Signals and Images : Contributions and Contradictions About High Dilution Research

The “Groupe International de Recherche sur l’Infinitésimal” (GIRI) was created in 1986 by Professor Madeleine Bastide and Doctor René Halm. Madeleine Bastide was its President for several years. The group comprises actually more than 100 researchers from different disciplines (physicians, chemists, biologists, pharmacologists, physicists, etc. ) from 22 different countries. The original aim, which, for the most part, has now been achieved, was to create a working group to exchange ideas and results concerning the effects of very low doses and high dilutions. Madeleine Bastide then proposed to publish a collection of the lectures given at their scientific meetings in a bilingual book (French and English) entitled “Signals and Images”. The first volume was published in 1990 by the ATELIERS ALPHA BLEUE. It contains lectures on the new pharmacological approach and related concepts that were presented at the 3rd and 4th Symposiums held in Paris in 1989 and 1990. This volume treats the problem of the effects of very low doses and high dilution in in vitro and in vivo experimental models. It is conceivable that this effect, like that of elect- magnetic fields, is none other than an “ultra molecular” effect as shown in yet p- lished results. The effect could be interpreted as a piece of information, i. e. a signal whose transmission and perception remains to be elucidated. According to Madeleine Bastide “everything depends on the nature and quality of the information, signals and images”. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Research on Ultra-dilutions and the Theory of Corporeal Signifiers: The Follow Up....Pages 3-25 Theoretical and Physical-Chemical Models for Dynamized Systems: Validation Criteria....Pages 29-35 Mechanical Versus Handmade Succussions: A Physical Chemistry Comparison....Pages 37-48 Water and High Dilutions Phenomenology: Physical Characterization....Pages 49-63 Non-linearity Modeling of Ultra-dilutions: The Histamine Disturbances Case....Pages 67-82 Hepatic Cell Growth Models for the Study of Ultra High Dilutions....Pages 83-96 Models with Plants, Microorganisms and Viruses for Basic Research in Homeopathy....Pages 97-111 Arnica montana and behavior of Connective Tissue....Pages 113-125 How Living Organisms Detect Very Low Doses? A New Approach to Homeopathy and Hormesis....Pages 127-135 The Effect of Homeopathically Prepared Thyroxin (10 −30 Parts by Weight) on Highland Frogs: Influence of Electromagnetic Fields....Pages 137-147 Clinical Verification of Homeopathic Symptoms: Experience and Statistics....Pages 151-182 Homeopathic Veterinary Clinical Protocol....Pages 185-202 Some Reflections About the Interest of Non-conventional Medicine in Public Health, Especially Homeopathy....Pages 205-211 Back Matter....Pages 213-222 The GIRI - Groupe International de Recherche sur lA'Infinitesimal - was created in 1986 with the aim to gather researchers toward the high dilution questions, such as hormesis, isopathy, homeopathy and the phenomenological and conceptual differences among them. This book presents a portrait of the GIRI scientific activities