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PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATING MEDICINE 1/2008
FROM HOMEOPATHY TO
PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATING
MEDICINE: HIGHLIGHTS
Homeopathy, one of the inspiring back-
grounds of Physiological Regulating Medi-
cine, is founded on the “principle of simila-
rity” and bases its treatment strategies on
the use of correctly diluted and potentised
substances according to the indications of
the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia.
However, the concept of dilution seems to
contradict the conventional pharmaceuti-
cal principles. Nevertheless basic research
and clinical studies have proved the scien-
tific validity of homeopathy. The combina-
tion of those new homeopathic achieve-
ments, together with the realization of the
importanceof the delicate homeostatic me-
chanisms present in the human body has
brought to the model of the Physiological
Regulating Medicine. In particular, the the-
rapeutic use of cytokines, hormones and
neuropeptides, diluted and potentised ac-
cording to fundamental homeopathic prin-
ciples, offers new highly effective treatment
options.
With our approach, we can offer, as well as
an innovative treatment system, even more
importantly, a key to reading the complexi-
ties of biological phenomena.
HOMEOPATHY,
SIMILARITY CRITERION, DILUTION,
POTENTISATION, HOMEOPATHISED HOR-
MONES-CYTOKINES -NEUROPEPTIDES,
COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS,
PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATING MEDICINE
SUMMARY
KEY WORDS
Ricottini L.
31
Even if Homeopathy may seem to be
some kind of folklore, the Italian
Research Group took inspiration from
some of the principles of Classic
Homeopathy, later updated by Dr. H. -
H. Reckeweg (1905-1985) in his syn-
thesis on Homotoxicology, to develop a
new treatment strategy known as
Physiological Regulating Medicine
(PRM).
The Group’s work started 10 years ago
and was also inspired by the latest
Immunology and Neuroendocrinology
discoveries (PNEI).
In fact the work was founded principal-
ly on the intuition of the saxon Dr. C. F.
S. Hahnemann, the founder of
Homeopathy. But, as sometimes hap-
pens, the children outstripped the
father, and so PRM, based on homeo-
pathic ideas, is actually a completely
different thing. It is a physiological reg-
ulating method based on scientific evi-
dence and therefore a long way from
the visions, sometimes based on “faith”
of some classic homeopaths.
However, it seems important and cer-
tainly useful for understanding this new
method that we analyze the founda-
tions of the homeopathic thought on
which is part of its basis.
Speaking of Homeopathy today, that is,
the branch of medicine which treats
“like with like” (in ancient Greek, the
word omeòs means “like”), there seems
to be a kind of resonance with com-
monly used treatment methods.
We immediately think about anti-viral
or anti-allergy vaccines.
However, the use of vaccines is based
on the “principle of identity”, in other
words the cure is prepared using sub-
stances or materials which are the same
as those which can cause the illness
(aequalia aequalibus), thus establishing
a direct relationship between the patho-
genic agent and the therapeutic agent.
In Homeopathy, this principle of iden-
tity gives way to the principle called the
“criterion of similarity”. But it is the
second principle on which
Homeopathy is based which, for many,
is anomalous in the practice of medici-
ne: the use, for therapeutic treatment
purposes, of potentised and diluted sub-
stances – so diluted that often there is
no trace of them any more in the final
product. Inevitably, the use of such
medicines, which may not even contain
one molecule of the original substance,
forces the modern doctor to look at his
ideas on Pharmacology and to confront
a conceptual challenge: to identify a
possible mechanism of action in a
homeopathic medicine, taking into
account the clinical results and treat-
ment successes documented in a gro-
wing number of protocol studies
(Milani, 2002; Milani, 2008a).
In this respect, the effort made by the
Italian PRM Group is notable.
After long, careful analysis of the exist-
ing vast homeopathic/ homotoxicologi-
cal literature, the Advisory Committee
selected the publications which con-
form to the criteria and scientific meth-
ods currently adopted (Homeopathy:
LECTURE
4-Art. Ricottini:Art. Colombo 29-10-2008 9:06 Pagina 31
the scientific proofs of efficacy. Guna
Ed., Milano, 2002, 1st
edition). In the
light of what has been published it
seems inevitable that we should be
open to alternative hypotheses which
also touch on physical phenomena
since the effect of a homeopathic prod-
uct cannot reasonably be correlated
with mechanisms of a purely chemical
type.
In recent years, well-known researchers
and experts in the field of the exact sci-
ences have come out in support of the
idea that homeopathic medicine may
be effective, providing valuable con-
ceptual tools for the clinician.
In fact, it has been possible to establish
correlations with the new discoveries
about the chemical-physical properties
of water (Del Giudice and Preparata,
1998; Elia and Niccoli, 1999), the
applications of functional type elec-
trodynamic diagnostics (Bellavite and
Signorini, 1996) and finally the use of
substances, for treatment purposes,
obtained according to the principle of
similarity and strongly diluted (Bellavite
and Signorini, 1995).
