Published 1 August 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.39514.529375.AD
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a565

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Paradoxical medicine

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Being from a middle class family in Pakistan and studying classic Ayurvedic medicine as a hobby, our maternal grandfather always wanted one of his children to become a medical doctor. For various reasons, mostly financial, this dream never materialised. However, our mother continued to pursue this wish, and eventually three of her children became medical doctors in the Netherlands.

One December the whole family came together to celebrate the holiday season. The weather was cold and wet, and several family members developed a horrible cold and cough.

Being strong proponents of evidence based medicine in our daily clinical practice, we doctors advised various standard remedies such as not going out into cold and dry air too often, stopping smoking, taking cough syrup, etc. Unsurprisingly, none of these helped, so we resorted to advising doing nothing and letting nature take its course.

During our childhood, however, our mother had treated us . . . [Full text of this article]

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