This isn't my first rodeo, Caroline. I did all the research years ago. I even once publicly made a 28C homeopathic dilution of straight hydrochloric acid (demonstrated by reacting with calcium carbonate ie. shell grit). I used all of the "proper" methods up to and including banging it against a leather bound Bible. Of course, I drank that down without hesitation, because even at the relatively low 28C dilution there was absolutely no HCl left. Even at 12C, the amount of HCl in the vessel would have been the equivalent of a pinch of salt in the North and South Atlantic oceans.
And no, it didn't cure my acid reflux.
It might interest you to know that although Samuel Hahnemann, who first conceived of homeopathy in 1796, mandated that the dilution be struck against a leather-bound Bible in between each dilution, modern industrial homeopathic factories no longer do this. They don't even measure the dilution accurately. Instead, the remaining liquid clinging to the sides of the vessel after it is emptied is considered sufficient for the next dilution. This is known as the Korsakovian method.
So I would say, Caroline, that if you don't know what the letters X and C mean in a remedy, if you haven't heard of the Korsakovian method or trituration, if you don't know what the process of "proving" entails, then I'd say that you don't know as much as you think you do about homeopathy.
