3.3. WATER MEMORY THEORY
This name was born on May 30, 1988, when after some statements made by a prestigious French researcher, a headline appeared in the newspaper L'Humanité:
"Homeopathy could have a scientific basis: the memory of water."(28)
Since then, it has caused controversy, rejection by some scientists, curiosity and acceptance by others, the greatest controversy is because it was born as an initiative of a homeopath, and it has been directly related to its mechanism of action, its elucidation is still in progress (29).
3.3.1. MASARU EMOTO
He was born in Yokohama in 1943, graduated as a medical doctor and graduated in alternative medicine. He dedicated
his research on water and its interaction with the human being: his body, his daily life.
He always enunciated that the essence of water is reflected in the crystals it forms.
He expressed his thoughts in photographic books, where, according to him, he found that the water
water reacts by organizing itself into geometrical figures similar to snowflakes, depending on the
the environment in which it is found, being influenced by sound and thought. This
allowed him to say that "water molecules, far from being an inert element, is an element that could respond to thoughts and emotions, as if it were alive"(30).
What he found during his brilliant work was captured in the books: "Messages of Water" and "Hidden Messages of Water", where through photographs he demonstrates the changes of the water
the influences of its environment, including emotions, thoughts and intentions,
that water may not be inert, but may have reactions as if it had life.
however, his book was not well received by science, as it was criticized by the same, although Emoto said
by science, although Emoto said that it was never written as a scientific book and that it could show the emotional essence of water. Other opinions on the matter refer that he was inclined to the spiritual area, which did not allow it to remain credible for science. However, in Japan he is still recognized as a great researcher and his theory is well accepted, that, if a small amount of water can be affected by the intentions, words and tones, it can be affecte, it is deducible how these can influence the health of human beings, where more than half of his body is composed of this liquid.(3)(31)
3.3.2. GERALD POLLACK
A professor of biotechnology at the University of Washington, he published a book entitled "The
fourth phase of water: beyond solid, liquid and vapor" in 2013 (32).
Until his discovery, water was known in the liquid, solid and gaseous states, but Dr. Pollack enunciated that there is another fourth state without which it would be impossible to know and understand the action of water in our being (33).
Thus, he refers that when a substance is dissolved in liquid water, and this solution is put in contact with a hydrophilic surface, a phenomenon occurs in which "the exclusion layer" so called because, while experimenting with water, he observed the following experience:
He prepared a surface of hydrophilic (water affinity or wetting property) material,
liquid water to make the surface wet, but when he wanted to observe the movement of the water, he noticed that underneath the surface there the movement of the water, he noticed that under the microscope the liquid water is transparent, so much so, that even when moving it is not easy to observe.
Even when moving it is not easy to observe, so he used fine particles of latex as a solute,
to distinguish it, in this way it would be easy to determine the place occupied by the water, but the result that was obtained was that after a few seconds of having fallen the water with latex on the surface, a layer is formed near it, where the latex particles move away from the surface, after 5 minutes the approximate thickness of this layer was of 0.1mm, the particles moved away in such a way that the particles moved away in such a way that only a part of water free of fine particles was observed.
This layer was named "fourth aqueous phase", the formal name for this fourth phase is "exclusion zone water", also known as EZ water. To make these observations, he
observations, he obtained NMR, infra-red and birefringence images and measured the electric potential,(33) viscosity,(34), and UV and infrared absorption spectra, which revealed the solute-free zone, with water, with physically distinct ordered water, resembling a liquid crystal(33).
That fourth aqueous phase, with a molecular structure as if they were several water molecules stacked in regular hexagons, extending over the surface, which, if observed as a whole, resemble a honeycomb, is electrically negative, while layer of water with fine particles is positively charged, making the overall charge neutral and similar to a battery
neutral and similar to a battery. Subsequently, when illuminated with visible light
the exclusion layer was observed to be thickened, but with infrared light this layer grew and thickened further.
and thickened, due to the fact that the infrared ray contains heat, whose energy and light were absorbed by this phase.
and light were absorbed by this phase of water(33)
But what is interesting about this theory is that the human body has hydrophilic surfaces which are the cellular, nuclear and nuclear membranes.
cell membranes, nuclear membranes, and every structure contained in the cell that has a surface, so most of the water in the human being is in the fourth phase. In addition, during the course of the blood in the blood vessels the same exclusion layer is formed and a bulk water solution in the center, which help the movement since the positive charge of the ions in it allows for the positive charge of the ions in this allows them to repel and attempt to leave causing flow in the same direction.(32)
This is how Dr. Pollak proposed the fourth phase of water as a device to convert energy, what energy? Initially light, but also words, and even intentions, prayers, giving meaning to the possible psychic or healing power that can be
intentions, prayers giving meaning to the possible psychic or healing power that can be imprinted in it(34)(28).
