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homeopathy, how does one make a correct dilution

Michael C said:
They don't say anything about where they get the water or alcohol used for the dilutions. I always wonder what sort of "memories" these liquids have at the start, and how the laboratory erases these memories...
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That's what the shaking is for, to confuse the water and clear its memory for new stuff. Just like an Etch-A-Sketch.
 
I make homeopathic remedies in my basement all the time. First, I take a ball of water the size of the solar system...
 
thatguywhojuggles said:
What I've always wondered is how they keep the water from being contaminated by other things. For example they say you shed 30,000-40,000 skin cells a minute. Wouldn't some of those get into the solution you are making?

http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/body/pg000146.html

I've always used this as a joke for my vegan friends. I let them know it is impossible for them to be vegan. As they prepare their carrots cucumbers and lettuce, they are constantly topping their salad with some nice human flesh. They can't be vegan, they're cannibals!
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For a long time it was felt that vegetable proteins would be inadequate because they are "incomplete," not having certain amino acids in as high quantities as animal proteins. However all vegetarian diets are now known to be supplemented with intestinal lining, so there is no need to eat complete proteins at a single meal.
 
But.....how do homeopaths find out if a dilution has been made the right way?
 
I found a bottle of tiny pills at one of my friends' home, and although the word "homoeopathy" was nowhere to be seen, everything about it looked woo, and the single ingredient was specified as some latin name (like homoeopaths prefer) and "D30" which look like a dilution.

But what dilution is D30? D in roman numerals is 500, but surely they have not made it in a base of 500? Is it D for Decimal, just like X?
 
I think D is sometimes used for decimal potencies (X potencies).

Hans
 
From the description of the Korsakov method:

It is believed that by using the same container the final remedy contains the energy pattern of all the potencies up to and including the final potency, allowing the patients body to use the most effective potency for the condition.
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If that's how it works, why not mix every possible homeopathic medicine into one super-tincture? You take the one pill and your body decides whether it wants the 10C zinc or the 20C belladonna or whatever.
 
ben m said:
From the description of the Korsakov method:



If that's how it works, why not mix every possible homeopathic medicine into one super-tincture? You take the one pill and your body decides whether it wants the 10C zinc or the 20C belladonna or whatever.
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Why not go the whole hog!

Every drop of water on Earth has likely been strained through rocks somewhere, passed over vegetable matter, gone through a dinosaur's kidneys, evaporated into the clouds, and mixed with every known natural salt in the oceans for hundreds of millions of years. Therefore, and especially since it can be diluted to any level required, ordinary tap water will be the ultimate and perfect homeopathic remedy for anything whatsoever that any plant or animal or person has that ails them.

Which means that any few drops of water is the perfect cure-all for everything...anything!

Which reminds me... I need to talk to my marketing gurus about this. There's money to be made from suckers if I can just think of a good scam to promote it...
 
Rasmus said:
But I would assume that a 1:100 dilution only has a certain accuracy - and the mistake would get carried on time and time again.

Also, of course, your base substances only have a certain degree of purity - whilst I haven't done the math, I'd think it will factor in the final result as well. (Then again, if you start with "Berlin Wall" as your base substance, I guess math no longer needs to bother with the whole thing ..)
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Or Venus light.

By the way, I was peering at a homeopathetic product the other day, and I noticed that it's "active" ingredient was listed as a concentration of [Some number - I think it was 20]XC. Now, I'm familiar with X (1010) and C (10100), but XC confused me. If it was to be 10 100's, then that would be simply M, so I was guessing that it was meaning 90. That struck me as a weird concentration.

Ok, weirder than normal.
 
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kmortis said:
By the way, I was peering at a homeopathetic product the other day, and I noticed that it's "active" ingredient was listed as a concentration of [Some number - I think it was 20]XC. Now, I'm familiar with X (1010) and C (10100), but XC confused me. If it was to be 10 100's, then that would be simply M, so I was guessing that it was meaning 90. That struck me as a weird concentration.
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Maybe that means you made a 10X remedy first. Then you take that and do a 1C of it. But honestly, I don't know.

As mentioned, the numbers really describe a process and not just a final concentration. So a 10X is doing a 1:10 dilution ten times, but a 1C is doing a 1:100 dilution just once.
 
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