Metronidazole is a synthetic nitroimidazole compound used in small animal practice for the treatment of inflammatory bowel disease, gastritis associated with helicobacter, giardiasis and empirical treatment of diarrhea. (vetneurochesapeake.com)
There are few empirical treatments, meaning treatments that apply to everyone, in functional medicine, but I believe B12 to be one of them, particularly in light of the fact that some 2 / 5ths of the population present with severe deficiency. (kellybroganmd.com)
First, sociologists will fail to see an empirical treatment of the church, but instead will find a highly abstract theological approach to it. (religion-online.org)