How Hahnemanian dilutions are made?
One part substance (mineral, vegetable, or animal) is added to 99 parts of solvent (water or alcohol), and by succussing this mixture (100 shakes each time) the solution 1CH (“Centésimale Hahnemannienne” in French, or centesimal dilution) is obtained. If this operation is repeated by taking one part 1CH solution and 99 parts of solvent, and successing, 2CH is obtained, and so forth, until the highest dilution used by Hahnemann, 30CH, is obtained. The same system can be applied to decimal dilutions (DH, for “Décimale Hahnemannienne”), where one drop of substance is diluted in 9 drops of solvent, and succussed 100 times, to obtain the dilution 1D. Beyond 12CH, Avogadro’s number has been exceeded, and there is no longer any detectable substance in the water from a chemical point of view. Nevertheless, through modern measurement methods (nuclear magnetic resonance) the ‘white hole,’ left in the absence of molecules from the original solution, can be quantified (this has been called water m
