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“ശാസ്ത്രീയമായ ഗവേഷണ പഠനങ്ങൾവഴി നവീകരിക്കപ്പെട്ട ആധുനിക ഹോമിയോ ചികിത്സാരീതിയുടെ ഗുണഫലങ്ങൾ ജനങ്ങളെ പരിചയപ്പെടുത്തുന്നതിനായി ഹാനിമാൻ ജന്മവാർഷികത്തോടനുബന്ധിച്ച് Center for Research in Redefining Homeopathy (CRRH) “ശാസ്ത്രീയഹോമിയോപ്പതി അനുഭവിച്ചറിയുക” എന്ന 6 മാസം നീണ്ടുനിൽക്കുന്ന ഒരു സൗജന്യ ചികിത്സാ പദ്ധതി ആവിഷ്കരിച്ചിരിക്കുകയാണ്. ശ്രീകണ്ഠപുരം എം എം കോംപ്ലക്സിൽ പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്ന MIT SCIENTIFIC HOMEOPATHY CHAMBER എന്ന സ്ഥാപനം വഴിയാണ് ഈ പദ്ധതി നടപ്പിലാക്കുന്നത്. പഴകിയതോ താൽക്കാലികമോ ആയ എല്ലാവിധ ശാരീരിക-മാനസിക രോഗങ്ങൾക്കും, ജീവിതശൈലീരോഗങ്ങൾക്കും, ലൈംഗിക-വന്ധ്യതാ പ്രശ്നങ്ങൾക്കും, മദ്യ-മയക്കുമരുന്ന്-ലഹരി അടിമത്തത്തിനും പ്രത്യേകം തയാർചെയ്യപ്പെട്ട ഹോമിയോ ഔഷധങ്ങൾ ഉപയോഗിച്ച് വിദഗ്ധ ഡോക്ടർമാർ MIT PROTOCOL അനുസരിച്ചുള്ള ശാസ്ത്രീയ ഹോമിയോപ്പതി ചികിത്സ നൽകുന്നതാണ്. ഈ പദ്ധതി അനുസരിച്ച് കൺസൾട്ടേഷനും ഔഷധങ്ങളും പൂർണമായും സൗജന്യമായിരിക്കും. താൽപര്യമുള്ളവർ ഈ നോട്ടീസോ വാട്ട്സപ്പ് വഴി ലഭിച്ച ഈ മെസേജോ സഹിതം ശ്രീകണ്oപുരം എം എം കോപ്ലക്സിലുള്ള ഞങ്ങളുടെ സ്ഥാപനത്തിന്റെ കൗണ്ടറിൽ വന്ന് പേരും വ്യക്തിവിവരങ്ങളും നൽകിയാൽ സൌജന്യ ചികിത്സക്കായി രജിസ്റ്റർചെയ്ത് കാർഡ് വാങ്ങിക്കാവുന്നതാണ്. നേരിട്ടു വരാതെതന്നെ 9747320252 എന്ന ഫോൺ നമ്പറിൽ വിളിച്ച് പേർ രജിസ്റ്റർ ചെയ്യാവുന്നതുമാണ്.”

When you say NANOPARTICLES of elemental atoms contained in original drug substances are the ACTIVE PRINCIPLES of homeopathic potentized drugs, first of all you are bound to explain where from this unending supply of original substances come in even in minutest doses of preparations diluted much above avogadro limit or 12c, whereas it is well known to everybody that number of molecules in a sample of substance will be limited by avogadro number.

Remember, what the scientists of IIT-B said was only that they could “detect nanoparticles of elemental particles floating randomly in the 1% top layer of the solution”!

You are bound to explain how these “random particles” found to be floating on “top 1% layer” of solution could be the active principles of each and every drops and split drops of even the “bottom most layer” of drugs used by homeopaths!

Will you theorize using your “quantum science” that unlimited number of elemental particles are generated by the process of serial dilution and shaking involved in potentization?

When you say NANOPARTICLES of elemental atoms contained in original drug substances are the ACTIVE PRINCIPLES of homeopathic potentized drugs, you are bound to explain by what mechanism the complex chemical molecules contained in drug substances are converted into nanoparticles or “clusters of elemental atoms” by the simple process of serial dilution involved in the process of homeopathic potentization.

Do you think the strong co-valent bonds that hold atoms together in complex chemical molecules could be broken and atoms liberated by the simple mechanical energy applied during shaking or succussion? If so, can anybody be so ridiculous to imagine to split the simple water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen by shaking water taken in a bottle?

When you say NANOPARTICLES of elemental atoms you claim to have detected in some highly diluted samples subjected to spectroscopic studies are the ACTIVE PRINCIPLES of homeopathic potentized drugs, you are bound to explain how these simple elemental particles or their clusters can represent or reproduce the biological and medicinal properties of highly complex biological molecules such as proteins, enzymes, alkaloids, glycosides, cytokines, hormones, biological ligands, metabolites etc etc contained in the drug substances used to prepare potentized homeopathic drugs.

For example, the highly neurotoxic alkaloid STRYCHNINE contained in nux vomica is a chemical molecule with formula C21H22N2O2. BRUCINE is another alkaloid with chemical formula C23H26N2O4, and with different set of chemical and biological properties . Both of them contain only carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen, but in different numbers. Do you think these individual elemental atoms generated by division of strychnine can produce the neurotoxic biological effects of strychnine?

Do you think the individual hydrogen and oxygen atoms produced by division of water molecule can produce the chemical or biological properties of water?

Please understand, it is not merely the individual constituent elemental atoms that produce the biological properties of a chemical molecule, but their peculiar organization, spacial placement of atoms, energy levels, molecular conformation and a lot of other factors are involved in it.

It is utter foolishness to think that individual elemental particles or their clusters isolated from complex chemical molecules can represent or produce their highly complex biological or medicinal effects.

Please be careful not to forget these simple basic things while theorizing that nanoparticles of elemental atoms are the active principles of potentized homeopathic drugs.

We should study aphorisms of organon in the light of advanced knowledge provided by modern science.

