This page has two jobs. First, it explains every one of the eight homeopathic ingredients printed on the label of the ear drops we sell, what each is in plain English, what the numbers after each name mean, and what the research does and does not say about homeopathy for a sound in the ears. Second, and this is the part most advertising pages leave out, it lists the headlines we run for this page and the headline families common in this category, tells you which ones are exaggerated, and separates the small number of things that are genuinely supported by evidence from the many that are not.
You almost certainly arrived here from an advertisement. The headline you clicked was written by us and paid for by us to appear next to real news stories. It was designed to make you stop scrolling. Some headlines in this category overstate what science actually shows, and this page says which.
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The product is a 10-milliliter box of Similasan homeopathic ear drops sold for ringing in the ears: eight homeopathic actives (Arnica 15X, Chininum sulphuricum 12X, Eriodictyon californicum 12X, Hepar 12X, Lachesis 15X, Lycopodium 12X, Silica 15X and Thiosinaminum 15X) in purified water and vegetable glycerin, three to five drops in the ear up to four times a day for no more than 48 hours, made by Similasan, a company founded in Switzerland. It is a homeopathic product. Its label says its claims are based on traditional homeopathic practice, not accepted medical evidence, and that it has not been evaluated by the FDA. [1] There is no scientific evidence that it works. It does not treat, cure, stop or quiet tinnitus, and it does not treat, prevent or reverse hearing loss, Ménière's disease, ear infections or any other medical condition; no study has ever tested these drops, and the one controlled trial of a homeopathic preparation for ringing in the ears, in 28 people, found no difference from a placebo. [2] Nothing on this page is a substitute for a doctor.
If you hear a ringing, buzzing or hissing that other people cannot hear, the single most useful thing you can do is book a hearing test, and see your doctor first if the sound is in one ear only, came on suddenly, pulses with your heartbeat, or arrived with dizziness, pain or a head injury. That costs you nothing from us, and some causes of the ringing, an ear canal blocked by wax or a medicine taken at a high dose, are found and dealt with in one visit. Your hearing matters more than anything we are selling. We would rather you close this page and book the test than buy something under a false impression.
These are the headlines we run for this page, together with the headline families that advertisers in this category use for products like this one, which you may have seen elsewhere and which we do not run. The right-hand column is our own plain assessment. Each family is marked Exaggerated, Partly true, Withdrawn, Wrong or Broadly supported. If you arrived from a headline that is not listed here, write to the address at the foot of this page and we will add it with its verdict.
| The headline as you saw it | What is actually behind it |
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| "Three to Five Drops With the Head Tilted, Five Minutes of Waiting, and a Label That Stops at Forty-Eight Hours: I Read a Swiss Box of Homeopathic Ear Drops From the Front Panel to the Small Print" | Broadly supported This is the reading our article is built on, and every part of it is on the product's official label. The direction is three to five drops in the ear with the head tilted, kept in for three to five minutes, up to four times a day, for no more than 48 hours unless a doctor directs otherwise; the label also says to stop and ask a doctor if symptoms last more than 48 hours. [1] The maker was founded in Switzerland and the box says "Original Swiss Formula". The small print is the label's own line: claims based on traditional homeopathic practice, not accepted medical evidence; not FDA evaluated. [1] The headline is meant to state facts and their qualifiers, not to raise expectations. It is not a claim that the drops work. |
| "Ringing in your ears? Ear specialists point to these Swiss drops""The Swiss ear drops ear doctors want you to know about" | Exaggerated A common construction in this category, and we do not run it. No ear specialist was consulted and none endorses these drops. The evidence runs the other way: the National Institutes of Health says there is little evidence to support homeopathy as an effective treatment for any specific health condition, [3] the one controlled trial of a homeopathic preparation for ringing in the ears found no difference from placebo, [2] and the 2014 guideline of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery recommends against ginkgo, melatonin, zinc and other dietary supplements for persistent, bothersome ringing and does not recommend any homeopathic product. [4] See section 3. |
| "Ear ringing isn't age: just avoid these 3 drinks""Seniors: these 3 drinks may be making the ringing worse" | Exaggerated Another common construction we do not run. Ringing in the ears is strongly tied to age and, above all, to hearing loss: most people who have it have some degree of hearing loss, [5] and about one in three Americans between 65 and 74 has hearing loss. [6] No drink has been shown in a trial to cause it or to quiet it. The one large prospective study of a drink we can cite followed 65,085 women for eighteen years and found that those who drank the most coffee were somewhat less likely to develop ringing, not more. [7] See section 2. |
