Homeopathic arnica: just a placebo
Prescrire international 10(55): 156
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 1167-7422 PMID: 11824436 Document Number: 534829
Four placebo-controlled trials of homeopathic dilutions of arnica in treating trauma have been sufficiently robust to give interpretable results. In all of them homeopathic arnica was no more effective than the placebo.
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