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Homeopathy in Theory and Practice Eric D.
RemyGettysburg College
Homeopathic remedy preparation
Theoretical Background Water memory
Background
Clinical Trials
Homeopathy is a medical treatment that uses
highly diluted solutions of specific materials in
order to treat a wide range of conditions.
Developed by Samuel Hahnemann in the late 1700s,
homeopathy relies on the law of similia, where
materials are chosen to mimic the symptoms of the
conditions that they treat.

• Homeopathic remedies are easy to prepare,
  although you may also purchase pre-made versions
• Examine patient and catalog symptoms As an
  example, assume you see a child with a violent
  and unproductive cough, along with weakness and
  cold sweat. They are irritable and want to be
  left alone. Lying down in a warm room seems to
  make them worse sitting up and cool air improves
  the situation. They want to drink only cold
  water but not very much at any time.
• Consult Materia Medica Antimonium Tartaricum is
  used to treat illness involving severe coughs
  such as whooping cough. Treatment with
  Antimonium Tartaricum is also indicated for
  illness where cool air helps circulation, and
  those illnesses where the patient is irritable
  and unwilling to be touched.
• Create mother liquor This is done by grinding
  the compound into a fine power and then
  dissolving it into a solution of milk sugar or
  oil.
• Dilute and Succuss Take one drop of the mother
  liquor and add 99 drops of water (or water/ethyl
  alcohol mix). Succuss the mixture by hitting the
  bottle against a leather strap sharply. This is
  the 1C dilution (100x) dilution.
• Continue dilution Take 1 drop of the 1C
  solution, add 99 drops of water and succuss
  again. This is the 2C (x10,000) dilution.
  Repeat the procedure until the desired strength
  is obtained. 10C dilutions can be effective
  although 50-100C can be used in cases of serious
  illness
• Dose according to severity of illness Rapid
  onset illness may need a dose every 30 minutes,
  although flu-like illness would be better every
  4-8 hours. Remember that homeopathic remedies
  work best at small doses so do not overdose.

Controlled clinical trials of homeopathic
remedies are ongoing. Examples are shown below
Water molecules are well known to form hydrogen
bonded clusters even in the liquid phase
Jacobs et. al studied the treatment of childhood
diarrhea in Nepal and Nicaragua using randomized
clinical trials that compared children treated
with homeopathic remedies to children on a
placebo. The remedies were made from a variety
of compounds including Podophyllium, Sulfur,
Chamomile and Arsenic. They found a
statistically significant reduction in the number
of stools per day and the overall length of
diarrhea for children treated with the
homeopathic remedy as opposed to the control
group.
Water molecules form clusters around molecules
(here imidazole) to lower their free energy
Homeopathic laws
Benveniste (Nature, 1988) showed that water
molecules retain the memory of the substances
that they were in contact with even at dilutions
where no molecules of the original substance
exist in the sample. Data at left show human
basophil reactions to highly diluted Anti-IgE
antiserum. Dilutions show here range from 1060
to 10120

• Homeopathic remedies are based around two laws
• Simila, Similibus, Curantur Let Likes Be Cured
  By Likes
• Investigate the symptoms of the illness,
  including both traditional ones such as fever,
  cough and the like as well as non-traditional
  ones such as the time of day when the symptom is
  the worst, the effects of warm and cold air on
  the patient and others.
• Check a Materia Medica to determine the substance
  that will create similar symptoms. Modern
  Materia Medica are available on the Internet and
  allow searching by substance name, symptom,
  illness and many other options
• The Law of Infinitesimals
• Homeopathic treatments become more effective as
  the original substance (mother liquor) is diluted
• Dilutions of 500,000-1,000,000 times are more
  effective than original, many remedies are much
  more dilute

A number of meta studies have collected large
numbers of studies like Jacobs and pooled them
to look for overall efficacy of homeopathic
treatments. Linde et. al developed the table to
the left showing analyses of a 189 clinical
trials broken up into multiple different groups
and determined that the results would be highly
unlikely to be chance
Theoretical Background Non-local quantum effects
References
E. Davenas et al., Human basophil degranulation
triggered by very dilute antiserum against IgE,
Nature 333, no. 6176 (6, 1988) 816-818.
  Jennifer Jacobs et al., Homeopathic Treatment
of Acute Childhood Diarrhea Results from a
Clinical Trial in Nepal., Journal of Alternative
Complementary Medicine 6, no. 2 (April 2000)
131.   Klaus Linde and Nicola Clausius, Are the
clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects?
A meta-analysis of placebo-controlled trials
Lancet 350, no. 9081 (1997) 834.   L.R.
Milgrom, Conspicuous by its absence the Memory
of Water, macro-entanglement, and the possibility
of homeopathy, Homeopathy 96, no. 3 (July 2007)
209-219.  
Conclusion
For those who wish to further personalize their
poster PPR Physician-Patient-Remedy entanglement
represented geometrically. In (a), Walach's two
semiotic triangles for remedy and patient (also
wave functions, ?Rx and ?Px) are joined by a
third for the practitioner ?Pr, which are
entangled into the PPR state represented by
?PPR in (b). The multi-dimensional geometry of
this state is represented in (c)(e) and shows
the action of the homeopathic operator ?r in
reflecting this state (d). But the reflection
is not passive by opening out the polyhedra in
(d) and superimposing them, it is seen that the
reflecting plane also twists the reflection
through 60 (e). The space in which these wave
functions and operations take place is a
therapeutic state space created by the
homeopathic operator ?r, which also functions
within it. (From Milgrom)
Homeopathy has a bright future ahead of it. It
is easy to understand, the treatments are easy
to make and inexpensive, and a host of clinical
trials show that its clearly effective.
Additional work needs to be done to better
understand the nature of the water memory effect
and non-local quantum effects in order to improve
treatment modalities.