Among his latest findings is the evidence of changes in the formation of exclusion zones in hydroalcoholic substances, which are important for homeopathy because they are the ones that are
the ones that in greater proportion are used in its medicines. In this regard, he refers that
unexpectedly, at certain ethanol concentrations, the EZ width was greater than in pure water or pure ethanol, probably
or pure ethanol, probably, hydroxyl groups of ethanol could sequester protons. Free in bulk water, influencing the growth of EZ (unpublished observations) expanding the EZ zone. Six alcohol molecules can bind together, acquiring a hexagonal shape similar to that of liquid crystals hexagonal shape similar to that of liquid crystals, but the packing of molecules in these has not yet been investigated(35).
3.3.3. JACQUES BENVENISTE
Prominent French researcher, to whom the "theory of water" is directly attributed,
nominated 2 times for the Nobel Prize, in the 70s, being a leader in the field of immunity and allergies, and he discovered the platelet activating factor.(36)(31)
In the 1970s and 1980s, he analyzed a type of white blood cell called basophils, which react to release a type of
which react to release granules when exposed to allergenic substances, this reaction is called platelet degranulation, there are also substances such as anti-IgE antiserum, which can also cause
anti IgE, which can also cause degranulation.(36)(37)(38)
In the early 1980's, Bernard Poitevan, one of the young researchers of the laboratory
at the National Institute of Health Sciences in Paris, experimented with highly diluted solutions of antisera, to which Dr. Benveniste is reported to have said: "if you test it, you will not get results, if you dilute it too much it's just water", however, surprisingly, an effective response was obtained, although the antiserum was diluted in a solution that exceeded Avogad's number.(29)
Now, a dilution exceeding Avogadro's number: 10 to the 23rd power is known como una alta dilución y, en teoría, no contiene una sola molécula de la sustancia original.
However, in Benveniste's laboratory, if a degranulation reaction was triggered,
with even higher dilutions such as 10 to the 60th potency (corresponding to a homeopathic 30CH dilution), but it was essential to perform some "shaking", in each dilution, as those used in homeopathic
dilution, as those used in homeopathy, because in the absence of these, no activity was observed.(37) (39)
These results were published with some difficulty in the scientific journal Nature,
However, it was not well seen from a part of the scientific community of the time,
opposed to accept the veracity of the results. In view of this, a team organized by the
editorial department of the journal Nature, attended a verification audit, during which 7 experiments were carried out, of which, in four of them, the high dilution activity was successfully produced.
Of these, the high dilution activity was successful and in the remaining three, it was unsuccessful.
