Guest guest Posted December 31, 2010 Report Share Posted December 31, 2010 Hi Mandy, it shouldn't be a case of whether or not you or anybody else is " on my side " , as in this particular case, I have no 'side'. I neither believe nor disbelieve in homeopathy. I happily accept that homeopathy, complementary, alternative and Chinese medicine are all ancient arts which have been used for centuries, and if they didn't work, they would not be in use today. I admit to not knowing how any of them work - I leave that to the scientists, but I guess I am too trusting, and I therefore am unable to answer the questions you pose, but I do understand where you are coming from. However, following on from what has written, the following may be of interest you?: A Nobel prize-winning scientist has made a discovery about the nature of water that suggests the therapy does have a scientific basis. 07 July 2010 In the week that doctors have described homeopathy as ‘nonsense on stilts’, a Nobel prize-winning scientist has made a discovery about the nature of water that suggests the therapy does have a scientific basis. Professor Luc Montagnier, a French virologist who won the Nobel prize for discovering a link between HIV and AIDS, has shocked fellow Nobel prize-winners by telling them that water has a memory that continues even after many dilutions. The idea is one of the foundations of homeopathy, which maintains that the potency of a substance is increased with its dilution. Montagnier has discovered that solutions containing the DNA of viruses and bacteria “could emit low frequency radio wavesâ€. These waves influence molecules aro...... http://www.wddty.com/nobel-scientist-discovers-scientific-basis-of-homeopathy.ht\ml more detail below link http://www.homeopathic.com/articles/view,134 Nobel Prize-Winning Virologist's New Research Gives Significant Support to Homeopathic Pharmacology - by Dana Ullman, MPH, Professor Luc Montagnier is a French virologist who co-discovered HIV and who won the Nobel Prize in 2008. Dr. Montagnier has received many other significant awards, though his newest research, which may explain how and why homeopathic medicines maintain their biological activity in extreme dilution, may be his most significant to date. In a recent paper, Prof Montagnier, and his team report the results of a series of rigorous experiments investigating the electromagnetic (EM) properties of highly-diluted biological samples. This new research is significant enough that the bio of Prof Montagnier on wikipedia already highlights it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Montagnier#Electromagnetic_signals_from_bacterial_DNA (however, predictably enough, this research is ignored in wikipedia’s article on homeopathy). The abstract of this research in part asserts, “A novel property of DNA is described: the capacity of some bacterial DNA sequences to induce electromagnetic waves at high aqueous dilutions. It appears to be a resonance phenomenon triggered by the ambient electromagnetic background of very low frequency waves.†Although homeopathy is not mentioned anywhere in the article, the researchers used aqueous solutions that were agitated and serially diluted (the researchers note that the solutions were “strongly agitated†and that this step was “critical for the generation of signalsâ€). The researchers also note that they used a device made by French immunologist Jacques Benveniste (the famous physician/scientist who conducted studies testing homeopathic doses and whose work was initially published in NATURE, and then, it was “debunked†in that same journal a month later). The researchers found that pathogenic bacteria and viruses show a distinct EM signature at dilutions ranging from 10(-5) to 10(-12) (corresponding to 5X to 12X) and that small DNA fragments (responsible for pathogenicity) were solely accountable for the EM signal. The researchers also noted that one experiment found significant effects from dilutions as high as 10(-18) (equivalent to 18X). The EM signature changed with dilution levels but was unaffected by the initial concentration and remained even after the remaining DNA fragments were destroyed by chemical agents. Of additional interest was the researchers’ observation that they observed the SAME results whether their initial concentration of cells were just 10 or 10(9)(this is 10 to the 9th power = 10,000,000,000 cells). They observed that the EM signal was destroyed by heating or freezing the sample (a common observation that homeopaths have also found in their medicines). Also, a 'cross-talk' effect was found whereby a negative sample inhibits the positive signal in another sample if they are left together overnight in a shielded container. The researchers propose that specific aqueous nanostructures form in the samples during the dilution process and are responsible for the EM effects measured. The researchers also detected the same electromagnetic signals in the plasma and in the DNA extracted from the plasma of patients suffering from Alzheimer, Parkinson disease, multiple sclerosis, and rheumatoid arthritis. The researchers also quote Italian physicist, E. Del Guidice, the same scientist who Benveniste cited, for positing that water molecules can form long polymers of dipoles associated by hydrogen bonds and that electromagnetic radiations that the emit enable them to avoid decay. With this initial paper Prof Montagnier and his team have started a very promising line of enquiry, which has direct relevance to homeopathy as they continue to investigate the characteristic physico-chemical properties found in high-dilutions of biological material. Reference: Luc Montagnier, Jamal Aissa, Stéphane Ferris, Jean-Luc Montagnier, Claude Lavallee, Electromagnetic Signals Are Produced by Aqueous Nanostructures Derived from Bacterial DNA Sequences. Interdiscip Sci Comput Life Sci (2009) 1: 81-90. http://www.springerlink.com/content/0557v31188m3766x/fulltext.pdf People interested in CLINICAL RESEARCH on homeopathy will benefit greatly by purchasing Dana Ullman’s e-book that references and describes over 200 controlled clinical trials. For details and/or to purchase, go to: http://www.homeopathic.com/store/hfm/ebook_hfm.jsp Much thanks to Tournier and the Homeopathic Research Institute for initially alerting me to this new research (http://homeoinst.org/). I totally agree with you - it has worked for you and I so believe Dr S to be right in his theory - I have always said to people when I was 8.5 stones I could eat what I liked or not eat at all it was as if I was 'locked' in to my weight and I said it the other day to my husband - I am now 14.7 lbs and I seem to be locked in again to that figure no matter what I do. I have also been tested and over 50% of my body is just fat so I have a serious serious problem. So I am on your side believe me and I am over the moon that this has come my way - you are evidence enough and the others that it works. However, I would like to know where the drops come from - i.e. how are they made if they are coming from a female hormonal system then where is this coming from and are they disease free (Aids etc.) - I remember only too well the CJD issue with human growth hormone given to the children for their short stature by endocrinologists in the UK and it backfired on them. Hormones can and do carry disease states with them so we need to know where they are coming from and how they are made. As I said to you there will be people out there ready to shoot down his theories just like they shoot down our thyroid and adrenal theories but we need to know where these things are being made and where the raw material is coming from. Best wishes Mandy ,_._,___ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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