Open AccessHigh Dilutions of a Drug of Covid-19 Origin Show Difference in Ranks
Author(s) -
Nirmal Chandra Sukul,
Raj Kumar Singh,
Sumit Ghosh,
ManmathKumar Nandi,
ANANYA PAL,
MANJULA PAL
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of high dilution research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.129
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 1982-6206
DOI - 10.51910/ijhdr.v20i4.1099
Subject(s) - serial dilution , dilution , potency , chemistry , tincture (heraldry) , aqueous solution , normalization (sociology) , organic chemistry , medicine , traditional medicine , physics , in vitro , biochemistry , alternative medicine , pathology , sociology , anthropology , thermodynamics
High dilutions (HDs) of drugs, used in Homeopathy, are prepared in aqueous EtOH (ethanol) through serial dilution accompanying mechanical agitation or succussion, and are called potencies. The potencies from the rank 12 onwards are too dilute to contain any original drug molecules. Do the potency ranks show any difference from each other? Do serial dilution and succussion contribute to the difference in potency ranks? This study aims to address these two questions. The throat swab of a Covid-19 patient was preserved and diluted with aqueous EtOH 90% to prepare the mother tincture (MT) and five different potencies of Covid named Covidinum. These potencies and their solvent media were analysed by electronic and vibrational spectroscopy. Charge transfer (CT) and proton transfer interactions occur during preparation of the potencies. The FT-IR spectra of all the test samples after normalization show difference from each other with respect to O-H stretching and bending (v2) bands. Serial dilution and succussion contribute to the observed difference in ranks and CT interactions.