conclusion delivered by the audit team was: "the degranulation reaction does not occur in the case of highly diluted antiserum, the experimental results of Dr. Benveniste do not reproduce at all". (37)(29)
In view of this Benveniste has more than 300 replicates of the experiment including blind method,
to verify the reproducibility, in addition the experiment was repeated in other laboratories in 3 different countries
in 3 countries other than France, in which activity was found in high dilutions when reagents other than the one used
reagents other than IgE antiserum were used, and in filtered solutions where the
molecules could only be of a weight less than 10,000 the low dilution activity was lost,
but the high dilution activity was initiated. (28)(29)
Another observation was that, regardless of the substance dissolved in water, it can be inactivated in a uniform manner, when subjected to certain temperature changes such as heating between 70 and 80 degrees Celsius for 1 hour, or when it is frozen and thawed, which occurs with the use of different solutes, which is, concluding that either there are no molecules in the aqueous mixture or it is the water that is inactivated. Likewise, it was also observed that, when the solutions were exposed to the activity magnetic fields, the activity was lost, which led us to think about whether this activity could be recorded could be recorded electromagnetically, through the wave emitted by the aqueous solution and using a coil and using a coil that can store such emission, would be a way to demonstrate the ability of water to transfer information of the capacity of transferring information that water possesses.(28) (29)(40)
This experience became known as the "transcription experiment", and in 1992 from a preparation of aqueous solution of heparin and protamine, and the installation of a recording coil with an electrical amplification device attached, and placed around the preparation. Dr. Benveniste's team recorded the electromagnetic wave information as an electromagnetic signal electromagnetic wave information as a digital electrical signal, which is stored in a computer.(37)(29)
Subsequently, the acoustic file is reproduced and transferred to water, which is applied to one component of human plasma, while the other component is applied to the other component of human plasma, while the aqueous calcium solution is applied to another, with magnetic heparin information and a third aqueous calcium solution with no added information. With the aid of a spectrophotometer, the degree of turbidity generated during is measured
coagulation of the plasma and the results were recorded(29,37):
+ In the plasma to which the solution with heparin transcription information was added, the coagulation process was inhibited in approximately 20 minutes(29),
+ In the plasma to which the solution with heparin and protamine information transfer was applied, the coagulation process was significantly inhibited(29).
protamine, the inhibitory effect of heparin on blood coagulation was counteracted (29).
Thus, it would be a demonstration that water memorizes the information imprinted on it when exposed to a wave of heparin and protamine.
to an electromagnetic wave emitted by a substance, but without being directly in contact with the original substance (29) directly in contact with the original substance(36) (37) (40)(41)(42).
In spite of this Benveniste noticed that some experiments failed and the expected result was not obtained. With a thorough review of the process, he hypothesized that the failures had to do with the experimenter involved in the experiment, as it was when a female researcher was on the team, that it was when a researcher was in the team that the unsuccessful results were presented.
To check it, she decided that this woman should hold a homeopathic remedy and after 5 minutes the resonance of the solution was completely lost after 5 minutes, even with this, the mechanism is not very clear, but it seems that there are people who erase the information contained in the water, called "frequency disturbers", and for this reason experiments were carried out on a device to protect the water.
experiments were conducted on a device that protects from external electromagnetic waves, however, some experiments also failed, and by opening a window in the shield and placing another person in it, the experiment was successful another person the experiment was successful(29).
In his publication "my truth about the memory of water", he concludes about his research:
"...Starting from the studies on high dilutions, my work has evolved towards the
electronic transmission of molecular signals, then towards computer work thanks to the digitization of these signals.
Verifying the hypothesis of a memory of water is no longer at the is no longer at the heart of my concerns. For me, the challenge has changed: it is the ability of water to transmit the molecular signal that is
the capabilities of water to transmit the molecular signal that interests me now, rather than its storage or memorization properties" (29).
Unfortunately, and in the midst of his research, after having repeated the experiment hundreds of times, Dr. Benveniste died of heart disease in 2004 at 69 years of age, nevertheless it is indisputable that he was the one who united the theory of Emoto's water reactions with the demonstrative experimental science, in spite of not having been recognized by the majority of scientists, his theory is sulfurous since he was inclined to introduce into the medicine the sciences that govern the quantum universe, where the molecule is both a corpuscle and a wave, where the scale is information, not matter, where nature of reality is determined by frequencies and vibrations(36)(28).
3.3.4. LUC MONTAIGNER
Jean-Luc Montagnier, French researcher, known for being the co-discoverer, together with Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, of the AIDS virus.
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, of the AIDS virus and winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2008, has worked with the DNA of microorganisms, surprising medicine prize in 2008, has worked with the DNA of microorganisms, surprising the scientific community by stating that they emit electromagnetic waves that can be recorded in water and remain in it even when diluted, an affirmation that has been supported by many scientists, but equally, but it also has detractors, because it dusts off , known as
Benveniste's theories, known worldwide as "memory of water". (37)(43)(44)
Going deeper into this subject, Dr. Montaigner, refers that there could be a phenomenon of
resonance triggered at the electromagnetic level through aqueous nanostructures, produced by the DNA of most bacteria and viruses(45)(44).
