How homeopathy does work? - 4 Years of DHMS course.

I have been given instruction by the principle to get registeration and take dr. mas extra periods. :D

We will educate you as much as you can digest easily. :D I think, two periods per week are enough.

Pleaes don't consider me dr.mas, as I am living some 345 kilometers away from his residence.
 
Doc2005 said:
I have been given instruction by the principle to get registeration and take dr. mas extra periods. :D

We will educate you as much as you can digest easily. :D I think, two periods per week are enough.

If I can handle 4 straight hour of degree level physical chem then I think I can handle this sub GCSE stuff without any problems. So far MAs seems to be going for the terminaly stupid stimulates the immune system line (hint helium has no effect on the immune system).


Pleaes don't consider me dr.mas, as I am living some 345 kilometers away from his residence.

We shall see
 
Doc2005 said:
I have been given instruction by the principle to get registeration and take dr. mas extra periods. :D

We will educate you as much as you can digest easily. :D I think, two periods per week are enough.



Well here's a nice place to start. Answer this question that MAS and his 18 years of teaching experience seem unable to answer.

Originally posted by Badly Shaved Monkey
MAS, let's say you have a 1ml of 1 molar solution of Na<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub> solution. In 1 litre you would have 6.022 x 10<sup>23</sup> of each of the component moieties of Na<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>. In 100ml you will have 6.022 x 10<sup>22</sup>.

If you want to use this as the basis for your next 1 in 100 dilution you will draw 1ml into a pipette and add 99ml water.

If the solution was well-mixed when you drew up that 1ml it will contain 6.022 x 10<sup>20</sup> of each of the components of Na<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>.

You have suggested that there may be some other number drawn up.

Originally posted by Dr. MAS
Remember, according to probality law, it is quite possible that the 2nd starting material drop may not contain any molecule of 1st starting material (because that drop was picked up blindly from the bottle) and it may or may not contain 50% of the 1st starting material or may contain 99% of the starting material.


How many? What are the chances that the aspirate will contain a number substantially different from 6.022 x 10<sup>20</sup>?

Edited to add;
p.s. Iin case you hadn't realised what is going on here, I am going to keep reminding MAS that he cannot answer this question until he makes an attempt to do so. Don't forget he started this by making the ridiculous assertion that I have quoted in the middle of this post.

He's had several weeks now to answer this. I wonder why he hasn't been able to.
 
Doc2005 said:
Skeptics are accepting points one by one. But they don't what they want to discuss. They have accepted that during belladonna proving symptoms were born which are mentioned in materia medica. This is very good going.

Well done Dr. MAS full marks to you.

Welcome to the forum then Doc. You should be aware that noone here has ever rejected the idea that certain substances, in large enough doses, can cause characteristic symptoms when consumed. Maybe it's some language barrier or something but this seems very hard to explain to you people.

What has been rejected is the idea that "like cures like" and that ultra molar dilutions have the physiological effects you claim.
 
the undercurrent

I don't think we can let sloppy thinking off the hook by blaming it on a "language barrier" in this case. Dr. MAS and his <strike>sock puppets</strike> associates are quite capable of expressing themselves adequately in English.

I haven't posted in this forum before, and as far as homeopathy goes, can claim only what knowledge I have learned here and elsewhere through casual perusal of the Internet. Nor do I have more than a layman's knowledge of chemistry or biology. But I am a skeptic and won't accept the basis for what is claimed to be a "new modality in medicine," even if it is 200 years old, without some scientific basis that at least passes rigor in my non-much-better-than-average-educated mind.

There can be little doubt that various roots and herbs and other "alternative therapies" indeed have effects when ingested or injected. Some might be positive, some not. It is up to the claimant to explain and prove these effects before the rational world will accept them as remedies.

I think on a high level the claim can be made that "like cures like" might be an abstraction of how vaccines work - by subjecting an organism to a small number of weakened or dead cells of the offending bacteria/virus/germ, an immune response can be triggered which prevents or limits future, more potent incursions by the pathogen.

