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Albert, The problem is that an "ultramolecular" mode of action is not known anywhere else in Science...yes, the Physicists have identified many enigmatic and elusive particles, but only under the most extreme experimental conditions which have no "real applications" or known interactions with Biological systems (unless you have some evidence for some). You would expect such interactions to crop up somewhere in areas other than in Homeopathy. People with a Scientific background find such a mechanism very hard to swallow because it sounds so unusual and obscure...they would have been told something about it during their years of Science & General education. Hahnemann said that about the chemistry of life, but he could not have predicted the rise of Civilization and Science which occurred in the 20th Century. You could also ask him, "How do you know that?" and "How do you know what the future holds?" However, he cracked the problem of disease without knowing the physiological/biochemical processes of life, but how they behave as a whole. If we take Syphilis as an example (and I'll tell you why later), we know that Mercury was found to be medicinal before Hahnemann's time (i.e., first treated in 1496)...but it had serious toxic effects because its a poison and they were administering far too much of it. (They didn't know how little they needed - as long as it reached the site of action). Hahnemann diluted and potentized the Mercury, and it cured the disease completely with a single dose (so long as the Syphilis was not complicated with other diseases). This sounds simple, but it was after Hahnemann had done a hell of a lot of work experimenting to find the best preparations and doses of Mercury. You know all this of course, Albert, (so this is directed at other readers) but my point is that, regarding this disease with an obvious diagnosis we can set the "Law of Similars" aside. Syphilis is a known disease to both Homeopathy and Science. The mercury is selectively interfering with the bacterium (Treponema pallidum) which causes Syphilis, enabling the Immune System to easily conquer it. These days, Syphilis is cured with antibiotics. In Hahnemann's time, antibiotics did not exist. http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/s/syphilis/causes.htm Bacteria have a different kind of cell structure to multicellular animals. It is called the "Prokaryote" cell - it has no membrane covering the nucleus. This, and other differences in these cells can be exploited to target the bacterium without significantly affecting the animal's cells. But Mercury is so deadly, getting the dose right is essential. "Mercury compounds: They are highly toxic to bacteria, plants, fungi and animals. Mercuric salts, e.g. HgCl2, is a severe irritant as well. Organo mercury compounds are less irritating, but still toxic. Examples include penotrane and thimersol. These were used as 'wound disinfectants' in a 0.1% solution. Organomercury compounds still had limited uses up to the 1950s as plant fungicides and for the preservation of leather, textiles and timber. Obviously not used nowadays due to the toxicity of the mercury." Hahnemann explained how Syphilis is a chronic disease that continues throughout the patient's life until death, though it can cause death itself, unless it is cured. The body's defences cannot usually destroy this bacterium, so they use a strategy of containment - effectively pushing the disease out to the skin where it remains. But, it is still a systemic (whole body) disease, and surgical removal or burning away of the skin symptoms does not eliminate the disease...instead, it becomes a more serious systemic disease, targeting other organs, as Hahnemann pointed out. So, antibiotics and mercury both cure Syphilis. Both kill the bacterium, so that the Immune System can eradicate it. My point is: When Hahnemann diluted and succussed mercury to make the very successful potentized mercury medicine, he made something that, when it entered the body's tissues, was able to move quickly through the body and affect the bacterium, WITHOUT UPSETTING significantly any of the many other processes going on. But, its action MUST be at the chemical level. All Hahnemann did was greatly improve the delivery system. This is the full story of Syphilis, by Hahnemann. http://www.sciforums.com/showthread.php?threadid=26528&perpage=20&pagenumber=20 OR, select Syphilis on this site: http://www.homeoint.org/books/hahchrdi/ They must interact with the chemical level somewhere? Science has already proven conclusively that Mercury acts on the bacterium causing Syphilis, to destroy it. Are you saying potentised Mercury acts in a completely different way on Syphilis? This is why I chose Syphilis as an example. I am certainly not excluding subAvogadrean, ultramolecular drugs simply because we don't yet know the way such dilute solutions carry the medicine. The easiest explanation is that the Q-potencies of Hahnemann are not subAvogadrean at all. Don't forget that each step uses poppy seed sized sucrose globules..these are participating in carrying the signal...they could be the sole carriers...water/ethanol dilution occurs, but there is always a soaked sucrose globule carried through the process, whether solid or dissolved. Yes Sir, this was one direction I followed because the "lead time" between administering the drug and the appearance of symptoms matches some immune system processes. The diseased tissues or processes involved are the target, whether directly or indirectly. Re. repair of wounds & broken bones, the immune system is certainly involved but acute inflammatory processes are more prominent. It is difficult to separate these from each other, and from Homeostasis. Let's get these in perspective: A. IMMUNE RESPONSE The immune response, briefly, has three phases: 1. Afferent Loop: recognition system for antigens (e.g., microorganisms) and conveys the antigen or antigen-presenting cell to the sites which deal with it. Cells called macrophages do this. 2. Lymphoid tissues: where immune system cells (lymphocytes) react with the antigen. 3. Efferent Loop: the triggered biological effects of the immune response, i.e., how the body deals with the antigen. We are focused here. B. INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE The (acute) inflammatory response is something different from the immune response, but they usually work together in the body. C. HOMEOSTASIS Homeostasis is so entwined, you could say the above are homeostatic processes (separated only to facilitate understanding). You had some other points, but I would prefer to wait until the above are discussed. Tim

