[Omeo33] Art 1206 - Compl Ther Med, 2011, 19 (3), 164-169

[Gino Santini]

The effect of extremely diluted agitated gibberellic acid (10e−30) on  
wheat stalk growth—A two researcher pilot study
Andrea Pfleger, Jürgen Hofäcker, Waltraud Scherer-Pongratz, Harald  
Lothaller, Christian Reich and Peter Christian Endler

Objective - Use of a wheat growth bio assay after 7 days in research  
on homeopathic dilutions of gibberellic acid.
Methods - Grains of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum, Capo variety)  
were observed under the influence of extremely diluted gibberellic  
acid (10−30) prepared by stepwise dilution and agitation according to  
a protocol derived from homeopathy (30×). Analogously prepared water  
was used for control. In a two centre study, 3 experiments with a  
total of 4880 grains were performed.
Results - Data were found to be rather homogeneous within the control  
group as well as within the verum group in general. Germination rates  
were around 95%, with no significant difference between verum and  
control group (p > 0.05). Mean stalk lengths (mm) were 40.63 ± 20.96  
for the verum and 44.33 ± 21.11 for the control group (mean ± S.D.)  
at grain level (N = 2440 per group) and ±5.33 and ±5.89, respectively  
at dish level (122 cohorts of 20 grains per treatment group). In other  
words, verum stalk length (91.65%) was 8.35% smaller than control  
stalk length (100%). This difference is statistically highly  
significant (p < 0.001) and was found by both researchers involved  
independently.
Conclusion - These results suggest that there was an influence of  
gibberellic acid 30× on wheat seedling development, i.e. the wheat  
growth bio assay can be a useful tool for further experiments on  
homeopathic dilutions of gibberellic acid.

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