[Omeo33] Art 0760 - Homeopathy, 2007, 96 (3), 189-195

[Gino Santini]

The silica hypothesis for homeopathy: physical chemistry
David J. Anick and John A. Ives

The 'silica hypothesis' is one of several frameworks that have been 
put forward to explain how homeopathic remedies, which often are 
diluted beyond the point where any of the original substance remains, 
might still be clinically effective. We describe here what the silica 
hypothesis says. From a physical chemistry viewpoint, we explore 
three challenges that the hypothesis would have to meet in order to 
explain homeopathy: thermodynamic stability of a large number of 
distinct structures, pattern initiation at low potencies, and pattern 
maintenance or gradual evolution at higher potencies. We juxtapose 
current knowledge about silicates with some of the conventional 
wisdom about homeopathic remedies, to see how well the latter might 
be a consequence of the former. We explore variants of the hypothesis 
including some speculations about mechanisms. We outline laboratory 
experiments that could help to decide it.

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