{"id":8687,"date":"2021-01-24T14:55:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-24T22:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=8687"},"modified":"2021-01-24T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-24T22:58:09","slug":"is-zicam-homeopathy-or-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/24\/is-zicam-homeopathy-or-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Zicam Homeopathy or Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our doctor recommended Zicam.<\/p>\n<p>It is a &#8220;1x&#8221; homeopathic dilution of zincum gluconicum.. Normally I would say that homeopathy is absolute rubbish&#8230;. no let me revise that statement and say firmly, &#8220;homeopathy <strong>is<\/strong> absolute rubbish.&#8221; But a &#8220;1x&#8221; dilution is a 1 to 10 dilution&#8230; which is to say that 10% the ingredients are actual&#8230; ingredients. That sounds like MEDICINE. WTF?<\/p>\n<p>I HATE that this company is touting actual medical studies and co-mingling it with the notion that it is homeopathy. It isn&#8217;t. Or maybe it is. The box says &#8220;This product is not required to go through the FDA&#8217;s New Drug Application approval process.&#8221; Hey FDA, you&#8217;re screwing up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our doctor recommended Zicam. It is a &#8220;1x&#8221; homeopathic dilution of zincum gluconicum.. Normally I would say that homeopathy is absolute rubbish&#8230;. no let me revise that statement and say firmly, &#8220;homeopathy is absolute rubbish.&#8221; But a &#8220;1x&#8221; dilution is a 1 to 10 dilution&#8230; which is to say that 10% the ingredients are actual&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}