These correlations seem to validate the
effectiveness of homeopathic medicine
and methods.
Let us analyze, so that we can re-read in
a “modern” light, the two cardinal
points of Homeopathy, which emerged
from experimental studies carried out
by the german Dr. C. F. Samuel
Hahnemann (1796):
- the principle of similarity
- the use of dilution.
The treatment of like with like is an
ancient principle existing in the history
of medicine right from its beginnings.
However, in homeopathic medicine,
the principle of similarity becomes the
theoretical nucleus of the entire treat-
ment concept. Initially derived from
empirical evidence, the principle of
similarity is now based on some experi-
mental evidence (Pennec and Aubin,
1984; Lazzarato et al., 2007) and,
although some of its aspects have still to
be investigated, the principle of simila-
rity seems to be a possible key to rea-
ding the complexity of biological phe-
nomena (Bellavite, 1998).
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PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATING MEDICINE 1/2008
Let’s start with the traditional concept,
expressed in Hahnemann’s own words
(Organon of Medicine) so that we can
understand better the idea of homeopa-
thic similarity:
“One imitates nature which sometimes
heals one chronic disturbance by
adding another and uses for the illness
that remedy which is able to provoke
another artificial illness as similar as pos-
sible to the one which it wants to cure
and which it is able to cure: similia simi-
libus” (Hahnemann, 1842). “Choosing
a remedy for a specific natural illness
which is able to produce a very similar
artificial illness, we can cure the more
obstinate illness” (ibid.). “Every single
case of illness is much more surely, radi-
cally, rapidly and definitively conquered
and cured when the medicine (which
treats it) can produce in a healthy orga-
nism in the most complete and similar
way the totality of its symptoms, which
at the same time are stronger than the
illness” (ibid.).
To sum up, we can condense the classic
formula of homeopathic similarity into
three points:
- Every biologically active substance,
whether it is a medicine or a toxin, a
mineral or a plant extract, or even a
bacterial product, produces some spe-
cific characteristic symptoms in the
body of a person who takes it (proving)
(Kent, 1991);
- Every sick person presents symptoms
which are peculiar to the particular
changes which have affected them (and
it is on these symptoms that we base the
diagnosis of a pathology), but also and
more importantly, symptoms which are
linked to the person’s own individual
reactivity and biological constitution
and which are therefore personal
symptoms;
- The recovery of a sick person may be
induced or encouraged by administering
a specific substance in the correct dilu-
tion (or with a high molecular dispersion
of the active component). This substance
can produce in a healthy person the same
symptoms present in the pathology.
From an analysis of these three points, it
is clear that the homeopathic Principle
of Similarity is founded on a similarity of
symptoms which is mainly subjective
and therefore not acceptable to conven-
tional medicine which generally tries to
take account of objective data.
In short, the choice of a medicine made
on the basis of individual symptoms
(even if they are specific) would seem to
be contradictory to the guidelines dicta-
ted by modern scientific medicine,
which looks for biochemical and mole-
cular confirmation. In reality this con-
tradiction is more apparent than real.
We can in fact, regard every symptom
as the clinical expression of a series of
underlying physiopathological and bio-
chemical changes. Craving, or the over-
whelming yearning for sweet foods,
especially in the evening, may depend
on a reduction in serotonin levels.
The desire for liquid, or thirst, can be
interpreted as a hypothalamic-pituitary
response to liquid depletion (profuse
sweating, diarrhea, blood loss etc.).
A high temperature is well known to be
a response by the heat regulation cen-
ters in the hypothalamus to the release,
activated by inflammation, of cytokines
by specific cells.
In good medical practice, however, it is
always the clinical symptom which
determines a request for blood analyses
or lab and other tests, never the con-
trary.
So if we analyze the problem from this
perspective, homeopathic medical
practice differs from the conventional
mainly in the integration of all the infor-
mation gathered from its own diagno-
stic procedures: the use of symptoms
and signs on the basis of the procedure
codified by Hahnemann could even
offer different (but not conflicting) levels
of comprehension of the pharmacologi-
cal properties of biologically active
compounds.
- Let’s see why.
According to the principle of similarity,
a substance capable of producing a
series of disturbances in a healthy, sen-
sitized body which manifest themselves
as symptoms or as changes of a physio-
logical type, could act on these same
symptoms, or on changes which can be
connected to them, when they are part
of a pathological picture.
This hypothesis can be rationally accep-
table if we consider that every substan-
ce, if it is capable of producing in a
healthy organism symptoms similar to
those produced by an illness, would in
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PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATING MEDICINE 1/2008
To summarize: the raw materials are
prepared by extracting the active com-
ponents, which is done after dissolving
in hydro-alcoholic mixtures or, if the
substance is insoluble, after a process of
pulverization and crushing in lactose
followed by dissolving in water and
alcohol.
The starting solutions for all dilutions of
homeopathic remedies are known as
Mother Tinctures and contain the maxi-
mum concentration of the active ingre-
dients.