But in the case of ultra-diluted homeopathic solutions, where's the "like"? As was asked (but not answered) several times already, after so many dilutions as to entirely eliminate the triggering substance, where is the trigger, beyond (and I know I am jumping ahead in the textbook here, dear professor, kindly forgive me) some hokum about the water retaining a "memory" of the cure? If water indeed does retain memory, why wouldn't ALL water EVERYWHERE contain the memories of everything that has ever gotten wet?

Every single claim for a vaccine must be subject to rigorous and repeated double blind testing for its claim to be accepted as scientifically valid. Claims and test results must be published and subject to peer review by scientists from a number of disciplines. Valid theories as to why the result was obtained, though not absolutely essential, will certainly help prod the rational world into accepting their validity as a cure. That is what the scientific method is, and that is all that skeptics ask. We are still waiting.

Where the "language barrier" can possibly be indicated as the basis for misunderstanding here is in the very definition of "skeptic." As with many of my native-English speaking friends, it is possible that our Pakistani correspondents here have intertwined "skeptic" with "cynic." "How can you be so skeptical about everything - don't you live in fear that you are constantly in danger of being ripped off or poisoned or whatever?" Just because we are skeptics it doesn't mean we don't have a basic trust in people's innate honesty, goodness and desire to work together in the common interest. Not true of all skeptics, but true of me. Now I may be far too generous here, but (giving them the benefit of the doubt) since this thread (as well as the other one in Forum Administration) has also been used continually remind us of the relative ease with which a dishonest user might post under multiple aliases, and some of the posters here have been accused such, I suspect that what is actually going on here is that they percieve they are trying to get a bunch of cynics to accept something on faith, and some trickster is trying to prevent them from getting their message through.
 
Re: the undercurrent

grunion said:
II think on a high level the claim can be made that "like cures like" might be an abstraction of how vaccines work - by subjecting an organism to a small number of weakened or dead cells of the offending bacteria/virus/germ, an immune response can be triggered which prevents or limits future, more potent incursions by the pathogen.

On a small, nit-picky point...

This always get's my goat. Immunisation and the law of similars are at the base level completely different.

The Law of Similars describes two completely different causes of a set of symptoms, the 'similar' being the similarity of symptoms produced by both the substance and the treated condition. Immunity relies on having a complex chemical (antigen) being introduced to the immune system, one that is identical to that present in a pathogen capable of producing described symptoms.

In other words, in immunisation it is essentially the same substance being administered, homeopathy it is a completely different substanc. We know why immunisation can prevent symptoms from occuring, but we have no evidence that homeopathy can cure symptoms after they have appeared.

Very, very different things. Of course, homeopaths find that rather inconvenient.

Athon
 
Re: Re: the undercurrent

athon said:
...
The Law of Similars ...

It is NOT a natural law... it was a wild -Rule 8- guess. A guess that was wrong 200 hundred years ago and is still wrong today.

So, "Doc2005", who is taking place of "Dr." MAS (a fellow who apparently has been teaching for 18 years without learning the basics of highschool chemistry). please explain the precedures and repeatable experiments that would show this "Law" to acturally be true.
 
Re: Re: Re: the undercurrent

Hydrogen Cyanide said:
It is NOT a natural law... it was a wild -Rule 8- guess. A guess that was wrong 200 hundred years ago and is still wrong today.
Indeed, in my attempt to bend over backwards to lend some credence to the "like cures like" homily I certainly didn't mean to imply that there was an equivalence between the way that it is applied by scientists and by homeopaths. I see more logical continuity on a bottle of Dr. Bronner's Soap than in Dr. MAS' posts.
 
Doc2005 said:
They have accepted that during belladonna proving symptoms were born which are mentioned in materia medica. This is very good going.
Oh? I certainly don't recall accepting that. Please have a look at all the published trials of the "proving" effects of Belladonna.

