Viruses and bacteria induce EM signals... homeopathy....

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*NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING VIROLOGISTíS **NEW** RESEARCH GIVES SIGNIFICANT

SUPPORT TO HOMEOPATHIC PHARMACOLOGY*

--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 wikipediaís

article on homeopathy).

The abstract of this research asserts, ìA 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.î

Although homeopathy is not mentioned in the article, the researchers

used aqueous solutions that were agitated and serially diluted (the

researchers note that the solutions were ìstrongly agitatedî and that

this step was ìcritical for the generation of signalsî). 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 ìdebunkedî 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

researchersí observation that they observed the SAME results whether

their initial concentration of cells were just 10 or 10^9 .

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, StÈphane 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

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