title: Patient-practitioner-remedy (PPR) entanglement. Part 2: Extending the metaphor for homeopathy using molecular quantum theory.
abstract: A quantum metaphor developed previously for homeopathy, involving triadic patient-practitioner-remedy (PPR) entanglement, is extended by importing concepts used in chemistry to describe the electronic structures of molecules. In particular, the electronic energy states of triangular tri-atomic molecules are used metaphorically to predict that (a) the more a homeopathic medicine is potentised, the deeper the level of cure is likely to be, and (b) the practitioner can be included as a beneficiary of the therapeutic process. The model also predicts that remedy attenuation and degree of PRR interaction could (in the quantum theoretical sense) represent a pair of complementary conjugate variables.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, UK.
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Milgrom
mesh_terms: D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D006705:Homeopathy; D006801:Humans; D019365:Metaphor; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013598:Systems Theory