Albert, Another perspective: These water/ethanol clusters, if large enough, may survive long enough in the bloodstream (or in cells) to invoke an immune response (though they are like ice cubes in a saucepan of boiling water). By the time the immune response is under way, they would be long gone....but that doesn't matter. Soon the immune system would realise there is nothing there, and reset itself, but not before it initiated the symptom patterns . Prof Chaplin said the clusters would dissolve immediately in the living environment, but he doesn't realize : 1. That these cluster can persist up to 120 degrees C. and 2. Homeopathic preparation can make the clusters very large to begin with. Anyway, now working thru the latest Immunology textbooks and searching Medline and Scirus for this simultaneous disease issue.

Albert, We must've posted at exactly the same time ...yes, 1:25pm by Brit time on both posts. I was replying to Sayonara as the last post, then yours popped ahead of mine.

Sayonara, YES. And then to try to answer all the questions relating to the Homeopathy-Science question/puzzle. Homeopathy was suppressed by Science over 80 years ago....one medical system exerting dominance of (and then crushing) another. Even proving the mechanism of Homeopathy may not be enough, though Medical Science is using that as the excuse for the suppression of Homeopathy......any Scientist ever coming out in support of H. gets his/her funding cut-off. The masses do not see the political side of this. Where I am with the mechanism is : 1. looking at how the body handles more than one disease at a time. Having trouble finding anything at all in the Scientific lierature about this. Working my way thru' Kuby's 670 page textbook on Immunology and a similar sized Microbiology text, for any reference to how the immune system functions when there are two or more diseases in the body...e.g., couldn't they interfere with eachother since they are using the same resources? Hahnemann explained how one disease suppresses and suspends the other, which then re-emerges when the more serious disease resolves. 2. Getting excellent material from Albert on every aspect of Homeopathy - learning all the time (as I am not a Homeopath but have a Science degree). 3. Noted correlations between independent works on the nature of the medicines; Stephenson's Hypothesis and related work to test it by Luu VIHN, & Mlle L. BARDET (RAMAN-laser studies) in France in 1975; Physicist Lo in 1996; and Geckeler & Samal in 2001. ALL seem to describing the same phenomenon judging by their descriptions of its properties...e.g., clustering of water molecules stable up to 120 degrees C, destroyed by ultrasound, unstable in sunlight. Rate of Potency development depends on the history of the solution...ironically the more dilute it is to begin with, (and wait at least three minutes between succussion steps) the more the potency develops...& many other correlations to Hahnemann's Q-potency preparation procedure. 4. Consider this from "Immunology" by KUBY: "The symptoms of malaria are recurrent chills, fever and sweating. The symptoms peak roughly every 48 hours when successive generations of merozoites are released from infected blood cells. Large numbers of merozoites can block capillaries causing intense headache, renal/heart failure , and cerebral damage. The symptoms of malaria may not be caused by Plasmodium itself but by excessive production of Cytokines. This hypothesis stems from the observation that cancer patients treated in clinical trials with recombinant tumour necrosis factor (TNF) develop symptoms that mimic malaria." Homeopathic medicines also mimic these symptoms though they contain no disease agent. Looking at ways in which cytokine production, for instance, could be stimulated by the medicines, and in a specific way for each type of medicine. These strange clusters are something that does not occur in Nature, may be quite a handful to the immune system, though they will quickly dissolve away (after triggering the immune response?). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Refs: 1975 RAMAN-laser studies by Luu VIHN, & Mlle L. BARDET, Montpellier, FR. Ref THORSON'S Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Homoeopathy, Pg188/446. "shape-specific polymerization is thought to occur in water-ethanol leaving an "impress", a clustering of water molecules which is different for each drug, forming into long chains of water polymers." For optimal development, preparation requires a minimum of 3 minutes between one succussion and the dilution/succussion of the next step of potentization. Hahnemann did this with his Q-potencies (1:50000) because after each step he would soak tiny sucrose globules, one of which would then be used in the next potentization step.

