Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was initially printed October 31, 2018.
If the frequent doctor, scientist and educated client had been to consider Wikipedia, they’d assume that there’s completely no analysis that exhibits the efficacy of homeopathic medicines within the remedy of any ailment. Furthermore, they’d conclude homeopathic medicines are so small in dose, there may be actually “nothing” in a homeopathic medication.
And, in case you are this gullible and susceptible to Big Pharma propaganda, then we have an island to promote you for $24! According to The Washington Post, Wikipedia’s article on homeopathy and Jesus Christ are the 2 most controversial on that web site in 4 main languages (English, French, German and Spanish).
Research Shows Efficacy of Homeopathic Medicine
The truth of the matter is that analysis exhibiting the efficacy of homeopathic medicines has been printed in among the world’s most revered medical journals. Here’s a roll name of only a few of them:
The Lancet;1 BMJ2,3 (British Medical Journal); Chest (the publication of the American College of Chest Physicians);4 Pediatrics (publication of the American Academy of Pediatrics);5 Cancer (journal of the American Cancer Society);6 Journal of Clinical Oncology;7 Pediatrics Infectious Disease Journal (publication of the European Society of Pediatric Infectious Diseases);8 European Journal of Pediatrics (publication of the Swiss Society of Pediatrics and the Belgium Society of Pediatrics).9
Would you be shocked to be taught that Wikipedia would not point out eight of the 9 references right here? Not solely have particular person research discovered efficacy in homeopathic medicines, however varied systematic critiques or meta-analyses have likewise concluded the consequences of homeopathic medicines are completely different to these of a placebo.
The latest evaluation of homeopathic analysis printed in Systematic Reviews10 confirmed a distinction between the consequences of homeopathic remedy and of placebo. In reviewing the “highest high quality research,” the researchers discovered that sufferers given homeopathic remedy had been virtually twice as prone to expertise a therapeutic profit as these given a placebo.
Further, in reviewing a complete of twenty-two scientific trials, sufferers given homeopathic cures skilled higher than 50 p.c chance to have benefited from the remedy than these given a placebo. Once once more, Wikipedia would not even point out this new evaluation of scientific analysis in homeopathy.
This necessary evaluation of scientific analysis additionally acknowledged that 4 of the 5 main earlier systematic critiques of homeopathic analysis discovered a profit from homeopathic remedy over that of placebo:
“Five systematic critiques have examined the RCT analysis literature on homeopathy as a complete, together with the broad spectrum of medical circumstances which were researched and by all types of homeopathy: 4 of those ‘world’ systematic critiques reached the conclusion that, with necessary caveats, the homeopathic intervention most likely differs from placebo.”
And if that wasn’t sufficient, the biggest and most complete evaluation of fundamental science analysis (basic physiochemical analysis, botanical research, animal research and in vitro research utilizing human cells) and scientific analysis into homeopathy ever sponsored by a governmental company was undertaken not too long ago in Switzerland.11
This Swiss report affirmed that homeopathic high-potencies appear to induce regulatory results and particular modifications to cells and dwelling organisms. It additionally reported that 20 of the 22 systematic critiques of scientific analysis testing homeopathic medicines detected no less than a development in favor of homeopathy. Would it puzzle you that this necessary evaluation of homeopathic analysis is just not even talked about or referenced by Wikipedia?
Homeopathic Conference on the Royal Society of Medicine
July 14, 2018, we attended a groundbreaking convention in London entitled “New Horizons in Water Science — ‘The Evidence for Homeopathy?'” within the hallowed halls of the U.Ok.’s Royal Society of Medicine.
Held on the behest of (Lord) Aaron Kenneth Ward-Atherton, who organized and chaired the occasion, Ward-Atherton not solely is a training homeopath and built-in medical doctor, but in addition has been a proper adviser on built-in medication to a member of the U.Ok. authorities’s Department of Health and Social Care, and had ongoing assist from varied friends within the British House of Lords.
This convention will little doubt have despatched shockwaves world wide, as delegates from over 20 international locations listened in awe to 2 Nobel Laureates (Cambridge physicist Professor Emeritus Brian Josephson and AIDS virus discoverer, Dr. Luc Montagnier) and a number of other world-class scientists of equal educational stature from the U.S., U.Ok., Israel and Russia.
