That explains why it didn't make much sense to me, I was looking at it with the assumption it was at least some dodgy herbal thing not a completely stupid placebo, suppose I should probably be expecting that kind of shit from a manga like this. Ah, looking just went back to look at it and it was my fuck up, got the wrong kanji for the first half of ingredient when I was doing the translation. Thanks for the help, I'll go back in and edit that when I'm next at my PC.