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QuoteReplyTopic: Easy Proof of Homeopathy on $1 in Lab Gear! Posted: 30 Jan. 09 at 18:43
Attached below are images (which may be slow-loading or missing for those of you still on dial-up) which covers an initial spectroscropy of homeopathic remedies, and their effect on the Vital Force. In fact, this is a narrow window which directly gazes upon one facet of the Vital Force. I call this method "Charge Spectroscopy" or "Nuclear Resonance Spectroscopy" (different from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy because we're dealing with also hypergeometric, free space energy of the Vacuum/ ether drawn through the nucleus of atoms). There are the free space waves all around us, and then there are also the free space waves pulled through the venturi that is each atomic nucleus and electron. This is an even cheaper and easier extension of the Tesla-based experimental appartus designed in:
It is something each of you can do for even less than a dollar if you scrounge up some lab gear! All you need is some Aluminum foil. Just take a 4 inch x 4 inch square. Attach an alligator clip to it. That clip you connect to the (+) or red wire of any microphone cable normally used to run into your PC computer. Just take a microphone cable, snip it, strip it, and obtain the positive wire. The (-) or black wire you just leave loose, cut, or taped back. It goes nowhere. We're just taking free space wave energy of the atmosphere and tickling the Aluminum collector plate (a variant of Einstein's PhotoElectric Effect). That pumps into the PC soundcard input. We then use software to analyze that signal. Software you can procure on-line FREE! (HAMSCOPE v.156 available for download here: http://www.qsl.net/hamscope/ )
The human body becomes a large area collector "plate" for those waves, and so the signal is amplified all the more. As the spectra of free space runs through the body, some of that signal is attenuated. Some is transmitted freely through (as can be seen in the spikes). Some is amplified from constructive interference. Some of the signal is destroyed due to absorption by the body of that Radiant Energy. It directly relates to vitality and the Vital Force. As we know from RIFE frequency research (which makes a nice bridge between Allopathy and Homeopathy), each frequency band does correspond with many symptom and pathology rubrics. The overall amplitude of the signal and its variance also relates to the strength of one's Chi or Vital Force. Both the amplitude and frequency shifts of the spectra give us much information and further proof regarding homeopathic remedies, the nature of their action, and their efficacy! Simple as that!
Gimpy!!!!!!! Have you stopped crying yet? I hope so. Why don't you weep a little more over this one! Mr. Randi!!!!!!! Where's my $1 Million?!!!
Dr. Kumar, you will find this method easier to use than temperature and parametric spectra. It will be easier to spread all over the homeopathic and allopathic world for continued data gathering. It is more understandable to people. Even these teenage kids playing on YouTube who edit sound and music files can easily understand it. The frequency window of this software only runs from 100 Hz to 2800 Hz...in the audio bands typically used by HAM's. The waterfall function is also somewhat handy, but doesn't give the discerning capacity of just the frequency spectrum. There are freeware, shareware, and commercial programs out there which cover a wider range of the spectrum more useful to RIFE.
In any case, attached you will find some interesting observations! The brown line is time averaged from the signal. The green line is real-time signal which changes too rapidly to discern steady band shapes. You'll probably want to print the whole thread out in order to see the totality of the images and the spectral differences. Right here, is proof of remedy reality, their action on the body, the Vital Force, and Vital Force differences between subjects, along with affects of the radiation world all around us. Send them here when they say we're quacks! Totally repeatable, in the open, and scientifically capable of reproduction by 5th graders, but oddly never these skeptic hacks and idiot-savant allopaths.
Other related links:
TOWARD A UNIFIED THEORY & MODEL BEHIND WHY
HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES WORK
Vital Force relation to Temperature & Traditional Chinese Medicine concepts on Chi. (Below is my spectra before and after warming the hands and feet only in hot water for about 10 minutes. The measured difference would be more intense, but I was eager to see the signal and so stopped soaking my hands & feet short of breaking a sweat; Maybe only about 60% of the potential boost in signal possible.)
...These frequency bands interestingly correspond with "general balancing" frequencies identified by Rifers, which would partly explain why I always generally feel better with such baths. Dr. Myung Chill Kim in his book, Oriental Medicine and Cancer, also covers the utility of such baths for everything acute to chronic. Tends to balance and equalize Chi, they say, although, I'm not seeing that here. At the same time, these spectra are just a narrow window of the total spectra that the Vital Force spans. Keep in mind that these are also still shots. Watching the VF ebb and flow, and even respond to free space waves and their ebb and flow....you can only really see that dynamic in conducting the experiment yourself.
Don't cry, Gimpy! Dr. Quack will let you down easy if you're good. Should I publish the little dossier kept on you and your pals, it'll never be as bad as it could be!
(Aw come on, Hpathy Team! Leave it up this time? I've given you plenty of "professional" images and information to date. Leave me my fun with little Gimpy! )
Freespace signal (amplitude-time graph) Arnica Montana 30C Arsenicum album 30C Carbo anamalis 13X Lycopodium 12C input
CONCLUSION:
Spectral variances between remedies in these bands are very subtle. This is probably why researchers have had a hard time obtaining remedy spectra unless using very sensitive inductor coils and signals (such as DigiBio was doing). Much of that has to do with the size of the pellet as a collector "plate". The human body is a very large Tesla collector "plate" compared to a small pellet, and so, when the remedy and body make good electrical contact and impact the nervous system, the remedy's "gain" increases (The signal to noise ratio improves in favor of the signal). An alternative means of "seeing" the remedy is to simply make a larger remedy pellet -- as big as a baseball or soccer ball -- and alligator clip to that! Or, we can just electronically boost the input signal while ignoring the noise which is in freespace bands we know anyhow.
Also, keep in mind these are boosted Tesla, radiant energy signals almost unthinkable to most laboratories. Most eggheads hook up the ground wire! Yet, all that does is dampen the subtle energy's signal through shorting out to ground! This is a modern electrodynamics conehead engineering matter (Talk to Col. Tom Bearden about it or study his work. The grounding of lab sensors is the singlemost reason the scientists don't even pick up these signals! Leave it (+) lead only and everything amplifies!).
MORE MEASURE OF DR.QUACK'S MOJO!
Dr. Quack earlier this afternoon (Pulsatilla 12C dose worn off; Rubrics shifted) Dr.Quack before doing another hot water soak of hands & feet tonight. DocQuack 1 minute after hot water soak Dr. Quack after handling the 4 remedies with insulated, metal, needle nose pliers
* The handling of remedy pellets for all tests above was done with metal pliers initially because I could not find my plastic forceps. Later, I switched over to just directly grabbing the last 2 pellets of the test with the aligator clip itself. There was no significant change in spectra received. However, even with insulated pliers, the wave energy of freespace flows right through the human body, through the pliers, through the insulation, through the remedy pellet, and into the aligator clip. As makes sense from other Zero Point Energy and physics perspectives, this seems to imply a stronger magnetic component at work than electrical! The idea at the core of the Caduceus that everything of the universe boils down to just magnetic waves with electric waves merely their byproduct. I have also, in the past, observed plasma fingers and electrical arc seemingly attracted to remedy pellets but not confirmed it sufficiently to be sure.
* Can the remedy be "shorted out", capacitor discharged, or altered from human touch or any touch of conductive materials? Yes, possibly so. That needs further spectral study. However, I believe we will continue to find the remedy pellets behaving as crystal radio receivers, and essentially, permanent, "free energy" batteries. Always recharging from the radiant universe like earth batteries or John Hutchison's petroelectric cells, unless we somehow alter their structure and charge.
UPDATE 31 JAN 09
Today, I reviewed an old freeware spectrum analyzer for use here. It spans from 0 Hz to 25,000 Hz, giving a far wider window than the previous experiments using HAM scope. There are more professional and costly packages, but, for the average clinician or patient looking to quickly study these matters or to establish a low-cost, new, diagnostic tool...simple freeware makes more sense. The software managed to amplify the signal pretty nicely so that spectral differences can be seen between remedies!
...Rectangular areas cover some of the variances between remedies. Vertical frequency lines were compared with known Rife frequency data in an attempt to place at least some aspects of symptom & pathology rubrics to a particular frequency. As we start to see the totality of rubrics and Rife frequency overlaps, we are able to see how that spectra starts to smell something like Arsenicum album.
The Freespace Spectra
...A peculiarity I am observing is that the above spectra of the radiant energy all around us tends to penetrate through all living and conductive things with slight variances due to constructive (amplification/transmission) or destructive (absorptive/reflective/refractive) interference. In the search for anomalies per subject, I have needed to ask: "Well, what is normal amplitude at this frequency? I have no reference. Is this anomaly upward normal or should it spike downward on the graph?" Having no known research in this area presently available to me, I have had to form this TEMPORARY hypothesis for further testing:
That the above freespace spectra is the normal, happy, healthy Vital Force's spectra in all living things. It ebbs and flows as the radiant universe around us does, and as our spectral anomalies also do. Healthy man perhaps lives "in tune" and almost perfectly resonant with the radiant universe around him? Thus, man's normal, healthy spectra should follow very closely the shape of the free space spectra. Able to ebb and flow with its shape. Deviance from this freespace spectral shape would relate to various eccentricities of health and disease. It is the deviance that also makes us unique souls; for I imagine we would live in a very dreary world if everyone lived with exactly the same spectra.
All in all, the determination of the "normal" spectra is key here. Everything hinges upon that.
Where does homeopathy fit in here with Rife?
Well, it is impossible to fully categorize a man's disease signature in allopathic terms. The Rifers have found that just a condition like Flu will have multiple frequency bands. Therefore, we cannot fully relate a symptom rubric from the Materia Medica to a single frequency band, but rather it is composed of a combination of them. For example, Liver Cancer has bands in 393, 479, 520, 734, and 3130 Hertz. Likely more bands we don't know. And so, therefore, we can expect to see Chelidonium Majus having frequency anomalies (over the freespace spectra) also in those bands (I have yet to test that, however.)
Typically, the Rifer uses a frequency generator to sweep the frequency bands with upward or downward spikes in order to destroy the patient's spectral anomalies. They approach disease and its treatment in an allopathic/ naturopathic style, and yet homeopathic principles also apply there. For example, in constructive interference, if you apply the "remedy" signal quickly and then shut it down quickly, this will tend to drag down the patient's frequency anomaly. It's like squashing a wrinkle in your carpet with your foot, or the application of a homeopathic remedy exactly in-line with Minimum Dose concepts. Never too much remedy signal for too long! Less is more! We also see that the short-term use of 5000 Hz signal (an Arsenicum album spike, like the tooth of a key) will tend to help with Anemia (just as Arsenicum album does), and yet prolonged use (proving) will tend to destroy red blood cells! So, there is homeopathy in Rife and Rife in homeopathy.
Next, is the consideration of how we can use such modern electronic tools in homeopathy? So what? What's the big deal here? What good is it when we already know how to work our craft?
1) The taking of a patient's spectra in the clinic is now a very quick and simple process. It's painless. They just give you their "thumbprint" and you have the spectra. For animals, you just touch the sensor to their nose quickly. It's faster than taking a temperature with a thermometer.
2) Being able to see the patient's anomalies over an established "normal" spectra calls your attention to subtle symptoms and conditions which exist below the surface and have not yet become a patient complaint. Upon further investigation, you will find a history and disease pattern related to those frequency anomalies. The instruments become an extension of your senses the same as modern, allopathic diagnostics are useful in telling you the patient has a tumor he does not feel or even know about. This allows you to send the patient back to the allopath for further workup and confirmation, or preferably to get them on a healthier path sooner. It also allows you to see the results of your homeopathic work. It helps the clinician to diagnose where diagnosis is difficult, such as in animals that do not talk to us or the child, the retarded, the elderly, the language hindered, etc.
3) But, more importantly, we flow again to the law of Hahnemann: Cessat effectus cessat causa! By even these frequency means, we can never know the disease by microscopic name, but only in the totality of the symptoms which are also represented in the totality of the patient's spectral radiance. Whether by remedies or frequencies carefully applied, we can attack at those anomalies over the "normal" Vital Force spectra, thus curing the effects (anomalies) in order to strike at the cause (which is the patient's spectral shift away from normal).
...That remains my theory related to this equipment's application as of today. We'll see how it goes!
OTHER SPECTROSCOPY & DISCERNMENT OF HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES
Oh...one more thing. Some Rife Frequencies related to Dr. Quack's signature and known rubrics:
500-540 Hz increased signal 550-600 Hz 600-800
Acidosis (see Hyperacidity) 959 colors 020 727 787 880 10k
H. Pylori 676
Most people use the base frequencies (727/728, 784/786/787, 880, 464/465) in every session since they address a number of commonpathogens which can be easily reinfected. Many typically usecleansing, relaxing, and general frequencies such as 304, 5000, 10000,and 3176 to finish sessions.
Candida 465 E. Coli 802
1125 spike
General balancing - 1130, 1131, 33
Mold (see also specific types) - 222, 242, 523, 565, 592, 623, 745, 933,1130, 1155, 1333, 1833, 4442 Candida resonates at 1150
1350-1360 small spike
Bacterium coli commune (E. coli) combination - 282, 333, 413, 957, 1320,
1670 1800-2500 2250:
TONIC FOR ADRENALS Adrenal stimulant - 10, 20, 2250
...Oh, by the way, you can use this apparatus and method to quickly prove homeopathy's reality to any judge or jury...such as in the case of Jeremy Sherr and the treatment of AIDS patients in Africa, etc.
(Courtesy of: John Benneth,www.Bandershot.com, http://johnbenneth.wordpress.com/about/ )
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Some Department of Defense Research / Samueli Institute (UNCLASSIFIED), Courtesy of “Dr.Quack” at www.MolecularDyne.com , Outdated list as of 27 MAY 08):
Rapid Induction of Protective Tolerance to Potential Terrorist Agents: A Systematic Review of Low and Ultra-low Dose Research.Astrid Szeto, Dr. Florence Rollwagen, Dr. Wayne B. Jonas.Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Samueli Institute for Information Biology.
Induced Neuroprotection for Biochemical Warfare.Dr. Aryan Namboodiri.Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics.Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Complimentary and Alternative Research for Military Operations and Healthcare [MIL-CAM]
Homeopathic Nosodes for the Treatment of VEE Infection.Dr. Radha Maheshwari. Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD.
Mechanisms of Receptor Signaling Following Low and Ultra-Low Treatment of Macrophages with Lipopolysaccharide and Interlukin-6.Dr. Florence Rollwagen.Uniformed Services University, Bethesda, MD.
Digital Biology Program.Dr. Wayne B. Jonas, MD; Dr. John Ives; Dr. Florence Rollwagen; Dr. Rajesh Kumar.Walter Reed Army Institute of Research; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Proteomic Analysis of Homeopathic Glutamanergic Neurotoxicity and Protection.Dr. Aryan Namboodiri. Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Efficacy of Homeopathic Drugs in Management of Myomata Uteri.Dr. Girish Gupta.Gaurant Clinic and Centre for Homeopathic Research.Lucknow, India.
Homeopathic Nosodes in the Treatment of Viral Infections.Dr. Radha Maheshwari.Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Bethesda, MD.
A Double-blind Randomized Homeopathic Remedy Proving:A Comparison of Two High Potencies.Dr. Heribert Mollinger.Gesundheitszentrum Sokrates.Guttingen, Switzerland.