What Dr Samuel Hahnemann taught us regarding “similarity of symptoms” two centuries ago should be understood in modern advanced scientific knowledge environment as “similarity of chemical molecules” that “compete” each other for binding to “similar” biological targets, that lead to “similar” molecular inhibitions or similar “displacements” and “similar” deviations in biochemical pathways, that are naturally expressed through “similar symptoms”.

Once you understand the real meaning and relevance of above explanation provided by MIT, you can realise how much scientific is “Similia Similibus Curentur” and HOMEOPATHY!

ORGANON- APHORISM 20:

“This Spirit like Power to alter mans state of health which lie hidden in the inner of medicines can in itself never be discovered by us by a mere effort of reason , it is only by experience of the phenomena it displays when acting on the state of health of man that we can become clearly Cognizant of it._”

MY COMMENT:

According to MIT view, it is not any “spirit like power”. The capacity of a medicinal substance to produce biological effects in living bodies lies in the structure and conformations of individual chemical molecules contained in it, by which they bind to various molecular targets inside the body and produce biomolecular inhibitions and cascading deviations in associated biochemical pathways, which are expressed through diverse trains of mental and physical symptoms.

ORGANON – APHORISM 21:

“How as it is deniable that the curative principle in medicines is not in itself perceptible , and as in pure experiments with medicines conducted by the mOst accurate observers, nothing can be observed that can constitute them medicines or remedies except that power of causing distinct alterations in the state of health of the human body, and particularly in that of healthy individual, and of exciting in him various definite morbid symptoms so it follows that when medicines act as remedies , they can only bring their curative property into play by means of this their power of altering mans state of health by the production of peculiar Symptoms and that therefore , We have only to rely on the Morbid phenomena which the medicines produces in the healthy body as the sole possible revelation of their in-dwelling curative power in order to learn what disease-producing power, and at the same time what disease-curing power, each individual medicines possess”.

MY COMMENT:

As per MIT VIEW based on modern scientific knowledge, therapeutic properties of a substance is determined by the chemical and conformations of individual constituent molecules contained in that particular substance. When applied on healthy individuals for drug proving, these chemical molecules bind to various biological molecules and produce molecular inhibitions in related biochemical pathways, which are expressed through diverse groups of mental and physical symptoms. When drug symptoms and disease symptoms are similar, it means the drug substance as well as disease substance contain similar chemical molecules with similar functional groups, by which they can compete each other to bind to similar molecular targets. It is this competitive relationship with disease substance that produce a therapeutic effect when drug substance is used as a medicinal agent in a disease condition. This is the biological mechanism of cure involved in similia Simmilibus Curentur
©Chandran Nambiar KCRedefining homeopathy

ORGANON- APHORISM 22:

“But as nothing is to be observed in disease that must be removed in order to change them into health besides the totaity of their signs and Symptoms, and likewise medicines can show nothing curative besides their tendency to produce morbid symptoms in healthy persons and to remove them in diseased persons , it follows, on the one hand, that medicines only become remedies and capable of annihilating disease, because the medicinal substances, by exciting certain artificial mOrbid state, removes and abrogates the symptoms alredy present, to wit the natural mOrbid state we Wish to Cure. On the Other hand, it follows that for the totality of the Symptoms of the disease to be cured, that Medicine must be sought  which (according as experience shall prove whether the mOrbid Symptoms are mOst readily , certainly and permenently removed and changed into helath by similar or opposite medicinal symptoms ) proved to have the greatest tendency to produce similar or opposite symptoms.”

This aphorism contains FOUR important statements.

Statement 1 in aphorism 22:

“Nothing is to be observed in disease that must be removed in order to change them into health besides the totality of their signs and symptoms”.

MY COMMMENTS:

In modern scientific perspective, hahnemann’s phrase  “totality of signs and symptoms” includes not only the “physical and mental symptoms” that we learn from our drug provings and read in our materia medica books, but a wider  whole of SUBJECTIVE and OBJECTIVE symptoms expressed by the patient. All the laboratory reports regarding pathophysiological biochemical changes  in the patient, all the radiological and endoscopic investigations, and every information collected by the physician with the help of advanced technological extensions of his sense organs belong to the class of OBJECTIVE symptoms. As such, what Hahnemann said in the statement quoted above is scientifically true and relevant even today.

Statement 2 in aphorism 22:

“Medicines can show nothing curative besides their tendecy to produce morbid symptoms in healthy persions and to remove them in diseased persons.”

MY COMMMENTS:

Actually, “morbid symptoms in healthy persions” produced by a drug substance represent the biomolecular inhibitions produced in various biochemical pathways by the individual chemical molecules contained in the particular drug substance. Since disease-causing and disease-curing properties of drug substance is determined by the chemical properties of those constituent molecules. If the symptoms produced by a drug substance is SIMILAR to the symptoms expressed in a particular disease condition, it means the drug molecules and disease-causing molecules have a COMPETITIVE relationship, which could be ustilzed for its therapeutic application as per the homeopathic law of SIMILIA SIMILIBUS CURENTUR.

Statement 3 in aphorism 22:

“Medicines become remedies and capable of annihilating disease, only because the medicinal substances, by exciting certain artificial morbid state, removes and abrogates the symptoms already present, to wit the natural morbid state we wish to cure.”

MY COMMMENTS:

“Medicines become remedies and capable of annihilating disease” only because the chemical molecules contained in it can compete with the disease-causing molecules having SIMILAR functional groups in binding to SIMILAR biological target molecules, which could be identified by comparing the drug symptoms and the symptoms of “natural morbid state we wish to cure.”

Statement 4 in aphorism 22:

“For the totality of the symptoms of the disease to be cured, that medicine must be sought  which is proved to have the greatest tendency to produce similar or opposite symptoms.”

MY COMMMENTS:

For the totality of the symptoms of the disease to be cured, that medicine must be sought  which is proved to have the greatest tendency to produce symptoms SIMILAR to the symptoms of disease we are dealing with, which means our drug substance contains some chemical molecules that are having a COMPETITIVE relationship with the disease-causing molecules in binding to similar biomolecular targets.

