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The only thing you can prove by trying a home remedy yourself is that it doesn't make it worse. If you take the home remedy and you get better, it MIGHT be because the home remedy worked... or it might be because you got better on your own... or it might be because you were paying attention to your issues and were doing other things that DID help... or you might not actually be getting better but you think you're getting better. And you get excited about the times when you do get better, so you tend to forget about the times it definitely didn't work.

A single experiment doesn't provide data. To make a proper test, you'd have to substitute some similar product and test THAT too -- but you'd have to make sure you don't know whether you're getting the real stuff or the similar product. If you don't know which it is, and you get better, and it WASN'T the real home remedy... then the home remedy wasn't responsible for you getting better.

And that's the problem. People DON'T do these kinds of controlled experiments. But MOST problems DO go away on their own. And people come to incorrect conclusions as a result.

My wife's grandfather died because he ate flaxseed as a home remedy for heart attacks.

Please, don't take the risk.