Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy, set out its principles about 200 years ago. But these principles have eluded any logic, and the scientific community have discarded them as senseless. It survived these many long years only because of the anecdotal success stories. Unfortunately theses claims could not be consistently reproduced and hence many have labelled homeopathy as witchcraft.
Principles 'against' the Science:
1. The Law of Similars: The symptoms produced by giving large doses of a drug can be cured by giving the same drug in small doses. (Like cured by the like). Modern Medicine, though not convinced, has kept its cool on this principle because it appeared that it could be remotely possible.
2. The Dilution Principle: This is the one that has caused the most controversy and storm. It states that the potency of a homeopathic drug increases as it gets more diluted. All homeopathic remedies are diluted and succused a number of times to increase their potency. According to the concept of Avogadro' number, most homeopathic remedies are nothing but water. The active ingradient being diluted so much that none of its molecules could be present in most homeopathic preparations.
Simple to Complex:
Analyse the following examples-
1. Let’s imagine ‘food’ as a drug. If we give excess food to a healthy person, he or she develops a disease called ‘obesity’. Now if we give the same food in very small doses, it will cure the obesity. So the same drug i.e. ‘food’ if given in larger doses (than required) causes disease but when given in smaller doses can cure the same.
2. Now let’s take the example of hypernatremia (increased concentration of sodium in the blood). If we give large 'doses' of salt to a healthy person, he will develop hypernatremia. We can treat this condition by 'giving' the salt in very small doses until the sodium concentration comes down to the normal level. So, again here, a drug (salt) in excess doses is causing a disease that is cured by giving the same in very small doses.
In summery, the 2 fundamental principles of Homeopathy, which looked highly impossible, could be very much true!!!
1) Like cured by the like: Hypernatremia is cured by giving low salt
2) Small doses are more effective or powerful than large doses of a drug: The lower the dose of salt we give, the more effective it becomes in curing the hypernatremia.
3. A different scenario: Now let’s take the case of arsenic poisoning. Can we treat this condition by giving small doses of arsenic? Probably not. Because the body’s requirement for arsenic is almost zero, any amount of arsenic could only add to the toxicity.
If we have to give something to treat this condition, one logical option would be to give ‘plain water’ with zero arsenic. Do no harm policy! (In due course the body might get rid of the excess arsenic in its own way!)
Or else we have to imagine a hypothetical state of ‘negative arsenic solution’ in which the concentration of arsenic would be less than the zero!!! This negative solution of arsenic will obviously be more effective than the ‘plain water therapy’ in treating the arsenic poisoning. Also the more is its negativity; the more will be its efficacy.
This sounds very much like a homeopathic remedy!
So if at all there is a state of negative concentration or negative solution, then Homeopathy can be true.
What appears against science need not actually be. There could be fundamental flaws in what we presume as science.
Will continue....
Illiterate and the scientist:
If a scientist tells an illiterate country man that there is iron in the water he drinks every day, the illiterate will laugh at the scientist’s ‘madness’. To him iron is a hard metal that exists as rods, bolts and nuts etc only. If the scientist is true, the illiterate thinks he must be able to see at least small rods, nuts or bolts in the water.
If the country man is open minded, he can be enlightened and made to understand how the hard metal is ultimately made up of atoms and molecules and how these particles could be present in the water.
But if he is adamant about his stance, there is nothing we can do and no amount of scientific proof or evidence will convince him to his satisfaction that iron could be present in water. Despite his ignorance, we can’t under estimate his level of scientific knowledge because he knows much more than a toddler or a jungle man can grasp.
Many homeopathic physicians and patients have appreciated the effects of homeopathic remedies over the last 2 centuries, and they believe that the active substance does exist in some form in the ultra diluted homeopathic solutions.
But the scientist who is blinded by his own knowledge can’t believe this. To him a substance can only be said to exist in a solution if he can find its atoms or molecules (Like the illiterate country man who thinks iron means only rods, nuts and bolts).
One needs an open mind when exploring new concepts. If we think our knowledge is ultimate, then we become blinded by the same.
Atom as energy system:
Many think that an atom is nothing but a set of electrons revolving around the nucleus made up of protons and neutrons. It is like saying that the solar system is nothing but the Sun and the 8 planets revolving around it.
Can we ignore the various satellites, asteroids and the dust and most importantly the Energy that fills the solar system? Can the scientists say that a similar architecture doesn’t exist in an Atom? Solar system, atoms or molecules must be viewed as Energy systems and not as mere conglomerations of physical matter.