They cannot be considered homeopa-
thic medicines.
The later dilutions, which constitute the
true homeopathic remedies, are always
submitted to succussion (vigorous agita-
tion or potentisation). According to
some authors, it is the succussion itself
which causes the physical phenomena
which give the homeopathic solution its
particular properties (Elia et al., 2005).
These researchers base their hypothesis
on laboratory experiments conducted
on water using tried and trusted techni-
cal methods. These experiments have
shown that new chemical-physical pro-
perties arise in the water when it is used
as a solvent in a homeopathic dilution
(Elia and Niccoli, 1999) and subse-
quently vigorously agitated.
The new properties of the “homeopa-
thic” water can be explained by hypo-
thesizing the presence of dissipatory
structures in it, which have formed
spontaneously. Inside a dissipatory
system, that is, one which can give out
all of its internally produced energy
(Prigogine, 1980), there is a network of
“coherent dominions” or areas in which
all the molecules move in set phases,
setting in motion a chemical interaction
channel which is much faster than the
diffuse channels in which the molecules
meet through chance movements
(Del Giudice and Preparata, 1998).
Inside the water constituting the living
matter, dominions of coherence can be
observed and biological water posses-
ses the property called coherence.
The experiments referred to allow us to
hypothesize that the potentised water
too possesses the same properties of
coherence, suggesting a possible link
between chemical and electromagnetic
phenomena.
But let’s go back to the preparation of
homeopathic medicine (French
Pharmacopeia 10th
edition; HAB 2000).
Homeopathic dilutions can be prepared
in different strengths: Decimal scales (X)
when one part of the concentrated tinc-
ture is diluted with 9 parts of solvent;
hundredths scales (C) when one part of
the concentrated solution is diluted
with 99 parts of solvent.
There are also other dilution scales
whose preparation is particularly com-
plex.
Homeopathic potencies can be identi-
fied according to the following dilution
bands (see FIG. 1):
- Low potencies: prepared using the
decimal scale between 2X and 8X or,
on the hundredths scale, between 1C
and 4C. It is calculated that this low
level of dilution has molecular concen-
trations of potentially active agents bet-
ween 10-5
e 10-12
(Linde et al., 1997)
depending also on the concentration of
the original extract.
- Medium potencies (medium dilu-
tions): prepared on the decimal scale
between 9X and 23X or, on the hun-
dredths scale between 5C and 11C.
They are highly diluted preparations,
but in theory, contain at least some
molecules.
- High potencies (high or very high dilu-
some way “touch” those same
(or similar) homeodynamic regulating
systems which are activated (and even
altered) when the illness starts.
On the basis of the Principle of the
Inversion of Effects, scientifically called
hormesis (in Milani, 2008b), one would
expect that the homeodynamic system
altered by the illness would respond to
the same substance in the opposite way
(always in relation to the state of sensi-
tization and responsiveness of the
system and according to the doses
used), encouraging the healing process
in this way (Calabrese, 2001; Calabrese,
2005).
It is worth briefly mentioning this prin-
ciple, which rules biological response.
Arndt and Shultz, when working on
yeasts, observed that various types of
toxic substances (iodine, bromide, mer-
curic chloride, arsenic acid, etc.) had a
stimulating effect on metabolism if
administered at low doses and, on the
contrary, an inhibitory effect if admini-
stered at high doses.
This observation led to the formulation
of the Principle of the Inversion of
Effects which can be applied to all bio-
logical systems including that of
humans. Weak stimuli provoke biologi-
cal activity, strong stimuli suppress it.
In other words, the effect of a certain
substance changes diametrically accor-
ding to whether it is used in heavy or
infinitesimal doses.
On this subject, before turning to some
experiments relating to the above prin-
ciple, it would seem opportune to look
at the question of homeopathic dilu-
tion/potentisation (“potencies”) which
covers a wide range of concentrations
in molecular terms. The widespread
opinion that homeopathic remedies are
always simply “plain water” because
they contain no molecules of the origi-
nal substance is not correct.
In reality, some of the homeopathic
medicines contain molecular quantities
of the active components, even if in low
to extremely low concentrations.
The techniques for preparing the diffe-
rent types of remedies are codified in
detail by the different Pharmacopeias,
the most important of which are the
French and German ones.
FIG. 1
4-Art. Ricottini:Art. Colombo 29-10-2008 9:06 Pagina 33
tions): prepared on the decimal scale at
over 24X or over 12C on the hundredths
scale. They are preparations in which
the dilution exceeds the Avogadro num-
ber and they do not contain any mole-
cules of the original preparation.
As one of the main topics of argument
in homeopathic theory is about the pos-
sibility that pharmacological properties
may exist in the absence of molecules,
the subject of high homeopathic dilu-
tions is connected to the subjects of
water biophysics and electromagnetism
of which we have already spoken (Del
Giudice et al., 2007; Elia and Napoli,
2007). We could hypothesize that a
highly diluted medicine (containing litt-
le or none of the original solution) pos-
sesses high information content capa-
ble, in the particular conditions where
the system is sensitised, of forming a
kind of orientation towards therapeutic
reorganization (Bellavite, 1998).
