HOMEOPATHY – DILUTIONS

Trickiest part of homeopathy that never fails to irritate traditional doctors is its concept of dilutions. After his discovery of the great curative principle – the law of similarity – its founder set about applying it on himself and his patients for treatment. He soon found that the substances which gave rise to a range of symptoms in a healthy person did cure a patient with sufficient similarity of symptoms.
But there was a draw back. In many cases, the substance aggravated the symptoms in the patient before it affected a cure and in some cases these aggravations were prolonged. This led to further research and discovery of dilutions. He found that simply diluting a medicine before giving it to a patient was not enough. He discovered that if a medicine is diluted with 100% pure alcohol in the ration of 1:99 and the solution is shaken strongly twice, the resulting 1% solution retains most curative properties but in a refined form and does not give rise to the unwanted aggravations in as many cases.
Taking the analogy further he named the original medicine in its pure or crude form the mother tincture and its 1% solution in pure ethyl alcohol the first dilution and went on to prepare a 1% solution of the first dilution with a strong shake and called it the second dilution.
A repetition of the process led to creation of further dilutions. He found that third, sixth twelfth and thirtieth dilutions were more effective in curing the sick. Any student of mathematics will tell you that third dilution contains only a millionth part of the original medicine. If you add this knowledge with a little chemistry and Avogadro’s number, you will know that probability of a dilution beyond twelfth containing even a single molecule of the original medicine is zero.
It cures the sick nevertheless and this unsolvable paradox of homeopathy is impossible to be understood at the present stage of our knowledge of medical science. This evidence of their ignorance never fails to irritate traditional doctors as it shows the hollow foundation of knowledge on which their system has been erected.