Size of an Atom:
Is it definite? Is there a definite border between the Atom and its surroundings? After years of debate, the scientists have decided that Pluto is not within the solar family. It is obviously an arbitrary demarcation in the watershed zone and it is difficult to imagine that the solar system has a definite border. It probably merges with its surroundings imperceptibly. The same is likely to be true with the atom.
The size of an Atom is likely to be influenced by its surroundings. It probably will contract and expand depending on whether or not there are similar particles around it.
Imagine that there is just one Atom in the entire space. What happens to it? The Atom will expand indefinitely. (It may still behave as the original Atom because the Energy pattern of the system as a whole is likely to remain unchanged) The Atom unwinds itself and finally merges with the ultimate Energy from which it is made of.
Likewise every substance will be in ‘dynamic equilibrium’ with the ultimate Energy state. When a substance is in rarity, it disintegrates towards this Energy state and when it is in plenty, the equilibrium point shifts the other way.
The Hypotheses:
How can the solute concentration fall below the zero into the negativity? How does the solute exist in this negative state?
A simple analogy: What happens when we go bankrupt? We can still live in this negative financial state if we can barrow.
So for the solute to exist in a negative state (bankruptcy or super dilution), it has to barrow from the solvent. Obviously the solvent can’t lend the solute as such but can lend the ‘building blocks’ that are common to both.
That means in ultra low dilutions, the solute can be recreated from the solvent. The Avogadro’s limit becomes irrelevant now.
1. Matter or substances exist as patterns of condensed Energy
Energy to the Matter:
At the ultimate level, the whole Universe must be full of just pure Energy or the Spirit; and from this Energy comes all the matter existent in the Universe. At the penultimate level, as the Energy condenses, it gives rise to ‘strings’ containing a matter pole and an anti-matter pole. The strings join together into different patterns and thus form different types of matter or substances.
We can’t take it for granted that the interstices of the atom or the space between the atoms, is really empty. This should still contain some of the energy pattern that makes the substance.
Matter to the Energy:
If a substance is allowed to disintegrate in the space, it should follow the same path of creation but in the reverse direction. An example of how this could go through the various stages is shown below.
Larger particles
↓
Smaller particles
↓
Molecules
↓
Atoms
↓
Specific energy pattern of the substance
(Subatomic level)
↓
Common Energy pattern
(Energy pattern that is common to many substances)
↓
Basic Energy pattern
↓
Strings
↓
Energy
There probably exists an equilibrium state between these various stages and the net direction of reaction depends on the abundance of the substrates. When a substrate is in plenty it becomes integrated to the higher level and when it is the other way, it degenerates or disintegrates into the lower level.
Energy ↔ Substrates ↔ Substance
2. Disintegration and dynamic equilibrium in homeopathic solutions
During the preparation of the homeopathic remedy, the solute is serially diluted and succussed (homogenised). As the solute becomes more and more sparse, the above energy-matter reaction runs towards the left and there will be a net disintegration of the solute. The solute will be in dynamic equilibrium with its intermediary substrates and the Energy state.
Energy ↔ Substrates ↔ Solute
As the solvent (water) is in plenty, there will be no net disintegration. Again here, a dynamic equilibrium exists between the water and its substrates.
Energy ↔ Substrates ↔ Water
3. Interchange of matter and Negative solution state
As all the substances are formed from the same ultimate Energy, there must be an initial common pathway of creation for any two substances. So when two elements are allowed to disintegrate, their paths of disintegration merge at some stage and both will have common substrates towards the end.
So the solute and the solvent in a homeopathic solution will have some common products of disintegration. These common substrates derived from the solvent help re-create the solute and hence its concentration doesn’t fall despite further dilution. Now we can say that the solute and the solvent are in equilibrium via the common substrates (equilibrium point or diversion point).
Solute ↔ Solvent
The unshared substrates of the solvent accumulate during this interchange of matter. Thus the solute is literally drawn out from the solvent and the unshared substrates keep a record of this ‘loan’ and responsible for the negativity or the memory of the solution.
Now if we add the solute to this negative solution, the reaction runs in the opposite direction with the solute converting into the water, thus repaying its debt. Hence the solute that is just added ‘disappears’ and its concentration remains more or less unchanged despite its addition. When the equation gets balanced, no further net interchange of matter occurs. From this point onwards, the solute starts appearing in the solution and its concentration starts rising appreciably.
