Friends,

With the help of a couple dozen leading homeopaths, including several from this list, I've written a new article called "Why Homeopathy Makes Sense and Works" which is now at my website under "Introduction to Homeopathy Articles."

Here's a listing of the sub-headings in the article.
Basically, this article seeks to explain homeopathy in a modern even futuristic manner. It helps explain homeopathy to people who are skeptical of it...and it is full of hyperlinks that take the reader to learn more about homeopathy.
And I decided to GIVE AWAY (!) this article. In other words, you are welcome to LINK to this article, or if you want to place it at our website, you can do so if you simply email me to ask permission (and if you follow some simple groundrules).

a.. Introduction
a.. The Wisdom of Symptoms—The Underlying Basis of Modern Physiology and Homeopathy
a.. Medicines That Respect the Wisdom of the Body
a.. Determining What a Medicine Can Cure
a.. Homeopathic Medicine: Nano-doses, Powerful Results
a.. The Clinical Evidence for Homeopathy
a.. Possible Explanations for Nano-Doses
a.. Quantum Medicine
a.. Resources to Learning about Homeopathy
a.. References

Special thanx to Julian Winston, Brian Connelly, Begabati Lennihan, Richard Knapp, Sherrill, David A. Johnson, John Lunstroth, and many others who provided detailed feedback to me on this article!

Dana Ullman, MPH
http://www.homeopathic.com

Dear Dana Ullman

I will read your article with interest. Especially the part about why homeopathy works. If I have questions, where can I post them? Here perhaps?

Hans

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For instance, after a first run-through, could you explain why you use the term "nano dose", which, as you correctly note, signifies 10^-9? This appears to be a misnomer since most homeopathic remedies are diluted much more (for instance the very common 30C represents 10^-60).

Hans

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Hans (and others),

I love (!) the words "nanodose" and "nanopharmacology" because "nano" refers to EXTREMELY SMALL BUT POWERFUL...I believe that there is no better word that represents our special doses.

Please note that "nano" refers to AT LEAST one-billionth, not just one-billionth. So, in fact, it could mean a lot smaller than one-billionth.

I previously thought that I placed the URL for this article in my email. Here it is:
http://homeopathic.com/articles/homeopathy_works.php


Dana Ullman, MPH

One other note about the word, NANO...

It actually derives from the "dwarf" and it loosely refers to SMALL and infers SMALL AND POWERFUL.

Yes...some definitions refer to it as one-billionth, but this is not its only definition.

Dana

Dear Hans

I am sure you must have heard of 'Nano Technology' ? What do you think is the meaning of Nano there?

My dictionary says

"The branch of engineering that deals with things smaller than 100 nanometers (especially with the manipulation of individual molecules)"

Murthy

Exactly. And Dana Ullman's reply also confirms my suspicion: The Nano part may simply be a "smart" word, one to give associations to well-known scientific front-line work.

"Nano" denotes a fraction (1/1000,000,000), so it would be appropriate for denoting a homeopathic dilution, in this case 9X. Since each of these fraction names covers three orders of magnitude, "Nano" could be used to cover, say, 10^-7 - 10^-10 (that would be normal convention). However, for still lower fractions, the following would be used:

pico = 10^-12 (6C, 12X)
femto = 10^-15 (~7C, 15X)
atto = 10^-18 (9C, 18X)
zepto = 10^-21 (~10C, 21X)
yocto = 10^-24 (12C, 24X)

Before you all accuse me of nitpicking, allow me to point out that these ranges only just reach the fateful Avogadro limit, which leads me to my next question:

Can this be taken as an indication that your "Nano medicine" term only applies to homeopathic remedies above the Avogadro limit?

Hans

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Just to weigh in on the nano-debate:

The prefix nano- is indicative of something on the scale of 1 nanometer, usually to +plus or minus a couple of orders of magnitude. That's it. It doesn't mean anything smaller than that, although it can.

You *can* talk about molecules using centi- as a prefix, if you want. They're certainly smaller than a centimeter. Like you can measure your inside leg in kilometers.

If you're just using the prefix nano- as a buzzword, I'd suggest keeping science and jargon separate, because it'll only lend itself to further criticism.

Shouldn't this thread be in the Science forum?