Whether you support or oppose homeopathy, while commenting positively or negatively about it, you should always remember that scientific knowledge available to Dr Samuel Hahnemann was naturally very much primitive and limited during his period 250 years ago. Modern biochemistry and pharmacodynamics had not even started to evolve. Biomolecular mechanisms of disease, cure and drug actions were totally unknown to humanity. In such a situation, it is quite understandable that that Hahnemann used the philosophical concepts such as ‘vital force’ and ‘dynamic drug energy’ for explaining his observations and interpretations of the objective phenomena he observed regarding disease, cure and drug actions. In modern scientific perspective, these concepts being part of “theories” formulated by hahnemann are obviously unscientific and irrational. But when present day “hanemannians” stubbornly hesitate to update the theoretical system of homeopathy in this era of advanced scientific knowledge of modern life sciences, biochemistry and pharmacology, and talking about homeopathy using the same obsolete two century old concepts is simply foolish and ridiculous!
While criticizing homeopathy, scientific minded people should remember that it is not the ‘theories’ that work in nature, but the objective phenomena of nature that exist independant of our understanding. Theories are only our attempts to explain natural phenomena we experience, using the existing knowledge. Theories may be right or wrong. If they are found to be wrong or inappropriate later when acquiring better knowledge, we should modify or discard them, and formulate new theories. It is the essence of scientific method.
It is a well experienced fact that homeopathic cure is an objective natural phenomenon that really works, whether our existing theories about it are right or wrong! Scientific people should work upon it for evolving better theories in a way fitting to modern advanced scientific knowledge.
SIMILIMUM is actually a substance that contains certain chemical molecules that are conformationally SIMILAR to the pathogenic molecules that caused the molecular inhibitions existing in the patient we are dealing with. We can find out the similimum by different means depending upon the nature of the disease.
By observing and collecting diverse types of subjective and objective symptoms expressed by a patient, we homeopaths are actually trying to identify minutely the exact molecular targets that are affected, and the diverse types of pathological molecular errors that underlie the disease processes.
By trying to find out a drug substance that covers the totality of the symptoms in the patient, we are actually trying identify the drug molecules that are conformationally similar to the disease-causing molecules, so that that they are capable of competing to bind to same biological targets and produce similar molecular errors.
Molecular imprints of drug molecules that are conformationally similar to pathogenic molecules can bind to and deactivate those pathogenic molecules due to their conformational affinity, removing the pathological molecular inhibitions, and thereby curing the disease. This is the biological mechanism involved in homeopathic cure.
REDEFINING HOMEOPATHY 