Plausibility of homeopathy and conventional chemical therapy: the systemic memory resonance hypothesis

Schwartz, G.E.R.; Russek, L.G.S.; Bell, I.R.; Riley, D.

doi:10.1054/mehy.1999.0913

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Volume 54, Issue 4 , Pages 634-637, April 2000

Plausibility of homeopathy and conventional chemical therapy: the systemic memory resonance hypothesis

G.E.R. Schwartz
- Departments of Medicine, University of Arizona, USA
- Psychology, University of Arizona, USA
- Neurology, University of Arizona, USA
- Psychiatry, University of Arizona, USA
- Program in Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona, USA
L.G.S. Russek
- Departments of Medicine, University of Arizona, USA
- Psychology, University of Arizona, USA
- Program in Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona, USA
I.R. Bell
- Psychology, University of Arizona, USA
- Psychiatry, University of Arizona, USA
- Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona, USA
- Program in Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona, USA
- Department of Psychiatry, Tucson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, USA
D. Riley
- Program in Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona, USA
- The Integrative Medicine Institute, USA

Received 23 December 1998; accepted 4 May 1999.

Abstract

The controversy surrounding clinical observations and double-blind studies on homeopathic treatments is lessened when modern dynamical systems analysis is applied to high-dilution therapies. The logic of recurrent feedback loops, which applies to all dynamical network systems, inexorably leads to the systemic memory hypothesis – that complex patterns of emergent information and energy are stored to various degrees in physical, chemical, and biological systems. The addition of resonance, a dynamic pattern recognition process, explains many classic observations using high-dilution therapies. The systemic memory resonance hypothesis potentially provides a plausible biophysical mechanism for explaining not only how high-dilution therapies contribute to healing, but by extension, how information and energy in low-dilution and chemical therapies contribute to healing as well.

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