title: "Torque-like" action of remedies and diseases on the vital force and their consequences for homeopathic treatment.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Within the developing theoretical context of quantum macroentanglement, a mathematical model of the Vital Force (Vf) has recently been formulated. It describes the Vf in terms of a hypothetical gyroscope with quantized angular momentum. This enables the Vf's state of health to be represented in terms of a "wave function" derived solely from secondary symptom observables produced in response to disease or homeopathic remedies. So far, this approach has illustrated the biphasal action of remedies, resonance phenomena arising out of homeopathic provings, and aspects of the therapeutic encounter.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this paper, the effects of a therapeutic remedy and disease states on the gyroscopic angular momentum characteristics of the Vf were investigated by mathematical manipulation the Vf "wave function."
  
  
  RESULTS
  The formulation of the Vf in terms of a quantized gyroscope permits disease to be represented as a braking "torque" decreasing the Vf's angular momentum, causing it to "precess" (i.e., express symptoms). The therapeutic remedy, however, provides an accelerating "torque," increasing the Vf's angular momentum and decreasing precession (i.e., reducing symptom expression).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  According to this model, symptom expression corresponds to precession of the Vf "gyroscope." Conversely, complete removal of symptoms is equivalent to cessation of Vf "precession." However, if overprescribed or given in unsuitable potency, the curative remedy (which may also be formulated as a wave function but this time derived solely from changes in Vf secondary symptom observables) may cause the Vf to express proving symptoms. Thus, with only observation of symptoms and changes in them to indicate, indirectly, the state of a patient's Vf, the safest treatment strategy might be for the practitioner to proceed via gradual removal of the symptoms. This is congruent with Hahnemann's later development and use of the LM potencies, as described in his final 6th edition of The organon.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, UK. l.milgrom@imperial.ac.uk
authors.forename: Lionel R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Milgrom
mesh_terms: D019348:Empiricism; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006705:Homeopathy; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D019365:Metaphor; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011789:Quantum Theory; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000592:standards; D012107:Research Design; D012399:Rotation