what you describe for poisons (like arsenic) is hormesis, but not "desensibilisation" nor "homeopathy".
the basic of hormesis is to activate the "heat shock proteins" so the body can fight against some class of genotoxic aggression... work for some poisons, radiation, sun, heat... Those HSP production can also cause some memory, through epigenetic modification, or simply though growth and selection. he basic of desensibilisation is to activate the immune system at low intensity, for long time, with increasing dose, without the usual co-factors of infection (that are simulated by "adjuvant" in immunization), so that the immune system activate the tolerance mode used for "self" and for "usual benign antigen". That tolerance mode in fact activate killing/suicide/suppression of the lymphocyte that react to that benign antigene. the basic of immunization is to stimulate strongly the adaptative immune system, in a way that really look like a real aggression (with adjuvant simulating the produce that the native immune system detect), so that the body activate the "war-mode", and a population of sensible T4 lymphocyte are created and kept for later fast detection. the basic of homeopathy is to use very very very low dose, and it works differently from those 3 techniques. It normally have no effect on HSP or immune system... 2012/9/25 ChemE Stewart <[email protected]> > Same effect with moist poisons. The solution to pollution is dilution. > Best kids get dirty and cooties when they are young to build resistance. > > > On Tuesday, September 25, 2012, Jed Rothwell wrote: > >> The latest issue of scientific American has an article about food >> allergies in children. Apparently, if you gradually introduce tiny amounts >> of the foods they are allergic to, in most cases the allergies subside. The >> amounts used at first are similar to those used in homeopathy. >> >> Years ago, studies were done in Switzerland of children raised on >> farms versus children from urban areas. Apparently, in Swiss farms, >> people come in close contact with livestock. Researchers expected to >> find the children raised on farms would be allergic to animal hairs. They >> found just the opposite: urban people never exposed to hair were most >> likely to be allergic to it. >> >> - Jed >> >>