| "Hear a ringing in a quiet room? Doctors say check this first" | Partly true Half right, and we run a plainer version of it. If you hear a sound in a quiet room that no one else hears, the sensible first step is a hearing test, because most people with the ringing have some hearing loss [5] and the ear, nose and throat guideline asks for a prompt, comprehensive hearing examination when the ringing is one-sided, has lasted six months or more, or comes with hearing difficulty. [4] What is wrong is the implication that "this" is a box of drops. It is not. See sections 5 and 7. |
| "The overlooked cause of ear ringing after 60, and the Swiss drops that help" | Our headline was wrong We withdraw this construction outright. There is no single overlooked cause; the documented ones (noise, hearing loss, earwax, some medicines at high doses, head and neck injuries) are listed by the NIDCD and none of them is a secret. [5] "Help" is a claim no trial supports for these drops: their own label says the claims are not based on accepted medical evidence. [1] See the ingredients below. |
| "Quiet the ringing tonight with a few drops of this old Swiss formula" | Withdrawn We do not run this and will not. Nothing quiets the ringing tonight. The NIDCD says there is currently no cure, and the things that help people live with the sound are a hearing test, hearing aids when hearing loss is found, sound at night and counselling. [5] [4] The label of these drops itself speaks only of temporary relief of minor symptoms "according to homeopathic principles", for no more than 48 hours. [1] |
An honest answer: these headlines appear beside real news stories, competing for attention with everything else on the page, and dramatic phrasing gets clicked. That is the incentive, and we are subject to it like every other advertiser.
It is also why this page exists. Once you are here, you are entitled to know exactly which claims we can stand behind and which ones were written to get your attention. Everything below is the sober version.
Headlines in this category refer to "3 drinks" or "the evening drink" without naming them. Here is what advertisers mean when they say it, and what the research actually supports for each one. Where a study is cited, it is observational unless stated otherwise: it can show that two things travel together in a population, not that one causes the other.
The drink most often blamed · The headline would have been wrong
What the research says. Caffeine is widely assumed to make the ringing louder, and people are routinely told to give it up. The only large prospective study we can cite followed 65,085 women for eighteen years and found that those who drank the most caffeine were somewhat less likely to develop ringing in their ears, not more. [7] It is observational and it enrolled women aged 30 to 44, so it cannot tell you what coffee will do for you; what it can tell you is that the case against coffee is thin. Caffeine late in the day spoils sleep, and a bad night makes any sound harder to ignore; that is a timing point, not a reason to quit. The European Food Safety Authority puts up to 400 milligrams a day, about four cups, within safe intake for healthy adults. [8]
Honest verdict. Keep your coffee if you like it, earlier in the day if it costs you sleep. The drops we sell contain no caffeine and have nothing to do with it.
The "evening drink" · Weak evidence either way
What the research says. Alcohol is often listed as something that makes the ringing louder for the evening, and many people report exactly that; we could find no controlled trial to cite for the claim or for its opposite. What is established is indirect: heavy drinking raises blood pressure and disrupts sleep, and both make a sound in a quiet room harder to live with. Excessive alcohol is also one of the fourteen risk factors named in the 2024 Lancet Commission on dementia, on the same list as untreated hearing loss. [9]
Honest verdict. Cutting back is a sensible thing to do for reasons that have nothing to do with a headline. It is not a cure for anything, and if you drink heavily every day, do not stop abruptly on your own: ask your doctor how to reduce safely.
Part of the "3 drinks" · Indirect at best
What the research says. No study ties a soft drink to the ears. The concern is the one that applies to everything else: sugar-sweetened drinks contribute to weight gain, type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure, and each of those is as bad for the small blood vessels of the inner ear as for every other organ. Energy drinks add a large caffeine load at the wrong hours.
Honest verdict. Worth cutting for your heart and your sleep. Not a treatment for the ears, and not the cause of the ringing.
The "salt" version of the headline · Unproven for most people
What the research says. Salt restriction is advised by some clinicians for one specific inner-ear condition, Ménière's disease, which brings spells of vertigo and fluctuating hearing loss along with ringing; [5] for the ordinary ringing in a quiet room we could find no trial showing that less salt makes it quieter. Less salt is good for blood pressure regardless.