G<FONT SIZE="-1">OODYEAR</FONT>, K., L<FONT SIZE="-1">EWITH</FONT>, G. & L<FONT SIZE="-1">OW</FONT>, J. L. (1998) Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trial of homoeopathic 'proving' for Belladonna C30. J. R. Soc. Med. 91(11), 579-82.

B<FONT SIZE="-1">RIEN</FONT>, S., L<FONT SIZE="-1">EWITH</FONT>, G. & B<FONT SIZE="-1">RYANT</FONT>, T. (2003) Ultramolecular homeopathy has no observable clinical effects. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled proving trial of Belladonna 30C. Br. J. Clin. Pharmacol. 56(5), 562-568.

W<FONT SIZE="-1">ALACH</FONT>, H. (1993) Does a highly diluted homeopathic drug act as a placebo in healthy volunteers? Experimental study of Belladonna 30C in a double blind crossover design - a pilot study. J. Psychosomatic Res. 37(8), 851-860.

W<FONT SIZE="-1">ALACH</FONT>, H., K<FONT SIZE="-1">OSTER</FONT>, H., H<FONT SIZE="-1">ENNIG</FONT>, T., & H<FONT SIZE="-1">AAG</FONT>, G. (2001) The effects of homeopathic belladonna 30CH in healthy volunteers - a randomized, double-blind experiment. J. Psychosomatic Res. 50(3), 155-160.

All studies failed to find any difference between the effect of Belladonna 30C and a placebo on healthy people in a "proving" trial. All studies were carried out by homoeopaths (both Lewith and Walach are strong advocates of homoeopathy) and the protocols approved by homoeopaths. Yet they found no effect attributable to the belladonna.

So no, I do not accept the assertion that a belladonna "proving" shows any effects.

This illustrates some of the nonsense that homoeopathy has become. We all know that appreciable quantities of extract of Deadly Nightshade will have certain effects on healthy people. There's a reason for it being called "Deadly Nightshade" after all. And we know that the plant contains compounds known as the "belladonna alkaloids" (including atropine and hyoscine) which are widely used in real medicine. However, nowadays "provings" aren't done on appreciable quantities of anything, they're done on the magic sugar pills (content-free). Hence it's no surprise that nobody can actually tell whether they've been given the real thing or the placebo.

I repeat for our new "teacher", please provide the evidence you have that "like cures like" is a natural law. Bearing in mind that Hahnemann's original observation of a feverish effect from cinchona bark was mistaken (it doesn't occur in other people), and in any case we know that the reason cinchona bark is active against malaria is that it contains quinine, which is toxic to the malarial parasite. And bearing in mind that modern provings are done using content-free preparations, therefore how can you possibly show that any effects observed have anything to do with the supposed (but not present) remedy.

Rolfe.
 
I'm not sure this link has been given yet. anor and Hans are trying to explain the mechanics of diluting again. The thread was started by "Homeo Man", who shows exactly the specific misunderstanding of basic chemistry of which we, especially Rolfe, have been accusing them.

http://www.nch.ipbfree.com/index.php?showtopic=27

"At this stage, dr.mas is very right in pointing out that when “Beginning material� is changed into “Resulting substance� then you can’t count the previous beginning material for the second potency in Avogadro number. This number law is failed at very first stage.

Let me explain more, a chemical reaction is the material changing from a “beginning mass� to a “resulting substance�. In the result of a chemical reaction, new material or materials are made, along with the disappearance of the mass that changed to make the new. Homeopathic substance Aconite or belladonna have so many inorganic and organic “COMPOUNDS�, few will react with water or alcohol during mother tincture formation, few are soluble in water or alcohol and few are not. Few will form new compounds during reaction and few will not but how Avogadro's Law (Avogadro's law: equal volumes of all gases, measured under the same conditions of temperature and pressure, contain the same number of molecules) is applicable throughout dilution process? This is beyond my comprehension. "

(I don't know why there are all those weird characters. This is how my browser shows their text).