This view of a medicine as a “catalyst”
PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATING MEDICINE 1/2008
for reorganization means that we can
look at the illness itself in a new way.
It would be (at least in the initial stages)
like a disturbance in a series of electro-
magnetic communications between
molecules making up tissues, nerve
centers and organs. These, in the final
analysis, are biological structures made
up of elements oscillating at coherent
and specific frequencies and therefore
capable of resonance. Up to now the
working hypotheses of researchers
in the different branches of scientific
knowledge (chemistry, physics, biology)
have been based on looking for an
explanation for the growing number of
observed “facts”.
These facts are the good clinical results
obtained by doctors who are expert in
Homeopathy, even though not always
in randomized studies.
These facts are also all the laboratory
experiments carried out to validate the
hypothesis of a possible biological
effect of homeopathic preparations.
One among many is the experiment of
Conney and Burns (Conney and Burns,
1963) (FIG. 2). The two English scientists
carried out particularly interesting expe-
riments on rats. The laboratory animals
were given intraperitoneal injections of
massive doses of methylcholanthrene,
an azulene dye with strong hepatocarci-
nogenic properties (similar experiments
can be conducted using CCl4).
The rats rapidly developed degenerative
pathology of the liver. At a second stage
the same animals were given decrea-
sing doses of methylcholanthrene until
they reached a homeopathic concentra-
tion of 3X-4X (10-3
-10-4
).
At this point the degeneration was seen
to regress.
The hypothesis, based on the Arndt-Shultz
law of inverse effect, is that the infinitesi-
mal doses of methylcholanthrene could
have stimulated the synthesis of a specific
anti-toxin enzyme (N-dimethylamino-oxi-
dase) in the hepatocytes capable of neu-
tralizing the methylcholanthrene molecu-
les.
The scientists observed also that the antito-
xin-specific enzymes were not only active
against the methylcholanthrene which had
induced them but also towards all the azo-
dyes, that is, towards the “poisons” similar
to methylcholanthrene capable of indu-
cing degenerative damage to the hepa-
tocytes (criterion of similarity).
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FIG. 2
FIG. 3
4-Art. Ricottini:Art. Colombo 29-10-2008 9:06 Pagina 34
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PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATING MEDICINE 1/2008
Another significant experiment is that
on beta-galactosidase (Wallenfels and
Weil, 1972) (FIG. 3).
Beta-galactosidase is a hydrolytic
enzyme which is a catalyst for hydroly-
sis of terminal residues of β - D - galac-
tose in well-known polysaccharides like
β-galactosidase, through breaking the
β-glycosidase terminal links.
Beta-galactosidase plays a further
important role in the story of molecular
biology in that the E. coli bacteria gene
which codifies for this enzyme, called
LacZ, was the first example studied in
detail of the regulation of genetic
expression of which it constitutes a clas-
sic model (Kuby and Lardy, 1953). In
fact this gene is part of a body of genes
regulated in a coordinated way (oper-
one lac), whose expression depends on
the presence or absence of lactose and
on other sources of energy involved in
growth.
Beta-galactosidase synthesis is therefore
induced by the substratum of the reac-
tion, i.e. the lactose.
It is known that lactose is a dimer
formed by one molecule of galactose
and one of glucose joined together by a
β-glycoside link.
The lactose dimer as such, cannot be
used by the organism.
The β-galactosidase is indispensable for
hydrolyzing the β-glycoside link and
liberating the glucose and galactose so
that the organism can make use of the
valuable glucose.
Wallenfels and Weil’s experiment
showed that if galactose-glycerin (a mol-
ecule quite similar to lactose although
formed of galactose and glycerin instead
of glucose) and not lactose itself was
used in the experimental system (E. coli
culture), a strange phenomenon was
noted: the speed of the reaction increas-
es because of greater induction of the β-
galactosidase (Principle of Similarity) and
it increases more when the galactose-
glycerin is diluted more
(Principle of Inverse Effect).
An enzyme induction effect is
seen starting from a concen-
tration of 1:10.000, that is...
the homeopathic 4X dilution.
It is surprising to note that the
same induction effects are
observed in concentration Ms
of 10-20 molecules of galac-
tose-glycerin for every incu-
bating E. coli cell, that is dilutions of
about 22X-23X.
- In the light of the above, it was possi-
ble to develop a therapeutic system
founded on the use of substances with
a biological action, such as cytokines,
hormones and neurotransmitters in a
homeopathic form.
We know that these substances, which
are produced in our body, can be con-
sidered the indispensable “phonemes”
for structuring intercellular language,
that is, they are capable of transmitting
information between groups of cells
belonging to different tissues working in
synergy. Cytokines, hormones and neu-
rotransmitters, correctly diluted and
potentised, become active, probably
through a mechanism of sensitization,
on the corresponding cellular receptors,
not with steric type properties, but
rather using an “information” system.