Honest verdict. If you have dizzy spells with the ringing, see a doctor; that is a diagnosis to be made, not a drink to avoid. Otherwise salt is a blood-pressure matter.
The food versions of the headline refer to "1 herb", "3 foods" or "a kitchen herb". Here is what was meant, and what stands behind it.
The ingredient the maker puts first · Known for causing the sound, not quieting it
What the research says. One of the eight actives in these drops is quinine sulfate, the bitter of cinchona bark and tonic water, at the 12X dilution. At full strength quinine is long known to bring ringing on, and the NIDCD lists anti-malaria medicines, of which quinine is the oldest, among the medicines associated with it. [5] That is exactly why homeopathy chooses it: the tradition holds that like is answered by like, and that extreme dilution makes a substance more active, two ideas the National Institutes of Health describes and says have little evidence behind them. [3] At 12X the whole 10-milliliter bottle can hold at most about ten trillionths of a gram; federal rules allow a twelve-ounce can of tonic water to hold up to about 29 milligrams, roughly three billion times more. [10]
Honest verdict. There is too little quinine in these drops to do harm or, by any accepted measure, anything else. A glass of tonic water is not a cause of ordinary ringing either.
Not in these drops · Tested for this, and it did not work
What the research says. Ginkgo is the herb most often sold for the ears, and it is not in the drops we sell; we list it because the headlines in this category point at it. In the largest trial, 1,121 healthy adults aged 18 to 70 with stable ringing took 50 milligrams of a standardized ginkgo extract three times a day or a placebo for twelve weeks; 34 of 360 on ginkgo and 35 of 360 on placebo said the sound was less troublesome afterwards. [11] A Cochrane review of four trials with 1,543 participants found no evidence that ginkgo helps when the ringing is the main complaint, [12] the NIH says research suggests it is not helpful for it, [13] and the ear, nose and throat guideline recommends against it. [4]
Honest verdict. The best-tested herb in this whole category did not beat a placebo. Be wary of any headline that says otherwise.
The "3 foods" · Blood pressure, not ears
What the research says. The same as the salty-drinks item: no trial ties them to ordinary ringing; high salt raises blood pressure; and the fourteen risk factors of the Lancet Commission list high blood pressure and hearing loss side by side. [9]
Honest verdict. Eat less of them for the usual reasons.
The "1 mineral" headline · Tested and found wanting
What the research says. Zinc is the mineral most often sold for the ears. A Cochrane review of three trials in 209 adults found no evidence that zinc supplements improve the ringing. [14] The ear, nose and throat guideline says the same for zinc, melatonin and ginkgo. [4]
Honest verdict. Eat zinc in your food if you like oysters and beans; do not expect it to change the sound. The drops we sell contain no zinc.
Keep your coffee, earlier in the day if it costs you sleep. Drink less alcohol and less sugar, for your heart and your sleep. Salt matters for blood pressure and for one specific dizzy-spell condition a doctor has to diagnose. No herb, mineral, food or homeopathic preparation has been shown in a trial to quiet the ringing, and the ones that have been tested properly, ginkgo, zinc and one homeopathic tablet, did not. Every one of those changes costs nothing, and none of them requires anything we sell.
Do not stop, reduce or skip any prescribed medicine because of this page. Some of the medicines below are protecting your heart or treating an infection, and dropping them can do far more harm than a ringing ever will.
The right action is simple and safe: put every medicine, vitamin and over-the-counter product you take into one bag or one list, and take it to your doctor or pharmacist. Ask specifically: "Could anything on this list be behind the ringing, and is there an alternative?" That review is often free, takes fifteen minutes, and is far more valuable than anything on this page.
Ringing in the ears can be a side effect of certain medicines, especially when they are taken at high doses. [5] The NIDCD lists the groups below. "Can be" means it is documented for some people at some doses, not that your medicine is doing it.
ibuprofen, naproxen, aspirin · Documented, and usually dose-related
The NIDCD names them first. [5] Ringing that starts after a new painkiller or a higher dose is worth telling your doctor about, and it often fades when the dose comes down. Low-dose aspirin taken every day on a doctor's advice for the heart is a different matter: do not stop it on your own.
