So much complication for a simple answer.
Why is a sweet base chosen? Criminy, you have to take the remedy under the tongue and SWEET just TASTES BETTER!!!
And they are NOT "sugar pills". I am not aware of anyone who is really understanding of homeopathy who calls them 'sugar pills'.
Pellets, globules, pills ....yes.
Your disbelief is in the calling of it 'sugar pills' .....nothing else.

You are striving to understand homeopathy? BEFORE I even heard of homeopathy....
I read a book on Quantum physics like has been suggested to you. Also a book By Depak Chopra called Quantum Healing. Whether or not you agree with all it has to say, you would fine that it suffices well to say, we are more, MUCh more than the sum of some peices and parts. We are not machines, WE ARE energy.

Zmyst