As homeopathic remedies usually contain only water and/or alcohol, they are thought to be generally safe.

Also alarming: Some natural remedies may contain the very drugs their customers are trying to avoid.

Some cold remedies, for example, contain stimulants or sedatives that can add to or decrease the effectiveness of prescribed drugs.

The medical community considered the proposed remedy to contain insufficient potassium iodide to be effective in the treatment of the disease.

He said over-the-counter remedies, such as cough syrup, often contain drugs that would show up on a random test.

Even where no fraud was intended, quack remedies often contained no effective ingredients whatsoever.

Some remedies contained substances such as opium, alcohol and honey, which would have given symptomatic relief but had no curative properties.

The remedies contain a very small amount of flower material in a 50:50 solution of brandy and water.

It is claimed that the remedies contain "energetic" or "vibrational" nature of the flower and that this can be transmitted to the user.

The remedy is to build the fire against the back wall of the fireplace and contain it there.