Listed by the NIDCD · Talk to the prescriber
Also on the NIDCD list. [5] These are prescribed for good reasons and the ringing is a known trade-off with some of them; the conversation is with the prescriber, never a unilateral stop.
The label's own list of reasons to ask first
The drops we sell go in the ear and are not swallowed, and their actives are diluted at least a trillion times, so the question here is not an interaction with your medicines. It is the ear itself. The label says to ask a doctor before use if you have ear drainage or discharge, pain, irritation or a rash in the ear, if you have had ear surgery, or if you have dizziness; to stop and ask a doctor if symptoms last more than 48 hours, if there is discharge from the ear, or a fever of 102°F or greater; and that, according to homeopathic principles, symptoms may temporarily worsen before improving. [1] The maker's web page says "use as often as needed" and "no known drug interactions or contraindications"; the official label is the more careful document, and it is the one to follow.
What this section is not. It is not a claim that any of these medicines is causing your ringing, not medical advice, and not a suggestion that homeopathic ear drops are an alternative to any of them. It is a prompt to have one specific conversation with a professional who knows your history.
Several headline families in this category invite you to test your ears online: "can you hear this tone", "count the beeps", "if you can hear this, your ears are younger than you think". There is no validated test on an advertising page, and we cannot give you a real one, because a real one does not work that way.
What a real hearing examination looks like. An audiologist measures the quietest sound you can hear at each pitch in each ear, in a sound-treated booth with calibrated equipment, and plots it as an audiogram. The ear, nose and throat guideline asks for that examination promptly when the ringing is one-sided, has lasted six months or more, or comes with hearing difficulty. [4] Three things make it different from a phone playing tones:
Since October 2022 adults with what they perceive as mild to moderate hearing loss can buy hearing aids over the counter in the United States, [15] which has made the test cheaper to act on than it used to be. A hearing test is also the one thing on this page that can find something fixable.
We are sorry. Take it as a prompt rather than a verdict: if the worry is real, bring it to your doctor and ask for a hearing test. If it was just a startling headline, the reassurance you are looking for cannot come from an online tone test or from an advertising page, including this one.
Ringing in the ears is common, usually not a sign of anything serious, and for most people a nuisance rather than a disability: in the largest US survey, about one adult in ten had it in the past year, 41.6% called it a small problem and 7.2% a big or very big one. [16] A few patterns, though, deserve a prompt appointment rather than a box of drops:
Ordinary ringing looks different: a steady, faint, high tone in both ears that you notice in a quiet room, that has been there for years, and that fades into the background when there is something else to listen to. That is the common kind, and it travels with the gradual hearing loss that about one in three people between 65 and 74 has. [6]
Before anyone sells you anything for the sound in a quiet room, a good clinician rules out the things that cause it and can improve when treated:
None of these are found by a box of ear drops or by an online tone test. They are found by a doctor with an otoscope, a hearing test and fifteen minutes of your history. And no drops of any kind belong in an ear that is draining, painful or has been operated on until a doctor has looked at it; the label of the drops we sell says the same. [1]
United States. The NIDCD Information Clearinghouse, part of the National Institutes of Health, answers questions about hearing and ringing in the ears at 800-241-1044 and publishes plain-language information at nidcd.nih.gov. It sells nothing.
Anywhere. Your regular doctor is the right first call. If hearing drops suddenly in one ear, treat it as urgent and seek care the same day.
If we only had one section to be useful in, this would be it. Not one item on it is a supplement or a homeopathic product, and the guideline written by the ear, nose and throat specialists' own academy recommends against ginkgo, melatonin, zinc and other dietary supplements for persistent, bothersome ringing. [4]
These are unglamorous. They cannot be delivered in a headline, some of them cost money and time, and none of them can be sold to you by us. They are also, by a wide margin, the best-supported things on this entire page.
What each of the eight homeopathic actives printed on the label of the Similasan ear drops is, in plain English, and what the number after its name means. In homeopathy, X is a dilution of one part in ten, repeated the number of times shown: 12X is one part in a trillion, 15X one part in a thousand trillion. The label states no amount in milligrams for any of them; the base is purified water and vegetable glycerin. The uses given below are traditional homeopathic uses as the label pairs them, not accepted medical evidence, and no study has tested these drops. [1] Read the statement at the end of this section before you buy anything.