When I talk about “combinations of post-avogadro diluted drugs”, some “classical” friends come with the quesion whether these combinations are “proved”? One of them declared: “If the the symptoms of combination drugs are same as single drug in provings, then only we can accept this theory.. Without clinical proving of combination drugs how we can accept this theory sir.”

First of all, I am not bothered whether anybody “accepts” my suggestions or not. No compulsions at all. I have already explained my rationale regarding “combinations of post-avogadro diluted drugs”. If you are capable of understanding my rationale, and convinced about the the scientific wisdom underlying it, you can accept.

Asking for “proving” of “combinations of post-avogadro diluted drugs” by itself shows that they have not seen or understood my explanations regarding drug proving.

A drug substance could be “proved” only if it can act upon biological molecules and inhibit their normal interactions. Only then it can produce a state of “drug pathology” as well as “drug symptoms”. Inorder to act upon biological molecules and change their actions, drug substance should contain some “chemical” molecules. Most of the drug substances contain diverse types of chemical molecules having their own individual chemical properties. During drug proving, a drug substance interact with our biological molecules not as a singular entity, but the individual drug molecules contained in the drug substance act upon various biological targets by their individual chemical properties, and produce molecular inhibitions that are expressed through diverse groups of symptoms that we compile in our materia medica.

Dear friends, please understand, durg substances potentized above avogadro limit or 12c will not contain even a single drug molecule, if they were genuinely potentized.

Your idea of “proving” post avogadro diluted drugs actually originated from this lack of scientific understanding regarding how drug substances act upon the body and produce symptoms. If you are talking about some mysterious “dynamic energy” that works upon a spiritual “vital force”, sorry sir, I am not interested in discussing that nonsense again and again. I have already done it more than enough earlier.

According to my view, potentization involves a process of MOLECULAR IMPRINTING. Spacial conformations of drug molecules are imprinted as three dimensional nanocavities in the water-alcohol supramolecular matrices. Each individual chemical molecule contained in the drug substance undergoes molecular imprinting as an individual unit. As such, drugs potentized above 12c or avogadro limit will contain diverse types of molecular imprints representing the diverse types of chemical molecules contained in the original drug substance. These individual molecular Imprints are the ACTIVE PRINCIPLES of post avogadro diluted drugs we use in homeopathy. Molecular Imprints act as ARTIFICIAL BINDING POCKETS for pathogenic molecules by their conformtional affinities, deactivate them, and remove the Molecular inhibitions they have produced in the biological molecules. This is the biological mechanism of Homeopathic cure. Molecular imprints cannot interfere in the normal interactions between biological molecules and their natural ligands, and hence, cannot produce any molecular errors in normal vital processes. That is why I say post avogadro diluted drugs cannot produce any pathological conditions or produce any drug symptom. Obviously, idea of conducting drug proving using drugs potentized above post avogadro limit is simply RIDICULOUS!

When we combine post avogadro diluted drugs, we are actually adding more MOLECULAR IMPRINTS together. Since Molecular Imprints cannot interact each other, there is no harm in combining any number of potentized drugs. Individual Molecular Imprints will remain as such, and act only upon specific pathogenic molecules having conformational affinity when introduced into the body as therapeutic agents.

My scientific explanations of Homeopathy may not agree with your “classical” beliefs that evolved in the 200 year old primitive knowledge environment. Sorry for that. Either you update yourselves, or reject my ideas and remain eternally blind! It is your choice!

Arsenic Album or Arsenic Trioxide is a chemical substance that can inhibit more than 200 essential enzymes in our body involved in diverse types of biomolecular processes related with genetic transcription, metabolism, energy conversions etc etc. This is due to the ability of Arsenic ions to bind to the cysteine radicals which are part of active sites all enzymes. Almost every biochemical pathways in the living body are deranged by the action of arsenic. This is the reason why the homeopathic materia medica of arsenic album is so rich with symptoms associated with almost all organs and systems of the body.

Arsenic content may be high in people due to living in certain areas, consuming arsenic rich ground water, cigarette smoking, eating unpolished rice, prawns and crabs, exposure to arsenic containing environments, etc etc. Arsenic may enter the body through contaminated liquors, Chinese, Ayurvedic, unani or Herbal preparations, industrial exposures, chemically treated wooden furniture etc also. Arsenic content will naturally be high in aged people, as it has a tendency to accumulated in the body over years through exposures.

It is an already established fact that during viral infections, persons having high levels of arsenic in their body are prone to develop serious complications such as respiratory failure, acute myocardial degeneration, renal failures, liver failures, multiple organ failures etc faster than those having low arsenic levels.

Researchers working upon arsenic toxicity problems in certain arsenic affected countries have already proved that ARSENIC ALBUM 30 can antidote and reverse the chronic effects of arsenic toxicity, and remove the symptoms.

My suggestion to the experts involved in current pandemic research is that determination of arsenic levels in the body of covid patients should be made mandatory, so that high risk people could be identified and better care provided.

Arsenic Album 30 contains MOLECULAR IMPRINTS of arsenic trioxide molecules. Molecular imprints are three dimensional nanocavities formed in water-alcohol supra-molecular matrix through a host-guest interactions between templates and diluent medium during the process of homeopathic POTENTIZATION. Molecular imprints of arsenic trioxide contained in Arsenicum Album 30 can act as artificial binding pockets for arsenic ions and deactivate them, thereby removing the molecular inhibitions they have produced in the enzyme systems of the body.

By using Arsenicum Album 30 in sufficient quantities and frequencies to provide molecular imprints in optimum levels, it will be possible to prevent dangerous complications and multiple organ failures in patients affected with current pandemic, so as to prevent the chances of morbidities due to the disease. Complications and mortality rates could be definitely lowered by use of Arsenic Alb 30.

I don’t know how to get this very important message reach the right persons in right time, or how to convince the scientific basis of this approach described above.

A word to homeopaths : It is a nonsense idea that Arsenic album 30 will “boost immunity”. Arsenic Alb 30 will not contain any chemical molecules that can act as antigens to initiate production of antibodies and boost immune system. But it will surely prevent complications even if you get infected, if molecular imprints of arsenic is available in the body during the time of virus infection.