And what they had been saying was pure heresy to traditional medication! As it seems, analysis in water science appears to assist the notion there’s a vital distinction between the organic and bodily actions of homeopathic medicines and plain odd water.
We ought to level out that this particular convention didn’t attempt to evaluation the physique of scientific analysis (above) that verifies the efficacy of homeopathic medicines, nor did it search to explain all the fundamental science research that present that homeopathic medicines have organic or bodily results.
Instead, this convention selected to deal with extra basic questions: Does the method of treatment manufacturing in homeopathy (i.e., dilution and succession — vigorous shaking — of a medicinal substance in water/alcohol) affect the water’s long-range construction that’s completely different from easy pure water? And, second, are their sound and believable explanations for the way homeopathic medicines persist in water options regardless of a number of dilutions?
Because most physicians and scientists are utterly unfamiliar with the fascinating and wonderful qualities and skills of water, their assertions on what’s and is not potential with homeopathic medicines symbolize an embarrassingly uninformed viewpoint.
Such assertions are at greatest unscientific; at worst, they merely symbolize sheer ignorance. The greatest scientists are humble of their assertions attributable to the truth that they know their information is all the time restricted. The common doctor or scientist, nevertheless, might are likely to conceitedness, notably on these topics which they really know nothing about.
Biomolecules Communicate Over Distance
Brian Josephson Ph.D., of University of Cambridge, U.Ok., was the primary speaker. He echoed remarks he had made within the journal New Scientist, saying:
“Simple-minded evaluation may counsel that water, being a fluid, it can’t have a construction of the type that such an image would demand. But circumstances resembling that of liquid crystals, which whereas flowing like an odd fluid can preserve an ordered construction over macroscopic distances, present the restrictions of such methods of pondering.
There haven’t, to the perfect of my information, been any refutations of homeopathy that stay legitimate after this explicit level is taken under consideration.”
Josephson powerfully critiqued usually accepted theories of how biomolecules react with their substrates. Conventionally, these are thought to “match” like a lock and a key, however solely when they’re in direct bodily contact. Not so, says Josephson.
Like his well-known predecessor, Jacques Benveniste (who Josephson hosted at Cambridge’s Cavendish Laboratory again in March 1999), he argues that they will “talk” over far lengthy earlier than they arrive collectively, and that such interactions are greatest described by quantum principle and electromagnetic signaling.
Josephson additionally lambasted these scientists who demand that homeopathic medicines must get “chemically analyzed.” He asserted that making use of chemical evaluation to homeopathic cures will let you know no extra about their properties than making use of chemical evaluation to a CD will let you know what music is on it. Chemical evaluation is just too restricted a software for both.
Further, Josephson went on to indicate some remarkably lovely pictures and movies that present highly effective proof of how hypersensitive water is to sound. Using a powerful new expertise referred to as cymascopy (developed by acoustics engineer John Stuart Reid),12 Josephson was in a position to show the unimaginable affect sound has on water utilizing this expertise, producing beautiful dynamic wave patterns in water that observe modifications in a sound’s pitch.13
This video exhibits dramatically how the dynamic construction of water modifications as music is performed. And for this to happen, there needs to be an ordering of molecules inside the water to provide it that dynamic construction, what is often known as a “reminiscence.”
“Such is life,” Josephson concluded. “Order arises spontaneously. Creation of order (ordering) is part of nature. Order consists of dysfunction (fluctuations), so order requires order to be current. With crystals, the order is static; with life it’s dynamic. There now we have ordering inside exercise. Up till now, our current understanding of all that is qualitative and restricted, however this should be the following step for science.”
Finally, Josephson wryly responded to the continual ignorance of homeopathy by its skeptics saying, “The concept that water can have a reminiscence could be readily refuted by any one in all various simply understood, invalid arguments.”
Physical Properties of Aqueous Systems
Next to talk was Vladimir Voeikov from the Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia. A world knowledgeable on the chemical and bodily properties of aqueous methods and their key function within the important processes of dwelling methods, Voeikov additionally took intention at critics who scoff at homeopathy’s plausibility.