The result of the action of these medici-
nes is a physiological modulation of the
cell’s activity, when this is inhibited or
disturbed by endogenous or exogenous
stressors which are too aggressive, and
restoration of the capacities for cellular
self-regulation which are indispensable
for maintaining homeostasis.
- In conclusion, it is possible to consider
Homeopathy as the basis of a real
Physiological Regulating Medicine, in
that a purely biological therapeutic
system is founded on the homeopathic
principles of similarity and
dilution/potentisation.
This therapeutic system supports and
assists the self-regulation typical of
living matter, acting on the modulation
of the delicate mechanisms which con-
trol the neuro- endocrino-immunology
network (FIG. 4). I
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Author's address
Dr. Lucilla Ricottini, MD
- Specilist in Paediatrics
Via Eutropio, 33
I - 00136 Roma
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De la Homeopatía a la Medicina de Regulación Fisiológica (2)

  • 1. PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATING MEDICINE 1/2008 FROM HOMEOPATHY TO PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATING MEDICINE: HIGHLIGHTS Homeopathy, one of the inspiring back- grounds of Physiological Regulating Medi- cine, is founded on the “principle of simila- rity” and bases its treatment strategies on the use of correctly diluted and potentised substances according to the indications of the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia. However, the concept of dilution seems to contradict the conventional pharmaceuti- cal principles. Nevertheless basic research and clinical studies have proved the scien- tific validity of homeopathy. The combina- tion of those new homeopathic achieve- ments, together with the realization of the importanceof the delicate homeostatic me- chanisms present in the human body has brought to the model of the Physiological Regulating Medicine. In particular, the the- rapeutic use of cytokines, hormones and neuropeptides, diluted and potentised ac- cording to fundamental homeopathic prin- ciples, offers new highly effective treatment options. With our approach, we can offer, as well as an innovative treatment system, even more importantly, a key to reading the complexi- ties of biological phenomena. HOMEOPATHY, SIMILARITY CRITERION, DILUTION, POTENTISATION, HOMEOPATHISED HOR- MONES-CYTOKINES -NEUROPEPTIDES, COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS, PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATING MEDICINE SUMMARY KEY WORDS Ricottini L. 31 Even if Homeopathy may seem to be some kind of folklore, the Italian Research Group took inspiration from some of the principles of Classic Homeopathy, later updated by Dr. H. - H. Reckeweg (1905-1985) in his syn- thesis on Homotoxicology, to develop a new treatment strategy known as Physiological Regulating Medicine (PRM). The Group’s work started 10 years ago and was also inspired by the latest Immunology and Neuroendocrinology discoveries (PNEI). In fact the work was founded principal- ly on the intuition of the saxon Dr. C. F. S. Hahnemann, the founder of Homeopathy. But, as sometimes hap- pens, the children outstripped the father, and so PRM, based on homeo- pathic ideas, is actually a completely different thing. It is a physiological reg- ulating method based on scientific evi- dence and therefore a long way from the visions, sometimes based on “faith” of some classic homeopaths. However, it seems important and cer- tainly useful for understanding this new method that we analyze the founda- tions of the homeopathic thought on which is part of its basis. Speaking of Homeopathy today, that is, the branch of medicine which treats “like with like” (in ancient Greek, the word omeòs means “like”), there seems to be a kind of resonance with com- monly used treatment methods. We immediately think about anti-viral or anti-allergy vaccines. However, the use of vaccines is based on the “principle of identity”, in other words the cure is prepared using sub- stances or materials which are the same as those which can cause the illness (aequalia aequalibus), thus establishing a direct relationship between the patho- genic agent and the therapeutic agent. In Homeopathy, this principle of iden- tity gives way to the principle called the “criterion of similarity”. But it is the second principle on which Homeopathy is based which, for many, is anomalous in the practice of medici- ne: the use, for therapeutic treatment purposes, of potentised and diluted sub- stances – so diluted that often there is no trace of them any more in the final product. Inevitably, the use of such medicines, which may not even contain one molecule of the original substance, forces the modern doctor to look at his ideas on Pharmacology and to confront a conceptual challenge: to identify a possible mechanism of action in a homeopathic medicine, taking into account the clinical results and treat- ment successes documented in a gro- wing number of protocol studies (Milani, 2002; Milani, 2008a). In this respect, the effort made by the Italian PRM Group is notable. After long, careful analysis of the exist- ing vast homeopathic/ homotoxicologi- cal literature, the Advisory Committee selected the publications which con- form to the criteria and scientific meth- ods currently adopted (Homeopathy: LECTURE 4-Art. Ricottini:Art. Colombo 29-10-2008 9:06 Pagina 31
