Homeopathic Dilutions Definitions
Through this preparation, the ingredients go through a form of vigorous shaking, which may cause a reaction between the main ingredient and the water to create the remedy. The remedies are usually given in tablet form, though can also be taken as granules, creams, powders and so on.
Homeopathic remedies work in very dilute solutions. They are highly active or even poisonous substance. Diluting process helps prevent the side effects of the remedies. This process is called "potentization" or serial dilution. One part of a remedy is diluted with 99 parts distilled water or ethyl alcohol and then vigorously shaken. One part of this solution is diluted further with 99 parts distilled water or ethyl alcohol and then shaken again, and so forth.
Although the basic idea of homeopathy is similarity, its most controversial claim concerns the properties of ultra-molecular dilutions. Avogadro's Constant, the number of particles (atoms or molecules) in a gram mole of a substance, is of the order of . In homeopathic terminology, corresponds to a 23X or contain material traces of the original substance; those in high (ultra molecular) dilution are unlikely to do so.
Homeopathic dilutions definitions have a demonstrable effect on living organisms examined under laboratory conditions. Hahnemann believed that the more a medicine is diluted, the more effective and powerful it becomes. The process of the dilution is called potentisation and the medicines are referred to as potencies. Following on from the first principle, homeopaths believe that the more you dilute a substance, the more you increase its potency.
Hahnemann created the centesimal or "C scale", diluting a substance by a factor of 100 at each stage. A2C dilution requires a substance to be diluted to one part in one hundred, and then some of that diluted solution diluted by a further factor of one hundred.
Homeopathy claims to stimulate the body's own healing response to disease using highly diluted preparations. The effectiveness of homeopathic preparations is a hotly disputed topic within medical science.
A homeopathic remedy, by definition, is a natural substance that has been potentised by both dilution and succession. A remedy is not homeopathic unless it has undergone these two processes.
The potency of a remedy follows its name, as in Arnica Montana 6X or Arnica Montana 30C.
The potency signifies how many times the arnica tincture has been diluted and succussed. The X corresponds with the Roman numeral 10 C with the Roman numeral 100. Therefore, a remedy such as Arnica Montana 6X has been potentised 1 part mother tincture in 10 parts alcohol and water dilutant.
The more diluted and succussed a remedy is, the deeper it acts with more long lasting effects.