Homeopaths currently involved in distribution of Arsenicum Album 30 should realize the hard truth that the dosage you are giving now is actually of no use. 4 or 5 medicated sugar pills for 3-4 days you give now cannot provide the sufficient quantity of molecular imprints required to produce desired biological effects. To ensure optimum availability of molecular imprints, medicine should be used in drop doses at least twice a day until the epidemic threat is over. Please understand, it is not any mysterious “dynamic energy” or “vibrations” that work in our potentized drugs. It is “material” MOLECULAR IMPRINTS, that act as “artificial binding pockets” for pathogenic molecules, and deactivate them. As such, dosage and repetition should be appropriate to ensure this availability. I would suggest minimum 1 or 2 drops direct on tongue bds until epidemic is over.

There is a wild propaganda going on, claiming that homeopathy medicine ASPIDOSPERMA is the GENUS EPIDEMICUS of current pandemic, and people are desperately running from store to store to get a bottle of this “miracle drug” to save their dear ones gasping for oxygen. They also recommend the use of Vanadium as an “oxygen supplier”.

It is claimed that a few drops of “mother tincture” of aspidosperma given twice or thrice for a few days will relieve the breathlessness, and will be helpful in curing the disease.

Problem underlying this claim as well as the propaganda is that homeopaths fail to understand  the difference between MOLECULAR forms and MOLECULAR IMPRINTS forms of drugs.

They also fail to remember the primary lesson that if a drug is found to  be GENUS EPIDEMIC for a disease, it will be administered only in potencies above 12c, and it is NEVER used in mother tincture form.

Crude drugs, mother Tinctures, Potencies below 12c and biochemic TRITURATIONS are MOLECULAR forms of drugs, since they contain molecules of drug substances.

Potencies above 12c or Post-avogadro dilutions do not contain drug molecules, but MOLECULAR IMPRINTS only.

We must not forget the fact that drug symptoms provided in our materia medica actually constitute the list of symptoms that are generated in healthy persons by the use of these drugs in crude form.  Indiscriminate long-term use of mother tinctures containing plant enzymes, poisonous alkaloids, glycosides and various other phyto-chemical ingredients is an  unpardonable  crime even if it is done in the name of homeopathy. The chemical molecules contained in these tinctures might give temporary relief  by nutritional supplementation, or by competitive relationship towards pathological  molecules due to their  conformational similarity. But it is evident from their symptomatologies  that those chemical molecules are capable of creating dangerous pathological molecular inhibitions in various bio-chemic channels in the organism.

We should never forget that the subjective and objective symptoms provided in our materia medica were createdby the molecular errors happened in healthy individuals during drug proving.

Regarding ASPIDOSPERMA, even though homeopaths enthusiastically quote “It stimulates the respiratory centers and increases the oxygen in the blood” from Boericke materia Medica, they conveniently ignore the following statement in Clarke’s materia Medica: “Hale says ASPIDOSPERMA produces in animals respiratory paralysis, slowed heart, and paralysis of extremities.”

Even though it is said in materia Medica that VANADIUM is an “oxygen carrier”, please understand, it is only a chemical property of Vanadium in its molecular form. Vanadium potentized above 12c will not contain any single molecule of Vanadium, and hence, it is totally irrational to expect Vanadium in potentized form to act as an “oxygen supplier”. The widely quoted statement from materia Medica “it increases amount of hemoglobin, also combines its oxygen with toxines and destroys their virulence” is actually applicable to molecular forms of Vanadium only. Vanadium 30 will not contain even a single molecule of Vanadium, and hence, this property cannot be attributed to vanadium 30.

Same time, vanadium in Molecular form is highly toxic, and it is not at all safe to use Vanadium in 3x or potencies below 12c. It is now well known that molecular forms of VANADIUM is a competitive inhibitor of various enzymes such as ATPases, alkaline and acid phosphatases, and protein-phosphotyrosine phosphatases, and hence, very dangerous if given in Molecular form.

Molecular forms of drugs act by the chemical properties of constituent molecules, whereas MOLECULAR IMPRINTS forms of drugs act by the conformational properties of Molecular imprints.

Since Molecular imprints cannot interfere in the normal interactions between biological molecules and their natural ligands, Molecular imprints forms of drugs cannot produce any short term or long term adverse effects.

On the other hand, Molecular forms of drugs can interact with biological molecules and produce inhibitions, and may cause harmful adverse effects. Even though mother Tinctures are considered Homeopathy drugs, they are no way different from allopathy drugs, when considered in terms of their active principles as well as biological mechanism of actions.

We know, many homeopathic practioners prescribe plenty of mother tinctures, low potency preparations and biochemic TRITURATIONS. They consider it genuine homeopathy, as they manufactured by homeopathy drug companies, and bear the label Homeopathic Medicines. They ignore the fact that mother Tinctures are never prescribed according to similia principles, or on the basis of totality of symptoms.

Mother tinctures and other Molecular forms of drugs may relieve some of the symptoms, due to their allopathic actions. But they are not only un-homeopathic in actions, but chances of emerging new pathological conditions due to them is a reality.

Homeopaths should understand, it is ideal to treat patients using potencies above  12c, which do not contain any trace of the drug molecules of the original drug. If our selection of drug is correct, there is no any chance of failure in such a protocol.

Actually, mother tinctures will have to be considered as identical to Ayurveda, Allopathy or Herbal treatment. Those homeopaths who indulge in excessive use of mother tinctures, without bothering  about their constituent drug  molecules and their adverse long term impacts on the organism, are more hazardous to human health than our allopathic counterparts. I humbly request them to think over.

For example, from our materia medica works, it may be understoodthat most of  those people who had participated in proving of  Hydrastis Canadensis developed symptoms of gastric ulcer and hyperacidity along with many other deep seated pathological conditions. Doctors who administer large doses of Hydrastis Tincture to relive gastric symptoms as part of homoeopathic treatment should note this point . Of course, we may get temporary relief, by the way of competitive relationships with pathological molecules, due to conformational similarity of drug molecules and pathogenic molecules. Prolonged use of Hydrastis Tincture not only produce the symptoms mentioned in the materia medica,  but may even induce very serious genetic errors to happen. If  hydrastis is the similimum for the patient, it will be effective in high potencies. This is real homeopathy.