Luc Montagnier, has the premise that in the ultra dilutions there must be something that acts and is not material, it must be something like "the memory of water"(36), this is how he starts to share his discoveries in publications since 2009, about his experiments, with dilutions to experiments, with dilutions to concentrations impossible to contain material molecules, proposing that the DNA of the material molecules, proposing that the DNA of bacteria in an ultradilution would induce nanostructures in the water, emitting nanostructures in the water emitting electromagnetic waves, thus, it would allow to detect diseases from the presence of these signals originated in the microorganisms found in the blood and open the
found in the blood and would open a new chapter in the therapeutics of diseases such as Alzheimer's, autism and some types of cancer. (34) (44) (45)
Already in 2010, responding to interviews on multiple occasions, Dr. Montagnier has stated that he has
that he initially relied on Dr. Benveniste's studies, and that despite the fact that several researchers have successfully reproduced these experiences, for fear of being attacked and relegated, they have not made them known to the scientific community. (46)
By July 2014, Montagnier sent by internet from France to Italy the electromagnetic code obtained from the viral DNA of an HIV-positive patient, achieving the transduction over a distance of approximately 1500 kilometers.(36)
Among his conclusions is the formation of water nanostructures when subjected to kinetic energy and which would be responsible for the kinetic energy, which would be responsible for maintaining information in its interior(45).
He demonstrated through his experiments that biological molecules can interact through waves with their resonance phenomena. He also spoke of 2 types of water: external water and biological water and the biological and organized water that he is going to memorize, clarifying a little more the behavior of this precious liquid inside the cell. (31)(34,45)
He is currently working in a research center bearing his own name at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, considered one of the most important in the world.Despite this, he has been the victim of multiple criticisms mainly after his statements published in Science in 2010, when, in response to the question: "You worry that your colleagues believe that you have fallen into pseudoscience? He said (47):
"No, because it's not pseudoscience, It's not quackery, these are real phenomena that
deserve further study. I cannot affirm that homeopathy is right about everything.
I can say is that ultra dilutions (used in homeopathy) have effects. Ultra
dilutions of something are nothing. It is the structures of the water that mimic the original molecules" (47).
And he added:
"We with DNA cannot work with dilutions as high as those used in homeopathy.
We can't go beyond an 18D dilution or we lose the signal, but even at 18D you can calculate that even
at 18D we can calculate that there is not a single molecule of DNA, and yet the signal is detected"(47).
4. ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSIONS
Homeopathy, in spite of having lasted for 2 centuries, and having shown results at the individual level around the world and collectively (as in the case of Brazil and Cuba), where homeopathic intervention reduces the numbers of dengue hemorrhagic fever), it still has opponents in the scientific community, while at the same time there are people from all walks of life who have doubts about its therapeutic validity, based on the fact that it is a pseudoscience, that it has no scientific basis to support it, obviously fruit of what is sown by the different media who, supported by obscure interests of industries and unsympathetic guilds, spread to the general public the idea that there is no scientific evidence for homeopathy.
However, this only demonstrates the high level of misinformation, or the lack of dissemination of the studies that scientifically every day are discovering chemical, physical and quantum processes, carried out in
quantum, carried out within the microcosm of existing inside the human being,
that become visible only through specialized procedures, while others remain hidden or confused, even using current scientific advances, but which have begun to explain some aspects of the health-disease process, clarifying and showing the possible way to understand clarifying and showing the possible way to understand this apparently "invisible" action of homeopathic medicines, which homeopathic medicines, which allows that far from being a pseudo-science, it is constituted as a science, perhaps ahead of as a science, perhaps ahead of its time, but the language to be understood is not the material but the energetic one.
Now, if the natural, physical, chemical, social, religious, etc., sciences have demonstrated the
the importance of water in the universe, how can we not understand that it is very important for human health?
And if this is so, it is not difficult that the medicines that are found dissolved in water, use some
dissolved in water, use some of its properties to create reactions when they reach an aqueous medium such as the human being.
Inside the human body, water is in continuous movement, keeping everything in perfect equilibrium, as is the case with the cycles of the human body, everything in perfect balance as happens with the water cycles in nature, and this is achieved thanks to the vital energy that each body possesses, and that, being weakened, needs some impulse to be able to not yet understood to be able to reestablish itself, but that through the homeopathic medicine, properly chosen, and before there is a structural damage, it arrives as that force to restart its vital cycle.
