Characterisation of Aqueous Ultra-high Homeopathic Potencies: Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis.

Background And Objectives:  Over the past decade, research using various methods has claimed the material nature, including nanoparticles (NPs), of high homeopathic potencies. The current study aims to verify these findings using NP tracking analysis (NTA).

Methods:  Six independent serial dilutions of commonly used homeopathic medicines-either soluble (, , ) or insoluble (, , )-were prepared according to European Pharmacopoeia standards.

Could the Olfactory System Be a Target for Homeopathic Remedies as Nanomedicines?

Homeopathic remedies (HRs) contain odorant molecules such as flavonoids or terpenes and can lose their efficiency in presence of some competitive odors. Such similarities, along with extreme sensitivity of the olfactory system, widespread presence of olfactory receptors over all organic tissues (where they have metabolic roles besides perception of odors), and potential direct access to the brain through olfactory nerves (ONs) and trigeminal nerves, may suggest the olfactory system as target for HRs. Recent works highlighted that HRs exist in a dual form, that is, a still molecular form at low dilution and a nanoparticulate form at high dilution, and that remnants of source remedy persist in extremely high dilutions.

Gas nanobubbles and aqueous nanostructures: the crucial role of dynamization.

Nanobubbles (NBs) have been a subject of intensive research over the past decade. Their peculiar characteristics, including extremely low buoyancy, longevity, enhanced solubility of oxygen in water, zeta potentials and burst during collapse, have led to many applications in the industrial, biological and medical fields. NBs may form spontaneously from dissolved gas but the process is greatly enhanced by gas supersaturation and mechanical actions such as dynamization.

Nanosized solvent superstructures in ultramolecular aqueous dilutions: twenty years' research using water proton NMR relaxation.

Background: proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxation times T1, T2, T1/T2 are sensitive to motion and organization of water molecules. Especially, increase in T1/T2 reflects a higher degree of structuring. My purpose was to look at physical changes in water in ultrahigh aqueous dilutions.

[Putting into place devices for prevention of falls at the hospital center at Haguenau].

Falls of patients represent the most frequent reported incidents in our 541-bed urban public hospital, reaching more than 200 occurrences per year.This prompted a fall-prevention program consisting of several steps: i) descriptive analysis of 295 consecutive falls in order to look at the factors commonly supposed to be associated with falls, among physical, psychic and pathological characteristics of patients, medication, circumstances or environmental hazards, ii) case-control study on 10 medicine and surgery wards of high risk (178 patients), designed to identify which factors are discriminant to predict the falls, iii) proposal of a fall-risk assessment score to be calculated at the admission of the patient, iv) if the risk is confirmed, implementation of general and specific actions identified by the components of the score. The score is based on a 15-point scale including age older than 65 years, history of previous falls, weakness or insufficient weight, impaired mobility or altered feet state, psychic disorders (depression-agitation-risky behavior), neuro-psychiatric diseases (CVA-confusion-dementia), fever or infection, polypharmacy.