Abstract:
Homoeopathic medicine has been one of the world’s most widely practiced alternative
therapies. However, that the potency of a homoeopathic medicine increases with dilution
followed by succussion (together termed as potentization) has thrown challenges to the
scientific community at large. A recent hypothesis, advanced by us and others, is that
due to the process of potentization, the size of the constituent particles decreases and
eventually reaches nanodimension. This decrease in size with increase in potency has
been verified by scanning electron microscopy and dynamic light scattering studies.
The increase in potency is manifested in its increased effect on membrane fluidity.
The change in potency also leaves its signature on Ultraviolet–Visible spectra, Fourier
transform infrared radiation spectra and Raman spectra. We have taken one step
further to carry this nano‑dimensional property of homoeopathic medicine and put it
into several technical applications. And in so doing, we have connected the important,
old, un‑quantifiable effects with the latest quantifiable technology and opened up an
era of applications with more possibilities.
