“The  highest ideal of cure is rapid, gentle and permanent restoration of the  health, or removal and annihilation of the disease in its whole extent,  in the shortest, most reliable, and most harmless way, on easily  comprehensible principles.” 

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-- Samuel Hahnemann

From: An Open Letter From Concerned Physicians Regarding Antibiotic Resistance:

"Homeopathic medicine is a 200-year-old system of medicine used by an estimated 500 million people worldwide2. The system relies on medicines made from individual plants, animals and minerals that are serially diluted and vigorously agitated during the manufacturing process. Twelve independent research laboratories in North America, Russia, Europe and Asia have now confirmed that all classically-prepared homeopathic medicines studied contain various nanostructures, including source and silica nanoparticles which are heterogeneously dispersed in colloidal solution 3 4 5 6. The above mentioned laboratories and others have found that homeopathic medicines, like modern engineered nanoparticles, have been found to act by modulating biological function of the allostatic stress response network, including cytokines, oxidative stress and heat shock proteins 7,8. Additionally, there are hundreds of peer-reviewed studies including randomly controlled trials and large observational studies on individual cells, plants, animals and humans, that show homeopathic medicines are exceptionally safe and have measurable and positive biological and therapeutic effects9.

Reliable and extensive clinical and public health records have also been carefully examined internationally, looking for evidence of homeopathic medicine’s efficacy during some of the deadliest epidemics of the past 200 years. The main findings of this research show that when homeopathic medicine was employed during these deadly events, mortality rates were routinely very low. This constancy remained regardless of the homeopathic physician, time, place or type of epidemical disease, including diseases carrying a high mortality rate, such as cholera, smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid fever, yellow fever, influenza and pneumonia10.

Nanoscientists at 12 independent research labs have now consistently confirmed that all medicines studied contain various nanostructures, including source and silica nanoparticles which are heterogeneously dispersed in colloidal solution – making homeopathic medicine the first known form of nanomedicine. What’s more – we now know from recent discoveries in nanoscience that each remedy manufactured using traditional methods of trituration and vigorous agitation must in factcontain nanostructures."   To read this letter in its entirety click here.

"This  paper proposes a novel model for homeopathic remedy action on living  systems. Research indicates that homeopathic remedies (a) contain  measurable source and silica nanoparticles heterogeneously dispersed in  colloidal solution; (b) act by modulating biological function of the  allostatic stress response network (c) evoke biphasic actions on living  systems via organism-dependent adaptive and endogenously amplified  effects; (d) improve systemic resilience.

The  proposed active components of homeopathic remedies are nanoparticles of  source substance in water-based colloidal solution, not bulk-form  drugs. Nanoparticles have unique biological and physico-chemical  properties, including increased catalytic reactivity, protein and DNA  adsorption, bioavailability, dose-sparing, electromagnetic, and quantum  effects different from bulk-form materials. Trituration and/or liquid  succussions during classical remedy preparation create “top-down”  nanostructures. Plants can biosynthesize remedy-templated silica  nanostructures. Nanoparticles stimulate hormesis, a beneficial low-dose  adaptive response. Homeopathic remedies prescribed in low doses spaced  intermittently over time act as biological signals that stimulate the  organism’s allostatic biological stress response network, evoking  nonlinear modulatory, self-organizing change. Potential mechanisms  include time-dependent sensitization (TDS), a type of adaptive  plasticity/metaplasticity involving progressive amplification of host  responses, which reverse direction and oscillate at physiological  limits. To mobilize hormesis and TDS, the remedy must be appraised as a salient, but low level, novel threat, stressor, or homeostatic disruption for the whole organism.  Silica nanoparticles adsorb remedy source and amplify effects.  Properly-timed remedy dosing elicits disease-primed compensatory  reversal in direction of maladaptive dynamics of the allostatic network,  thus promoting resilience and recovery from disease.

Homeopathic  remedies are proposed as source nanoparticles that mobilize hormesis  and time-dependent sensitization via non-pharmacological effects on  specific biological adaptive and amplification mechanisms. The  nanoparticle nature of remedies would distinguish them from conventional  bulk drugs in structure, morphology, and functional properties.  Outcomes would depend upon the ability of the organism to respond to the  remedy as a novel stressor or heterotypic biological threat, initiating  reversals of cumulative, cross-adapted biological maladaptations  underlying disease in the allostatic stress response network. Systemic  resilience would improve. This model provides a foundation for  theory-driven research on the role of nanomaterials in living systems,  mechanisms of homeopathic remedy actions and translational uses in  nanomedicine."

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