In search of a technique for identifying potentised homoeopathic medicines beyond Avogadro limit

Abstract

Avogadro Number puts twelth as the potency limit (in the centesimal scale) beyond which a homoeopathic medicine can not even theoretically contain any atom/molecule of the original substance with which potentisation starts. This raises two most fundamental questions : (1) Wherein lies their medicinal value? (2) How do they effect cures? The first question can also be put as – How one of such medicines differs from another? This paper addresses the first question in this form and tries to identify these medicines through a technique called Dielectric Dispersion. The basic idea is that potentisation induces ordered macromolecules of the vehicle, the structures of these molecules being specific to the original medicinal substance and the degree of potentisation. When such structures are excited by high frequency electric field, then anomalous dielectric dispersion occurs around their electrical resonance frequencies. That is reflected in sharp changes of real and imaginary parts of dielectric function. For three dimensional structures one gets not just a single resonance frequency but a set of such resonance frequencies for each sample. A medicine may thus be characterized through such sets. Experimental results seem to support the point. The set-up with which the authors worked is given in this paper. Identification of a potentised homoeopathic medicine seems to be a possibility through its dielectric-dispersion- resonance-frequency-set.