Albert, Thanks for that. "And why, I finally ask, are you not pursuing homeopathy yourself, sir? " I have seen a Homeopath about my current problems for months but have little confidence in him...so far he has given me 1M Calc Carb and 1M Silica without any effects whatsoever. Portsmouth is not known for its centres of excellence in Homeopathy. I am concerned about the disc pressing against the spinal cord and feel more confident with a French Neurosurgeon (and because this nuerological testing is something I know about). If this guy finds there is a limited risk of paraplegia, I will find the nearest Hahnemannian to resolve the problem.

Albert, You posted: No, I did not see any photographs. Maybe he is saying they clump so much they become micron sized (i.e., micro scale is 1000 times larger than nano). I have just posted a new topic about "what are symptoms?" in a new forum for immunology: http://www.prep4usmle.com and scroll down and click on : "USMLE Step 1 Forums - Microbiology & Immunology" to see timokay topic. These new forums seem to have a good population. Re: James H. Stephenson, M.D. J. Stephenson, On possible field effects of the solvent phase of succussed high dilutions. J Am Inst Homeopath 1966 Sep-Oct 59:259-62 Any idea where this is? Thanks.

Albert, This is the "Chronic Diseases" I use online: http://www.homeoint.org/books/hahchrdi/hahchr00.htm I just sent you an e-mail version of the Chronic Diseases in case you want to do FIND commands. You could FIND that footnote on page 137. Of course, this e-mail member may be too big to keep..tho' its not too bad. (I keep it on another e-mail address of mine.) OK let me check the nano sized issue. We should ask Prof Chaplin (an expert on water) about this whole issue of Stephenson's Hypothesis. This is his site. He answered me a few times before on other questions so I will try...will show it to you before I send it to him. http://www.sbu.ac.uk/water/ Much on clusters: http://www.sbu.ac.uk/water/clusters.html

Some assembled evidence for Homeopathy: http://www.marius.net/research.html Especially: RAMAN-laser studies by Luu VIHN, & Mlle L. BARDET, Montpellier, FR. Ref THORSON'S Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Homoeopathy, Pg188/446. "shape-specific polymerization is thought to occur in water-ethanol leaving an "impress", a clustering of water molecules which is different for each drug, forming into long chains of water polymers." For optimal development, preparation requires a minimum of 3 minutes between one succussion and the dilution/succussion of the next step of potentization. Hahnemann did this with his Q-potencies (1:50000) because after each step he would soak tiny sucrose globules, one of which would then be used in the next potentization step.

Relationship between Immune System and Symptoms : Re. Immunology (3rd Ed), by Kuby, Chap 17 "An immune response evokes a battery of effector molecules that act to remove antigen by various mechanisms. Generally, these effector molecules induce a sub clinical, localised inflammatory response that eliminates antigen without extensive tissue damage to the host. However, the inflammatory response can sometimes cause significant tissue damage or death (hypersensitivity or allergy). " There is virtually nothing said about "symptoms" in significant books like this. So, the immune response is usually "sub clinical", as far as symptoms are concerns...you don't sense what is going on. The assumption is that the tissues detect the toxicity & damage, and relay this information to the brain, where it gets translated into a symptom, e.g., pain, then perceived. The point I am making is that none of these books on immunology/microbiology/pathology ever cover or even mention the step in which something they are describing in great detail LINKS or CONNECTS with the Brain's functions which actually generating both the objective symptoms, and those that are perceived. I suppose, they consider this to be outside their field. But, who's field is it? The mini-discipline of "symptomology" just describes symptoms and links them to diseases - it says nothing of what they are nor how they are generated. Yes, you could point to a local inflammation and call that a symptom in which the Brain was barely involved - but it is, though less so than usual, because all awareness of sensation (even the illusion that it is coming from that tissue) is actually constructed in the Brain. The Brain is involved with EVERY symptom. (Sayonara said there was no brain involvement in the immune system.) So, what we have here, during the immune response, is a disease condition in the tissues passing information to the Brain to be interpreted and expressed. With Homeopathy, the medicine, somewhere along the line between the tissues and the Brain, is simulating the information about the disease condition, at interpretation or expression in the Brain. If it were only at the expression step, Homeopathic medicines would be unlikely to be able to "extinguish" a disease. This is an interesting link on this subject : "Symptomatology": What do you think of this one, Albert? http://www.homeoint.org/cazalet/nash/symptom.htm