Macroscopic Entanglement as a Model for Information Biology Effects -- Empirical Tests of a New Model.Dr. Harald Walach.Director of Research.Institute of Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology.Freiburg University Hospital.Freiburg, Germany.
Are the Therapeutic Effects of Homeopathy Attributed to the Consultation, the Homeopathic Remedy or Both?An Exploratory Randomized Controlled Trial in Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients.Dr. Sarah Brien, Dr. George T. Lewith.School of Medicine, University of Southamption, U.K.
Homeopathic Approach for the Treatment and Prevention of Cancer:Preclinical Studies Using Animal Models.Dr. Ramadasan Kuttan.Amala Cancer Research Center. Kerala, India.
Efficacy of Homeopathic Drugs in the Management of Cancer:A Clinical Study.Dr. Girish Gupta.Gaurant Clinic and Center for Homeopathic Research.Lucknow, India.
Assessment of Outcomes from the Use of Homeopathy and Acupuncture in General Practice.Dr. Karin Kirschmann.University Hospital Freiburg. Department of Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology.
Proteomic Analysis of Homeopathic Glutamanergic Neurotoxicity and Protection. Dr. Aryan Namboodiri.Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. Bethesda, MD.
Homeopathic Approach for Treatment and Prevention of Breast Cancer: Pre-Clinical Studies Using Cell and Animal Models.Dr. Radha Maheshwari.Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.Bethesda, MD.
HALD Chemistry Core Laboratory.Dr. Todor Todorov, Dr. Jose Centeno.Laboratory of Biophysics and Environmental Toxicology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology.Washington, D.C.
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Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo Controlled, Multi-centered Clinical
Trial to Assess the Efficacy of the Homeopathic Medication TRAUMEEL S
in the Treatment of Chemotherapy-induced Stomatitis in Patients
Undergoing Bone Marrow Transplantation.Dr. Menachem Oberbaum.Center for Integrated Complimentary Medicine. Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Israel.
Program on Neuroprotection with Homeopathic Glutamate.Dr. John Ives, Ayo Olufade, Dr.Ann Marini, Dr. Diane Marotta.Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Walter Reed Army Medical Center.Washington, D.C.
Prevention of Prostate Cancer with Low-dose Cadmium.Dr. Radha Maheshwari, Dr. Jaya Gaddipati, Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Dr. Anoop Singh, Dr. Pankaj Seth, Dr. Michael Waalkes.Uniformed
Services University of the Health Sciences; Two NIH laboratories;
Gaurang Clinic, Lucknow, India; Amala Research Center, Amala, India.
Systematic Review of Hormesis and Homeopathy for Biochemical Warfare Protection. Astrid Szeto.Environmental Control Section.Food and Drug Administration.Washington, D.C.
Homeopathic Protection of the Brain from Biochemical Warfare Agents.Dr. Aryan Namboodiri.Department of Anatomy, Physiology and Genetics.Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.Bethesda, MD.
Variation in Fourier transform infrared spectra of some homeopathic potencies and their diluent media.Department of Zoology, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India.OBJECTIVE:
The aim of this study was to determine whether potentized homeopathic
drugs and their diluent media differ from each other with respect to
their Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectra.
DESIGN:
FTIR spectra of Nux vomica 30C, Lycopodium 30C, Santonin 30C, Cina 30C,
Cina 206C, Cina 1006C, and their diluent media 90% ethanol and Ethanol
30C were obtained in the wave number range of 2000-1000 cm1 at 20
degrees C. Potassium bromide powder soaked with the potencies, pressed
into pellets, and air dried were used to measure the spectra. Because
water structures in homeopathic potencies are thought to carry specific
information on drug molecules and because O-H bending vibrational band
(v2) exclusively belongs to water, the study was restricted to the
bands in that wave number region. Alcohol has no absorption in the O-H
bending region.RESULTS: The potencies were
found to differ from each other and their diluent media in the number
of v2 bands, their wave number (cm1), shape, and half-width (cm1) of
the bands. PMID: 16296914 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Bruno Brigo, and G. Serpelloni, "Homeopathic Treatment of Migraines: A Randomized Double-blind Controlled Study of 60 Cases,"Berlin Journal on Research in Homeopathy, March 1991, 1,2:98-106).
Jennifer
Jacobs, L. Jimenez, Margarita, Stephen Gloyd, "Treatment of Acute
Childhood Diarrhea with Homeopathic Medicine: A Randomized Clinical
Trial in Nicaragua," Pediatrics, May 1994, 93,5:719-25.This
randomized double-blind study involving 81 children was conducted in
Nicaragua in cooperation with the University of Washington and the
University of Guadalajara. The results showed that, the individualized
homeopathic medicine showed clinically and statistically significant
improvement in the children’s diarrhea, compared to the children
treated with placebo. Children that received homeopathic medicine
recovered from infection 20% faster than the children treated with
placebo. The children who were more sick reacted to the homeopathic
treatment in a spectacular manner. In total the study used 18 different
homeopathic medicines selected on an individualized basis according to
the symptoms of each child.
The
effectiveness of homeopathic treatment was proved is diabetic
retinitis. (Zicari, et al., "Valutazione dell'azione Angioprotettiva di
Preparati di Arnica nel Trattamento della Retinpatia Diabetica,"
Bolletino de Oculistica, 1992, 5:841-848).
White
mice were exposed to X radiation with a power of 100 to 200 rad (non
lethal dosage) and were then evaluated after 24, 48 and 72 hours.
Ginseng 6X, 30CH and 200CH and Ruta graveolans 30CH and 200CH were
given before and after the radiation.In
comparison to mice who received placebo, those who were administered
with homeopathic medicines presented significantly less damage in cells
and chromosomes. (A.R. Khuda-Bukhsh, S. Banik, "Assessment of
Cytogenetic Damage in X-irradiated Mice and its Alteration by Oral
Administration of Potentized Homeopathic Drug, Ginseng D200," Berlin
Journal of Research in Homeopathy, 1991, 1,4/5:254. Also Khuda-Bukhsh,
A.R. Maity, S., "Alteration of Cytogenetic Effects by Oral
Administration of Potentized Homeopathic Drug, Ruta graveolens in Mice
Exposed to Sub-lethal X-radiation," Berlin Journal of Research in
Homeopathy, 1991, 1, 4/5:264).
In a
study conducted in the Moscow People’s Friendship University, the
electric activity of the muscular wall of the stomach and duodenum was
studied after the effect of the homeopathic medicine Nux Vomica (A.
Zavadskaya, K. Privalova, S. Pasin, G. Loukas, Department of
Homeopathy).
In
an experiment using cats the effect of the medicine Nux Vomica 30CH was
studied after applying it to the region of electrodes in the cardia of
the stomach, the body, the pylorus and the duodenal bulb. After the
application of the medicine, the muscular activity in the body
increased by 3.2 times, 2.1 times in the pylorus, while in the duodenal
bulb it was reduced by 2.2 times. The experiment proved the ability of
the homeopathic medicine Nux Vomica to have an effect on the function
of the stomach. The results of this experiment agree with the results
of the homeopathy experimental proof for this medicine.
In
another research conducted in the same university, the endurance of
mice under hypoxia conditions due to the administration of the
homeopathic medicine Hydrogenium Peroxydatum 30CH was studied (A.
Chochlov, A. Zavadskaya, Ch. Efstathiou, G. Loukas, Department of
Homeopathy). Two groups of mice were used, one of which received
homeopathic medicine and the other placebo. Mice who received placebo
were the healthier ones while mice that received the homeopathic
medicine were the weaker ones. An experimental model was used, where
the two groups were placed under high altitude conditions. Mice that
received the homeopathic medicine showed faster and better adaptation
to hypoxia conditions. Furthermore, when they returned to normal
conditions, they reverted to their normal state more quickly and had
longer life duration than the mice of the other group.
In
another research conducted in the same university, the effect of the
homeopathic medicine Berberis vulgaris on the lymphatic drainage was
studied (A. Zavadskaya et al.). Plant tincture and homeopathic
medicines in the 3rd, 6th and 30th potency were given to mice.
Initially the time of drainage of the coloring substance from the
intestine to the mesentery was measured before providing any medicine.
Then the various medicines were tested and the drainage time was
measured. The study of the results showed that the potentized forms of
Berberis vulgaris increase the lymphatic drainage while the
corresponding plant tincture contains it.Especially
the 3rd and 6th potencies increased the drainage more in the intestine
than in the mesentery while the 30th increased it to the same degree in
both the intestine and the mesentery.
First
double blind study: This cross-over study ever performed was done by
homoeopaths. This impressive study was done concurrently in eleven
different cities on fifteen subjects. This particular experiment
consisted of 665 pages, which was the research proving of belladonna.
[Howard P. Bellows. The test drug proving of the O.O. and L. Society: a
reproving of Belladonna (Boston: the American homoeopathic
ophthalmological, otological, and laryngological society. 1906).]
Whenever
critics may say That HOMEOPATHY does not have any good research. we can
confidently inform them that they are not familiar with The SCIENTIFIC
LITERATURE. The following summarizes a number of good double-blind
Homeopathy studies including both LABORATORY STUDIES as well as
CLINICAL RESEARCH. HOMEOPATHY also has a most IMPRESSIVE ACCUMULATION
OF STATISTICS that has been acquired over The last 200 years. In a time
and age when medicines have a rapid turnover due to harmful side
effects or ineffectiveness, Homeopathy has stood the TEST OF TIME. As
basic truths will always exist, so have the remedies of Homeopathy. It
should be known that In 1975 the U.S. CONGRESS OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY
ASSESSMENT estimated That only 10-20% of all CONVENTIONAL MEDICAL
PRACTICES have been shown to be EFFICACIOUS BY CONTROLLED TRAIL. 1
EARLY HOMEOPATHY RESEARCH —
To the surprise of most, The FIRST DOUBLE BLIND CROSS-OVER STUDY EVER
PERFORMED was done in 1906 BY HOMEOPATHS. This impressive study was
done concurrently in eleven different cities on fifteen subjects. This
particular experiment consisted of 665 pages, which was The Research
Provings of BELLADONNA. 2
Also at the turn of The century. a book was published called "The LOGIC OF FIGURES or COMPARATIVE RESULTS OF HOMEOPATHICAND OTHER TREATMENTS. This
book provides dozens of charts comparing dis-ease and death rates in
Homeopathic and Allopathic Hospitals. This also included the epidemic
diseases of scarlet fever, yellow fever, typhoid. etc. The HOMEOPATHIC
HOSPITALS usually had 50 TO 80% LESS DEATHS PER 100 PEOPLE, depending
on The disease compared.
Another
early double blind Homeopathy study was sponsored by the BRITISH
GOVERNMENT DURING WORLD WAR II, The experiment demonstrated that those
given Homeopathic Remedies experienced SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT IN BURNS
FROM MUSTARD GAS in comparison to those given a Placebo. A 1982 review
provided further substantiation of the statistical significance of the
Homeopathy research. 3, 4
LABORATORY EVIDENCE —
The number one criticism of the scientific community has been the
"infinitesimal" nature or the dilution principle of Homeopathy.
Homeopaths do agree that once a remedy is diluted beyond 24x or 12C
potencies. they are diluted beyond Avagadro's Number (6.23 x 10-23)
which theoretically indicates that no molecules are present in the
original substance. However, both LABORATORY AND CLINICAL RESULTS over
The last 190 years have demonstrated definite effectiveness with
Homeopathic remedies beyond this dilution.
A
recent NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE (NMR) study showed that all
twenty-three different Homeopathic Remedies and Potencies tested had
DISTINCTIVE READINGS OF SUBMOLECULAR ACTIVITY, while The Placebos did
not. This demonstrates That homeopathy's function is not so much
chemical but energetic. As Chiropractors, you will observe dramatic
clearing of sensory nerve Interference and pathological reflex activity
causing chronic recurring subluxation activity and dis-ease.5
ANTIVIRAL
A
recent double-blinded study has shown THE ANTIVIRAL EFFECT OF
HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES EIGHT OF THE TEN remedies tested INHIBITED VIRUSES
in chicken embryos from 50 to 100 PERCENT depending on The potencies
used.6
HEAVY METALS
The respected journal. HUMAN TOXICOLOGY. published
a study showing that Homeopathic doses of arsenic eliminated crude
doses of trapped arsenic that had been previously fed to rats.7
LOWERED SERUM CHOLESTEROL
Four
German Scientists at a Veterinary College showed That Homeopathic
Chelidonium had LOWERED SERUM CHOLESTEROL when given twice a day to
rabbits on a cholesterol rich diet.8
REDUCED LABOR PROBLEMS
British
Veterinarian, Christopher Day, had conducted several pilot studies
demonstrating how Homeopathic Remedies had REDUCED LABOR PROBLEMS in
cattle. STILL BIRTHS in pigs, and MASTITIS in catlle.9
ANTI-CANCER
The
Cancer Research Center in India found that of the 77 mice That received
a transplant in FIBROSARCOMA, 52 PERCENT SURVIVED more than one year
with Homeopathic Remedies. The 77 mice That were untreated died within
10-15 days.10
PAIN CONTROL
Scientists
at a BRITISH SCHOOL of PHARMACY found that rodents given Hypericum were
able to INHIBIT PAIN RESPONSES. Rodents were able to remain on a hot
plate longer than the control group. When given NaLoxone. which
inhibits pain killing endorphins, the protective effects of Hypericum
was reduced, showing that Homeopathic Hypericum activates endorphins
when needed. Please note that these rodents were free to walk off the
hot plate whenever discomfort was noticed.11
ALLERGIES
Homeopathic
Apis and Histamine have a significant effect on reducing the release of
certain allergy-causing chemicals from Basophils, which demonstrates
one reason for Homeopathy’s positive effects on allergies.12
IMPROVED IMMUNE FUNCTION
A
respected pharmacology journal showed that Homeopathic Silica had a
significant effect on STIMULATING MACROPHAGES in mice, which destroy
foreign particles, bacteria, and old cells.13
RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
CLINICAL EVIDENCE: The
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology published a double-blind
Homeopathy experiment on patients with RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. An
IMPRESSIVE 82 PERCENT OF THOSE GIVEN A HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINE EXPERIENCED
SOME RELIEF OF SYMPTOMS, while only 21 percent of Those given a placebo
experienced any similar degree of improvement. 14
DENTAL NEURALGIA
Another
double-blind Homeopathy trial was conducted on patients with DENTAL
NEURALGIC PAIN FOLLOWING tooth extraction. An impressive 76 PERCENT of
those given the Homeopathic medicine Arnica and Hypericum EXPERIENCED
RELIEF OF PAIN.15
VERTIGO & NAUSEA
The
respected GERMAN PHARMACOLOGICAL JOURNAL demonstrated a statistically
significant improvement in REDUCING VERTIGO AND NAUSEA with a
Homeopathic combination formula.16
REDUCED LABOR TIME & COMPLICATIONS
French
researchers recently completed a double-blind trial using a Homeopathic
Formula to TREAT PREGNANT WOMEN. The study found this Homeopathic
Formula to REDUCE LABOR TIME and DECREASE ABNORMAL LABOR. The average
labor time of the women given the Homeopathic Formula was 5.1 HOURS,
while the Placebo Group was 8.5 HOURS. ONLY 11.3 PERCENT OF THE WOMEN
GIVEN THE HOMEOPATHIC FORMULA had any ABNORMAL LABOR, while 40 PERCENT
of the Placebo Group had an ABNORMAL LABOR,17
THE HOMEOPATHIC RENAISSANCE
DIGNITARIES WHO HAVE SUPPORTED HOMEOPATHY:
In
England, The Royal Family has regularly used Homeopathy since the
1830’s. Today, QUEEN ELIZABETH II is a patron to the famed Royal London
Homeopathic Hospital and PRINCE CHARLES is known to carry Homeopathic
medicines whenever he travels.
