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According to the manufacturer’s manual, Tonsiotren is effective for inflammatory throat and sinusitis. To that extent, it is okay as the ingredients in the product support the claim. But a full-page advertisement in the September 9, 2004 issue of the Dawn Review made five more claims, obviously, to expand the user base. One was about its effectiveness in dwarfism (shortness of height)! The other was about its usefulness in increasing appetite. The claims are the most ludicrous ones I have ever seen for none of the four ingredients in the product has been shown through valid scientific studies to either help dwarfism or affect appetite. Promoting medicines on false indications is not a new phenomenon. But when companies with claims to “strict adherence to good manufacturing practice and ethical marketing policy” fall in line with the most gluttonous elements in the rank and file of manufacturers of homoeopathic medicines, the consumers may well say: it is better to suffer without taking any medicine than to suffer while taking wrong medicine.