Preface | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Preparation of high dilution of drugs | p. 3 |
Sources of drugs | p. 3 |
Plant materials | p. 3 |
Animal substances | p. 3 |
Minerals and chemicals | p. 4 |
Other biological materials | p. 4 |
Proving of drugs | p. 4 |
Preparation of mother tinctures | p. 5 |
Potentization of drugs | p. 5 |
Succussion | p. 5 |
Trituration | p. 6 |
Conversion of solid potencies into liquid ones | p. 7 |
Preservation of remedies and pharmaceutical forms | p. 7 |
Summary | p. 8 |
Evidences for high dilution effects | p. 11 |
Clinical evidences | p. 11 |
Experimental evidences from animals | p. 14 |
Biological effects on mammals and birds | p. 15 |
Catalepsy model | p. 16 |
Oral route effective | p. 16 |
Dose response | p. 16 |
Righting reflex model | p. 17 |
Aqueous ethanol, the effective medium | p. 17 |
Biological effects on amphibians | p. 17 |
Young toads | p. 17 |
Adult toads | p. 18 |
Effects on chronic alcoholism | p. 18 |
Ethanol intake | p. 18 |
Ethanol-induced neuropathy | p. 20 |
Effects on parasitic diseases | p. 21 |
Electrophysiological studies | p. 23 |
Lateral hypothalamic neurons of cats | p. 24 |
Medial frontal cortex neurons of an awake rat | p. 25 |
Hypothalamic neuronal responses of alcoholic rats to Nux vomica | p. 26 |
Hypothalamic neuronal responses of rats on salty diet to Natrum mur | p. 27 |
Effects on synaptic transmission | p. 28 |
Experimental evidences from plants | p. 31 |
Effect on parasites and pathogens of plants | p. 32 |
Evidences from in vitro tests | p. 33 |
Boyd's in vitro experiment and other related experiments | p. 34 |
In vitro experiment on red blood cells | p. 36 |
Summary | p. 37 |
Physical basis of drugs at high dilutions | p. 39 |
NMR spectroscopy | p. 40 |
NMR spectra of homeopathic potencies | p. 46 |
Infra-red spectroscopy | p. 51 |
IR spectra of homeopathic potencies | p. 52 |
Fourier Transform spectroscopy | p. 54 |
Electronic spectroscopy | p. 55 |
Charge-transfer interaction | p. 59 |
Solvation and electronic spectra | p. 60 |
Electronic spectra of homeopathic potencies | p. 60 |
Spectrofluorometry | p. 65 |
Application of fluorescence spectroscopy to homeopathy | p. 66 |
Thermoluminiscence | p. 68 |
Molecular association and water structure | p. 68 |
Structure and dynamics of liquid water | p. 70 |
Transport phenomena in water | p. 72 |
Action of a homeopathic potency | p. 73 |
Water structure in presence of solutes | p. 73 |
Trituration and nano particles | p. 75 |
Aqueous ethanol as a medium | p. 76 |
Summary | p. 76 |
Mechanism of action of potentized drugs | p. 79 |
Lateralities and Homeopathy | p. 79 |
Time modalities and Homeopathy | p. 80 |
Similia principle and Homeopahty | p. 81 |
Non-linear systems and Homeopathy | p. 82 |
Miasms and their biological basis | p. 84 |
Polycrests, reappearance of past diseases and holism | p. 85 |
Action of drugs at ultra high dilutions | p. 86 |
Water as informational molecules | p. 86 |
Two components of a homeopathic potency | p. 87 |
Primary biomolecular target for a homeopathic potency | p. 88 |
The cell and the plasma membrane | p. 89 |
Membrane proteins | p. 90 |
Biomolecules in continuous water medium | p. 91 |
Aquaporins | p. 92 |
Distribution in animals | p. 93 |
Water Pump | p. 93 |
Aquaporins in plants | p. 94 |
Aquaporins in fungi and bacteria | p. 94 |
Structure of aquaporin | p. 95 |
Function of aquaporin: passage of water | p. 96 |
Regulation of function of aquaporin and disease | p. 96 |
Interaction between a potency and biomolecules | p. 98 |
Role of carbohydrates in recognition process | p. 101 |
Structured water and early life | p. 103 |
Summary | p. 104 |
References | p. 107 |
Subject Index | p. 121 |
Author Index | p. 127 |
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