Please do not be provoked when I say that those who give Vanadium 3x for supplying oxygen,  Passiflora for inducing sleep, Rauwolfia for lowering blood pressure and Syzijium for high blood sugar in their tincture form, are not practicing ideal Homeopathy even if they may be well known homeopaths.

No homeopath with some common sense, who had carefully read the material medica of Alfalfa will dare to prescribe it as tonics to improve the appetite and general health of innocent children. It is evident from its symptomatology that Alfalfais capable of producing diabetes, bulimia, and upsetting the normal functioning of kidneys.

We should remember that there was no exact knowledge regarding the long term evil effects of many drugs, when many of them were proved and their materia medica prepared. There was least knowledge about the genetic disorders they were likely to produce. It is found in Boecricke Materiamedica that Arsenic Bromide Mother Tincture is indicated for Diebetes. No physician with scientific awareness will even think of prescribing it today. Who will now dare to prescribe Ars iod 3x, Iodum 3x, Sulphur Q, or various compounds of Mercury and Lead only because they are found in our text books of Materia Medica?

We know a lot of homeopaths who make their patients consume for prolonged periods, the mother tinctures of several drugs, including various patented combinations flooding the market in the name of Homeopathy. How can Homeopaths prescribe them without any prick of conscience? Those who love homoeopathy should take urgent initiative to prevent such tendencies either through awareness programs and campaigns, or through stringent legislational procedures.

Since crude drugs and mother tinctures contain drug molecules that can act upon biological molecules, they can also bind to various biological targets in the organism. Obviously, there is always chance for creation of new molecular inhibitions and drug-induced pathologies when we use crude drugs and mother tinctures. That is the draw back of using mother tinctures even if they are similimum.

Advantage of drugs potentized above 12c, also known as post-avogadro Dilutions,   is that they do not contain any drug molecule, but only molecular imprints, which are only supra-molecular clusters of water and alcohol molecules. They can act upon pathogenic molecules only, not upon biological molecules. As such, potentized drugs cannot do any further harm to organism.

That is why MIT says use of mother Tinctures and other Molecular forms of drugs cannot be considered genuine Homeopathy. To be genuinely homeopathic regarding active principles as well as biological mechanism of action, we should use only post-avogadro diluted drugs.

Many homeopaths recently suggest VANADIUM 30 as a remedy for oxygen deficiency in blood during the current Covid 19 pandemic. This suggestion is based on the statements in some homeopathic materia Medica works regarding the “oxygen carrier” capacity of vanadium.

First of all, let us see what is said in Boericke Materia Medica about Vanadium:

“Its action is that of an oxygen carrier and a catalyzer, hence its use in wasting diseases.  Increases amount of hemoglobin, also combines its oxygen with toxines and destroys their virulence. Also increases and stimulates phagocytes. A remedy in degenerative conditions of the liver and arteries.

Anorexia and symptoms of gastro intestinal irritation; albumen, casts and blood in urine. Tremors; vertigo; hysteria and melancholia; neuro-retinitis and blindness. Anaemia, emaciation. Cough dry, irritating and paroxysmal, sometimes with haemorrhages. Irritation of nose, eyes and throat. Tuberculosis, chronic rheumatism, diabetes.

Acts as a tonic to digestive function and in early tuberculosis. Arterio-sclerosis, sensation as if heart was compressed, as if blood had no room in the aorta. Anxious pressure on whole chest. Fatty heart. Degenerative states, has brain softening.  Atheroma of arteries of brain and liver.

Dose:  6-12 potency. The best form is Vanadiate of Soda, 2 mg daily, by mouth.”

Clarke’s Dictionary of Materia Medica says about Vanadium as follows : 

“Addison’s disease. Atheroma. Fatty degeneration. Innutrition.
Burnett  tells how he came to use Vanadium through reading the result of some experiments on animals in which the Salts of Vanadium produced “true cell destruction, the pigment escaping, the liver being hit hardest.”  Burnett had at the time a case of “fatty liver, atheroma of the arteries, much pain corresponding to the course of the basilar artery, large, deeply pigmented patches on forehead, profound adynamia.” Vanadium restored the patient, who was seventy, and at eighty he was “hale and hearty.” Marc Jousset tells of experiments with salts of Vanadium, chiefly the meta-vanadate of sodium, by Lyonnet and others.  Animals poisoned by intravenous injections rapidly develop Cheyne-Stokes respiration; with little or no action on circulation or blood. These observers gave Vanadates to two hundred patients suffering from tuberculosis, chlorosis, chronic rheumatism, neurasthenia etc, and produced in nearly all cases increased appetite, strength, and weight. The amount of urea was also increased. They regard Vanadium as “an energetic excitant of nutrition,” and probably an oxydent stimulating organic combustion. The dose was 2-5 mgr. in twenty-four hours, and only on three separate days in the week.”

Obviously, Boericke and Clarke were saying about the use of “2-5 mg of Sodium Vanadate daily”. Not Vanadium 30! It makes a big difference.

Sodium vanadate is the inorganic compound  with the chemical formula  Na3VO4·2H2O (sodium orthovanadate dihydrate). It is a colorless, water-soluble solid.

Vanadates exhibit a variety of biological activities, in part because they serve as structural mimics of PHOSPHATES. By this mimicking, it acts as a COMPETITIVE INHIBITOR of ATPases, alkaline and acid phosphatases, and protein-phosphotyrosine phosphatases. By this competitive relationship VANADIUM acts as a SIMILIMUM for many disease conditions involving inhibitions of ATPases by various endogenous or exogenous pathogenic molecules having phosphate functional groups or moieties. 