GAY
GAER LUCE. Ph.D. (twice winner of The National Science Writer’s Award)
said that, "Homeopathy is a highly developed health practice that uses
a systematic approach to the totality of a person’s health. Anyone
seeking a fullerunderstanding of health and healing will find Homeopathy extremely important and applicable."
MARK
TWAIN once said: ".... (For) the introduction of Homeopathy, which
forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a
rational nature about his business. YOU MAY HONESTLY FEEL GRATEFUL THAT
HOMEOPATHY SURVIVED THE ATTEMPTS OF THE ALLOPATHS (THE ORTHODOX
PHYSICIANS) TO DESTROY IT." Harper’s Magazine. February 1890.
WILLIAM
JAMES stated that, "An enormous mass of experience, both of Homeopathic
doctors and their patients, is invoked in favor of the efficacy of
these remedies and doses."
JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER thought that Homeopathy is a "progressive and aggressive step in medicine."
MAHATMA
GANDHI declared that, "Homeopathy. . . cures a larger percentage of
cases than any other method of treatment and is beyond all doubt safer,
more economical, and the most complete medical science.
DIGNITARIES WHO HAVE SUPPORTED HOMEOPATHY —
IN THE PAST:
Mahatma Gandhi William James John D. Rockefeller Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Daniel Webster Harriet Beecher Stowe Samuel F.B. Morse
IN THE PRESENT:
Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of England Tina Turner, Singer. Actress Yehudi Menuhin, Master Violinist Nicholos Von Hoffman, Syndicated Columnist William Tiller. Ph.D., Stanford Professor Pat Riley, Coach of the L.A. Lakers Lindsay Wagner, Actress Andrew Weil, M.D., Researcher and Author OJ Simpson, Football Superstar Jim Bouton, Ex-Yankee Pitcher Bob MacAdoo, NBA Rookie-Of-The-Year 1972 Sally Little, Pro Golfer Kate Schmidt, Two Time Olympic Medallist in The Javelin
GROWTH STATISTICS: THE
F.D.A. CONSUMER, one of our government’s magazines, reported That the
sales of HOMEOPATHIC MEDICINES INCREASED 1000% FROM THE LATE 1970s TO
THE EARLY 1980s. (March, 1985)
The Washington Post (April 28. 1983) reported That The number of PHYSICIANS PRACTICING HOMEOPATHY DOUBLED FROM 1980 TO 1983.
The
New York Times (January 9. 1985) reported That The number of visits to
Homeopathic Physicians in England is growing at an INCREDIBLE 39% PER
YEAR. The London Times (March 13,1985) noted that 48% OF THE PHYSICIANS
IN ENGLAND RECOMMEND HOMEOPATHY TO SOME OF THEIR PATIENTS.
Homeopathy has received more attention in the popular and scientific press in the past year than at any other lime in history.
NEWSWEEK,
TIME. "THE TODAY SHOW," "CBS MORNING NEWS." NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES
TIMES. BOSTON GLOBE. UPI. AP. and NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO are but some of
The media who have done one or more stories on Homeopathy in the past
year.
A
recent survey of French Doctors revealed that approximately 11.000
physicians utilize Homeopathic Medicines. Twenty-Thousand French
Pharmacies now sell Homeopathic Medicines. This survey also stated that
six medical schools offer courses in Homeopathy leading to a degree.
Homeopathy is also taught in ALL pharmacy schools and four veterinary
schools. 18
Homeopathy is growing so rapidly in France that a recent cover story of Le Nouvel Observateur, one
of France’s leading magazines, noted That President Mitterrand and six
Medical School Deans had called for more research on Homeopathy. 19
Homeopathy
is experiencing widespread popularity in Europe. but it is even more
popular in Asia, especially India. Pakistan. and Sri Lanka. Homeopathy
has spread like wild fire in India due to its effectiveness in treating
both the acute infectious conditions and chronic maladies on the
sub-continent.
Presently, there are over 120 four- to five-year Homeopathic Medical Schools, and 100,000 Homeopathic Practitioners in India. 20
Homeopathy
is also growing widely in South America Mexico, Greece, Belgium. Italy.
Australia, South Africa, Nigeria, and the Soviet Union.
THE FUTURE OF HOMEOPATHY:IT IS IN YOUR HANDS!
Homeopathy Research References
1 Office of Technology Assessment, Assessing the Safetyand Efficacyof Medical Technology (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office. September 1978) p. 7.
2. Howard P. Bellows. TheTest Drug Provingofthe O.O. and L. Society: A Reproving of Belladonna (Boston: The American Homeopathic Ophthalmological, Otological, and Laryngological Society. 1906).
3. J. Paterson. "Report on Mustard Gas Experiments," Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy. 37 (1944): 47-50. 88-92.
4. R.M.M. Owen and G. Ives, "The Mustard Gas Experiments of The British Homeopathic Society: 1941-1942," Proceedinas of The 35th International Homeopathic Congress. 1982, pp. 258-259.
5. Adam Sacks. "Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy of Homeopathic Remedies," Journal of HolisticMedicine,5
(Fall-Winter 1983): 172-175: RB. Smith and G.W. Boericke, "Changes
Caused By Succussion on N.M.R, Patterns and Bioassay of Bradykinin
Triacetate (BKTA) Succussions and Dilution JournalofTheAmerican Institute of Homeopathy, 61 (November-December 1968): 197-212.
6, L.M. Singh and G. Gupta, "Antiviral Efficacy of Homeopathic Drugs Against Animal Viruses," BritishHomeopathic Journal, 74 (July 1985): 168-174.
7.
J.C. Cazin et al.. "A Study of the Effect of Decimal and Centesimal
Dilution of Arsenic on Retention and Mobilization of Arsenic in the
Rat," Human Toxicology, July 1987.
8. V. Baumans, C.J. Bol, W.M.T. oWe Luttikhuis, and A.C. Beynen. "Does Chelidonium 3X Lower Serum Cholesterol?" British Homeopathic Journal, 76 (January 1987): 14-15.
9. Christopher Day, "Control of Stillbirths in Pigs Using Homeopathy." Veterinary Record, 114 (March 3, 1984): 216 reprinted in American Institute of Homeopathy, 779 (December 1986): 146-147.
Christopher Day, "Clinical Trials in Bovine Mastitis: Use of Nosodes for Prevention," British Homeopathic Journal, 75 (January 1986): 11-15.
10. H. Choudhury, "Cure of Cancer in Experimental Mice with Certain Biochemic Salts," British HomeopathicJournal, 69 (1980): 168-170.
11. G.R. Keysall, K.L. Williamson, and B.D. Tolman. "The Testing of Some Homeopathic Preparations in Rodents, "Proceedings ofthe 40th International Homeopathic Congress (Lyon. France, 1985). pp. 228-231,
12.
Jean Boiron. Jacky Abecassls. and Philippe Belon. "The Effects of
Hahnemannian Potencies of 7c Histaminum and 7c Apis Mellifica upon
Basophil Degranulation in Allergic Patients." Aspects of Research in Homoepathy (Lyon: Boiron, 1983), pp. 61-66.
13.
Elizabeth Davenas. Bernard Poitevin, and Jacques Benveniste, Effect on
Mouse Peritoneal Macrophages of Orally Administered Very High Dilutions
of Silica,"European Journal of Pharmacology. 135 (April 1987): 313-319.
14.
PG. Gibson, S. L.M. Gibson, AD. MacNeil. et al.. "Homeopathic Therapy
in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Evaluation Double-Blind Controlled Trial,"British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 9 (1980): 453-459.
15.
Henry Albertini et al.. "Homeopathic Treatment of Neuralgia Using
Arnica and Hypericum: A Summary of 60 Observations," Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy. 78 (September 1985): 126-128.
16. C.F. Claussen, J. Bergmann. G. Bertora .and E. Claussen. "Homoopathische Kombinatlon bel Vertigo and Nausea." Arzneim. Forsch/Drug Res., 34(1984) 1791-98.
17.
Pierre Dorfman, Marie Noel Lasserre. and Max Tetau, "Preparation a
l’accounchement par homeopathie: Experimentation en double-insu versus
placebo" (Preparation for Birth by Homeopathy; Experimentation by
Double-Blind Versus Placebo), Cahrs de Biotherapie. 94 (April 1987): 77-81.
10. IFOP Survey,Paris, 1985.
19. "Medecines douches: La revanche de l‘homeopathie." Le Nouvel Observateur, April 12. 1985, pp. 36-41.
20. Jugal Kishore. "Homeopathy: The Indian Experience," World Health Forum, (1983): 107,
“INSTRUMENTAL MEASURING OF DIFFERENT HOMEOPATHIC DILUTIONS OF POTASSIUM IODIDE IN WATER” Igor
Jerman, M.D., Sc.D., Full Professor of Theoretical Biology, Maja
Berden, M.A. Biology, Metod Škarja, M.A. Physics, BION, Institute for
Bioelectromagnetics and New Biology,Celovška 264, 1000 LJUBLJANA,
Slovenia (Received October 10,1998; Accepted with revisions March 10,
1999)Although more than 200 years have elapsed
since the beginning of homeopathy and in spite of numerous confirmatory
scientific experiments, the so-called memory of water is still a highly
disputable and controversial theme in scientific circles. To make a
contribution to solving this riddle, our research group tried to
examine memory properties of water by the method of differential corona discharge Kirlian electrophotography of water-drop pairs.
The method is based on a modified form of Kirlian photography with a
subsequent thorough computer picture analysis. The potassium iodide
(KI) mother solution (0.1M) was diluted in the standard way (without
potentisation) or with potentisation (succussion by hand - by striking
the vial 60 times against a large book as used traditionally) to 10-3M, 10-6M, 10-10M, 10-16M, 10-17M and 10-24M
KI solutions. In the electrophotography method a drop of KI solution
was compared with a drop of control water. To get a dependable system
of results we comparedhomeopathic
dilutions with ordinary distilled water, sham-potentised distilled
water and non-potentised (standard) solutions. The results were
analyzed by the Chi-square Goodness-of-fit test and the Sign test. They
showed repeatable and statistically significant effects of
concentration of KI dilutions as well as potentisation on the corona
discharge process (from p < 0.05 to p < 0.001). This indicates
that there is some physical basis of molecular (ionic) information
imprinted into water.
Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications Volume 323, 15 May 2003, Pages 67-74 Ultra-high dilutions of lithium chloride and sodium chloride (10-30 gcm-3)
have been irradiated by X- and ?-rays at 77 K, then progressively
rewarmed to room temperature. During that phase, their
thermoluminescence has been studied and it was found that, despite
their dilution beyond the Avogadro number, the emitted light was
specific of the original salts dissolved initially.
# of patients lost to homeopathic euthanasia factors *3) Note below
none yet
# of patients lost in agony
0
# of failures to render any help, overall, through dosing.
0
1/2/3) Don't have any patients killed, unhappy, or homeopathically euthanized yet because I haven't been doing this long enough.
2)
4/21/07 REVISION: The "number of unhappy patients" cannot honestly be
stated as exactly zero. There are 3 to 4 patients to date -- 100% of
them who observed and reported significant symptom and pathology relief
-- but, who simply felt better awhile and were fighting long-time
chronic illness. They can be described as not thrilled or hooked on
homeopathy, yet believing in it and knowing that it works. They just
wanted to keep up their Conventional Medicine, or explore other
options, or have been sick so long that they are tied of trying,
or they prefer to stick with the illness and treatments they know
rather than venture into the scary waters of homeopathy as our lab
mice. It can be said that about 3 of our cases entered homeopathy, saw
improvement and were happy, and just didn't stick with it. So,
obviously, they weren't happy enough. These statistics, however, do
not properly convey their difficulty as patients, research cases, or
the depth of their chronic illness which, to date, remain poorly served
by any medical courses they take. Most homeopaths would describe them
as very poor patients and wouldn't even measure, report, or know what
went on with their departure. None of the 3 can be classified as
terribly unhappy, robbed of money or even charged, mad at Dr. Quack, or
unhappy with homeopathy overall. They just wander about. One is
horribly impatient and wants overnight cure. Another was frazzled at
the slightest case downturn and didn't give us time to correct course;
Decades of self-prescription and not used to sitting still and waiting.
A third couldn't be pushed any farther due to prescription drug
addiction and case complications with remedy contraindication and
boosting. He was happy with homeopathy while on it, though. Just
wanted more dose power and that cannot be done safely due to his
existing drugs. Each was a failure to cure because they didn't stick
it out, but not a failure to help.
ONCOLOGY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
# of remission trends established, Multiple Myeloma *1) Note below
2-4
# of remission trends established, Prostate Cancer *2) Note below
1
# of incidents of cancer cured
0
# of failures to establish remission trends per dose
0
1)
Previous herbal and supplement tactics in producing IgG decline and
better blood chemistry; Unknown tumor shrinkage. Later, homeopathic
action leading to very steep remission vector. Patient reports using
no other drugs, herbs, or treatments during this time. Certainty of
experiment in question without further repetition of results in other
cases. Observations need more repetition in other cases for greater
certainty.
2)
No homeopathy was used in the reversal of one Prostate Cancer case.
Patient did not yet try homeopathy, but followed most other natural
medicine tips.
COUNTER-PLAGUE RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Acute viral/ bacterial incidents cured in around 5 to 60 minutes *1)Note below
<20
Chronic viral/ bacterial infections set into remission or cured *2) Note below
1 human Hep C case closed.
1)
Misc. extinguishment of trivial colds and flu generally in less than 30
minutes from remedy application. 2) No Viral Load Test yet done on the
Hep C case. A long-term case. Relief of overall symptoms provided
repeatedly with dosing. 4/14/07 update: Patient felt numerous
incidents of betterment under individual homeopathic doses and overall
vitality, but we could not step up homeopathic remedy potency without
cutting back on his prescription opiate drugs due to driving their side
effects. Patient remains drug addicted and I determined it safer to
leave as-is until he deals with a homeopathic M.D. He's afraid to trim
out the opiates because, if doing so, his doctor will not give any more
of these strictly DEA controlled pills. They even test his urine to be
sure he's taking the drugs rather than selling them and he feels so
dependent upon them that he would become suicidal if cut off.
Homeopathy took the edge off his pains, but he is unwilling to back off
on the opiates and I cannot safely add stronger push with the remedy
while those drugs are in the system at those doses. Wisest to refer
out to a homeopathic M.D. who can work with him better. No viral load
test data procured. Overall improvement and pain relief noted per
dose. Slight accessory symptoms driven per strong dose due to drug
contraindication/ boosting.
COUNTER-CHEMICAL / COUNTER-POISON/ DRUG DEFENSE
Guppies defended against chemical assault *1) Note below
>17% to 522% tolerance increase?