Thus, in this order of ideas, the homeopathic medicine, which is produced from a material of nature, which is ultra diluted in water, surpassing the famous Avogadro's number, so much so that its physical register disappears, but whose essence or energy remains, generates a special type of echo, emits electromagnetic waves, capable of acting on the liquid medium of the human body in which it meets with the other electromagnetic waves, generated by pathogens responsible for the morbid state, and as expected at the level of the waves, the language is different, that is when physics comes in, where the union of waves results in new patterns of behavior, and if it is the right and strongest substance, it manages toy stronger, somehow manages to displace or absorb the disease, thus restoring the metabolic balance of the being, allowing him to feel the desired healing.
Now, the discussion is not in the result, since many affirm that, even if there is an answer, if there is no scientific explanation, it is not credible, so how can it be demonstrated scientifically?
Many researchers, such as Emoto in Japan, Benveniste in France, Luc Montagnier in France in
French Montagnier in China, Korotkov in Russia, Paolo Bellaviste in Italy, have dedicated a great deal of time to introduce themselves into the knowledge of the behavior and structure of water.
There is already a lot of evidence about the liquid with which most homeopathic medicines are prepared, but even a part of it is not yet evident,
Our body is possibly a liquid crystal with all the properties of water, receives the medicines in such a way that it adopts them and molds itself according to their order.
Perhaps that drop of medicated water is charged with a lot of vital energy given by the initial raw material
and the intention of the people with whom it comes in contact, but perhaps it is also "de-energized" in some cases, which is why it has been so difficult to replicate in the laboratory.
After making this bibliographic tour about water, homeopathy and the theory of the memory of water as a possible explanation to the action of the diluted agents used in homeopathy, there is still, there is still a sea of knowledge acquired from other branches of science, and the researches of many other scientists not reviewed in this paper,
that leave an open page to link with this branch of medicine.
Among the sciences that provide a window into the future on this subject is quantum physics, where things are not yet clear, in which intangible energies are involved, and sometimes unimaginable, but real and reminiscent of Hahnemann's statements when speaking of the Vital Force, invisible, but necessary.
In the light of today, properties of homeopathic medicines are already known, which were not previously
previously unclear and were given the connotation of witchcraft, quackery or placebo.
Research in biophysics, electrodynamics, quantum physics, and physicochemical measurement systems have made it possible to demonstrate that homeopathic the formation of better exclusion zones, clusters and water caltrates, which maintain and transmit information in a complex and subtle way.
The controversial Avogadro's number is left as an irrelevant data, becoming much more importance to demonstrate the influence of electromagnetic fields and electromagnetic information on tissues and
electromagnetic information on tissues and living beings.
It is a panorama that still leaves unknowns, since the theory of the transfer of information is still in its infancy, in which concepts such as transmission of electromagnetic fields and electromagnetic fields are very important.
Holographic, fractals, chaos theory, digital biology, difficult to accept for many, but which in the end may be the
that in the end may be the way forward.
In spite of the opposition to the development of homeopathic research, either because of the methods, or because of the lack of financial support, it is undeniable that there are experimental studies on homeopathy. es innegable que existen estudios experimentales y estudios clínicos que han comprobado la eficacia de este sistema médico, lo que permite que hoy la homeopatía parezca empezar
that today homeopathy seems to begin a path towards the understanding of its mechanisms,
This leads to a better homeopathic prescription, which will awaken the interest of companies
and educational institutions to financially support research in this field.
However, until that happens, we will continue to live in a world where the entrenched homeopathic paradigm is a veil to the truth.
Finally, I think it is important to quote Professor Marc Henry, a researcher in quantum physics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. Quantum physics at the University of Hamburg, said:
"The day we admit that waves can act, we will deal with waves." (44)
I believe that, although much remains to be understood, a giant step has already been taken in the last few years, and thanks to globalization, it will be possible to transmit the truth about the much-loved homeopathy, and that it is homeopathy, and that perhaps for a better understanding, it should begin to be known as "medicine with information waves".
