The healing powers of arnica.

Or not, as it turns out. Hmm, slight feeling of deja vu here. My midwife highly recommended arnica for bruising after childbirth. I was sufficiently scared of the impending birth that I grasped the straw and bought some arnica on the way home from the appointment. Now, lots of complementary medicines and therapies are under-researched, making it difficult to truly evaluate their efficacy. It turns out arnica isn’t one of those; there are plenty of studies which show that it has no effect on healing at all. So much so that it didn’t even seem worth taking the pills on the off chance. Anyone want an unopened box of arnica ‘pillules’?