Mountain arnica is a perennial herb of the daisy family with bright yellow flowers, native to the highlands of northern and central Europe. In these ear drops it appears as a homeopathic dilution (15X: one part in ten, fifteen times over, which is one part in a quadrillion).
Traditional and everyday use. Best known in rub-on creams for bumps and knocks; in homeopathic practice the label pairs it with buzzing, ringing and humming in the ear. Traditional homeopathic use, not accepted medical evidence.
Amount per serving in Similasan Ear Ringing drops · 10 mL. 15X (mountain arnica, the yellow daisy of rub-on creams; one part in a quadrillion)
Good to know. The raw plant is toxic if swallowed; these drops are for the ear only and carry it at a very high dilution. Keep out of reach of children.
Quinine sulfate is a salt of quinine, the bitter alkaloid of cinchona bark and the taste of tonic water. In these ear drops it appears as a homeopathic dilution (12X: one part in a trillion). The maker names it as one of the two key actives.
Traditional and everyday use. Homeopathy works on the idea that like is answered by like: quinine at full strength is long known to set the ears ringing, which is why a homeopath reaches for it at extreme dilution. Traditional homeopathic use, not accepted medical evidence. [3]
Amount per serving in Similasan Ear Ringing drops · 10 mL. 12X (the salt of quinine, the bitter of cinchona bark and tonic water; one part in a trillion)
Good to know. At 12X the amount of quinine is far below anything measured in a glass of tonic water. For use in the ear only.
Yerba santa is an evergreen shrub with sticky, leathery leaves that grows on dry hillsides in California and Oregon. In these ear drops its leaf appears as a homeopathic dilution (12X: one part in a trillion).
Traditional and everyday use. A traditional plant of the American West; in homeopathic practice the label pairs it with pounding and pulsing sounds in the ear. Traditional homeopathic use, not accepted medical evidence.
Amount per serving in Similasan Ear Ringing drops · 10 mL. 12X (a sticky-leaved shrub of the California hills; one part in a trillion)
Good to know. For use in the ear only. No amount in milligrams is stated; the dilution is the label's only measure.
Hepar, short for Hepar sulphuris calcareum, is the homeopathic name for calcium sulfide, a mineral compound of calcium and sulfur traditionally prepared from oyster shell and sulfur. In these ear drops it appears at 12X: one part in a trillion.
Traditional and everyday use. In homeopathic practice the label pairs it with throbbing and buzzing in the ear. Traditional homeopathic use, not accepted medical evidence.
Amount per serving in Similasan Ear Ringing drops · 10 mL. 12X (a mineral preparation traditionally made from oyster shell and sulfur; one part in a trillion)
Good to know. For use in the ear only. No amount in milligrams is stated.
Lachesis muta is the South American bushmaster, a large pit viper; the homeopathic preparation called Lachesis starts from its venom. In these ear drops it appears at 15X: one part in a quadrillion, a dilution at which very little of the starting material remains.
Traditional and everyday use. In homeopathic practice the label pairs it with tinkling, roaring and cracking sounds in the ear. Traditional homeopathic use, not accepted medical evidence.
Amount per serving in Similasan Ear Ringing drops · 10 mL. 15X (venom of the South American bushmaster snake; one part in a quadrillion)
Good to know. The name alarms people more than the amount should: at 15X the starting material is diluted a thousand trillion times. For use in the ear only.
Lycopodium clavatum is common club moss, a low creeping evergreen of heaths and woods; its fine yellow spores were once used as a dusting powder and in stage flash effects. In these ear drops the spore appears at 12X: one part in a trillion.
Traditional and everyday use. In homeopathic practice the label pairs it with humming, whizzing and roaring in the ears. Traditional homeopathic use, not accepted medical evidence.
Amount per serving in Similasan Ear Ringing drops · 10 mL. 12X (the spores of club moss; one part in a trillion)
Good to know. For use in the ear only. No amount in milligrams is stated.
Silica, silicon dioxide, is the mineral of quartz and ordinary sand; the official label files it under the name silica dimethyl silylate. In these ear drops it appears at 15X: one part in a quadrillion.
Traditional and everyday use. In homeopathic practice the label pairs it with tinkling, clucking and singing noises in the ear. Traditional homeopathic use, not accepted medical evidence.
Amount per serving in Similasan Ear Ringing drops · 10 mL. 15X (the mineral of quartz and sand; one part in a quadrillion)
Good to know. For use in the ear only. No amount in milligrams is stated.
