Many pharmacies stock homeopathic remedies as over-the-counter products. In dire

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Many pharmacies stock homeopathic remedies as over-the-counter products. In direct contradiction with commonly accepted pharmacological principles, homeopathic practitioners maintain erroneously that repeated dilution followed by v called "succussion" by homeopathic p "vital energy". Insoluble materials such as with lactose (Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathic dilutions) Ser igorous shaking succussion" by homeopathic practitioners increases the "potency" and releases energy. Insoluble materials such as quartz and oyster shell are diluted by mixing ial dilutions are a required competency for understanding homeopathic dosing principles. A ten-fold or 1:10 dilution is referred to 1X. Two successive 1:10 serial dilutions are referred to as 2X, three successive 1:10 serial dilutions are 3X and so on. Consider the homeopathic flu preparation Oscillococcinu Consider the homeopathic flu preparation Oscilococcinum, which is prepared by serially diluting the heart and liver of a Muscovy duck with a mixture of sucrose and lactose. Oscillococcinum is a 400X "succussion" obtained by conducting 400 serial dilutions each with a dilution factor of 10.

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1X - or ratio is 1/10

2X - 2 successive 1/10 dilution means (1/10)^2 = 1/100 = 1/10^2

similalry

1/CX - 1/10^C

so

400X means overall dilution factor of 10400

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