title: A new geometrical description of entanglement and the curative homeopathic process.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The Memory of Water, a "local" explanation of homeopathy's efficacy, has been supplemented recently by complementary "nonlocal" hypotheses. One of these envisages "quantum macro-entanglement" among patient, practitioner, and remedy to form a "PPR" entangled state, from which the possibility of cure may manifest.
  
  
  METHODS
  Semiotic analysis affords a geometrical description of this entangled state as a patient-centered chiral tetrahedron. Its four corners depict three different types of symptoms (of the patient, the dis-ease, and the remedial substance) and the potentized remedy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Reflecting this state in a practitioner-derived mirror-like "therapeutic state space" generates two notional patient-centered chiral tetrahedra: cure may be thought to arise from their patient-driven combination "through the looking glass" of the therapeutic state space, into one polyhedron called a stella octangula or stellated octahedron; in essence, a 3-dimensional Star of David.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The practitioner helps in forming these notional semiotic polyhedra, but the patient is at their epicenters (i.e., the practitioner facilitates but ultimately does not control the curative process).
authors.affiliation: Homeopathy Research Institute, London, United Kingdom. lionel.milgrom@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Lionel R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Milgrom
mesh_terms: D006694:Holistic Health; D006705:Homeopathy / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D008419:Materia Medica; D008602:Mental Healing; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011789:Quantum Theory; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000379:methods; D012107:Research Design; D013598:Systems Theory
chemical_list: D008419:Materia Medica