Albert, Yes, I have made inquiries about getting a high-power microscope, tho' we have some conflict here between what Lo wrote in his paper about "micron-sized", and your reference saying "nano-sized". I will get the original Geckeler/Samal paper from the University library to check their findings on the size (before I get a microscope, of course).

Albert's post: Yes, it was in the context of Scientific experimentation on patients. I know about the "numbered powders" (nearly all placebos) Hahnemann would give patients, e.g., footnote on page 137 of chronic diseases: "(Numbering the powders continuously has the convenience that the physician when the patients render their daily report (especially those living at a distance) putting first the date and the number of the powder taken that day, can recognize the day when the patient took his medicine, and can judge of the progress of its action according to the report of the following day.)

Albert, re your post above, Reply #95, you seem to have pulled in a large post written by Barry Blatt from the BBC site and then attributed it to me; i.e., starts: “ Here, you address me: Tim, I've told you that these are ultramolecular, subAvogodrean, etheric medicines........ Or, are you answering something I wrote?

Albert, referring to this post of mine, containing BARRY BLATT'S words, you seem to have interpreted them as my words. So, the question is; when Hahnemann spoke of self-proving, what doses was he giving himself? Obviously, Q-potencies, but which ones? END OF MY PREVIOUS POST

Albert, You posted this: Sayanora, you said: “ ...rather than firing off statements of 'fact' that are only backed up by references to the work of someone whose methods and findings science has largely ignored. ” I couldn't have said that better myself, and I just referred to Hahnemann as a forgotten genius. The question we have asked for 213 years is, why? END OF ALBERT POST --------------------------------------------- The WHY is because Medical Science does not see the logic of paying so much attention to SYMPTOMS. It needs to be explained to them in steps. I am planning to start a topic somewhere where the word "Homeopathy" has not been mentioned (as a mindset immediately intervenes). Plan: 1. Read up all the immunology/microbiology/symptomology(?)/pathology textbooks for the particular purpose of identifying HOW medical science values symptoms. It won't take me long as I have already scanned them once for another reason (to see whether they acknowledge the Brain's role in immunology). 2. start a topic elsewhere on immunology, pointing out aspects that have simply never been addressed - the relationship between symptoms and immune system activities. 3. demonstrate to the scientists that there is a big hole in the understanding of this area that needs to be filled. 4. try developing in this direction, without mentioning the "H" word.

Above link wrong for some reason. Try this http://pecan.srv.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/dst/www/ATG/lo-ice.html

Albert, Where did you get this quote from? "I don't see how other than a scanning electron microscope would do since the room-temperature ice crystals Lo found were nanometer sized." This is an extract from the Lo paper (straight from the horse's mouth)...nothing about nano-sizes. Please read the LAST SENTENCE below, it says "micron size": "4. Electron Microscope Pictures of IE Structures The direct evidence for existence of these stable IE structures comes from pictures taken with the electron microscope. The very dilute solution with IE structures is filtered through a 0.1 µm filter paper and then is sputter coated with carbon. The carbon coated filter paper is dissolved in boiling chloroform for twenty minutes. Water and IE structure will be dissolved away and only carbon skeletons remain. Hitachi transmission microscope H600A is used to take the pictures. The X-ray emitted by the striking electron beam is also examined. If there is any impurity such as solid salt or biological entity, a characteristic X-ray of their constituent atoms by atomic excitation will be emitted. No such characteristic X-rays are seen. Hence it is concluded that the skeleton pictures are not from impurities in the water or biological specimen such as bacteria or virus. The pictures are consistent with the hypothesis that the IE structures are made up of water molecules alone. Some of the typical pictures are shown in Fig. 3.3 They are from very dilute solutions of sodium chloride with small and large amount of UV absorbance. For control, we also treat pure water (reverse osmosis water from Millipore machine) the same way; we see none of these structures. Since these structures are of micron size, they can be observed by ordinary optical microscope with some patience also. " Or this is the whole paper by Lo et al: http://pecan.srv.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/...ATG/lo-ice.html

