In 1988, Jacques Benveniste and his collaborators shocked the world with their Nature paper on extra-high dilutions (EHDs) of water, showing quasi-periodic variations in biological activity with successive dilutions (figure below). The dilutions were so high (greater than 1030) that no IgE molecule remained to trigger human basophil degranulation activation – and yet, degranulation did occur.
The Benveniste results seemed to validate homeopathy with its EHDs, and suggested a ‘water memory’ for particular substances that had been in contact with the water. This paper stimulated my interest in homeopathy. In my review of the homeopathy literature, I learned about “constitutional remedies”:
“According to Classical Homeopathy, each and every animal, including each human animal, has a constitutional remedy. This remedy best matches the animal’s inner vital force (see below), and when the animal’s constitutional remedy is correctly used, that animal has optimum ability to heal itself — physically, mentally, and emotionally.”
My personality and symptoms aligned strongly with Sulfur as my constitutional remedy. Standing at the kitchen sink, I put a few homeopathic pills of Sulfur 30C on my tongue, and immediately felt some subtle aspect of my body become grounded. The subtle field around my legs seemed to stop around my upper calves, and Sulfur helped it extend to the floor. Most people do not associate homeopathy with the subtle body, but that was my first introduction to this great Art and Medicine.
So how does homeopathy work? That is the question still being debated. Benveniste suspected that electromagnetic fields played an essential role in the memory of water. His lab showed that the electromagnetic “signal” in EHDs can be detected, amplified, recorded and transmitted. When pure water was exposed to a digitized EHD signal, it acquired the same properties as EHDs of the initially dissolved active molecules. This information transfer, which Benveniste termed “digital biology“, was the first indication that water could be programmed with a non-biological signal.
The water memory ‘signal’ seems to be carried by frequencies in the low kilohertz range. In a series of supporting experiments, Thomas et al. (2006) found that, “at least some biologically active molecules emit signals in the form of electromagnetic radiation of less than 44 kHz that can be recorded and digitized. The digitized signal can be replayed to water, target cells or organs in a manner that seems specific to the source molecules.”
What does the water memory ‘signal’ look like? It has been described as noise in the frequency range similar to audible sound waves (20 – 20,000 Hz). But is it noise? While browsing Claude Swanson’s book, Life Force, I chanced upon the work of Dr. Cyril Smith.
Smith and colleagues found that water could be imprinted with electromagnetic frequencies. In one experiment on a sample of bottled mineral water, they exposed the water to a repeating 1.0 kHz magnetic signal. Subsequently the same treated water was exposed to a 1.1 kHz magnetic signal. Later, the signal was ‘read’ by measuring the electric voltage between two gold wires placed 5mm apart in the water. In the figure below, note the oscillating voltages detected in the water around 1.0 kHz during the first experiment, and 1.0 and 1.1 kHz during the second experiment. The voltage oscillations look like small MF intent waves which I have recorded with my equipment. Note the increase in amplitude, slowing of frequency in the middle of the wave and then decrease in amplitude – a miniature chirp wave!
So an actual electromagnetic signal may be observed in water, not just noise. And the electromagnetic signal looks similar to what I have been recording with human subjects.
Smith used the magnetic programming of water to help electrically sensitive patients (Smith and Best, 1989). He found that electromagnetic hypersensitivity is like an allergy, and a neutralizing frequency can be found, which can be imprinted into a vial of water. The magnetically imprinted vial of water provides clinical relief for 1-2 months.
In his study of homeopathy, Benveniste discovered a phenomenon that was “outside-the-box” of mainstream science. Gradually, over time, scientists are discovering that there is real evidence for water memory. In a recent theoretical paper, Meessen (2018) proposes that water memory is due to the formation and modification of chains of nanoparticles in water which he calls ‘water pearls’ (WP). Lo et al. (2009) observed that when these balls or WPs are very numerous, they constitute extremely long alignments, visible by optical microscopy. How do these WP work? The dipoles in these water molecules are aligned, and can be, “set in oscillation at the frequency of vibration of the charged part of active molecules. They are then automatically trimmed and become information carriers.”
References
Chattopadhyay, R., & Mahata, C.R. (2021) A fundamental study to observe correlation at molecular level between bio-samples of patients and indicated homoeopathic medicines. International Journal of High Dilution Research 15(3): 11–17. https://doi.org/10.51910/ijhdr.v15i3.818
Lo, S.Y., et al. (2009) Evidence for the existence of stable-water-clusters at room temperature and normal pressure. Physics Letters A, 373, 3872-3876. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2009.08.061
Matos, L.C., Santos, S.C., Anderson, J.G., Machado, J., Greten, H.J., Monteiro, F.J. (2017) Instrumental measurements of water and the surrounding space during a randomized blinded controlled trial of focused intention. J Evid Based Complementary Altern Med 22(4):675–686. https://doi.org/10.1177/2156587217707117
Meessen, A. (2018) Water Memory Due to Chains of Nano-Pearls. Journal of Modern Physics, 9, 2657-2724. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2018.914165.
Smith, C.W., Best, S. (1989) Electromagnetic Man: Health and Hazard in the Electrical Environment. London, UK: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd.
Swanson, C. (2010) Life Force, The Scientific Basis: Breakthrough Physics of Energy Medicine, Healing, Chi and Quantum Consciousness. Tuscon, AZ: Poseidia Press, p. 532.
Thomas, Y., Kahhak, L., Aissa, J. (2006). The physical nature of the biological signal, a puzzling phenomenon: the critical contribution of Jacques Benveniste. In: Pollack, G.H., Cameron, I.L., Wheatley, D.N. (eds) Water and the Cell. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4927-7_17