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Numerous biological studies have shown the
effect of high homeopathic dilutions on allergic mechanisms,
bleeding time, the elimination of toxins, etc. Results which
may make it possible to open new therapeutic fields.
Modern observation techniques also offer the possibility
of better understanding the physical and chemical characteristics
of homeopathic medicines.
The pharmacological activity of confirmed
homeopathic doses
Various biological studies have made it possible to accurately
observe the effect of certain substances when they are highly
diluted:
• Allergic sensitization
In vitro research18
was conducted on the white blood cells involved in allergic
reactions, basophiles. The blood of people allergic to mites
was placed in contact with the allergen. It was noted that histamine
with homeopathic dose could reduce the sensitization of the
basophiles.
• Aspirin
and bleeding
Whilst aspirin used with allopathic doses increases the bleeding
time, with homeopathic dilutions, it is reduced: this is what
the studies proved19
20 some practiced on humans and several others on animals.
Furthermore, aspirin to the 15th
centesimal (or 15 CH) inhibits the effect of aspirin at high
dosage (100 mg/kg) when they are administered simultaneously.
These results once again prove the effect of high dilutions
and make it possible to envisage therapeutic applications.
• Intoxications
Undergoing stud21
, arsenic is administered to rats. Those which are injected,
a little after the intoxication, with arsenic with homeopathic
dose (Arsenicum Album 7 CH) eliminated
the poison much more easily. Other studies22
on the protective effects of arsenic salts, oxides and other
highly diluted metals have since been continued and increased.
Biological homeopathic research provides an additional angle
to the clinical trials. In particular, it makes it possible
to show the action of homeopathic
medicines in vitro and in vivo, something
which had hitherto been observed only by the doctors and the
patients.
As the results obtained show with aspirin, this research could
also offer alternative therapies.
to medicine. This must be validated by the clinical research.
It is thus currently too soon to transpose to humans the
observations which have been made on animals in vivo and in
vitro, but the results obtained drive scientists to continue
their research and to test other homeopathic preparations
in the same perspective.
La thermoluminescence : une méthode
physique pour comprendre le mécanisme d’action
des médicaments homéopathiques
Lors de l’élaboration d’un médicament
homéopathique, la substance de base est diluée
dans un solvant neutre, généralement l’eau,
au 1/100ème. Le produit est alors fortement agité
: c’est la dynamisation.
La "dilution homéopathique" est à
nouveau diluée au 1/100ème, puis dynamisée
à nouveau, etc.
Bien qu’à un certain niveau de dilution il ne
reste plus de substance de base, de nombreux essais ont prouvé
l’effet clinique et biologique des très hautes
dilutions.
L’eau étant un maillage complexe de milliards
de molécules toujours reliées mais toujours
en mouvement, il est possible qu’elle soit influencée
durablement par l’introduction de la substance
de base et les turbulences de la dynamisation.
Thermoluminescence: a physical method for
understanding the action mechanism of homeopathic medicines
When a homeopathic medicine is being developed, the basic
substance is diluted in a neutral solvent, usually water,
to 1/100th. The product is then shaken violently: this is
dynamization. The "homeopathic
dilution" is diluted again to 1/100th, then dynamized again,
etc. Although at a certain level of dilution there is no more
basic ingredient, many studies have proven the clinical and
biological effect of very high dilutions.
As water is a complex chain of billions of always linked
but always moving molecules, it is possible that it is influenced
for a long time by the introduction of the basic substance
and the turbulences of the dynamization.
Thermoluminescence is a property of all solids emitting light
after irradiation and heating; it is usually used for archaeological
dating. Researchers have frozen a dynamized homeopathic solution
in order to "fix" it, then they irradiate it and reheat it.
By comparing the thermoluminescence of the homeopathic dilution
to that of neutral water, they were able to see the "defects"
of the ice structure. changes have
been noted even at dilution levels where none of the basic
substance's molecules were present.
The results of this experiment show :
• that it is certain that a homeopathic dilution
differs from water,
• that the various dilution levels give the water
different characteristics.
They thus provide a possible physical
explanation to the therapeutic properties of homeopathic
medicines.
Veterinary research
For decades, animals are also treated with homeopathy.
This is a method of choice for many breeders who appreciate:
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• its effectiveness, particularly on the preventive level,
• the absence of residues : no toxicity, neither for the animal, nor for the end consumer,
• the very low
treatment costs. |
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Veterinary research work is certainly less advanced
than that for humans, but we can report two:
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1. 1. A study on 10,000 guinea fowl
has shown the efficacy of homeopathic treatment
in the prevention of colibacillus enteritis with
this animal23
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2. 2. Homeopathic treatment has shown its superiority
over a placebo for reducing haematomas caused by
the stress of slaughtering with the turkey24.
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