ON THE STRUCTURE OF HIGH DILUTIONS ACCORDING TO THE CLATHRATE MODEL

For the interpretation of high dilutions in water, the clathrate model is presented according to which round each molecule of the mother substance a clathrate is formed, made of water molecules interacting by hydrogen bonds. If forceful mechanical impulses are applied on the solution, the model assumes that a separation of the initial molecule from its clathrate is possible, a fact which leads to the formation of new clathrates round each of these two separated components. This effect is repeated again and again as we proceed in the preparation of a high dilution. Thus, eventually this dilution contains free molecules of the solvent (here water) and bound molecules of the solvent in the form of clathrates which are characteristic of the initial mother substance.