  • 2. the scientific proofs of efficacy. Guna Ed., Milano, 2002, 1st edition). In the light of what has been published it seems inevitable that we should be open to alternative hypotheses which also touch on physical phenomena since the effect of a homeopathic prod- uct cannot reasonably be correlated with mechanisms of a purely chemical type. In recent years, well-known researchers and experts in the field of the exact sci- ences have come out in support of the idea that homeopathic medicine may be effective, providing valuable con- ceptual tools for the clinician. In fact, it has been possible to establish correlations with the new discoveries about the chemical-physical properties of water (Del Giudice and Preparata, 1998; Elia and Niccoli, 1999), the applications of functional type elec- trodynamic diagnostics (Bellavite and Signorini, 1996) and finally the use of substances, for treatment purposes, obtained according to the principle of similarity and strongly diluted (Bellavite and Signorini, 1995). These correlations seem to validate the effectiveness of homeopathic medicine and methods. Let us analyze, so that we can re-read in a “modern” light, the two cardinal points of Homeopathy, which emerged from experimental studies carried out by the german Dr. C. F. Samuel Hahnemann (1796): - the principle of similarity - the use of dilution. The treatment of like with like is an ancient principle existing in the history of medicine right from its beginnings. However, in homeopathic medicine, the principle of similarity becomes the theoretical nucleus of the entire treat- ment concept. Initially derived from empirical evidence, the principle of similarity is now based on some experi- mental evidence (Pennec and Aubin, 1984; Lazzarato et al., 2007) and, although some of its aspects have still to be investigated, the principle of simila- rity seems to be a possible key to rea- ding the complexity of biological phe- nomena (Bellavite, 1998). 32 PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATING MEDICINE 1/2008 Let’s start with the traditional concept, expressed in Hahnemann’s own words (Organon of Medicine) so that we can understand better the idea of homeopa- thic similarity: “One imitates nature which sometimes heals one chronic disturbance by adding another and uses for the illness that remedy which is able to provoke another artificial illness as similar as pos- sible to the one which it wants to cure and which it is able to cure: similia simi- libus” (Hahnemann, 1842). “Choosing a remedy for a specific natural illness which is able to produce a very similar artificial illness, we can cure the more obstinate illness” (ibid.). “Every single case of illness is much more surely, radi- cally, rapidly and definitively conquered and cured when the medicine (which treats it) can produce in a healthy orga- nism in the most complete and similar way the totality of its symptoms, which at the same time are stronger than the illness” (ibid.). To sum up, we can condense the classic formula of homeopathic similarity into three points: - Every biologically active substance, whether it is a medicine or a toxin, a mineral or a plant extract, or even a bacterial product, produces some spe- cific characteristic symptoms in the body of a person who takes it (proving) (Kent, 1991); - Every sick person presents symptoms which are peculiar to the particular changes which have affected them (and it is on these symptoms that we base the diagnosis of a pathology), but also and more importantly, symptoms which are linked to the person’s own individual reactivity and biological constitution and which are therefore personal symptoms; - The recovery of a sick person may be induced or encouraged by administering a specific substance in the correct dilu- tion (or with a high molecular dispersion of the active component). This substance can produce in a healthy person the same symptoms present in the pathology. From an analysis of these three points, it is clear that the homeopathic Principle of Similarity is founded on a similarity of symptoms which is mainly subjective and therefore not acceptable to conven- tional medicine which generally tries to take account of objective data. In short, the choice of a medicine made on the basis of individual symptoms (even if they are specific) would seem to be contradictory to the guidelines dicta- ted by modern scientific medicine, which looks for biochemical and mole- cular confirmation. In reality this con- tradiction is more apparent than real. We can in fact, regard every symptom as the clinical expression of a series of underlying physiopathological and bio- chemical changes. Craving, or the over- whelming yearning for sweet foods, especially in the evening, may depend on a reduction in serotonin levels. The desire for liquid, or thirst, can be interpreted as a hypothalamic-pituitary response to liquid depletion (profuse sweating, diarrhea, blood loss etc.). A high temperature is well known to be a response by the heat regulation cen- ters in the hypothalamus to the release, activated by inflammation, of cytokines by specific cells. In good medical practice, however, it is always the clinical symptom which determines a request for blood analyses or lab and other tests, never the con- trary. So if we analyze the problem from this perspective, homeopathic medical practice differs from the conventional mainly in the integration of all the infor- mation gathered from its own diagno- stic procedures: the use of symptoms and signs on the basis of the procedure codified by Hahnemann could even offer different (but not conflicting) levels of comprehension of the pharmacologi- cal properties of biologically active compounds. - Let’s see why. According to the principle of similarity, a substance capable of producing a series of disturbances in a healthy, sen- sitized body which manifest themselves as symptoms or as changes of a physio- logical type, could act on these same symptoms, or on changes which can be connected to them, when they are part of a pathological picture. This hypothesis can be rationally accep- table if we consider that every substan- ce, if it is capable of producing in a healthy organism symptoms similar to those produced by an illness, would in 4-Art. Ricottini:Art. Colombo 29-10-2008 9:06 Pagina 32