Shielding against/ weakening human prescription narcotic effects *2) Note below
>350% tolerance increase
1)
Need to carry out more fish kills and apply better lab methods before
being exactly certain on these numbers. Multiple observations.
Additional experiments pending.
2) Only one observation to date. Needs further testing.
·“A Brief Demo on the Efficacy of Homeopathy” (Proof of Homeopathy” link, www.MolecularDyne.comhttp://excalibur.110mb.com/experiments.htm)“A Laser Reflection Apparatus for Measurement of Ultra-Dilutes in Fish Prophylaxis Under Chemical Weapons Attack:6% Sodium Hypochlorite and Nosodes.”Molecular Dyne. UNCLASSIFIED, 2006.
ENHANCED WOUND/ INJURY HEALING
Roughly estimated increase in speed of healing human & animal wounds
500%-700%
ANIMAL RESEARCH
* Stats do not include fish kill & prophylaxis experiments which are proprietary & trade secret.
# of lives saved
>1?
# of sickly animals helped in general
>16
# of doses given
<40 + client repetitions
# incidents of pain relief created
>30
# of acute symptoms reversed
>35
# of chronic symptoms reversed/ alleviated
>9
# of slight accessory symptoms created (botched / unintentional)
3
# of severe accessory symptoms created (unintentional)
4
# of aggravations given (unintentional)
4
# of incidents of pain / suffering caused (unintentional)
4
# of unhappy pet owners / clients
0
# of patients killed (explained below)
1-3?
# of patients lost to homeopathic euthanasia (explained below)
1-3?
# of patients lost in agony
1 (totally botched)
# of failures to render help, overall, through dosing
1
* The
number of patients killed is where some error on my part may be
considered as part of the reason for the patient's decline. Remedies
too strong, too weak, wrong remedy, applied too little, applied too
much, or the right remedy and all the right work with the patient's
condition still exceeded our skills to help. Any attempts to help
yielded some improvement followed by more rapid decline and failure to
recover the patient (homeopathic euthanasia factor created).
*
Homeopathic euthanasia occurs where the patient's severe condition
exceeds the power of the most perfect remedy actions to render cure.
The patient's vitality is disturbed and boosted. They often feel
better and see more function for a time, but then relapse with greater
rapidity. Suffering is reduced overall, but the volatility of methods
applied in attempt to cure only worsens them. It's a fuzzy line
between malpractice and natural impossibility to cure. Impossible to
prove who dunnit. My screw up or Nature? As explained in the Animal
Case Studies section with the slippery slope model, the proximity of
the patient to the deathbed condition makes any medicinal actions
applied more volatile. Exhaustion Stage to Deathbed cases are simply
volatile conditions of unstable and dwindling vitality with tremendous
pull of death behind them. If the patient can be cured, they have been
known to rebound off the deathbed and even out of corpse conditions.
If they cannot be cured or if malpractice occurs along the way (and
there's less margin to botch things down at that level), medical
actions only speed the course to death while reducing suffering
overall. Generally, where the patient made excellent recovery for a
time, but then reversed in condition despite repeated applications of
that remedy and repeated improvement periods, the volatility of our
medicines pushed the patient's condition into instability and death.
The deathbed case of Serena goat shows repeated significant
improvement, repeated relapse, botched remedy applications,
experimental and aggressive remedy applications, excellent remedy
applications, overall palliation, and finally demise -- death trend
induced from aggressive remedy applications and also patient debility.
I believe more life could have been extracted from that case if a
gentler approach was taken with more labor spent on nursing.
NOTE:
The great beauty of sick goats is that their fast metabolism has
them die so rapidly when entering into illness. Trying to cure goats
requires sharpening our skills to a level that is suitable for dealing
with severe acute ailments in humans. In one to two days of a goat
fallen down due to arthritis, you're then dealing with malnutrition
complicating the picture -- rapid weakening, rapid vitality loss, and a
very strong pull of death to work against; The full course of human
elderly nursing home care to deathbed stages packed into a couple
weeks. The chronic ailments killing an old goat take on a more acute
disease picture which resembles advanced stage human disorders such as
cancer.
*
As of 4/14/07, I'm about 95% certain that my worst animal case failure
to date was in the aggressive dosing of a baby goat with a leg
injury. At totally, totally botched case there where I gave him good
pain relief and even made him walk again on his injury, but failed to
see the aggravation I was driving. Due to his screams in pain, I
walked the typical young homeopath's line of breaking dose discipline.
Instead of backing off, stopping, watching, and waiting, I was
fidgety. He screamed to me, and so I gave him more and more remedy.
Strong remedy because goats often need that, but the truth is that I
very probably killed him. About 95% certain there. He expired by the
time I realized my mistake and before I could move for anti-dote.
That's a case where Allopathy and the conventional D.V.M.'s drugs while
invoking no homeopathy would have better served him.
Overall,
however, I'm happy with my score sheet. I'm very probably killing 6%
of my animal cases (including experimental livestock and aggressive
treatment styles). I'm possibly contributing to the death of 18% of my
pet cases taken to date (which were "terminal" cancerous anyhow and
very difficult cases where any touch was dangerous). But, I score 0%
serious screw ups in humans so far. A little disruption of people so
far where the remedy touch hasn't been so precise, but, overall, no
serious aggravations. Zero failure to render some form of help
whenever taking a case. Further, since transitioning to Hahnemann's
advanced methods and liquid delivery system of the 5th to 6th Organon
of Medicine editions and studying under a great master of homeopathy,
my sword swung against illness has magnified about 4 fold. My overall
scores for a fairly young homeopath remain as such from sticking to
very methodic and controlled dosing styles. Some great homeopaths keep
track of their patients and overall statistics with them -- honestly
making that data visible to other homeopaths and their patients -- but
not even they try to at least retain a rough and ongoing count of every
single dose ever given. The objective of the true homeopath is to do
the most good on the least number or least total size of the doses with
the least number of failures. All victories and failures known is
where we can call it a scientific method and true evaluation of the
efficacy to homeopathy.
*These
scores are roughly off the top of my head and not terribly
scientific-grade, but close enough to honestly report my experimental
observation summaries to date. Of course, there are lies, damn lies,
and then statistics as Sam Clemens noted. My best scores do not fully
convey the partial victories and inability to cure at times. They
don't convey the agony of my hurting goat among blunderings. They
don't convey the really miraculous improvements among the animals I've
lost anyhow. Homeopathy is just something one has to see for
themselves to truly know. It's a very dreary thing to describe fine
music played in the statistical terms of science, but this is the
overall sound of the curative music I play. Child's play to usually
cure the easy stuff. Much harder to cure the deeply entrenched
illnesses, but easy enough to usually give remission trend in many.
Always a calculated risk to even attempt anything.
The Structure of Liquid Water; Novel Insights From Materials Research; Potential Relevance to Homeopathy.http://www.rustumroy.com/Roy_Structure%20of%20Water.pdf Roy, Tiller, Bell, Hoover. 2 AUG 04. Materials Research Innovations Online
....and Dr. Kumar's temperature logging experiments.
....Then, there's my own speculative stuff which I wouldn't classify
as research validating homeopathy just yet. Just theory needing
proving or disproving; Needing verification or shootdown of
mathematical predictions made:
Basic QED physics setup with Classical Physics; Succussion relation to a typical Quantum Oscillator; Remedy energy statements, Emission, Spectral Radiance, Radiation Pressure & Momentum; Thermal Radiation Relation, Spectral Radiancy, Planck's Radiation Law, Dr. Quack's "Unified Theory" in the 4th Dimension); Unified Theory Summary equations. Frequency of Homeopathic Remedy predictions;
Alignment of scientific units; Redefinition of the Joule = kgxm^4 =
Watt x time based on E=mc^2; Mass propagating over the space-time
metric alongside energy distribution due to mass-energy relation; Definition of Joule = 8.99e16 kg x m^4; First attempt at Remedy Emission Energy equation "sanity check";
Continued Remedy Emission Energy equation "sanity checks". More
thoughts on the redefinition of the Joule. Propagation distance = Time
at t=0 or very small.); Equation #19 crunching with clinical observation data for homeopathic remedies. Mass-Energy substitution step.
END PRODUCT:
Prediction of VLF/ audio frequencies, UV-X-ray frequencies, and very
energetic gamma rays. Possible meson, hyperon, neutron, boson, and
other particle relations to succussion expected. Neutron binding
energies exceeded. >10GeV prediction. Exothermic reaction among very energetic light emission as the basis for long-term structuring theorized.
....Real or garbage? I dunno yet. Very easy it is to doodle away into madness and delusion on a chalkboard.
Basically, if you take all that wild pressure consideration of Dr.
Rustum Roy's work and then if maybe my "atomic / molecular lensing"
effect holds true, perhaps some trace nuclear fission or even fusion is
going on during succussion. If I'm far off there, certainly frictional
forces at play which raise local temperatures. Anytime you accelerate
charged particles (atoms and molecules), they're giving off
electromagnetic radiation. The transmission of ER is an exothermic
reaction -- leading to cooling, potential crystallization of the
molecular collection, and structuring -- which would account for at
least one facet of the memory nature to water. My own math and physics
setups -- which has never been my strong suit! -- implies a greater
bulk of that ER in bands homeopaths have not yet measured. Energy release from succussion well beyond mere UV, X-ray, and Gamma rays.
It is either bad math or that missing radiation transmission would
pretty much explain it all. If I'm far off on the math and physics by a
band or so,
the general idea of radiation transmission during succussion being the
exothermic reaction behind the crystallization and memory properties of
water....pretty much keeps me cozy with why homeopathic remedies are as
they are.
More Classical Wave Mechanics in Homeopathy.http://excalibur.110mb.com/myspc-lm.htm
This link goes to a little pictorial overview I made regarding dry
dosing of the 1st to 4th Organon vs. the liquid delivery system of the
5th and 6th Organon. The Integral Calculus present as medicinal
energy under the curve is easy to see. Succussion and Dilution vectors
I also throw into the model. One more
observation pointing to the classical wave mechanics nature of the
Vital Force and homeopathic remedies is also the issue of driving and
aggravating side effects with an incompletely fitting remedy.
The wave file image displayed where that is present was done with just
sound -- showing the mechanics of it which is also present in
remedies. Kinda like the Whack-a-Mole pizza parlor game, cure one or
many symptoms and one or a few more pop up needing subsequent remedy
squashing. That is a classical wave mechanics issue fully possible to
mathematically model.
...Chi and the Vital Force are pretty much the same thing, but we
often observe Qi in the world as the Vital Force supercharged. While I
disagree with the religious direction people often take with Qi and
Professor Tiller's views there, he provides ample insights into present
and future research findings regarding the reality of Chi (or the Vital
Force).
Another one to add (from an earlier Hpathy.com thread by Garcot, "Water Structure and Memory"):
"Presentation
by Prof. Rustum Roy and Prof. Bell of Penn State University on their
scientific validity through unambiguous extensive Lab Tests conducted
with Raman spectroscopy etc...."
Suggestion: The
other day, I had my computer scan hpathy.com and it turned up 36,325
webpages. I have also added a customized Google search to my website
which includes my own archives + hpathy.com listed as a search URL.
The search utility is a very powerful tool, but only where things are
keyword specific. I was just thinking that, in the future, maybe
hpathy.com moderators should keyword tag all posts which bear
scientific research proofs and references. Marked with a unique, searchable code like SRRM/2008 (Scientific Research Reference Material/2008).
This way, a search of "SRRM" + the year will turn up any references for
publications or talk of publications for that year. If we keep up the
habit, good little items like Garcot's or this thread will never be
pushed down in the posts to oblivion among thousands of pages. They
can always be quickly fished back up to hand to any skeptic. Already,
the 36,325 pages are a database monster with scientific references
scattered about the vast ocean. Having made the suggestion, I will go ahead and post "SRRM/2008" in reply to any threads I ever cruise that seem interesting -- as scientific evidence, theory, or research beyond mere testimonial
-- which should be added to this ongoing list. They'll be better
engine stitched together as we go like that. It'll be a few days,
weeks, or even months before Google and other engines spiders them all,
though. Search term from any engine: "hpathy.com + SRRM/2008"
This
is a You Tube presentation of his work. Dr. Kumar's temperature
studies I think hold much promise for the future of homeopathy. Not
only do such measurements help provide additional proof regarding the
reality of remedy efficacy, but his research holds promise to impact
the way we can prescribe for children, the senile, comatose, ER cases,
death bed cases, and animals.
For example, I lost a canine
cancer case the other day. A D.V.M. prescribed prednisone +
Artemesinin for Bone Cancer (not a very good match). The dog was
improving and feeling fine with no odd symptoms, so I told the owner to
wait awhile and, when she was level with the Arte, we'd try some Doc
Quack tactics. The old dog, however, just one day didn't wake up.
The owner was happy that she lived 2 months rather than the 2 weeks
terminal diagnosis, didn't suffer at all, and passed on in complete
peace. I think, had we worked the case more -- or had gear like Dr.
Kumar's already in place -- I might have been able to better fit a
remedy and at least push the case out awhile longer.
Dr.
Kumar's work makes it so someday soon I could stick a thermometer in
that dog's butt, obtain a Temperature spectral signature, compare that
to know signatures in the Materia Medica, and obtain the near exact
similium -- without having to interview the patient in regard to
symptoms. That's of extreme value to human cases someday where they likewise cannot communicate with the homeopath for various reasons. ---------- Here's another 5 pages (.pdf file) of scientific research into
Homeopathy courtesy of The Journal of the American Institute of
Homepathy (www.homeopathyusa.org)
Homeopathy Research Institute Jan 2008 Newsletter "The
team at the HRI consists of a unique group of homeopaths and scientists
headed up by Dr. Alex Tournier & Clare Relton who are both
homeopaths and scientists. Dr. Alex Tournier is a physicist working at
Cancer Research UK with degrees in physics, maths & biology. Clare
Relton works at the University of Sheffield as a Department of Health
Research Fellow in the field of Health Services Research. She is
currently writing up her thesis on trial designs appropriate for
homeopathy. Alex & Clare are backed up by directors and a team of
scientific advisors in the fields of homeopathy, medical, and health
research. www.homeopathyresearchinstitute.org
Homeopathy
is thought to act on the information wave aspect of a particular remedy
rather than the coarse particulate aspect (where allopathy reigns) and
thus can display powerful medical therapeutic action on all life forms.
Finally, quantitative mathematics connecting the fine
information wave domain of Nature with the coarse particulate domain of
Nature shows that the total thermodynamic activity of a particular
remedy, j, in an aqueous solution can continue to increase during the
succussion/dilution process even when the coarse particulate
concentration of j falls below the Avogadro number
limit.......................................................
.................From Savely Yurkovsky's Book (
"Biological,chemical,nuclear warfare")
------------- FROM ONE STUDY IN THE NMR SPECTROSCOPY OF REMEDIES
*I
am not so sure the study below entirely rules out non-dynamic
clustering and the issue should be restudied, but it provides some
interesting insight into the physics question.
