Abstract
This paper attempts to propose a model, called the electrostatic model of homeopathy, to explain a mechanism for the physicochemical activities of highly diluted homeopathic
medicines (HMs). According to this proposed model, the source of HMs' action is dipole
orientations as electrostatic imprints of the original molecules carried by diluent
molecules (such as sugar molecules) or potentization-induced aqueous nanostructures.
The nanoscale domains' contact charging and dielectric hysteresis play critical roles
in the aqueous nanostructures' or sugar molecules' acquisition of the original molecules'
dipole orientations. The mechanical stress induced by dynamization (vigorous agitation
or trituration) is a crucial factor that facilitates these phenomena. After dynamization
is completed, the transferred charges revert to their previous positions but, due
to dielectric hysteresis, they leave a remnant polarization on the aqueous nanostructures
or sugar molecules' nanoscale domains. This causes some nanoscale domains of the aqueous
nanostructures or sugar molecules to obtain the original substance molecules' dipole
orientations. A highly diluted HM may have no molecule of the original substance,
but the aqueous nanostructures or sugar molecules may contain the original substance's
dipole orientations. Therefore, HMs can precisely aim at the biological targets of
the original substance molecules and electrostatically interact with them as mild
stimuli.
Keywords
homeopathy - mechanism - electrostatic - aqueous nanostructures
