Does Water Have Memory?

Introduction

One of the most frequent and loudest criticisms of homeopathy is its diluted nature and the fact that homeopathic remedies contain no particles of the original substance.

In homeopathic philosophy we learn that no particles of the substance are needed, which is incredible in the context of the conventional science that we have been brought up with and our understanding of ‘how things work’.

It was my curiosity to understand how homeopathy could work without any particles of the original substance and my interest in the memory of water that led me to chose this topic to explore.

Starting point

Perhaps the starting point for this talk is to look at how homeopathic remedies are made; is water always involved in the process?

Helios is a fantastic homeopathic pharmacy, so I am going to start by looking at how they make their remedies and go from here!

Remedies can be made from virtually anything, but the majority are made from plants and minerals. Plants are broken down with ethanol (pure alcohol) and water to extract the plant essence and to make the ‘mother tincture’.

At Helios when the right plant is gathered in the right area at the right time, it is chopped up and ethanol and purified water is added to it, the alcohol/water ratio depends on the type of plant used.

It is then diluted with 90% alcohol and 10% purified water for a c potency, and succussed, (traditionally 10 downward strokes of the arm on a book). One part of this is then taken and diluted 99 times, the solution is again succussed and on and on until the desired dilution is created. The dilution for x remedies is different (10 drops to 100).

Remedies at Helios are potenised up to 200 by hand and they have a succussion machine for higher potencies.

With mineral material it’s a little bit different as most minerals can’t be dissolved in alcohol, so a different method is used. A solid medium is needed to break down the mineral; instead of alcohol the mineral is broken down with a milk-sugar solution - one part of the mineral to 99 parts of milk-sugar.

A pestle and mortar is used to grind down the solution and then the solution is ‘scraped’. The process takes about an hour and is repeated again for the second potency, but it needs to get to the 3c potency before it is soluble and purified water can be added and the dilutions continue as with the plants.

The last stage of the process is called medication and this is where the solution is dropped onto a sugar or lactose pill or a combination of the two, and put in little bottles for sale.

Water is definitely involved with the making of homeopathic remedies.

It is worth mentioning that pure ethanol is made with water and although the water evaporates, about 5% does remain. Milk-sugar, known as lactose also has water within it.

Ps…. (Water is the most abundant substance in the human body, so even if homeopathic remedies are made in an energetic stimulation machine such as the Sulis remedy maker, the remedy is dissolved in a water rich environment within our bodies).

Water and Life

Let’s look at water now; from the blood that carries nutrients through our body, to the rivers and oceans that feed the animal and plant kingdoms, water is crucial for the existence of life on this planet. The earth maintains a constant amount of water and just like us, the earth is a living dynamic being; it has veins and arteries; rivers and streams, which are connected to one large thriving heart, the ocean.

We, like the surface of the earth as mentioned previously are made up of at least 70 % water, although quantum physics tells us that we are in fact made of 99% water! However you look at it, water is the giver of life, essential to existence.

We are nestled in our solar system at just the right distance from the Sun for this liquid water to exist; any farther and that water would be frozen as ice, any closer and temperatures would be too hot. Our not-too-cold, not-too-hot position in the so-called ”Goldilocks zone” is a pretty good place to be for us here on earth, yet it seems that Earth’s water wasn’t formed along with Earth and planetary scientists suspect it must have been delivered later via extraterrestrial messenger! Perhaps that messenger was a comet or an asteroid, but however it arrived it seems that water is an alien substance!

Water and Spirituality

Across the world and throughout time, water has been used as a Holy Sacrament, infusing water with holy qualities.

Spiritual traditions often revere water and use it in rituals of purification, blessing, healing and connection to divine paths;

Washing oneself before daily prayers;

Going on pilgrimages to sacred rivers;

Baptism in water as admission of a soul into a religious group;

Water being infused with sacred properties through mudras, mantras and prayers.

Specific healing energy, vibration and consciousness are said to be within sacred waters throughout the world, such as; The Ganges River in India, Water from Lake Manosavar in Tibet, the water at the base of Mount Fuji in Japan, Chalice Well in the UK and the Lourdes Grotto in France, to name just a few, there are many sacred healing water sites all over the world.

The spiritual meaning of water can for many be known in its form and sound. Like the crashing ocean waves, the serene river, the roaring waterfall, and the drizzling rain. It can be used as a basis for contemplation and meditation, bringing us back to peace within ourselves and unity with others.

In essence, it can be said water is the life force that centers our spirit and our body, signifying wisdom and conscious awareness.

Sacred Waters

Water and Science/Chemistry/Quantum Physics!

