Before we get in to how Homeopathy works or more how it doesn’t. I just want to mention that nowhere in Dr. Klatz’s Book Grow Young With HGH does he mention(or any other expert) anything about homeopathic products. Yet the people who are selling homeopathic product quote his book. He does, however go in to great detail about amino acids and how they work through oral dosages, Not Sprays. All the studies that have been done use real hGH or amino acids to help release hgh.

Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), a German physician, began formulating homeopathy's basic principles in the late 1700s. Hahnemann was justifiably distressed about bloodletting, leeching, purging, and other medical procedures of his day that did far more harm than good. Thinking that these treatments were intended to "balance the body's 'humors' by opposite effects," he developed his "law of similars" -- a notion that symptoms of disease can be cured by extremely small amounts of substances that produce similar symptoms in healthy people when administered in large amounts. The word "homeopathy" is derived from the Greek words homoios (similar) and pathos (suffering or disease). The fact that substances listed in the Homeopathic Pharmacopeia are legally recognized as "drugs" does not mean that either the law or the FDA recognizes them as effective. Because homeopathic remedies were actually less dangerous than those of nineteenth-century medical orthodoxy, many medical practitioners began using them. At the turn of the twentieth century, homeopathy had about 14,000 practitioners and 22 schools in the United States. But as medical science and medical education advanced, homeopathy declined sharply in America, where its schools either closed or converted to modern methods. The last pure homeopathic school in this country closed during the 1920s . Many homeopaths maintain that certain people have a special affinity to a particular remedy (their "constitutional remedy") and will respond to it for a variety of ailments. Such remedies can be prescribed according to the person's "constitutional type" -- named after the corresponding remedy in a manner resembling astrologic typing. The "Ignatia Type," for example, is said to be nervous and often tearful, and to dislike tobacco smoke. The typical "Pulsatilla" is a young woman, with blond or light-brown hair, blue eyes, and a delicate complexion, who is gentle, fearful, romantic, emotional, and friendly but shy. The "Nux Vomica Type" is said to be aggressive, bellicose, ambitious, and hyperactive. The "Sulfur Type" likes to be independent. And so on. Does this sound to you like a rational basis for diagnosis and treatment? The "Remedies" Are Placebos Homeopathic products are made from minerals, botanical substances, and several other sources. If the original substance is soluble, one part is diluted with either nine or ninety-nine parts of distilled water and/or alcohol and shaken vigorously (succussed); if insoluble, it is finely ground and pulverized in similar proportions with powdered lactose (milk sugar). One part of the diluted medicine is then further diluted, and the process is repeated until the desired concentration is reached. Dilutions of 1 to 10 are designated by the Roman numeral X (1X = 1/10, 3X = 1/1,000, 6X = 1/1,000,000). Similarly, dilutions of 1 to 100 are designated by the Roman numeral C (1C = 1/100, 3C = 1/1,000,000, and so on). Most remedies today range from 6X to 30X, but products of 30C or more are marketed. A 30X dilution means that the original substance has been diluted 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times. Assuming that a cubic centimeter of water contains 15 drops, this number is greater than the number of drops of water that would fill a container more than 50 times the size of the Earth. Imagine placing a drop of red dye into such a container so that it disperses evenly. Homeopathy's "law of infinitesimals" is the equivalent of saying that any drop of water subsequently removed from that container will possess an essence of redness. Robert L. Park, Ph.D., a prominent physicist who is executive director of The American Physical Society, has noted that since the least amount of a substance in a solution is one molecule, a 30C solution would have to have at least one molecule of the original substance dissolved in a minimum of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 molecules of water. This would require a container more than 30,000,000,000 times the size of the Earth. Oscillococcinum, a 200C product "for the relief of colds and flu-like symptoms," involves "dilutions" that are even more far-fetched. Its "active ingredient" is prepared by incubating small amounts of a freshly killed duck's liver and heart for 40 days. The resultant solution is then filtered, freeze-dried, rehydrated, repeatedly diluted, and impregnated into sugar granules. If a single molecule of the duck's heart or liver were to survive the dilution, its concentration would be 1 in 100200. This huge number, which has 400 zeroes, is vastly greater than the estimated number of molecules in the universe (about one googol, which is a 1 followed by 100 zeroes)

The principles underlying the concept of potentizing (diluting) are highly questionable and deserve nothing but ruthless scrutiny. I will provide a few thought-experiments for you to ponder, and you will (hopefully) see that getting things in perspective can be of great value. The mathematics and chemistry involved is at high school level or lower, so any scientifically literate person should be able to make the same calculations and arrive at the same results (or at least come close). I therefore choose not to present the actual busy-work. Nor do I bother to present exact figures; only the orders of magnitude are of interest when making such approximations.