ATPases  adenylpyrophosphatase, ATP monophosphatase, triphosphatase, SV40 T-antigen, adenosine 5′-triphosphatase, ATP hydrolase, complex V (mitochondrial electron transport), (Ca2+ + Mg2+)-ATPase, HCO3−-ATPase, adenosine triphosphatase) etc are a class of enzymes that catalyze the decomposition of ATP into ADP and a free phosphate ion or the inverse reaction. This dephosphorylation reaction releases energy, which the enzyme (in most cases) harnesses to drive other chemical reactions that would not otherwise occur. This process is widely used in all known forms of life

Transmembrane ATPases import many of the metabolites necessary for cell metabolism and export toxins, wastes, and solutes that can hinder cellular processes.

All the symptoms described by Boericke and Clarke are actually due to this inhibitory actions of vanadites  upon the various enzymes listed above, which lead to blocking of all biological pathways associated with involvement of PHOSPHATES. 

Please understand, Vanadium potentized above 12c used in homeopathy will not contain even a single molecule or atom of Vanadium. It contains only MOLECULAR IMPRINTS of vanadium, and hence, will act just opposite to the actions of Molecular or crude forms of Vanadium.  These Molecular imprints actually act by removing the molecular inhibitions caused in the various enzymes by Vanadium or any other pathogenic molecules having functional groups similar to vanadites or phosphates.

 Obviously, Vanadium 30 will not supply oxygen to the tissues as some homeopaths wrongly believe, but may be useful in deactivating harmful reactive oxygen species or ROS generated in the body during the disease processes. 

Even though Boericke and Clarke talks about use of “Vanadium Vanadate 2-5 mg daily” for therapeutic purposes, as per advanced scientific knowledge, vanadium is not a safe substance for human consumption.

Vanadium excess can be toxic and detrimental to human health like any other metal. For instance, occupational inhalation exposure to vanadium was found to induce acute respiratory symptoms, DNA damage in blood cells of workers from a vanadium pentoxide factory, and altered neurobehavioral functions. In turn, environmental overexposures to vanadium oxides attached to fine particulate matter were associated with increased risk of respiratory symptoms in children, and a higher risk of cardiovascular and respiratory hospitalizations of older people. ilRecently, urinary vanadium concentrations during pregnancy were positively associated with impaired fetal growth and preterm or early-term delivery. Association between the high level of trace elements including vanadium in the drinking water and the increased thyroid cancer incidence was suggested. A suicidal death after ingestion of an undetermined amount of ammonium vanadate has also been reported. In addition, laboratory-based studies conducted in animal models or cell cultures found that vanadium exposure can induce a variety of toxic effects such as cardiovascular effects, vascular endothelial dysfunction and arterial hypertension, immune toxicity, damage to the spleen and thymus, neurotoxicity, hippocampal alterations and memory loss, developmental disturbances, increased embryolethality and skeletal defects, and pulmonary toxicity. It should be added that, besides the dose of vanadium and the route of vanadium exposure, many other factors such as the form of vanadium (inorganic versus organic forms) and interactions with other elements such as selenium or magnesium can also influence vanadium toxicity.

Along with the studies of the toxic effects of vanadium, many investigators have been focused on the examination of potential medical applications of this mineral. These include antidiabetic or insulin-mimetic actions, antiviral effects, and anticarcinogenic activity. Among these effects, the antidiabetic action of vanadium complexes with organic ligands has been very intensively studied, which entered into stage II clinical trials. However, due to kidney problems in some patients, this study as an antidiabetic agent could not progress to the next phase of research. Indeed, the risks associated with vanadium intoxication such as vanadium-induced reactive oxygen species generation, adverse effects on the immune system, and a risk of mutagenesis are listed among the arguments against the antidiabetic application of vanadium. Reviews of the results of past and recent human studies on vanadium in diabetes have concluded that the use of vanadium compounds in oral diabetes therapy is misplaced.

Vanadium occurs as a natural component of the earth crust in various minerals, coal, and crude oil, and is released to the environment mainly due to human activities. The unique chemical and physical features of vanadium compounds make it an indispensable material in many industries. Its compounds are frequently used in the production of steel and titanium-aluminum alloys, as catalysts in the sulfuric acid manufacture, and in the production of pigments, inks, and varnishes. The latest use of vanadium involves green technologies and the production of vanadium-based redox flow batteries, which can store electricity produced from renewable sources such as wind or sun.  The industrial use of vanadium is on the increase and so is the release of vanadium to the environment.  Vanadium is one of the elements listed on the second drinking water contaminant candidate list that was announced by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in 2005. This is a list of contaminants that are known or anticipated to occur in public water systems and may require future regulations. Vanadium was reported to contribute to soil pollution.  Heavy oil combustion contributes to the release of vanadium as a component adhering to fine particulate matter observed in large urban and industrial agglomerations. High groundwater concentrations of vanadium of natural geological sources have been noted in volcanic areas.  Vanadium excess can be toxic and detrimental to human health like any other metal. For instance, occupational inhalation exposure to vanadium was found to induce acute respiratory symptoms, DNA damage in blood cells of workers from a vanadium pentoxide factory, and altered neurobehavioral functions. In turn, environmental overexposures to vanadium oxides attached to fine particulate matter were associated with increased risk of respiratory symptoms in children, and a higher risk of cardiovascular and respiratory hospitalizations of older people. Recently, urinary vanadium concentrations during pregnancy were positively associated with impaired fetal growth and preterm or early-term delivery. Association between the high level of trace elements including vanadium in the drinking water and the increased thyroid cancer incidence was suggested. A suicidal death after ingestion of an undetermined amount of ammonium vanadate has also been reported. In addition, laboratory-based studies conducted in animal models or cell cultures found that vanadium exposure can induce a variety of toxic effects such as cardiovascular effects, vascular endothelial dysfunction and arterial hypertension, immune toxicity, damage to the spleen and thymus, neurotoxicity, hippocampal alterations and memory loss, developmental disturbances, increased embryolethality and skeletal defects, and pulmonary toxicity. It should be added that, besides the dose of vanadium and the route of vanadium exposure, many other factors such as the form of vanadium (inorganic versus organic forms) and interactions with other elements such as selenium or magnesium can also influence vanadium toxicity.

