscillococcinum and start giving it to him. I left the school and ran straight to CVS where I picked up several boxes because by this time, our other three children started feeling bad and I knew that it was probably making it’s way around the house. I came home and gave our son his first dose and then our other children some. Within 24 hours of giving our son the Oscillo, his temp. had broke and he started feeling better. The other three who were running low grade fevers were up running around and by the very next day, though our son was weak, he was so much better.
I have told several people this story and suggest Oscillococcinum to everyone. Do I think it helped, well skeptics might say, well his fever had run for 7 long days and it ran it’s course, you might say that that is the case, however, I know that my son was still running the 104* fever when I gave this to him and I know that he hadn’t ate anything in over a day but by the end of that day, he was sitting up on the couch, eating some soup and drinking OJ, and much, much cooler to the touch.
I am a believer!
Stacey, I agree – I just had recently had a little fluish symptoms and started taking it and within 3 days – there was nothing…
Oscillococcinum WORKS!!! It works so well, I will tell you that it’s 100% effective. Just a week or so ago, my husband started feeling run down, got a low grade fever along with the aches and pains but before he could get any sicker, I ran down to CVS and picked up a box of Oscillo for the first time. I was kind of taken back by the little vials of granules, but was definitely open to giving them a try. So to make a long story short, he took it and it worked SO WELL that within a couple of hours, he swore that he wasn’t sick anymore and refused to take another dose because he was “better.” So of course he started feeling bad again after about 6 hrs but I convinced him to keep taking it and he did. He was completely over it within 48 hrs and I am SOLD on Oscillo. I will never use anything else again.
Hate to sound like a party pooper but after looking at the Oscillo’s content the active ingredient is so diluted your not absorbing anything but sugar… hence why it tastes like sugar… there isn’t a molecule of the original duck liver and heart which supposedly contains the beneficial bacteria. Flu symptoms go away for a lot of reasons and after reviewing factual evidence I doubt Oscillo is one of them. In most studies it was on par with placebo. This is coming from a teacher of young children who is always trying to stay healthy; not someone with an internet axe to grind…
Ted is right. It works on the placebo level. It makes people fell better, because they expect to feel better. Most home remedies work the same way. Things that have been used for generations and thought helpful are found ineffective after careful study.
Homeopathic medicines have not been shown to be effective. There is positive evidence for homeopathy, but it is weak. When looking at the whole of the evidence homeopathy depends on the placebo effect. The higher the quality of the evidence the more likely it is negative. This is the opposite of what you would see it was effective. False positives are a problem for all drug testing. That’s why the quality of the testing is so important. Even the best designed tests can have results that are incorrect.
I think you need to study homeopathic medicine and find out how it is really made instead of reading the ingredient label. You’ve missed out entire process. It is an energetic and vibrationional medicine which you have to learn to understand if you will open up your mind. Homeopathic medicine was used to treat the Spanish Flu in 1918 which was the H1N1 strain. Those that took the homeopathic only 1% died where as patients who were treated with regular medince 30% died. Homeopathic medicine was mainstream until WW1 before chemical medicine came along with greedy drug companies. Homeopathic medicine and natural doctors were pushed out because of these new drugs. Thankful homeopathic medicine is on the forefront again along with natural doctors. Homeopathic med. is safe with no side effects compared to many drugs out there. Hippocrates the ‘father of medicine’ even used homeopathic medicine and was the first to discover it. Doctors today still take the ‘Hippocratic Oath” named after him.
I came down with something last Friday, I woke up with chest pain and a squeezing sensation in my arm, Saturday I woke up with flu symptoms I went to the store and saw this stuff on the shelf, it was expensive, but I decided to give it a try since I saw “No Side Effects”.
Well, I am afraid there is a side effect in a way… I began to feel better.
I researched the stuff on Sunday, and came to the same conclusion as Ted, that it shouldn’t work, but it does, here it is Monday, I only have one dose left so I plan to get some more today.
The first thing I have noticed is the sour taste in my mouth goes away in about 15 mins, after approx one half hour I begin to feel better. and notice the chills and aches are lessened, I wouldn’t go so far as to say gone, but lessened to the degree where I am able to go to work this morning.
I am glad I tried this stuff and would recommend it to anyone.
THis thing really works. Yesterday i found out my little brother got a flu and he was snizzing and coughing crazy.then it was MY turn.
i started with light coughing and snizzing. I had this Ocillio stuff at home but didn’t know it would work SO well. i took one and my brother took one. Right away snizzing stoped and felt so much better but still feeling abit fluish.
SO after 6 hours i took one again and again so in total i took 4 until today i don’t remeber being sick.:D and my brother he just took one i hear no coughing i don’t know what happened to him in detail but i don’t hear any coughing or snizzing.
I think the people who have knocked homepathic medicine need to actually experience the benefits of using them and not just read the label. Cheryl has some valid points, especially about the H1N1 strain in 1918. Please open your mind and listen your own body… not just everything your MD has to say.
Wow, it’s hard to imagine people still fall for this bullshit!
“I think the people who have knocked homepathic medicine need to actually experience the benefits of using them and not just read the label.”
Ingredients- Duck liver Diluted to one part in 10 to the 300 power universes. My mind says this is bullshit.
My scientific mind didn’t believe in this stuff, but I was desperate to get better before going on a 15hr flight, particularly since my ears were already so painful, along with my throat; my entire body felt like it went under a compressor; I couldn’t sleep with the fever, cough and sneezing. So, when my friend Anita suggested Oscillo since all the other medecine didn’t work, I gave it a try. I slept so well last night; no more fever, much less aching, no more sneezing and coughing. I couldn’t believe it, and I wouldn’t have believed anybody else who would have told me that!
I don’t know why this is not common knowledge. I feel like this is a miracle cure for the flu. This doesn’t mean that I believe in homeopathy, but again, I never tried it before. I know that this is not about the mental state of expecting to feel better because I was very sceptical. Since there are no side effects. it’s worth the $15 for 12 doses. I am taking a pack with me, just in case.
People like Chris M are really infuriating and full of bull themselves.
Science and technology have enriched our lives for sure, but there are still numerous discoveries to make and masses of explanations still needed for things like homeopathy which clearly work according to trials, yet we cannot understand fully their mechanisms.
So while we wait for the understanding those of us who are open-minded and actually try these things can continue to gain their wonderful benefits whilst the sceptics and in some cases their big-pharma paymasters can continue in ignorance and unfortunately pain and suffering.
In my own experience I am just emerging from flu symptoms that started Friday and are now nearly gone after 1.5 days of oscillo treatment.
I had similar symptoms 3 months ago and spent more than 2 weeks ill or recovering…without the benefit of oscillo.
Enough said !
I definitely do not understand how this could work but strongly believe that it has worked for me many times. I work in a prison where illness spreads quickly and if I take the oscillo when I begin to feel like I’m coming down with something it almost always staves off any illness.
Recently I did not take oscillo when my husband had a flu and I did get sick. I started taking the oscillo (also drank a lot of liquid and slept a lot) and felt much better within 24 hours.