Homeopathic medicines - how does water remember the right substance for it's intended use and forget other...

Water doesn't remember any magic woo woo, it is a scam.

True homeopathic meds aren't placebos. They do cure diseases and conditions, it's just that they usually take a very long time to work, as they work with strengthening the body to heal itself instead of shutting off the body's defenses (antibiotics) and taking over. If I was a runner and wanted to run 10 miles for a fitness benefit, I wouldn't say, Oh, I'll just take the car and get there faster. Pharmaceuticals are like that. Now we have an entire society that wants its "quick fix" to get better within a few minutes of that first sniffle instead of working with our bodies through nutrients, supplements and homeopathic remedies to rid ourselves of allergies and like diseases and have them never come back. I would rather take homeopathics for six weeks and come out healthier that to take traditional medicine for three weeks and deal with a host of side effects that could haunt me for life.

This question is posed so frequently here, Chalice, and for anyone to challenge homeopathic remedies on that basis is just not pertinent to its use or efficacy.

I read "Scientific American" every month - not the articles on physics or chemistry, areas in which I have NO education. And there was one that caught my attention a few months ago stating that quantum physicists now believe that water does have "memory". So you can look it up and wade through that if you wish.

Samuel Hahemann who developed the remedies in the early 19th century didn't use the most dilute potencies until near the end of his life. Then he did declare that they could be more effective and longer-lasting than the ones he had used earlier in his practice.

Chalice and I "know" one another as we are frequent responders on the Cat section of Yahoo answers.

Some years ago I saw a documentary about a French scientist researching as to whether water has a memory. He concluded that it did. He was not related to homeopathy.

When you think of water you have to question what it is. It's chemical formula is one Hydrogen atom attached to two Oxygen atoms in a triangle shape. The most important part of an atom when it comes to chemical reactions is the electron which makes it possible for atoms to bond together to make molecules. What is often not taught in basic chemistry is that the electron is not so much a particle of matter as a field of energy surroundiing the atom. So the most important thing involved in chemical reactions is energy. The memory of water would therefore be encoded in the energy shells of the atom that we think of as electrons. If this sounds incredible think of radio waves and tv signals. They are different forms of energy that is decoded by you TV or radio for you to hear or listen. These are an example of information encoded in energy.

I don't think that the two esteemed scientific thinkers above have answered the correct question.

"ASSUMING that water does have a memory, HOW does it ONLY remember what the homeopath wants it to remember?"

What about all the other particles which have been dissolved in it? Where does the memory of all that stuff go?

Water has no such 'memory'. This has been proven in research conducted in the UK.

Homeopathy is about as effective as drinking a glass of tap water.

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It just doesn't remember, as simple as that. Here's a good article:

http://www.dailycommonsense.com/?p=29

I cannot get my head around the idea that the more you dilute something the more powerful its effects become - it is not scientific or logical. It appears to me that it is all down to the perception of the patient - if you think something will work - then it possibly might ( placebo effect)

Water molecules are, in fact, very tiny Bumblebees with prodigious memories. Humanity's greatest achievement is to have tapped into this mysterious source of power to cure bunions, small-pox, scrofula, leprosy, beri beri and halitosis just by drinking this stuff.

Don't ask any questions - just be grateful.

It doesn't remember, homeopathy is a scam.