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Times of India | Aug 12, 2011, 06.10PM IST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/health/The-nano-effect-of-homeopathy/articleshow/9580370.cms
Homeo drugs are active even in infinitesimally diluted solutions, find Indian researchers...
The more you dilute a potion, the more potent it becomes, this perhaps is the corner stone of homeopathy system of medicine. The most powerful homeo medicines do have the highest dilution factors. While this enormous dilution principle remained the pillar of this 18th century healing science which seeks to deal with the disease holistically rather than addressing the manifesting symptoms, it also proved to be the Achille's heel for its detractors.
If you go on diluting a solution containing hundred per cent of the material further and further, there won't be any of the particles from original material left in the remaining solution beyond of point of dilution. Homeo remedies come through the process of `infinitesimal dilutions'. How can a 'drug' without any active substance evoke a therapeutic response, skeptics ask benchmarking with the principles of modern allopathic medicine which relies on dose- related response of medications. No active ingredient in a formulation means that the pill or liquid can be nothing more than a placebo. And the high potent homeo drugs, which are usually the extremely diluted versions of the starting substances, could be nothing more than that.
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