The Scientific Proof of Homeopathics

Scientific proof in medicine simply means something has been proven by evidence of truth (results) of a hypothesis. Every time the patient recovers, the experiment is successful and the principles of homeopathy have been tested with utmost success for 180 years, which is almost 10 years longer than most medical practices.

The notion that water retains a memory of substances once dissolved in it is central to homeopathy. While the claim has brought about much controversy, evidence has come out to support the claim scientifically. Although the structure of hydrogen bonds in pure water should be identical to those in homeopathic dilutions, the evidence finds that the structures are actually very different.

Dr. Jacques Benveniste's research (published in Nature Magazine) stated that as you make homeopathic dilutions, you have exceeded Avogadro's number (1 mole = 6.02 x 10-to the 23rd power molecules) by the time you reach 12c or 24x, so there is no molecular substance left in the remedy. It's all energy by that dilution. He found that as he increased the dilution, he increased the basophilic degranulation. Dr. Benveniste used a mathematical equation to explain the phenomenon. He proposed that water (vehicle) can form permanant magnetic dipoles. The hydrogen and oxygen bonding to form dipoles when two or more water molecules are bound together causes a change in the water structure and stores information as solitary waves in the H-O bonding. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers show that the vehicle (water) has physically changed. This water that is altered in high potency remedies show differences in the spectra at the different dilutions.

Researchers used thermoluminescence to study the structure of solids. The process involves bathing a chilled sample with radiation and then observing a pattern of light, which reflects the sample’s atomic structure that is released when the sample is warmed up.

When researchers used the method on ice, they saw two peaks of light. They then looked at solutions of lithium chloride, which destroys hydrogen bonds, and sodium chloride, which also destroys hydrogen bonds but to a lesser extent. The peak for the sodium chloride solution was smaller and disappeared for the lithium chloride solution.

Homeopaths believe that patterns of hydrogen bonds remain even after many dilutions. To test this claim, researchers used samples that had been diluted way beyond the point when any ions of the original substance could remain. Compared with pure water, the ultra-dilute lithium and sodium chloride solutions had substantially different thermoluminescence peaks. According to researchers, this proves that the networks of hydrogen bonds in the samples were different.

Marcel Vogel, IBM's senior research scientist says that water is a liquid crystal with memory. Dr. Masaro Emoto visibly proves that in his book, Messages From Water.

Full scientific report available at http://www.vhan.nl/documents/ScientificReportECHNov04.pdf

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