The "infinitesimal" nature of the doses used in homeopathy has long been the major objection to this discipline. "How can such small doses act when it is known that theoretically there is no matter present beyond Avogadro's number (6.23 X 10 to the 23rd) which corresponds roughly to a twenty-third decimal!" 24X or 12C. The results obtained by the homeopaths have, however, been in evidence for over 150 years and are often spectacular!
The technical progress of recent years in experimental physics makes it possible today to formulate hypotheses on the mode of action of these infintesimal dilutions, and during the last few years the activity of the latter was scientifically shown to be efficacious. This activity follows from the Law Of Similars: the experiments have always been conducted on presensitized subjects. Experiments listed below will illustrate this:
1. Action of Homeopathic Dilutions
- On vegetables
Prof. Netien showed and measured the activity of a homeopathic dilution of copper sulfate on grains of peas previously intoxicated by this substance:
- The control lot was formed of grains cultivated in pure water
- A second lot of grains was cultivated in a dilution of copper sulfate.
He found an almost normal appearance in the little plants of the second lot while those of the control lot were atrophied and yellowed.
Dilution favors toxic elimination This experiment was repeated on other plants with the same results.
- In animals
Thuja is a great homeopathic medication. It is a polycrest whose pathogenesis contains many mental symptoms. By a scientific battery of tests currently used in pharmacology it is possible to show if a substance acts as a stupefacient. Dr. Tetau chose to study the action of Thuja on rats in massive chemical doses, and then at high dilutions. The study focussed on certain reflexes created in trained animals. It was found that anumals who were intoxicated and unbalanced responded after a single dose of Thuja 9 CH. Their symptoms disappeared and they recovered their equilibrium.
2. Effects of High Homeopathic Dilutions
Various experiments on plants and animals have proven both the activity of high dilutions and the validity of the Law of Similars.
- Experiments of seaweed intoxicated by coper sulfate; Dilutions of copper sulfate in a 30X act upon the growth, respiration and cholorophyllogenesis of seaweed;
- Likewise, laboratory examinations (transaminase rates) have proven the repairing action on hepatic lesions by using phosphorus 30X dilutions on rats previously intoxicated by carbon tetrachloride. Hence the use of phosphorus in the homeopathic treatment of viral hepatitis.
Research of professors Lapp and Wurmser.
Guinea pigs injected with 1000 gamma units of arsnic will excrete (urine-faeces) approximately 35% of the administered dose in about 90 hours. After this no more arsenic traces can be found in the urine. An injection of Arsenicum Album in a 14X (7CH) dilution 3 weeks later results in a further elimination of 39% of the trapped Arsenic. Distilled water injections used as controls triggered no such elimination.
The same experiments conducted by Professor Cier, this time on the vestibulary chromaxia of pigeons, confirmed that Arsenicum Album in a 30X potency (15CH) is equally active.
Research of J. and M. Tetau
They studied the psychophamacology of thuya. Rats are trained to find their way through a maze (Mercier's Test). The adminsitration of substantial doses of Thuya deconditions these rats, relsulting in a loos of equilibrium. An injection of Thuya 18X re-establishes their conditiond reflex.
There is a similarity between intoxicatioin by carbon tetachloride and phosphorus. Both cause hepatitis having certain characteristics. When rats having received carbon tetrachloride (cc14) and showing symptoms of toxic hepatitis are injected with homeopathic dilutions of Phosphorus at 14X and 30X, it is found that this diluted and energized phosphorus accelerates the regression of the hepatic lesion. 14X has been shown to be more active on the transaminase rates, whereas 30X is more active on the hepatic tissue lesion involved in the histology.