He then launched into an outline of the intensive and extremely detailed work on the organic results of ultrahigh dilutions (or UHDs) that has been ongoing in Russia for the reason that Eighties.
One of the unlucky uncomfortable side effects of the perennial mistrust present between Russia and the West has been entry to analysis like this, primarily as a result of it has appeared solely in Russian (i.e., Cyrillic) journals. Consequently, Voeikov had numerous floor to make up — which he did in no unsure phrases!
And, a lot to the viewers’s shock, it seems that Benveniste (who in 1988 was so pilloried by scientists, skeptics and the journal Nature, his status was trashed and he misplaced his laboratories and his funding) was in no way the primary to counsel that options diluted and strongly agitated to the purpose the place there could not presumably be any molecules of the unique substance left may nonetheless exert organic results.
Delving again into the literature, it had been introduced round a century earlier than Benveniste. In 1955, a evaluation had already been printed into the motion of UHDs.
Drawing on his and his Russian colleagues’ work, Voeikov concluded that typical concepts of how water dissolves substances is definitely incorrect. Until now, when one thing dissolves in water, its particles had been regarded as randomly distributed all through the solvent. As the answer is regularly diluted, these particles merely scale back in quantity till at a sure dilution (often called the Avogadro restrict) they disappear utterly.
Consequently, if an answer is diluted past this restrict, as there are apparently no particles left, such UHDs can’t presumably exert any results, not to mention on organic methods. Therefore, homeopathy (which typically makes use of dilutions of gear approach past the Avogadro restrict) should be full bunkum. So a lot for typical pondering.
What Voeikov and his colleagues have proven repeatedly is that the method of homeopathic dilution and agitation, even down previous the Avogadro restrict (in order that no particles are alleged to nonetheless be current), does NOT eliminate all of the dissolved substance.
Instead, microscopically tiny “clumps” of the dissolved substance — often called nanoassociates — stay behind and these are biologically lively. What’s extra, varied analytical strategies can be utilized to trace these nanoassociates, and so they have an effect on water in lots of ways in which make it completely different from pure water, e.g., electrical conductivity and floor rigidity. So, an answer diluted and agitated past the Avogadro restrict is something however pure water.
Nanoassociates Violate Conventional Laws of Behavior
If that wasn’t sufficient, Voeikov and his colleagues have proven that so-called odd options — the type that we make up each day and that haven’t been sequentially diluted and agitated as homeopaths do — additionally comprise nanoassociates, violating what has for years been understood as “legal guidelines of habits” prescribed in customary textbooks on aqueous options.
So, not solely are all these skeptics and naysayers going to need to get used to homeopathic dilutions and their results being actual, they should utterly reassess their understanding of what occurs when ANY substance is dissolved in water. Those whose solemn responsibility it’s to rewrite textbooks are going to have a discipline day!
Barely in a position to catch our breath, we had been then handled to one of the inspirational talks of the entire convention, delivered by Jerry Pollack, Ph.D., professor of bioengineering at Seattle’s University of Washington. Pollack might be greatest recognized for his 2014 guide, “The Fourth Phase of Water: Beyond Solid, Liquid, and Vapor,” through which he outlines in extremely readable phrases a few of his and his staff’s wonderful discoveries about water.
Exclusion Zone Water May Have Significant Implications
Chiefly, these concern what occurs to water when it’s involved with a floor, e.g., a membrane. And for any doubting Thomas on the market we must always level out that Pollack’s wonderful discoveries about water have been independently verified many instances.
It seems that the water molecules closest to the membrane floor type an virtually crystalline alignment that has the impact of excluding any dissolved particles within the water. And these exclusion zones — or EZs, as they’re referred to as — have properties which can be completely completely different from the majority water, and whose penalties can have profound results not solely on our understanding of water, however how we use it.
For instance, relying on the character of the membrane floor, cost separation happens between the EZ layer and the majority water part. Pollack confirmed us how this phenomenon might be used, not solely to provide an extremely easy battery powered solely by radiant power, however the way it might be the idea of a water desalination system.
At the second, this final utility would must be scaled up earlier than it might be of any sensible use, but when it may, there should absolutely be a Nobel Prize within the offing.
