Ultra-High Dilutions and Homeopathy: Can They Be Explained without Non-Local Theory?

Homeopathy. 2018 Aug;107(3):189-195. doi: 10.1055/s-0038-1656513. Epub 2018 Jun 5.

Abstract

We discuss questions related to the 'Benveniste Affair', its consequences and broader issues in an attempt to understand homeopathy. Specifically, we address the following points: 1.: The relationship between the experiments conducted by Benveniste, Montagnier, their collaborators and groups that independently tested their results, and 'traditional' homeopathy. 2.: Possible non-local components such as 'generalised entanglement' as the basis of the homeopathic phenomenon and experimental evidence for them. 3.: The capability of highly diluted homeopathic remedies to provoke tangible biological changes in whole organisms and cellular experimental systems. 4.: Aspects of the similia principle related to the above. 5.: Suggestions that can lead to experimental verifications of the non-local hypothesis in homeopathy.

MeSH terms

  • Evidence-Based Medicine
  • Homeopathy / methods*
  • Humans
  • Indicator Dilution Techniques*
  • Materia Medica / pharmacology*
  • Plant Extracts / pharmacology*

Substances

  • Materia Medica
  • Plant Extracts