Water is a liquid substance made up of molecules, and each molecule is made up of three atoms; two hydrogen and one oxygen. These three molecules are grouped together in a triangle shape giving it the well-known chemical name of H2O.

The two hydrogen atoms on one side are much smaller than the oxygen atom on the other side. This creates an imbalance in the electrons shared by the molecules in the bonds that hold them together. The oxygen end of each water molecule is slightly negatively charged and the hydrogen end is slightly positively charged.

Water molecules, (and there are three types of water; normal, heavy and superheavy .. but for now I don’t think this is important), are like a magnet with two different ends or poles. The positive, hydrogen end of one water molecule will attract to the negative oxygen ends of other water molecules.

You could see this as some water molecules holding hands with other water molecules in a circle dance! Only if the chain of water molecules are long enough the circle is created. The space which is enclosed within the circle is a space where electromagnetic matter is held ….. and the ability to hold this matter in the form of signals/messages/vibrations/energy, which are trapped in the water circle would lead us to consider that water might indeed have a memory.

Now it would be good to have a look at scientists who have done research into wave frequencies held within water!

Jacques Benveniste 1988

Benveniste, a senior biologist and immunologist of a French medical research organisation, saw that water used for dilution "remembered" the molecule that had been diluted out of existence. He was the first to coin the phrase ‘water memory’ in his 1988 research article published in the scientific magazine ‘Nature’.

Benveniste was researching homeopathy and saw that white blood cells which control the body’s reaction to allergens and which can be activated to produce an immune response were activated by solutions of antibodies that had been diluted so far that they didn’t contain any of the biomolecules at all. In his article which the editor of the magazine entitled; “When to believe the unbelievable”, he wrote water molecules somehow retain a memory of the antibodies that they had previously been in contact with, so that a biological effect remained when the antibodies were no longer present. What he wrote validated homeopathic medicines. (Nature 333 816-818 1988).

Nature had printed the article on the condition that it could appoint three experts to observe the experiment being replicated. They were the editor of Nature, a professional magician, and an expert on science fraud.The experiment failed due to the conditions set by Nature and Benveniste was ridiculed by the scientific community.

Bernd Kroplin 2001

Kroplin was not looking for water memory but medicine for astronauts. He found during the experiments that even the weakest magnetic field alteration, which weren’t detected by conventional measuring devices was shown in the water structures and could be seen under a microscope and were easy to document.

In one experiment Kroplin looked at individual water droplets that had been taken up by students from the same body of water, each droplets was different from each person. Another experiment was a flower dropped into water and water was taken from it and examined, each individual flower had similar pictures but a different flowers created different pictures.

Koplin believes that as water travels it picks up and stores information from all of the places that it has travelled through, which can connect people to a lot of different places and sources of information.

2009 - Professor Luc Montagnier

Virologist, Luc Montagnier, Nobel Laureat and highly respected scientist for his discovery of the HIV virus, followed on from Jacques Benveniste and in fact used Benveniste radio wave machine in his experiments with water memory.

Montagnier was able to detect radio waves coming from the DNA of pathogenic bacteria and viruses which had been highly diluted in sterile water and shaken. He also discovered that the information that water held could be ‘teleported’ from his laboratory in France to a laboratory in Italy where the DNA sent was reformed!

Montagnier was able to prove in his 2014 documentary that water clearly had memory and that patients could be healed with signals contained in water!

The scientific community was extremely opposed to Montagnier’s work.

Montagnier knew how his work would be received and remained optimistic despite the criticism saying that there needed to be a paradigm shift within the medical community, that scientists would need to leave behind what they have known so far in order to step into this new approach in biology.

Montagnier hoped that in the future patients with cancer and other life threatening diseases could be treated with frequency waves and was very optimistic and positive about the future of medicine.

Dr Masaru Emoto and the memory of water

Dr Masaru Emoto, a Japanese scientist studied how the molecular structure in water transforms when it is exposed to human words, thoughts sounds and intentions. In his book The Hidden Messages in Water Dr Emoto demonstrated how water exposed to loving benevolent and compassionate human intention results in aesthetically pleasing physical molecular formations in the water, while water exposed to fearful and discordant human intentions results in disconnected, disfigured and unpleasant physical molecular formations. He did this through magnetic resonance analysis technology and high speed photographs.

His research also showed us how polluted and toxic water when exposed to prayer and intention can be altered and restored to beautifully formed geometric crystals found in clean healthy water. He was very concerned about the water from cities as this water did not form beautiful crystals.

Method of Working

Emoto’s method of working was to use high-speed microscopic photography and to then freeze the water to observe the crystals.