  • 3. 33 PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATING MEDICINE 1/2008 To summarize: the raw materials are prepared by extracting the active com- ponents, which is done after dissolving in hydro-alcoholic mixtures or, if the substance is insoluble, after a process of pulverization and crushing in lactose followed by dissolving in water and alcohol. The starting solutions for all dilutions of homeopathic remedies are known as Mother Tinctures and contain the maxi- mum concentration of the active ingre- dients. They cannot be considered homeopa- thic medicines. The later dilutions, which constitute the true homeopathic remedies, are always submitted to succussion (vigorous agita- tion or potentisation). According to some authors, it is the succussion itself which causes the physical phenomena which give the homeopathic solution its particular properties (Elia et al., 2005). These researchers base their hypothesis on laboratory experiments conducted on water using tried and trusted techni- cal methods. These experiments have shown that new chemical-physical pro- perties arise in the water when it is used as a solvent in a homeopathic dilution (Elia and Niccoli, 1999) and subse- quently vigorously agitated. The new properties of the “homeopa- thic” water can be explained by hypo- thesizing the presence of dissipatory structures in it, which have formed spontaneously. Inside a dissipatory system, that is, one which can give out all of its internally produced energy (Prigogine, 1980), there is a network of “coherent dominions” or areas in which all the molecules move in set phases, setting in motion a chemical interaction channel which is much faster than the diffuse channels in which the molecules meet through chance movements (Del Giudice and Preparata, 1998). Inside the water constituting the living matter, dominions of coherence can be observed and biological water posses- ses the property called coherence. The experiments referred to allow us to hypothesize that the potentised water too possesses the same properties of coherence, suggesting a possible link between chemical and electromagnetic phenomena. But let’s go back to the preparation of homeopathic medicine (French Pharmacopeia 10th edition; HAB 2000). Homeopathic dilutions can be prepared in different strengths: Decimal scales (X) when one part of the concentrated tinc- ture is diluted with 9 parts of solvent; hundredths scales (C) when one part of the concentrated solution is diluted with 99 parts of solvent. There are also other dilution scales whose preparation is particularly com- plex. Homeopathic potencies can be identi- fied according to the following dilution bands (see FIG. 1): - Low potencies: prepared using the decimal scale between 2X and 8X or, on the hundredths scale, between 1C and 4C. It is calculated that this low level of dilution has molecular concen- trations of potentially active agents bet- ween 10-5 e 10-12 (Linde et al., 1997) depending also on the concentration of the original extract. - Medium potencies (medium dilu- tions): prepared on the decimal scale between 9X and 23X or, on the hun- dredths scale between 5C and 11C. They are highly diluted preparations, but in theory, contain at least some molecules. - High potencies (high or very high dilu- some way “touch” those same (or similar) homeodynamic regulating systems which are activated (and even altered) when the illness starts. On the basis of the Principle of the Inversion of Effects, scientifically called hormesis (in Milani, 2008b), one would expect that the homeodynamic system altered by the illness would respond to the same substance in the opposite way (always in relation to the state of sensi- tization and responsiveness of the system and according to the doses used), encouraging the healing process in this way (Calabrese, 2001; Calabrese, 2005). It is worth briefly mentioning this prin- ciple, which rules biological response. Arndt and Shultz, when working on yeasts, observed that various types of toxic substances (iodine, bromide, mer- curic chloride, arsenic acid, etc.) had a stimulating effect on metabolism if administered at low doses and, on the contrary, an inhibitory effect if admini- stered at high doses. This observation led to the formulation of the Principle of the Inversion of Effects which can be applied to all bio- logical systems including that of humans. Weak stimuli provoke biologi- cal activity, strong stimuli suppress it. In other words, the effect of a certain substance changes diametrically accor- ding to whether it is used in heavy or infinitesimal doses. On this subject, before turning to some experiments relating to the above prin- ciple, it would seem opportune to look at the question of homeopathic dilu- tion/potentisation (“potencies”) which covers a wide range of concentrations in molecular terms. The widespread opinion that homeopathic remedies are always simply “plain water” because they contain no molecules of the origi- nal substance is not correct. In reality, some of the homeopathic medicines contain molecular quantities of the active components, even if in low to extremely low concentrations. The techniques for preparing the diffe- rent types of remedies are codified in detail by the different Pharmacopeias, the most important of which are the French and German ones. FIG. 1 4-Art. Ricottini:Art. Colombo 29-10-2008 9:06 Pagina 33
