Fwd: Water 'Memory' Key to Homeopathy?

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Water 'memory' key to homeopathy?

 

 

 

 

A chemist may have stumbled on to proof of the key to homeopathy -

that water retains a " memory " .

 

Homeopathy involves treatment with samples diluted many times until

they are unlikely to contain a single molecule of therapeutic

substance.

 

For this reason it is ridiculed by many scientists. But practitioners

maintain that the water in samples retains a " memory " of the

substances dissolved in it.

 

New Scientist magazine reported on a controversial experiment that

suggests the homeopathists may be right.

 

A paper soon to be published in the journal Physica A shows that even

when diluted to homeopathic levels, salt solutions change the

structure of hydrogen bonds in water.

 

Swiss chemist Louis Rey made the discovery while using a technique

called thermoluminescence to study molecular structure.

 

The technique involves bathing a chilled sample with radiation.

Warming up again causes the stored energy to be released as light in

a pattern that reflects the atomic structure of the sample.

 

Rey used the system to study the pattern of hydrogen bonds within

ice.

 

He used heavy water, containing the hydrogen isotope deuterium,

because it has stronger hydrogen bonds its normal counterpart. After

examining pure water samples, Rey looked at solutions of lithium

chloride and sodium chloride.

 

Each weakens water hydrogen bonds to a different extent, which is

reflected in their thermoluminescence patterns. Then Rey diluted the

samples to far beyond the point where any molecules of the original

substance could remain. The ultra-dilute lithium and sodium chloride

solutions were compared with pure water that had been through the

same process.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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