Thursday, December 16, 2010

IIT scientists proved that homeopathic medicines work on the principle of nanotechnology.

Mumbai: Six months after the British Medical Association rubbished homeopathy as witchcraft with no scientific basis, IIT scientists have said the sweet white pills work on the principle of nanotechnology. 

Homeopathic pills containing naturally occurring metals such as gold, copper and iron retain their potency even when diluted to a nanometre or one-billionth of a metre, states the IIT-Bombay research published in the latest issue of ‘Homeopathy’, a peer-reviewed journal from reputed medical publishing firm Elsevier. 

IIT-B’s chemical engineering department bought homeopathic pills from neighbourhood shops, prepared highly diluted solutions and checked these under powerful electron microscopes to find nanoparticles of the original metal. 

‘‘Certain highly diluted homeopathic remedies made from metals still contain measurable amounts of the starting material, even at extreme dilutions of 1 part in 10 raised to 400 parts (200C),’’ said Dr Jayesh Bellare from the scientific team. ‘Homeo pills get potent on dilution’ 

His student, Prashant Chikramane, presented the homeopathy paper titled, ‘Extreme homeopathic dilutions retain starting materials: A nanoparticulate perspective’, as part of his doctoral thesis. 

‘‘Homeopathy has been a conundrum for modern medicine. Its practitioners maintained that homeopathic pills got more potent on dilution, but they could never explain the mechanism scientifically enough for the modern scientists,’’ said Bellare. 

Homoeopathy faces controversies because of its high dilutions beyond Avogadro’s number such as 30c and 200c (1060 and 10400 respectively). This study has demonstrated the presence of nanoparticles of the starting materials and their aggregates even at extremely high dilutions, using market samples of metal-derived medicines from two reputable manufacturers in India. Researchers have demonstrated for the first time by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), electron diffraction and chemical analysis by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Atomic Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-AES), the presence of physical entities in these extreme dilutions. The confirmed presence of nanoparticles challenges current thinking about the role of dilutions in homoeopathic medicines. They have found that the concentrations reach a plateau at the 6c potency and beyond. Further they have shown that despite large differences in the degree of dilution from 6c to 200c, there were no major differences in the nature of the particles (shape and size) of the starting material and their absolute concentrations (in pg/ml). 

Source : Malathy Iyer | TNN
The Times Of India Delhi Date: Dec 16, 2010;Section: Front Page;1 
Reference: Prashant Satish Chikramane, Akkihebbal K. Suresh, Jayesh Ramesh Bellare, Shantaram Govind Kane., Extreme homeopathic dilutions retain starting materials: A nanoparticulate perspective, Homeopathy, Volume 99, Issue 4, October 2010, Pages 231-242

Chikramane PS, Suresh AK, Bellare JR, Kane SG (2010). Extreme homeopathic dilutions retain starting materials: a nanoparticulate perspective. Homeopathy 2010; 99: 231-242. Web: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WXX-518T4YP-3/2/6e6eb3920562d5d97e2a4671f0416546 
John A Ives, Wayne B Jonas and Joyce C Frye, Do serial dilutions really dilute? Guest Editorial Homeopathy 2010; 99: 231-242. 
Web: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WXX-518T4YP-2/2/dfec73836f07c62e6863aaaaa5feea08

22 comments:

  1. Did they measure other properties like beta spectrum reported in 1996?
    www.high-dilutions.net

    ReplyDelete
  2. this is really good for our beloved homoeopathy
    where the evidence based experiments done, by the help of nano technology..recently,BARC-scientists used the instrument-(spectroscopy)to measure the efficacy of homeopathic dilution-and its working conditions.we (doctors)are eagerly waiting for such a precious scientific work to promote hanimannian health system for benifit of mankind.
    dr.ravindra naidu.

    ReplyDelete
  3. this is really good for our beloved homoeopathy
    where the evidence based experiments done, by the help of nano technology..recently,BARC-scientists used the instrument-(spectroscopy)to measure the efficacy of homeopathic dilution-and its working conditions.we (doctors)are eagerly waiting for such a precious scientific work to promote hanimannian health system for benifit of mankind.
    dr.ravindra naidu.

    ReplyDelete
  4. this is too good for our homoeopaths.now we can give d ans to allopaths dat our medicine work not a humbug...

    ReplyDelete
  5. wow,its a wonderful and life live achievements our hardworking and curious scientist did it.They gave us the answer where we were speechless,unable to explain to others schools of practitioners.

    ReplyDelete
  6. really a happy news to see

    ReplyDelete
  7. Dr. sathish kumar said

    gud news... happy to here

    ReplyDelete
  8. THIS IS VERY GOOD NEWS FOR HOMOEOPATHIC DOCTERS I AM VERY PLEASED AFTER READ THIS NEWS ON NET




    Dr. Ajeet Pratap Verma

    ReplyDelete
  9. alhamdulillaah...truth always have a place to survive..

    ReplyDelete
  10. The gist of the article is that even in highly diluted form the homeopathic medicines retain nano particles of original base material. Kudos to this finding and its really something very great to be jubilant over.

