Badly Shaved Monkey said:
In answer to Rolfe's question, 1ppm remedy equates to roughly 0.00001mg/kg or 0.01ug/kg, so I don't think I can think of much at all, including KCN that would have a significant physiological effect.
Well, yes.
I've just been talking this over with my colleagues, and none of us can come up with
anything that is likely to have a significant physiological effect at 1ppm. And even that concentration is assuming that you really did have a mother tincture that was 1M for the substance in question. Maybe some alkaloids are active in pretty small amounts, but before anyone starts getting excited about belladonna, it's necessary to point out that the concentration of any of the belladonna alkaloids in a mother tincture prepared from the whole plant is going to be very low before you even start. Nowhere even close to 1M.
It might be worth using this diversion into the "low-potency" realms of homoeopathy to highlight this aspect of the nonsense. We're so used to considering the commonly-used medium and high potencies, where we're talking about one molecule in a cube with sides several light years long, that we fail to remember just how insignificant the concentrations are even in the preparations we sometimes concede "might" do something because they aren't actually molecule-free. They seem concentrated in comparison with the preposterous dilutions that are more commonly used, but in comparison with what would be required to have an actual appreciable effect on the body, there's really nothing much there.
There's a reason why EU law insists that nothing less diluted that 6X can be sold as homoeopathic, and 6X is allowed. Because somebody worked out that for most of the things homoeopaths use, 6X wasn't actually appreciably different from nothing at all! Yes, you could identify it using sensitive analytical techniques, but in terms of being poisoned by a drop of a 1µM solution of KCN, as BSM says, well, not much of a risk.
So, before the homoeopaths can show that "it works" at 6X, they are going to have to show that 6X of anything they use has any appreciable biological activity in the quantities usually prescribed.
Then, they are going to have to show that the effect has any relationship to curing disease. Even if they managed to get over the first hurdle, this one is pretty much impossible. I can't think of anything at all for which a dose of 0.2 nmoles (that is assuming a dose of one drop, and 5 drops per ml) is actually therapeutic for any disease at all.
So, categorically, it "doesn't work" at 6X. Do you think there's any possibility that our homoeopaths will understand this?
Rolfe.
if somebody says, he does not know the working of 6x then he can join four years of DHMS course conducting by Dr. MAS, if he says, no it does not work in 6x then present your lecture and paper with supporting documents that it cannot work and win one million ruppees.
So simple equation.
