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Аннотация:One of the major claims against homeopathy is that ultra-high dilutions (UHD) of
biologically active substances are identical to a pure solvent used and therefore cannot
possess biological activity. Thus, it is necessary to find out if UHD differ from the solvent
in their physical-chemical properties. Recently revolutionary discoveries concerning the
properties of aqueous systems with “normal” concentrations of solutes, as well as of UHD
prepared from them, were made.
Contrary to the current opinion that solutions are homogenous systems it turned out that
sub-micrometer “domains” consisting of both solute and solvent molecules emerge after
dissolution solutes in water. Upon dilution even to ultra-high degrees sub-micrometer
structures do not disappear; on the contrary their size usually grows up.
These structures in UHD – called "nanoassociates" (NA) by A.I. Konovalov – are
negatively charged; their charge and sizes change nonmonotonically with serial dilutions.
Patterns of NA parameters correlate with biological effects produced by UHD. Shielding
of UHD from ambient electromagnetic fields (EMF) prevents NA emergence in UHD;
paradoxical properties differentiating them from pure water including biological activity also
disappear. Therefore aqueous systems containing domains and NA (in UHD non-shielded
from EMF) should be considered disperse systems rather than classical solutions.
Emergence of domains and NA in them represents the process of self-organization turning
them into dissipative non-equilibrium entities. Dynamic structuring of aqueous disperse
systems with charge separation in them is provided by energy supplied by environmental
EMF and redox reactions with the participation of reactive oxygen species (ROS)
permanently proceeding in aqueous systems.
We propose that newly discovered properties of UHD, representing disperse systems
of a "water in water" kind, prove that they are basically different from a pure solvent,
suggesting that homeopathy has a scientific foundation.