In a 2006 study, a group of researchers with Dr. Masaru, tested the hypothesis that water, when treated “with certain intention” can affect the ice crystals formed. The study was carried out under double-blind conditions. They took a sample of approximately 2,000 people in Tokyo who were instructed to make positive intentions toward water samples inside an electromagnetically shielded room. Similar water samples were also kept in different locations as control. Ice crystals were formed from both sets of water and then photographed. These images were tested for their aesthetic appeals by 100 independent judges. The results showed that water treated with positive intentions received much higher scores than the controlled water samples.

Succussion (vigorously shaken)

Let’s return to homeopathy; the more a homeopathic remedy is diluted and succussed, the more potent it becomes; one of the greatest stumbling blocks for conventionally trained scientists to understand.

New discoveries in physics are however beginning to explain this phenomenon!

One hypothesis is that the succussion creates an electrochemical pattern which is stored in the dilutant (water?) and which then spreads like liquid crystal through the body’s own water.

Another hypothesis suggests that the dilution process triggers an electromagnetic imprinting which directly affects the electromagnetic field of the body.

Remember the oxygen and hydrogen holding hands to make a circle and within the circle the space where electromagnetic matter is held …..entrapped messages ….. Could this be where water memory is held?

Veda Austin

Austin is a New Zealand water researcher and artist who discovered that there are clearly defined recurring patterns in ice that define spring water from tap water and healthy water from sick water.

Austin is a New Zealand water researcher and artist who discovered that there are clearly defined recurring patterns in ice that define spring water from tap water and healthy water from sick water.

She introduces the idea of intelligent water and has spent the last ten years photographing water in a ‘state of creation’, the state between liquid and ice that she believes is responsiveness to consciousness.

Her technique is called collective molecular photography (CMP) and it is here that she captures macroscopic photos of water.

Austin has discovered that the water she is working with appears to intelligently respond to human consciousness and uses its building blocks of ice to create recognisable imagines.

The water is able to share its message or acknowledgement back to her/us in picture forms.

Austin’s first visual experience of water intelligence was when she first put her hand under a petri dish with water in and then froze it. The picture that appeared was a picture of a hand! She then froze some sea water and the image of a fish appeared and now she has over 9,000 water images that have responded this way.

She uses many different ways to communicate with water, photos, words, music and thoughts and she has even spoken to water and got a written response! Her work is not photoshopped or edited and she has now written a book called ‘The Secret Intelligence of Water’.

Austin has taken photos of homeopathic remedies and I have put them besides photos of the actual remedy to look at how they compare with each other.

Where do we hold memory?

I have gone to Dr Zach Bush to answer this question, a specialist and educator in internal medicine and endocrinology; he writes that despite the fact that there has been incredible research and forward movement in neurobiology (the study of cells) these past twenty years, scientists are still unable to tell us where long term memory is stored.

We have a tiny part, the size of an almond, in the temporal lobe behind the ear called the hippocampus which is responsible for taking short term experiences and turning them into the long term memory, or accessing long term memory, but there is no database found in the brain that holds memory.

Scientists are starting to realise that long term memory is probably held within the water structure of peripheral muscles and other tissues in the body.

In the transplant world there are many stories of transplant memories, one example is a man receiving the heart of a young female organ donor and with hours of waking up after the surgery he had vivid memories of a traumatic murder and within a couple of weeks he had enough data to bring to police the faces and names of people involved in the crime in order to solve the young woman’s murder.

There are a lot more lighter stories about people craving a particular food or drink that they never craved before. They have received the energetic stress or memory within that kidney or heart that triggers their response for this new craving. There are huge amounts of information it seems being sent into the water structures of the heart and other organs.

Conclusion

My very small dip into this huge subject would strongly suggest that water definitely holds memory and that electromagnetic frequencies/vibrations affects the structure and memory of water.

Succussion in the homeopathic process is essential; perhaps the shaking creates enough vibration needed to go into the entrapped space within the circle of water molecules. This space then holds the vibrational signature of the remedy before it goes into the waters of the body.

Water also appears to be able to change its structure through vibrations coming from ‘human’ consciousness but whether these changes are just fleeting or held I am unsure about.

More research is needed into the healing potential of water in order for people to recognise and fully accept homeopathy into mainstream medicine, as well as for a positive shift to happen to medicine in general. This in turn might lead to a serious review and perhaps a restructuring of society today, which at the moment is surrounding us all with stronger and stronger electromagnetic frequencies, as well as enabling a positive change to what is added to our drinking water. Fingers crossed!