What it boils down to is that they don't understand that chemistry occurs between atoms, but chemical processes preserve atoms even if they do not necessarily preserve molecules. How gross must be the failing of their basic school science education that they regard themselves as experts while bearing this woeful misconception? I mean to say, if they have not grasped this concept then none of chemistry can make any sense to them whatsoever. This is precisely as for Kumar who thinks you can just juggle the letters on a page and regard taht has having some chemical meaning.

"Somewhat alike H2O>>OH2"

" O2+H2O= H2O3 or HO+H2O
H2O3+H2O=H4O4 or HO+H2O
H4O4+H2O=H6O5...
.......so on."

I've had no problem describing the concept of atoms and molecules to my 6 year old son. Do our opponents post from a kindergarten class where these ideas have not been discussed yet? It would explain a lot.
 
Badly Shaved Monkey said:
I'm not sure this link has been given yet. anor and Hans are trying to explain the mechanics of diluting again. The thread was started by "Homeo Man", who shows exactly the specific misunderstanding of basic chemistry of which we, especially Rolfe, have been accusing them.

http://www.nch.ipbfree.com/index.php?showtopic=27
Ah, that's the source for the now-set-in-stone assertion that we've agreed that "homoeopathy works at 18X". Three potencies, 6X, 18X and 30X were mentioned, and Anor277 agreed that there might be actual remedy substance in the 18X but not the 30X.

It seems as if "Nonsense" has looked at the fact that Belladonna is a mish-mash mixture of plant compounds (as I said, including chlorophyll and DNA and cellulose and all sorts), and decided that the calculations don't apply to such a mixture.

Obviously, not having an exact chemical composition of the mother tincture makes the calculations approximate, and as I said in an earlier post, it also raises the question as to whether you get a different effect from your pill if it happens to have a molecule of chlorophyll stuck to it, as opposed to a molecule of atropine. Nevertheless, whether you start with a mixture of different molecules, or a homogenous solution, you still run out of material in just the same way, which I don't think these maroons have quite grasped.

Oh, but the molecules react! Well, some of the macromolecules might well break down a bit, and you could end up with more smaller molecules when you started with fewer larger molelcules. But that isn't even going to alter the point at which the Avogadro limit kicks in by a single C dilution.

Yes but they react with the solvent!!!

So? To form what? How are you going to get any more of a substance that contains something other than O, H and C atoms by any possible reaction? And even if you're making claims based simply on new CHO-containing compounds being formed in the solutions, how about showing that such reactions are energetically possible (I thought homoeopaths knew all sorts of things about energy, so maybe they can tell how much energy it will take for a molecule of acetone to form from a mixture of water and ethanol....). And then how about demonstrating the reaction products in the final preparation?

Sigh. Looks as if I was right. They've just jumped on an aspect they don't really understand, think they see a loophole, and declared victory, without any attempt to think through their argument.

You know, this is pretty futile. Do you see John Saxton, or Peter Gregory, or John Hoare, or Mark Elliott, or Chris Day, or Neil Coode, or Peter Fisher or Lionel Milgrom or Kathy Ryan trying to argue that the Avogadro limit doesn't apply and there is actual physical remedy presence in a 30C potency? Even Divina and Snoopy and Leela and David Johnson and even Mad Albert wouldn't suggest such a thing. Nor would Barb or Naturalhealth/Homeoskeptic/Corallinus/Sarah-I, or Xanta/Gold/Olaf/QII/Yaw (what is it with homoeopaths and sock puppets anyway?), or Gavinimurthy or any of the other slightly better educated homoeopaths who have come here. We've just hit a tiny seam of astoundingly ignorant and isolated people who don't seem to have the intellectual capacity or the education to see that their ideas are nonsense.

It's been entertaining, but it's getting less so. Is it worth it, I wonder?

