Ten Years of Research on Solvatochromic Dyes and Homeopathic Potencies: A Summary of Findings so Far, Together with Recent Results

The use of solvatochromic dyes to investigate homeopathic potencies has provided, and continues to provide, a wealth of information about the fundamental nature of potencies. This summary of the last ten years research will look at the variety of results obtained so far. Almost sixty days have been examined during those ten years, under a range of conditions, and each has provided different and complementary information, thereby allowing a substantial body of physicochemical evidence to be amassed. Recent results using immobilised dyes, which has added kinetic data to this body of evidence, will also be presented. It is now becoming possible to look at the trajectory of potency propagation, action and decay, and from this draw conclusions about how potencies may be exerting their effect. The challenges of using solvatochromic dyes will also be examined and how those challenges may be overcome. Significant results from the last ten years will be brought together to provide a short-list of the possible candidates for the physicochemical identity of homeopathic potencies, and what experiments might be designed to test those hypotheses.

Keywords: Solvatochromism, potencies, spectroscopy, immobilisation, kinetics

Publication History

Article published online:
30 January 2024