But is there any medicine left at such dilutions ?

Detractors of homeopathy argue – smiling - that molecules of the raw substance must have completely disappeared beyond the 12th centesimal dilution, and thus that homeopathy limits itself to a placebo effect.

Let’s first remind that scientists in the beginning of the century had demonstrated that heavier than the air could not fly, that the human being would never tolerate going faster than 60 km/h, etc. So, the fact that modern sciences cannot explain a phenomenon does not mean the phenomenon does not exist.

Daily practice on patients shows unquestionably that high dilutions are active. They have also been proved to be highly active (even if, as in any physician-patient relation, placebo responses sometimes occur). Only people with very little knowledge of homeopathy can still talk about a placebo effect.

Anyways, it is obvious that the activity of homeopathic preparations – when recognised - is not induced by a chemical agent, but by specific physical properties of unknown nature.

Benveniste’s first works on the “memory of water” have led to numerous reactions, often unworthy of the scientific spirit. Michel Schiff’s “Censorship as part of the normal scientific process” highlights the fact that these works have been systematically denigrated. We have thus assisted to poor reproductions which did not report the effects described by Benveniste and avoided using his methodology… Recently, a second series of works on guinea pig hearts seems to validate the first researches, and confirms the electromagnetic nature of homeopathic preparations.

The future promises enthralling discoveries and enough data to keep generations of researchers occupied...

Are your medicines natural ?

The homeopathic remedy is diluted and dynamised until a solution with new properties is obtained. These new properties have nothing to do with the molecules of the initial component: it can thus not be defined as “natural” in the word’s general meaning.

For example, many people believe a plant treatment is more natural than a treatment by chemical drugs from the classical pharmacopoeia. It is probably wrong for several reasons. The first reason is that phytotherapy is fundamentally not very different from allopathy, as the patient is given a drug that can soothe the symptoms thanks to its toxic action on the organism. The second reason is that, under such conditions, it is probably safer to use a product with a thoroughly defined pharmacological action than to use plant extracts containing dozens of different substances, the properties of which are often unclear.