Rolfe.

PS. I've just notived that "Nonsense" has also become confused because he's apparently looked up the correct definition of "Avogadro's Law" and quoted that as being about the relationship of pressure, temperature and volume of a gas. He therefore thinks that that's what we're trying to apply to homoeopathic dilutions, rather than the concept of Avogadro's limit, which is that after a certain point you run out of starting material. Oh dear.
 
Dr. MAS said:
Detail Reply has been given at

www.nchpakistan.com forum due to some pictures. This forum is not providing assistance to me to upload pictures.
A detailed reply to what? The only vaguely relevant post I can find is in this thread, in which you have posted a link to a picture of a bee, and an out of focus picture of somebody's hand. I don't see why you think that the photos are so essential to the meaning of the post that you can't post it here without them. It may surprise you to find out that most, if not all, of the people posting on this forum have seen a bee.

If this is not the post you are referring to, is there any chance that you could provide a link to the thread where you've posted your reply, rather than to the site as a whole? It shouldn't really be beyond you to copy and paste an url, should it. Or are you just being obstructive again?

Edited to add the bit about the picture of the hand, which I hadn't noticed at first
 
Mojo said:
A detailed reply to what? The only vaguely relevant post I can find is in this thread, in which you have posted a link to a picture of a bee. I don't see why you think that the photo is so essential to the meaning of the post that you can't post it here without it. It may surprise you to find out that most, if not all, of the people posting on this forum have seen a bee.
I was even stung by a bee once! It was drowning in a pool, I felt bad about it, and rescued it. Since no good deed goes unpunished, I got stung for my efforts.

If this is not the post you are referring to, is there any chance that you could provide a link to the thread where you've posted your reply, rather than to the site as a whole? It shouldn't really be beyond you to copy and paste an url, should it. Ore are you just being obstructive again?
I vote for obstruction.
 
So that it can be discussed more conveniently here, here's MAS's post I referred to above. The bee was posted in a separate post 5 minutes later.
Originally posted by Dr. MAS here
Discussing on net is something different and to do experiment for collecting actual information is totally different. In my opinion, you people only have book knowledge and you never experimented to prove anything. Why I got this impression?

First you claimed homeopathic medicines have no molecules in above 18x potency (you quoted hypothetical equation which was based on Avogadro’s number, I rejected that equation by presenting scientific facts) hence it does not work being the reason, there is no molecules in above 18x. Hence there is no question of working homeopathic dilutions in above 18x potency?

When it was asked to confirm, does homeopathic medicine work under 18x, as these have molecules (that was your claim it has molecules in below 18x), you came and said, whether it works or not just explain to us the working of homeopathic medicine? Is this the scientific approach, you are talking about? Just reply according to the question, whether it works in below 18x when the dilution contain molecules……????

This shows your attitude of unscientific nature. If you are the followers of scientific rules then what is your standpoint on this issue? Whether homeopathic medicine does work in 6x, 12x or 18x or not? If you deny then it is very easy for us to deny “Velosef (a famous allopathic drug) also does not work” because denying something without justification is also no problem to us. This is not the proper way of discussion. If you will keep on denying then how can we participate in fruitful discussion and how can you understand… “How does homeopathy work?”

(A) To find out the answer of this question, first we must admit whether homeopathy does work?????? Or not????

(B) If it works then in which potency? If not work, then why?

© And in which potency it does not work?

(D) If it works under 12x potency then how does it work? And if it does not work in 12x then provide any practical proof with reference to known scientific laws as you (yourself) stated.

Without knowing the answers of these questions, tell me how can I teach you when you have made an attitude that you will keep on denying and you will not come with “YES” answer, when you have also made up your minds that you will not accept any thing from Dr. MAS whether I am saying right or wrong?

You can read my above lectures. All are based on facts, I also presented examples from your science books but again you denied and came with the words “don’t waste our time in irrelevant question and answers just explain to us how does homeopathy work”, mine position is, if you will not follow my lecture and if you will not give me feed back on my questions, then tell me the method of instruction, which may I adopt to teach you how does homeopathy work?