In addition, allowing for that blood is especially water being pumped by way of tubes of organic membranes, Pollack urged that the identical charge-separating mechanism that powered his radiant power battery may also help in pushing our blood by way of slim vessels far faraway from the pumping motion of the center. If so, such a discovery can have big ramifications for our understanding of physiology.
It seems that Pollack’s semi-crystalline EZs can’t solely be separated, they can electromagnetically retailer data of their molecular construction. And, because the preparation of homeopathic cures additionally entails water options involved with surfaces, it’s fairly possible his new EZ discoveries can have a big impact on our understanding of water reminiscence and homeopathy.
In truth, Pollack asserts that water has a HUGE capability to retailer data. Further, he notes that homeopathic strategy of succussion (vigorous shaking of water in glass) creates elevated avenues for EZ water that then creates elevated water storage.
Homeopathic Methods Optimize Storage of Information in Water
The founding father of homeopathy, Dr. Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), was each a doctor and the writer of a number one textbook for pharmacists of his day. His many experiments trying to cut back the dangerous uncomfortable side effects of medicinal substances, led him to a technique of dilution and agitation which homeopaths use until this present day.
Intriguingly, what the brand new science offered at this convention is telling us is that Hahnemann’s technique appears to optimize storage of medicinal data inside the very construction of water itself! Even after greater than 200 years, Hahnemann’s discovery of homeopathy and his contributions to medication and pharmacology are nonetheless being uncovered.
Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier was launched to homeopathy and homeopathic analysis by Benveniste. In a exceptional interview printed in Science journal of December 24, 2010,14 Montagnier expressed assist for the usually maligned and misunderstood medical specialty of homeopathic medication.
“What I can say now could be that the excessive dilutions (utilized in homeopathy) are proper. High dilutions of one thing should not nothing. They are water buildings which mimic the unique molecules.”
Montagnier concluded the interview when requested if he’s involved that he’s drifting into pseudoscience. He replied adamantly: “No, as a result of it is not pseudoscience. It’s not quackery. These are actual phenomena which deserve additional examine.”
‘Teleportation’ Effects
Montagnier’s examine discovered that underneath the proper circumstances electromagnetic indicators could be transmitted from check tubes containing a extremely diluted DNA pattern to a unique check tube containing solely water, and that when enzymes which copy DNA molecules are then added to this water, they behave as if DNA molecules are current, producing new DNA molecules.15
This “teleportation” impact of the DNA, from one check tube to a different was discovered to happen solely when the homeopathic process of sequential dilution, with vigorous shaking of the check tube, was utilized. Also, Montagnier cowrote with a number of highly-respected scientists one other article that was printed in a number one scientific journal.16 This article posits quantum results past easy chemistry.
Montagnier’s research discovered that extremely diluted DNA from pathogenic bacterial and viral species is ready to emit particular radio waves and that “these radio waves [are] related to ‘nanostructures’ within the answer which may have the ability to recreate the pathogen.”
A author for New Scientist journal has asserted that, if its conclusions are true, “these could be essentially the most vital experiments carried out previously 90 years, demanding reevaluation of the entire conceptual framework of contemporary chemistry.”17
While Montagnier’s work exhibits the affect of electromagnetic fields having a organic impact, different researchers on the convention discovered that nanodoses of the unique homeopathic medication persists in water options. Jayesh Bellare of the distinguished India Institute of Technology described his seminal analysis that was printed in Langmuir, a highly-respected journal printed by the American Chemistry Society.18
Bellare and his colleagues discovered that six completely different homeopathic medicines, all produced from minerals (gold, silver, copper, tin, zinc and platinum), that had been diluted 1-to-100, six instances, 30 instances and 200 instances, had been every present in nanodoses from one in all three several types of spectroscopy.
Bellare and his staff defined that homeopathic medicines are normally made in glass bottles, and the vigorous shaking of the water in these bottles releases nanosized fragments of silica from the glass partitions, and the substance being made into a drugs is actually pushed into these floating silica “chips.”
