The secret of that powerfully marketed product, HeadOn, is that there's
no secret. it has no mystery
ingredient to imbue it with
headache-fighting powers. It employs no clever
mechanism to rub headaches out.
It. Does Nothing. It's
wax.
It essentially is a fat tube of
chapstick to be applied to the forehead. No, scratch that, chapstick at least might prevent some
chapping. HeadOn prevents nothing at all because it does nothing at all. Its "active ingredients," extracts from vines of no known medicinal value, are measured in the parts per trillion, quantities so small that even proven potent drugs would have no effect. This is beyond the realm of
homeopathic medicine and into the world of homeo-nothing medicine. In fact, the reason HeadOn runs afoul of none of the various governmental policifyers of medicinal and advertorial claims is because it has no medicinal qualities and its advertising -- "HeadOn: apply directly to the forehead" -- has never asserted a specific claim of results to be achieved.
And it's not at all surprising that such a drug would find success in Twenty-First Century
America. I more than half suspect that a slick enough advertising campaign would have a headache medicine named "
Placebo" flying off the shelves.
Glowing Fish says re HeadOn: And yet, it still probably has a better cost/benefit ratio than most prescription drugs.
drownzsurf says re HeadOn: Supposedly putting a piece of cold sliced raw potato on your forehead will stop headaches.