Let me explain my point of view by presenting another practical application (because I am not book worm who only has book knowledge, I am a practical man who believes on experimental conclusions). This is purely based on scientific facts. I am looking forward to hear replies from you.

As I said earlier, I have observed very keenly the provings of different homeopathic medicines. I have also delivered so many lectures on plants and animals provings. I have also participated in many seminars as resource person and delivered lecture on different diseases like hepatitis, AIDS and Diabetes etc

(A record from my personal file)

(IMG:http://img144.echo.cx/img144/4056/proving37hq.jpg)

She was the student of 1st year DHMS. She agreed to prove Apis on herself. Apis was placed on her backhands, face and legs. After stung, following symptoms were produced.

stinging,
burning pain,
swelling locally
Soreness
redness.

When cold and warm application were applied at different parts, following symptoms were observed

Swelling – Cold application >

Open air >

Thirst decrease

Urticaria symptoms were also seen on other body parts.

The method of scientific study is, if you found the same result after so many experiments at different level then it become a law. The Newton third law “For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction” was not become a “LAW” on the very first instance. Many experiments were carried and each scientist came with the same results then it became a “law”.

Our scientific study shows that whenever apis will bite, an allergic reaction will be observed in negligible, less, mild, moderate or severe or intense etc form depending upon the person susceptibility. Newton’s third law is whenever you will perform action (force) you will get opposite response, it is not possible that Apis injected the Venom / Formic acid into the person and you don’t find the response, yes, sometime the response would be so slow that it cannot be detect through naked eye or it cannot be measured through devices except some mental changeability.

The toxic effect apis venom are paralysis of the nervous system, increase in the permeability of the blood capillaries, and destruction of red blood cells. But this will always not happened due to known susceptibility and chemical changes. But you can't say, in low quantity you cannot bring those changes. Even a single molecule when enters into the body it always cause those changes which I mentioned but these changes are negligible, less, moderate, severe and intense etc. if these are less then it will not come over to indicators or labs cannot detect them. But this does not mean that you start deny the change. If I slightly touch your body with my forefinger then this does not mean that your body has not given the equal reaction as stated in 3rd law.


To prove this observation, I again carried out many experiments on different person and in few healthy person no apparent change (including pathological) were observed except that healthy person said, “I am feeling myself absent mind” which pathological lab will prove this?
 
Dr. MAS:
Are you having trouble translating and understanding people's responses? Or are you not reading them at all? Did you miss the talk about the 18x potency? Did you miss the posts where people talked about their experimental backgrounds?

Talking to you is like talking to someone who is using a cell phone low on batteries at the edge of its range, while he is driving in and out of tunnels. The communication is very poor. I don't think you are hearing us.
 
Mojo said:
So that it can be discussed more conveniently here, here's MAS's post I referred to above. The bee was posted in a separate post 5 minutes later.

Just a cotton pickin' minute. I assumed we would be talking about "apis" a homeopathic remedy, but I think he is actually describing someone being stung by a real bee then describing the symptoms.

" After stung, following symptoms were produced."

The f8ckwits are just putting real bees on a gormless woman and seeing what happens.

Never mind that he doesn't know which end of a bee is the dangerous one;

"Our scientific study shows that whenever apis will bite..."
 
I don't think I am alone in finding it slightly scary and worrying that someone who has so little ability to string logical thoughts together is 'teaching' people and messing with people's health.

I find his combination of arrogance and ignorance deeply offensive.
 
The only thing that calms me down when I think of Dr. MAS is that he has a lot of excuses since he lives in a country where medical care and education aren't exactly among the best in the world. I'm much more enraged when I think of homeopaths in more developed countries. How can we worry about Dr. MAS when there are numerous Dr. MASes in our immediate vicinity ?
 

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