  • 4. tions): prepared on the decimal scale at over 24X or over 12C on the hundredths scale. They are preparations in which the dilution exceeds the Avogadro num- ber and they do not contain any mole- cules of the original preparation. As one of the main topics of argument in homeopathic theory is about the pos- sibility that pharmacological properties may exist in the absence of molecules, the subject of high homeopathic dilu- tions is connected to the subjects of water biophysics and electromagnetism of which we have already spoken (Del Giudice et al., 2007; Elia and Napoli, 2007). We could hypothesize that a highly diluted medicine (containing litt- le or none of the original solution) pos- sesses high information content capa- ble, in the particular conditions where the system is sensitised, of forming a kind of orientation towards therapeutic reorganization (Bellavite, 1998). This view of a medicine as a “catalyst” PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATING MEDICINE 1/2008 for reorganization means that we can look at the illness itself in a new way. It would be (at least in the initial stages) like a disturbance in a series of electro- magnetic communications between molecules making up tissues, nerve centers and organs. These, in the final analysis, are biological structures made up of elements oscillating at coherent and specific frequencies and therefore capable of resonance. Up to now the working hypotheses of researchers in the different branches of scientific knowledge (chemistry, physics, biology) have been based on looking for an explanation for the growing number of observed “facts”. These facts are the good clinical results obtained by doctors who are expert in Homeopathy, even though not always in randomized studies. These facts are also all the laboratory experiments carried out to validate the hypothesis of a possible biological effect of homeopathic preparations. One among many is the experiment of Conney and Burns (Conney and Burns, 1963) (FIG. 2). The two English scientists carried out particularly interesting expe- riments on rats. The laboratory animals were given intraperitoneal injections of massive doses of methylcholanthrene, an azulene dye with strong hepatocarci- nogenic properties (similar experiments can be conducted using CCl4). The rats rapidly developed degenerative pathology of the liver. At a second stage the same animals were given decrea- sing doses of methylcholanthrene until they reached a homeopathic concentra- tion of 3X-4X (10-3 -10-4 ). At this point the degeneration was seen to regress. The hypothesis, based on the Arndt-Shultz law of inverse effect, is that the infinitesi- mal doses of methylcholanthrene could have stimulated the synthesis of a specific anti-toxin enzyme (N-dimethylamino-oxi- dase) in the hepatocytes capable of neu- tralizing the methylcholanthrene molecu- les. The scientists observed also that the antito- xin-specific enzymes were not only active against the methylcholanthrene which had induced them but also towards all the azo- dyes, that is, towards the “poisons” similar to methylcholanthrene capable of indu- cing degenerative damage to the hepa- tocytes (criterion of similarity). 34 FIG. 2 FIG. 3 4-Art. Ricottini:Art. Colombo 29-10-2008 9:06 Pagina 34
  • 5. 35 PHYSIOLOGICAL REGULATING MEDICINE 1/2008 Another significant experiment is that on beta-galactosidase (Wallenfels and Weil, 1972) (FIG. 3). Beta-galactosidase is a hydrolytic enzyme which is a catalyst for hydroly- sis of terminal residues of β - D - galac- tose in well-known polysaccharides like β-galactosidase, through breaking the β-glycosidase terminal links. Beta-galactosidase plays a further important role in the story of molecular biology in that the E. coli bacteria gene which codifies for this enzyme, called LacZ, was the first example studied in detail of the regulation of genetic expression of which it constitutes a clas- sic model (Kuby and Lardy, 1953). In fact this gene is part of a body of genes regulated in a coordinated way (oper- one lac), whose expression depends on the presence or absence of lactose and on other sources of energy involved in growth. Beta-galactosidase synthesis is therefore induced by the substratum of the reac- tion, i.e. the lactose. It is known that lactose is a dimer formed by one molecule of galactose and one of glucose joined together by a β-glycoside link. The lactose dimer as such, cannot be used by the organism. The β-galactosidase is indispensable for hydrolyzing the β-glycoside link and liberating the glucose and galactose so that the organism can make use of the valuable glucose. Wallenfels and Weil’s experiment showed that if galactose-glycerin (a mol- ecule quite similar to lactose although formed of galactose and glycerin instead of glucose) and not lactose itself was used in the experimental system (E. coli culture), a strange phenomenon was noted: the speed of the reaction increas- es because of greater induction of the β- galactosidase (Principle of Similarity) and it increases more when the galactose- glycerin is diluted more (Principle of Inverse Effect). An enzyme induction effect is seen starting from a concen- tration of 1:10.000, that is... the homeopathic 4X dilution. It is surprising to note that the same induction effects are observed in concentration Ms of 10-20 molecules of galac- tose-glycerin for every incu- bating E. coli cell, that is dilutions of about 22X-23X. - In the light of the above, it was possi- ble to develop a therapeutic system founded on the use of substances with a biological action, such as cytokines, hormones and neurotransmitters in a homeopathic form. We know that these substances, which are produced in our body, can be con- sidered the indispensable “phonemes” for structuring intercellular language, that is, they are capable of transmitting information between groups of cells belonging to different tissues working in synergy. Cytokines, hormones and neu- rotransmitters, correctly diluted and potentised, become active, probably through a mechanism of sensitization, on the corresponding cellular receptors, not with steric type properties, but rather using an “information” system. 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