A
technical but relevant point must be introduced here. One version of
the "cluster theory" posits that once a solvent molecule becomes part
of a stable cluster it will stay in that cluster indefinitely. We call
such a cluster "non-dynamic". A
trickier but more believable hypothesis is that solvent molecules cycle
back and forth between the ambient solvent and the clusters. If only
one molecule at a time leaves a cluster and it is replaced quickly by
another solvent molecule, then the pattern or geometry of the cluster
could be sustained without indefinitely tying up any individual solvent
molecules.Exchanges of surface hydrogens could also occur rapidly
without losing the cluster geometry. A cluster whose components exchange with the ambient solvent would be called "dynamic". The key concept is a parameter called "dwell time", which is the average time a molecule spends in a cluster.If
the dwell time is shorter than 10-3 sec or so, NMR will not be able to
"see" it because the chemical shift will be the average over some
milliseconds, and the discrete signals will blend back in with the
ambient water signal.
Dwell times are considerably shorter than 10-3 sec for a variety of
processes, such as ion solvation [15-17] and protein association
[18-22]. Therefore NMR
spectroscopy is a good method for testing the cluster hypothesis only
if, as part of the hypothesis, we postulate that clusters are
non-dynamic or that dwell times are on the order of several
milliseconds or longer.
....Key, key point there often missed by the skeptics.
Based on this reasoning we assume doublets as the norm for a hypothetical stable cluster, and we take 10 μM as the detection cutoff. For perspective, at 10 μM, we could detect structuring if just 1 in every 107 protons were involved in a fixed H-bond.
We have ruled out, or more precisely we have rendered highly improbable, only this one hypothesis on the nature of the "active ingredient" of homeopathy. Although a positive finding would certainly have been interesting, our negative findings should not be taken as evidence against clinical homeopathy. In particular, the possibility of dynamic alterations of solvent structuring remains open, but this hypothesis will need to be studied by methods that take a much faster "snapshot" of what is going on in samples. Finally, there are also several non-cluster-based hypotheses that have been proposed to explain homeopathy. These include isotopic patterning, coherence, and chaos-based explanations [41]. These explanations do
not require any long-lived H-bonds and do not predict that "unexpected"
discrete peaks would be seen in the NMR spectra of remedies. ---------------
Conclusion
We
used a high sensitivity 1H-NMR spectroscopy method to look for discrete
signals that could provide evidence of pockets of fixed H-bonding in
water-based homeopathic remedies. No such evidence was found. The
method did reveal the presence of some small common organic molecules,
at levels deemed too low to be problematic. We hope that we have made a
contribution to homeopathic research, both by answering a particular
question, and by setting a standard for quality hypothesis-driven
research that others will be inspired to follow. Competing interests
The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests. Acknowledgment
A
grant from the Samueli Institute for Information Biology supported this
project. The author thanks the staff of the DCIF for technical training
and assistance and for many useful conversations. -------------------------------
*
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homeopathy, but interesting research done all the same.
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Fascinating,
is it, allopathy's skeptics make use of the NMR investigation to prove
homeopathy not? Yet, open the NMR debate remains, does it! Hayaaa!!!! -------------------------------------
From Dr. Tamhane:
Posted: 15 July 08 at 08:05
Lets make this data in a official presentation..... Still I feel one thing is what our Dr. Samuel Hahnemann said...
1 His mission is
not, however, to construct so-called systems, by interweaving empty
speculations and hypotheses concerning the internal essential nature
of the vital processes and the mode in which diseases originate
in the interior of the organism, (whereon so many physicians have
hitherto ambitiously wasted their talents and their time); nor is
it to attempt to give countless explanations regarding the phenomena
in diseases and their proximate cause (which must ever remain concealed),
wrapped in unintelligible words and an inflated abstract mode of
expression, which should sound very learned in order to astonish
the ignorant - whilst sick humanity sighs in vain for aid. Of such
learned reveries (to which the name of theoretic medicine is given,
and for which special professorships are instituted) we have had
quite enough, and it is now high time that all who call themselves
physicians should at length cease to deceive suffering mankind with
mere talk, and begin now, instead, for once to act, that is, really
to help and to cure.
This one is a really fascinating article which, again, takes
homeopathic pondering in another potential direction regarding why the
remedies may be working:
...Adds even more to think about regarding my Lensed Theory of Succussion (video + notes)
Courtesy: homeopath Simon King at http://homepage.ntlworld.com/homeopathy_advice/index.html who has a great website filled with ample homeopath archives. I will be adding it this morning to my own search engine on the www.MolecularDyne.com
site. Also, the earlier archival keyword / category search tags I
placed are nicely pulling up on the hpathy.com and MDYNE search
engines. Those help to stitch other bibliographic references to this
thread as we go along. ------------
From Gina Tyler:
Posted: 15 July 08 at 20:00
a
new direction sparked by consideration of homeopathy and past
experiment while stumbling upon other observations and new thoughts.
If you imagine someday being exposed to a vapor cloud where just one
drop upon the skin will start to kill you rapidly (a very highly dilute
and active drug at that!), I think it is really only homeopathy which
can more fully counter such things; Giving one a few minutes to maybe a
few hours of exposure time possible with no ill effects.
Along these thoughts,Stan have you read the two books called :
AUTOPATHY by Jiri Cehovsky- A classical homeopath from Prague who uses the patients saliva in verry high dilutions
HOMEOPATHY FOR FARM AND GARDEN by
Vaikunthanath das Kaviraj- who was in appenticeship with dr.
Chatterjee, who took his homeopathic work to switzerland to use it on
farmcrops instead of using pesticides/herbicides he used remedies
to get rid of pests/weeds..............................................
Considera Is the website link to this bookVaikunthanath Das Kaviraj, a Dutch homoeopath who had created a materia medica and repertory (available in book form since August 2006 from this site).
These were the 'fruits' of 12 years of research into the effects of
remedies from the homoeopathic pharmacopoea when used on plants in
Australia. Vaikunthanath Das Kaviraj based his approach and
recommendations firmly on the shoulders of Hahnemann and Kent and the
classical school of homoeopathy: single remedy, minimum dose, repeat
only with great caution etc. Incidentally, it seems that Margery
Blackie ('The Pateint, Not the Cure', p 143+, 1989 Woodbridge Press
edition) know of some work with dying trees and grain growing, and
before her von Boenninghausen's interest in agriculture threatened to
spill over into his homoeopathic work ('Lesser Writings') but, if it
exists, it seems not to have been printed.
Posted: 16 July 08 at 20:50
Biomedical
Instrumentation Department, Govt. S.G.G.S. College of Engineering &
Technology Nanded (Maharashtra, India) to create some Biomedical
Instrumental Parameters to establish genuine of the system.
Introduction:
It is well known that our Human body is a source of various signals
useful in diagnosing and treating the cases. These signals can be
picked up from the surface of the body or from within the body. These
are as parameters in various Biomedical studies at the same time there
are some body's parameters like blood pressure, temperature, blood
flow, Respiratory and skin functions etc. These parameters of the body
are basically non electrical in their nature which are converted into
corresponding electrical signals by various transducers.
Physiologically these signals have
some normal values which in diseases get altered and during and or
after treatment these go back to their normal values. Considering these
signals (in their various modes) as a parameters it can now be able to
establish the 'genuiness' of Homoeopathy before, during and after
Homoeopathic treatment scientifically.
It was a big question earlier
being asked by the learners of Homoeopathy that 'How Homoeopathic drugs
act on the body ? Theoretically explanations are given since long time
that drugs act on Vital force on dynamic, spiritual, invisible power
etc. Unfortunately these explanations did not satisfy the scientific
need of present era, the pharmacokinetics (What the body does to the
drugs) and pharmacodynamics (what the drug does to body - Aphorism
63-65) of Homoeopathic drugs were either poorly understood. Through
Biomedical instrumental studies we can at least understand effect of
activities of the drugs and most important for Homoeopathy that we can
understand reactivity of body to the drugs. In the clinical studies
this work stands in its key role.
Introduction to various Instruments of Biomedical Studies:
1. Plethysmography:
(To study the action of
Belladonna.) This is used for measuring blood flow of the body. The
flow of blood will be measured with its speed and quantity flown from
one place to another place in a particular time. The quantum of
congestion will be measured so after treatment how much congestion is
reduced from affected part will be measured. This can be used to detect
anti-inflammatory activities of Homoeopathic drugs.
2 Dolometry:
(To study action of Mag Phos as a Pain Killer). This is used for
measuring pains at one particular area of the body. The colours will be
shown of local area which will increase or decrease with severity of
pains.
3. G.S.R. Biofeedback machine:
(To Study action of Ignatia): This
is used for measuring how much grief and sorrow one individual have
color bands will appear on computer. Green color will show total state
of relaxation and tensionless of mind and body.
4. Spirometry:
(To study action of arsenic Album in Lung Abscess and Kali Carb in
Asthma).: This is used to detect Lung volumes before, during and after
Homoeopathic treatment in Lung disorders where lung volumes severely
afftected and leads to respiratory distress.
5. Biomedical Telemetry:
Wireless telemetry : it allows examination of the physiological data of
human beings under normal conditions and in normal surroundings without
discomfort or obstruction to the person under investigation. The
predisposing factors influencing healthy and sick persons during the
performance of their daily tasks may thus can be easily understood and
evaluated. Using wireless telemetry physiological signals can be picked
up from persons who are in work like athletes, swimmers, manual workers
or patients during transportation from one hospital to another and for
continuous monitoring of patients.
6. Blood gas analyzers:
Blood
pH measurements: To study action of Nat. Phos, Sepia etc Measurement of
Blood PCO2 (To study action of Carbo Veg, Camphor).
7. Blood Cell counters:
Automatic recognition and differential counting of cells. (To study
action of Tuberculinum in increased ESR. To study action of Nat Mur in
platelet disorder)
8. Pyoelectric Vidicon Camera: Thermography- Reliable instrument for diagnosing breast cancer.
[ Special thanks to
Prof. S G Kahalekar, Head, Dept of Biomedical Instrumentation Engg.,
SGGS College of Engg & Technology, Nanded (MS) ---------------- From Gina Tyler:
Posted: 16 July 08 at 22:32
Dear Stan
Yes I just Noticed the same,verry funny it does look like leggo blocks? OK besides this:
I am sure all these tests can be done via the lie detector
electrodes+ monotors/the same one used in the book called "Secret life
of plants"..........................Have you read that book stan?
Or use EMF meters.....................................................
Then again no meters are needed at all:
1-kinetic muscle testing
2-pupils contracting (read from David LIttle website more on this )
3- heart beat if you take a patients Pulse while taking remedies
All of these indicate 'activity' of energy caused by remedies
---------
From Doc Quack:
Posted: 17 July 08 at 00:17
Hi Gina,
You know, I hadn't heard of the Secret Life of Plants until today. Sounds pretty sordid and shameful by the way!
But, offshoot talk of the work I am familiar with -- plant
intelligence, response to human emotion, and all that. I haven't known
what to make of it other than that I'd probably be a better gardener if
kinder to my crops!
I think there might be some basis to it, though, but exactly what I
dunno. I don't so readily pooh pooh things like I used to and I also
consider pretty intelligent-seeming plants like the Venus Flytrap.
Thank you for the biometric device listing. Some thoughts and devices there I never thought of before. Some notes:
There's also Live Blood Cell Analysis (Dark Field Microscopy of the blood) which can be used to prove homeopathy.
Various temperature probes like Dr. Kumar has studied.
Electroacupuncture machines.
Radio Frequency Signatures (Royal Rife's work)
Saliva
Differential Blood Pressure and standing/ resting BP.
Pulse is especially responsive to allergies.
EKG
EEG
The tongue -- teeth marks fading in and out with vitality.
The fingernails & toenails.
Trace Elements Hair Analysis.
On
an iridology note, there are some things I observe repeatedly as
dynamic changes in the eyes in regard to symptoms -- pupils are one --
and then a few other times when I have been bewildered at no response
(or maybe it was difficult to see). I studied the eyes of my cousin
once when we were talking about Iridology while walking in a park and
it was pretty cold/ windy outside. She had a chill. What I noticed
was the presense and removal of stress markings in the torso area as a
function of coat or no coat. I've also seen psychosomatic stress rings
come and go in other eyes as a function of health improvement or
worsening. Toxic colon markings and solar radii come and go. Other
markings are more long-term and I have not yet had the opportunity to
see them fade, but some are clearly acute symptom matching. The eyes
are among the most comprehensive view of our internal workings around.
I would tend to favor them as biofeedback measurements. It takes some
good, close-up camera work but you could subject a case study to pain
-- such as holding a hand over a candle while recording stress changes
in the eye (and other body measurements). Then, applying some Arnica
or other remedies to offset the pain, and to measure that effect. Of
course, one would argue placebo.
Not to neglect Animals!
They're the best removal of the Placebo Effect issue. Various DoD
studies of homeopathy have used mouse autopsy and measurement. One
could also just stick a data logging thermometer up a feverish dog's
butt while applying some flu remedy and observe the changes in
temperature over time. Not that I particularly enjoy such work, but
100 to 102.5F is their normal range! Expose them to a little harmless doggy flu germ, raise the temp, log things, and hit them with homeopathic remedies.
Then
there are the nosodes. You can measure how well they provide detox and
drainage or any number of biometrics. Or, you can preserve life under
extreme stress -- such as my fish kills -- or you can also take life
with them, too. Many, many ways to test homeopathy but it's sort of
beating a dead horse since we've been doing so for 200 years with most
the idiots just laughing it off.
On a brighter note, I find
that the more intelligent folks out there do not debate that homeopathy
is working. They'll usually fairly label us with two conclusions: 1)
It seems to have some effect and is working by means science has yet to
explain; 2) The clinical efficacy per disease and patient is uncertain,
debated, and with ample evidence on both sides of the fence. I don't
particularly buy into that mush, but it's about the most fair statement
from allopaths yet. Notice
they are moving away from questioning that it works or has physical
science foundation, and so just move to a questioning of its efficacy.
Homeopathy has long-proven that it works.
We have much more to do, however, in regard to proving and documenting
efficacy among a field that has scattered training standards and
variation in practice. But, it's progress! ------------ From Gina Tyler:
Posted: 17 July 08 at 00:28
Dear Stan
The verry first classical homeopath I ever saw was from
Belgium,practicing at the time in Calif. He took a full case from the
patient,did a case analysis via computer software (radar) and last but
not least picked 4 remedies that were a 'close similar
indicator'.....................He placed them close to the patients
auric field while taking their pulse (baseline first to determine a
starting point and then what each remedy registered)...............the
results were amazing.
---------------
From Doc Quack:
Posted: 17 July 08 at 01:01
Hey Gina,
You
know, you taught me that trick some time back and I don't remember if I
thanked you or not. Think I did. In any case, I had asked you some
regarding remedies, sensitivity, and my own condition that I was
working on -- damaged adrenals making the vitality more unstable and
sensitive to remedies. You suggested that I try introducing the remedy
first by just holding it to the chest. I tried it with new remedies and
do so today still. Seems to work, though one could argue placebo, and
I have no serious baseline studies. But, now that you remind me, I
think I will play around with this pulse study a little. I have
equipment here to check my pulse. Have ample remedies.
So,
how does this work? The pulse goes up or down when exposed to a
matching remedy? Not as up or down when exposed to a partial match?
I'd guess at an initial shoot up in the pulse followed by normal or
subnormal. Am I close?
