NUX VOMICA 30 PREPARED WITH AND WITHOUT SUCCUSSION SHOWS ANTI ALCOHOLIC EFFECT ON TAODS AND DISTINCITVE MOLECULAR ASSOCIATION.


Much Scientific Research is being done in many academic institutions on various principles of the Science of Homeopathy. The British Homeopathic Journal (2001)90,79-85 has published one good research work on the effects of succussion while preparing potentized medicine. The research work was done by the department of zoology, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India.


The Research Reveals:

Adult toads, Bufo melanostictus, were administered (Nux vomica Nux v) 30 prepared with and without succussion on the tongue. The drug was mixed with sterile distilled water at the rate 0.05 ml/ml water and given orally 0.05 / individual. The control consisted of blank ethanol solution. Seeds of Strychnos nuxvomica were ground and extracted with 90% ethanol in the laboratory. Nux v 30 was prepared by successive dilution and succussion in 30 steps, Nux v 30u was prepared by successive dilution only. Four hours after treatment, toads were given 25% ethanol i.p. at 8 g /kg body weight. The duration of ethanol induced sleep time was recorded for each toad. Both Nux v 30 and Nux v 30u significantly reduced ethanol induced sleep time in toads as compared to their respective controls.

Electronic, infrared and nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of Nux v 30, Nux v 30u and their diluent medium (90% ethanol) show marked differences from each other. These dilutions and ethanol 30 and ethanol 30u show marked differences from each other with respect to spin-lattice relaxation time (T1) and chemical shift. The difference has been attributed to the variation in intra and inter-molecular association of ethanol and water.

The Conclusion of the Research:

- To ads can serve as an animal model for the demonstration of potentized homeopathic drugs.

- Succussion is not an essential factor in producing an effective homeopathic potency like Nux v 30.

- Spectroscopic data show that Nux v 30 prepared with or without succussion are different from their diluent medium, 90% ethanol. The difference lies in intra and intermolecular association in the ethanol- water mixture.

- The ethanol-water mixture has the capability to imbibe some specific properties of drug molecules or particles during the process of dynamization. It can also produce specific biological effects.



The Project Researchers: With thanks – NC SUKUL, R. DUTTA, A.SUKUL and SP SINHABABU.