• Let's assume that the sugar, usually lactose, used for pill-making is refined to 99,9999%. This means that only one millionth of the substance consists of contaminants. Then the pill is treated with, say, a D30 homeopathic solution. Assume the molar masses of the contaminants and the active ingredient both to be approximately 100 grams. (In actuality it probably lies in the range of 30 to 500 grams per mole.) Now consider you have one gram of such sugar pills. This single gram will contain about 1,000,000,000,000,000 contaminant molecules whereas there is only one chance in a billion to find one molecule of the active healing agent! This kind of reasoning leads to the conclusion that if potentizing works, there is indeed something extraordinary going on. Let's now take a look at the memory of water molecules.
  
  
• All kinds of various herbs, minerals and metals (e.g. gold, silver, and arsenic!) are used for potentizing. Consider the hypothetical but likely case that some little plant with healing properties fell into the ocean, say, in India a few hundred years ago. Rhythmic movements of the sea (waves) then decomposed the plant and mixed it with the sea water. Diffusion and water currents may have spread the remnants of the poor little plant all over the Earth. Assuming the plant weighed 100 grams and that its former constituents are evenly distributed throughout the oceans, what is the potency of the sea water with respect to this plant? Approximately two thirds of the surface of the earth is covered with water and the average depth may be assumed to be in the order of one kilometer (3,8 km). This corresponds to the potency of D22, i.e. a not very dilute solution by homeopathic means. Beware next time you take a swim in the ocean - you may get healed by some exotic plant or rock that happened to fall into the ocean a hundred years ago! (Of course, the ocean has a lot of plants and rocks in it aside from the little Indian plant, but that's another matter.) Then think of what little kids do when they bathe, or why not a blue whale going to the restroom (as a politically correct American would say)... But, of course, the effect would be greater if a toad did the same, as the final concentration would be lower! Or why not a mosquito? And so on...
  
  
• How much water is needed to make, say, a D40 solution of a one-milliliter herb concentrate if you don't want to discard any of the original concentrate? The answer is astonishing. The required volume of water exceeds the "volume" of "our" entire solar system! Not convinced? Go home and try for yourself! Only an infinitesimal amount of the original herb concentrate actually comes to use. The rest goes down the drain, for good or bad. Well down the drain it may end up anywhere in due time; in your bathroom tap, for example, only that it will then be much more diluted and hence even more powerful. I would like to ask the manufacturers of homeopathic medicines how they know that the water they use in the process is not already full of other memories, perhaps not at all beneficial for the patient. Or are there only curative memories, if any at all? Is the memory hypothesis testable at all?
  
  
• What if water molecules actually have physical or even spiritual properties that allow them to remember and pass on information? Then another scientific implausibility arises. Sugar pills are dry - most of the water molecules have evaporated! The memory must somehow have been transferred from the water to the sugar before the evaporation occured. So other molecules can also carry memories!? This means that irrespectively of the sugar's purity, it is very likely that the sugar molecules themselves carried information, somehow intelligible to the body, before the saturation with the homeopathic solution took place. And what about the air we breathe, the hamburgers we eat (or yucky algae, if you wish), etc.? What memories do they possess? And what happens if one ingests an otherwise toxic substance that carries a memory of a potent healing agent - do the opposite effects cancel one another?

For the mathematically daring: Throughout the ages, people have shown an almost obsessive predilection for numbers. Connections and symmetries are found everywhere where numbers are involved, sometimes resulting in obscure theories and beliefs: numerology (names, birth dates), Christianity (3, 7, 12, 666, and more), the, and Dr. Rashad Khalifa's numerology of the Koran (the number 19 as a proof of Allah's existence), to name but a few. Homeopathy doesn't ascribe numbers any great sanctity, yet there are instances worth mentioning. For example, plants are said to respond differently to homeopathic treatments depending on whether the potency is an odd or even number. Furthermore, some potencies (of the same medicament) are said to work synergistically with one another when mixed whereas others don't. Homeopathists deal with different potencies as if they were slight variations of the same thing, such as green and red apples, conveniently unaware that the potions are often entirely incomparable (regarding the memory hypothesis as dismissed for the time being). For example, comparing D10 with, say, D45 is like comparing a ball almost 400 times larger than the earth with a speck of dust 0.1 mm in diameter. Such is the power of exponential functions. D20 is not "twice as much" as D10, it's one tenth of a billionth of D10 (re concentrations)! The figure after the "D" refers to the absolute value of the negative power of ten (e.g. D2 = 10^(-2) = 1/10^2 = 0.01) in the factor that is multiplied with the initial concentration to get the final concentration.

To render some justice to homeopathy, it should be added that the active chemical content of low potencies, say between D1 and D15-20, do not belong to the category of fantastic claims. Still, the importance of the rhythmic dilution process (succussion) indeed does, no matter which the resulting potency might be.

However, on March 3, 1998, at a symposium sponsored by Good Housekeeping magazine, former FDA Commissioner David A. Kessler, M.D., J.D., acknowledged that homeopathic remedies do not work but that he did not attempt to ban them because he felt that Congress would not support a ban.

Sources:
Stephen Barrett, M.D.
Carl-Erik Boman Chemist and Ph.D.