I
am not sure of how much help this would be. But I wish to contribute
what I knew of. May be some of it would already be there in this thread
itself. Anyhow:
(1) Kleijnen J, Knipschild P, ter Riet G (1991). Clinical trials of
homeopathy British Medical Journal, 302:316–323. This review of
research assessed 105 trials, 81 of them positive [1]. The authors
concluded: “Based on this evidence we would be ready to accept that
homoeopathy can be efficacious, if only the mechanism of action were
more plausible”, “the evidence presented in this review would probably
be sufficient for establishing homeopathy as a regular treatment for
certain indications”.
(2) Jacobs J, Jonas WB, Jimenez-Perez M, Crothers D (2003).
Homeopathy for childhood diarrhea: combined results and metaanalysis
from three randomized, controlled clinical trials. Pediatric Infectious
Disease Journal, 22:229–234.
(3) Vickers A, Smith C (2006). Homoeopathic Oscillococcinum for
preventing and treating influenza and influenza-like syndromes
(Cochrane Review). In: The Cochrane Library. Chichester, UK: John Wiley
& Sons, Ltd. CD001957.
(4) Barnes J, Resch K-L, Ernst E (1997). Homeopathy for
postoperative ileus? A meta-analysis. Journal of Clinical
Gastroenterology, 25:628–633. (Ironically, this review of research that
shows benefit from homeopathic medicines was co-authored by Dr. E.
Ernst!
(5) Taylor MA, Reilly D, Llewellyn-Jones RH, McSharry C, Aitchison
TC (2000). Randomised controlled trials of homoeopathy versus placebo
in perennial allergic rhinitis with overview of four trial series.
British Medical Journal, 321:471–476.
editorial that was published in the BMJ concurrent with reference
#5: "Taylor et al tested this placebo hypothesis in a randomised
controlled trial in patients with perennial allergic rhinitis. Patients
in both groups reported similar subjective improvement, but those in
the homeoapthic group had singificantly grater improvements in
objective measurements of nasal airflow than did the placebo group. The
authors believe that when these results are taken together with the
findings of THREE similar previous trials, it may be time to confront
the conclusion that homeopathy and placebo differ."
(6)trial conducted at the University of Vienna and published in the
leading pulmonary medicine journal "chest" in the world...and in the
treatment of people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (the #4
reason that people in the U.S. die today!) -- Frass, M., Dielacher, C.,
Linkesch, M., Endler, C., Muchitsch, I., Schuster, E., and Kaye, A.
Influence of Potassium Dichromate on Tracheal Secretions in Critically
Ill Patients, Chest, March 2005.
(7) Are the clinical effects of homoeopathy placebo effects? A meta-analysis of placebo-controlled trials Klaus
Linde, Nicola Clausius, Gilbert Ramirez, Dieter Melchart, et al. The
Lancet. London: Sep 20, 1997. Vol. 350, Iss. 9081; pg. 834, 10 pgs
Some of the websites dealing with scientific research in Homoeopathy are
SRRM
PAST & RECENT RESEARCHES
In chemistry, there is no special technique related to homoeopathy.
Microchemistry, chromatography or even capillary spectra can reach the
limit of the sensibility around a dilution 10,' or 101 which are very
much within the Avogadro's limit.
1. Mrs. Kolisko (1926) made considerable studies on effects of high dilution on young plants' growth.
She demonstrated the action of dilution up to the 60th decimal or
even beyond to the 200th decimal. She also observed the rhythmic and
sinusoidal curve. Prof. Netien also studied the action of cobalt in
homoeopathic dilutions on the breathing of wheat coleoptiles.
2. Dr. Nebel in 1932 experimented on yeasts, intoxicated by Merc. cor.
3. Arndt and Schulz also experimented on yeast with Merc. cor,
Iodine, Bromium and Salicylic acid and showed that in the weak doses
these substances increase the multiplica-tion of yeasts, yet strong
doses kill them.
4. More recently, Prof. Netien et al studied the action of
in-finitesimal dilution of Naturm arsenicosum on the growth of yeasts
in functions of these dilutions.
5. Dr. Lamasson studied the action of Korsakovian dilutions up
to the M on cultures of staphylococcus aurous. Hins-dale showed the
inhibitive action of Calendula on staphy-lococcus.
6. Trying to demonstrate the desensitizing action of Apis mel,
Dr. Doneche used white rats injected intra-peritoneal with ovalbumin
solution. Apis 3rd centesimal or 5th centesimal injected at the same
time as the ovalbumin, and then every one half hour, lessened
considerably the edema. J. and M. Telau ,observed that the diluted
doses of Thuja disturbed the psychic balance of rats which lose their
conditioning.
7. Therefore, the homoeo-scientists mainly concentrated on
physical methods. In 1933 Loch built an apparatus named the
Microlyometer for the demonstration of the presence of matter in
dilutions and to establish the curves of these dilutions.
8. In 1936 W.E. Boyd of Glasgow, published the results of his
research made with spectrograph. There the sensibility limit was found
to reach only the 7th decimal for Aurum, Arsenicum and China. 7th
decimal represents in current language a solution of 1/10,000,000,
which is in fact rather a concentrated solution compared to
homoeopathic dilu-tion.
9. At about the same time, 0. Lesser and K. Janner pub-lished
their research with radioactive phosphorus. They found the limit
dosages at the 18th decimal (or 9th cen-tesimal) dilution.
10. Heinz studied the physical action of dilutions using the
in-frared spectra and stressed on the specific value of suc-cession.
Like Gay, he found the rhythm indicating some favorable points in the
curve of dilution.
11. In 1948, Wormser and Loch tested several substances from
24X to 30X. They used a photoelectric cell, to meas-ure the intensity
and wavelength of these potencies and found measurable changes, of both
intensity and wave-length in these substances.
12. In the years 1951-3, Gay and Boiron tested both distilled
water and Natrum muriaticum in the 27C poten-cy, for their dielectric
constant. They were able to show that the potency of Natrum mur. could
be easily selected from among 99 control bottles.
13. Gay and J. Boiron (1951-1952) made a series of studies and
gave results obtained with Gay's montage the name 'geography'. However,
it was observed, in their delicate measurement certain variations could
be produced by the glass solubility or by the use of corks".
14. Physical researches include also those of Dr. Sevaux et al,
who checked the unpublished experiments of Mrs. Vojn Radojicie
regarding measurements of copper sulphate so-lution from 1st to 20th
decimal potency (10th centesimal). They used bioelectrometer of
Vincent. Although chemical or physical methods were used to trace the
presence of matter in dilution, yet it was believed that the link
between the matter in dilutions and the activity of these dilutions
could be best achieved by biological methods, since by reciprocity
these methods enable one to detect the presence of a given substance by
the activity of the product under investigation.
15. W.E. Persson studied the influence of micro-doses of
Phosphoric acid and Arsenic on the dietetic action of tyro-sine. With
successive dilutions a sinusoidal curve was found.
16. Various works were also reported to be conducted with high
dilutions on the vegetable realm. Of course few are the works that
related to homoeopathy and undoubtedly many results need to be
confirmed.
17. In recent time the author conducted a good number of
ex-periments on wheat seeds, germinated in distilled water culture
grown under the effect of high dilution of some known 'macro' and
'micronutrients' such as Ferrum sul-phuricum, 'Cuprum sulphuricum etc.
It was found that by post germination treatment of the substances, by
dilutions even beyond Avogadro's limit, considerable growth
stimu-lation effect was observed, by peregrination treatment specific
disease symptoms in plants were produced. The disease symptoms were
found to be more prominent in higher dilution i.e. 1M potency than in
lower dilution i.e. 7th potency. With the discovery of micronutrients, a large number of hi-therto
obscure plant diseases were identified as micro-nutrient deficiencies.
But it became difficult to reconcile how the similar disease symptoms
could be developed by the substances in toxic level.
18. Dr. Nebel conducted several experiments on entire living
ani-mals. He had been, however, censured for using too few animals. So
his experiments have not been dupli-cated. However, be tried several
ap-proaches: a 30th or 200th decimal dilution of mallein injected three
weeks after injection of a live culture in the ear of a rabbit produced
an intense vasodilatation of the peritumoral vessels while the opposite
ear, intact, did not react at all.
19. Arthus studied the action of Calc, fluor in rickets. One
per cent of Calc. fluor in 3rd decimal potency prolonged the life of
rats as compared with controls submitted to the same rachitogenic diet.
Hofmeister studied the action of Pulsatilla on the genital function of
the white mice, He however stated that it was not comparable with that
of the action of hormones.
20. Dr. Cantegrit tried to show the emphylactic effects of a
high dilution of Nux vomica in a guinea pig intoxicated with strychnine
21. Martiny and Pretec studied the anaphylactic phenomena.
22. Dr. Jarricot studied the action of veratrine on the
muscular contraction of the frog gastrocnemius and concluded that a
30th Korsakovian dilution favors the work of the muscle. He then
studied the action of lberis amara on the isolated heart of frog or
tortoise.
23. In 1963, Boericke and Smith tested a 12X potency of
Sul-phur, with and without succussion. They tested the solvent
structure by nuclear magnetic resonance spectrum. They found that there
were structural changes in the solvent, as the potency was increased by
succussion, while no such change was detected in the controls. They
repeated the experient in 1974, with diverse potencies of Sulphur, up
to the 30C.
24. In 1966, Stephenson and Brucato tested both distilled water
and Mercurius corrosivus, from the 1X to the 33X. They found that the
dielectric constant for the controls varied from 5.6 to 6.05. For the
homoeopathic potencies it varied from 2.8 to 4.4.
25. In 1975, Young tested Sulphur from 5X to 30X, with
con-trols. He also tested the solvent structure by nuclear mag-netic
resonance spectrum. He found that there were measurable changes in the
spectra at each dilution and succussion. No such changes were observed
for the solu-tion without succussion or without Sulphur.
26. In 1976, Boiron and Vinh used Raman Laser Specto-scopy,
showing that for the 1C potency of Kali bi-chromicum the spectrum of
alcohol disappears com-pletely, while that for potassium bichromate
appears. In Kali bich 1C the ratio of the number of potassium
bichro-mate molecules is 1 to 500. In such a case the light meets 500
more alcohol molecules as those of bichromate, yet the alcohol spectrum
does not appear.
27. Four French researchers developed a method of detection
through nuclear magnetic resonance, conducted in the late 80's, which
shows specific sinus waves for each po-tency, as well as a specific
sinus wave for the substance used. These latter remain the same
throughout all poten-cies of that substance, while the sinus wave
expressing the potencies, are specific to those potencies. Thus a clear
and recognisable scientifically provable frame of re-ference exists,
for each remedy and potency.
28. Raulin, Charles Richet, Gabriel Bertrand and Javillier were
first who demonstrated the role of oligoelements, so-called
biocatalyst, on the growth of Aspergillus niger or on yeasts (silver,
zinc, manganese), and on the laccase activity (manganese). Of course
these experiments are not ho-moeopathic but they are often cited by
the, homoeopaths to prove the reality of action of infinitesimal doses.
29. In 1982, Resch, Gutman and Schauer found that dilute sodium
chloride solutions revealed an increase in electri-cal conductivity, by
rocking them prior to measurement.
30. In recent time the French biologist Jacques Benveniste
published in 'Nature' (1988) a paper titled "Human baso-phile
deregulation triggered by very dilute antiserum against Ig E". The
paper created lot of controversy in the scientific circles.
Posted: 23 Jan. 09 at 08:10
Very High Dilutions Beyond Avogadro
ECH GENERAL ASSEMBLY – XVIII Symposium of GIRI 12 to 14th of November 2004. Scientific Report.
The Activity Of Very High Dilutions
First question addressed: The activity of very highly diluted preparations.
Homeopathic practitioners will argue that the use of preparations
that are diluted be-yond Avogadro’s number (i.e. potencies greater than
C10) happens in only 25% of the prescribed homeopathic medications.
Nevertheless, for some people this question is the most important
obstacle to the acceptance of homeopathy.
A/ The experimental model that is cheapest, most reproducible and
also the most easily researched is probably the “acetylcholine-induced
contraction of the rat ileum”. It is a wellrecognized scientific model
(Chang FY, Lee SD, et al. Rat gastrointestinal mo-tor responses
mediated via activation of neurokinin receptors. J.Gastroenterol
Hepatol 1999; 14: 39-45).
This model has been devised for the verification of very high
dilutions of Belladonna by A. Cristea, a Romanian researcher; results
have already been published (Bastide M (ed). Signals and Images. Kluwer
Academic Publishers 1997: 161-170).
Professor Wolfgang Suess, Institute of Pharmacy at the University
of Leipzig, has used this model to test the transfer of the activity of
a homeopathic remedy (in this case Atropinum sulphuricum D60) from the
original liquid form to the homeopathic tab-let. As usual, several
controls were performed. Alpha-lactose monohydrate tablets im-pregnated
with the highly diluted Atropinum had systematically efficacy, on the
contrary with anhydrous alpha-lactose tablets no effect can be
ascertained. Thus, the quality of homeopathic tablets can be tested
before daily use in pharmacy (constant reproducibil-ity). This very
simple model therefore has the potential to remove doubts about the
ac-tivity of very highly diluted homeopathic remedies (Schmidt F, Suess
WG, Nieber K. In-vitro Testung von homöopathischen Verduennungen.
Biol.Med./Heft 1/February 2004;32-37).
B/ It has taken much more time for another model to be accepted by
the scientific community. The first publications appeared in 1991 but
it is only in 2004, after an inter-national cooperation, that the
results have finally been accepted in a high-standard peer-reviewed
journal, Inflammation Research. This model is different from the
Ben-veniste model; he used the same control but not the same activator.
Professors Marcel Roberfroid and Jean Cumps of the Institute of
Pharmacy at the University of Louvain, who respectively coordinated the
European multi-centre (4 cen-tres) trial and performed the statistical
analysis, explained the protocols and discussed the results. The work
demonstrates a significant inhibition of human basophil degranu-lation,
as measured by alcian blue staining, by high dilutions of histamine
(10-30 – 10-38 M). This multi-centre research has subsequently been
confirmed in three laborato-ries by applying flow cytometry analysis
and in one laboratory by measuring histamine release. Even if, at
present, the molecular theory cannot explain these findings, the facts
remain indisputable as recognized by the editor of Inflammation
Research. (Belon P, Cumps J, Ennis M, Mannaioni PF, Roberfroid M,
Sainte-Laudy J, Wiegant FAC. His-tamine dilutions modulate basophil
activation. Inflamm. Res. 2004; 53: 181-188.)
C/ Research on high dilutions has existed since the 1950s, but the
number and qual-ity of publications has increased in the last decade.
Reviews and meta-analyses have even been performed but often ignored or
even denied (see COST B4 supplement re-port EUR 19110 ISBN
92-828-7434-6). This research is not encouraged and even deemed
inadvisable by academic authorities.
Professor Jean Cambar, Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy at the
University of Bor-deaux, described the most important models that have
been published previously in international journals, confirming the
effects of very highly diluted homeopathic prepa-rations.
