Gary Vesperman sent this intriguing document in a
CCmail. I know it was of interest several years back
as to how homeopathic dilutions become stronger
instead of weaker with more and more dilution. Didn't
have a URL so have to post the entire document.
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- SHAKEN, NOT STIRRED DEPARTMENT -
Homeopathy -- Dilute And Heal
With a little help from a scientist looking for a way
to clean car engines, a physician believes he can
explain the confounding paradox behind why homeopathic
medicine gets more potent as it's diluted.
Homeopathic medicine, discovered by a German physician
more than 200 years ago, espouses many concepts seen
in other forms of alternative medicine – namely, that
the body can and knows how to heal itself.
"Everybody's fine and hunky dory with [homeopathic
concepts] until they come to the part where the more
you dilute and shake the substance, the more powerful
it gets and the deeper it reaches," said Dr. Bill
Gray, author of Homeopathy: Science or Myth.
"That doesn't make sense [for most practitioners],
because we're used to thinking in a chemical sense."
Just how the body reacts to varying dosages of
medicine is still being debated. Pharmaceutical and
herbal medicines both operate under the notion that
more is more; whether it's aspirin, Prozac, or
Echinacea, the more milligrams per dose, the quicker
the cure.
Not so in homeopathy. The "law of infinitesimals"
states that the more you dilute a drug, the more
potent it gets. Arnica, for example, can address a
sprain or bruise in low potencies. In high potency,
it can adversely affect a person's mental state.
Remedies are made with one part of the material, which
can be a chemical, element, plant, or even poison,
added to nine or 99 parts water. The water is
vigorously shaken after the material is added. Then
one drop of that water is added to another nine or 99
drops of water, a process called "succussing."
The mixture is again shaken and the process repeated.
After repeating this hundreds or even thousands of
times, the water is poured onto sugar pellets, which
is how the medicine is administered.
This intense watering down conflicts with accepted
laws of chemistry, namely Avogadro's Number, which
states that any substance becomes untraceable if it is
diluted beyond when a single molecule of the chemical
can be found.
Critics point out that homeopathic medicines are
diluted far beyond Avogadro's Number. The thesis of
Gray's book is that water gains structure through the
whole successing process.
"The point is, now that modern research shows that
water that's prepared homeopathically is altered in
its structure, this water does actually alter tissue
cultures, organ function, and entire animals," said
Gray, who has been practicing homeopathy in the San
Francisco Bay Area for 29 years.
Validation of the dilution process came in a
roundabout way, thanks to research by Shui Yin Lo, a
former visiting associate professor in the chemistry
department at California Institute of Technology.
Lo was performing experiments on how to improve car
engine efficiency when he made the discovery.
Lo, who now is the director of research and
development at American Technologies Group found that
water molecules, which are random in their normal
state, begin to form a cluster when a substance is
added to water and the water is vigorously shaken –
the exact process homeopaths use to create their
medicine.
Lo said every substance exerts its own unique
influence on the water, so each cluster shape and
configuration is unique to the substance added.
With each dilution and shaking, the clusters grow
bigger and stronger. This water, which homeopaths call
"potentized," is considered "structured water,"
because the water molecules have taken on a shape
influenced by the original substance.
The clusters start to assume a form that mimics the
structure of the original substance itself. So even
though the chemical can no longer be detected, its
"image" is there, taken on by the water molecules.
"If these clusters were unique to the original solute,
and the observations are true that they can perpetuate
themselves the more they are diluted or shaken, then
the original material becomes irrelevant," Gray said.
The American Medical Association, which stated in its
charter it was formed "to stamp out the scourge of
homeopathy," declined to comment on Gray's book,
homeopathy, or alternative medicine.
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Some information relating to Benveniste and
homeopathics from past emails to the list;
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http://www.escribe.com/science/keelynet/m6685.html
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http://www.escribe.com/science/keelynet/m6719.html
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http://www.escribe.com/science/keelynet/m6720.html
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IR stimulation of water;
http://www.escribe.com/science/keelynet/m2404.html
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http://www.escribe.com/science/keelynet/m7478.html
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