Albert, " and for this purpose he should not be satisfied with any of the existing repertories – a carelessness only too frequent; for these books are only intended to give light hints as to one or another remedy that might be selected, but they can never dispense him from making the research at the first fountain heads [i.e., the provings]. " Firstly, I didn't know that there were repertories, of note, around in Hahnemann's time. Secondly, I thought repertories WERE the "provings results" assembled in a different way, i.e., a listing of all the medicines associated with a particular symptom, instead of medicines listed with all their symptoms (materia medica) ? "Double-blinding is actually totally pointless, for there's nothing to determine in homeopathy since we have been proving cures of all diseases for over two centuries and are thus not inclined to make half of a group of test subjects suffer with placebo." Yes, it's unethical to ever give a patient a placebo. The allopaths say, "but ethically, it's okay because the patient is still getting the "real" (allopathic) treatment during the experiment"...but this could spoil the Homeopathy testing. The fact remains, Albert, that there must be some breakthrough somehow in the Scientific testing. They don't even accept the provings. "The real test of homeopathy is a self-proving with a high potency." What do you mean by a high potency? E.g., Q-potency? or C-potency (6c or 30c) bought from the chemist? As I have said, 30c Arnica, Rhus Tox, Calc Carb, DO NOTHING in the healthy. But 6c Bryonia does. See Barry's remark below: ": Cell Receptor Mechanism Barry Blatt - 96th post - 14 Jul 2003 19:17 Are people responding to the homeopathic medicine or the placebo effect? Overdosing on homeopathy? Don't make me laugh! I have personally ingested an entire tub of homeopathic arnica in one go by way of proving to an audience of believers that it was cobblers." So, the question is; when Hahnemann spoke of self-proving, what doses was he giving himself? Obviously, Q-potencies, but which ones? Albert, why do you say this? "Those substances shouldn't have effects but do." You mean, just that they are Subavogadrean?

Re. Microscopes used: From Lo's paper, section "4. Electron Microscope". (Geckeler/Samal used Scanning e/m.) Lo: "Since these structures are of micron size, they can be observed by ordinary optical microscope with some patience also." With Homeopathic solutions, you would expect the structures to MUCH larger than that (if that IS the mechanism of Homeopathy). I might get hold of a good microscope myself and try this expt (crushing a Q-potency pill in lactose and dissolving in a LARGE amount of water, with plain water as control). Lo's paper link: http://pecan.srv.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/usr/dst/www/ATG/lo-ice.html

Albert, Above posts show remarkable knowledge and insight. You alone are the best Scientific evidence, so far, for Homeopathy. It is certainly a matter of "catch up" for me. Having a degree in the medical sciences puts the onus on me to contribute more in the area of SEM and the chemistry. I mentioned Geckeler/Samal (solute aggregation on dilution - the more dilute, the more aggregation; only occurred in polar solutions like water or ethanol) and Lo's crystals because in both cases, if a Homeopath was nearby to take the expt one step further, I believe, would have clinched it one way or the other re. these crystals/aggregates. Geckeler/Samal found that the amount of aggregation which occurred depended on the history of the solution.....the more dilute it was to begin with, the more aggregation took place on further dilution (shocked them!). This is where the Homeopath should step in, with Q-potencies. Geckeler/Samal tested many substances, even humble sodium chloride (common salt), which all behaved the same way. Supposing the dilute solution they STARTED WITH was one grain of a 3-hour triturate dissolved in 500 drops of an ethanol/distilled water mixture (according to Organon 6th Ed, Article 270, Paragraph 3 (Kunzli)), and then, a classical homeopathy pharmacy prepared the 5c & 30c Q-potencies to be examined under SEM, the final truth about this area of research in relation to Homeopathy would certainly be revealed. This could be simplified to buying some Q-potency medicines, crush them in some lactose, and dissolve them in a large amount of water (Organon), and just examine this solution under SEM. I am going to find out something about specimen fixation for SEM, who's got a SEM & access to it. Personally, I don't think we need a SEM, Albert, a high-powered light microscope may be sufficient, as Lo reported.

