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High sensitivity 1H-NMR spectroscopy of homeopathic remedies made in water

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, November 2004
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  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (93rd percentile)

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Title
High sensitivity 1H-NMR spectroscopy of homeopathic remedies made in water
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BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, November 2004
DOI 10.1186/1472-6882-4-15
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David J Anick

Abstract

The efficacy of homeopathy is controversial. Homeopathic remedies are made via iterated shaking and dilution, in ethanol or in water, from a starting substance. Remedies of potency 12 C or higher are ultra-dilute (UD), i.e. contain zero molecules of the starting material. Various hypotheses have been advanced to explain how a UD remedy might be different from unprepared solvent. One such hypothesis posits that a remedy contains stable clusters, i.e. localized regions where one or more hydrogen bonds remain fixed on a long time scale. High sensitivity proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy has not previously been used to look for evidence of differences between UD remedies and controls.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Netherlands 1 2%
Colombia 1 2%
Switzerland 1 2%
Unknown 43 93%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 11 24%
Student > Master 6 13%
Student > Bachelor 5 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 9%
Professor > Associate Professor 3 7%
Other 8 17%
Unknown 9 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 24%
Chemistry 8 17%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 4%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 2 4%
Other 7 15%
Unknown 13 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 May 2021.
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#2,806,343
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#511
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#4,597
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