Glen - I hope you can make the time to answer Elaine's questions _Allan
> > Elaine
>> How do you explain the success of potentised BD preps as fungal or pest
>> protection when they are firstly in 12% alcohol and diluted to 10X 30???
>>
>> Whats doing it?
>>
>> Glen Atkinson
>
>Hi Glen - It would be interesting to know just what is going on from an
>organism point of view with this kind of prep. But, again, first principles.
>
>A 12% alcohol solution - which I assume to be 12 ml of alcohol in 100 ml of
>water - is 120 ppm, a fairly hefty dose of alcohol for most organisms. That
>will kill many organisms in the solution, but not all things. It will select
>for certain species of bacteria mainly. The dilution factor is immense.
>There wouldn't be enough alcohol left to worry about. The organisms would
>long since be diluted beyond recovery point.
>
>If I understand this right, and IF you can show that these preps actually have
>an impact on organism activity, it suggests the kind of thing Hugh Lovell
>talks about. That there is something in the suspension that imposes an energy
>pattern on the material, that is transfered with each step, instantly
>patterning all of that material in the new suspension, which is then
>transfered to the next step. Why is it that one dilution does not prove
>adequate? If the patterning was going to happen, why doesn't it work to use
>the first or second dilution, instead of going through to the 30th? What is
>the benefit of diluting that many times?
>
>Is it that some - hum - impurity has to be removed? But then why isn't the
>impurity in the water still there after 30 dilution steps? Clearly I haven't
>read enough, because I would imagine someone has asked these questions
>before. But it might be easier for me if you could just explain to me,
>instead of me having to wade through the rather long-winded, and
>not-to-the-point books and papers I've tried to read.
>
>Sorry to be short on time, but in the words of nearly every business owner I
>know, no one's paying me for this.....
>
>Elaine Ingham
