MRC_Hans said:
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Could the information about the active substance be retained in water or alcohol clusters in homeopathic medicines?
This would require the following properties of clusters:
1) Sufficient complexity to store the characteristic information about each of the 2000+ different substances supposed to function as homeopathic medicines. Many of these substances are highly complex organic substances.
2) Sufficient stability to persist through succussion, transfer to lactose tablets, storage, and shipping.
The typical water cluster is supposed to be icosahedral (20-sided). Obviously, this relatively simple structure cannot exist stably in more than a few versions, so the number of different characteristics that might be "stored" in it must be way below the number stipulated in #1.
Water clusters are sort-lived and unstable structures. Mechanical agitation and temperature changes will break them up.
The normal practice of applying the liquid to lactose tablets will totally annihilate any cluster structure in the original liqud as it forms solution bonds to the lactose substrate.
The conclusion is: Cluster structures cannot possibly account for the complex memory function speculated to exist in homeopathic preparations.
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Shiu Yin Lo discovered these "water crystals." They're being dismissed as "relics," meaning small molecules that have escaped dilution into nothingness. See them in this book: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Physical, Chemical and Biological Properties of Stable Water Clusters, Shui Yin LO, PhD, Benjamin BONAVIDA, PhD (
http://www.minimum.com/). But what if these crystals are indeed unique water crystals? If so, the only conclusion is that the etheric pattern of the crude substance -- diluted beyond Avogadro's number and succussed to do whatever succussion does in producing these very unique medicines -- is forcing water molecules into these unique crystals.
James A. Stephenson, MD, homeopath, hypothesized in the 1950s and '60s that water and alcohol (hydroalcohol) molecules form into unique polymers or "polymeric matrices" by homeopathic potentization or dynamization. Dr. Lo's crystals may be Stephenson's polymers.
But you will need to acquiesce to etheric substances to take this step. I personally do not understand what the problem is with such etheric substances, because modern physicists are admitting to over 20 such non-physical particles. Examples are dark matter, virtual particles, the vacuum energy of empty space, tachyons and many major manifestations of the AEther not presently admitted to be attributable to etheric particles and the AEtheric Plane of existence. This is the future, Hans, and we are being vindicated in what we've been saying for two hundred years as homeopaths and for millennia as Hermetic physicians in ancient Egypt, as Spagyric physicians in Europe from the 5th through 17th centuries (i.e., the legitimate ones, not the Paracelseans or proto-chemists called iatrochemists and iatromechanists) and an unknown group of homeopaths in the ancient Rama Empire or the Harappan Culture of the Indus Valley. It's 25th century medicine to me.
[ 23. October 2003, 04:43: Message edited by: Hahnemannian444 ]