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MSU researchers tried to identify the presence of active substances in popular homeopathic remedies, about the experiment in his Facebook was written by Alexei Khokhlov, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
“I bought in the pharmacy tablets Anaferon, ArthroFoona, Ergoferona, Oscillococcinum and Subetta and gave them to a mass spectrometric analysis, “- said the scientist. Popular drugs were studied on MSU Faculty of Chemistry using the most sensitive equipment.
“Mass spectrometric analysis showed the presence of all analyzed preparations exclusively sugars. Not in positive ion registration mode, no registration mode negative ions were not detected even traces of peptides or any other organic compounds “, – announced the results Khokhlov experiment.
The Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences noted that the detection limit for peptides and most organic compounds measured in femtograms are 10 in minus the 15th degree of a gram. Thus, in the preparations there was no active substance.
Homeopathy is a type of alternative medicine that uses highly diluted drugs. Official science considers homeopathy quackery and fraud. So, the year the Commission to combat pseudoscience RAS in 2017 called homeopathy “dangerous practice. ”
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