Thiosinaminum is the homeopathic name for allylthiourea, a small sulfur compound first made from the oil of mustard seed, which is why the maker's page calls it "mustard seed". In these ear drops it appears at 15X: one part in a quadrillion. The maker names it as one of the two key actives.
Traditional and everyday use. In homeopathic practice the label pairs it with ringing in the ear. Traditional homeopathic use, not accepted medical evidence.
Amount per serving in Similasan Ear Ringing drops · 10 mL. 15X (a compound derived from mustard oil, the maker's "mustard seed"; one part in a quadrillion)
Good to know. For use in the ear only. No amount in milligrams is stated.
Similasan is a homeopathic product. Its uses are based on traditional homeopathic practice, not on accepted medical evidence, and there is no scientific evidence that the product works. It has not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration for safety or effectiveness. This information does not constitute medical advice and it should not be relied upon as such. This product is not a substitute for medication or other treatment prescribed by a physician or health care provider. Consult your doctor before use, especially if you are pregnant, nursing, or have a health condition.
Set against the headlines that brought you here, this is the complete and honest position.
Things we cannot promise, and that nobody selling you a box of ear drops can:
Things we can say honestly:
No. Those attributions are advertising language. No named or identifiable specialist made those statements, and none has endorsed this product.
We cannot promise that, and nobody honestly can. The NIDCD says there is currently no cure, [5] and the label of these drops says its claims rest on traditional homeopathic practice, not accepted medical evidence. [1] The one controlled trial of a homeopathic preparation for the ringing, in 28 people, found no difference from placebo. [2]
The only large prospective study we can cite found the opposite direction, in women: more caffeine, somewhat less ringing over eighteen years. [7] Caffeine late in the day spoils sleep, and a bad night makes any sound harder to ignore. That is the only reason our article suggests nothing after two in the afternoon.
Not on your own, and not because of an advertisement. Take your full medication list to your doctor or pharmacist and ask whether anything on it could be behind the ringing. See section 4.
No. It is not a treatment for any disease or condition, and there is no scientific evidence that it works. If you are facing either, the people to talk to are your doctor and an audiologist; the NIDCD helpline listed above sells nothing.
Almost none, by design. Each active is diluted to 12X or 15X, one part in a trillion or one part in a thousand trillion; the label states no amount in milligrams. A twelve-ounce can of tonic water may hold roughly three billion times more quinine than the whole bottle can. [10]
Because the official label, the document on file with the National Library of Medicine, says up to four times daily for no more than 48 hours, and to stop and ask a doctor if symptoms persist beyond that. [1] When a sales page and a label disagree, follow the label.
The starting material of one of the eight actives, Lachesis, is the venom of the bushmaster snake, diluted to 15X, which is one part in a thousand trillion. [1] At that dilution the amount is not a concern; whether the drops do anything at all is the open question.
Because ringing in the ears can be a side effect of some medicines at high doses, and because the label of these drops lists situations in which to ask a doctor before using them. Nothing in section 4 is advice to change a medicine, and the product is not an alternative to any of them.
A fair question. Do not take our word for it. The references below are real, published sources you can look up yourself, and nothing in sections 5, 6 and 7 requires you to buy anything or trust us. If this page and a headline disagree, believe this page.
No. It is free, there is nothing to sign up for, and you are welcome to read it, close the tab and never come back.
Yes, and you should. Every numbered reference below can be found by searching its title. For general information, the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (nidcd.nih.gov) publishes plain-language material and sells nothing.
These are the sources behind the claims marked with a number above. The product label is the official one on file with the National Library of Medicine (DailyMed); the homeopathy trial was a small double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of 28 people; the ginkgo trial was a twelve-week, placebo-controlled trial of 1,121 people; the Cochrane reviews pooled four trials of ginkgo and three of zinc; the guideline is the 2014 clinical practice guideline of the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery Foundation; the caffeine and survey findings are observational, which can show association but not cause; the NIDCD, NCCIH, FDA and FTC pages are public information. We have deliberately not cited anything for the claims we describe as exaggerated, because there is nothing to cite.
Citing a study does not mean the study is about this product. The homeopathy trial tested a different preparation, taken as a tablet, not these drops; none of the other research tested the Similasan ear drops, and none of it supports them.
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