Albert. My post to Sayonara on page 1 started with the quote below, which HE said, not me. "It's a nice concept but unfortunately it's bollocks." My reply: You feel the need to be antagonistic. It is unclear why. My experiences with people with such an attitude is that they never change their minds, AND expect me to explain it all to them, which I shall not be doing.

Albert, "That was the famous Bernard Fincke, M.D.. In the 1950s and '60s, another homeopath by the name of James H. Stephenson, M.D., hypothesized that "hydro-alcohol" solvent molecules in our potencies formed into "polymeric matrices" or polymers...". They would be stable enough to settle on pills. I think we should consider viewing them under the Scanning Electron Microscope,SEM (re. Geckeler/Samal's work) - as they may survive the fixation process. I can't find any Homeopathy research in this area..where a Homeopath is involved with SEM research.

A BIT MORE To heal diseases such as cancer or AIDS, spending billions researching the pathology is a complete waste of time and money. The body ALREADY has the resources to resolve all disease - the fact that these diseases arose at all is a reflection of some weakness in the body's disease management...if the diseases do not resolve when the patient's lifestyle is improved and all exciting factors removed, then the problem must be of genetic origin, in DM, and can be compensated for. It may be a genetic defect in a single transmitter used by Disease Management, making it less efficient. If it were anything more serious than this, then the patient would not have survived beyond early childhood. Homeopathic medicines compensate for this particular weakness in DM, making it fully functional again, and able to use all its resources to eliminate all diseases. Correct management involves a cascade of activities in the body's control systems, according to instinctual memory instructions. NO Cancer drug will ever be effective unless it acts at the top of the hierarchy of the healing processes, because otherwise it will be acting against these processes.

Sayonara, those models above must have been too much for you. They're just models! Try this post: DISEASE MANAGEMENT (Instead of the Immune System, the term "Disease Management" (DM) will be used in this discussion because there is believed to be a centre in the Brain which works together with the immune system to manage diseases). The Healthy person's DM has the resources to heal all disease conditions, and do so even before symptoms present, with the person being completely unaware of the disease. In very rare circumstances, e.g., plague, the Healthy DM may become overwhelmed and symptoms present, temporarily. In this case, one remedy would likely be the the best choice for all those suffering, at least initially. (If complications occur in some of the patients, this is an indication of some weakness in DM.) For the vast majority of diseases, which would normally be easily conquered by the Healthy DM, the disease agent itself is very rarely the problem to be addressed, but only highlights the kind of weakness in the patient's DM. That is why the Homeopath "treats the patient, not the disease agent", i.e., he is targeting the fault in DM rather than the disease agent itself. So, the "disease" IS the fault in the patient's DM, not the "disease agent". When Hahnemann cured acute disease conditions, (i.e., where DM was overwhelmed or in a weakened state), he noted that there was often some other underlying weakness in the DM of certain patients. When such patients become infected with disease agents, due to an inherited condition, the disease is not properly managed and remains unresolved in the patient. Over the years, this inherited weakness causes the accumulation of unresolved diseases in the patient, who becomes a "chronic disease" patient. His condition usually declines over a period of years until death, unless he can be treated effectively. The chronic disease patient shows a symptom pattern which reveals the nature of the most prominent of these diseases, which the doctor then treats Homeopathically. When this disease resolves through the disappearance of many of its symptoms, the doctor re-evaluates the totality of symptoms, and chooses the most appropriate medicine for these symptoms. This process of re-evaluation is repeated until the patient has fully recovered. The treatment is like a "backing out", or reversal, of the accumulated diseases, one by one. Because the choice of medicine depends on "totality of symptoms", which guide the doctor to the choice of medicine, it is as though the Brain Centre which produces the symptoms, can only process one disease at a time, starting with the most serious. When this disease is cured, the next most serious disease presents itself through its symptom pattern. So, although there may be several diseases in the body, the Brain Centre only reveals the most serious one at any one time. The well-chosen Homeopathic medicine is guiding, or pushing, the body's own healing processes in the right way, compensating for the fault in the patient's DM. The result is COMPLETE healing, because the body already has the resources to resolve all disease. Normally, it is not possible to hurry the healing processes. But, Hahnemann found a way to accelerate the cure of chronic disease patients, so long as some skin symptom(s) remains visible (which is often the case in the chronic diseases he treated). He would simply give many more doses, and at more frequent intervals, of the well-chosen medicine and continue as long as the skin symptom(s) persists. So, the chronic diseases are not the result of an infective agent but are of genetic origin. In a healthy person, DM has no problems in maintaining homeostasis, promptly extinguishing any disease - a system which evolved into its almost perfect state over many millions of years. However, being perfect is not the rule of genetics - continuous genetic variation of individuals is essential for the species to adapt to environmental stresses, and many individuals are sacrificed for that overall goal. In all our cells are 40,000 genes, each having between 2 and 200 operational versions. The combination of genes we are dealt make us unique. The DNA of these genes is translated into proteins which make the 4 trillion cells of our bodies and define who we are. The variation of genes at each generation makes us all different in constitution; we are all genetic experiments to test our suitability to the world as it is today. This is measured by whether or not we pass our genes on to the next generation. People have chronic diseases of genetic origin because their "total genetic variations" have proceeded to a level at which some metabolic or physical process of the body, such as DM, is not fully functional, AND which cannot be fully compensated for by Homeostatic mechanisms. Such weaknesses or faults in DM are exposed by specific infectious agents, causing chronic diseases.

