Making Homeopathic Remedies

The following article about homeopathic remedies is from Natural Animal Health, a web site in England devoted to alternative methods of treating animal health problems.

How Homoepathic Remedies Are Produced

The key thing in the preparation of homoepathic remedies is the dilution and, in the process, succession. If done correctly, the more dilute a remedy, the more potent and effective it is...

The substance to be made into a homeopathic remedy is first dissolved in a mixture of water and alcohol.

This is then known as the Mother Tincture. This tincture is further diluted according to one of two scales.

• Decimal scale (D or X) — one drop of Mother Tincture is added to 9 drops of water/alcohol mixture


• Centesimal scale (C) — one drop of Mother Tincture is added to 99 drops of water/alcohol mixture

Once diluted in this way, the mixture is shaken violently — this is the succession.

So if a Mother Tincture is diluted once in either of these ways it is known as the first potency — a 1D remedy on the decimal scale or a 1C remedy on the centesimal scale.

To produce the next dilution, the first potency is diluted again, in the same way, producing a 2D or 2C potency.

This dilution process is repeated again and again, creating homeopathic remedies typically between 6D and 30D; some are as much (or as little!) as 30C.

This is why a homeopathic remedy is safe and harmless even in "overdose."

Even remedies made from, say, arsenic are so diluted that no harm or side effects have ever been recorded. This, however, is also the bit that skeptics get their teeth into...

There Must Be Something In The Water!

The smallest amount of something in a solution is one molecule. In one drop of a solution there are only a certain number of these molecules.

When this solution is repeatedly diluted, there are fewer and fewer of the original molecules in each subsequent dilution.

There comes a point where there can be NO molecules of the original substance left in the liquid. This point is reached, and often exceeded, in many homeopathic dilutions!

So skeptics say that if there is not one single molecule of the substance left in the homeopathic remedy, how can it possibly be any good?

Well... no-one really knows.

It is said that the water retains some sort of memory or imprint of the original substance and indeed some research has shown that the water in this type of solution is "different" to that of "normal" water.

However as this is starting to border on the areas of Quantum Physics — a relatively new area of science where the laws of physics keep getting turned upside down — we will just leave it there!

Homeopathy has its skeptics, but it also has the weight of a great many eminent doctors, vets and other notable people behind it.

The very fact that many VETS (of all people! — apologies to vets everywhere) believe that homeopathic remedies work proves that the effect is not placebo, as could be said in the field of human treatment.

An animal, given a homeopathic remedy couldn't possibly get better because it believed it would.

Reprinted with permission from Natural Animal Health (opens new window)

Much of homeopathy is counter-intuitive. I hope you found this article on homeopathic remedies informative and useful in dispelling any doubts you had about this effective treatment method.

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