title: Patient-practitioner-remedy (PPR) entanglement. Part 3. Refining the quantum metaphor for homeopathy.
abstract: The notion of patient-practitioner-remedy (PPR) entanglement, previously proposed for homeopathy, is refined by adapting concepts derived from Greenberger, Horne, and Zeilinger's treatment of three-particle entanglement (GHZ states), and a generalised version of quantum theory, called weak quantum theory (WQT). These suggest that for maximum PPR entanglement during the therapeutic encounter, the practitioner's awareness needs to be directed inward as well as outward toward the patient, and that health and disease are mirror images of each other, similar to and represented by, the relationship of complex numbers to their complex conjugates.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UK. l.milgrom@imperial.ac.uk
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Milgrom
mesh_terms: D006705:Homeopathy; D006801:Humans; D019365:Metaphor; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011789:Quantum Theory; D013598:Systems Theory