6). How It Was Done : Model 4 SYNERGY/SYNERGISM OF A SYSTEM OR MACHINE: "The Whole being greater than the sum of its parts (or exhibiting more properties than its components)" OR "refers to the effects achieved by a combination of two or more entities". We all have a TV set around us, virtually since the day we were born - just take it for granted. A TV is a good example of something with synergistic properties, as well as all electrical devices, machinery, vehicles. And, the more complicated they become, the more synergistic properties and manifestations they exhibit. Examples I have experienced: a. Machine room of a very Large IBM System/370 Mainframe: A remarkable experience. The control terminals chatting away to each other 24 hours/day; feel as if you are in the presence of an intelligent being. b. Certain HiFi Systems costing over £30,000 ($45,000). There comes a point at which a big leap in realism occurs in HiFi - true synergy from a combination of well chosen Source/Amp/Speakers. But it only happens when ALL THREE have the same very high level of specifications for what they do....if any of the three fall below par, this obvious leap in synergy, disappears completely. (But, how does it know at what level and when to appear?) c. Many high quality cars exhibit additional synergistic characteristics which are pleasing; that's why people pay the price. So, as a machine or system gets beyond a certain level of complexity, it begins to exhibit characteristics, and has a performance, not attributable to any of its individual components. Living creatures are very complicated machines, and our bodies certainly work synergistically to many levels. Such characteristics arise as a result of the extreme complexity of the brain, which then influences the activities in the rest of the body. I think Hahnemann's Vital Principle is one or a group of these synergistic manifestations...nothing spiritual or "immaterial" - though, in a sense, that is what synergy is...some things that mysteriously appear at certain levels of complexity. The "IMMATERIAL" VITAL FORCE: I think Hahnemann is referring to synergistic manifestations which have appeared in the body as a whole, as complexity increased. These are not "immaterial" in the sense of an unknown microscopic mechanism of action (physiology/biochemistry) of living tissues, but apply to the body as a whole. Above, I said that the Vital Principle may use (or be) synergistic properties that appear with complexity. Nature would not hesitate to make use of any properties at all, as we can see from the complexity of cell structure and higher control systems of the body - the results of a long and very competitive evolution. The ultimate example is the brain where, because of its complexity, we can predict the very highest levels of synergy...so much so that few could accept that the person they are talking to (and indeed themselves) is just a machine, evolved to a state in which they exhibit so many new synergistic properties that this has resulted in developments such as society, culture, art, the accumulation of knowledge, and total dominance of their world. In his many years of research, Hahnemann saw the Nature of disease, of the Body's behaviour in Health & Disease...noted a host of qualities and idiosyncrasies. He was seeing "characteristics of the whole" which appear in any complicated system or machine. ALBERT: " A man dies and something's gone; where was it? Not what was it; ... and every child can understand that something left at death." I don't believe anything leaves us when we die. LIKE a TV our brains work on electricity, and in "real-time" mode. UNLIKE a TV, if you switch the brain off for more than 3 minutes some irreversible damage is done to it (a disadvantage of a machine made from liquid). The brain dies quickly but the rest of the body lives on for much longer - dies regionally - the last parts dying after an hour or more. Amputated fingers or hands, or individual/groups of organs, if quickly put on ice, can remain viable for up to 8 hours or more. These tissues may appear dead very soon after death but this is only due to lack of muscle tone (lost neural input) and lost circulation. But I would say that "actual death" occurs at the moment when certain higher levels of synergy in the brain cease to exist (normally sustained by the physiological level and lower levels of synergy). The closest we can get to identifying the moment of death is to say that we die when our Brains die.

