The Healthy Skeptic: Homeopathic cold remedies

Saturday, December 4, 2010 - 03:30 in Biology & Nature

Products may be too diluted to be helpful, or their active ingredients may not help much.Despite all of the cold remedies that have been proposed through the years, people still somehow manage to sniffle and sneeze. The truth is, modern medicine has yet to conquer the common cold. Sure, you could take NyQuil Multi-Symptom or Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Cough to clear up your head, but such medications can cause drowsiness, nervousness, sleep problems and other side effects. And they won't necessarily help your cold go away any faster, either.

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