Patient–practitioner–remedy (PPR) entanglement. Part 2: extending the metaphor for homeopathy using molecular quantum theory

Milgrom, LR

doi:10.1054/homp.2002.0070

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“…It was this situation that has led some researchers to postulate nonlocal mechanisms, [169][170][171][172][173][174][175][176][177][178][179] in line with Hahnemann's general way of theorizing. 180 Several of these models exist and vary in their degree of explicitness and general approach, and also in the way they include the remedy and the practitioner in the equation.…”

Section: Nonlocal Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on Homeopathy: State of the Art

Walach

Jonas²,

Ives³

et al. 2005

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

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In this paper, we review research on homeopathy from four perspectives, focusing on reviews and some landmark studies. These perspectives are laboratory studies, clinical trials, observational studies, and theoretical work. In laboratory models, numerous effects and anomalies have been reported. However, no single model has been sufficiently widely replicated. Instead, researchers have focused on ever-new models and experiments, leaving the picture of scattered anomalies without coherence. Basic research, trying to elucidate a purported difference between homeopathic remedies and control solutions has also produced some encouraging results, but again, series of independent replications are missing. While there are nearly 200 reports on clinical trials, few series have been conducted for single conditions. Some of these series document clinically useful effects and differences against placebo and some series do not. Observational research into uncontrolled homeopathic practice documents consistently strong therapeutic effects and sustained satisfaction in patients. We suggest that this scattered picture has to do with the fourth line of research: lack of a good theory. Some of the extant theoretical models are reviewed, including placebo, water structure, silica contamination, energy models, and entanglement models. It emerges that local models, suggesting some change in structure in the solvent, are far from convincing. The nonlocal models proposed would predict that it is impossible to nail down homeopathic effects with direct experimental testing and this places homeopathy in a scientific dilemma. We close with some suggestions for potentially fruitful research.

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Section: Nonlocal Modelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Research on Homeopathy: State of the Art

Walach

Jonas²,

Ives³

et al. 2005

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine

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“…We see this embodied in the equations describing how Vf responds to different drug dosages in figure 2. [7][8][9][10], so they could become similarly entangled in a correlated state, possibly represented in terms of one over-arching entangled-state wave-function, ΨVF(TOTAL) that describes the Vf of the whole system, e.g.,…”

Section: Wilder's Law Of Initial Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

“…are all complex numbers, and ψVf1, ψVf2, ψVf3….etc., represent the individual Vf 'wave functions' of the individual provers and those associated with them. Such entangled states are well-known from conventional quantum theory (and are the basis for research in quantum computing and quantum cryptography) [36] while they have also been postulated as existing between the patient, practitioner, and the remedy [7][8][9][10]. One could therefore envisage an overall coherent state, described by ΨVF(TOTAL), of which the individual provers and their associates are an entangled part, regardless of temporal or spatial separation.…”

Section: Wilder's Law Of Initial Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Finally, an important caveat needs mentioning. The Vf is a nonphysical entity and, although one could imagine a therapeutic 'state-space' (nominally similar to Hilbert space of orthodox quantum theory) as its 'domain' of action [7][8][9][10] it is by no means clear at this stage whether there could be said to exist a continuum with its own metric structure onto which the Vf can be mapped iso-morphically. A way out of this dilemma will have to be found in the future if there is to be any hope of being able to make formal calculations on the Vf.…”

Section: Wilder's Law Of Initial Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Walach has argued forcefully for such a shift of emphasis and has developed nonlocal models of homeopathy based on Jungian synchronicity and semiotics [21] and, most recently [1] from a more generalized version of quantum mechanics (that no longer restricts it to the domain of the microscopic), called Weak Quantum Theory (WQT) [22]. I have used a slightly different approach to nonlocality, complementarity, and entanglement in attempting to describe the homeopathic process [7][8][9][10]. Within the larger domain of complementary medicine, such a move away from purely biomedical explanations of the therapeutic process has long been argued [23][24].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Patient-Practitioner-Remedy (PPR) Entanglement, Part 7: A Gyroscopic Metaphor for the Vital Force and Its Use to Illustrate Some of the Empirical Laws of Homeopathy

Milgrom

2004

Complement Med Res

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Background: One of the principle obstacles to homeopathy’s general acceptance has been its perceived lack of sound theoretical basis within accepted deterministic bio-medical thought. This impasse might be circumvented if instead, appeal was made to the nondeterministic concepts of the physical sciences, e.g., quantum theory and its notions of entanglement, nonlocality, and uncertainty; Weak Quantum Theory (WQT) and Patient-Practitioner-Remedy (PPR) Entanglement representing two new complementary strands of thought with the potential to create a new theoretical basis for homeopathy. Objective: The goal of this present study was to generate a preliminary mathematical model of the action and reaction of the Vital Force to diseases and remedies within the developing contexts of WQT and PPR Entanglement, based on the metaphor of a hypothetical ‘quantized’ gyroscope as its physical representation. Methods: The physics of gyroscopic motion was combined with the quantum theory describing rotating objects (without some of its imposed limitations, e.g., Planck’s constant, in line with the relaxation of some of orthodox quantum theory’s axioms as proposed by WQT). Thus, increase or decrease in the rate of spin of the Vital Force’s hypothetical gyroscope was described in terms of quantized ‘shift operators’ constructed mathematically from the known ‘complementarity’ of a remedy’s primary and secondary symptoms, expressed in the notation of complex numbers. Ultimately, this generates a hypothetical ‘wave function’ for the Vital Force. Results: This hypothetical ‘wave function’ has been used to illustrate certain empirical observations of homeopathy and conventional medicine, e.g., the biphasal action of remedies encapsulated in the Arndt-Schulz Law, Wilder’s Law of Initial Value, and some of the results of homeopathic provings. Conclusion: This preliminary theoretical analysis suggests that perhaps these less well-known empirical observations should be reinvestigated and, if confirmed, could begin ultimately to provide a much-needed alternative to the doubleblind placebo-controlled trial as a means of investigating and testing the efficacy of homeopathy.

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Does a form of ‘entanglement’ between people explain healing? An examination of hypotheses and methodology

Hyland

2004

Complementary Therapies in Medicine

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Patient–practitioner–remedy (PPR) entanglement. Part 2: extending the metaphor for homeopathy using molecular quantum theory

Cited by 19 publications

References 12 publications

Research on Homeopathy: State of the Art

Research on Homeopathy: State of the Art

Patient-Practitioner-Remedy (PPR) Entanglement, Part 7: A Gyroscopic Metaphor for the Vital Force and Its Use to Illustrate Some of the Empirical Laws of Homeopathy

Does a form of ‘entanglement’ between people explain healing? An examination of hypotheses and methodology

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