Fingerhut A
Centre Hospitalier de Poissy.
Chirurgie. 1990;116(4-5):404-8.
Six hundred patients were alloted to one of 4 groups and given: 1) no treatment, 2) a homeopathic treatment (Opium and Raphanus), 3) Opium + a placebo, 4) two placebos. This work does not confirm the role of either Opium or Raphanus in the restoration of transit following abdominal surgery.