The efficacy of very high homeopathic dilutions of human or animal
natural molecules (also called endogen molecules) has been published
several times in prestigious jour-nals. Examples include the following:
Int J Immunotherapy 1987; 3: 191-200 (Thymulin in mice. Bastide M);
Int J Immunopharm 1990; 6: 211-214 (alpha/beta interferon, Carriere V);
J Vet Human Toxicol 1995; 37(3): 259-260 (Thyroxine, Endler PC);
Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol 1996; 9: 43-51 (Bursin, Youbicier-Simo BL).
During this meeting Dimitris Zienkiewicz, immunologist at the
University of Edin-burgh, presented preliminary findings assessing, by
immunosorbent assay and flow cytometry, the alteration in activation
and function of dendritic cells that comes about as a result of their
treatment with homeopathic dilutions of a bacterium. Dendritic cells
play an instrumental role in both activation and regulation of the
immune system. Sys-tematic changes in the profile of cytokines IL-10,
IL-11 and IL-12 cannot be explained by the molecular theory.
Efficacy of very high homeopathic dilutions using pharmacological
models has also been published in peer-reviewed journals. Examples
include the following: Thrombosis. Res. 1994;76: 225-229 (Acetylsalicylic acid in a vessel model. Doutre-mepuich C);
Haemostasis 1990;20: 99-105 (Acetylsalicylic acid in healthy volunteers. Doutre-mepuich C);
Thrombosis. Res. 1987; 48: 501-504 (Acetylsalicylic acid in healthy volunteers, Doutremepuich C).
The longest-used model, published frequently all over the world, is
the toxicological model (Arsenic, Phosphorus, Mercury, Cadmium,
Cisplatina, Glutamate, Cuprum sul-phate, etc). It can be applied to
vegetable, animal, cell culture material or even clinical studies. This
model is still used and indeed is the theme for a collaboration between
the Universities of Bern and Bologna, testing homeopathic arsenic
trioxide treatments by plant-based bioassays. The working variables are
the germinated seeds or the stem length on the seventh day. At least 6
recent experiments by this team are published (Dr Lucietta Betti.
DISTA-Department of Agro environmental Science and Technology,
University of Bologna.).
Experiments are well conducted, in controlled conditions, with a
sufficient number of plants, animals or cells, and with a fair
statistical treatment. The facts are indisputable, statistically
significant and reproducible, even if they cannot be explained using
the mo-lecular paradigm.
The Content Of Very High Dilutions
• Second question addressed: The content of very highly diluted homeopathic prepa-rations.
Professor Jean Cambar introduced the theme by asking what are the
contributions of the different spectroscopies (Raman, Ultraviolet,
X-ray or Magnetic Nuclear Reso-nance) in revealing the structure of
water and solvents in high dilutions? What is the real relevance of
Avogadro’s number in evaluating the precise pattern of molecules? Can a
dilution work without any molecule? One of the most innovative
perspectives in this last decade was the demonstration that high
dilutions have as much activity and effectiveness in an organized
structured solvent without any solute molecule as they do when
molecules are present (even only some molecules).
Professor Louis Rey, Doctor of Sciences, Lausanne, a specialist in
low temperature thermoluminescence, has published on this topic in the
international journals Nature (1988; 391: 418) and C.R.Physique (2000;
1: 107-110). He presented the latest results of the experiments he
carried out together with Dr. Philippe Belon on the thermolumi-nescence
of ultra-high dilutions of lithium chloride and sodium chloride.
Ultra-high dilu-tions of lithium chloride and sodium chloride (10-30 g
cm-3) were irradiated by X- and gamma-rays at 77K, then progressively
re-warmed to room temperature. During that phase, their
thermoluminescence was studied and it was found that, despite their
dilu-tion beyond the Avogadro number, the emitted light was specific of
the original salts dissolved initially. Much to the authors’ surprise,
the experimental results showed, without ambiguity, the specificity of
the contained information. The findings proved to be reproducible in
the course of many different identical experiments. As a working
hy-pothesis, the researchers propose that this phenomenon results from
a marked struc-tural change in the hydrogen bond network initiated at
the onset by the presence of the dissolved ions and maintained in the
course of the dilution process, and probably due to the successive
vigorous mechanical stirrings. (Physica 2003; A323: 67-74).
Professor Guadalupe Ruiz-Vega, Universidad Michoacana de San
Nicolás de Hi-dalgo, Morelia, Mexico, presented her most recent
publications in the field of thermo-dynamics. She was able to
demonstrate the biological effect of two ultra-low dose compounds.
(Publication in process.)
The use of modern techniques in the hands of specialists is the
best way to show sceptics that the experimental facts are well grounded
and confirmed by reproducible experiments. Even in ultra-molecular
homeopathic dilutions, specific information of the prime dissolved
substance still remains in the preparation and can be detected
ex-perimentally.
The Theoretical Framework
• Third question addressed: The theoretical framework in which the
effects of ho-meopathic diluted preparations can be explained.
Two members of G.I.R.I. (Groupe International de Recherche sur l’Infinitésimal; see
www.giriweb.com), Professor Madeleine Bastide (University of
Montpellier) and Ag-nès Lagache (Professor of Philosophy, Paris) have
been working on this topic for 16 years. A new paradigm for medical
science is needed to explain these facts and to al-low more precise
research models in the future. A working group of 7 members applied
this new paradigm to the analysis of experimental results.
Prof. Bastide explained that homeopathy and research models are
based on the ob-servation of “symptoms”. Asymptomatic pathologies exist
that provoke “biological scars” as a proof of the self-treated organism
without showing the illness symptoms (Charles Nicolle, Nobel Prize
1929, Life and Death of Illness). Symptoms and biologi-cal
modifications are not the same and concern different levels in the
body. The symp-tom may be an expression of the body when it cannot find
any answer whatever the situation (infection, stress, strong emotion…).
Example: Rubella in a normal subject: no apparent sickness. Rubella in immuno-deficient subject: symptoms, apparent sickness.
For the allopathic research approach, the symptoms are
pathognomonic, specific to the illness; they are used to diagnose the
pathology. When the diagnosis of the pathol-ogy is performed, the
treatment is chosen accordingly; classical therapy may be also targeted
against symptoms.
For the homeopathic research approach, considered symptoms are
idiosyncratic; specific to the patient. They are the personal
expression of the sickness by the patient. They are used to choose the
specific remedy according to the similarity of the symp-toms observed
by “proving” in a healthy subject. The living body is in a lasting and
irre-versible learning process; it communicates at every level with its
environment. It is able to receive and treat semantic and corporeal
information; it is not an inert object.
The paradigm of corporeal signifiers (Bastide M., Lagache A. Revue
Intern. Systémique 1995; 9: 237-249 and Altern Ther Health Med. 1997;
3: 35-9).
Three principles define homeopathy, based on clinical and
experimental analysis: the similia and whole person principles, and the
use of very high dilutions. The effects of high dilutions cannot be
explained by a simple molecule-receptor interaction (mecha-nistic
paradigm), the “well established theory” of modern science. Prof.
Bastide & La-gache propose an epistemological approach to
homeopathy based on body informa-tion processes received and
interpreted by the living organism; this follows the rules of
information exchange. Exchange of objects between a giver and a
receiver is very simple: one loses, the other gains, and the sum is
constant. On the other hand, infor-mation is not an object but the
trace of an object – mediation between object and re-ceiver is required
for a signal to be transmitted. For example, take the story of
Robin-son Crusoe: Crusoe sees Friday’s footprint in the sand but not
the foot itself. For him, this footprint means ‘there is another man on
this island’. Friday’s foot is the originator (matrix) of the
information; the footprint is information but is not an object; the
sand is the carrier of the information (the mediator). When the carrier
disappears, the informa-tion disappears too. The information is
understood only by the receiver and the under-standing of the
information depends on its context – he knows that he is alone on the
island. Prof. Bastide & Lagache therefore suggest that in
homeopathy, the originator of the information is the starting material
of the remedy; succussed dilutions of the start-ing material in a
solvent are mediators. High dilutions contain only information from
that material and no molecules remain. This mediation results from the
succussed solvent being in a specific state, implying perhaps
electro-magnetic processes. The receiver (the whole living body)
receives and processes the information in the remedy accord-ing to its
state, whether healthy (“proving”) or sick (therapy). The bases of this
para-digm are verified by the systematic experimental results obtained
as described in the first parts of the conference.
This new paradigm is needed to explain the experimental facts and
to understand the failure of research models that do not fit it.
The Clinical Effects
• The final question addressed: The clinical effects of homeopathic preparations.
An experimental design is only relevant if it takes into account
the observed phe-nomenon within its specific framework and if the
subject addressed can be isolated of all external influences.
Considering human medicine, the psychological factors are re-sponsible
for non-specific effects and the medication effects are called specific
effects. Whatever the research model, taking into account the
homeopathic approach, the idio-syncratic symptoms (specific to the
patient) must be considered excluding pathogno-monic symptoms.
A/ Professor Leoni Bonamin, Paulista University (São Paulo) and
president of G.I.R.I., reviewed studies in veterinary homeopathy. Such
studies are relevant for ho-meopathy because it is easier to isolate
the effects of the treatment: the placebo effect is almost nil and
there are fewer ethical considerations. Moreover, studies in
well-defined herds and features can include a very homogeneous sample
from a large number of animals. Nevertheless, the rules for
well-designed studies must still consider the particularities of
homeopathic research as regards the Similia principle (considering
idiosyncratic symptoms).
Veterinary studies are very important for organic farming
regulation. In Europe, only homeopathic treatments are authorized for
biological farming. The use of homeopathy is aimed at avoiding chemical
residues in the food chain. More institutional support is certainly
needed.
In recent studies, the use of homeopathic complexes has been
tested with very good results using parallel placebo groups, blinded
design, homogeneity of samples with sufficient animals, and a protocol
that is easy to manage in the farming context.
Filliat C. Particularité de l´utilisation de l´homéopathie en
production avicole. Annals of the “Entretiens Internationaux de Monaco
2002”, 5-6 October 2002.
http://www.giriweb.com.
The use of homeopathic complex reduced the incidence of haematomas in turkeys during transportation by about 30%.
Riaucourt A. L´Exemple de la Filière Porcine. Annals of the
“Entretiens Interna-tionaux de Monaco 2002”, 5-6 October, 2002.
http://www.giriweb.com. The use of a complex (with endogenous and
exogenous substances) to improve oestrus manifesta-tion in female pigs
induced a reduction of the repetitions of inseminations and semen loss.
Veterinary studies are also useful for questioning homeopathic
study design. Using the model of psychogenic dermatosis in dogs and
cats (Torro, et al. In press), six months of treatment with the
simillimum shows 70% success. One year after finishing the treatment
there was no recurrence. The entire study duration is six years. The
very long efficacy of the homeopathic treatment is a reason for
questioning cross-over de-sign.
Because veterinary pathogenetic studies are very rare,
veterinarians often need to do extrapolations from human pathogenesis
and their Materia medica is based on classi-cal studies performed in
humans.
Research protocols in experimental animals. For example, the
effects of nosode (isopathic homeopathic remedy) versus allopathy and
similar homeopathic remedy us-ing as model the experimental urinary
infection of rats (Gonçalves et al. O uso da ho-meopatia no tratamento
da infecção urinária em ratas. Anais do VIII SINAPIH; 20-22 May, 2004:
p.25-26. http//climed.epm.br/sinapih/index). This study compares nosode
from individual or collective samples. It is a blinded study; the
presence of E. coli in gall bladder of rats is evaluated after 12-16
days of treatment: Untreated control, 100% of bacteria colonies (no
spontaneous healing), second control is the vehicle (alcohol 5%) 94%,
comparison group treated with Antibiotic (levokinolone) 33%*, treated
group with nosode from a pool of urines (30D) 73%*, treated group with
a self-nosode (30D) 39%*, and treated with a similar homeopathic remedy
Phosphorus 30CH (the incorpo-ration of rats in this group happens
observing their individual behavior) 22%* (* Fisher test, p=0.05). With
such studies it is possible to evaluate some homeopathic parame-ters
such as the criteria for the choice of the best homeopathic dilution.
The general rule is to use high potencies for chronic/mental
disturbances and low potencies for acute/organic disturbances. The
antidepressive effect of Hypericum perforatum in rats was better in
200CH than in 30CH: tested by the Porsolt forced swimming method
(Goulart et al. Avaliação dos efeitos de Hypericum perforatum (Hp)
dinamizado ho-meopaticamente em comportamento de ratos. Anais do VIII
SINAPIH, 20-22 May 2004: p.14. http//climed.epm.br/sinapih/index); this
was a blinded, well designed study.
Experimental animal studies have limited application to veterinary
or to human ho-meopathy. Veterinary studies minimize placebo effects
and confirm the efficacy of ho-meopathic treatments. Experiments in
laboratory animals help improving research de-sign in homeopathy.
Human Studies
B/ Last, but not least, the human studies were considered.
B.1) A second G.I.R.I. working group was dedicated to clinical
research, and particu-larly considered the issues of individuality and
complexity.
Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) gives first priority to “Therapeutic
Effects Testing” (TET), starting from the work of basic scientists in
laboratories up to clinical research-ers doing Randomized Clinical
Trials (RCTs), and finally reviews or meta-analyses of several RCTs.
The achieved level of TET determines the level of EBM for a
medicinal product. “Clinical Use Testing” (CUT), starting with case
reports, epidemiological outcomes and cost-benefit studies, is only
interesting for public health authorities and patients but it is never
sufficient to reach EBM. No real bridge exists between these two
approaches.
Evidence Based Homeopathy (EBH) starts and ends with the
individualized patient. It can be represented as the arch of
homeopathy: at one side there is the examination of the patient, and at
the other side the therapeutic instrument. In order to understand the
patient, we must consider his totality in time and space to be able to
understand his basic vulnerability, latent or manifest. This totality
must be qualitatively modalized with chronological assessment to get
the Minimal Syndrome of Maximal Value. The thera-peutic instrument can
be self-healing (no syndrome, no medication), or management of
life-style or nutrition in order to avoid obstacles to cure. A
homeopathic remedy can be considered after study of its
physico-chemical characteristics, its toxicology, its usual therapeutic
use: this is the first step, the hypothesis.
The second step is the probability by a first “proving” (blinded
protocol) on healthy volunteers; third is the confirmation by further
“provings”; fourth is the corroboration by physio-pathological study;
and last is the clinical verification in daily practice. For the
remedies we must have the same qualitative assessment as for the
patients. But the keystone of the whole homeopathic process, without
which the arch will crumble, is the Law of Similars. Research in
homeopathy must be concentrated on qualitative “prov-ing” on healthy
volunteers and clinical verification in daily practice. Therefore after
many years of studies, our first priority must be systematic clinical
files collection (CLI-FICOL project). The Bayesian statistic, a
statistical approach (likelihood ratio), can help establishing a
scientific base for our symptoms’ repertories. This approach was
pre-sented by Dr Lex Rutten from The Netherlands.
Can one get over the gap that exists between EBM and EBH?
B.2) Dr Harald Walach, University of Freiburg, presented an overview of the already
published papers.
Homeopathy is certainly popular (used by 50% of the population in
France) and is historically successful, both individually (by
Fieldmarshall Radetzky, Paganini, etc.) and generally (in cholera and
other epidemics all over Europe). Homeopathy remained ef-fective in the
face of adversaries and is growing despite (or because of?) modern
medical technology.
