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For first time readers, homeopathy is based on several fictions, totally divorced from reality, made up in the 1800′s. The first law . . . is, "similia similibus curentur," or "let like be cured by like." Substances which cause specific symptoms can be used to cure diseases which cause the same symptoms. . . . Say you have a headache. What causes a headache? Being smacked on the head by a hammer. So in homeopathic thinking, being hit on the head with a hammer would cure your headache.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today allowed marketing of the Cerena Transcranial Magnetic Stimulator (TMS), the first device to relieve pain caused by migraine headaches that are preceded by an aura: a visual, sensory or motor disturbance immediately preceding the onset of a migraine attack.

Large multicenter clinical trials conducted in Germany7-10 and the United States11 consistently revealed that verum (or true) acupuncture and sham acupuncture treatments are no different in decreasing pain levels across multiple chronic pain disorders: migraine, tension headache, low back pain, and osteoarthritis of the knee.