Elsevier

Homeopathy

Volume 91, Issue 4, October 2002, Pages 239-248
Homeopathy

Education and Debate
Patient-practitioner-remedy (PPR) entanglement. Part 1: a qualitative, non-local metaphor for homeopathy based on quantum theory

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Abstract

A metaphor for homeopathy is developed in which the potentised medicine, the patient, and the practitioner are seen as forming a non-local therapeutically ‘entangled’ triad, qualitatively described in terms of the transactional interpretation of quantum mechanics.

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    Lionel Milgrom, Department of Chemistry, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London SW7 2AZ, UK. E-mail: [email protected]

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