5). How it was done : Logical Model 3 As multicellular organisms became larger and their chemical control substances became more numerous and specific in their actions on the tissues, the need arose for an "alternative communication and control system" (ACCS) which is not constrained by chemical specificity nor physiological barriers. This system operates at a level totally different from the known physiological level, not "chemical" at all, but utilising an electrophysical property of the aqueous living environment. When toxic congestion occurs in living tissue during disease states, one of the difficulties physiological processes have, as well as knowing exactly where it is occurring, is actually penetrating the congested tissues enabling it to deal with the problem and restore Homeostasis. ACCS functions primarily to locate, identify, and manage problems of this nature. ACCS has a communication system which uses a type of signalling unlike anything of the known physiological. Since the system operates on this electrophysical property of the solution of living tissues, ACCS's signals are unrecognised at the physiological level of cellular processes, unless it is ACCS's intention to do so in directing activities at the physiological level. Many genes are proposed to be involved in making the components of ACCS. Some of these genes are expressed in all cells, in the form of specific biomolecular machines which operate effectively as transmitters at the level of this electrophysical property, constantly broadcasting signals within the range of the communication system used by ACCS; signals which reflect their functioning or Homeostatic status. These biomolecular machines also take part in physiological processes as well (e.g., "electric-motor" ATP synthase in the mitochondrial membrane) and the signal they transmit may be only an unintentional by-product of their mechanical activity...activity which alters in disease states. Other genes make the main components of ACCS. One type acts as a receiver of the "broadcasted" cellular signals. In total, ACCS behaves like a dynamic entity in living tissues, which moves about unrestrained in the body, carried on this electrophysical property of the aqueous environment, effectively searching for abnormal "broadcasts" indicating potential disease states. It actually occupies the whole body at all times, undetected, but residing in a latent state in the tissues which are healthy. ACCS evolved in parallel with known physiological/biochemical evolution, it's "dynamic" mobility (like a moving cloud, or induced state which appears spontaneously in tissues) suits it to the functions of locating, then directing the physiological level activities to resolve the developing disease conditions, and finally evolving to take over the responsibility of actually managing the resolution of disease states as soon as they appear at the physiological level. These managing activities were probably first associalted with physiological activities of the Brain. Although saying that ACCS is responsible for preventing all disease, its role is more as a manager, to direct and guide the physiological processes to bring about a resolution of disease situations. Hahnemann explained that if Homeopathic medicines are dissolved in water, then agitation would increase their potency. This suggests a type of (e.m.f.?) induction in the solution. In the living environment, this agitation is constantly maintained by the physiological processes themselves. In an area of altered agitation due to disease, ACCS is attracted, or it spontaneously appears in this tissue as an induced state in that region, a manifestation of a "dynamic" nature of ACCS. In his books, Hahnemann made some statements about this "dynamic" nature which caused a rift between Homeopathy and Medical Science. But his views were based on a lifetime of experimentation and application of his medical system. His beliefs were simply logically deduced from observations. From Hahnemann's perspective, ACCS was the target of his medicines because they mimic the signalling of the ACCS system and influence its behaviour. He considered ACCS to be the disease-handling centre of the body, and not a system operating at the physiological level, such as the Central Homeostatic Control and the Immune system. Hahnemann said that ACCS is well-equipped, and should detect all developing problems and deal with them before any disease symptoms are experienced by the patient. So, if any symptoms develop, ACCS is at fault for not detecting and dealing with the problem. Summary There is a control system, ACCS, operating in the body which manages and eliminates all disease conditions as they develop. It operates and communicates at the level of (or on), an electrophysiological property of the aqueous living environment, separate from normal physiological and biochemical activities. Although it operates at a separate level, it has points of contact with the physiological level where it exerts its influence on disease states. It is extremely mobile, so much so that it appears to be simultaneously present in the whole body. When ACCS first evolved, it probably first exerted its effects in the Brain, and then later extending its activities to the rest of the body. When disease conditions arise, cellular biomolecular machines "broadcast" changed signals which result in a "dynamic" build-up (or induction) of the components of ACCS in the affected region. ACCS has an instinctual memory of how to handle each particular disease condition, and instructs the physiological processes of these tissues to resolve disease.