    However one must know that this answers one link of the puzzle but not all as we know its not the crude material that works in Homeopathy and neither its the principle of Homeopathy.

    I would like to draw the attention of Homeopathic community here to my theory, "Varun's Theory" as many are still not aware of it, where I've provided scientific background to Homeopathy along with many many new discoveries in Homeopathy. Please do check out my blog, http://eyevarun.blogspot.com/ and http://varunstheory.com/ for more details.

    ReplyDelete
  11. very good news for homoeopaths to continue the research in homoeopathy and to prove our scientific medicine.

    ReplyDelete
  12. potency of a drug is measured using a biological system. what was the standard against which the potency was measured? potency at extreme dilutions in this case has been stated in dilutions only. What was the therapeutic efect and was it measurable in an actual system?

    ReplyDelete
  13. Thanks & congratulations to the IIT scientist for theier enseavour to prove a truth. Absence of any active ingredient in homoeo-medicines above 12th potency is the reason for skeptics’ denial of cures by such medicines and advancing placebo-cure hypothesis. Six months after the British Medical Association wrongly tried to wipe out Homoeopathy as witchcraft having no scientific basis. After publication of the work undertaken by IIT scientists ,that, Homeopathic pills containing naturally occurring metals such as gold, copper and iron retain their potency even when diluted to a nanometre .
    It is regrettable and now time is to condemn the ‘skeptics’ as they overlooked certain fundamental scientific researches and results. Already it has been demonstrated and observed repeatedly that both medicine and potency factors cause changes in the resonance frequencies of dielectric dispersion of the vehicle.

    Dr. Biswajit Basu,The Bengal Academy of Applied Homoeopathy

    ReplyDelete
  14. Thanks & congratulations to the IIT scientist for their endeavour to prove a truth. Absence of any active ingredient in homoeo-medicines above 12th potency is the reason for skeptics’ denial of cures by such medicines and advancing placebo-cure hypothesis. Six months after the British Medical Association wrongly tried to wipe out Homoeopathy as witchcraft having no scientific basis. After publication of the work undertaken by IIT scientists ,that, Homeopathic pills containing naturally occurring metals such as gold, copper and iron retain their potency even when diluted to a nanometre .
    It is regrettable and now time is to condemn the ‘skeptics’ as they overlooked certain fundamental scientific researches and results. Already it has been demonstrated and observed repeatedly that both medicine and potency factors cause changes in the resonance frequencies of dielectric dispersion of the vehicle.
    Dr. Biswajit Basu
    Hony Director,
    The Bengal Academy of Applied Homoeopathy.W.B , India

    ReplyDelete
  15. Thanks & congratulations to the IIT scientist for their endeavour to prove a truth. Absence of any active ingredient in homoeo-medicines above 12th potency is the reason for skeptics’ denial of cures by such medicines and advancing placebo-cure hypothesis. Six months after the British Medical Association wrongly tried to wipe out Homoeopathy as witchcraft having no scientific basis. After publication of the work undertaken by IIT scientists ,that, Homeopathic pills containing naturally occurring metals such as gold, copper and iron retain their potency even when diluted to a nanometre .
    It is regrettable and now time is to condemn the ‘skeptics’ as they overlooked certain fundamental scientific researches and results. Already it has been demonstrated and observed repeatedly that both medicine and potency factors cause changes in the resonance frequencies of dielectric dispersion of the vehicle.
    Dr. Biswajit Basu
    Hony Director,
    The Bengal Academy of Applied Homoeopathy.W.B , India

    ReplyDelete
  16. Thanks and lots of Congratulations.It so much exiting to Us as a Homeopath and very bad news for condemners.The whole conspiracy of modern system will fail and govt. have to do some milestone steps in growth and establishment of Homeopathy.

    ReplyDelete
  17. Thanks and lots of Congratulations.It so much exiting to Us as a Homeopath and very bad news for condemners.The whole conspiracy of modern system will fail and govt. have to do some milestone steps in growth and establishment of Homeopathy.

    Dr. Santosh Nath
    Rajasthan

    ReplyDelete
  18. well it is aremarkable worj

    ReplyDelete
  19. Bonjour,

    It seems that "only the matter is real!" Nanotech! Why noot "electronic interaction"? After all we are electron and proton, are we as human a nanotech like homoeomedicine after 12CH.
    Allopathy is molecular field including any nonotech, homoeopathy is on the waves or quatum physics..
    One suggestion to the team: check what has been done since 1996 www.high-dilutions.net and the "download". Bibliography is not inelegant!
    Rolland Conte

    ReplyDelete
  20. Its avery good news for all homoeopaths,and thanks for those people who proved the scientificity of our sustem

    ReplyDelete
  21. this is realy good for our homoeopathy.Now person of other field also easily understand about homoeopathy. This research will be publish in main news paper also --Dr abhishek dixit barra-2 kanpur 09307425582

    ReplyDelete
  22. pls read and give analysis a report came in RESONANCE journal for physics on octobar.

    ReplyDelete

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.