Along with the studies of the toxic effects of vanadium, many investigators have been focused on the examination of potential medical applications of this mineral. These include antidiabetic or insulin-mimetic actions, antiviral effects, and anticarcinogenic activity. Among these effects, the antidiabetic action of vanadium complexes with organic ligands has been very intensively studied, which entered into stage II clinical trials. However, due to kidney problems in some patients, this study as an antidiabetic agent could not progress to the next phase of research. Indeed, the risks associated with vanadium intoxication such as vanadium-induced reactive oxygen species generation, adverse effects on the immune system, and a risk of mutagenesis are listed among the arguments against the antidiabetic application of vanadium. Reviews of the results of past and recent human studies on vanadium in diabetes have concluded that the use of vanadium compounds in oral diabetes therapy is misplaced. Vanadium compounds have attracted interest of researchers as potential antitumor agents. Vanadium as vanadyl sulfate has been used by weight training athletes as a nutritional supplement that can increase muscle mass. The role of vanadium in muscle development has been emphasized to be associated with its insulin-mimetic properties and anabolic effects. So far, however, human studies have failed to demonstrate significant effects of vanadium on the body composition and performance enhancement, and the use of vanadium as a sport nutrition supplement is not recommended. Vanadium is also a well-known constituent of the most commercialized titanium alloy named Ti-6Al-4V, which has been widely used in the manufacture of biomedical implants such as artificial hip joints, knee joints, and dental implants due to its excellent physical and mechanical properties. Again, however, the potential cytotoxicity of vanadium limits the medical value of the Ti-6Al-4V alloy. Recently, for example, a case of systemic allergic dermatitis to vanadium has been reported in a patient following placement of a titanium alloy plate in the left foot. Summing up, due to the intensive use of vanadium in industry and the vanadium environmental pollution often related with it as well as the popularity of vanadium-based dietary supplements and medicinal applications of vanadium compounds, increasing numbers of humans are likely to experience the exposure to vanadium compounds in the near future.

Vanadium enters the human body via the gastrointestinal tract or respiratory system. In the bloodstream, transferrin is the major serum protein of vanadium transport from blood into tissues.  Other serum proteins, i.e., albumin, hemoglobin, and immunoglobulin, and low-molecular ligands, e.g., lactate and citrate, can be involved in the blood transport of vanadium as well. From the blood, vanadium is transferred to different tissues such as the liver, kidney, heart, spleen, brain, and bones. Final excretion of absorbed vanadium occurs through urine. In the human body, vanadium can exist in oxidation state +5 (vanadate ions) or +4 (vanadyl cations). Cellular uptake of vanadium species proceeds via receptor-mediated endocytosis of vanadium-laden proteins (transferrin, albumin), phosphate or sulfate ion channels, or membrane citrate transporters. Reductants, e.g., glutathione, ascorbic acid, or NADH, convert pentavalent vanadium to a tetravalent state, the latter being regarded as a predominant oxidation state of vanadium within the cell. Simultaneously, oxidants such as NAD+, O2, and O22- can oxidize vanadyl back to vanadate.

Metabolic detoxification of vanadium possibly involves reduction of vanadate to vanadyl by cellular reductants, and  complexation reactions during which vanadyl interacts with cellular agents such as reduced glutathione (GSH), an oxidized form of glutathione (GSSG), L-cysteine, and cystine forming stable, nonharmful complexes. In addition, vanadium accumulates in bones by replacing bone phosphate in apatite Ca5(PO4)OH with vanadate. The storage of vanadium in bones is also recognized as a potent detoxification mechanism of vanadium in animals.

In contrast to the aforementioned chelating compounds, ascorbic acid was suggested to be a very effective and safe pharmacologic agent for the treatment of vanadium toxicity in humans. Detoxification of vanadium by ascorbic acid mainly relies on ascorbic acid-mediated reduction of vanadate to vanadyl and its high capacity to scavenge reactive oxygen species. Furthermore, vanadyl was found to interact with oxidation products of ascorbic acid forming stable complexes, which may allow excretion of vanadium from the organism. In addition, the results of studies have shown that pyruvic acid could be another potential antidote for the treatment of vanadium toxicity. The studies showed that this alpha-keto acid protected against vanadium-induced oxidative stress and cytotoxicity in a cell culture model. The mechanism of protection probably involves antioxidative effects of pyruvate, especially its ability to neutralize hydrogen peroxide, but still more research is required to elucidate this issue. 

It is well known that many edible plants are the main source of natural compounds acting as exogenous antioxidants. Exogenous antioxidants cannot be produced in the body and therefore must be provided through daily nutrition. They reinforce our intrinsic antioxidant system in the protection of the organism against reactive oxygen species-mediated injuries. As shown below in this review, research studies indicate that vanadium toxicity, which is strongly associated with prooxidant mechanisms, can be efficiently reduced or alleviated by dietary and plant-derived antioxidants. 

Very early studies already explored the efficiency of vitamin C (ascorbic acid, ascorbate) in the prevention and treatment of vanadm toxicity, and found that vitamin C was effective against acute vanadate and vanadyl intoxication. 

Some studies focused on the role of vitamin E (α-tocopherol) in the treatment of vanadium toxicity, which provided in vivo evidence that vitamin E acetate decreased sodium metavanadate-induced oxidative stress and histopathological changes in the testes of rats. Furthermore, vitamin E was demonstrated to exhibit protective activity against sodium metavanadate-mediated neurotoxicity in rat pups. In this study, vitamin E increased performance in neurobehavioral tests,  and decreased reactive astrogliosis in brain tissue of vanadium-treated animals. Both vitamins C and E exhibited protective activity against vanadium pentoxide-induced genotoxicity measured using a micronucleus assay in mouse polychromatic erythrocytes.

In addition, polyphenolic compounds (and other phytochemicals) may prove beneficial for the treatment of vanadium toxicity. 
In conclusion, although the investigations cited in this review show that supplementation with dietary antioxidants has beneficial effects on vanadium poisoning.

