Comments on: Does Oscillococcinum really work?

By: Lynda

Lynda — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 06:50:53 +0000

I was going to pull a picture of Oscillo off the internet to send to someone who asked about it. Then I came across the Wikipedia article which explained its physical contents. I am particularly surprised at the ingredients, because I am a chemist, and logically there is no way this should work. But it was recommended to me a number of years ago, and it has always worked. I get that flu-like feeling, I take a few doses of Oscillo and I don’t get the flu. I think it’s pretty great. And I tell everyone about it. I suppose I could say, “Try it. You’ll like it.”

By: Jack

Jack — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:33:44 +0000

My clone son had a horrible flu (and fever)for eight days. 104+ temp at times. I always get his bugs since I’m home with him as a caretaker. I started to get sick, chills and body aches and I remembered the Oscillococcinum and dosed immediately. Nipped this illness right in the bud. I was noticeable sick for only 2 days and then started recovering.I believe it did shorten the duration and severity of the flu for me. I’m still skeptical but curious about possible relationship between this vibrational medicine and string theory.

By: Winston

Winston — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 05:16:01 +0000

Blah, blah blah, medical professional, MD. whatever. My brother in-law is an MD and doesn’t even advocate supplements. Western medicine is so biased. I have learned never to blindly accept the word of anyone who graduated from medical school because of narrow minded faculty and the establishment.

There is no cure for viral infections. If something exists that can minimize the symptoms or provide relief, without harmful side effects, then it’s certainly worth taking. This stuff does that, more often than not. I say pooey to all the naysayers that have to use profanity or 10,000 words to make their point.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:19:35 +0000

I stopped in at the Vitamin Store (I’ve been there maybe one other time in 8 years that I’ve lived near it) after the Urgent Care was understaffed and had a long line of people waiting to be seen this past Saturday. I’ve *never* used homeopathic medicine before, and I am not of the type to have placebo effects take hold over me. I don’t care what is in it, but all I know is that for a few hours after taking the stuff, I feel like the flu is gone completely and I am well again. Of course, it all comes rushing back after the six hour time period, but if it can make me feel better while having this nasty flu, I’m all for it. For reference, I am a software engineer. I’d prefer to take some anti-biotics to get rid of it all together, but this stuff actually does relieve the symptoms of the flu. I don’t know how it does it, andI don’t think that magical laser beams are imprinting themselves on water/sugar, but it does help.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:24:56 +0000

I used to take Oscillococcinum, it was recommended to me by a friend. I found it helped to kill the cold or flu in its tracks if I caught it soon enough. Otherwise if I didn’t catch it at the beginning it would just shorten the duration.
I am so happy I did. Since taking this homeopathic medicine, I never get colds or flus anymore. Normally I would get 3-5 per year and now it has been 2 years and none! It seems that times I would get a cold/flu I feel something but it never turns into one.

Some say it doesn’t work and that it is a placebo because it doesn’t make any sense but some things just don’t seem logical in the world.

My boyfriend won’t take it because he thinks it is a joke but when he gets sick, and I don’t I just shake my head. He suffers and I’m sick free. He’s a stubborn one.

By: Dee

Dee — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:11:52 +0000

I too have had the same experience, I make sure to get several boxes of Oscillo at the beginning of winter. I have gone 3 winters now with not being “sick” for more than a period of one evening. I tell everyone I know, not that anyone listens to me, they think it’s quackery, and I say, okay well I haven’t had the flu or cold for 3 winters, how are you doing?

By: Elizabeth B.

Elizabeth B. — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:56:34 +0000

When I tried Oscillococcinum , I thought it was real medicine and had no knowlege of Homopathy or the process of said. I am afraid it didn’t work even though I followed the directions to the letter. And yes, I had early stages of the flu. When it comes to the kids , adults,and animals our own belief in a system /body language has effect on how others feel . just like having a kind empathic person around can make people forget about pain ,feel , or fight whatever off as it lowers stress levels and relases endorpins. and allows you to relax and for your heart to pump adequate amount of blood throughtout the body ( capillaries are filled at this time) and give the cells and tissues nutients , oxygen and doesn’t allow the waste products ( of cells) to build up .When stressed ,worried, one can casue your heart is not pumping adequate amount of o2 , not filling capiaries and waste not being removed from cells) and this can casue one go down hill or etc.. why, mood can effect your health.

. Having a postive outlook , eating healthy ( vegies, friuts, meats, and etc) working out , and not over medicating for every little thing is the best course you can go.and if you pull the big pharm only wants money card you have to relize that homopathic comps want your money also.. it is a business and they want money… this is a bad joke but… everyone of you ( homopathic or whatever) are drug addicts cause you all need oxygen! lol and oxygen is a classified drug.. know though air is not like o2 you get in the green tanks but still;) must tell me how a pure source of water is obtain if water has a memory?

By: Jackie

Jackie — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 09:32:21 +0000

My daughter had flu and after two courses of antibiotics there was no improvement in her condition. I gave her Oscillococcinum and within hours her fever broke and she was able to get out of bed. It is almost 8 months and she has had no flu symptoms. I have always believed in homeopathic treatment and will continue to use Oscillococcinum!

By: Dim

Dim — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 19:17:23 +0000

I didn’t realize that homeopathic medicine is based on “energy” mumbo jumbo. I usually avoid it since I have more faith in something someone studied for years in a laboratory but now that I know exactly what homeopathic medicines are I will avoid them even more!!

May as well strap a cellphone to your head – plenty more energy there!

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:55:28 +0000

To the person above who is saying that no one can explain how or why this works, and then implies that this means that it is “unscientific” to think that it does, I have one word for you – gravity. Gravity has been studied, the effects seen and observed, etc… for centuries and yet no one, not even Einstein knows what it actually is, just that it is. I mention this because it is not good science to say that, “something has not been proven to be true, therefore it isn’t true.” Time and again the paradigm has shifted for things that were previously unproven.

Those posting that say Oscill. is working because of the placebo effect don’t understand homeopathy. There is a study where viral particles were introduced into a pure water solution and then filtered with filtering so fine that no viral particles remained. White blood cells were introduced to the water, and they made antibodies to the virus that was no longer there. Clearly there is something going on with water that isn’t explained by a Newtonian particle-based model of things. Those of you who are taking a smug attitude which you are certain is based on science should contemplate quantum physics. Is that leg you think you are standing on truly solid?