Looking only at the latest publications and using validated Quality
of Life question-naires (between 2000 and 2004), 6915 patients
presented clinically significant im-provement (approximately 70% of
cases; more in children). Homeopathy reduced costs and allowed a better
improvement in work-days lost compared with conventional practice. For
specific diagnoses such as bronchial asthma (89% improvement; even
better after 2 years), cancer patients in palliative care (improvement
of quality of life, fatigue and anxiety but not pain), hyperactive
children (after 3 months, 75% improve-ment versus 65% for conventional
treatment), URTI (67.3% improvement with home-opathy, 56% with
conventional treatment; side effects 7.8% homeopathy versus 22%
conventional), homeopathy is at least as effective as conventional
therapies, but costs are lower and the safety of homeopathy is greater.
On the other hand, an “efficacy paradox” can be acknowledged. Using
the hierarchy of evidence, for conventional medicine the RCT is of the
highest value – the best rigour and internal validity – but it has a
low applicability score, a low external validity and its conclusions
are generalized with great difficulty. On the contrary the
applicability of case series is great, showing a high external validity
and its conclusions generalized easily. RCT implicitly tests the
placebo hypothesis; the question is only: “Is the homeo-pathic therapy
different from placebo?” It presupposes a local-causal model of
home-opathy, that the physical presence and “information” of a remedy
is decisive (without considering the “receiver” health status), and
that a “true” effect would be detectable through replication. It is
apparent that discrepancies exist regarding homeopathy in daily
practice and the RCT approach.
Nevertheless RCTs have been performed and meta-analyses of these
studies have concluded that there is clear evidence of efficacy in
favour of homeopathic treatments that cannot be attributed only to a
placebo effect (Linde K, Clausius N, Ramirez G, Melchart D, Eitel F,
Hedges LV, Jonas WB. Lancet 1997; 350: 834-43 and Dean M.E. Hans Walz
Preisschrift, Essen:KVC Verlag, 2004.) For some specific diagnoses, the
same level of evidence has been reached: rheumatoid arthritis (6
studies); childhood diarrhoea (3 studies); postoperative ileus (8
studies); hayfever, asthma (4 studies). For migraine, results of RCTs
are disappointing. In children, using comparison groups, sig-nificant
results are obtained for recurrent infections, postoperative agitation,
adenoids, otitis media, and stomatitis in patients with cancer
(complication of the conventional treatment). There are promising
pilots studies on low back pain, premenstrual syn-drome and chronic
fatigue.
The problems with RCTs are:
• they are difficult to replicate (true also for conventional treatment: only 48% of all
SSRI studies are significant);
• they are invasive and expensive, inducing lack of interest due to a lack of funding;
• blinded RCTs answer only the placebo question;
• they make unwarranted presuppositions.
Conclusions
Conclusions: Clear indications exist about clinical effectiveness
of homeopathy; ho-meopathy is effective in uncontrolled practice or
versus comparison groups; enough indications exist that “placebo” is an
insufficient explanation for the effects of homeopa-thy. Homeopathy can
be similar or better in effectiveness than conventional treatment and,
where it has been studied, it is cheaper in the long run. Many
interesting ques-tions not even asked should be prioritized, such as
the potential of homeopathy to avoid invasive procedures in children
and, in primary care settings, the long-term effect of homeopathy in
preventing chronic complications.’
We may add that there are some more voices that have declared the
objections to miss any grounds. We also have contributed to the debate
by presenting our views on the matter. We may point out that in nearly
all clinical trials homoeopathy fares better and that our placebos are
acting better than the allopathic placebos.
Homeopathy: Overview Of Human Clinical Trials
Historical review of the main publications
A number of large-scale studies designed to evaluate the huge
amount of homeo-pathic literature have been conducted, especially in
the last 10 years.
Organisations and institutes of great international prestige and
importance have dealt with the issue of homeopathy. All of them have
concluded that homeopathy possesses therapeutic efficacy. The
characteristics of these studies are briefly summarised below.
In 1991, J. Kleijnen et al. in the Netherlands evaluated 107
homeopathic clinical trials on the basis of a number of evaluation
criteria also used in allopathic clinical trials (Kleijnen J. et al. –
Clinical trials in homeopathy. British Medical Journal, 1991;
302:316-323). They selected 22 of these trials, which they judged to be
of good quality (large number of patients recruited, type of
randomisation, description of patients and methods, double blinding,
and stated parameters for evaluation of results). 15 of these 22
trials, in which patients treated with the homeopathic drug were
compared with pa-tients who were untreated or treated with a placebo,
demonstrated the therapeutic effi-cacy of the homeopathic drug.
Kleijnen’s meta-analysis was therefore mainly formulated on the
basis of observa-tional studies. Globally, 81 of the 107 studies
reviewed by Kleijnen et al. (76%) gave favourable results.
In 1992, in view of the increasingly widespread use of
non-conventional medicine (among which homeopathy stands out for the
quantity and quality of the basic research and controlled clinical
trials) and increased interest by the public and the media, the US
Congress instituted the Office of Complementary Alternative Medicine,
which later be-came NICAM (the National Institute of Complementary
Alternative Medicine) within the National Institute of Health. NICAM
has an annual budget of US$ 100 million, and is responsible for laying
down guidelines for research into the validation of complemen-tary
medicines, formulating trial protocols and allocating funds for quality
research.
In May 1997, a report entitled “Overview of data from homeopathic
medicine trials” was published by experts (clinical physicians,
university pharmacologists and re-searchers in the homeopathic field)
forming the Homeopathic Medicine Research Group, Advisory Group 1, set
up by the European Community.
These experts identified 377 clinical trials, short-listed 220,
and reviewed 184. De-tailed research lasting several months was
conducted on the best trials, to evaluate their scientific value. The
conclusions researched by the Advisory Group are unequivo-cal: the
number of significant results cannot be attributed to chance. The
analysis pro-vided a random hypothesis value of p < 0.001.
The Advisory Group remained very cautious, but expressly stated:
“The null hypothe-sis that homeopathy has no effect can be rejected
with certainty; in other words, in at least one of the studies examined
the patients treated with the homeopathic remedy received benefits
compared with the control patients who received the placebo”.
In 1997, K. Linde et al. (Munich University) published the results
of a meta-analysis of no less than 135 clinical trials which compared
homeopathic drugs with a placebo in Lancet (Linde K. et Al. – Are the
clinical effects of homeopathy placebo effects? A meta-analysis of
placebo-controlled trials. Lancet 1997; 350:834-843). The authors
concluded that “…The results of this meta-analysis are not compatible
with the hy-pothesis that the clinical effects of homeopathy are
completely due to placebo”.
Linde had already published the favourable results of basic
research studies con-ducted with homeopathic drugs in 1994 (Linde K. et
al. – Critical review and metaana-lysis of serially agitated dilutions
in experimental toxicology – Human Exp.Toxicol., 1994, 13:481-492).
In 1998, E. Ernst and E.G. Hahn described the state of the art in
homeopathy, draw-ing conclusions similar to those reached by Linde in
his 1997 meta-analysis (Ernst E., Hahn E.G. – Homeopathy: a clinical
appraisal. Oxford – Butterworth. Heinman, 1998).
In 1998, P. Bellavite, Associate Professor of General Pathology at
Verona University, published a detailed review which collected,
classified and analysed much of the avail-able scientific literature
that documents the effects of homeopathic remedies in clinical trials,
together with studies conducted in the field of basic research. As
regards clinical research, Bellavite reported on the most significant
and methodologically reliable stud-ies, drawing the conclusion that
“the common opinion that scientific proof of the clinical efficacy of
homeopathy does not exist must therefore be refuted”.
Basic research is also actively developing, and some high-quality
in vitro and in vivo studies that demonstrate the efficacy of
homeopathy have been published in interna-tionally recognised journals.
Another meta-analysis conducted in 2000 on 24 studies relating to
controlled, ran-domised clinical trials concluded that “There is some
evidence that homeopathic treat-ments are more effective than placebo”
(M. Cucherat et al. – Evidence of clinical effi-cacy of homeopathy. A
meta-analysis of clinical trials. Eur. J. Clin. Pharmacol., 2000;
56:27-33).
Oddly enough, this body of trials and studies, some of which are
of great institutional importance (such as the work of the Advisory
Group set up by the European Commu-nity and the research conducted by
NICAM in the US) has not been given sufficient prominence, either
within the scientific community or by media.
This book is designed to fill the communication gap by
systematically classifying the available studies, and in particular by
reporting on the latest controlled clinica trials, which have become
increasingly numerous in the past 2-3 years. The chapters which follow
are devoted to classification and analysis of the best publications in
the clinical field.
Approximately 400 Publications
Approximately 400 publications obtainable from international data
bases (Medline, Embase, Biosis, the British Library, Stock Alert
Service, SIGLE, Amed, etc.) which re-late to controlled clinical trials
of nosographically defined disorders (accounting for ap-prox. 80% of
the homeopathy studies conducted up to December 2001) demonstrate the
therapeutic efficacy of the homeopathic drug tested.
No less than 98 studies (25%) were indexed in Medline between 1998
and 2001 alone, clearly indicating researchers’ increasing interest in
homeopathy.
We have excluded from our review studies which fail to comply with
validated opera-tional protocols; we relied in particular on the
“Guidelines on planning, conduct and evaluation of multicentric
studies” published in the German Official Federal Gazette No. 299, Vol.
4, 12, 1998.
The exclusion criteria were consequently as follows:
1) open studies (only the global efficacy of homeopathy can be considered with
this method, not the effect of each individual drug)
2) retrospective studies (which do not involve comparison with homogeneous
groups)
3) studies in which a number of therapeutic techniques were associated
4) lack of homogeneity of the disorder among groups and within the same group
5) small number of patients recruited
6) defects in methodological procedure.
When these exclusion criteria were applied, the number of
publications was reduced to approximately 200. We therefore examined
only placebo-controlled trials and trials which compared a homeopathic
medicine with the corresponding allopathic reference drug, some of
which have been published in major international non-homeopathic
jour-nals such as the Lancet, Cancer, the British Medical Journal, the
British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, etc. (Table 2). Table 1
Total number of scientific publications
reporting sig-nificant results:
Homeopathic medicine supe-rior to placebo: Homeopathic medicine not in-ferior to corre-sponding
allopathic refer-ence
drug: studies relating to controlled human clinical trials
which provide valid, une-quivocal informa-tion about the therapeutic
effect of the drug in question have consequently been selected.
A) HOMEO-PATHIC DRUG
Of these VS. PLA-CEBO =
B) HOMEOPATHIC DRUG
VS. THE CORRE-SPONDING
ALLOPATHIC RE-FERENCE
DRUG =
127 77 21 106 83,4% 16,6%
_ Of the 106 studies (A) 77 (72,6%) demonstrated (conducted between
1944 and 2000) that the homeopathic medicine was SUPERIOR to the
placebo.
_ Of the 21 studies (B) 21 (100%) demonstrated (conducted between
1991 and 2001) that the homeopathic medicine was NOT THERAPEUTICALLY
INFERIOR* to the corresponding allopathic reference drug.
_ 1991 to 1999 = 8
_ 2000 to 2001 = 13.
The table on the next page shows the salient data and references of
the 98 publica-tions which demonstrated that a homeopathic medicine was
superior to the placebo or not inferior to the corresponding allopathic
reference drug.
The term “NOT INFERIOR” means EQUAL or SUPERIOR TO.
List Of International & National Medical Journals
List of international and national non-homeopathic medical journals
cited in this book which have published the results of methodologically
reliable controlled clinical trials that prove the efficacy of
homeopathic medicines.
Experimental Model:
Homeopathic Medicine Vs Placebo
International Scientific Journal:
• Lancet
• British Medical Journal
• Rheumatology
• Phlebology
• Pediatrics
• Pédiatrie
• Allergologie
• British Journal Of Clinical Pharmacology
• Pediatric Infective Diseases Journal
• American Revue Of Respiratory Diseases
• Archives Of Medical Emergency
• Journal Of Head Trauma Rehabilitation
• Canadian Medical Association Journal
National Scientific Journal
• Orthopädische Praxis
• Therapiewoche
• Kinderarzt
• Forschungsmedizin
• Revue Française De Gynécologie Et Obstétricie
Experimental Model:
Homeopathic Medicine Vs Corresponding Allopathic Reference Drug
International Scientific Journal:
• Cancer
• Thrombosis Research
• Journal Of Clinical Pharmacology
• Archives Of Otolaringology/Head And Neck Surgery
• Arzneimittel Forschung/Drug Research
The Subject of “Publication Bias”
The subject of “publication bias” was tackled in the meta-analysis
conducted by Klei-jnen (1991). However, this problem obviously does not
relate to medical/scientific pub-lications only.
Many homeopathic studies with doubtful or negative results are
rarely (if not excep-tionally) published in homeopathy journals; they
are more likely to be published and commented on with negative emphasis
in official journals, even when certain subjects are not in line with
their editorial strategy.
Conversely, many favourable results obtained with homeopathic
medicines as a re-sult of methodologically correct studies are
published in homeopathic journals and merely ignored, censored,
minimised or hyper-criticised by official allopathic journals, perhaps
for fear of taking a favourable approach to a subject that is still
controversial.
Despite the problem of publication bias, many prestigious national
and international journals have published and given the right degree of
emphasis to well-conducted ho-meopathic clinical trials simply because
“the findings speak for themselves”, and sci-ence must take an
impartial view.
Table 2
Allergies 11 9 2
Arthromyo-fascial apparatus 12 8 4
Gastrointestinal apparatus 9 8 1
Respiratory apparatus, common Cold/influenza syndrome and ent 20 15 5
Surgery, prophylaxis, and post-operative and post-radiation complications 9 6 3
Dermatology 6 6 0
Coagulation and circulatory Disorders 6 5 1
Gynaecology and obstetrics 9 7 2
Metabolism 5 5 0
Neurology 9 7 2
Sundry 2 1 1
Total 98 77 21
...Ooooooh! I love this spectrum analyzer. Almost forgot about it. I used to use it or something like it long ago. FREE, too! I'll post some images later. Has many useful analysis utilities to better work with the signal.
My friend, John Benneth (http://www.youtube.com/bandershot; http://www.ScienceofHomeopathy.com),
suggested that my earlier thread on remedy spectroscopy needed some
pictures of the setup to help readers better understand it. Therefore,
I have made a new video for you all.
...The video will instruct you on how to construct the device. I'd
suggest a full view for enjoyment and then replay with pausing to take
notes while building. Software is free. All you need is your
computer, its sound card microphone or line input, a shielded
microphone jack & cable, and one alligator clip. Cheapest, most
versatile clinical tool you'll find for recording patient and remedy
signatures, doing further research, and carrying out further data
collection. You will find that these frequency signatures also overlap
with Rife data.
TOWARD A UNIFIED THEORY & MODEL BEHIND WHY HOMEOPATHIC REMEDIES WORK
ERROR ALERT: The slide at 05:47 (Easy Proof of Homeopathy on $1 in Lab Gear
video) illustrating Pulsatilla in the alligator clip appears to be a
mis-label, potentially causing confusion for any close scrutiny of the
spectroscopy. In any case, this tutorial still displays to the viewer
the purpose of the vid: Construction and use of the equipment to do
spectroscopy. Just disregard that one slide.
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