Then, when 99 p.c of the water is poured out, the silica chips cling to the glass partitions. The scientists discovered every of the six minerals persisting within the water regardless of what number of instances they diluted the drugs. When one considers that lots of an important hormones and cell-signaling brokers of the physique function at nanodose ranges, the nanodoses present in homeopathic medicines might clarify how these medicines work.
Still additional, the truth that nanodoses are way more in a position to cross the blood-brain-barrier in addition to most cell membranes gives further perception into how and why homeopathic nanodoses can elicit vital and highly effective immune responses from the physique.
Afterword: Stop Press!
The day after Ullman’s interview with Dr. Joseph Mercola, a vital examine on homeopathy was printed on the web site of one of many world’s main scientific journals, Nature.
Nature.com simply printed a group of research that examined completely different homeopathic potencies of Rhus toxicodendron (often known as Rhus tox and Toxicodendron pubescens, generally often called poison ivy), together with 2X, 4X, 6X, 8X, 12X, 24X and 30X within the remedy of neuropathy in rats.19
Previous analysis had discovered that Rhus toxicodendron has vital anti-inflammatory, anti-arthritic and immunomodulatory actions. This new analysis evaluated antinociceptive (pain-reducing) efficacy of Rhus tox within the neuropathic ache and delineated its underlying mechanism. More particularly, this analysis discovered that this homeopathic medication confirmed vital antioxidative and anti inflammatory properties.
This examine discovered that homeopathic doses of Rhus tox 24X and 30X had dramatic results that equaled the outcomes from a recognized typical drug, Gabapentin, and did so in a lot safer doses. Conventional scientists have constantly asserted that these extraordinarily small doses of homeopathic medicines couldn’t have ANY results, however this examine, like an rising variety of different such research, has confirmed typical scientists are mistaken.
The above described examine did not examine the affect of water in its examine, however it did verify that homeopathic nanodoses can have highly effective organic and scientific results.
Dedication
This article is devoted to Dr. Peter Fisher, the now-late doctor to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. A graduate of University of Cambridge and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and the Faculty of Homeopathy, he was a broadly printed knowledgeable in rheumatology and types of complementary and different medication.
Fisher chaired the World Health Organization’s working group on homeopathy and was a member of WHO’s Expert Advisory Panel on Traditional and Complementary Medicine. He served as scientific director for 18 years and director of analysis on the Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine (previously the Royal London Homoeopathic Hospital) for 22 years.
He was additionally president of the Faculty of Homeopathy and editor-in-chief of the journal Homeopathy (the main analysis journal within the discipline). Fisher was awarded the Polish Academy of Medicine’s Albert Schweitzer Gold Medal in 2007. Fisher additionally served as moderator for the second half of the homeopathic analysis convention mentioned on this article.
Besides all of his educational achievements, Fisher had a depraved, dry, even very dry, British humorousness. He was recognized to supply scathing critiques of the various uninformed and ill-informed skeptics of homeopathy whose criticisms of homeopathy merely proved their sheer ignorance of the topic. Sadly, August 15, 2018, Fisher was driving his bicycle in London on “drive your bike to work day,” and was hit by a truck and killed.
Dana Ullman, MPH, CCH, is a licensed homeopath who has written 10 books on homeopathy and 4 chapters in medical textbooks, and who has printed 40 books on homeopathy by his colleagues (co-published with North Atlantic Books). He directs Homeopathic Educational Services, a number one homeopathic useful resource middle to assist folks entry homeopathic books, medicines, software program and e-courses (homeopathic.com).
He has additionally created a particular e-course on “Learning to Use a Homeopathic Medicine Kit” (particulars at homeopathicfamilymedicine.com). He additionally maintains a homeopathic follow the place he “sees” most of his sufferers through Skype, varied video apps, or the straightforward phone.
Lionel R Milgrom, Ph.D. FRSC FRSA MARH RHom is a registered homeopath who has been a analysis chemist for 40 years (cofounder of a college anticancer biotech spin-out firm) with many publications and a textual content guide to his credit score. He has been a training homeopath for 20 years.
His primary analysis curiosity lately is within the understanding of homeopathy inside each scientific and philosophical contexts, and has printed extensively in these areas. He has additionally printed the primary quantity of an e-book trilogy, “Homeopathy and Science: A Guide for the Perplexed.”