First of all, let us see what is said in Boericke Materia Medica about Vanadium:

“Its action is that of an oxygen carrier and a catalyzer, hence its use in wasting diseases. 

Increases amount of hemoglobin, also combines its oxygen with toxines and destroys their virulence. Also increases and stimulates phagocytes. A remedy in degenerative conditions of the liver and arteries.

Anorexia and symptoms of gastro intestinal irritation; albumen, casts and blood in urine. Tremors; vertigo; hysteria and melancholia; neuro-retinitis and blindness. Anaemia, emaciation. Cough dry, irritating and paroxysmal, sometimes with haemorrhages. Irritation of nose, eyes and throat. Tuberculosis, chronic rheumatism, diabetes.
Acts as a tonic to digestive function and in early tuberculosis. Arterio-sclerosis, sensation as if heart was compressed, as if blood had no room in the aorta. Anxious pressure on whole chest. Fatty heart. Degenerative states, has brain softening.  Atheroma of arteries of brain and liver.

Dose:  6-12 potency. The best form is Vanadiate of Soda, 2 mg daily, by mouth.”

Clarke’s Dictionary of Materia Medica says about Vanadium as follows : 

“Addison’s disease. Atheroma. Fatty degeneration.

Innutrition.Burnett  tells how he came to use Vanadium through reading the result of some experiments on animals in which the Salts of Vanadium produced “true cell destruction, the pigment escaping, the liver being hit hardest.”  Burnett had at the time a case of “fatty liver, atheroma of the arteries, much pain corresponding to the course of the basilar artery, large, deeply pigmented patches on forehead, profound adynamia.” Vanadium restored the patient, who was seventy, and at eighty he was “hale and hearty.” Marc Jousset tells of experiments with salts of Vanadium, chiefly the meta-vanadate of sodium, by Lyonnet and others.  Animals poisoned by intravenous injections rapidly develop Cheyne-Stokes respiration; with little or no action on circulation or blood. These observers gave Vanadates to two hundred patients suffering from tuberculosis, chlorosis, chronic rheumatism, neurasthenia etc, and produced in nearly all cases increased appetite, strength, and weight. The amount of urea was also increased. They regard Vanadium as “an energetic excitant of nutrition,” and probably an oxydent stimulating organic combustion. The dose was 2-5 mgr. in twenty-four hours, and only on three separate days in the week.”

Obviously, Boericke and Clarke were saying about the use of “2-5 mg of Sodium Vanadate daily”. Not Vanadium 30! It makes a big difference.

Sodium vanadate is the inorganic compound  with the chemical formula  Na₃VO₄·2H₂O (sodium orthovanadate dihydrate). It is a colorless, water-soluble solid.

Vanadates exhibit a variety of biological activities, in part because they serve as structural mimics of PHOSPHATES. By this mimicking, it acts as a COMPETITIVE INHIBITOR of ATPases, alkaline and acid phosphatases, and protein-phosphotyrosine phosphatases. 

All the disease conditions described by Boericke and Clarke are actually due to this inhibitory actions of vanadites upon the various enzymes listed above, which lead to blocking of all biological pathways associated with PHOSPHATES. 

Please understand, Vanadium potentized above 12c used in homeopathy will not contain even a single molecule or atom of Vanadium. It contains only MOLECULAR IMPRINTS of vanadium, and hence, will act just opposite to the actions of Molecular or crude forms of Vanadium.  These Molecular imprints actually act by removing the molecular inhibitions caused in the various enzymes by Vanadium or any other pathogenic molecules having functional groups similar to vanadites or phosphates. Obviously, Vanadium 30 will not supply oxygen to the tissues as some homeopaths wrongly believe, but may be useful in deactivating harmful reactive oxygen species or ROS generated in the body during the disease processes. 

Even though Boericke and Clarke talks about use of “Vanadium Vanadate 2-5 mg daily” for therapeutic purposes, as per advanced scientific knowledge, vanadium is not a safe substance for human consumption.

Vanadium excess can be toxic and detrimental to human health like any other metal. For instance, occupational inhalation exposure to vanadium was found to induce acute respiratory symptoms, DNA damage in blood cells of workers from a vanadium pentoxide factory, and altered neurobehavioral functions. In turn, environmental overexposures to vanadium oxides attached to fine particulate matter were associated with increased risk of respiratory symptoms in children, and a higher risk of cardiovascular and respiratory hospitalizations of older people. ilRecently, urinary vanadium concentrations during pregnancy were positively associated with impaired fetal growth and preterm or early-term delivery.

Association between the high level of trace elements including vanadium in the drinking water and the increased thyroid cancer incidence was suggested. A suicidal death after ingestion of an undetermined amount of ammonium vanadate has also been reported. In addition, laboratory-based studies conducted in animal models or cell cultures found that vanadium exposure can induce a variety of toxic effects such as cardiovascular effects, vascular endothelial dysfunction and arterial hypertension, immune toxicity, damage to the spleen and thymus, neurotoxicity, hippocampal alterations and memory loss, developmental disturbances, increased embryolethality and skeletal defects, and pulmonary toxicity. It should be added that, besides the dose of vanadium and the route of vanadium exposure, many other factors such as the form of vanadium (inorganic versus organic forms) and interactions with other elements such as selenium or magnesium can also influence vanadium toxicity.

Along with the studies of the toxic effects of vanadium, many investigators have been focused on the examination of potential medical applications of this mineral. These include antidiabetic or insulin-mimetic actions, antiviral effects, and anticarcinogenic activity. Among these effects, the antidiabetic action of vanadium complexes with organic ligands has been very intensively studied, which entered into stage II clinical trials. However, due to kidney problems in some patients, this study as an antidiabetic agent could not progress to the next phase of research. Indeed, the risks associated with vanadium intoxication such as vanadium-induced reactive oxygen species generation, adverse effects on the immune system, and a risk of mutagenesis are listed among the arguments against the antidiabetic application of vanadium. Reviews of the results of past and recent human studies on vanadium in diabetes have concluded that the use of vanadium compounds in oral diabetes therapy is misplaced.

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